Just Me And My Brain

it took me asking three more times before she finally told me she wanted me to leave the fans where they are instead of moving them to my room or something. and I said oh! I had no intention of doing so but thank you for letting me know what the expectation is.

i universally could not find any details about the disability services that were written as though they were addressed to a disabled potential student. I reached out to one school via email, very politely, to ask if she could tell me some details about how the program worked. disability services can be structured a lot of different ways and in my experience it's important to know how it will be ahead of time, bc some ways of structuring disability services will not work for some people while others might. No way to know ahead of time until you encounter that specific system yourself

Anyway i got a very rude email back telling me there was information on the website and that they 'work with the student once they're accepted,' with the implication that if i wanted to know how they would accommodate a student like me, i would have to go through the process of applying (fee and all) and being accepted. possibly even of enrolling, it was unclear from her phrasing.

i have not applied to any schools since then. i realized that they're all like this on purpose*. they exist because the school does not want to get sued by the department of justice. they do not exist to help disabled students. they exist so the school has something to point to and loudly claim "NO WE TOTALLY ACCOMMODATE DISABLED STUDENTS"

this clarified a lot for me about the way a LOT of institutions work. and made me feel very naive for not having reaalized it before. it seems so obvious now. the reason my inquiries were always met with offended confusion is because their materials are not for me. their materials are for the purpose of looking convincingly as though they provide disability services. it's for the government. it's not for me.

instead they just say “thats normal” or “oh theres nothing wrong with you”. Because in their mind “it wont kill you and i cant fix it” means its not worth mentioning.

You do not get to profit, financially or attention wise or another way, off of a *potentially* queer jew whilst we are banned from pride events.

We do not know if she was questioning her sexuality but ultimately straight or if she was actually queer because she was killed for the crime of existing as a jew before she could come out. Queer rights obviously matter. Anne Franke is not the person you should be using.

You need to protect alive queer jews. You need to love all jews, not just the dead ones.

"But they banned zionists not jews", they banned jewish organizations, who refused to say they disavowed israel. That's like asking a local Chinese diaspora group to disavow the CCP or they can't be at pride.

The only cases of restrictions against Jewish groups at Pride events occurred at Rome (which was universally decried) and Australia at their Mardi Gras event (which was immediately reversed).

There is no effort to ban Jewish groups from US Pride events.

Montreal Pride (it only counts as banning them if it's in America's pride month, I guess- note how they restricted it to AMERICAN pride events)

London Trans pride

That took 3 minutes on Google to find. Imagine if you had actually fucking cared

And it happened again last year:

Here's an article about how JEWS are feeling about being banned from Pride:

Even banning all zionists is…not good.

These same events arent questioning if every attending member is misogynistic, racist, transphobic, biphobic, intersexist, ableist, classist, a republican and so on.

Pride has not required people to write dissertations on their world views in order to attend.

Instead, the people that are causing issues are run out, and the people who arent actively causing issues are free to participate as long as theyre not causing issues.

This isnt because these problems dont matter-its because its impossible to make sure every single person attending pride is on the same page. So instead, if people arent causing active issues you let them be and carry on.

Treating zionists as uniquely more threatening than misogynists, racists, transphobes etc is antisemitic.

If someone is causing a problem, then yeah they obviously shouldnt be allowed to attend. Im not saying any bigotry should be tolerated or allowed at pride.

But it you arent interrogating everyone attending on all of the issues then selecting one group out to hold to that standard is not about human rights, its just bigotry at that point.

This is an argument I would make about any group. Case and point: I dont fucking like christians. Ive seen “jesus loves gays” at pride more than once. Personally? Not a fan. But! I respect their right to be there so long as they arent causing active issues. I simply avoid them. If you were to be like ban all christians Id still be here being like no, lets not do that. They should get to attend so long as they arent proseltizing or creating problems.

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

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sapphibbatical

7 years ago someone posted this-

And 5 years a different user posted this-

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

#Everyone has massively cut their support staff everwhere.#supposedly automation makes up for this gap except that it literally doesn't at all#You can fire 90% of your office staff and replace them with a phone tree#And all that happens is everyone hates it and it sucks and it makes your service completely unnavigable#But like. Who is going to stop you?

#Everyone has done this in every industry and field. There is no alternative you can turn to preferentially because they actually staff thei#phones. No one does!!#Let alone any means of communication outside of phone calling. Which remains the absolute bottom line of getting any info out of anywhere#You can cut your office hours because everything is on the website! Which you haven't updated in 5 years and the plugin broke and

#Basically the same principle we're seeing now in the rollout of AI has already been the status quo. The idea that you can just get rid of#all human support services. Replace them with some automated function.

#On the corporate side the logic is clear: once you have a monopoly (and who doesnt) the only way to increase profits is to cut costs#which means fire people. And if the quality of service tanks who cares because everyone's stuck with you anyway.

#on the government services side it's a bit more opaque.... I guess it probably mostly comes back to cost-cutting again.#Budget pressure. Reforms designed to strangle services.#Plus the longtime practice of throttling government support by making the logistical burden too onerous to handle#By way of wretched clauses about eligibility and the proving therof and etc

#And there's a very real and brutal class component also.#Everyone making these firing calls is totally insulated from the effects of their decisions because they have personal assistants.#Meanwhile the people dealing with the most of this shit are anyone trying to access social services of any sort#or even just do or get things cheaply.

via @screambirdscreaming

(reformatted into paragraphs for easier reading) these tags get to the root of the problem in a way I'd like to see more people acknowledging, honestly.

I saw a post the other day that was pointing out how people selling AI frame AI as some genius worksaving innovation or as a tool based on whether they want to cater to the ego of middle management types whose entire job is answering emails, because obviously the people whose jobs are most able to be replaced by AI are middle management email answering jobs.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.