Ok so, I just remembered how people in the comments of a tiktok video were being assholes, and I want to rant now :3
The video showed two wheelchair users at a train(?), who had just arrived to their stop to find nobody was there with a ramp so they could leave the train. One of them blocked the door so it wouldn't close, and this lasted for 15 minutes. The train was stopped for said 15 minutes. There was a button by the door, that said that it'd contact the driver when pressed. It didn't. People offered to go find the driver, and they came back with the news that there were no people in the platform to put the ramp. In the end, passengers had to go out, and place the ramp themselves, before the train could carry on. The wheelchair users had warned they were coming, and asked to have the ramp put there so they could get down. The platform turned out to have workers, they all just ran away because they'd never encountered the situation in which they needed to do this simple task.
Because of the workers' negligence, the train was forced to stop for 15 minutes.
Everyone's comments?
"Why did they block the doors and stop the train? So selfish"
Selfish were workers who refused to do their job.
"What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently? They shouldn't have stopped the train"
It wasn't the disabled people's fault, it was the workers who were negligent.
"Why didn't they just wheel themselves down those steps?"
They shouldn't have to risk their (expensive) chairs just because people didn't do what they were paid to do.
"If I had been in that train I would've been pissed, how dare you stop it"
And you probably wouldn't have even thought about fixing the problem yourself, would you?
"Entitled assholes"
Ok I'll leave you stranded in a train with everyone who could help you get down outright refusing to. Let's see who's an entitled asshole now.
If someone fights for accessibility, as much as it might be a bother for you, you do not have the right to be mad at them. If someone fights for accessibility, it is exclusively the fault of a world catered exclusively for able-bodied people.
So next time you think, "hey the consequences of these disabled people fighting for their rights bother me", instead of blaming them for this, help them solve the issue. This way, next time they will not have to fight at all.
Able bodied people, go out and fight for a fucking accessible world if you're not an asshole.
[ Able-bodied people are encouraged to reblog this post, but try not to derail ]
I did this in a limited way on DC metro back in the day. On crowded days they wouldnt give people enough time to get on and off at a stop. Metro doors dont reopen once they close to a certan point, but if you plant your foot at their base you can hold one side open and they cant move the train until the door closes, so people can get on and off. And if you dont like me doing this, fuck you and metro, your job is to transport humans, not to keep your schedule exactly.
Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I'm kind of annoyed with him.
I did this for a friend of mine in college. She was having a reoccurring nightmare about being chased by something or other, and I told her "Look, I'm a big guy and know enough to show up and improvise anything from cannons, to swords, to guns to nukes, and I guarantee the next time this fucking thing shows up in your dream I am coming to kick its ass"
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder:
Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
this 100% could just be because there's so many versions of greek myths and I just heard it different growing up, but tbh I never really understood why the story of icarus is supposed to be about hubris and all that. it didn't seem like he was proud of his (gifted) wings, like he thought he'd be invulnerable like a god. it seemed more like a kid chasing a ball into the street without thinking and getting hit by a car. he didn't REALIZE how high he'd gone and he couldn't hear his father yelling after him. he'd been trapped underground for years, he was just happy and playing around? like, again, if I saw a kid have a lapse in judgment and get hit by a car, I wouldn't blame the kid?? they didn't know that would happen to them. so why blame icarus?
At least the way I always understood it, Icarus was not a 6 year old running into the street. He was a teenager/young adult who was specifically told what would happen. He then decided that he was special and he was going to do it anyways. That's just my personal interpretation of it at least.
but that ignores the context of him being trapped underground for years 😭 he hadn't seen the sun in so long. it doesn't seem like he thinks he's special, or that he's disobeying his father on purpose, it seems like he's caught up in the euphoria of the moment and doesn't notice what's going on until it's too late
Might also b bad way of pointing out that the universe doesn't care about how happy you are or how excited and not paying attention after being freed, it will still kill you dead
I fucking LOVE the way people act when they love a sport and watch a beginner succeed at it. It reminds me of the first time I went surfing, I'd been trying for an hour to get my balance and when I finally managed to stand up and ride a wave in literally every surfer on the beach was like
The first time I managed to get up and stay up on waterskis, my dad (who was driving the boat) was so excited that he forgot to watch where he was going and ran over a buoy.
it's important to note that there are 5 types of fire extinguishers & each must be used exclusively for the class of fire they're designed for - using the wrong extinguisher can be dangerous. here's a helpful diagram:
& you might think they look intimidating, but it's very easy to use a fire extinguisher:
pull the safety pin (usually yellow) out of the handle.
aim the hose at the base of the fire.
squeeze the handle to discharge.
do consider acquiring a fire blanket for your kitchen, too! they're (generally) more affordable than extinguishers & again, easy to use: you simply take the blanket out of its case, hold it by the tabs & place it carefully over the flames.
Fire extinguishers can also have letter categorization instead, where they're labeled as A (dry fuels like fabric, paper, wood, etc), B (flammable liquids, like grease and gasoline), C (electrical fires), D (flammable metals, usually only in labs), or K (large kitchen fires, usually only in industrial and commercial kitchens).
Multipurpose fire extinguishers can have multiple labels and are safe to use for all types of fires covered under those categories; I have a dry chemical A-B-C extinguisher so I can use it for any small fire aside from flammable metals. If you have multiple fire extinguishers in your home, you may have a B-C one for your kitchen.
Technically speaking, that's what a multipurpose ABC extinguisher is for. It covers pretty much any fire that is likely to occur in your home. Some people just have more specialized extinguishers for a lot of reasons (price, availability, whatbwas already in their home, etc) or multiple extinguishers that are better suited to specific things.
Having more than one extinguisher in your home can be really helpful regardless in case a fire actually makes one of them inaccessible, like cutting your access to the room it's in, and having one in the kitchen specifically for kitchen fires can make a huge difference when you don't have to run across the house to put out a growing fire.
Y'all should Google the article, it’s actually pretty neat. Basically, the Aldabra Atoll was once inhabited by the Aldabra Rail, a flightless species of bird that had diverged from the flying White-Throated Rail when a section of the population landed there and found they had no natural predators. However, the Atoll occasionally gets completely submerged, and all of the flightless Aldabra rails were wiped out. But then, after the Atoll re-emerged, a bunch of the EXACT SAME species of flying White Throated Rail decided to settle there again, and immediately proceeded to evolve into flightless birds AGAIN.
That's not your man that's the spirit of a Victorian beat cop who was bound to the lantern by dark magic and is now possessing a body to return to life
Happy July 4th, everyone, and good luck to the UK voters out there!
Wow it's Year 11 of doing these!! Here's the AO3 link to the past 10 years, and here's the tumblr link.
Reminder that this is a long game -- some of the judges making decisions were appointed back in the 80s. Many of the cases that were decided this round were from Trump's term. So it's going to take long-term, consistent voting over a decade to start tipping things in the other direction. (Which I talked about in 2018 re: Trump shenanigans and 2022 re: Dobbs).
A lot has been done by the Biden administration (I'm assuming most folks have seen this post by boreal-sea with their very helpful sources), and much of that will be overturned by Trump, especially if he gets the Senate, and especially now that he would have a blank check for anything "official". So let's make sure that doesn't happen.
And even if Trump does get elected, your decisions down-ballot might effect control of the House or Senate, or might make it easier to vote next time, plus the whole plethora of state and local issues. It's Republican state attorney generals who are challenging climate regulations, for example.
Plus, when you really get down to it, only one of the candidates plans on pardoning himself and all his friends if he wins, and attacking the government if he loses. Maybe that guy shouldn't be the President.
If you're new to voting, remember to check voter registration deadlines! I'm a permanent vote-by-mail voter and it's so nice. :)
Transcript under the readmore
Page 1:
Sam and Bucky meet up with Steve for a picnic.
Steve: Thought you guys were still in Sudan?
Bucky: I’m forcing Sam to take a break.
Sam collapses onto the picnic blanket.
Sam: Oof, it just never stops, does it?
Steve: Nope.
Bucky hands Sam an orange popsicle.
Bucky: Eat and relax for a bit, Sam.
Sam: Thanks.
Page 2:
Bucky asks Steve: How are things state-side?
Steve responds: HORRIBLE.
Bucky: I thought you’ve been tentatively hopeful about what Biden has been able to achieve?
Steve: I was! Student loans, child care, climate regulations, infrastructure, labor, trans rights … he’s quietly done a lot through regulatory improvements and congress bills. But now all people will talk about is how he’s OLD.
And then there’s the Supreme Court’s decisions … Chevron and immunity…
Steve puts his head in his hands, while Sam and Bucky look on with some concern.
Page 3:
Bucky hands Steve a blue/raspberry popsicle: Steve, take a deep breath, and a popsicle.
Sam: Sounds like we missed a lot. What’s going on? How bad is it?
Steve: Pretty bad. The Supreme Court has made some decisions that give the Court and the President A LOT of discretionary power.
Sam: Yikes, that doesn’t sound good.
Steve: Well, the Chevron thing means that judges with life-term appointments can override policies made by government agencies. And now it’ll be harder to hold a President accountable because he will have immunity for any “official” actions.
Page 4:
Sam: So if the President tries to, say, overturn a democratic election result, he’ll be allowed to as long as it’s in his job description?
Steve: I don’t think threatening state electors is “official” business, but that will be decided by federal judges. Who get their jobs by approval from both the President and the Senate.
Bucky: Yeesh. No wonder you’re stressed. Any good news?
Steve: Well, thanks the Biden and the razor-thin Senate majority, the newer bills don’t rely on the Chevron deference. Still not great but not catastrophic.
Sam, squirting ketchup on his hot dog: So what I’m hearing is that it’s now more important than ever to have a President and a Senate who you can trust to appoint fair judges, pass bills, and not commit crimes.
Page 5:
Steve: Plus all of the state level offices, now that more and more deciding power has been thrown back to the states — abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting access…
Bucky: Hey, at least this is a big election year so we can actually do something!
Steve, with his arms crossed, looking surly: Except that all people want to talk about is how Biden is “too old” and “not doing enough,” as if that is on par with Trump’s desire to dismantle basic rights! As if the candidate who doesn’t embody ALL their ideals is not worth voting for!
Bucky interrupts with a smart and a loud “PFFT.”
Page 6:
Bucky: Um, Steve. YOU were like that in 1940.
Sam, nudging Bucky: “Oh, this I gotta hear. Spill, Barnes.”
In sepia, Steve is pacing around their apartment while Bucky is sitting and reading a newspaper.
Steve: I can’t believe he’s running for a 3rd term! we need a fresh candidate to vote for! This is hardly a choice at all! AND he refuses to engage in Europe! All of Europe under fascist control and we’re just twiddling our thumbs? He’s letting millions die through his inaction!
Bucky: Most people don’t want another war, Steve. If he came out for it, he would lose.
Steve, indignant: But Buck, it’s your Polish relative who are in danger!
Bucky, closing his newspaper and looking at Steve: Yeah, and between FDR and Willkes, I trust FDR to help if he could.
Page 7:
Steve, in sepia, looking away: Should he be encouraged to do more? Maybe I should vote for Browder. The Communists have historically be Anti-Fascist.
Sam interrupts off-screen: Waitaminute! STEVE was going to PROTEST-VOTE?
Steve: We were in a Blue State, Sam!
Sam: But what about the down ballot races?!
Steve: RELAX, I did my due diligence down-ballot. I wanted a senate that’s more progressive than the President.Voted LaGuardia for Mayor, too.
Steve hesitates: Then, when I got to the President… I realized that the Best case scenario would be that my vote did nothing, versus if it actually spoiled the election. And when I asked myself who I could trust to work with my Senator… well, FDR had a good record with Labor. (sepia shot of young Steve voting)
Bucky interrupts: Hold on, Steve.
Page 8:
Bucky, eating a cookie, arching an eyebrow: You didn’t vote for Browder? Why didn’t you tell me?
Steve: And have you say “I told you so” for the next century?
Bucky: Heh.
Steve, with hand on his chin: What’s weird was that, despite everything, I still felt HORRIBLE when I ticked that box.
Sam: Sounds like you built up the meaning of that vote far too much in your head. Logically, we know that a single box can’t represent all of the complexity of a whole system, but the desperately WANT it to. Just look at how people have built up so much around the term “Zionis” that it’s made productive conversations difficult.
Page 9:
Sam and Steve speak in the background while Bucky reaches into the cooler and pulls out a box.
Steve: Sigh. And that’s something that goes beyond the election.
Sam: Which is why we need to vote, AND do other things.
Bucky, looking at Steve and Sam: Like how Steve works to push organizations on the local level? Or like all the work you do as Captain America?
Sam: Exactly. Vote AND.
Sam looks at Bucky fondly: Like how you vote AND make me and Steve take breaks.
Bucky, looking stern because he can’t handle compliments: Shush, Sam.
Bucky holds up a cake that has the number “107” on it: It’s time for cake. Happy Birthday, Steve.
To whoever decided to put ai art on the fandom wiki of Dungeon Crawler Carl, may your pillow forever be warm, your pen out of ink, and your relationships never true.
Flying to Italy and finding the exact field to recreate the picnic scene was pretty amazing. The costume took me a month to make 😮💨 it was so nice to shoot it in THE field!!
To be fair, it's been a goal of mine to get out to Lake Como, Italy and stand on the very spot the sand line was uttered. I completely understand you, op.
Carl is so... He's just some guy. He's the messiah. He's a war criminal. He's hope personified. He has killed babies. He's a cultist. He's a cishet ally but everyone thinks he's bisexual. He has daddy issues. He has PTSD. He's straight but he has a boyfriend. He really loves his friends. He has a mental illness. He loves his cat more than anyone and anything else in the world. He's an anarchist. He is slowly going insane. He's a fan favourite crawler. He's a mass murderer. The AI is in love with him. He makes inspirational speeches. He monologues. He's anti-establishment. He's traumatised. He pulls a lot of bitches but doesn't pay attention to them. He sees his friends as his family. He's street smart. He has gotten hit by a train.
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