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When they generously install a lean bar at the bus stop
ID: someone sitting on a curb in front of a bus stop with a lean bar. End ID

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Putting on sunscreen before walking to work like, PPE
Went to the grocery store with my kindergartener. We weighed some bananas: 2 pounds even. We weighed a watermelon: 4 pounds even. We weighed some mangos: a little over 1 pound. We weighed the watermelon AND the bananas: 6 pounds even.
“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”
“What happens if you add 6+1?”
“SEVEN”
“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>
“IT’S THE SAME!!”
“OK, what’s 7-4?”
“Three?”
“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>
“Mama! Are you telling me math works In Real Life? Think of all the things you could measure!!”

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A lot of fantasy goes with Tolkien explanation of fantasy racism being the result of ancestral grudge.
Then you got Dungeon Meshi which is like:
"Elves and Dwarves hate each other because their respective empires make up 2/3 of the imperial core and are stuck in a cold war as the planet runs out of uncolonized land to grab. Elves are able to live in pastoral paradise because they've horded most of the settings farm-able land and natural capital, displacing and mass murdering any natives in the process. Orcs and goblins are hostile to other races because there the primary targets of an ongoing slavery and genocide campaign. The dividing line between human and inhuman is arbitrarily assigned via a phrenological pseudo-science that quickly falls apart when questioned by anyone who wasn't indoctrinated into it since birth."
Currently suppressing the leftist urge to take my anger for Republicans out on other leftists who aren't fighting back the same way as I am
my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government
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I’ve said it before I’ll say it again sign language needs to become part of the mandatory school curriculum
I agree, but as part of that they should teach the history of it as well.
ASL has many signs inspired by (and/or taken directly from) Plains Indian Sign Language/Hand Talk Except that for a long time PISL was forbidden for Native Americans to use so they were forced to use ASL
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Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years
Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.
In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.
They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick
NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!
So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.
Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.
Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.
NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.
(All caps) It rotated the entire time.
One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.
Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.
No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.
They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.
Now you know!

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"No loitering" signs should be banned within 20 feet of a bus stop at the very least ffs
I just want to add that Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in economics for her work on shared community resources and how communities are shown to successfully self-organize to share resources without exploiting them.
This idea that communities can’t manage shared resources and instead requires market solutions to prevent exploitation is a convenient cold-war pro-capitalist narrative that’s not grounded in reality.
Let's take a look at German unemployment money. 5.5 Million people receive it. Roughly 55% of them can't work because they're minors or take care of relatives/children. 15% do actually work but their wages aren't high enough. Another 30% could be working but they require help in either learning a profession or with their health.
And then there's the 0.4% who seem to abuse this system for personal gain. 16,000 people amongst 5.5 Million. I think this shows, that people usually don't take more than they need. If there are any freeloaders, it's the super rich who lobby themselves out of paying taxes.
My comment needs a correction. And a proper definition of "[16.000 people] who seem to abuse this system for personal gain".
If you are deemed employable (which means you can work at least 3 hours per day), unemployment money comes with duties like showing up to appointments, applying to suggested workplaces and other initiatives to find a job. If you repeatedly fail to do so, you will get the (inofficial) label of being "Totalverweigerer" (entirely non-compliant). There are roughly 16.000-18.000 of them. Under closer inspection, most of them end up having proper reasons. Not applying for jobs because they are too far away or simply not a match. Not showing up to appointments due to unreliable public transport, mental overwhelm, conflict with other duties (like childcare) and health issues.
The authorities already can give warnings and penalties to people who, without any reason whatsoever, refuse to show any initiative to get employed again. In 2025 we talk about 455 people. Out of 5.5 Million receivers of unemployment money, that's only 0.005%. Poor people abusing welfare systems is as good as a non existent issue.
keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it
the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.
driving a car. making a phone call. navigating the internet. getting a mortgage. you know? they keep adding new things that everybody has to be able to do or else there's something wrong with you. well maybe there's something wrong with driving a car. maybe it's a hideous activity. did they ever think of that
As a trucker and professional driver, I think about it EVERY DAY.
EVERY TIME I have to drive through a city and look down on cars, changing lanes with no signal, eating/drinking coffee/smoking/putting on makeup while driving, PHONE IN HAND, going 85mph through 55mph commuter traffic, crossing 3 lanes of traffic to shove their car into the exit backup because they're too special to be in the (too slow for them) exit lane. And half the time with their kids in the car, for whom they want ME to be careful.
EVERY DAY these people make this same trip to work and back home, and EVERY DAY THEY ARE BAD AT IT.
You are absolutely right. For most people, driving a car is a hideous activity.
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#the way people don't even question shit that has been a 'standard' for less than a century drives me up a wall #driving is a big one because like #it is genuinely INSANE we expect everybody to be able to operate a 2-ton death trap in order to get anywhere #like that seems like the type of thing you would only want highly specialized well-trained people doing #and yet thanks to henry ford!
In America 2026 and very few places I need to go have public transit that would get me there. Honestly? I would take the public transit if it exists.
I've ridden the buses and Underground in London, the Paris Metro 🚇, the new York City subway, and buses or light rail in other cities in Europe and then came back home to absolutely NOTHING LIKE THAT.
Public transit is better for everyone.

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Imagine making life so difficult and unpleasant people don't even want to make new generations anymore
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There was a biologist I saw the other day who said something similar along the lines of "do you have any idea how badly you have to abuse a mammal for it to stop reproducing?". And l've not been able to get that out of my head since.
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walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away
also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer
walkable cities also means cities with free accessible public bathrooms whilst we're at it
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Back in the day I reblogged this like “YEA! The bench IS too far away damnit!”
In the intervening years since I last saw this post, my health has declined to the point where, even the closer bench is too far away and I just need a wheelchair part time. And folks. Cities are not fucking wheelchair accessible in any consistent way.
So lemme just add, walkable cities also means wheelchair accessible cities. Sidewalks with cutouts regularly, and no telephone poles planted in the middle of them and wide enough for a person and a chair to be side by side. Ramps into EVERY building. Parks with pathways that a normal chair can traverse (ie not mud or gravel). Elevators. Accessible fucking public transit. And probably a billion other things I haven’t thought of because I’m not often in a chair outside yet.
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