be queer, be kind, fuck capitalism

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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disabledmachineherald

happy disability pride month to people with visible differences

happy disability pride month to people for whom being "visibly disabled" or "obviously ill" doesn't make people believe you or doctors diagnose and treat you and then you have to see people saying otherwise, constantly, forever

happy disability pride month to people who are afraid to take and post selfies and to people who are afraid to dress up and to people who are afraid to go out (and to people who fucking can't anymore) and to people who are afraid to date because of their visible differences

happy disability pride to people who are having to watch their illnesses and disabilities become worse because it is a change they can see

happy disability pride month to people whose illness or disability affects how their face looks and moves especially

happy disability pride month to people who only ever see their disability represented as a joke

happy disability pride month to people who have become visibly different but weren't before

and happy disability pride month to people who are visibly different and visibly i/dd, cognitively disabled, or severely mentally ill because i know people treat you worse when you're both

traegorn
megatronismegagone

queer is such a good word. im queer as in fuck you. queer as in odd. queer as in fucked-in-the-head. queer as in i hope you choke on it. queer as in a slur i laugh at. queer as in not like you. queer as in none of your business. queer as in a line in the fucking dirt. queer as in we’re here. get used to it. queer as in this is who i am and what i am. queer as in im different and i dont fucking care. queer as in with or without you i exist and ill keep doing it. queer as in queer

edit: because people keep deleting my addition, ill say it here. this post is inherently anti “q slur”. queer as in spiteful doesnt leave room for queerphobic fuckery

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ihearasound

obsessed with the german subreddit called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) which is dedicated to posting pictures of abandoned shopping carts.

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Brave lattice animal is blocking the entry to the nest of a tin-vroomer

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Completely over-bred lattice animal. Is this still considered beautiful? … In my opinion, this is lattice animal abuse

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This lattice animal is utterly tuckered out from waiting for their play mate

sketchinator
pregnantseinfeld

This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!

elrondhubbardapothecary

If you want to really change the world, prisoner rights and prison reform is the way to go. Removing the ability of the ruling class to effectively punish the population frees everyone to challenge them in meaningful ways. Arbitrary violence and incarceration is how they keep people scared and divided. There is no crime in our society that isn't generated by our society. Even the worst ones you can think of.

Prisoner rights are human rights. Prison abolition is mass freedom.

closet-keys
closet-keys

sometimes I wish that every article naming how much a public service would cost (or how much it would cost to repair needed infrastructure for the service or to make the service more accessible to disabled people and poor people) would explain that number in terms of how much time it takes a billionaire to earn that much.

like "it would cost $8.6 million (or, a little under one hour of Bezos's earnings) to build a new public library building in this area which would serve 45 thousand people."

money is literally a social and political representation of how we are choosing to allocate resources. I wish these direct comparisons were made so people who haven't yet made the connection might at least start asking "huh... why should we allocate these resources to one person to do nothing with them instead of to 45 thousand people in the form of an essential service? why do we allocate this amount of resources to this one person every single hour of every single day but it's unthinkable to provide it to tens of thousands of people just once? why are tens of thousands of people (of which I am one), all of us collectively, less valuable than this one guy?"

justalittlesolarpunk
justalittlesolarpunk

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.