something about how the disability rights movement got watered down, in people's eyes, from "we demand that buildings are built to physically accommodate us, eg with ramps" to "there's nothing we can do about the world around us, but it would be nice if people were more accepting of seeing people stim"

multiple notes on the post that demonstrate people think accessibility means "normalizing disability" and like, sure i guess that's important, but the capital crawl was not about normalizing disability it was about basic rights to access society

like it's not all about vibes y'all. it's about real tangible things like elevators.

to misquote disability activist stella young; no amount of normalising disability has ever turned a flight of stairs into a ramp

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

​this worked last night lets go for round two

I really need some good luck rn

I’m not sure whether I want the $100 or the baby goat; I guess I will leave it up to fate.

i dont care what i get. luck is luck mates

patch notes: you no longer feel guilt for actions and their consequences that were not your fault

- fixed the bug where you have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting

As someone who has personally had to take those calls, they do matter. It just doesn’t matter what you say in the call: the only way your calls actually reach the politician is a tally sheet of each call received on different topics. End of the day/week, the politician gets told “you had X many calls about people wanting you to do this, Y many calls about people wanting you to do this, etc.”

Individual calls matter little, but if they get tons of calls on one topic then they take it seriously. The example above was probably during a time where the office was flooded with so many calls at once that they took the phones off the hook, which actually means that calls are working especially well. When the phones are blowing up, everyone in the office notices.

The best call to your representative does not involve you making an impassioned and well-argued case, because you’re probably talking to an intern. The most effective call you can make takes 15 seconds: “I am from [place in your district] and I am very pissed about [topic].”

OI. PEOPLE IN THE THREAD. CAN WE REBLOG THIS VERSION PLEASE. DON'T STOP MAKING CALLS.

But also as another person further up says, don't let your activism start and stop with phone calls either.

DON'T TRUST ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU NOT TO PARTICIPATE

to succeed in adult friendship you must remember the key tenets of child friendship:

successful examples from my travels:

of course these can be mixed and matched. most activities are enhanced by Snack Time if your friend targets enjoy breaking bread together.

and one begets the other. if you Play Pretend with someone for long enough they may eventually tell you about Toys they have and if you want to play too they'll probably let you. if they're nice.

life can be lonely when we live in separate boxes and worry about money all the time. this is what makes friendships hard, not growing older. but the antidote to isolation is connection, and the oldest wisdom we ever learn: share your toys. share your games. share your snacks.

i thought this was about kinky sex until i saw the second part

if somebody prefaces an argument/observation/essay/rant etc. with a brag about how they didn't need to read the thing they're responding to or the generally recognized source body on the topic to know that they're right you're absolutely about to read the most bafflingly dogshit opinion you've ever seen in your life

Today is Disability Day of Mourning, the day the disabled community mourns the loss of disabled people killed by their parents or caregivers.

Disabled victims of murder by parents or caregivers often have their murder justified by media and perpetrators. Often these justifications include arguments that caring for a disabled person is "too traumatic" or that caregivers just felt "sorry for our existence." Murderers who kill disabled people are often given shorter sentences than other murderers, with some getting sentences as low as community service.

See: The Disability Day of Mourning website

This year 132 names were added to the list.

The youngest victim on the list is an unnamed one day old girl. She was abandoned by her parents with the reason believed to be her disability. She was mauled by dogs and found by hospital staff but they were unable to save her.

Close to my home, Omaree Varela was a 9 year old boy living in Albuquerque, New Mexico with ADHD, PTSD, and a developmental delay. Omaree was kicked to death by his mother. 6 months before his death Omaree had called 911 for help but the investigation led to nothing.

Juneanne Fannell was an 82 year old woman living in Rio Rancho, New Mexico on hospice care. Juneanne 's caregiver called the police on her and when they arrived Juneanne told the police she felt she was in danger because of the guns in the home. Police complimented the guns in the home and made no effort to help Juneanne. In the recording, Juneanne's caregiver makes a threat to kill her. Hours later, he shoots Juneanne.

find the full list of names here

find the list of new names here

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

i always thought of transphobia as a short hand for bigotry and not an actual phobia phobia, but this guy legit ran away from a child

I know the IOF are far past recognizing the humanity of any Palestinian, but it seems that they are too far gone to even tell what the world sees as inhumane at all. They're claiming that the massacre in Northern Gaza wasn't due to the IOF opening fire, and instead saying it's because of a stampede caused by people rushing to obtain bags of flour. Even if this wasn't such a blatantly disgusting and cowardly lie, does this "truth" that you're presenting absolve you? Do you think admitting that the population you're supposedly "taking all measures to avoid unnecessary casualties" for are dying of starvation from the seige you're imposing so much that hundreds of people are scrambling to get flour for their dying families, 150 people dying in the process, does any favors for their argument? Or are they beyond caring what the world thinks of them altogether? They POSTED A VIDEO of the mass rushing to obtain the flour! Not thinking that is damning proof of what they're doing?!

Every death in Gaza is on the IOF. People who died of sickness, whether they got sick because of the conditions or whether they had pre existing illnesses that they couldn't get treatment for, were killed by the IOF. People who died of starvation were killed by the IOF. People who died of the cold were killed by the IOF. People who died to suicide were killed by the IOF. They can't think that saying "they didn't die because of this thing that we caused, they died because of that other thing that we caused" absolves them of anything.

i don't know how to quantify the experience of being a system for singlets. i'm not sharing a body with several other people, we are all "me," and yet we are all our own people too, with hopes and dreams that don't fit together in a perfect puzzle. we're one and we're many. so different but the same.

just saw an absolutely rancid take, so here's a reminder

if you come across someone and can "just tell" they're wearing a diaper under their clothes? most of the time that's someone with a disability, not a kink

and even if it were a kink, it's under their clothes and none of your business

you literally have no way of knowing a complete stranger's health status and disabilities, and it's none of your business either way

im a medical full time diaper user and let me just tell you the ones that are "discreet" dont do jack shit for anybody unless you have slight leakage from time to time. thats all I can afford (havent gotten healthcare to cover them yet) so thats how i know. the idea of someone seeing in public gives me panic attacks, and now coupled with the possibility of someone assuming it's sexual, I just feel. uncomfortable.

because of the shame and stigma around them, I literally chose to continue pissing myself rather than tell a parent. I started purchasing them with my own money when I got a job rather than talking to a doctor about it first (I have been talking to a doctor about it NOW but regardless.)

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.

The thing about Katara is that she was angry.

She was angry that the Fire Nation killed her mother.

She was angry that her father left them.

She was angry that she was the only Waterbender left in the south pole.

She was angry that the only person her age was her brother, who constantly disregarded her interests and her role in the tribe.

She was angry that what little waterbending she knew, had to be self-taught and how she struggled with that.

she was angry that a twelve year old instantly picked up what had taken her a long time to learn.

she was also angry that her tribe wanted to kick that twelve year old into the wilderness over a mistake.

she was angry over the earth-benders the fire nation had captured and put into a metal box.

she was angry.

And she knew she was angry.

Because she knew her own anger, she was the first to empathize with Aang when he got angry.

And it was because of it she could tell Aang forcing himself to lock his emotions up was not the answer.

Because she knew her own anger, she kept herself under control in the dessert, when everyone else was a mess.

Her anger empowered her. where anger was a tool of self-destruction for firebenders, for her it was what helped her push forward.

It was her anger that freed Aang.

It was her anger that helped her stand to Pakku.

Her anger was her strenght.

She was angry. And this was neither a mistake, nor a writing flaw.

Your feelings are always valid. Your actions in reaction to them are not always valid though.

"Innovations"

Entrepreneur: I've improved the wheelchair by...

Actual Wheelchair Users: Making it cheaper?!

Entrepreneur: ...creating a wildly inconvenient version for seven bazillion dollars that weighs as much as a grown man, goes 100mph and can't be taken on a plane.

Actual Wheelchair Users: What?! No, I can't afford a basic chair that meets my medical needs.

Entrepreneur: I just want to improve people's lives...

Actual Wheelchair Users: Make insurance pay for the perfectly reasonable, normal, not weird wheelchair my doctor prescribed for me.

Entrepreneur: But... but...innovation...disruption.

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw