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@botticellibelle
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3 months
Oregon is trying to make it legal to commit people for being autistic, having an addiction, or being otherwise mentally "impaired." We can't just lock up people who make us uncomfortable. The real cause of the ongoing "mental health crisis" is the collapse of social safety nets.
The criminalization of houselessness has been an ongoing project and many people point to the for profit prison industry. But there’s another sector people may not be aware of. Here’s a clue: 40% of houseless people are disabled and just 5% of move in ready homes are accessible.
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@animalfndlv Does this dog already HAVE an owner? Did you steal her from a disabled person, too?
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@lisawhelan Thanks for thinking of our service workers but also please note that there is an ongoing boycott against Starbucks for funding genocide in Gaza. They also use prison labor, bust unions, & make terrible coffee so there's lots of reasons to boycott them! Any local café is better 😃
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@LAWLESSFREED0M I now understand why some holocaust survivors from WWII said that bystanders were the worst of all. I didn't get that as a kid when I was in school, but I feel it now. The silence is heavy. It's oppressive.
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@Kairo_Anatomika OMG. Who would even think to do that?!?! 😮
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@APimpNamedTmac Sounds like a good time to keep boycotting their shiiitty coffee.
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@BBCNewsNI IRISH REUNIFICATION OF 2024. LET'S GOOOOOO!!!
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@HillcrestCardCo I bet it's racism b/c it usually is & they don't complain nearly as much about exploited agricultural workers or coltan miners. In fact, most of them probably accuse us of clout-seeking when we mention causes "outside" of our own. Intersectionality, puh-lease!
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@justiceforlizzy No, I haven't... nor Starbucks. That's what a boycott is. Some people aren't virtue signalling. Some people have a moral compass and mean it we say things.
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@tronsgender Unlike "from the river to the sea," "from sea to shining sea" is actually a genocidal phrase describing the holocaust our country visited upon the indigenous peoples of this land (the USA) via "manifest destiny."
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@botticellibelle
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@lingerie_addict Making a garment is tough! I love to sew & I've been making clothes about as long as I've been alive. It is back-breaking work. I have EDS & can barely sew now b/c of the joint involvement so I selfishly save my body to sew things for myself & no longer take custom orders.
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@fodderfigure If autistic women like me can learn to read social queues and stfu when we need to, so can the autistic men. It is each our own responsibility to overcome our own issues when they impact others negatively no matter what we were born with or how we were raised. Period.
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@Ancommiey Casual Lead at a community college. I make a whopping $19/hour w/ an 18 hour/week cap (annual avg). I have 3 degrees & over 5 years experience in my highly specialized field. We make learning materials accessible for disabled students. Our work is really hard & we're underpaid.
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@JDCUSA1 @prem_thakker @yashar Judaism is not zionism, and conflating the two is antisemetic.
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@SkyTheDON___ @PickleMamaa Yes. At least. Every single person who works deserves to be paid well for it, especially when they are providing such a well-loved service. I'd rather pay CEO's less than restaurant workers, to be honest, b/c they provide less value to society.
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@emcaseyturf Beautifully done, my javelina friends! Golf courses don't belong in the desert. These wonderful creatures are just setting things back the way they're supposed to be ❤️🌵🌞
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@broadwaybabyto I've noticed a rise in co-opting disability language to excuse ableism, too. I also had a friend who wanted me, an immunocompromised person, to accommodate THEM so they could have a "normal" visit inside MY home. Then they had the gall to question my mental health re: isolation.
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@ChardineTaylor Spreading mass disease is a tool of the oppressor. How does defending the status quo serve you?
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@calvinjburke Humanities for the win! Every day I am grateful for the skills I refined w/ my English minor & Creative Writing majors (BFA & MFA): Critical thinking, giving & receiving feedback w/ grace, *writing*, self-editing, etc. My brain *feels* better than it used to. Priceless.
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@lisawhelan OP blocked me. I was honestly just trying to inform them if they didn't know. Wasn't meant to come across as judgy and I'm sorry for that. I care deeply about things. Anyway, I wish them the best & I thank them for their covid activism❤️ Gonna mute this thread now. Be well y'all
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@acteduweininger Dude... The clit can be stimulated with the penis, too. Also: Sappho, from ancient Greece, was one of THE greatest poets in history and an unrepentant lesbian. Literary discussion of the clitoris, and lesbianism, is older than ancient Rome.
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I was born into a literal sex cult and raised mostly by a bunch of white hippies. This is 100% true. The hippy to fascist pipeline is alive & booming. Please check in on your "spiritual" friends to make sure they're not riding a one-way train to fascism.
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The venn diagram of new age spiritualists, wellness industrial complex, clean girl aesthetics, toxic positivity, neo-liberal selfcare, white feminism is a circle. Rooted in & perpetuating eugenics via white supremacy & ablism. And settler colonising geo-political global south 1/2
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@LexiAlex I love them, too. I hope, generationally, us millennials can give them all the love & support that our elders denied us while blaming us for everything wrong with the world. We need to lift the young ones up, not silence, punish, & blame them. ❤️
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@CristianaM35247 @LeaMaric @CartoonsHateHer People with empathy congregate. That's obviously something you'd know nothing about.
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@ModelAyshaMirza No need to dunk on people who are fat. That's called fatphobia, and it's exceedingly cruel. Thanks for masking, though!
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@mditkowsky The ADA celebration at my college this week is hosted by disability services, where I work. They're doing nothing to encourage masking at the event, despite them agreeing in a meeting 3 weeks ago to put masking recommendations on the posters. I will not be attending.
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@lingerie_addict People didn't know Pioneer Woman was wealthy? It's like, the first thing she said in her blog waaaay back when. City gal neets wealthy ranch owner, and then moves to be w/ him & cook up a storm. That's what I remember from like 15+ years ago, anyway.
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@jzux "Write it all down on paper so it's no longer inside of you threatening the life it belongs to" That one? That's the line that got me for life.
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@pookleblinky I did a book report on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in high school & that illuminated quite a lot for me at a young age.
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@shaun_vids I worked in the service industry as a server, then in retail for 15 years before my disability became too severe for me to rely on my body for work. Workers' rights ARE disability rights. We're grateful to our delivery drivers & pissed the system pits us against each other.
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@RealGayArbys I was disabled already before the pandemic & I naively thought that it might make people more empathic. But, their need to get back to normal is too strong. They don't see that "normal" was already killing us & we lost an opportunity to all grow stronger together. I grieve that.
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@sassybibrarian @lisawhelan I explicitly didn't judge anything but Starbuck's. You, however, certainly seem to feel plenty entitled to make a bunch of snap assumptions & judge ME, so I'm gonna block you & every other hypocrite coming at me over this. While I have your attention: FREE PALESTINE!!! 😚😚😚
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@ArtyLunch Seems like one might see lots of tents at places like REI, Outdoor Adventure, etc. I sure bet they'd like to know about all of those tents! It would be so helpful to flood their system with reports of tents like that. (Tents w/out people inside them)
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@usembassyjlm @USAIDWBG Who killed him? WHO MURDERED HIM, HUH?!?!??
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@lingerie_addict Thanks! Everyone wants a custom garment, but they freak out over the cost when you give them a quote. We've got to do something about our society's chronic undervaluation of creative skills. Does anyone else remember that STEM became STEAM like a decade ago b/c we need ART?!
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@oldenoughtosay @ExBandraGirl Her friend needs to break up with him now, before it gets much more difficult to do so. That kind of irrational anger, driving a wedge between the friends - they're classic abuser tactics. Like, Abuser 101. RUN!
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@CDCDirector @NYCHealthCommr @BHMinfo Why aren't you wearing respirators while being inside with vulnerable folk who are masking? Shame on you. Shame! Shame! Shame!
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@TheMcKenziest @MWonko42 Oh no. It's just as bad as it looks.
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@JortsTheCat @MtlARN We were going to TNR the Bramble Bois, but they wanted inside so now they're family. They first came to us from the blackberry brambles around our house. Now they're very cozy! 😻
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@RealGayArbys I just talked to my grandma this morning & she was talking about how she and grandpa got covid last spring, saying she doesn't know how b/c they never see anyone... Then tells me about how they were going out to eat. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
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@Imani_Barbarin OMG. All you did was ask for a recommendation for vegan cheese. This harassment is obscene. I am so sorry you have to deal with this ❤️
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@aedison Do you wear a mask when you go out in public, or are you engaging in performative outrage b/c you're lacking morals yourself?
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@nhoodpublicist Your selfishness is making the world inaccessible to those of us with disabilities. Is your doomerism worth the lives of marginalized people?
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@lordofgummies33 Please do a little research on "internalised misogyny."
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@dialecticalrum @d_boeckner @nukedeverywhere I think this is the same guy I read an article about who was like, "Why should I change MY name just b/c it has bad associations. That's not MY fault!" And then everyone found out he IS a whyte supremacist.
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@lingerie_addict Totally! I thought I was broken b/c I didn't have very long-lasting romantic relationships in most of my 20's, but I met my husband at 28, & we're really happy (40 now). I learned a lot in those short earlier relationships & found myself more suited to marriage than anticipated.
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@luckytran We've relegated to the fringes of society because of the dropping of mask mandates everywhere. I am less safe now than I was in 2020 because masks aren't required anymore. I can barely go grocery shopping without having a panic attack, much less to the hospital.
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@JucheEnjoyer123 Solidarity forever, huh? With whom, exactly? B/c if you're not standing w/ marginalized groups during state-sponsored eugenics, you're siding w/ the oppressors. How many people HAVE you unknowingly disabled and/or killed by not masking in public?
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@HillcrestCardCo Yes, that's what I'm talking about! These people are not realistic in their approach to "leftism."
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@Imani_Barbarin Yeah! That's what I've been saying! I'm not epileptic but I am AUDHD & I can't stand seeing the thing in my twitter feed.
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@brushwoodmutt @Imani_Barbarin Exactly this. Disability rights are Everybody rights. ✊
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@AndrewJBates46 @POTUS "toughest and fairest" is an oxymoron.
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@rianphin I graduated at 38, I'm 40 now, and going back to college was one of the best decisions I ever made!
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@FuzzyDanSo @xHouseofHarlotx @CrappyFumes @Cassi0piea @LadyDumplings Jews and muslims lived peacefully side-by-side before Israel instituted apartheid rule 56-57 years ago. I, personally, think the colonizers should move back where they came from since they haven't been there that long & they're violently occupying stole land.
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@prntgdcolonized @AceDoloX1 Riiight? I saw all that work for a single bowl of each flavor, and was like... No. No fcking way a real mom/person is making individual bowls of cereal from scratch. Oh HELLS no. 😂
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@KutulhuWaits @theserfstv This is why their most pressing question is, "how do we control our guards?"
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@nonlinearteach @kujo1017 @StormyBluePup @ravenscimaven I work in accessibility and there is no possibility in which that behavior was OK. If there was a personal emergency, they would've handled it more professionally.
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@IBJIYONGI @Microsoft I have to dual-authenticate now to access the online systems for the community college where I work. Byt, one of them already had a pre-existing dual authentication system, so now I have to do it TWICE to see the assignment list, pick up assignments, & send them in for review.
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@ajplus Read: Kidnapped and trafficked a child after murdering their family.
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@FlindyD @comradeddie @abughazalehkat @concernedcanuck I am OG from Seattle, and this makes me so proud. I'm glad you had a nice time, & got well and lit! I'm in PDX now, which has been similarly vilified. The only thing making stuff worse around here are the draconian cops & our mayor siding w/ businesses over people. Constantly.
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@sairasameerarao We'll vote third party, or not at all. Biden will lose if the DNC runs him as their candidate. This is our promise to him & the entire democratic establishment. Commit a genocide? Lose votes. It's a pretty simple equation.
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@DaUntouched1 This is a scam. Do not answer.
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@girlziplocked Yeah. My "bestie" doesn't keep up with the news b/c it's depressing. Like, yeah? We're adults & everything is a shiitstorm & that's why we need to pull our collective heads out of the sand & DO something.
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@hawkmoon947 @lisawhelan Yes. Please get all of your anger out on me. Consider me, an autistic person who was genuinely trying to be helpful, your personal punching bag. Just go for it! Let it all out!
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@o_bel_ I'm grateful that my husband & I are on the same page re: covid. I feel solid in my relationship. We cook & game together, & have little outdoor gatherings in our backyard when the weather's nice. We've owned our own home for 3 years, it's full of love & I just feel so lucky ❤️.
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@tweetjjtweet Nobody masks at movie theaters and I'm at-risk, so going out to the movies could kill me. Plus, I make better more affordable snacks at home, can use captions, and adjust the volume however I want. Home viewing wins all the ways.
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@eagerrealist "people don't want to work anymore" = millions of "essential workers" and others DIED of covid.
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@Elvis_Bob @aayoub How do you feel about enabling a genocide right now?
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@emcaseyturf Hooray javelinas! Well done! Good job! 🌟
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@EccentricEnbyy Why are you defending state-sponsored eugenics?
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@USA_Polling If our representatives won't represent us, we won't vote for them.
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@laurenancona We legit need a delivery service for Disableds funded by the gov't that pays its employees a living wage. Forreals. But we'll not get it in this socio-political climate b/c the model places people over profit.
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@lingerie_addict I'm starting to think that everyone really needs to take a home economics class in middle school that requires both learning to sew, and cook. These are basic life skills that can each be elevated to works of art.
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@WhitneysWave @heatherwritesss @Bexter50 We've got THREE adult generations now that are barely represented in our own government: Gen X, millennials, & Gen Z.
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@ChrisAlvino I would like there to be a "seriously, looking for friends only, forreals" option. I'm happily married but most of my irl friends moved on 2+ years ago. I want a friend finder!
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@whstancil How do we get a @CommunityNotes on this? Slavery is literally legal via the 13th amendment to the US constitution - as punishment for people who are convicted of crimes. Prison. Slave. Labor. Legal.
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@devdav01 @fodderfigure Patriarchy! Women are socialized to be more empathic, care for & make room for other people at the expense of our own expression. Men are raised to be independent go-getters & that means they lack the prerequisite empathy to get along well w/ pretty much everyone.
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@eofallthings Getting a shot of espresso from my favorite café on my way to work, and fresh warm flaky bakery croissants! Taking a long lunch in an uncrowded restaurant by myself while I read & write. Taking the bus to run fun little errands in neighborhoods where I used to live. Casual chats.
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@Imani_Barbarin On the bright side, those walls are going to be covered in anti-war messaging & beautiful art in no time flat... Or torn down.
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@reluctantlyjoe @forked_queer No. It sucks! But I don't have a choice because I'm immuno-compromised, and I've had to socially isolate for over three years so I don't literally die or get ANOTHER disability b/c people refuse to mask. What's wrong with you?
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@chronicallybeee I will add that, as someone who works in Alt Formats at a college DRC, most people who work in resource centers are also disabled, believe in our work, & are pissed at unis & profs undervaluing our students & our work. We constantly beg for more funds to provide better access.
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@pot8um I am so glad that you had the money you needed to buy that heating pad. I know how important they are for managing a lot of different health issues. Good for you!
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@Magnet0WasRight @IwriteOK Hell yeah, I thought the same. The Hunger Games series holds up & becomes more relevant every year.
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@nyanrachas @LAWLESSFREED0M I wholly agree. As a child, I couldn't imagine people standing by and watching a holocaust... Just letting that that happen. But now the whole world is again watching a genocide, in real time. It is a horror. It's an absolute horror. Where's the empathy?
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@Polly_Birdsong My good friend asks me some version of that question every time I see her & it's getting more difficult to answer her patiently every single time. Like, I'm *chronically ill.* When are YOU and others going to start making public life safe for me again? There's your answer.
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@Propa_gaganda @Ya1hor So, you're a eugenicist and you want disabled people like me to die? How does it serve you to defend the status quo?
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@GangstHannah Plus, a lot of us who are told to be nicer have already tried nice & it doesn't work.
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@the_tweedy Last year my estranged father came to visit. I spent months planning what to cook, highlighting herbs and veggies from my garden. The day before he comes, he tells me he's on a Meat and Dairy only diet. I just about told him not to bother coming at all, I was SO ANGRY.
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@queend236 @codenamehannahs Sometimes that's what is needed for self-preservation. If not permanently, then at least for a few years to get a little distance & perspective. Even if that perspective is like, "Now that I'm good w/out them. Do I want them in my life?"
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@MorePerfectUS That's a start, but $25 should be the minimum wage for ALL jobs. It's almost a liveable wage in most major cities. Almost.
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@FaatiTheStreet @PensAndPoses I use the jarred stuff in things that have lots of other ingredients and/or citrus in them already. But, I would NEVER use it to make pomodoro w/ fresh tomatoes from my garden. I'm disabled & love cooling. It's 1 of the few activities I can still enjoy while socially distancing.
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@kenklippenstein I used to live in Tucson, AZ, & to learn that the saguaros are melting is just...?! They are in trouble. We all are. Cacti aren't supposed to MELT. Phoenix is gonna look like the Sahara soon & it breaks my heart. The Sonoran desert is a rare & beautiful thing & we're killing it.
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@benmitchell621 The enshittification of everything is the effect of end-stage capitalism. Basically, BA majors took over industries about which they know nothing, driving out talent, cutting costs, & undercutting the industry's purpose. AK.A making $ over making good movies, etc.
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@cannibality Yeah, it's weird & getting dangerous for everyone who lives outside the boundaries of what's considered "normal." I wish more people could mind their own biz & chill tf out.
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@LaGranBrid Some people's periods are crippling & we are healthier & happier without them.
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@botticellibelle
Botticellibelle
4 months
@shaun_vids This time the food delivery discourse was started by some eugenicist troll trying to make everyone mad at disabled people. There's screencaps going around somewhere.
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@botticellibelle
Botticellibelle
7 months
@DwayneDavidPaul Class warfare.
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@botticellibelle
Botticellibelle
10 months
@CactusAndy My husband social distances w/ me, remote works, & masks everywhere outside our home b/c I'm at-risk. He's a bit of an introvert, anyway, so we've been doing pretty well during the pandy, all things considered.
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@botticellibelle
Botticellibelle
6 months
@NateB_Panic Really? I've found it to be pretty predictable. I'm white, myself, and most of us are just terrible. So much more racist that I thought when I was younger, even the liberals... Especially the liberals. They're just nicer about it.
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