Don't Yap About Your Yappy

The spectrum is smooth, as in there are not distinctive hard lines or steps. The spectrum is not a series of clearly labeled boxes ("can", "can with difficulty/accommodations", "can't") . There are gray, in-between zones between every possible describable location on the spectrum. (This metaphorical spectrum would also have multiple dimensions, but I'm leaving that out for simplicity)

People seem pretty comfortable with the more "able" half of the spectrum, understanding that things can be easy for some and more difficult for others. But it seems that people really struggle to understand the less able half of the spectrum, all of the area between "can sometimes do it with difficulty/accommodation" and "literally can't under any circumstances". The problem is, that gray area includes almost all disabled people, and the unconscious habit of limiting the possibilitied to those two "boxes" puts us in danger.

"Can't (absolutely no caveat)" exists. But it is not the only valid version of "can't". There's also "can't (it would hurt me)" and "can't (it will shorten my life)" and "can't (it might hurt me, and it's not safe for me to take that risk right now)" and "can't (it will take so long that the opportunity to do so will pass)" and more.

Where do you draw the line? Where do you draw the line between "can't" and "can, but-"

as in "I can, but I might faint" or "I can, but it will make me sick" and the nearly universal "I can, but it will hurt and I will not be able to do something else that I love because of it"

The trade-offs in this gray zone are underrepresented in media and under discussed among non-disabled people. Under considered.

And when people forget about the gray zones and see only boxes of "can" and "can't", they might look at anyone who isn't literally a coma and say "yeah, but you can" with little consideration for what that "can, but-" might cost us

Anytime you're tempted to say "everyone can ______" remember:

Some people are literally in a coma

There are gray in-between zones between "can do whatever task you're describing" and "literally in a coma"

There are people in those gray in between zones

Some of those gray zones have costs

There is no limit to how high the cost can be. There is no referee enforcing fairness. The highest cost is immediate death, and every possible cost below that is also on the table, depending on the person.

I’m gonna assume writers know whether or not their own works are ai because they either write them themselves or have ai write for them.

but as for readers (or writers who read other writers’ works), no, you can’t tell unless the writer themself says their works are ai generated. anything else is witch hunt, speculations and possibly wrongful accusations — all of which harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

so if at any point you think an untagged work is ai and if that bothers you, quietly click away. but you can never know for sure based on vibes. because everything ai writes, a human writer does. that’s what ai was trained on and what it was trained to mimic.

every “ai telltale” is something humans write before, otherwise ai wouldn’t have been able to mimic it in the first place. because it needs human-made works to mimic on.

Again, where do the people like me fit in? Who ate more even when we felt weird about it because we didn’t want to flaunt our “thin privilege,” experienced pain and loss of mobility, and felt better when we tried intentional weight loss?

It’s not that I can’t IMAGINE being fat and pain free. It’s that imagining it didn’t stop my chronic pain from worsening or my blood pressure readings from climbing.

If you’re fine, do whatever you want with your body. But rhetoric like this makes me feel tired.

Because it’s people speculating in condescending fascination about my motivational structure and worldview when “fuck chronic pain” is pretty simple to comprehend.

Really hating how I have to check pretty much everyone I want to follow because they’re probably doing this.

Nah, I tried things your way and had trouble doing stuff I enjoyed. That sucked. So I started listening to the people I was ignoring because y’all called em fatphobes,

And then I could do more stuff again.

Ah yeah, if they’re complaining about people telling them what to do that’s different. I’ve just been seeing a lot of “people who don’t want to be fat are brainwashed” and “being fat is nowhere near as bad as people think it is” stuff that seems to attribute people wanting to lose weight to societal brainwashing.

This annoys me because in a previous stage in my life, I wanted so badly to be a good leftist that I ignored my doctor’s advice, writing her off as a fatphobe. As soon as I went, “maybe I DO have high blood pressure. Maybe I DON’T want to go on meds for it” and tried making my portions smaller, everything improved.

So I get really twitchy when it seems like someone might be saying the only reason you choose to eat smaller portions, or eat less of a thing you like, is a “worldview.”

My “worldview,” if I have one of those, is that carrying excess weight can stress people’s joints and heart. Seems to happen pretty consistently.

BUT everyone’s “excess” is personal to them, and everyone is allowed to use their bodily autonomy as they please, even if I personally think that looks like it’s probably gonna start hurting soon, if it hasn’t already. (Knees are a bitch. Pretty much every visibly fat person I know well enough they’d mention their knees to me has knees that want a break.)

So like I said, I wrote off every high blood pressure reading as “white coat syndrome,”even when my doctors started saying it wasn’t that and they were getting concerned. My pain? Weather. Or injuries I couldn’t remember getting.

See, I had a new worldview, which made them “fatphobes,” which meant they weren’t seeing a pattern. If they were, they were “attributing everything to weight” when they should’ve been looking for other causes. (Which ones? I had no idea. No clue even what to suggest.)

When my A1C started going up, I wasn’t sure I could write things off any more. I decided to try intentional weight loss, feeling like a bad person who’d put my own “desire for thinness”over other people’s “liberation.” If I wasn’t as fat as them, see, I had thin privilege. Which in my head became not just a way I might not get weird comments, but something I had to actively battle to be a good leftist.

But there’s an easy way to just get rid of thin privilege: get fat.

Was I just too scared to take the plunge?

This whole thing became a shame cycle for me. Even when I first started practicing portion control and feeling better and more active, I got people asking me was I SHEEEEEEUUUUURE I wasn’t developing an ED?

So when I see the idea that being leery of fat liberation is a worldview, or a defense mechanism against a new worldview, I feel uneasy.

Again, where do the people like me fit in? Who ate more even when we felt weird about it because we didn’t want to flaunt our “thin privilege,” experienced pain and loss of mobility, and felt better when we tried intentional weight loss?

It’s not that I can’t IMAGINE being fat and pain free. It’s that imagining it didn’t stop my chronic pain from worsening or my blood pressure readings from climbing.

If you’re fine, do whatever you want with your body. But rhetoric like this makes me feel tired.

Because it’s people speculating in condescending fascination about my motivational structure and worldview when “fuck chronic pain” is pretty simple to comprehend.

Really hating how I have to check pretty much everyone I want to follow because they’re probably doing this.

Nah, I tried things your way and had trouble doing stuff I enjoyed. That sucked. So I started listening to the people I was ignoring because y’all called em fatphobes,

And then I could do more stuff again.

Ah yeah, if they’re complaining about people telling them what to do that’s different. I’ve just been seeing a lot of “people who don’t want to be fat are brainwashed” and “being fat is nowhere near as bad as people think it is” stuff that seems to attribute people wanting to lose weight to societal brainwashing.

This annoys me because in a previous stage in my life, I wanted so badly to be a good leftist that I ignored my doctor’s advice, writing her off as a fatphobe. As soon as I went, “maybe I DO have high blood pressure. Maybe I DON’T want to go on meds for it” and tried making my portions smaller, everything improved.

So I get really twitchy when it seems like someone might be saying the only reason you choose to eat smaller portions, or eat less of a thing you like, is a “worldview.”

My “worldview,” if I have one of those, is that carrying excess weight can stress people’s joints and heart. Seems to happen pretty consistently.

BUT everyone’s “excess” is personal to them, and everyone is allowed to use their bodily autonomy as they please, even if I personally think that looks like it’s probably gonna start hurting soon, if it hasn’t already. (Knees are a bitch. Pretty much every visibly fat person I know well enough they’d mention their knees to me has knees that want a break.)

So like I said, I wrote off every high blood pressure reading as “white coat syndrome,”even when my doctors started saying it wasn’t that and they were getting concerned. My pain? Weather. Or injuries I couldn’t remember getting.

See, I had a new worldview, which made them “fatphobes,” which meant they weren’t seeing a pattern. If they were, they were “attributing everything to weight” when they should’ve been looking for other causes. (Which ones? I had no idea. No clue even what to suggest.)

When my A1C started going up, I wasn’t sure I could write things off any more. I decided to try intentional weight loss, feeling like a bad person who’d put my own “desire for thinness”over other people’s “liberation.” If I wasn’t as fat as them, see, I had thin privilege. Which in my head became not just a way I might not get weird comments, but something I had to actively battle to be a good leftist.

But there’s an easy way to just get rid of thin privilege: get fat.

Was I just too scared to take the plunge?

This whole thing became a shame cycle for me. Even when I first started practicing portion control and feeling better and more active, I got people asking me was I SHEEEEEEUUUUURE I wasn’t developing an ED?

So when I see the idea that being leery of fat liberation is a worldview, or a defense mechanism against a new worldview, I feel uneasy.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

He committed a bunch of crimes with computers as part of a computer crime gang. Some of those crimes included hacking companies that you hate to hold their data for ransom for millions of dollars. He also just stole funds from people and stole personal information. The millions of dollars of losses quoted were not lost GTA sales, but the damage done to the systems he hacked.

He absolutely would not stop committing computer crimes even when in police custody and said he had no desire to stop. He was, however, found unfit to stand trial due to his severe autism. He was not put in a psychiatric hospital for the crime of being autistic, he was put there until he no longer posed a danger to others, what with his constant uncontrollable bursts of violence and his stated desire to return to crime as soon as possible.

On May 5 2026 an 18 year old Maui resident named Kaylee Schnitzer filmed a tourist picking up a coconut sized rock and hurling it directly at the head of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal named Lani on Front Street in Lahaina. Lani has been a fixture on that beach for over 20 years.

When bystanders confronted the man he said "I don't care. I'm rich. Fine me with whatever you want."

The video went viral within hours. The internet identified him before the day was out. His logistics company pulled down all its social media as his personal information spread across every platform.

Then a second video emerged showing what appeared to be the man getting beaten by locals. Maui police had no record of any assault report. The mayor effectively endorsed it, saying he wanted to thank everyone who stepped in.

A Hawaii state senator named Brenton Awa then walked to the floor of the state capitol, smirked and announced that the local who delivered the beating would receive an official letter of recommendation. His attorney stood beside him and said they did not condone violence. Awa then called on all airlines flying into Hawaii to play footage of the beating as a warning to tourists before landing. That video has 1.5 million likes.

Federal Senator Brian Schatz wrote a formal letter to NOAA demanding stronger enforcement and education for visitors.

The man faces fines of up to $50,000 and criminal charges carrying up to five years in prison under state law. He has not been charged yet.

There are no people as foolish as you types pretend your ideological opponents are.

Bogleech? THE Bogleech?

I’m not sure whether to feel flattered that I’ve made it on the Tumb, or to brace myself for waves of hate.

Here’s the thing: If you still want people to be detained, you want to put them somewhere. That place is called a prison.

If you think the term prison only refers to SOME places people are detained, then you need to explain which detainment centers are “prisons” and therefore need to be shut down, and which detainment centers are not prisons and will therefore remain open.

If you read as many posts as you say you did, you’ve seen that I’ve repeatedly asked for a definition of “prison” that makes clear that, if all of them are shut down tomorrow, we’ll still have a place to put the ice pigs who kill once we finally topple these fash somehow.

I wish it was, honestly.

Pretty much every time someone who isn’t sure prison abolition will work as a practical matter says, “well but you’re for locking up that ice agent who shot a three year old’s dad fucking dead right in front of her, yeah?”

Someone says, “absolutely, yes I am. My objection to prison isn’t the locking people up part, it’s the history of racism. Feel free to lock up the WHITE malefactors.”

And someone else says, “duuuuuuuhhhhhhh of COURSE I’m for rehabilitation over institutionalization, you IDIOT. What do you think the word abolition means?”

That’s precisely why I say “I believe that prison is a type of institutionalization. Specifically, the type that says ‘what you did is either so dangerous or so egregious that in doing it, you tacitly forfeited your freedom.’ There are several other types that don’t relate to past actions, but to assumed risk, such as ‘you need a particular level of care, therefore we must place you in a nursing home.’ I do not think that we will ever be able to reduce this form of institutionalization to zero, though I think a virtuous society strives to get close. Therefore I think the ideal number of prisons is nonzero. If you think something else, please make clear what that is.”

Because you never know who is which one, and many get mightily angry, like Bogleech here, if you guess they’re the other one.

I guess there could be two communities that never overlap, but my own experience in leftist groups says that they probably are in the same groups for reasons of solidarity, and just try not to talk about anything other than what they agree on.