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Also an important lesson for cis White folks (straight men especially): Your threat of withholding support or allyship means less than nothing to anyone historically marginalized. It's literally the baseline assumption we work from. You're not "showing us," you're just confirming our expectations.

That's intentional.

and the girl who coined the phrase, Caroline Timoney, should sue

When I worked for a museum we were constantly fundraising to cover bus fees so kids could come to our otherwise free education programs on field trips—and nobody ever seemed aware this was a barrier, you had to prove it to them before you could put an ask in front of them a lot of the time

The thing people don't get about poverty is one disaster can wipe out all the money saved for food, rent, medical treatment, etc. One person’s dire medical emergency can wipe out money to treat an issue that’s becoming emergent, then that gets emergent…

It’s a vicious cycle of never having money.

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Anything that helps a disabled person navigate life more easily & with fewer barriers is an accessibility aid.

Including dishwashers, shower chairs, safe housing, no strings attached money & doing away with asset limits & benefits cliffs.

Everyone deserves these things, period.

All technology is assistive.

It's just not always accessible.

One parent, Rebecca Sanchez, disagrees with the new policy. She said her 10-year-old daughter got sick a lot last year. "Between the strep throat and the flu, I can say she missed about 17 days," Sanchez said. If her daughter is absent for even half of that time this coming school year, it will now result in a referral to Lawrence County Juvenile Court for truancy. "I have never been for or against homeschool, but because of this new policy, it has definitely changed my mind," Sanchez said. Under the Lawrence County School System's new attendance policy, doctor's notes will no longer excuse an absence. Students will now just be marked absent or present. The policy states that after just three absences, schools will start intervention. If the student misses school for eight or more days, they will be referred to juvenile court.

Staggering how many adults hate kids with post-infectious chronic illnesses/disabilities and punish/harm them, never provide safe accessibility in education

I was one of those kids in the 1990s, epidemics and a pandemic since yet many adults haven’t improved www.newschannel10.com/2025/07/23/s...

Things I wish I could send to that awful pediatrician that literally forced me into an eating disorder as a teenager

This is why I said "No, I'm on the phone right now, you can save me the trouble of writing an email" when I called them.

I even warned the manager I spoke to "expect more calls today, I'm not the only one who's mad."

If they want to be sent emails, you should call them. You can send an email too but they will ask you to do a thing that's less annoying for them. Do the thing that annoys them more.

Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two descendants of former slaves held by the tribe.

This is huge.
apnews.com/article/musc...

I also just want to say all of this can be traced back to credit companies discriminating against sex workers, and it’s sex workers who’ve been sounding the alarm about it since the advent of online payment processing. They have always been on the bleeding edge of this stuff.

Listen to sex workers.

just emailed (w some adjustments) visa, if you'd like to continue enjoying NSFW art, keep pushing back!

this is real life adult work being cut off and censorship of expression from queer folk all around the world, not some petty "but this allows problematic/fetishizing media that squeaks me" bs

I keep getting caught mid-stride with how explicitly hoods off it is that the current administration has taken "woke"—a Black community term for being aware of systemic oppression—and turned it into a rallying cry for doubling down on that oppression.

How it's outright sneering at Black knowledge.

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That said, if you’re able to donate or share our fundraising efforts, it would mean a lot to us as we navigate this transition and search for work gigs to stay afloat.

Thank you again, and I hope to be providing you with a happier update soon.

A gradient orange and purple background with the centered title “DC HEAT WAVE”. To the left of the title is a screenshot of the Capital Weather Gang’s facebook post announcing DC’s first major heat wave incoming that could last 5-7 days, starting with Sunday in the mid-90s and Monday to Wednesday in the upper 90s, feels like 110 and includes a map of the United States showing the upcoming heat wave, with the entire eastern part of the country in red. To the right of the title is a screenshot of the weather channels 10 day forecast for DC, with temperatures in the mid to upper 90s, and hitting 100 Monday and 101 Tuesday.

Image of “heat exhaustion or heat stoke” left side is heat exhaustion. Symptoms are faint or dizzy; excessive sweating; cool, pale, clammy skin; nausea or vomiting; rapid weak pulse; muscle cramps. Right side is heat stroke. Symptoms are throbbing headache; no sweating; body temperature above 103 (red, hot, dry skin); rapid strong pulse; May lose consciousness.

On the left side of the slide is the header “prevention”, with a bulleted list under it that says “shade the head and back of the neck; hydrate; wear loose-fitting, light-colored clothing; know the warning signs of heat illness — dark-colored urine, dizziness, headache, and fatigue; abundant, public, well-resourced cooling centers; housing for all who want it.” On the right side is the header “treatment…”, with one bulleted list starting “… for heat exhaustion: provide a cool environment by creating shade with a tarp or seeking shelter; rest and lie flat, elevate legs; hydrate and replenish salt; cool off by applying cold packs/ice packs/cold water bottles to neck, armpits, groin, and torso. A second bulleted list under treatment starts “… for heatstroke: cool off with water and fanning immediately; seek emergency medical care if possible — this is a life-threatening situation”

Slide with title “how can you support your unhoused neighbors in the summer heat?” With a bulleted list under that says “hand out cold/frozen water bottles to folks living/spending time outside; give people cash! This lets them be a paying customer at stores/restaurants so they can cool off and use the bathrooms; bring out battery powered fans and batteries; hand out cold, wet/frozen towels and cooling packs

HEAT WAVE INCOMING!

Many folks, including our neighbors that live outside, don’t have easy access to cool spaces to dodge the heat.

Here’s some tips on how to recognize heat related illness, how to prevent & treat it, and what you can do to support your unhoused neighbors!

Also: Housing for all!

1. Criminalization and censorship of sex work, sexual media, and anything remotely associated with it was never about anyone’s welfare and always about exclusion.

2. Also the availability of erotic media (including porn) is Good, Actually.

the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems

they so badly want to make it illegal for us to live as fucked up little freaks, you know what I mean

well, effective immediately, I refuse to die. that's right, squares. suck it and die mad, I am gonna live forever and I am gonna be weird as hell the whole time

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall Alt: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall shrugging

I don’t believe in that, “don’t speak ill of the dead” nonsense. If it’s “fuck’em” while alive, it’s the same when they die.

And almost everyone who hasn't experienced it has no idea what this is like, apparently doesn't seem interested in ever trying to know, to bridge the divide so they can live in community with us who do live this.

Trying to have as much of a life as you can as an ill person is nonstop heartbreak.

… I’ve studied this now for years …

And the thing that keeps hitting me is how little a population it takes to

The right gets it

Everyone else doesn’t listen

Because the people who do hit these numbers are ignored every time

It’s also just the racism . And I’m not saying this to devalue the conspiracy part

But also we went through this with W , which disappeared ,

It’s the racism and it’s the refusal of the resistance to commit to centering the racism as a thing to solve that allows them to do this

I got harassed and accused of faking and lying about being disabled and called a grifter and a scammer and got plenty of other extremely racist harrassment on the bird app just for asking for help getting food or medication so I'm just not exactly having high hopes about this particular ask.

That reduce blue light and eye strain. That would make a difference in being able to use my laptop safely until I can actually save up for a better laptop. I also know I'd get harassed for saying "this is an accessibility tool for me" because it is one! but also. It's a computer screen.

Wondering if it would be worth it to try and mutual aid fund an oled screen. My laptop screen is broken and the portable screen I have now is really hard on my eyes and head. I recently learned that oled screens are flicker free. Asus also makes flicker free screens with special eye settings