! I WILL BE GOING BACK ON T TOMORROW !

! HAPPY FUCKING PRIDE !

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

I need help to get my tooth fixed or pulled!

They cost basically the exact same once I factor in the antibiotics I'd get prescribed after getting it pulled, and that price is NOT something I can afford right now.

Long story short I have a broken tooth with an exposed nerve that hurts enough to be waking me up/stopping me from sleeping and eating off and on. Getting this dealt with is going to cost nearly 700 CAD in total. I have less than 100 in my bank and bills to pay still.

Please help if you can! Anything helps, including reblogs.

I've got a link to my Pay-pal here, and also have commissions open if people can afford or are interested in that. Please, please consider helping I'm seriously scared that this is going to become a much worse issue if I can't get it sorted out soon.

I don't have any coverage for things right now at all, not dental or medication, and if I'm right about this being infected I'm going to have to spend money on antibiotics anyways which is going to break my bank even without actually getting it fixed.

Long story short the pain is bad enough to be causing psychosis, which isnt surprising to necessarily, but does mean that I had to book for the soonest possible appointment I could get, which is tomorrow, june 12th, at 8 in the morning.

As it stands this will be probably maxing out my credit card and completely draining my bank account. PLEASE reblog if you can't afford to help, and know that even 5 dollars does help IMMENSELY in this.

I do also have a kofi if people find that easier to use.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.