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i wanna say fuck you to anyone who shame disabled, chronically ill & neurodivergent people, especially homebound folks, for "spending too much time on their phone/on the internet/etc." when it's the only (Somewhat) accessible way for them to experience the world. many people don't get to get out much even if they want to because of their disabilities. shaming someone for trying to connect with the world, make friends and engage with hobbies in ways that are accessible to them is beyond cruel and unnecessary

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

#undescribed #you whaaaaaaa

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staff: going around asking people who want be filmed while try pronounce a made up word

me: *aggressively hold up hand*

people who know me, collectively: THATS CHEATING

>:( ableism (joke)

(for reference, nonverbal AAC speech generating device user)

#lmfaooo i love this #silliness

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Disabled people have to live somewhere poor people have to live somewhere you cant just exclude us from everywhere

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

#for you my friend #i miss you and yet

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lilies-of-the-fields · 6 hours

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#uncaptioned #undescribed #settler colonialism #settler state

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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

— Luther Standing Bear

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By the way, even if you fully plan to vote for Biden in November (because Trump would be worse and has declared that if elected he would ban Palestinians from entering the US x, x, x, x)...

You can and I would argue should call Biden or whatever other Democrats represent you and just straight up lie about it. Tell them "I'm a constituent, and I've voted for you in x number of elections, and thanks to your support for the genocide of the Palestinian people, I will never, ever vote for you again."

Politicians, Democrats, and especially Biden need a fire lit under their asses, because the vast majority of them clearly aren't going to do shit without one. Or, worse, be like Biden and actively be the reason that Israel can continue its genocide on a political, monetary, and military level.

Tell Biden and other politicians that you will never vote for them again. It doesn't matter if it's true. It will help pressure US politicians to stop this genocide, and therefore it's the right thing to do.

Obviously this also applies to other countries where politicians are supporting Israel's genocide, especially countries that have cut funding to UNRWA (list here).

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What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

#my cultural anthropology professor did a lot of his 'field work' a #studying the cultural landscape created by this sort of colonialism in the 'banana republics'#its very fucked.#and he talked about how fair trade farmers also have lots of restrictions on them that mske it really hard for them to get by too #idk. its really fucked #and a lot of leftists think that they can keep living as they do now under an entirely different system like communism or whatever #[US leftists i mean]#like no. so much of our lives here in the US are propped up by neo colonialism and imperialism in the global south #and we will have to wildly change our lifestyles in order to dismantle those systems and fuck you better be ok with that #if you value your ability to eat a banana in january more than the wellbeing of people in the global south #then youre just as bad as everyone else tbh #<- prev tags from bucephaly. yeah. thats somethin one of my college profs imparted on me too that ive never forgotten #our lives in the global north are filled with comforts gotten at the expense of the global south. and if we ever want to see a more #just world. then our “standards of living” need to change if not “go down”#i put go down into quotations because i know materially that is how it would be perceived as such by most folks #but i don't necessarily think thats required if we are community focused and creative and also if u arent attached to consumerism

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lilies-of-the-fields · 6 hours

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will i ever be enough though

#someone stop me from thinking please #have to move again and im super anxious about it #I'm gonna be working on the side of town that is a food desert and im just. how am i to afford anything 🙃

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lilies-of-the-fields · 6 hours

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I hate when people say ohhhh your pets only love you because you feed them. as if that wasn't the first form of love any of us felt. get real.

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actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

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lilies-of-the-fields · 11 hours

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Since the r-slur is making a comeback (you know, the word that starts with R, has six letters, and ends in D), I'm gonna make a little PSA:

Yes, it's an ableist slur.

Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.

Substituting words like restarted, poptarted, brain damaged, smoothbrain, etc. is still ableist, because either 1. you obviously still mean the r-word, or 2. you're still using disability as an insult.

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lilies-of-the-fields · 11 hours

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another car opinion is that they shouldn't have touch screens

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lilies-of-the-fields · 11 days

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i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

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lilies-of-the-fields · 11 days

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If we are going to mourn the people who have been hidden from us, I think it's also worth celebrating the gentle shifting of the dials from forgotten figures. Not every queer person will be written into the history books, and some of them might have preferred it that way. That doesn't make their contributions to queer history less valuable. So, take some time to think of the people who were just living their lives. Openly or not, gently shifting the conversation.

The people who are the reason a grandmother is more accepting of her grandchild's queerness than anyone expected. The ones who chose a quieter rebellion but went to every city council meeting. Artists who will never be remembered as queer but tenderly created something that captures the queer imagination. Yeah, let's celebrate them today.

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