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Some of y'all have got to learn the difference between "exclusion" and "this is not about you".

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some of y’all aren’t gonna like this but not all hypermobility is a result of a pathology lol like it is far more likely to be benign and normal than a specific diagnosis (ex. EDS/Marfans/etc) and being able to live a totally normal life without assistance/aids/medications but having elbows that are slightly bendier than average is not a disability

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some of y’all aren’t gonna like this but not all hypermobility is a result of a pathology lol like it is far more likely to be benign and normal than a specific diagnosis (ex. EDS/Marfans/etc) and being able to live a totally normal life without assistance/aids/medications but having elbows that are slightly bendier than average is not a disability

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Calling my trans siblings that do injections (and anyone else that does regular self-injections)!

This is a ShotBlocker. It’s perfect if you have a fear of needles, injections, injection pain, or any other kind of injection anxiety. You place the plastic spikes on your skin and firmly press them down while doing your injection. Having many different points of pressure distracts you from injection pain and I’ve found it helps mentally as well.

I’ve been doing T injections for about a month now and tonight I didn’t have to work myself up to it like I’ve had to in the past. AND it wasn’t as painful as my other injections! I highly recommend getting one of these if you’re struggling to do injections. You can get them for $5-$7 online and they are reusable.

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alright I reflected on the self. I'm 100% sure the beasts are the issue here

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Happy Aphrodite day, everyone! Here's my interpretation of her, intended to be a print 🩵🦪

My Ko-Fi: 🕊️

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just truly bonkers how much i love lying down..........like being horizontal? unparalleled

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I definitely do think that we need more services at all levels of disability and I think it should be easier to access. I think you should have a functional assessment when you become disabled and then be matched to all the services you qualify for and I think there should be a free advocate if you need services above that due to special circumstances. I think aides should be paid better and there should be more hours available to people who need them. If the US spent half the money on social care we do on military bullshit there wouldn't be people missing out on proper nutrition, a clean living space, or other basic things people need to live.

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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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"terminally ill people should be allowed to choose to die if they feel it is the best decision for them" and "euthanasia can easily become eugenics" and "we should provide support for depressed and suicidal people" are statements that can come into conflict but should all be respected

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i think we should abolish the term middle east

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Hey check out the Incarcerated Workers’ Organizing Committee

Just point your browser to https://incarceratedworkers.org/

          About                                                                        

We, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), are a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World.  We struggle to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on  the outside. On September 9, 2016 we were part of a coalition of inside  and outside groups that launched the largest prison strike in US  history. Resistance to prison slavery continues with work stoppages,  hunger strikes and other acts of resistance to business as usual.

But it will take a mass movement - inside and out - to abolish prison  slavery. We have hundreds of members in over 15 prisons and our  membership continues to grow. We invite all those who agree with our  statement of purpose to join us  and to start a local group in their prison, city, or trailer park. IWW  membership is free to those incarcerated, and is based on income for  those on the outside. We ask supporters to sponsor a prisoner’s  membership for just $5 a month.

Prison Slavery

Incarcerated people are legally slaves as per the 13th Amendment  which abolished “slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment  for a crime”. We are legally slaves. If you’ve been to prison you’d  know we are treated like slaves.

Billions are made annually off our backs. Outrageously priced or  grossly inadequate privatized ‘services’ like health care, food, phone  calls, assault our humanity - they feed us like animals, suck our  families dry, and when sick leave us to die. The government spends as  much as an elite college tuition per person to keep each of us  incarcerated, but this money does not develop us as human beings, reduce  crime or make our communities safer.

They also profit from our labor. At least half of the nation’s 1.5 million  of us imprisoned in the United States have jobs yet are paid pennies an  hour, or even nothing at all. Many of us perform the essential work  needed to run the prisons themselves - mopping cellblock floors,  preparing and serving food, filing papers and other prison duties.  Others of us work in “correction industries” programs  performing work in areas such as clothing and textile, computer aided  design, electronics, and recycling activities. Some of us even  sub-contract with private corporations such as Sprint, Starbucks,  Victoria’s Secret, and many more.

As incarcerated workers, we are some of the most exploited workers in  the country. There is no minimum wage for prison labor. The average  wage is 20 cents an hour, with some states not paying a wage at all. Up  to 80% of wages can be withheld by prison officials. There are very few  safety regulations and no worker’s compensation for injury on the job.  While in prison, we try to earn money to support our families,  ourselves, and pay victim restitution yet these wages prevent us from  that. We believe that as workers we are guaranteed the same protections  and wages as other workers.

We are working to abolish prison slavery and this system that does not correct anyone or make our communities safer.

Industrial Workers of the World

In addition to abolishing prison slavery, we are also fighting to end  the criminalization, exploitation, and enslavement of working class  people in general. We are part of the larger

Industrial Workers of the World

(IWW), a revolutionary union that has been fighting oppressive systems for over one hundred years.

When first founded, the IWW was the only union open to all-  regardless of race, gender or nationality. Fierce campaigns waged by  miners, dock workers and agricultural workers led to signficant gains in  wages and workplace conditions.

Our revolutionary politics and refusal to sell out led to massive and widespread crackdowns by the US government as part of the Red Scare, and beyond.

Despite this, the union persisted and to this day continues to  organize for a new world. Like, IWOC, the IWW is seeing a resurgence,  with membership steadily growing since 2000.

IWOC’s Statement of Purpose

1. To further the revolutionary goals of incarcerated people and the  IWW through mutual organizing of a worldwide union for emancipation from  the prison system.

2. To build class solidarity amongst members of the working class by  connecting the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and  juvenile detention centers to workers struggles locally and worldwide.

3. To strategically and tactically support prisoners locally and  worldwide, incorporating an analysis of white supremacy, patriarchy,  prison culture, and capitalism.

4. To actively struggle to end the criminalization, exploitation, and  enslavement of working class people, which disproportionately targets  people of color, immigrants, people with low income, LGBTQ people, young  people, dissidents, and those with mental illness.

5. To amplify the voices of working class people in prison,  especially those engaging in collective action or who put their own  lives at risk to improve the conditions of all.

https://incarceratedworkers.org/

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Look don't test me I'll block and turn off reblogs with a hair trigger if you all can't be normal about this but I do feel like it needs to be said that "do you think abortion should be allowed if the mother's reason for wanting it is—" the only acceptable answer to that question is Yes no matter what the end of that sentence is going to be. I do not care if someone wants an abortion for selfish reasons or bigoted reasons or cruel reasons or any other hypothetical strawman you can think of, there is no circumstance where someone should be denied the right to opt out of a forced pregnancy and birth. First of all, who's in charge of interrogating everyone seeking an abortion to make sure they're doing it for reasons Pure Of Heart? Second, why do you think Forced Birth is an appropriate punishment to inflict on anyone? If your answer to "should abortion be allowed when the motivation is—" is anything but an unequivocal "yes, and I don't care about the motivation" then you are not pro-choice

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HIGH ON STANDARDS LOW ON SKILL. CREATIVE PROCESS MAKE YOU ILL

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apparently one of the ways to say "shaved my head" in Japanese is "頭を坊主にした" which is literally something like "did the monk thing to my head"

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ah yes, the two genders:

man and bath

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