#current survey

[purplethespian]

The American Census Bureau is considering changes that would artificially decrease the number of disabled people in the US. We may be able to stop this.

According to this article from the Associated Press, the Census Bureau's proposed changes would align the way that the American Community Survey measures disability with international standards. They will be changing the way that some of the questions are worded, as well as changing the options for answers.

The problem is this: the questions about disability will ask if respondents if they have “no difficulty,” “some difficulty,” “a lot of difficulty” or “cannot do at all” with regard to things like hearing, seeing, ability to bathe or dress oneself, etc. Someone will only be counted as disabled if they answer "a lot of difficulty" or "cannot do at all." This excludes a lot of people. "During testing last year by the Census Bureau, the percentage of respondents who were defined as having a disability went from 13.9% using the current questions to 8.1% under the international standards. When the definition was expanded to also include “some difficulty,” it grew to 31.7%" (AP).

So what can we do? The Census Bureau is accepting public comment on the proposed changes until the end of the day on Tuesday, December 19th. Visit this link to submit your comments, and tell the Census Bureau why this change is a bad idea! Statistics show that at least 25% of Americans are disabled (CDC). We can't let the Census Bureau erase us.

Please share this widely, and submit your comments before the close of business on Tuesday, December 19th! I also highly encourage you to check out the Associate Press article linked above, since it does a good job of explaining the situation in more detail.

[unganseylike]

even after all these years the gang learning about noahs ghostliness is so funny to me. like obviously they are freaked out that their friend is dead and was murdered. but no one is having a revelation about ghosts being real its not even mentioned. its like yea yea we all accept the existence of ghosts. back to the one living in our apartment.

[ofmermaidstories]

This might be a little more personal—

But when you’ve had irl bfs do they know you write fics?? How do they take it??

i don’t keep my writing secret from anyone LMAO. everyone who’s even had a cursory introduction to me irl quickly learns that i write reader-insert fanfic. 😌i’ve told my dentist, while his fingers were in my mouth. random shop assistants. other wedding guests when i’ve been incredibly drunk on tequila. psychics. LMAO. people in general are either bemused or just accept it. 😌

but as for boyfriends—yes. my most serious relationship is the one that introduced me to fanfic. i probably wouldn’t be in this community writing what i do if it weren’t for him. 📖🌷💕

[missallanea]

potential new muses survey getting long...

( sneak peek under the cut !! )

[izzy-b-hands]

We're starting late, again, and they have failed to assign me and several other stations a supervisor

Off to a rousing start for the last day of the survey to, in one of the super's words 'take the pulse of this beautiful battleground state'

(I'm trying to ignore that every time she posts this, she posts it occasionally alongside gifs of docs in gloves clearly getting ready for a prostate exam or to take someone's temp rectally. I cannot tell if this is a joke or if she thinks this is a suitable metaphor for our job. Probably both.)

[lesbianjonimitchell]

wow it looks like the leader of my former political party is finally calling for ceasefire! that only took two months and 17.000+ dead civilians. im glad i left them.

[lesbianfanfictionenthusiast]

not being able to vote for my country's communist party in this year's election (now that they actually have a chance of getting into the national council) because the social democrats have the best chance of preventing the radical right wing party from ending up with the most votes is so devastating

[watery-melon-baller]

If you want to talk about the way people erase characters’ main traits in service in shipping (I call it paper doll syndrome) for your video essay I would be DELIGHTED to help you come up with ideas/write a script or whatever I love making videos and this topic is so interesting to me

that would be so awesome! paper doll syndrome is such an apt name for it and it really is a fascinating (and frustrating) fandom phenomen

fair warning though, im specifically focusing on the owl house fandlom/shipping stuff mainly because ive been in the fandom for a long time and have watched the fandom change over the years. but this kind of thing definitely isn't exclusive to owl house it's a very common fandom phenomen so most of my points can apply to fandom in general. ive never made a video essay or anything but ive been thinking about this for months so i figured i would give it a try. currently im just collecting evidence rn but i would love to chat if ur offering!

[sunfoxfic]

please tell me I have some writing studies followers who will find this as funny as I do

[kaifsaifi009897]

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[antlerknives]

currently working on the early stages (ie. user research) of a spotify user interface redesign as a personal portfolio project and i am ridiculously excited about it

[fluentisonus]

highest point on the whole south coast!

[glassamphibians]

i start big boy school tomorrow.

[izzy-b-hands]

If I don't find a new job before September, it's gonna be 9 straight weeks of polls starting in September, every weekend of September and October (including the weekend of Housemate's bday, and the weekend leading up to Election Day)

In addition, no cancels or sick days will be allowed for that period of time. Any cancels or sick call outs will result in disciplinary actions up to a fast tracked firing (to be fair they didn't say this exactly, but the Implication in this part of the email is quite strong lmao.)

Anyone wanna hire me on to do literally anything? Dig holes? Clean your house? Shine your shoes? Feed your cat/dog/fish/cow/etc? Stare at a pot of boiling water for your dinner? Paint your living room then stand there and watch the paint dry then repaint it a different colour and watch it dry again? Anything at all, anything you want, anything-