Senate trying to pass a bill that would force you to use your government id just to use the internet. That means no anonymity at all, ever, and that every pro-Palestinian organizer is immediately a target that the government can track. And they will use it explicitly to come after protestors and organizers.

by January 10th 1 in 3 people will have had this wave of covid. covid causes long term damage with each infection and wears down your immunity. you do not want this. there is no cure for long covid or me/cfs and there is a significant chance (last I checked I think it was 1/5 infections) of getting long covid that increases with each infection. please protect yourself and your loved ones by wearing a mask. variants have become more transmissible so a n95 or kn95 is the minimum protection to keep yourself reasonably safe(r) from getting covid.

it is important to understand often viruses do not simply clear up and go away. like chicken pox and shingles or what we now think of as polio that is actually post polio syndrome. polio symptoms were mild and 75% of cases are asymptomatic. we do not yet see the full scope of what this virus will do over our lifetimes. as someone who had my entire life derailed by me/cfs after having mono, (almost 10 years ago! it hasn't gotten better!) we have to take pathogens more seriously if we care about ourselves and our communities.

I'm willing and open to talk with people who want to understand better what covid does to our bodies and how we can best practice community care and also harm reduction if we're stuck in unsafe situations at home or work (certain mouthwashes and nasal sprays can help).

if you're watching what's happening in Palestine and live in the US, the government doesn't care about your life either. They lied about palestine and they lied about covid too. It is not just a cold.

it's also realizing that these movies existed because adults felt like those ants. They wanted to organize and do something and they felt like they couldn't so they made those movies for us. So that the next generation of workers would understand their fate and power and be motivated to change our reality.

I'm an anticapitalist because some people at Pixar a long time ago put all of their faith and hope into teaching kids, that we deserved better. And that one day we'd be big enough to fight for it.

I've grown.

And I'm ready to punch some crickets in the face.

Reminder that disabled people exist everywhere, including active warzones

Read the full article here:

Almost twice as many people died from COVID-19 in 2021 than all unintentional accidents. COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death. COVID rates are on the rise.

The least you can do is wear a mask.

The crippled urge to go "nice cane" to every other cane user you see

please im begging this is incredibly urgent. the people that have allowed us to stay for the last two nights put my wife through an incredibly traumatic experience and she’s scared to leave the room without me to get food or even go to the bathroom and we have to keep the door locked at all times. we really need help right now, we have a plan but nothing that can happen for another week. please anything to help us get by we have no money and are trapped.

c4$happ: goldenratio1123 or melancholicore

p4ypal: iwannadaisuki or poppybun

v3nmo: iwannadaisuki

im so sorry to ask for help again but this is an extremely volatile environment and its incredibly important we find a way out of here and survive until we can make that happen as our lives have been threatened multiple times.

"GLOBAL LIBERATION NOW! The more of us mask up with N95/KN95 respirators, the less we all get sick, the more we resist police surveillance, & the safer we make our spaces for disabled & immuno-compromised comrades."

"Find local resources:

@/covidactionmap [@/LaurelLynnLeake on X. March 12, 2024.]"

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

The Starbucks app has the disability pride flag on it!!!

Cool!

Now, if only their stores are accessible, and they didn't keep trying to bust their unions.

White background with a gold circle. There are flowers on the bottom left of the circle. IN the middle are the words "live, laugh, lower the price of living."

Btw my stickers are still $2. Going to keep my prices low until I meet my current goal. You can find my stickers and prints under the extras tab in my bmc profile.

— There are Black people in the future🖤💕 (@ElixirSpice) March 7, 2024

"Note: 

There may be some resistance & discomfort when I say “we need to dismantle self-care”. The concept is prominent in leftist spaces & hailed as a radical form resistance. However, it is rarely understood in its original context with the necessary caveats which I’ll elaborate on below. It has also been sanitized, manipulated & co-opted for profit. As a result, it’s become bigger than what it was intended to be. People look to self-care now as a revolutionary “solution” to our collective problems (which it is not). Given that we live under capitalist, colonial systems that breed individualism, narcissism & self-centeredness, I think it’s important for us to rethink the utility of this concept today. In this piece, bringing in the knowledge of collectivist, land-based cultures, I’ll explain why it is urgent & critical for us to practice + embody COMMUNITY care which is a more complete framework that creates conditions of liberation needed for us to survive & thrive as we fight for the land & against the ecological destruction of our planet.

So even if you feel some discomfort arise, take a deep breath & hear me out."

- Ayesha Khan, Ph.D

Some quotes to consider:

The most prominent origins of the concept may be traced to Audre Lorde[...] She wrote about how cancer pushed her to realize that we all needed to slow down, pull back from oppressive systems, refuse to operate according to their values or accelerated “productivity” benchmarks when we can & that this divestment from a profit-driven system was critical for us to even begin to think about what collective “health” & healing means. It is an important first step in one’s political radicalization journey. It’s not everything & it wasn’t meant to be.

Self-care today is often reduced to: i) consumption of products, ii) neglect of community & erasure of the contributions of other beings who enable our care, and iii) one-sided, transactional extraction of care with a sense of entitlement to receive care without reciprocity or without focusing on daily practices of giving care in community. What does self-care look like in practice today?

Is there anything you do that doesn’t directly or indirectly involve the contribution of other beings? Even when we rest, there are conditions of some level of safety or security that have to be enabled for us to truly rest. So let’s take a moment to sit with how the beings at the other end of the “care products” we consume are being treated.

On the other hand, what does “self-care” that actively harms the collective look like? Relax at home alone with a sheet mask while ignoring a friend who reached out to connect because “you don’t owe anyone anything”, purchase care products & services from violent corporations killing our planet as a form of “self-love” while deprioritizing community building thinking it will heal you

Mainstream self-care has created NEW forms of oppression, extraction & exploitation. 

The perspectives I offer in my community care work are not MY novel findings but a responsibility I bear as part of my ancestral/ community teachings & traditions. These perspectives are sorely missing in leftist spaces. I write this piece to honor our collectivist traditions & to affirm the many global communities who find the concept of “self-care” reductive, confusing or fundamentally indecipherable. Our cultures are rooted in caring for each other & the land that sustains us all— I’m slowly learning to carry & embody these values by any means necessary.

I want to talk about using AAC whilst talking to somebody who is deaf or HoH.

If you do not know me, hello. I am a nonspeaking autistic and I use AAC to communicate. More specifically I use a high tech AAC device. This can be a little bit tricky when talking to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and I think it's an important discussion to be had. I have multiple people in my life who are deaf or heart of HoH. My mother, and my boyfriend.

When I use my AAC device, my device generates spoken words or plays recorded messages. This works great for individuals who can hear, but it becomes difficult and frustrating for both people when interacting with someone who is deaf or HoH. They probably won't be able to understand or hear the audio from my device. However, there are strategies we can use to try to overcome this barrier.

Normally, I hate when people try to watch my screen. It isn't okay, and unless you have consent please do not do it. However, when talking to someone who is dear or HoH it's actually really useful! My mother asks to see my screen quite often, and she reads my message window so she can understand better. An alternative to that is using a form of AAC that doesn't include audio, like writing something down or typing on a phones notepad app.

Listen. Listen to me.

You "not having it as bad" as others doesn't mean you don't have it bad.

It may be very true that there are indeed people who are more disabled than you are, who are sicker than you are, who require more help than you do. But none of this is a competition. Some people will always have it worse and some people will always have it better. Your struggles are valid. Your hardships are valid. You are valid.

I successfully convinced a toddler at the food bank that my rollator is a racecar so today is a win