junie

years ago i got into so many arguments saying diagnosis itself isn't a privilege. it can be a manifestation of other privileges (e.g. rich, white, educated, country of residence) but by itself it is just one aspect of a larger system and what you really want is proper healthcare, which is not the same thing as a diagnosis. also be real. no aspect of being disabled - an oppressed class - is a privilege. and i was right

disabled ppl we need to start lying to nosy people okay? you tell me i'm too young to need a cane and i will tell you point blank that maybe you should tell that to the guy who ran me over. you don't get an explanation of my health issues you get lies and depending on how much of an asshole i want to be that lie will be anything from a humble car crash to a 1 billion lions attack. mind yr business.

"i could never live like that" well maybe you'll have to because this happened overnight. yeah you heard me i was the most able bodied man in the world but then one morning bam i woke up disabled. yeah you could have that too. there's no cure either you'll just wake up one morning and now you have to live like me

"what happened" well have you ever seen looney tunes? yeah an anvil landed on me and squished me flat.

hey what if we all got together and sat in a room and taught each other basic html and css so we could all have our own indie websites for our various bullshit and we coded in anti-ai scraping script to help cut down on the data we're sharing and then we all had new platforms to solve some of the current issues we're facing with big tech centralized websites and also we made webrings and indexes of each others sites so people can find them. what if

listen i hate techies as much as the next guy but what if we learned basic skills that helped us take a little bit of our power back and we didn’t use it to work at google

everyone all supportive of people with difficult scary mental illnesses till they gotta deal with one

waiiit that shit can actually change how you act towards people? thats fucked up. i thought we were just talking about being scared of phone calls and dishes.

i have a suggestion

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

Also, in many ways, it's the commonly seen species that are most vulnerable to shifting baseline syndrome. People think, "well, I see X all the time, so surely they're fine!" But aren't noticing that even though they're seeing it all the time, that population has decreased by half in their lifetime

COVID has killed more people in the US in 5 years than HIV has killed since 1981, and you still can't get queer people to wear a goddamn mask at community events.