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Extremely fucking stupid bc genuinely who cares. Walking sticks are literally for anyone. They help you when you walk around. Perfectly healthy and abled bodied people use them while hiking because they just work.
And what if it was just a fashion thing? It used to be trendy. It gives your outfit a different vibe. Experimenting with fashion is fun, there's literally zero things wrong with using a cane because you like the way it looks or how it makes you feel.
Every single person choosing to use a mobility aid in public normalises their use, and makes it less likely for me to get harassed out there. It just becomes a regular thing you see while out in public. And that's the exact thing ableist TERFs like Stock are actually against - Not even mentioning the absolutely obvious misogyny here.
Covid was a mass disabling event. It continues to affect many, many people. Denying reality and gaslighting disabled people will not make us go away
@plasticfangtastic The potential physical harm of misusing mobility aids is WILDLY exaggerated to pressure people into not using them.
Hugh Laurie, as you said, never used it properly (or frankly in a way that would feel natural to most cane users imo), and he did so for many hours of filming over many years. There should have been a safety assesment, risk mitigation, a physical therapy consultant, etc. Because that was a professional environment and no one's job should injure them, ideally.
However in actual reality, most people who find mobility aids more damaging than helpful will simply stop using them way before any permanent damage is done.
Potential, hypothetical damage is not more important than the actual real damage many people are doing to their bodies right now, because they don't feel they can use a mobility aid without facing ridiculous scrutiny and judgement.
I actually did get injured because of mobility aid use. I was bedbound for several years, so when I got my rollator, I was desperate to go out to the park across our street and not be trapped at home, and I overdid it. I was out using it for too long, my posture and grip wasn't ideal, and I wasn't used to engaging those specific muscles - I ended up with costochondritis. Very scary because intense chest pain is terrifying when you don't know what's happening. It sucked, but I got through it, adjusted my rollator use slightly, and it is still an amazing mobility aid that greatly improves and enriches my life years later.
Avoiding that potential episode would not be worth it at all, if that meant not using it in the first place. I would be damaging my body in a different way every time I have to drag myself to a doctor's appointment, instead of supported and protected by my mobility aid, once the issues were sorted out.
For many disabled and chronically ill people, our reality is simply that we don't get to fully avoid negative consequences no matter what we do. A cane might put strain on your shoulder and make it hurt, but not using it would make your lower back hurt worse instead. For many of us, it's always choosing the best possibility out of a bad bunch.
Someone who doesn't need a mobility aid will simply stop using it eventually, because unless there's tangible benefits to your life, it is fucking annoying. Sometimes it's because there's another mobility aid which would fit the particular circumstances better, but if you have no issues not using one, you just won't. There are no perfectly physically healthy people fucking up their bodies through mobility aid usage. It's genuinely just a right wing boogieman.
We can reduce injuries due to mobility aid usage by making doctors and physical therapists both more accessible and more accepting of a patient's choice to use one. By destigmatising their use, promoting safety tips, and having information more widespread and freely available. Not by trying to make the stigma worse and making up this whole 'social contagion' bullshit, while doubling down on medical misogyny.
You can genuinely just read up on how to size a mobility aid correctly for your body, and you'll be fine. The people working at mobility aid stores can help you with it. Look up "how to properly use X" and read content written by other mobility aid users.
Plenty of things can hurt you way worse if used improperly. But no one is fearmongering about unnecessary kitchen knife usage. We generally trust adults to evaluate the situation, recognise when a tool might help them, and handle any potential resulting injury if it comes to that. You should ask yourself why a simple walking stick so often gets this kind of overblown, out of proportion treatment.
the bike i thought was unrepairable is fixed! just need to get it MOTed. everyone say thank you to my 15 year old brother who rebuilt that thing frame up included the entire engine.
people like "i was born too late" are daft tbh. i was born at just the right time. there's recorded music, electric guitar, HRT, and motorbikes. i also like alcohol but we've had that one nailed for at least 10,000 years.
mutuals if you are imagine me you have to know i am not beating the british allegations. i do say shag. i do go down the pub on a sunny friday afternoon. i do have an unrealised plan to blow up buckingham palace.
Like what happens if Count Binface wins?
If he wins he will be the MP for clacton! He will sit in parliament and participate in debates/vote on laws. He's an independent candidate so he is not expected to vote along party lines. He will be expected to attend some local events and try to campaign for the things his constituents want (Farage did not bother to do this.) He may or may not be allowed to wear the bin while in parliament. He will also get his election deposit back for the first time ever!
Also Reform UK will need to elect a new party leader, because the party leader needs to be a sitting MP and Farage won't be an MP anymore. Which will be funny.
To be clear, he is not going to win. Voter turnout for this by election is likely to be very low, it's hard enough getting people to show up for a general election, let alone a joke of a by election. But it would be funny if he did.
if they're trying to ban something that's already a crime, they are trying to take your rights away without you noticing. this is literally true every time and has never failed me as an adage.
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks following this result and it will empower reform voters
and now he has to actually face the enquiry he was trying to avoid
That is a much higher voteshare to Binface than we expected, and much lower to both Reclaim and British Democratic Party, lol.
All round, though, it doesn't look good for Farage. It was a sham one-party election, so he can't play the "See? No one cares about my multimillion pound bribes, they still voted me in" card he was banking on. His only competition was a bin, and the bin actually did well. Meanwhile, as Goats says, he's now subject to the enquiry he tried to avoid.
He played a strategy that was supposed to be win-win, but the other major parties totally hamstrung it. And, credit where credit's due, the idea for the others to not stand this time was an absolutely genius move that, in fact, came from the static TV screen of a brain that belongs to, of all people, Kemi fucking Badenoch. Stopped clocks and that.
Meanwhile, polling shows Farage has actually lost a LOT of his voter base and support from the bribe thing. Again - even Kemi Badenoch is able to go "Hardly the man of the working class like he claims". So... Yeah. As OP says - interesting next few weeks coming
Pretty embarrassing as well that Farage’s excuse for not attending announcement of the results was that the police had told him there was a credible threat to his safety (as opposed to the real reason, which is that it’s pretty difficult to do a rousing victory speech when what you did was get more votes than a man with a bin on his head) and then a couple of hours later the local police come out with ‘yeah we definitely didn’t do that’.
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks following this result and it will empower reform voters
and now he has to actually face the enquiry he was trying to avoid
That is a much higher voteshare to Binface than we expected, and much lower to both Reclaim and British Democratic Party, lol.
All round, though, it doesn't look good for Farage. It was a sham one-party election, so he can't play the "See? No one cares about my multimillion pound bribes, they still voted me in" card he was banking on. His only competition was a bin, and the bin actually did well. Meanwhile, as Goats says, he's now subject to the enquiry he tried to avoid.
He played a strategy that was supposed to be win-win, but the other major parties totally hamstrung it. And, credit where credit's due, the idea for the others to not stand this time was an absolutely genius move that, in fact, came from the static TV screen of a brain that belongs to, of all people, Kemi fucking Badenoch. Stopped clocks and that.
Meanwhile, polling shows Farage has actually lost a LOT of his voter base and support from the bribe thing. Again - even Kemi Badenoch is able to go "Hardly the man of the working class like he claims". So... Yeah. As OP says - interesting next few weeks coming
Klara Lidén Self Portrait with the Keys to the City, 2005 Digital print, 60 × 42 cm
did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real
this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house.
oh fuck you were not kidding
I need this person to coach me. We have loads of wasps on the roof terrace these days and they are not big on personal space and it's giving me stress dreams....
if you leave them sugar water (or even just regular water) out + don't disturb them they'll learn to recognise you as a friend.
they'll never be big on personal space, but once they know you they won't sting you even if you accidentally get too close.
someone destroyed one of the swallow nests at my work last night. came in this morning and it was broken open. no sign of the chicks that were in it. which is kind of a relief because if i actually saw them dead i probably would have cried.
just kind of stunned rn. yesterday there were three little baby swallows making a racket and being fed by their parents. i'm actually really upset, i try not to get attached to wildlife and i didn't realise how invested i was.
luckily the rest of the occupied nests are in an area that's strictly no public access - even i'm not allowed to go there bc it counts as trackside and network rail takes trespassing very seriously. so i can't watch the other chicks, but at least no one can disturb them either.
in case anyone was wondering about the binlection result:
- farage won with a bit more than 60% of the vote, but binface got over 25% - nearly 10,000 votes
- farage refused to attend the count because he didn't want to be "humiliated by nobodies", which is fair because he already humiliates himself on a regular basis
- when people laughed at him he then claimed it was because of a "security threat" and said police told him not to attend. there is no evidence of any threat to the event.
- he called it a "resounding victory". 60% of the vote against a bin is not a resounding victory to me but it might be the closest farage has ever come
- i saw someone wearing a 'binlection day' tshirt at work yesterday (in clacton constituency)
THREE monster raving loony party candidates????????? dudes youre splitting the vote
in case anyone was wondering about the binlection result:
- farage won with a bit more than 60% of the vote, but binface got over 25% - nearly 10,000 votes
- farage refused to attend the count because he didn't want to be "humiliated by nobodies", which is fair because he already humiliates himself on a regular basis
- when people laughed at him he then claimed it was because of a "security threat" and said police told him not to attend. there is no evidence of any threat to the event.
- he called it a "resounding victory". 60% of the vote against a bin is not a resounding victory to me but it might be the closest farage has ever come
- i saw someone wearing a 'binlection day' tshirt at work yesterday (in clacton constituency)
nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.
So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"
Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here
So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work
do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis
It was absolutely in my bingo card that the people who yell at trans men that they have so much privilege would throw a shit fit when you pointed out their white privilege
For the record if you spend all your time telling other people they’re evil for having privilege and then get mad when people call you out for having privilege, the thing you are seeking out is not intersectional analysis but rather personal absolution.
