Pepper da Dog!

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

we have to give ourselves permission to imagine disabled futures. we’ve been told, either implicitly or explicitly that we shouldn’t exist, so it becomes hard to imagine a perfect world populated with people like us. but loving ourselves and our communities is about being able to imagine a future that has us in it. there is a perfect world where people are happily disabled. and that’s what I’m fighting for — the chance that we can slowly take steps towards that world. imagine disabled futures

I don't know much about chemistry, but Things I Won't Work With is a favorite of mine.

rule #1 of the world is that love is stored in the kitty cat

rule #2 of the world is that biting is also stored in the creature

rule #3 is never talk to the police

Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.” It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.

Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.

“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.

Absolutely, there’s nothing in that piece that says the dial can only have two settings. It’s just indicating two opposing positions, with the possibility of setting the dial anywhere between the two, and invites the viewer to think about where exactly the artist should be positioning the dial.

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the thing about israel and palestine is that only one side has the power to end the conflict. israel could end the occupation, end the blockade, stop the settlements, stop the apartheid, and let palestinians return to their stolen homes. an end to israeli violence--to israeli occupation of palestine--would mean an end to the conflict. an end to palestinian violence, on the other hand, would see the bombings and evictions and ethnic cleansing continue unabated. so when someone calls for "an end to violence on both sides" remember that only one side can end 'the violence'--all the other can do is roll over and die.

like, you think it's bad that hamas are extremely reactionary religious fundamentalists? okay, me too! however if you want to foster progressive and humane forces in palestinian politics the first step is to stop keeping millions of people in an open air concentration camp that's bombed daily and steps two through one hundred are dismantling the israeli apartheid state. but of course the 'end to violence' people aren't advocating that because they don't really want an end to violence, just for the israeli colonial project to proceed unimpeded and for palestinians to politely not make a fuss about their own genocide

my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

just sayin'

This should be taught in school.

absolutely in love with the idea of a high fantasy setting where the monarchy and the witches respectively summon a hero and a demon king “from another realm” to destroy their enemies and it’s two pro-wrestlers isekai’d from our world who have career-long beef with each other

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

These days I only watch new media so I can read their tvtropes pages

reblog to headpat the one you reblogued from!!