yes, there are that many really disabled people on the internet actually

When I was less sick I used to think, "It seems like such a large portion of people on the internet are disabled, it can't possibly be that large of a percentage of the population" and then let my ableism demons tell me it was because they were faking (the same ones that told me I was faking, until I made myself really ill.)

But now that I'm sicker and wiser I realize I was logically just wrong because

The internet is disabled people's lifeline. There are more disabled people on the internet because OF COURSE. People who aren't disabled can be less chronically online because they don't have to be. This is textbook selection bias!

But actually also I was almost right, because there are way more disabled people in society than you would think! They're just systematically hidden and excluded from public spaces for abled peoples' convenience! 🙃

Anyway maybe this will help you understand and/or explain to abled friends and family.

somehow the poor cops who we were told are simply too understaffed and underpaid because of Woke to deal with 'rampant rising crime' have found the strength to beat the shit out of college students across the whole country for peacefully saying "divest from the country killing innocent palestinians in the tens of thousands"

i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

the problems really start coming and they don't stop coming

pictured is the water heater in our basement, the gas won't light and it's sprung a leak. we currently don't have any hot water and are dealing with some mild flooding. I will be updated my family's gofundme to account for the price of the furnace as well as getting a new heater installed. in the mean time, we could use some help getting these to clear out the wetness in the basement.

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Could we stop reblogging things from this dude, it's Brendanicus' new account and he's an anti-black racist and all around jackass.

☝️nazi alert

i know that tattoos and piercings largely have their origins in nonwhite ethnic groups but i wonder how much the present stigma against them is intertwined w/ racism bc of that, i mean there are some obvious cases but i wonder if there are any writings or anything that unpack how that stigma is part of/influenced by white supremacy. idk it's not a subject matter i see discussed a whole lot on here.

hi just gotta say Very glad to see someone else talking about the recent surge in 'pro para' content in mental illness circles. it's a problem especially in aspd circles for some reason (along with the weird trend of people calling people with intrusive thoughts "paraphiles" to justify being pro para. if you have intrusive thoughts of beastiality you're not a zoophile i thought we all figured this out years ago) and it drives me nutsssss

considering how many PD circles online seem to have convinced themselves that PDs are basically incurable disease entities, that kind of shallow understanding of what psychiatric diagnoses are and how they work rly doesn't surprise me

it's also funny (very not funny) seeing ppl be all like "what social deviants are we gonna throw under the bus today" alluding at least partially to pedophilia bc like, seeing children as objects for ur personal desires in a society where children are disenfranchised or devalued and well, treated as objects for the desires of the adults around them (not exclusive to intimate desires) as a rule, isn't actually that socially deviant of a thing! but ok have your little oppression fantasy abt that ig.

heyyyyy... :/ i woke up to being 93$ negative.

i'm doing serving (i quit my desk job due to lack of communication, ik that's like the second job i've quit in a month) but i'm doing orientation for it so i'm not officially paid til i actually start a real shift and get my nightly tips, which is why i chose this new job in the first place. hopefully i can get back on my feet financially for good with that steady flow of cash cuz i hate asking y'all for help.

anything helps and i can provide proof of my job/financial situation upon request.

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stuff like cg/l is not even freaknasty to me like don't call yourself freaknasty or into "fucked up kinks" purely based on that it is corny and like stolen valor, do like bloodplay and then get back to me on your freaknasty status /hj

but really, people will say they're into "fucked up" or "icky" stuff but they're talking about some actually pretty bog-standard brand of BDSM that some people argue is immoral based on what it symbolically invokes and not like, coprophilia

Palestinians: Joe Biden has the blood of thousands of Palestinians on his hands. I will never support a genocidal monster like him.

Some random white tumblr user: oh so you want queer people to die huh you want to kill all trans people and scream make America great again huh I know you love trump just say it out loud say you want to vote trump and hurt queer people I know you do have I mentioned you love trump and you need to stop pretending you care about those terrorists-I mean those Palestinians. Btw you love trump

hey! i'm val, i'm a trans woman, DJ, and a writer living in the UK and im reaching out bc i need to raise money to stock up on hormones!

i've been out of hormones for a few weeks now and i'm trying to raise £200 to buy 2 vials of estrogen and a blocker for emergencies

I currently can't afford to pay for it myself as i'm currently on benefits and haven't been getting much DJing work lately (though it should be picking up soon i hope!) anyways, if you could help out and/or share this i'd really really appreciate it, thank you for reading! ☣️ payp*l: paypal.me/vmclaren368 ☣️

it's really such a bizarre thing to see the people on this site accuse every other trans woman of being a pedophile for literally any inconvenience as someone who was groomed, raped, and lived in a home with two pedophiles. i've seen how they get their hooks into kids first hand and i've seen how they escape accountability and gaslight and lie. all this first hand knowledge of the violence they inflict, and yet people on this site call a bitch a pedophile for literally anything. i was gonna say "unapproved kinks" but honestly, it's literally for anything. like yeah maybe they got one right once or something, but their batting average is really really bad and none of them actually know the signs of grooming or pedophilia.

so. this is a hard post for me to write, given that this is, i think, the fifth time i've started trying to write it and first time i haven't chickened out halfway through this first sentence where i admit that part.

i'll save you all the time and energy and get what this post is about out of the way, first: i need money, badly. yeah, this is another post where a disabled, brain-damaged trans woman tells you her sob story and asks you for cash to mitigate it. shocking, i know. it's almost like it's hard for women like us to survive under capitalism, or something!

but here's facts: i'm currently jobless. now, normally this would not be the end of my fucking world - i have a patreon that's meant to help cover my basic living expenses and provide something of a cushion, and at least momentarily i have a roommate who's being very understanding about my difficulties covering any portion of the rent. however. that roommate is already looking for new places to live. and i am not the only one in financial dire straits at the moment, and in fact it seems like virtually everyone in my social circle that i normally know i can rely on to help keep those of us less-employable queers afloat is under severe financial duress to the degree they've had to pull out of doing any of that for the foreseeable, and as a result - my current expected net income per month for the foreseeable future, as far as i can plan on it being, is limited to what i make on patreon: exactly $171. and right when i have medical debts incurred from veterinary intervention to save my cat's life that i need to pay off monthly or start incurring severe interest on, too! ain't life grand? i don't know when, or even if, i'll be able to change this state of affairs; in an ideal world, i'd be able to claim self-employment and have it be true. we do not live in an ideal world, so my best shot at that is asking for you to support my patreon or buy my work off itch.

in fact, i am asking, just short of begging, for you to do one or both of these things before any other option. it's not that i don't need immediate financial aid, because i do. but more than that: i need to fucking survive, bitch. i need to reliably have enough money to keep a roof over my head and food in my mouth and if i can accomplish both of those things i can also do the other, fun things that people like to get from me, like long, thoughtful critiques of this piece of art or that piece of media or any number of other things that i am compelled by my demons to produce awhile. you may notice some of that's dried up recently, and part of that's panic-induced brain spiral shutdown in effect. it is, in fact, easier to make art, criticism included, when you're not worrying whether buying a soda now means risking overdrafting on your cell phone bill later.

it's here where i wish i had hustle. i'd love to be one of those pledge allegiance to the grind types that you know only gets better the hungrier i am, give you something to look forward to as an earn on your investment in me and my future; unfortunately, i'm just not one of those people. hunger just makes me hungry, it doesn't make me more capable.

i won't make any promises i can't keep. but if you give me money, especially if you give me money i can consistently count on being there when i need it and enough of it i don't need to worry about what i'm gonna eat or where i'm gonna stay, there will be work made off the back of that financial security. and if you like any of the work i've done to date, both as a media critic and as a fiction writer, i can promise you it'll meet your expectations.

thanks for your time.

and here, for ease of access, some links:

my patreon my itch.io account paypal ko-fi venmo (i do not currently have a working cashapp account. sorry.)

honestly who gaf if the kids invented a bunch of new slang for sex or drugs or porn or whatever... like is it hellish for tiktok advertising policy to be driving certain linguistic innovation? maybe but i have bad news for you about the effect of capitalism on all aspects of culture and society for the last half millennium or so. also have a conversation with people older than 16 if it pisses you off that bad likeee

if anyone new here is concerned about this whole thing being a scam, the first pic is me and my SDit as a puppy last spring, the second pic is me a couple days ago with megace, a cancer drug that increases appetite to treat cachexia in very sick people. just one of several new specialty medications i take now, lol. the second pic has been edited to redact my personal information. the difference in how i look is substantial, at least to me. for anyone who needs more info in private, i can provide evidence of medical tests, care, meds, bills, whatever; can provide evidence of all that other shit with my car, family, service dog in training, etc too. i'm not okay, lol, and i'm not keen on dying before i even get to see the specialized oncologist. just the newest of many very cool tricks gd loves to play on eden 👍

venmo: enimi / cashapp: $stoat / paypal.me/stoat / i also have Wise as an option for international transfers