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PT: I feel like we’re not on the same page about wheelchair users, so let’s go over some basic facts: End PT

- some wheelchair users can walk and/or stand, these people are called ambulatory wheelchair users

- some wheelchair users cannot walk or stand, these people are called non ambulatory wheelchair users

- some wheelchair users use their chair full time

- some wheelchair users use their chair part time

- some full time wheelchair users are ambulatory

- not all wheelchair users are paralyzed

- not all paralyzed people are wheelchair users, paralysis is a spectrum

- paralysis isn’t the only reason to be non ambulatory

- not all wheelchair users have problems with their legs

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

6/14/2026

There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.

The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.

(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)

A popular artist suddenly made a trans man comic, and the viewers are not getting it