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eat my shorts! 🧌| Vegan🌱 intersectional feminist 💫 #blm | trans men & women deserve to sport w cis counterparts 🏳️‍⚧️. pro masking 😷

[Harry Swan @HarryClov3r]

In case you are wondering, this is evidence that a large portion of the proto-human's diet consisted of fruit.

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

Honestly it’s kind of upsetting how much of the autism experience is just being shamed out expressing yourself in any way that’s normal for you and learning to keep everything to yourself so you’re not shamed for being weird and then being shamed for being so quiet because it’s also weird to be quiet but if you tell this to anyone else they’ll say “why do you care so much what people think” and that’s when the ancient ape part of your brain gets ready to beat them to death.

[H @shipperofstuff]

I don’t think people get just how much the airline industry hates disabled people & especially wheelchair users

It’s not just a “she’ll make serious $$ off a lawsuit” it’s the hundreds on hundreds of horror stories of airlines destroying wheelchairs & mistreating disabled peopl

[revival.care @RevivalCare]

It’s almost like a virus that downregulates p53 (a tumour suppressor) is oncogenic.

PS. That virus is Covid.

https://t.co/k9YqsPb7Ju.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When a health insurance company refuses to show you your file that led to your healthcare being denied, it means the decision to decline your healthcare has nothing to do with your health.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Americans need to earn about $8500 per week full time minimum wage to have the same spending power as a car wash kid in 1971 earning $64 a week

This happens when your govt destroys a currency

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

a lot of adults don't better themselves??? and have no intention of growth or healing??? they’re just living their lives with horrible communication skills, lack of emotional intelligence, selfishness, and hurt feelings FOREVER?????

[Zo ♡💋 @bbyzoelle]

It’s routed in misogyny btw. Men are allowed to love super heroes, make their own football teams, fan girl over sports stars at any age but women can never heal their inner child without being demonised.

[holocene @holo_cene]

what if i told you that every year, as a society, we willingly choose to have a flu epidemic and kill + disable a certain amount of people we deem disposable to society, and that, if you don’t mask, you actively participate in this chosen mass-killing + disabling?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Game designers figured this out decades ago and it cost millions in failed launches.

Will Wright built SimCity with a fully accurate traffic simulation. Testers hated it. The cars behaved realistically, which meant nobody could build a functioning city because real traffic is an unsolvable nightmare. He had to make the simulation dumber before the game became fun.

The tension is permanent: the more accurately you model a system, the more it punishes the participant. Real medieval economies kept 90% of the population in subsistence farming. A historically accurate fantasy world doesn't produce heroes. It produces serfs.

Tolkien solved this by making his economy deliberately vague. No one knows what a gold coin buys in Gondor. That ambiguity is a design choice, not a shortcut.

The Reddit post is funny. The lesson underneath it is one of the hardest problems in simulation design: fidelity and fun are opposing forces, and you have to pick which one wins.

[K3LLYB33N 🇨🇦😷⚛️ 🐾 @K3LLYB33N]

Gate keeping vaccines, it’s almost as if the government/public health wants this meningitis outbreak to explode. And it will! Where has all the common sense gone?? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

This is why many disabled people are rightly concerned about Assisted Dying. If AD is funded and available but a wheelchair ramp isn’t, what does that say about the attitudes towards disabled people?

[Vivian @suchnerve]

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

[Disabled Trash Witch♿ @StinkRatsCharms]

I think it can both be true that some masking is better than no masking and also disabled people still get to be mad about times people choose not to mask because it does affect our ability to access society in an equitable way?? Like if you mask at the hospital thats good, but

[Zellie @leucocrystal]

I really wish more Americans were aware that the USPS is the only service - the ONLY one - that can reach every home in the country. All other services rely on them for "last mile" deliveries that these other (more expensive!) services refuse (or can't) deliver to!

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

It's an anti-masker tactic to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

[hunter @hxxntrr]

i pray debt collectors call me

last month one called about a $4,300 medical bill. i let him do his whole speech. then i said six words:

"is this debt past the statute?"

silence

in 38 states, debt expires after 3-7 years. once it passes the statute of limitations, they cannot sue you for it. legally. the debt still exists on paper but they have zero enforcement power

they're calling you hoping you don't know this. because the second you make a payment, even $1, the clock RESETS and they can sue you again for the full amount

that's why they say "just pay $50 to show good faith." that $50 reactivates the entire debt. it's a trap and they know exactly what they're doing

the play when a collector calls:

step 1: say nothing about paying. say this: "please provide written validation of this debt under FDCPA Section 809"

they are legally required to stop all collection activity until they send you written proof. most junk debt buyers can't produce it because they bought your debt in a bundle for 4 cents on the dollar and don't have the original paperwork

step 2: check your state's statute of limitations at your state AG's website. if the debt is past the SOL, send this letter:

"this debt is time-barred under [state] statute of limitations. any attempt to collect or sue is a violation of the FDCPA. cease all contact immediately"

step 3: if it's on your credit report and it's past 7 years, dispute it. "this account exceeds the FCRA 7-year reporting period. remove immediately." bureaus must remove it within 30 days or face $1,000 per violation

i helped someone wipe $23,000 in zombie debt in one afternoon. four letters. zero dollars paid

the collectors who called her every week? gone. the accounts on her credit report dragging her score down 80+ points? deleted. she went from 588 to 691 in 45 days without paying a cent

debt collectors buy your old debt for pennies and try to scare you into paying full price. their entire business model depends on you not knowing your rights

now you know

(link in bio. i delete debt and fix credit scores)

[Maryam @hell_line0]

my ex used to see me washing the dishes and say ‘Relax, you shouldn’t have to do that after you cooked dinner. Come sit down with me’. At first I would go sit because it sounded like he was offering to help. But he never did do those dishes, they just sat there til morning when I would still have to do them.

‘Relax’ didn’t mean ‘Relax, I’ll help’. It meant ‘don’t do the domestic labour I won’t help with in front of me because I might feel bad’

THE DIVORCE CAME OUT OF NOWHERE

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

To not wear a mask. My whole life, I've never seen anything close to it. People would rather get sick than stand out.

In the world we live in now, being immune to peer pressure is an extremely high value trait. It could save your life or someone else's.

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

The water we drink is highly regulated (so we don't catch e.g. cholera from it). The food we eat is highly regulated (so we don't catch e.g. salmonella from it).
Indoor air in public spaces – from which we can catch e.g. Covid, flu, measles, RSV – is NOT regulated. It needs to be