@thatdiabolicalfeminist / thatdiabolicalfeminist.tumblr.com
Happy pride!!
i'm not currently in crisis but I'm always poor and putting off stuff I need, I'm physically disabled + my income's way below minimum wage, and i'm having abdominal surgery on 6/14/23 if you wanna help me out with anything from my wishIist or a walmert/amzn/etc gif card 🥺
my tumblr username @gmail dot com is my email
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Workers in the US have an estimated $50bn-plus stolen from them every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, surpassing all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined. The majority of these stolen wages are never recovered by workers.
Between 2017 to 2020, $3.24bn in stolen wages were recovered by the US Department of Labor, state labor departments and attorney generals, and through class- and collective-action litigation.
Wage theft disproportionately affects lower-wage workers, women, people of color, and immigrant workers, and negatively affects local economies and tax revenues.
There are numerous forms of wage theft, from employers not compensating workers for time worked, violating minimum wage and overtime laws, misclassifying employees as independent contractors, not providing legally required meal breaks, confiscating worker tips, or illegally taking deductions from worker wages.
Jimmy literally
As usual, @socialjust-ish leaves the gold in the tags and it’s up to me to mine them.
Hi I'm Dave, I'm a bisexual menace and I need some help!
TL;DR I'm chronically ill and disabled (100% tube fed and hydrated) and I'm taking medical leave for the summer from my childcare director position due to an extreme flare up of my gastroparesis + dysautonomia in combination with my autoimmune diseases.
I will be seeing Mayo rheumatology in July to hopefully confirm my Lupus diagnosis and start treatment. In the meantime, I live in the desert and I cannot commute to and from work in the 110F+ heat and sun due to my condition and symptoms. Throwing up is dangerous for me with a GJ tube because of the risk of displacing the tube, and my autonomic dysfunction makes it dangerous to drive with the risk of passing out.
Insurance covers my formula, prescription meds and some supplies, but I buy my own electrolytes, water, hypoallergenic tapes, and OTC medications.
If you're willing, please consider boosting + donating to help with medical and transportation costs! Linked below, you'll see we also recently had a pet caused kitchen fire and lost our microwave. When it rains, it pours.
Cashapp: $forcewielder
Paypal/venmo: ask me (ty!)
trans people can and do have biological children
t4t couples can and do have biological children
the narrative that we are infertile, incapable, and unwilling to have children is a lie
trans people often face discrimination in adoption opportunities, and we need to normalize the idea that people like us do have our own biological children
transfem people/trans women/other non-gestational parents can induce lactation and feed their children
transmasc/trans men and other gestational parents can find trans affirming healthcare, even in obstetrics. there’s a growing number of lgbt doulas and midwives trained to help affirm the gestational parent’s wishes
intersex trans people can also have children - and we often face a doubled-down narrative that we are infertile and shouldn’t attempt to have children
polyam trans couples also have a broader range of gestational and postpartum opportunities for raising children, or even multiple monogamous trans couples co-parenting/co-gestating with shared resources
if you are a trans person who wants to have bio children, there are spaces out there for you, there’s a community of trans parents and trans people who are trying to conceive
eugenics is a big scary word and yet people that would claim to be left-leaning can very easily be convinced to be pro-eugenics if you just never use the word. like oh you think "dumb people" shouldnt be allowed to reproduce? you think "dumb people" shouldnt be allowed to have children? its kinda scary
I hate hate hate when people say things like “homophobes don’t hate us based on who we aren’t attracted to!” Tell me you have no empathy or understanding for the lesbian struggle without telling me. We are absolutely hated on the basis that we are not attracted to men it’s fucking blind to pretend otherwise
man this is like the worst year for tech and websites
discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley
tumblr has been desperately pushing its merch and digital cosmetics with flashing gifs and popup ads. some of these products feature user-made jokes & content, repackaged without compensation or credit. tumblr live cannot be turned off for longer than a week, and might’ve inadvertently revealed underage users’ locations to strangers. flashy promotions (like the y2k thing) are getting more invasive and obnoxious, and might even trigger epilepsy in some cases. the mobile app remains barely functional, and plays loud ads unprompted half the time when i open it. pornbots remain rampant, and cleanup on your end now often involves scrolling past actual porn gifs in order to block them. one of the tumblr staff members is a die-hard potterhead. social media platforms are all corporate products. they’re all run by inept businessfolk who will go to bizarre and troubling lengths to try and squeeze a profit out of your favorite website. they’re not your friends. tumblr is no exception.
Tesla has made Autopilot a standard feature in its cars, and more recently, rolled out a more ambitious “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) systems to hundreds of thousands of its vehicles. Now we learn from an analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data conducted by The Washington Post that those systems, particularly FSD, are associated with dramatically more crashes than previously thought. Thanks to a 2021 regulation, automakers must disclose data about crashes involving self-driving or driver assistance technology. Since that time, Tesla has racked up at least 736 such crashes, causing 17 fatalities. This technology never should have been allowed on the road, and regulators should be taking a much harder look at driver assistance features in general, requiring manufacturers to prove that they actually improve safety, rather than trusting the word of a duplicitous oligarch. The primary defense of FSD is the tech utopian assumption that whatever its problems, it cannot possibly be worse than human drivers. Tesla has claimed that the FSD crash rate is one-fifth that of human drivers, and Musk has argued that it’s therefore morally obligatory to use it: “At the point of which you believe that adding autonomy reduces injury and death, I think you have a moral obligation to deploy it even though you’re going to get sued and blamed by a lot of people.” Yet if Musk’s own data about the usage of FSD are at all accurate, this cannot possibly be true. Back in April, he claimed that there have been 150 million miles driven with FSD on an investor call, a reasonable figure given that would be just 375 miles for each of the 400,000 cars with the technology. Assuming that all these crashes involved FSD—a plausible guess given that FSD has been dramatically expanded over the last year, and two-thirds of the crashes in the data have happened during that time—that implies a fatal accident rate of 11.3 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The overall fatal accident rate for auto travel, according to NHTSA, was 1.35 deaths per 100 million miles traveled in 2022. In other words, Tesla’s FSD system is likely on the order of ten times more dangerous at driving than humans.
my girlfriend and i despite both being employed (min wage) are in an incredibly tough financial position that is about to result in us losing our apartment/having no place to go. while at work today i was told that we have about $1700 in move-in fees altogether (way more than was expected) and that we need to pay by tonight—we only have about $1100 between us, so there’s still $600 more that neither of us are going to be able to cover. we need to be out of our current place by the end of the month. i’ve been in shock the entire day and have cried so much that there’s nothing left lol
this is a longshot and i really hate to do this but if anyone is able to help at all my venmo is @kobymode . we appreciate absolutely anything
this has only been up for 30 minutes and we’ve already received $80, i’m so incredibly overjoyed and grateful that i’m sitting here shaking 😭❤️ i want to go ahead and give a massive thank you to everyone who is spreading this post and donating, i love you guys so much. i cannot even begin to express how much this means to us
sure you've reblogged a million posts about how Love Is Stored In The Soup but are you like.... actually nice to people
i wish people (able-bodied people) understood that me using mobility aids is not “accepting defeat” (whatever that even means) and it never will be, it’s me finally becoming the best version of me and becoming more independent and happy!! mobility aids are not bad things or “giving up”, they give people freedom and independence.
does anyone else hate that work takes up like 90% of your life and you literally are always working and have to form plans and important things and even seeing friends or eating meals around work. it's always just work. im spending my life just being At Work. i don't have time for hobbies or for seeing friends bc it’s always Work. like two days off a week isn't even enough because my days off aren't consecutive so i just spend those days exhausted or doing errands or house chores. there is not enough Time. all the time goes to Work. WHY IS LIFE THIS WAY. humans were not meant for this
"The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.
We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it."
thanks capitalism
If I ever send you a post with no message for context I'm sorry and I probably don't realize I did it!! 😅 it's way too easy to accidentally do that while scrolling Tumblr on my phone
shoutout to my hometown for banning intersex genital mutilation! the government has also implemented a medical board to oversee medical processes for intersex folk, with a mandate that this board include people with "lived experience". this is a great step forward, and I hope that the rest of Australia will follow!
you can find out more here:
I encourage my fellow Australians to look into similar movements in your state/territory! A Gender Agenda is doing some great work in the ACT at the moment, but if you're in another part of Australia, I'll point you towards Intersex Human Rights Australia for all your intersex activism needs!
Hi I'm Dave, I'm a bisexual menace and I need some help!
TL;DR I'm chronically ill and disabled (100% tube fed and hydrated) and I'm taking medical leave for the summer from my childcare director position due to an extreme flare up of my gastroparesis + dysautonomia in combination with my autoimmune diseases.
I will be seeing Mayo rheumatology in July to hopefully confirm my Lupus diagnosis and start treatment. In the meantime, I live in the desert and I cannot commute to and from work in the 110F+ heat and sun due to my condition and symptoms. Throwing up is dangerous for me with a GJ tube because of the risk of displacing the tube, and my autonomic dysfunction makes it dangerous to drive with the risk of passing out.
Insurance covers my formula, prescription meds and some supplies, but I buy my own electrolytes, water, hypoallergenic tapes, and OTC medications.
If you're willing, please consider boosting + donating to help with medical and transportation costs! Linked below, you'll see we also recently had a pet caused kitchen fire and lost our microwave. When it rains, it pours.
Cashapp: $forcewielder
Paypal/venmo: ask me (ty!)
@realnubian100
so normally I’d ignore you because the first thing I see on your blog is bikini pics, but this is a great teachable moment and I can share something about the dysphoria
so ignoring my core belief in the humanity of my Palestinian family for a moment, lets directly address your demand to help Africans
Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.
The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.
One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.
isreal forcibly preventing African women from conceiving
This weekend, a report revealing that African women immigrating to Israel were subjected to mandatory contraceptive injections, effectively amounting to forced (if temporary) sterilization made global headlines.
does this seem like something we should care about? then dealing with the apartheid state of Israel should be a priority
Take $3,500 and a one-way ticket to Africa by April, or face forced deportation or jail.
This is Israel's new plan for thousands of East African migrants, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, who crossed the Sinai Desert into Israel over the last decade.
The policy, announced Jan. 1, has sparked panic among migrants, who say they took perilous journeys to Israel seeking refuge from hardship, and it has been criticized by the U.N. Refugee Agency. The issue has also renewed an emotional debate among Israelis about whether their country owes the migrants safe haven.
how bout forced deportations
Decades of frustration boiled over on the streets of Tel Aviv and across Israel, as thousands of Ethiopian Jews marched against discrimination in a series of protests. It wasn’t the first time this community has taken to the streets, but now they have the country’s attention, following a viral video that showed two Israeli police officers beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier in uniform. Both officers were fired.
The video was a tipping point, and a symptom of a much bigger problem. Ethiopian Jews say they are treated like second-class
like all apartheid states, they need an underclass to exploit even as they commit genocide upon the indigenous peoples
they are a white supremacist state, and that is NEVER not an issue for Black people
