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every night I think “wow this might be the night I go to bed early” and every time without fail I fuck it up

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I've been so cold the past few days, I'm probably flaring up again

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There's a phenomenon in left-wing circles where initially reasonable statements and concepts get repeated ad nauseum until they not only lose their meaning but transform into deeply bigoted ideas.

The idea "there is no single white culture," is true because white is a concept created to describe the powerful position in Western societies. There are many different cultures, who's members are often white. But this idea became "white people have no culture" which is just not true, deeply dehumanizing, and harmful, especially to people who look white but experience marginalization because of their culture.

Another example might be cultural appropriation, which perhaps should be understood as a misrepresentation or exploitation of the cultural practices of another, especially where the person exploiting does so for personal gain, without acknowledgment. But now, people have basically transformed this into "when somebody does something from a culture they weren't raised in" or "when a particular race or ethnicity behaves in a way that's different from how they normally do" which promotes racial and cultural stereotypes and attempts to control the behaviors of people based on their race, ethnicity, and culture.

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y'all HAVE to watch this...interview??? with the inmates of the prison where luigi mangione is being held.

the reporter is standing outside the prison walls, while the inmates are inside watching newsmax, and collectively screaming out one-word answers to questions loud enough to be heard by the reporter.

I've never seen anything like it

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🎶my legs hurt so much and i just want to go to sleeeep🎶

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the amount of things i could do for the world if i had enough money to do it

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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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the "struggling with transitions" part of autism is really bad this week

I've been going to bed at 4am but spending 3-4 hours before that just trying to psych myself up to lie down

And now I'm supposed to get lunch and go to an event but I've been sitting on a bench for half an hour and my brain is being oddly resistant to get back up

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Wild concept that shouldn’t be wild and the coldest take ever: disabled adults are *adults* and not just children trapped in adult bodies

Disabled adults have sex

Disabled adults do drugs

Disabled adults curse

Disabled adults get piercings and tattoos

Disabled adults can make adult decisions and act and behave like adults because we are adults

It’s just so weird for people to constantly infantilize me all because of my mobility aids when I’m not a child!!!

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i have discovered that in the accessibility settings of my phone it can tell me about nearby sounds like someone knocking on a door or sirens

i love wearing headphones to block out noise but it stresses me out that i might not hear things when I wear them (and my hearing in general is Not Great even without headphones), and a lot of my music has sounds that could be someone knocking on my door, which stresses me out

this is amazing and i can just put any anxiety i have about that away when i turn this setting on

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alright they are actually really good this time and despite the pulse oximeter readings they're doing tests and multiple medications

time to get into a fight with hospital staff over melanin affecting pulse oximeter readings

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the medical trauma is really happening a lot this month

time to get into a fight with hospital staff over melanin affecting pulse oximeter readings

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time to get into a fight with hospital staff over melanin affecting pulse oximeter readings

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk