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some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

#disability pride month

yorickalas

max--phillips

AND YET!

Pope Leo is letting American bishops entirely ban trans healthcare for both minors and adults in all Catholic-owned hospitals and clinics, and stop coverage for trans healthcare through Catholic-affiliated health insurance plans!!

People are having surgeries, for which they were on waitlists for years, suddenly cancelled. Hormones no longer covered, their clinicians no longer able to prescribe them. Considering in some states Catholic-owned healthcare organizations make up to a third of the market, as it were, this is a HUGE issue.

Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl

This has been happening since November of last year, when this vote took place, but no one is talking about it. The rehabilitation of the image of the papacy through Pope Leo is killing me, it’s still the goddamn Catholic Church. You do not gotta hand it to them.

leefi

gay-impressionist

If you are silent about your pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston

staticsable

This is one of those posts where I feel like I'm doing others and myself a disservice by not sharing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago.

Maybe I'd be having to do less work to break out of this shell, now.

dinovelvet

shitkicker-deluxe

...Join star fleet they said...It'll be an adventure they said...

#star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

yuhi-san

Thats the context for this meme???

titenoute

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

kstarlitchaotics

I'm dying

#absolutely amazing

headspace-hotel

the nature center I work at has classrooms of kids and parents with kids coming in all the time, and I am amazed at how adults treat kids and behave around kids.

Not even always the sense of being openly mean to the kids, but in the sense of acting like they must behave rigidly a certain way at all times and that if anything is one minute off schedule or if kids have any unstructured time at all it is the End Of The Fucking World.

So many adults hustling kids from activity to activity, all snippy and harried as though every single thirty minute Scheduled Activity Block is an unmissable appointment and the whole building will blow up if someone is five minutes late to something.

We have these exhibits with animal bones and rocks and pressed flowers and stuff that are clearly placed at child height and the way parents will SNAP at their kids to DON'T TOUCH THAT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING amazes me.

There is so little tolerance for kids acting silly or just being playful or anything, the adults will act so annoyed and stern and harsh for the littlest things.

In those kids' situation I would be shitting my pants with anxiety all the time, The level of uptightness and intolerance for any little bit of disorder makes me secondhandedly anxious.

headspace-hotel

Are kids even allowed to play without having predetermined activities scheduled for them down to the minute that they have to line up neatly for.

I saw on pinterest a few years ago some 14 year old girl's school schedule (written out as a cute thing like here's how I plan my day!!) and she had literally every activity down to like, 15 minute blocks scheduled in. and I was like. who could do this without wanting to set themselves on fire. School dominates kids' lives to the point that they don't have time to learn how to be human beings and it doesn't even successfully teach kids to fucking read.

It's like the momentum of tyrannical institutions and structures increases to where nothing the institution is supposed to do even works any more and it's just a bunch of rules and punishments and uptight, stressed wannabe tyrants suffering under their own tyrants, and it can't stop itself even when nothing is fucking working.

It annoyed me because the article I read that was like "Kids These Days don't have enough discomfort tolerance because adults coddle them too much" alluded to kids not being able to engage in risk play and have unsupervised play time, which was so close to an actual point that it made the rest of the bullshit more infuriating.

shmeiliarockie

It seems like kids are treated like boxes to tick. Their parents have kids because that's on the list of what makes someone a Successful Adult. Then they proceed to keep treating those kids like boxes to be ticked. Kids gotta do sports, right? That's mandatory for being a Successful Adult. Music/dance makes them seem cultured, right? That makes us look like Good Parents, doesn't it? Let's throw in some martial arts because that on top of everything else will exhaust them so we don't actually have to interact with the inconvenient messy Boxes That Need Ticking that we created because That's Just What You Do.

Wait, why have our kids gone no contact with us? We did everything right! Yeah we kicked them out on their 18th birthday, but we ticked all the boxes! They should be grateful!

(Meanwhile those now-adults have been so worn down by the Schedule that they swing the total opposite direction and never force their own kids to do anything they don't want to do. Which isn't exactly good either.)

Kids are people, not markers of a parent's success in life. They need direction, but they also need room to play and grow on their own.

Tangentially, I grew up going on field trips to this place in Kansas City that was designed specifically for kids to play with various exhibits and make art and use their brains in different ways. It was AWESOME and it still exists! It's called Kaleidoscope. We desperately need more spaces like that.

#there's multiple reasons I never had kids but a big one was being too anxious about screwing up another human being with bad parenting #I resent people who have kids because That's Just What You Do #doubly so if they they want the clout of being a Good Parent while resenting the fact that their children have needs

rosettyller

Behind the scenes of PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

#practical effects my beloved #project hail mary

solarmane

new fanfic writer who has marked their work completed ao3 only to leave a note at the end saying: thanks for all the support guys if you want to read the rest of the fic subscribe to my patreon :)

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

that is how you wake the lawyers.

odins-price

Remember people, this is against AO3s terms of service. If you see a fic that does this REPORT THAT THING!!! These people may not know better or they might, but them doing this has the potential to ruin things for everyone.

peppermintquartz

Tell the writer to read the TOS. Writers absolutely CANNOT ask for payment in exchange for fanfic. If they won't take it down ASAP, report it to AO3.

#OP isn't exaggerating #posting fanfic FOR FREE used to carry major legal risks don't send us back there with your greed #do you want to get sued? no joke that's how you get sued #NO FANFIC PAYWALLS EVER #not just on AO3 either it's true literally everywhere on the Internet #five dollars a month from Patreon ain't worth the risk I promise

brendafromaccounting

Kattigan breaking into Hal’s house like a feral Santa Claus.

#critical role #critical role campaign 4 #kattigan vale

stitchposts

unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.

Figment-and-Bolaire Doodle as Bolaire's little Pact of the Chain familiar, yes or yes?

#critical role #critical role campaign 4 #bolaire lathalia #'ouch it bit me!' 'I am Bolaire' pretty please?

marvelous-belladonna

Laudna and Imogen being married was a surprise to Laura

#critical role #critical role campaign 3

pipperoo

Critical Role Campaign 4: Here in the Dark

+ bonus

#critical role #critical role campaign 4 #azune nayar #vaelus cr #murray mag'nesson #luis carazo #brennan lee mulligan #ashley johnson #aabria iyengar #liam o'brien

canichangemyblogname

This June, I need Gen Z queers to understand that some people are closeted.

canichangemyblogname

I am saying this as a Gen Z queer, before y’all get your guns out to fucking shoot me.

But I need y’all to understand that if someone doesn’t give you their government name in a queer space, it’s not because they’re “mysterious,” and you do not have permission to take it upon yourself to figure out their “real identity” and go digging for them online like a private investigator. First, that’s creepy and a violation of privacy and reasonable boundaries. Second, some of us keep our private and professional lives very separate because we need to keep food on the fucking table and a roof over our heads, and our private life could jeopardize that.

canichangemyblogname

“Why won’t you tell me about your parents?” “Why can’t I know your real name?” “Where do you work?”

1.) Not all our parents would bake us a fucking cake when we come out. Some of us are closeted. Surely you understand this? You also do not need to know my parent’s names or occupations; we are both adults. I do not need nor want to mix you and my private life with my parents and my public life.

2.) Trans people do not owe you their dead name or government name

3.) I’m not telling you for the sake of job security. I am a government fucking caseworker working amidst a fucking lavender panic!

“There’s no way you’re a different person outside this; you’re still you at your core. What harm is there—”

No, I am a completely different person. A different person with a different personality and different interests and a different name and presentation. I am a completely different person because I keep this life and my public life private to avoid fracturing 90% of my interpersonal relationships and 100% of my professional ones.

“You’re not out? But you’re so confident.”

See— that’s part of the issue. Y’all assume someone is in the closet because they hate themselves or lack self-identity. Some of us know exactly who we are, but need to prioritize financial stability or else our entire life gets exponentially harder immediately.

canichangemyblogname

You meet queer people over the age of 40 and one of the first/earliest questions is “who knows?”

I need y’all to start bringing that energy. Because it’s not always safe for someone to be out and not everyone is safe to be out around.

There is a misnomer that “the closet” inherently means “doesn’t know they’re queer” and not “isn’t out widely and publicly.” “Outness” is often a patchwork.

#pride month