I don't know who needs to hear this but:

-"it only hurts a little" is still pain

-"I can ignore it" is still pain

-"I can cope with/manage it" is still pain

-"it's bearable" is still pain

-"I can push through it" is still pain

-"it doesn't hurt that much" is still pain

-"it doesn't stop me from doing x" is still pain

You don't need to be in agonizing pain to be in pain.

finally some rain

[ID: A photo of grass growing out of brown dried leaves, with beads of moisture from the rain still clinging to the fresh green blades. End ID.]

I need a Nice Respectable™ sounding name for an ableist lady's daemon. Something fancy. Can be a name from Earth history this one's set pretty much on our world just with daemons and some slightly more advanced technology.

can also just be a random mash up of letters, I just can't think of anything.

or maybe I don't. would you call your parents daemon by their name or would there just be a version of "mom" or "dad" that gets used for daemons.

Translation: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, not a man and not a woman, here are some cakes for you to treat yourselves with."

That was how Dr Ljuba Prenner introduced himself to his colleagues on his first day at a new job at a law firm.

People who knew him say that the quote clearly illustrated his character; he wanted people to feel good in his company, but he also wanted his appearance and identity to be kept out of the foreground.

Ljuba Prenner (1906-1977) was a Slovenian writer and lawyer. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. He was a member of the Slovene Writers' Association and the Communist Party of Slovenia (KPS), and active in the Liberation Front (OF). He wrote the first Slovenian crime novel, Neznani storilec (engl. The Unknown Perpetrator).

His works often contain autobiographical elements, and several are written from the perspective of a first-person male narrator.

Ljuba had dressed in trousers and men's clothes since high school. He had short hair, wore a man's hat and carried a briefcase. He wrote about himself: "I wear trousers to make my life easier, I find it hard to live in skirts, and God only knows why. For years I didn't dare to be me, but now I am, and at last nobody cares anymore."

Ljuba Prenner was a pioneer of trans and non-binary gender identities in Slovenia, having lived as both decades before the terms were coined in the Slovenian language to refer to people who live their truth regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth.

In the Bučinek Inn in Vodriž, there is a memorial room to Dr. Ljuba Prenner, affectionately called "Uncle's Room". The room is full of photographs and also contains one of the suits and briefcases that Ljuba wore. Ljuba is the subject of a documentary film, Dober človek: Ljuba Prenner (engl. The Good Man: Ljuba Prenner), and appears as a historical figure in various books and articles. Most of these works do not address his gender identity and sexual orientation, and he is rarely referred to by masculine pronouns, although there are sources that confirm that Ljuba used the pronoun "he" in private.

He often responded to remarks and gossip about him by saying, "Whoever talks behind my back, talks to my ass."

Thank you for your astute advice and all your brilliance, Uncle Ljubo!

- From Nebinarni zin, a zine by and for non-binary people in Slovenia, published online by TransAkcija. English translation by me.

The idea that women with small breasts have “immature” bodies implies that women with large breasts have “mature” bodies. This not only body shames women with small chests but it also feeds into the idea that girls with large breasts are womanly.

Large breast don’t just magically appear when someone is 18, or 20, or 25, or  whenever you would consider someone an adult. If they are not fake, then they developed over time. Most large chested women had large chest as kids.

Girls with large breasts get sexually harassed by a lot of people. Including grow ass adults who claim it is okay because the victim of their harassment has a “woman’s body.”

If you pay attention then you will hear at lot of predators and their apologists say that it is pedophilic to like small breasted women but being attracted to minors does not count if they have a “woman’s body.”

Are you some creep who pervs on high school girls? No? The stop talking like one!

Breast size is just that. It is not a mark of maturity or lack there of.

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.

This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?

Durable medical equipment companies in the US already do this.

DMEs will repossess your medical devices if you rent it through them and lose your insurance or your living situation. This includes feeding tube pumps and higher value mobility devices like motorized wheelchairs. I specify living situation because even with insurance they see homelessness as a liability to the medical equipment.

They have no qualms with letting you die and in the case of feeding tubes, they have no issues with letting you starve a bit faster.

idk who needs to hear this but like fat people are allowed to eat chips and candy and drink soda just as much as skinny people

hobbies include blocking dozens of people at a time who will never interact with me in the first place

Sometimes I remember the job listing for a ‘server’ that once passed my way, whose duties included but were not limited too

All for $7 an hour. And I find myself wondering if that business is still around. Not enough to go over there, but I do wonder.

I feel like that’s a lot of minimum wage work.

It’s a perverse aspect of the modern economy that high paying jobs have specific and narrow responsibilities, where as the wage decreases the responsibilities get more vague and broad. The unusual part is just saying it all out loud up front instead of hiring somebody for [Job Title] when they mean “General Purpose Laborer that we’ll work like a rented mule”.

I really think I’d have been more forgiving if doing their accounting wasn’t on there and if the listing hadn’t specifically said that you would be the only person working there. Not ‘the only employee working with the owners’, the only person involved in running the restaurant.

They were really hoping they could get somebody to do all the work of running the place, on their own, for ‘oh they’re a server their wages are made up for in tips’ money.

Like, I know minimum wage work’ll kill you, but that was just a whole new level. Like at least everywhere else was going ‘this is shit you may need to do and your manager will tell you what your deal is day to day’ not ‘you will literally be carrying our business on your back for essentially the joy of it’.