Who doesn’t want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway?

Twin boys

i'm proposing a new diagnostic critera for autism spectrum testing

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"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"

the problem with being beaten by an iron rod until you cough up blood

a video essay

the dark history behind hats

: a video essay

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

[guy who's about to invent quora voice] man i love reddit but its just not racist enough for me

I will say it is hard to be nice to people here when so much of casual tumblr vernacular is just… inherently hostile. Some of you genuinely do not seem to understand that there are alternatives to flippantly insulting strangers.

A relatively innocuous example that’s still kind of abrasive: “it’s OK you can just say [blank]” (presumptuous, slightly hostile, mildly condescending) when what you mean to say is “this applies to [blank]” (neutral).

rude meme idioms sure are weirdly popular here on the literalist autism website actually

thinking critically as a consumer about the biases and underlying beliefs/goals of news media is approx 1 million billion times more important than doing the same for steven universe, ttrpgs, or porn. if yr gonna choose one choose the former

Fun fact!

Doing the latter is practice for doing the former, and it's fun!

Go get 'em, tiger!

If my experience on this website has taught me anything it's that it most assuredly is not

I suppose there's just no getting around the e-begging - I had to go to the emergency room on Monday because I was, for good reason, under the impression that I was experiencing a life-or-death medical emergency. This turned out to not be the case, and what I was dealing with ended up being unpleasant but not life-threatening, but now I have to pay for hospital fees and a litany of tests!

Any financial help at all would be massively helpful as I deal with paying off what is going to be, conservatively, two to three months of my current income for the crime of not wanting to die if I can help it.

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I will stoop to the level of reblogging this because I am still paying for this (and the typical background costs of being chronically ill and uninsured) but now I'm also on the hook for a new pair of glasses. I make basically no money in excess of basic survival needs, so any help makes a huge difference.

Reblogging this again because it turns out that having missed a couple shifts for acute medical emergencies has made me actually unable to afford medication this month! While I'm picking up more work (which is only going to exacerbate my illness) I only get paid once every two weeks and make barely above minimum wage. My attempts to find work that pays better and/or doesn't require physically exerting myself to the brink of what my body can handle continue to be unsuccessful as they have for the past two years at this point. I despise being reliant on the charity of others but it's literally my only option.

Details on Omar As'ad's murder

i have no patience for people talking about violent rhetoric on the left really because every day i read the news and every politician in this country and in most others is saying 'we gotta kill more people'. they use different words to say it. obviously you're not supposed to just say 'we gotta kill more people'. but there's all kinds of polite and okay ways to say it.

'we need to control our borders' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta drown more refugees in boats, we gotta send more people back to warzones and governments that want them dead, we gotta make more camps and we gotta make the camps more fatal'.

'we need to be tougher on welfare fraud' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta make disabled people do more song and dance routines to convince some indifferent bureaucrat that they deserve to eat and we gotta make sure that the bureaucrats say 'no', we gotta starve those kids more, we gotta make sure families and kids and old people are freezing in the winter'.

'we need to tackle violent crime' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, specifically Black people, unless we said Terrorism instead of Crime, in which case it's specifically muslims, shoot them, imprison them, surveil them, disappear them, brutalize them, whatever.'

and of course none of this is Violent Speech. this is Sensible Political Discourse. these are Common-Sense Policy Goals. we gotta kill more people: that's an electable policy. you can always count on we gotta kill more people as a platform. we gotta kill more people is gonna sweep the nation baby. we gotta kill more people 2024 -- vote now on your phones. now slow down. hold your horses. did that guy just say we gotta kill more people? well that just wont do. thats why im running on a platform of we gotta kill more people for cheaper, to stop this wasteful madness. and the people just keep dying but seems like there's still some of them left so i guess we're just circling back around to our main thing which is: we gotta kill more people