#disability solidarity!?

[thedisablednaturalist]

Kinda fucked up that we all coo and sympathize with "former gifted kids" but never talk about the students who had to stay late after school or over the summer for remedial classes/clubs, who struggled to get above a C, who were given up on or punished. Who tried so hard to understand or just couldn't. Who were grouped with the "stupid kids" (a classmate called us that in remedial math btw)

Autistic kids and adhders who can't relate to their gifted peers and are constantly alienated by them. Kids who struggled in school due to dealing with a chronic or mental illness or physical/learning/developmental disability. Those of us who have had to drop out of highschool or college. Kids who worked so hard and wanted to be seen as smart, but never were. Who watched as their peers seem to fly by them in school, while they were left behind. Who were bullied and put down by those in the gifted and honors classes. Whose confidence was absolutely destroyed by education.

I love you all and I'm so sorry the school system failed you. I'm sorry you weren't properly accommodated and given the education you deserved. I'm sorry people put you down for something that they never had to fight for.

[houseofpurplestars]

Senate trying to pass a bill that would force you to use your government id just to use the internet. That means no anonymity at all, ever, and that every pro-Palestinian organizer is immediately a target that the government can track. And they will use it explicitly to come after protestors and organizers.

[liminalweirdo]

The US could have avoided almost 250,000 Covid-19 deaths if every state had adopted stricter mask and vaccine requirements seen in the Northeast during the height of the pandemic, according to a new study.

Researchers say that the country, which saw more than 1.1 million Covid deaths, could have been spared an estimated 118,000 to 248,000 more lives.

covid is still killing people btw. in 2024

wear a mask

[testosteronetempation]

everyone wants solidarity but nobody wants to put on a mask. everyone wants third spaces but nobody wants to put on a mask. everyone wants mutual aid but nobody wants to put on a mask.

[unveilandresist]

by January 10th 1 in 3 people will have had this wave of covid. covid causes long term damage with each infection and wears down your immunity. you do not want this. there is no cure for long covid or me/cfs and there is a significant chance (last I checked I think it was 1/5 infections) of getting long covid that increases with each infection. please protect yourself and your loved ones by wearing a mask. variants have become more transmissible so a n95 or kn95 is the minimum protection to keep yourself reasonably safe(r) from getting covid.

it is important to understand often viruses do not simply clear up and go away. like chicken pox and shingles or what we now think of as polio that is actually post polio syndrome. polio symptoms were mild and 75% of cases are asymptomatic. we do not yet see the full scope of what this virus will do over our lifetimes. as someone who had my entire life derailed by me/cfs after having mono, (almost 10 years ago! it hasn't gotten better!) we have to take pathogens more seriously if we care about ourselves and our communities.

I'm willing and open to talk with people who want to understand better what covid does to our bodies and how we can best practice community care and also harm reduction if we're stuck in unsafe situations at home or work (certain mouthwashes and nasal sprays can help).

if you're watching what's happening in Palestine and live in the US, the government doesn't care about your life either. They lied about palestine and they lied about covid too. It is not just a cold.

[sayruq]

[vyorei]

Reminder that disabled people exist everywhere, including active warzones

Read the full article here:

[chronicallycouchbound]

Almost twice as many people died from COVID-19 in 2021 than all unintentional accidents. COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death. COVID rates are on the rise.

The least you can do is wear a mask.

[extreme-dyke-syndrome]

The crippled urge to go "nice cane" to every other cane user you see

[joy-haver]

Last night, all the dockworkers of the East and Gulf Coasts stopped working, and declared that they won’t go back until they are promised a fair wage and stable employment.

I admire the courage, community building, and dedication that strikes like these require, and have the utmost respect for the organizers. If they win their demands, it will help raise the standards for workers across the board, make shipping safer, ensure easier transfer of products, and higher safety standards for workers and consumers alike.

As these companies fleece us of our wages and rob us in the stores, as poor and working class people do all the work while a few rich folks take all the gains, it is lovely to see some folks fighting back, and doing it at scale.

News outlets and fear mongers will say that this strike will raise prices. They say it will make your medication scarce, and formula hard to find. There is some truth to that. But it is also a narrative designed to make you spineless, selfish, and traitorous. The people telling you this do not care if you live or die. They don’t care about your medication. They only care that they don’t have to raise the pay of their employees. They only care that this might cost them money, keep them from buying a private island or a yacht.

Remember, it is not the dockworkers who are forcing this scarcity. The dockworkers know that if things go on as they are, scarcity will only grow. Wages will fall, no one will be able to afford the things that you are so scared of losing. Standards in shipping will fall, causing delays, improper storage of goods, and lost cargo. What they are doing is, in part, to prevent that.

Domestic supply of most necessities is high enough to withstand many months of strikes. Even if it runs out in stores, someone in the community probably has what you need. In times like these, using mutual aid efforts to meet our own needs and needs in our communities is a way we can stand in solidarity. Making baby food, sharing formula, distributing breast milk, converting school labs to medicine production, sharing stockpiles, these could save lives and ease the burden of the strike, letting the workers stand strong and without contention from our communities.

If you want this strike to end soon, the best thing you can do is show support to the dockworkers, lower demand on these goods, and put pressure on the bosses to accept their demands.

We can live in a better world. We just have to remember to be on each others team. The team of human liberation - not the team of corporate profit.

[myceliacrochet]

Reblog if answer tysm!!!!🥰

This poll is for Nour Yashour's four-year-old child, Muhammad.

HE URGENTLY NEEDS PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Without it HE WILL DIE.

HE DESERVES TO BE ABLE TO WALK.

PHYSICAL THERAPY IN CHILDHOOD PREVENTS A LOT OF PROBLEMS LATER IN LIFE.

In addition, the family needs all the basic needs people in Gaza are needing right now -- food, shelter, winterization, clean water, hygiene items, medical attention, and evacuation.

Nour and her other child, Nezmi, need these things as well!!!!!

The children of Gaza desperately need to be warm, dry, clean, and well-fed for their development.

Read more about Muhammad

Vetted by 90-ghost!!!

Muhammad's GoFundMe:

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[resistancecommittee]

please im begging this is incredibly urgent. the people that have allowed us to stay for the last two nights put my wife through an incredibly traumatic experience and she’s scared to leave the room without me to get food or even go to the bathroom and we have to keep the door locked at all times. we really need help right now, we have a plan but nothing that can happen for another week. please anything to help us get by we have no money and are trapped.

c4$happ: goldenratio1123 or melancholicore

p4ypal: iwannadaisuki or poppybun

v3nmo: iwannadaisuki

im so sorry to ask for help again but this is an extremely volatile environment and its incredibly important we find a way out of here and survive until we can make that happen as our lives have been threatened multiple times.

[houseofpurplestars]

And also needs to be said: the reason why the death toll in Gaza hovers at around 32,000 people is for the same reason the death toll from Covid during the Biden Admin stays at 800,000: because they took away any capacity to continue to count the dead.

— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) April 26, 2024

[unveilandresist]

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

[420over69days]

These idiots again, your honor