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Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies

Not to be confused with Plural Space, which is a different project.

A system app created by Drex!

PluralSpace has customizable member profiles, with front tracking and custom statuses. Alongside the ability to register a profile as a fronting status, create relationships between members, and view them on a relationship map!

The app also features journal entries, poll creation, an inner system chat, and in-depth analytics on your system, from fronting frequency to journal entries and poll responses!

i've been reading the ugly laws by susan schweik, which is a free ebook in multiple places, and i really recommend it. it talks about the ableist, classist, and racist foundations of the ugly laws, and how they were used to enact ableism, classism, racism, and misogyny, and reinforce white supremacist beauty, gender, social, and moral standards. they stood alongside laws against crossdressing, for instance

but the ugly laws were actually more complicated than "they would arrest people for being visibly disabled". they were an excuse to remove homeless people from the streets, especially homeless people who either were visibly disabled/visibly different or who "claimed to be", and i put "claimed to be" in quotation marks because the people who wanted them off the streets more often didn't believe they were really disabled, however, some homeless people really did fake disability for money, and those people still didn't deserve to be arrested or demonized for it. other ways they justified pulling homeless people from the streets, besides sowing doubt and suspicion, were that they would argue that they were doing it for their own good, "taking care of them", or later that they were doing it for the good of the middle class, abled public; "they're all deceitful, violent criminals with bad intentions"

so while visibly disabled and visibly different people who weren't homeless and couldn't hide their disability would be subjected to them too, visibly disabled/visibly different homeless people were the primary target. they didn't expand to visibly disabled and visibly different people at large until later, and specifically in the context of freak shows. they didn't want people being exposed to disability in what was, for that time, a more positive light. you, as an abled person, could show people that their children would be born disabled if they didn't brush their teeth, or display a disabled, visibly different child as an interesting medical subject, but you couldn't, as a disabled person, display yourself and then solicit money for it either

also, most importantly in my opinion, ugly ordinances were spearheaded and pushed by one christian organization who were viciously against people giving financial aid to the homeless, and saw disabled and homeless people as gene pool pollution. they were white supremacist eugenics enthusiasts who encouraged states to pick up ugly ordinances, and even sent them after specific homeless people. there was even an ugly law that targeted just one man, a homeless, visibly disabled black man named william jasper franklin