i have two friends who are considering having sex with each other for fanfic research purposes and i can’t stop laughing because that’s exactly fanfic logic of how they would fall in love
I'm pretty fucking terrified of losing SSDI.
I'm terrified of losing my house and my yard that feeds me.
I'm terrified of losing my cats.
I'm not the only one who is terrified.
And yet, for now, I am more stable than many.
This is so scary and complicated.
Not enough people realize that getting to know them doesn’t seem fun, interesting, or worthwhile. They have no hobbies, no skills, no originality, nothing special at all— Just a head full of internet.
Support your neighbors and your communities – because you know the systems that are supposed to are not.
Every tidbit of "help" the system gives people living under it is slowly being cut/frozen/taken away.
Community is needed now more than ever.
Not all disabled people share the same material conditions, interests and consciousness. Not all disability is the same, we don't all share the same class and we're def not all under the same colonialism. Don't let this be flattened to obfuscate ableism.
Liberals to disabled people: "You're on your own this time"
(Following years ignoring a pandemic which is putting disabled people at greater risk of death and greater disability)
😅
Tell us something new. We are always on our own.
You're gonna punch Nazis and form the resistance when you can't wear a mask in Costco because people might LOOK at you funny? You're going to stand up to fascism but still call the cops? You're gonna hide people in your attic but you can't stop posting your Good Deeds ?
something I get so often is “you’re good at breaking things down for people and reaching people in difficult conversations” and that’s not really an intelligence thing as much as it is like emotional regulation and patience thing
Ultimately it isn’t the ghost of Christmas present or past that are able to change Scrooge. He has to have his shit rocked by the literal spectre of his own miserable death being celebrated to finally decide to change his ways.
Anyway, hope healthcare CEOs have a good holiday.