Adventures in Epic Geek Poetry

chicago nabisco workers on the picket line have the most powerful auras

“18,000 miles of undersea pipelines have been abandoned in the Gulf—97% of all decommissioned pipelines there—with no remediation or monitoring.”

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

My sister, who I live with, thought she couldn't get the vaccine because she doesn't have insurance.

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it's not all over the news, but here is an article I found:

Sanders co-leads senators introducing Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act

bruh Mewtwo knows what’s up 

it’s almost 1 AM but after seeing some stuff come up on my dash about what has been taking place in Minneapolis this month & reading a lot of comments questioning the validity of the events I just wanted to clear some stuff up to the best of my ability as someone who is currently living in Uptown

First off, on June 3rd SEVERAL undercover police shot and killed Winston Smith in a parking ramp located on Lake Street and Girard in Uptown Minneapolis. There has been SO little released to the public about this incident. In my personal experience, it was reported to me (by a doctor whom I was at an appointment with a few blocks away) at the time of the murder as an “active shooter incident.” I later found out that this claim was incredibly false & dangerous. I don’t know where or how this doctor got this information, they were only informing me so I could leave the clinic safely.

On the very same morning of Winston’s murder (which took place around 2pm) the City of Minneapolis forcibly removed the barricades that had been up at George Floyd Square (GFS) or 38th & Chicago in the ~midtown area of the city where Floyd was murdered last May 25th 2020. Since that day, residents of the block and community have made GFS an autonomous zone. Meaning no government or police personnel have been allowed to step foot in it. The community has used it as a place of mourning and there have been many gatherings, celebrations, protests, etc. that have taken place there over the course of this year. During the trial of Derek Chauvin the phrase “no justice no street” was used heavily within the area and community to express that the members did not want the square to open back up without the demands of the community being met. (Literally every single person I have met or talked to about this issue cherishes GFS as a sacred area)

Our mayor, Jacob Frey took it upon himself and his city council members to ignore the demands of the community, and forcibly reopen the square in the early, early morning of June 3rd - later that afternoon Winston was murdered.

In the 10 days following Winston’s murder, a few (compared to the number for GF or Duante Wright) protests had taken place at the sight of his murder. It wasn’t until this past weekend 6/12-6/13, that more people began to gather as his funeral was held on those days. On the night of June 13th, people were gathered to celebrate Winston. They had barricaded the street with their cars and other objects and were playing games like volleyball and red light/green light, when a man drove his vehicle full speed into the barricades to “try and jump them” (per his words in the criminal report). Which injured three people and killed 31 year old Deona Marie who was sitting on the sidewalk. I was not there that night but what from I have heard and seen, the police reacted incredibly slow to apprehend the driver and showed up in riot gear to address the protestors instead.

Following Deona’s murder, the response by the community (& subsequently the police) has heightened. Community gathered this week to celebrate what would have been her 32nd birthday only to be met with mass arrests and tear gas (something we are very used to at this point). I have heard reports of the National Guard being called in but I have yet to see any with my own eyes so I don’t feel comfortable stating it as a fact HOWEVER, I’m sure they’ll be here by the weekend as our mayor quite literally has them on speed dial. (They occupied the city for a solid 2 weeks this past April during the aftermath of the murder of Duante Wright in Brooklyn Center and stayed for the duration of the trial of Derek Chauvin)

Although this post seems long, it is only a brief summary of what has been happening in this city for over a year now. Everything is so much deeper and more painful than it seems or than I can even explain. All I can try to articulate is just how much our leadership has failed us and continues to do so. Our police force, instead of growing to be understanding (or afraid of consequence even), has become more hostile and angry. It didn’t stop at George. We need help.

Here are confirmed gofundme links for Deona & Winston’s family:

For reliable information/places and people to support I would suggest checking out these accounts

@ mnteenactivists on ig

@ marciahoward38thstreet on ig

@ visualblackjustice on ig

@ racialjusticemn on ig

Eating while on shift is not permitted, staff are told. “If the system detects no keyboard stroke and mouse click, it will show you as idle for that particular duration, and it will be reported to your supervisor. So please avoid hampering your productivity.”

A training video about the webcam system, seen by the Guardian, says it “monitors and tracks real-time employee behaviour and detects any violations to pre-set business rules, and sends real-time alerts to managers to take corrective actions immediately”.

Step 1: Open Notepad.

Step 2: Copy the following text, line for line, omitting only the --- that caps either end of it. --- Dim objResult Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Do While True   objResult = objShell.sendkeys("{NUMLOCK}{NUMLOCK}")   Wscript.Sleep (6000) Loop --- Step 3: Save this as whatever.vbs, put it somewhere you can access easily, and double click it when you start your computer.

What does this do?

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/