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Emerson | 27 | they/them Main blog: @strawberry-cottage

[disabled-dyke]

i’ve seen some people (both on here and ig) minimizing ME/CFS like it’s no big deal (like how fibromyalgia was and still is treated) and if you think that, sincerely fuck off. and to do that during ME/CFS awareness month? cruel. after a man with very severe ME/CFS DIED? horrid.

ME/CFS is an extremely debilitating systemic disease with lethal potential. pwME have an extremely low quality of life and no approved treatments. the majority of people never recover.

take it seriously. this isn’t the “i’m tired” disease.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

there's a reason it's no longer called "benign myalgic encephalomyelitis" and that reason is people died from it (and continue to because of a criminal lack of adequate care available)

Also please note that so-called 'mild' severity is defined as a minimum 50% reduction in activities of daily living and is significantly disabling, it's just that severe me/cfs is such genuine horror movie shit that having only a couple hours worth of capacity every day is small potatoes in comparison

I have NO PATIENCE for anyone minimising it

[moghedien]

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

the r slur be word from old term they call intellectual disability/ID (mental r—tion). in history, it be use against people with ID in legal/law, education, social, medical, institutionalization, and right to live in general.

it be medical term not make it better. in fact it make it worse because it gave word Official Power and use to allow bad things.

yes it sometimes people use it to people technically without ID, but still as that [mental r word] n comparing them to people with ID.

even if bigoted people who use the slur now, not realize by explicit word they compare you to people with ID…. image they have in head, the traits they attack, what they mock, they still done to compare to how they see people with ID.

be called it n bullied with r slur be hurtful, yes, bad, and should not happen. but it not compare to and override harm the slur cause to people with intellectual disability on whole institution and system level - again, it everywhere, legal/law, education, medical, institutionalization, social, if allowed to live, n so much more.

it is word with heavy history. you cannot remove history from this word/slur, especially not when you not even admit the history and history harm in first place.

it cannot be reclaimed, especially not when most of main group people it harm (people with ID) not want it reclaimed. not when you using it in harmful way.

do not remove how the word harm people with ID when talk about r word, they primary target & who word compare to, even if yes sometimes it throw to disabled (and even nondisabled) people without ID.

[misguidedandperplexed]

hey. don't cry. challah covers to cover the challah so it doesn't get embarrassed when we make a bracha on the wine first. okay?

[tigerlilypurr]

Synagogues are far more than sacred spaces. Just as Jewish identity is not solely religious but also deeply ethnic, our Temples serve as the communal heart that steadies us amid life’s turbulence. They are places where childcare coexists with book clubs, where stitch-and-bitch circles share space with educational programs of all kinds. They are vibrant hubs of connection, embraced by Jews of all backgrounds, religious, secular, and atheist alike.

As Jews, we alone have the right to determine how our synagogues are used, no one else. At a time when antisemitism is worse than anything I have seen in my lifetime, that includes hosting informational programs on making aliyah. To bar our entry while shouting about making us afraid only underscored precisely why so many Jews are now more interested in aliyah than ever before.

[44-axyer-44]

NOTICE FOR PSYCHOTIC PEOPLES LIKE ME AND THE NEW TOMODACHI LIFE: Please please pretty pretty please be careful while playing Living the Dream, esp if you’re currently unmedicated!!!

The game treats the Miis like they’re real people and makes zero mention ever that they are not, and only ever refers to them and their POV as if they are real and you are their caretaker! While playing this honestly messed with my head pretty badly at times and made me worry a lot on if I was hurting real people/not doing enough for real people while I was playing!

I cannot imagine how much worse this would be for someone who’s unmedicated, non-dormant, or experiencing breakthrough symptoms! Do please be careful and PLEASE remember to have a way to reality check yourself while playing the game!!!

Also: If you’re not psychotic, please reblog this anyway!!! It may not seem like a big deal to you but these kinds of things are REALLY important to know for us psychotic folk in a world that is both hostile and negligent to us and our needs!!!

[grecoromanyaoi]

and another thing! i also feel like the stark difference in policing how ppl talk abt sexual violence vs how ppl talk abt "nonsexual" forms of violence like murder or war or imperialism is that many many ppl dont seem to understand that the problem w sexual violence is that its violence, not that its "yucky".

[hylianengineer]

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

[xclowniex2]

At a time where jewish groups are being banned from pride events, you do not get to use Anne Franke, a dead jew murdered for being jewish before she could ever come out, as a puppet for whatever queer rights message you want to share.

You do not get to profit, financially or attention wise or another way, off of a *potentially* queer jew whilst we are banned from pride events.

We do not know if she was questioning her sexuality but ultimately straight or if she was actually queer because she was killed for the crime of existing as a jew before she could come out. Queer rights obviously matter. Anne Franke is not the person you should be using.

You need to protect alive queer jews. You need to love all jews, not just the dead ones.

[jakeperalta]

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Happy pride, here’s your yearly reminder that Jews belong in queer spaces! 🏳️‍🌈✡️

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

WITHOUT you subjecting them to ideological purity tests

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

This!!!!!!

[mslovelyrita]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Be normal about queer Jews or else. 🫵

[starg2zerlion]

This includes queer Orthodox Jews, queer Jews of color, and queer Israeli Jews. Be normal or else. 🫵

[patricia-taxxon]

ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.

[patricia-taxxon]

"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.

[elamimax]

"I won't perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed" is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit

[mylight-png]

[the-beginning-of-somewhere]

New stickers! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

B’tselem Elohim (spelled here with a quf to avoid writing a name of God) means “in the image of God.” It comes from Genesis 1:27

וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹקִים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹקִים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃

“And God created humankind in the divine image, creating it in the image of God—creating them male and female.” (Revised JPS translation, 2023)

Happy pride month! :)

[finalgirldigital]

People love natives in such a superficial way. People wanna stand with natives when we’re talking about the trees, and the land. People wanna stand with natives when we talk about philosophies of love and togetherness. But as soon as it’s time to talk about political side of being native. About dismantling a system built on the genocide of our people. About how we need a new system that isn’t built upon capital gain and benefitting white bodies. About putting up a fight. About how the colonial state we reside in is a disgusting imperial plague on this land. Suddenly y’all don’t wanna talk native.

[neechees]

"They spent hundreds of years trying to assimilate my ancestors, trying to create indians like me, who could blend in, but now they don’t want me either. They can’t make up their minds.

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.

But they don’t want me." -Shelby Lisk

[mslovelyrita]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Be normal about queer Jews or else. 🫵