Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is

Those dilapidated warehouses being demolished and turned into a restaurant or an apartment complex is not gentrification

No, that man with a metrosexual haircut wearing airpods on the bus is not gentrifying your neighborhood, he is a person, not the American socio-economic landscape

@clearancecreedwatersurvival You'd be surprised how many people fail to grasp this

Like people will see affordable housing being built and say "Gentrification" because it's a 5 over 1 and has modern architecture

@timelineman-of-titors-edge A 5 over 1 is this bitch, the most hated architecture in the nation:

They are incredibly cheap to build apartment buildings with the current building codes. They are called 5 over 1's because they are 5 floors with wooden frames over a concrete base

Shout out to someone finally getting the point of this post

Knowing what I do now, that allistics can pick up that we're not neurotypical within milliseconds and judge us weird or "off", I wonder if that is why I'm always stopped and searched at airports... I'm 5'2" and not imposing at all. But I never fail to get pulled aside.

Just curious thoughts. 🤔

What do you they just KNOW

What do you mean I can't be unknowable and safe-

Yes. NTs were shown videos of autistics doing NOTHING. Just existing. No faux pas made. They were judged as weird or off putting.

When informed they were autistic, the NTs judged them less harshly.

they hate us

I'd just like to throw out that when people talk about "bad vibes," this is what they really mean: automatic, reflexive ableism.

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they'll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they're sitting on.

BIG PSA: if you're an artist, I wouldn't recommend using @inprnt . If you already have, archive all your work until this is resolved. They aren't giving satisfactory responses (if any) or being clear why many of us aren’t receiving payments until MONTHS after their ETA for balance withdrawals, and only respond after numerous emails, if they ever do.

If you sell a print on @inprnt as of summer 2023, you'll have to wait 30 days until the money appears in your site balance, and then potentially up to 4 MONTHS for your withdrawal request to appear in your paypal account. As a reminder, the site's service terms still say withdrawal requests "should take" 3-10 business days.

If you're a supporter of artists, I'd recommend not buying prints from @inprnt. They need to explain what is going on

this all being said, I am no longer offering prints on @inprnt until they come clean or this issue is taken care of.

Disappointed MAJORLY by @inprnt. Sorry to the people I suggested it to a year or so ago.

It's legit. Section 11.G "Opt out" explains how.

I just did this, and Etsy doesn’t actually tell you anywhere on the site how to find your username (it’s randomly generated), which you need to opt out, so here’s how to do that:

https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015653248-Your-Username the main point is “The URL of your profile page contains your username. It looks like this: etsy.com/people/[your username]”

Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!

From my experience what these people actually want is confirmation that their experiences were normal and correct and that it's the world that has gone wrong. That's why confronting them with the fact that actually how they were treated was literally abuse makes them so upset, they don't want to acknowledge that they were (and often still are) victims of people and systems outside their control. They were raised with the mindset that to admit something hurt you was a weakness. They were raised to believe that suffering through hardship silently is a sign of good character and strength. They want to be praised for being so strong, not sympathised with for being so hurt, they just don't know what to do with that massive shift in perspective

Bro I fucking hate the deliberate understaffing of every medical field so much holy shit

We suffer from a lack of political willpower to invest in public transportation.

Houston put someone on trial for feeding the homeless and jury calls bullshit

The state had to prove to a jury that feeding the homeless is a criminal act and in doing so, probably convinced a few members of the jury to sign up for food not bombs lol.

This is a great time to remind everyone on here about Jury Nullification

This is to pride discourse like when a new guy comes into the wrestling ring w a chair. Absolute mayhem to the discursive ecology

ID: a tweet by San Francisco Chronicle @SFChronicle.

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Cops say that they live in constant fear of having to defend themselves and being wrongly seen as murderers.

If that were true, they'd be demanding that all of their interactions be filmed from multiple angles in order to make it very clear that using deadly force was the only reasonable option available.

Instead, they complain about being filmed.

Cops say that their job is very dangerous and that every interaction they have could be their last.

If that were true, they'd be grateful that people want to repeal laws against victimless actions, use social workers instead of police to deal with mental illness, and reduce crime by making sure everyone has what they need to survive.

Instead, they complain whenever those policy changes are proposed.

They're not trying to protect their safety. They're trying to protect their power.

#the final days were upon us #and then it was thursday again

We aren't the first to feel like the world is ending, and if they were wrong, so might we be.

Holy shit. 98% of the people in Ohio State University's precinct voted NO on issue one. When I tell you Republicans are scared shitless of young people, this is what I mean. Young people see right through what Republicans are doing & it's just not going to work with us.

The thing that pisses me off the most is that even if covid WAS over, disabled people still fucking exist and deserve to participate in things. The brief period of time in which everyone was doing virtual and hybrid events, people could work from home, social events were actually accessible...all it did was show that we could be doing these things, and just don't fucking care.

Hybrid events should be the STANDARD. Including people who can't leave their houses should be the STANDARD. Some basic fucking consideration for the disabled should be the STANDARD.

And it's just. Not.

As with many things, the problem comes down to money.  The cost of hybrid events is significantly higher than doing them exclusively in-person or exclusively remote.  Price-wise, it’s like doing two events.  In terms of effort, too, it’s like two whole separate events. Depending on the nature of the event, you may even have to hire an entire second set of crew to run the hybrid portion of the event.  Many organizations just don’t have that kind of money.

IDK if you’re talking about “events” like for-profit concerts and things, that’s probably a whole different conversation where you can be like “well, they should just pay for it!”  But like, I work for a nonprofit organization.  My nonprofit organization raises money to fund its operation.  Every bit of money we spend on an event is money we don’t have to do the services we provide - which, in our case, is providing pro-bono legal aid to disadvantaged families regarding education advocacy - which means a lot of what we do is get accommodations in school for disabled kids. We care about this.  We care about this a lot.

Every year we hold one event, and that event is a fundraiser that brings in about a third of our annual operating budget.  If we a) spend more money on the event or b) don’t raise as much money with the event, that is a big problem for us.

So: for the first 2 years of the pandemic (2020 & 2021), we didn’t do hybrid, we did fully remote events.  That was much cheaper - it also didn’t bring in nearly as much in fundraising.  But that was okay!  Partly because of the cheaper event, which meant we got to keep more of what we did bring in, and partly because the government was providing grants to aid nonprofits like us at that time, because COVID was a thing everybody was paying attention to.

Year 3 (2022), many people were going back to in-person events, but also a lot were still unwilling to risk it, so hybrid events were the Thing to Do.  Everyone was doing them, and startups were popping up that sold “hybrid event packages” so you could do them affordably.

This year (2023), those packages were way more expensive.  Fewer people were looking to do hybrid events, so the people who were selling those services had fewer contracts, so each contract cost more, so fewer people could afford to do it - it’s a vicious cycle.  The hybrid portion of the event doesn’t actually bring in much in funds, so it’s an expense that does not get offset by anything.  It’s not something a small nonprofit can afford to do long-term.

We do what we can - in our case, that means filming the event and uploading the video to our website afterwards, along with a digital journal, which isn’t nearly as good. And it sucks that we can’t afford to keep doing hybrid events, but unless the social zeitgeist shifts back so that it gets much cheaper, we probably won’t be able to do them again in the future, either.

Buddy, a post where a disabled person is venting about being left out of everything? Probably not the place to post a wall of text that boils down to "it's too expensive to cater to disabled people." Time and a fucking place.

I'm not in the mood to hear about how hard it is for people to include me, and how much easier and cheaper it is for my "community" to abandon me to rot in my shitty overpriced slum apartment because it's somehow too hard for someone to set up a fucking laptop and a webcam for me to join a video call or watch a livestream.

Bro they're literally telling you what's causing the problem. If whatever nonprofit @lostsometime works for were a state program and the Internet wasn't privately owned, cost wouldn't be an object, would it?

Christ, there's even a Thomas the Tank Engine story about a contractor's train car that was so rotten and useless the engine pulled it apart. Capitalism doesn't work kids.

There's a time and a place for Helpful Responses. Not every time a disabled person is shut out is a time that people need to be Helpful.

Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)

This is why it is so important to be critical and double check everything you generate using image generators and text-based AI.

I remember being in first grade and this white boy asked me why I wear "normal" clothes if I'm Indian and don't Indians only wear feathers? So yes I do think first graders need more awareness about race

Also Sesame Street was made by a bunch of hippies that loved puppets and educators that were trying to reach in-city kids (particularly kids of color) who didn't have access to good education resources.

Sesame Street has specifically addressed racism and other forms of socially oppressive orders since the beginning. Once again Rave Dubin is a moron.