Stop Making Sense

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Ilī! Bêkī! Ina qinnātīša amrī! Qinnātīša šurbûm!- My gods! Becky! Look to her buttocks! Her buttocks are the largest!

Ana Šamḫat zammerim imaššul. Tīdîšu- She resembles the mistress of a poet. Thou knowest this.

Minu zammerī šunūti iḫakkimūšunūti?- Who understands those poets?

Edāniš iqabbûšim aššu šī muššulti šamḫatim- They only talk to her because she is the likeness of a prostitute.

Agana, Qinnātīša! šina šurbûm!- Come on, her buttocks! They are the largest…

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Ul sarrāku, warktīn pilḫā!- I am not a liar, revere buttocks!

Attunu, aḫī lā tusarrarā!- You my brothers, do not be false!

Bēt awīltam irrub- When a woman enters,

Itti qablim ṣuḫḫurim- With a tiny waist,

U kippāt urkutim- And a circle of buttocks,

Šupluḫātunu!- Ye are made affraid!

Šudannin! Kēttuma- Be strengthened! Verily,

Warktān šuāti malâ- Those buttocks are full,

Ina kusītīša ḫalpā- They are slipped into her tunic,

Adīanšināti! Waqrā!- I pass judgement on them! They are worthy!

Narāmī, lušeṭḫīki - My love, may I bring thee near,

U ereḫḫīki- And have sex with thee,

Aḫḫīya udabbabūninni - My brothers they pester me,

Ki išarīšunu ušellēšunūti- That she causes their penises to go up

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Agana, Aḫḫīya! Aḫḫīya!- Come on, my brothers! My brothers!

Bēletka warktin īšu? Does your mistress possess buttocks?

Šuribbīšu! Šuribbīšu!- Shake it! Shake it!

Eli warktān šâti irubbū! Before those buttocks I tremble!

Bēletka warktīn īšu- My mistress possesses buttocks.

I don't appreciate gun threats, regardless of how they are worded. Fuck this shit. You need to know about this story.

But you can sit and allow fascists to vote you into fascism.

Which is a problem, since you cannot vote your way back out.

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I mean

Applegate’s statement on the piracy subject is quoted from an AMA here for those that have moral issues with it. for those that don’t want to click, she says: “We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy—paper or e—it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they’ve been unavailable except by ‘pirated’ means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down.”

I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they're making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will 'just ask questions' until we lose every scrap of ground we've gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.

They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.

So many of the tropes they've been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! "There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that's bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it's freaky!"

I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it's spread.

6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go "ooh, tasty, what else can we do?"

Recently an 'expert' was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a "golden ticket." Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn't exist and threatening "'you won't poison my child's body [with ADHD meds] against my consent"

... Maybe stop acting like humanity has always had to swallow drugs.

Do you know how many women with ADHD attempt suicide? One in four. Do you know what reduces suicidality? Did you say "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and being successfully shamed into pretending your problems aren't real for the sake of everyone else's comfort?"

The actual answer is medication. Do you know another way humanity with ADHD functions when blissfully free of "their" power?

They get into a lot of car accidents.

And HALF of them get a substance abuse problem.

And they fail academically a lot.

And they can't get or can't keep jobs.

And they are poorer.

And they drag around a completely unnecessary and preventable sense of shame and failure and helplessness.

So, how did people with ADHD function before diagnosis and treatment existed? A lot of the time by dying before the age of forty-six. You apparently have ADHD yourself. You are nevertheless regurgitating ableist, eugenicist propaganda presumably because you like to have someone to feel better than and/or you're desperate to be seen as one of the good ones.

What often goes unmentioned is that Tuberculosis is no longer on our list of "cured" diseases. Due to atrocious prison and homeless conditions around the world most than lack of vaccinations, because even the Tuberculosis vaccine itself can't always protect patients from contracting TB and MDR-TB, especially in countries with poor access to healthcare for the general population, high population density, high poverty and homelessness rates, and overcrowded prison systems. In the US, states like California that get most of their agricultural exports through prison slave labor (13th Amendment. Read it. It's right there and you should be PISSED it is). However, as a result of packing elbow-to-elbow packing plants and rarely-adequately-outfitted medical bays, Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis is now a real thing, cannot be cured in most patients, keeps getting MORE drug-resistant to more and more drugs, and does not respond to the once-effective cures that had already been invented decades ago. It mostly afflicts inmates and homeless people, the vaccine for it is usually only available in countries like India and not regularly used in the US, and can spread to anyone in close proximity with someone infected by blood, mucous, and particulate contact from their coughs/sneezes.

Then California decides fuck the Joshua Trees and destroys four thousand of them.

Fuck California. Joshua Trees provide shelter to hundreds of different species.

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