Radio OverCoat

going into a bougie supermarket makes me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik standing in the russian palace

you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

i really hate the hurf durf positivity memes that are like *~you are not a burden~* 😌☺️🙏 bitch yes i am. taking care of sick people is hard. putting up with and organizing your life and tasks around people who take ten times as long and one hundred times as much energy to do simple tasks is HARD. never being on time, abandoning plans, leaving early, not eating normal food, these are all things that make everyone else's life harder. I'm a burden! the point is that humans carry their burdens and always have and the way the species is designed makes this not just ethical but beneficial materially to everyone. saying disabled people "aren't a burden" is just erasing all the work caretakers do to keep us alive. the point is that everyone is entitled to be a burden, and even if you are never sick a day in your life you will still spend years at either end of your brief stint on earth being bothersome to someone else. that's normal

As the late great anthropologist Margaret Mead pointed out, the first sign of civilization isn't the use of tools or temples or whatever, but a 15k years old skeleton showing signs of having broken a femur and having survived until it healed, an injury that for most other pack animals means being abandoned to die. What makes a community and a society is our willingness to and enthusiasm for carrying each other's burdens.