Just a multi-shipper in a constant state of crisis

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

People can be real big assholes about contemporary classical music, because they're holding it up to the absolute cream of the crop from the past 400 years. That's a lot of time to pick from! There's a reason you've heard Mozart's Requiem but not his Symphony No. 1... because we don't perform the stuff that isn't good. I've gone to (and performed in) plenty of modern pieces that are not seeing the light of heaven, but there's something incredibly special about being one of the first people to experience (or perform!!!) something that's hot off the presses and GREAT. I'll be 95 years old and telling whatever young musicians I'm working with that I was at the very first Met performance of Fire Shut Up In Your Bones, for instance.

go out and fuck someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to

go out and date someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to

You’re Not Allowed To Be Gay Anymore

what this post DOES mean

if you just ‘prefer’ to avoid majority black areas of your city

if you just ‘prefer’ to read, write, think, and talk about men

if you just ‘prefer’ to socialize with people you (perceive as) your assigned birth sex

if you just ‘prefer’ to exclusively watch white-directed movies, read white-written books, listen to white-authored music

if you just unconsciously perceive men as more authoritative/competent and ‘prefer’ to be spoken to by them

Y’all. When Black Panthers were institutionalized for supposed mental illness and chemically restrained and sometimes permanently disabled because institutionalizing them meant they could be locked up forever instead of getting a fair trail was that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When Black kids get diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder and any of their complaints or self-advocacy is dismissed as “defiance” and they get the police called on them for being kids is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When systemic racism disables racialized people and then systemic racism makes it harder for them to access medical care and disability supports is that “just” racism or “just” just ableism?

When ICE specifically targets racialized people and then denies people access to their life-sustaining medications or denies people they’ve injured access to necessary medical care and that kills people is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When police officers kill disabled people of color for being “unpredictable” or “out of control” or “having a weapon” (it doesn’t matter if it was just a butter knife) or for not responding immediately to their instructions (they were deaf and facing the other way) is that “just” racism of “just” ableism?

When racialized person don’t get a job because their cultural dialect or their accent is seen as a lack of intelligence is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When Black wheelchair users are assumed to be disabled because they were a gang member, whether or not that’s correct, but either way are denied access to resources they need is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When Black people are labeled “drug seeking” and left to suffer horrible pain is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When police officers approach a Black mother trying to help her young child through an autistic meltdown, forcing her to have to deal with convincing them she’s not abusive and have to work even harder to help her kid because they can tell something’s wrong, is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

When Black and brown people join gangs because of systemic racism and are shot in the spine before or during their arrest and once they’re out of jail can’t find an apartment because none of the wheelchair accessible apartments accept people with a criminal record so they have to live in a nursing home and then die because their city sent COVID patients to their nursing home when the hospitals ran out of beds and put people who had tested positive for COVID in the same rooms as them is that “just” racism or “just” ableism?

You’ll notice that some of these examples are about disabled people of color but some of them are not. That’s because ableism can still affect people who are not disabled! And sometimes racism weaponizes ableism!

Racism can and does weaponize other types of oppression to oppress racialized people who would not be targeted by those types of oppression otherwise. It still counts as that other type of oppression!

There are a lot of reasons for this, but a big one is that none of the types of oppression that exist today were created in a vacuum. In fact, many of them only exist the way they do so that they could be weaponized against groups who are not usually thought of as the intended targets of that type of oppression.

And is the narrow definition of “proper English” actually racism, ableism, classism, xenophobia, or imperialism? Is the narrow definition or femininity or womanhood actually misogyny, transphobia, racism, classism, or imperialism? Or is it maybe all of them at once?

This is why intersectionality matters so much.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!