Well, you know what....

I for one welcome our pie throwing comrades.

Accessible bathrooms are more than just “a big stall”

There are a lot of disabled people. And a lot of disabilities. Therefore, there are a lot of ways to make a bathroom accessible.

An actually accessible bathroom would have:

And tbh, there’s probably more things that can be made accessible. But those are the bare minimum.

Cancel culture strikes again

No but literally this sucks if real. Like it does and it's worrying

it is real. it sucks. my immediate reaction was outrage over them killing my favorite bus line. "promotes satanism" my brother in christ it's a fucking joke. polish christians get a grip challenge.

however,

the bus line's response to the controversy over the number was to change 666 to 669. which is some of the most beautiful malicious compliance i have seen in a while. and it makes up for the hope in humanity i lost while reading the above screenshot.

Oh my GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ADDITION. yeah that very much DOES HELP, ACTUALLY fucking bless

All things that you should not have to be rich in order to do

#those things shouldn’t be fucking pipe dreams!

Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

Image Description: 2 images of a white guy in a suit. In the first image he points to someone else and says “No hate watching”. In the second image he looks around various people behind him and says “No. Fucking Hate. Watching”

"the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully form until yr 25!!" y do u wish to take more agency away from teens and young adults. y do u refer to phrenology to inform yr worldview. I'm about to undevelop yr prefrontal cortex with a baseball bat if u don't shut the fuck up

for the ppl who decided something they saw in a scientific american headline their friend posted counts as objective fact, from the Wikipedia list of common misconceptions:

it's pop science. it's pseudoscience. it's phrenology. it's not real.

Corporate America greed, writ large.

"The Federal Reserve’s mission is to keep the U.S. economy humming—not too hot, not too cold, but just right.

When the economy booms and “runs hot,” distortions like inflation and asset bubbles can get out of hand, threatening economic stability. That’s when the Fed steps in and raises interest rates, which helps cool down the economy and keep growth on track."

The Child Tax Credit was blocked by Republicans. The Fed situation is another one filled with nuance that extremists like to present as being so easy to figure out, when it's not. Yes, the corporations are screwing with Americans. The FED is not, is trying to keep the economy afloat while under attack and Kennedy and Warren are trying to sabotage Biden by attacking the methods. Kennedy is a republican. Warren is a leftist, in the same vein of the ones who said they wanted to destroy the Democratic Party. Nothing worthwhile is ever, ever, EVER easy and anyone who tries to tell you different is a Snake Oil Salesman.

Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.

In photographs, she looks like a scout leader about to ask if you’ve had anything to eat today. It takes a moment to see that often, just out of focus, her fingers are holding a joint and her vest is covered in risque pins, including an embroidered cannabis leaf.

Mary Jane Rathbun, jailed thrice and the reason for California’s groundbreaking action on medical cannabis, was better known as Brownie Mary, the patron saint of AIDS patients. More than twenty years after her death, it’s not hard to understand why this grandmotherly figure remains one of San Francisco’s most beloved activists.

She’s been called the Florence Nightingale of HIV/AIDS. She was famous for bringing her magic brownies to gay men and others suffering from wasting syndrome, a name for the deleterious effects on appetite caused by the stigmatized retrovirus.

Much like Nightingale’s work on hygiene and compassionate care, Brownie Mary’s legacy lives on in the recipes and procedures still used today in medicinal edible production.

Rathbun’s illicit distribution began in the early 1970s, when she was in her early 50s, while she worked at an IHOP in the Castro, 37 years before government-approved research finally proved that her hypothesis about distributing ingestible cannabis to AIDS patients was worth investigating. (Read more at link)

Brownie Mary helped save my life from AIDS wasting in 1996. She was adorable! We met at Dennis Peron's Cannabis Cultivators' Club on Market Street in San Francisco, and when she came around you knew you were in for a blessing. [Image: Brownie Mary Rathbun and Dennis Peron]

Her baked goods were freaking atmospheric. Because of her and Dennis and John Taylor's Flower Market and a lot of good folks, I got enough weight back to get on the brand-new HIV drugs just under the wire, and 25 years later I'm still here to write about it and say thanks.

In 1998, the Cannabis Cultivators' Club asked me to play Brownie Mary on stage to open her birthday celebration at the Club - as it turned out, her final birthday. I worked up a solo flute take to The Association's "Along Comes Mary" and ripped TF out of it. She lit up the stage like she lit up our hearts.

From High Times: "An insight into her indomitable character can be glimpsed in this vignette from August 25, 1992. The Sonoma County district attorney tried to charge the then 69-year-old with two marijuana possession felonies. Her response was concise: 'If the narcs think I’m gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy’s window.'"

When you leave your writing in the middle of a sentence, come back to it and you're like "Where the FUCK was I going with this?"

Gender thoughts with no satisfying conclusion :l 

Heads up: If you consistently CANNOT do tasks unless they are at the “Must Happen Right Now” stage, then you have a disability. 

Most people CHOOSE to put stuff off sometimes, but abled people do not consistently feel UNABLE to complete tasks without threat of consequence.

Maybe it’s an executive dysfunction issue, maybe it’s fatigue, maybe it’s chronic pain– doesn’t matter why, what matters is acknowledging it so that you can move forward. Reach out to resources that are there to help disabled people! Ask for accommodations! They’re there FOR YOU, BECAUSE YOU NEED THEM! Understanding and accepting that you have the limitations you have, and learning what can be done about them, will lead to a much more fulfilling life which you absolutely deserve. 

being puerto rican is just like time to watch the consequences of amerikan imperialism unfold into yet another crime against humanity lmao im so sick over fiona footage

im very fortunate to be in the diaspora with family and friends on the island who are currently safe and doing okay but this isnt the case for everyone

obviously the situation’s still unfolding but as of now here are two orgs on the island you can donate to via paypal

for anybody who’s unaware hurricane fiona is currently hammering puerto rico and the power grid has already totally failed the entire island which comes as a surprise to no one after the US installed board that controls puerto rico worked to privatize the electrical grid and put it in the hands of an amerikan/canadian corporation called LUMA last year (you may have heard of the continued protests against LUMA which has done nothing but fail, cheat, and scheme against the people of pr since day 1 and initially didnt even bother hiring a workforce that spoke spanish lmao)

whatever you do please try to avoid giving any money to giant amerikan “nonprofits” and NGOS (ex red cross) once they start asking bc virtually none of that $ ever goes back to our people - better to give to individuals asking on here/twitter than any big name corporate entity

An important message from the National Lawyers Guild - Detroit & Michigan Chapter

source

<older man and older woman chatting amiably at a table, their conversation is just on the edge of intelligible>

Denise: Oh, hello!

Bill: We were just talking about you kids.

D: I’m Denise Heberle (HEB-er-lee)…

B: And I’m Bill Goodman.

D: Together we’ve been fighting fascism for over 50 years.

B: And so much has changed over those 50 years, such as the ingredients to a successful firebomb!

D (cheerily): And the glass that bank windows are made of!

B: But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed over 50 years, something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement.

Both: Shut the fuck up.

D: You’re sitting in the police transport van after a protest?

B: Shut the fuck up. In a holding cell, with your comrades?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop knocks on your door?

B: Shut the fuck up.

D: Texting on an unsecured device?

B: Shut the fuck up. Pulled over by the cops after a protest?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop just asking about your day?

B: Shut the fuck up. Feds call your mom?

D: Tell your mother to shut the fuck up.

B: Now. Repeat after me. When the cops come calling, what do you do?

(Cut to Bill standing with eight kids)

Kids: Shut the fuck up!

(Cut to Card:

“Shut The Fuck up A Public Service Announcement from

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

Detroit & Michigan Chapter”)

Reminder, because people need to be aware of this even more now.

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Hey so if any of y’all are or have been volunteers for Ao3, PLEASE be careful when checking your emails

And if you know somebody who’s a volunteer I’d check in with them and see if they’re aware of this

thread for volunteers who need a next step

to be 100% clear: OTW volunteers are getting CSAM in their emails. as a protest against AO3's content. I repeat: someone is sending actual literal child pornography to actual literal human people in order to protest fanfic they think is inappropriate.

the perception of academics as all out-of-touch rich white cis straight men is also absolutely not limited to this website (which plays into it both from a dark academia perspective and from a more anti-elitist/verging on anti-intellectual perspective). it is also 100% a thing on actual college campuses, even when physically face to face with professors who are people of color, women, lgbtq, disabled, and very much plugged in to the workings of the world. there is a profound difficulty in seeing that the people who teach us are in many ways like us. 

there’s such a strong desire to conceptualize students and professors as us (young, progressive, marginalized) vs. them (older generation, privileged, out of touch), that it becomes very difficult to realize that this professor is only 15 years older than you are and is still paying off student loans, the author of this article is gay and comes at this with the experience of having been gay in the 80s, this lecturer is unsure whether they’ll have a job come fall. we’re on the same team.

I hate to do this, but I need to ask for help

The Water Main at our house burst earlier this week, and then again today

Most of the floor is ruined and needs to be replaced, walls (dry wall) need to be replaced, ceiling panels (also dry wall) need replacing, it might have gotten into the air conditioning/vents, and the carpet in the basement needs replacing 

And… both times… the main burst directly over my room.  My transformers collection (40 years strong) is completely destroyed, all of my books that I use for my work as a research/editor are wrecked, my computer is beyond recovery, my furniture (all inherited from my grandma) is ruined, most of my clothes are soaked.

While insurance will be covering a good portion of the repairs, it won’t be covering everything - and I don’t know what, if anything, I’ll be getting for my books, furniture, and collection.

I hate to do this… but right now I need to.

If you can give something, anything, to help I would appreciate it

If you can reblog this to spread it, I would appreciate it

If you just want to send virtual hugs/condolences, or words of comfort, I would appreciate that too

my paypal is HunterRialla@gmail.com

I only post like once every couple of weeks, so I don’t often reblog these things but this one’s very important!! @riallasheng is (among many things) our Miraculous PV fandom mom; an incredible person who’s put aside so much time and effort over the years to take care of younger fans and cultivate safe fandom spaces. She’s been there for me personally more times than I can count, so I’m very lucky to call her a friend and upset to see this happened! Please give this a read and boost if you’re able to! 💖

i think the biggest takeaway from the pokemon sword and shield discourse is that game freak employees should unionize

i think the biggest takeaway from the pokemon scarlet and violet discourse is that game freak employees should unionize