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“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here

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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

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"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

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She can

I told her she can't sit on the vegetables

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My friend Tay asked me to help him teach people about the kinds of mobility aids he uses. Tay has a autism and profound intellectual disability, along with a seizure disorder and a chromosomal disease, so he can't use the same kinds of mobility aid you normally see. Not many people know about this kind of aid, so we're going to teach you!

The first aid Tay uses is called a Gait Trainer. Gait trainers are a lot like walkers, except they follow you instead of you pushing them. They're also built in a way that helps teach you to walk better when when you're not using the gait trainer. Tay's gait trainer has a saddle and straps on it to make sure that he's safe and supported. He also chose a cool green color. Gait trainers are commonly used by children who take longer to learn how to walk and people with intellectual disabilities who can't use a traditional push style walker.

Tay says his favorite part of his gait trainer is playing at the park with his friend. His friend ALSO uses a gait trainer like Tay, which is really cool.

The next kind of aid Tay uses is called an adaptive stroller. Adaptive strollers are a lot like wheelchairs, but with smaller wheels because they're made to be pushed by someone else. These are great when you're like Tay and can't figure out how to push a manual wheelchair or steer a power chair safely.  Tay's adaptive stroller, a convaid rodeo, has the same feature my powerchair has, tilt, so that he can stay comfortable and safe when he has to sit in it for a long time. There's also buckles and straps that help Tay stay in the adaptive stroller, he gets help getting the buckles and straps done. Tay says that he can even be tilted back and go to sleep while everyone else is walking when he's in his adaptive stroller!

Finally, there's the Rifton Activity Chair! Activity chairs are most often used in places like school or developmental centers because they're great for getting people up close to the table and you're able to adjust the how tall or short you want the chair. A lot of high support strollers and wheelchairs aren't able to get as close to the table, but an activity chair is made just for that! It can go up and down and some of them can even tilt closer to the table. Tay says he uses it to make snacks and play in the water table and do crafts at the developmental center he goes to, he really likes his activity chair.

Thank you Tay for helping teach us! I learned a lot while writing this, and I hope it helps a lot of people learn about what these mobility aids are and why people use them!

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This is my friend Mollie. She also has autism and uses AAC to communicate.

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Anyone can be a bright light in the dark ✨

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civic duty

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thinking about the internet themed crayons again

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Who else up thinking about bjj black belt craig jones saying You can give anyone steroids. Despite our best efforts we are yet to give anyone autism.

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*me, drunkenly pressing my face against my 17 year old cats face*: I love you. Do you know that? I hope that somewhere in your brain you can understand that I love you. You have been with me for so long. We have grown up together. I was only eight years old when you came into my life as a kitten. We were both babies. Please understand that I love you more than I can ever say. You are my companion through everything. When you die I will sob and scream and beg for you back, even for a moment. When you rest your paw against my hands there's a connection that passes through time. Humans and animals, bonded since before history began. I love you.

No, you cannot eat my sandwich.

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conservatives have fully lost the plot its actually extremely normal for little kids to pretend to be animals. it's a pretty essential part of their mental development and helps them practice creative skills actually. if a kid comes up to you and says "I'm a kitty cat" you don't need to reality check them. it's fine actually. the correct response is to say "are you? have you caught any mice today? what kind of kitty cat? do you have orange stripes? should we have tuna salad for lunch?"

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Queer people, especially online, have a tendency to look at queer theory texts (like Whipping Girl or Stone Butch Blues) and see them as so reflective of their thoughts and experiences, or so new and revolutionary to their thoughts and experiences, that they end up seeing the text as more than what it is. There's the tendency to put these queer theorists on a pedestal, treating them as arbitrators of Truth about queerness and the world. People deify these individuals, to the point of ignoring criticism of their work from intersectionally marginalised people (such as Feinberg's orientalism and Serrano's critique from black feminists). It's easy to forget that their books and writings are just opinion, often very confined by their own lived experience, and not the rules by which queer people must live. It's actually perfectly fine to read a work, agree with some parts and disagree with other parts, based on your knowledge and experiences. That's a good way to read, and no one should be scared of expressing their opinions on a work, including critique, because they're seen as rejecting or smearing a Queer Icon. It's bullshit and, if anything, we need to be far far more critical of work written decades ago, and seen it within its place in history. History, ours and how we understand it, must shift as new information and perspectives meet the light.

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That anon trying to get u to say u hated men reminded me of a tag I saw the other day that said “Why should I care about men, I’m a lesbian and my entire life is centered around women” and first of all, you*… only care about people that are attractive to you*? That’s not any more radical or progressive than men who treat women as sex objects. In fact you* are treating women as sex objects. Secondly, you* should care about men because men are people. Men have lives just as deep and nuanced and tragic, and beautiful, and fufilling as any other group of people. I know men who are wayyy more progressive than a lot of women. Some of the most radical people I know are men. Some of the most conservative and or sexist people I know are lesbians and women. There are no entirely good groups.

*general you

"Why should I care about 50% of the population, and care about people not like me/that I wanna fuck?" is always an absolutely horrible take, no matter how you slice it.

And no, you're not being "progressive" just because it's those icky, yucky, cootie ridden men. I hate that tag you mentioned so much, it's unreal.

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Jewish Community of Belmonte, Portugal.

The Jews of Belmonte are descended from communities of crypto-Jews who hid their Jewish identity to escape the persecutions of the 15th century Iberian Inquisitions. They had little no contact with the wider Jewish world until the 20th century when they were ‘discovered’ and found to have kept observing some Jewish rituals using a few Hebrew words. Since then Belmonte has become a centre of Jewish culture in Portugal and its cypto-Jewish residents have rejoined the world’s Jewish community.

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myjewishlearningcom

🌸 Pictured is the Great Synagogue of Rome, decorated with thousands of gorgeous flowers. ⁠ ⁠ The synagogue is often considered one of Europe’s most spectacular and ornate Jewish houses of worship. While Rome's Jewish community traces its origins back to Jews who fled the destruction of the First Temple, the Great Synagogue was not constructed until the early 20th century. ⁠