Stranger at bus stop to me, a wheelchair user: “I don’t get it. Why would you take the bus when you could get those door-to-door handicapped vans?”
Me: “I want access to all forms of transit. I refuse to be limited to a separate, segregated, inferior mode of transit.”
Do you guys ever think about the fact that the Pentagon spends over $2,000,000,000 a day on weapons and war but the minimum wage has been $7.25 for 14 years?
It's not ironic this blog is published today. The same day I will volunteer teaching math at a Juvenile Detention Center is San Jose. Seven years ago exactly, my first book came out.
Time to move towards a new light.
My girlfriend is a therapist, and let me tell you, this AI is fucked. Her words, "If you can't write notes, you shouldn't be a therapist."
To say nothing of the fact they're using your session recordings to train their AI. This is a data privacy and ethics nightmare.
Seriously, I do not want to share a toilet with Brenda. Terfs should have their own place. They’re obsessed by private parts and wandering around loos and changing rooms with no clothes on.
My dearest friends @NeolithicSheep and @KBSpangler came out early this morning and weedwhacked the section of vegetable garden that had turned into a waist-high jungle between the raised beds. If either of them ever need a kidney, y’all better hold tight to your internal organs.
Most people with ADHD struggle with short-term, working memory, and it contributes to us misplacing things, forgetting or skipping instructions, and more.
But losing info from short-term memory also means we can't prepare that info for storage. Hurting our long-term memory too
A neat thing about the United States is how completing essential tasks requires you to spend hours muddling through privatized bureaucracies seemingly designed to sap everyone involved of their dignity
I've heard/read multiple anecdotes from Tesla and SpaceX employees who say those companies have firm systems in place to make sure none of Musk's decisions are enacted, and I 100% believe them.
people are (rightfully) dunking on this but one thing that doesn't come up enough is how reagan really went overdrive on the demolishing of public spaces, especially for youth. there's a reason all those 'we have to save the community center' plots sprung in the 80s.
These stories are like: “I wanted something really bad, then I changed my mind, so I don’t think anyone should have it.” Detransition rate (usually zero surgery involved): Less than 1%. Knee surgery 12%.
Killed workers, usurped lands, stole wages, killed politicians unfavorable to their whims, abused laborers, destroyed land they stole, displaced people, wrecked havoc on Central America and particularly and especially Black and Indigenous people.
I do think it’s unhealthy as an adult to have this much pent up aggression connected to media for children and like, toys. I fundamentally do not get why so many people live in their childhoods, just open wounds walking around ready to flip out about things from decades ago.