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one chapter a month. I can do this. Just one a month. Maybe two.

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women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

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women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

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baby’s first emotional intelligence moment

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Day 105. Today's Sheila E. is: Hanging out at the river

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i will say i dont really fuck w cis women talking shit abt transmascs lol. like obviously if a transmasc is being misogynistic like please comment on it, call it out, etc, but any cis woman making any kind of broad statements abt transmascs - in my opinion you are, just being transphobic !

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White bees!!

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From the article:

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts — by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using “gravity batteries,” these underground facilities aim to tackle one of renewable energy’s greatest challenges: storage. The method is simple: Excess renewable energy is used to power winches that lift heavy weights — such as containers filled with sand or rock — up the mine shaft. When additional energy is needed, these weights are released, generating power as they descend. This approach not only gives these disused mines a second life but also offers economic and environmental benefits to communities once reliant on coal. Hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines — about 550,000 in the U.S. alone — pose economic, environmental and safety risks. In some areas, these old shafts have caused collapses or polluted groundwater, while in others, the loss of mining jobs has hit local economies hard. Meanwhile, as renewable energy scales up, storage limitations become a pressing issue, especially with solar and wind, which are naturally intermittent. This year, solar is expected to surpass coal as a leading global power source, according to the International Energy Agency, highlighting the need for reliable storage to balance supply and demand. During the U.K.’s 2020 lockdown, for example, National Grid warned of potential blackouts when energy demand dropped by 20 percent, leading to excess renewable power that went unused.

Gravity batteries offer a straightforward but powerful — and cost-effective — way to address both of these problems at once. Their potential is already being realized. In Rudong, near Shanghai, the first commercial grid-scale gravity battery was connected to the grid in December 2023. Capable of storing up to 100 megawatt hours of energy, it can power nine homes for an entire year using only stored electricity. Across China, nine additional projects are in development, while in Switzerland, a commercial demonstration unit has been connected to the national grid for testing since 2019, showcasing the technology’s promise on a global scale. And now, other countries, from Finland to Australia, are getting on board.

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so i am going to put a break down of all of the things with pip to help other people understand

pip is personal independence payment. it doesnt change because of your job or how much money you make already. pip exists to give people money to pay for being disabled because being disabled is more expensive than being abled

for example, mike and john work at mcdonalds. mike has a disability. john doesnt. both of them make the same amount of money. both of them spend their work money on bills.

but mike needs a wheelchair, and he has to pay for his wheelchair repairs because he didnt get it on the nhs. mike wont be given more money from his job because hes disabled, so how does mike pay for his extra costs?

mike is given pip. this helps him pay for a lot of the extra things he needs, meaning he can stay in work because without his wheelchair he wouldnt be able to work at all and would lose everything. this is why taking away pip doesnt make people start working

pip is in two categories. daily living and mobility. there are questions in both categories and you get points for them.

for example (i cant give complex and specific examples, so this wont be accurate but it is similar to the real thing)

i can eat by myself - 0 points, i can eat with a bit of help - 2 points, i can eat with a lot of help - 4 points, i need to be fully fed by another person - 8 points

the other questions are things like do you need help getting dressed, do you need help going to the toilet, and they all look something like this but the points bits are a lot more specific than the example i gave

across the whole daily living category you add all your points up to the end, and if you get 8-11 points total you get daily living pip. if you get 12+ you get enhanced pip which means more money

so for example, mike got 2 points on every single question. this means he has 20 total points, so he gets enhanced pip meaning he gets the most money he can for the daily living section

the mobility section works similar, but i am leaving it out because thats not what the uk government want to change.

labours (they are in charge of the uk government) new change says that they want you to have 4 points on at least one question in daily living, and if you dont, you dont get pip.

so lets go back to my example mike, who got 20 points because of 2 points on every question, now has his enhanced pip taken away, because he didnt get 4 points on any of them.

but, for example, mike uses his mobility pip on the motability scheme. this means all of the money he gets for the mobility section pays for his adapted car, which also gets him to work. so he would use the rest of his money from the daily living section to pay for his wheelchair.

under labours new idea, mike wont be able to pay for his wheelchair, because his daily living money will stop. mike might have to choose between his car and his wheelchair. either way, mike cant go to work anymore. now mike cant pay for his bills, and mike is very poor and suffering.

up to a million people or more might lose pip entirely. this will mostly effect people with low support needs mental disabilities, and a lot of medium support needs people too.

this will also mostly effect people with mental illnesses. these people spend their pip on things like therapy, sensory toys, medicine, easy meals, snacks, lots of things.

there are NO RULES about what you spend your pip on, but most people still spend it on things they absolutely need

i was really scared at first that i would have it taken off me. it wont because im too severe and i get enough points. someone like me with high support needs wont be affected by this change but theres another change that will.

when inflation happens, it means everything costs more money. so for example mike needs to pay for his wheelchair repair, but inflation has happened so mikes wheelchair repair went from £200 to £300.

this is okay because pip rises with inflation, which means that when everything costs more money, mike gets more money from pip to make up for it

labours idea is to freeze that. so mikes wheelchair repair has now gone up from £300 to £500, but labour froze pip so mike doesnt get more money this time, and now mike cant afford to pay for his wheelchair repair.

now mike cant go to work, and might have to wait months to get his wheelchair repaired by saving up the money, so mike loses his job anyway because hes not there for months.

all of these ideas are very bad. there are other things labour can do to get money but they dont want to do them. instead they are targeting disabled people because they dont like us and they want us to work. labour says things that make regular abled people think that disabled people are the reason the uk is struggling. we need to fight this

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i dunno man. some of the most humiliating and emotionally abusive moments of my life came from teachers. some of the worst ableism i've ever faced came from teachers. i'm very frustrated w the tendency to take sentiments that are very obviously coming from a place of real analysis and experience thats being poorly communicated (or, god forbid, coming from an anarchist with admittedly other bad opinions) and going "lol look at this dumb stupid idiot!!!1!" like. i don't knowwwww i don't know have you heard of the school-to-prison pipeline before? teachers are, definitionally, Not Cops, and the use of "ACAB includes (other social structure or class or job that should be criticized as well)" is, like, yeah, annoying and quippy and very Online Anarchist tm, but like - there is in fact space to go, well, okay, why would somebody say that? and when you look at why somebody might say that, you uncover a lot of structural abuse of children at the hands of teachers! legal structural abuse!

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the only private educational institution i ever attended as a student was my undergraduate college (i.e. i attended public schools for my entire life otherwise) and in that time i was exposed to echelons of american wealth i had only been granted glimpses of in the past. this isn't really going anywhere beyond saying that a lot of "Higher Education Institutions of Prestige" are stuffed full of liberal children of the bourgeois who. well. let's just say they have a particular perspective and set of interests to fulfill.

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"ACAB includes" is a construction that can necessarily only lead to shallow, unproductive analysis, but it's tiring to see communists so eager to #dunk on anarchists that they treat as face-value ridiculous the very obvious fact that the bourgeois school system is in fact an instrument of capitalist discipline

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"ACAB includes" is a construction that can necessarily only lead to shallow, unproductive analysis, but it's tiring to see communists so eager to #dunk on anarchists that they treat as face-value ridiculous the very obvious fact that the bourgeois school system is in fact an instrument of capitalist discipline

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been a while since ive had to do this

hey yall, my name is delilah, im a trans girl that very desperately needs a bit of help

me and 2 of my friends, heather & pepper are now homeless, and we all have jobs, but payday is pretty far from now and we need food, shelter, and space as soon as possible.

we are working towards finding an apartment but that is very difficult in our current situation

please, help us if you can, we would really appreciate it

cashapp

paypal

venmo

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Ryomaaarrrrrrrrrr a bit later in life