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#disability #SSI #SSDI #benefits #society #poverty #stability #economicstability #career
#disability #SSI #SSDI #benefits #society #poverty #stability #economicstability #career Tweet from: @sarahdayarts "we don't talk enough about how government disability benefits keep disabled people in a state of chronic poverty & make it impossible for them to achieve a state of BOTH stability and career advancement." 4:38 p.m. • 25 Feb. 21 • Twitter for iPhone
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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#GOP #Women #ReproductiveRights #ThisIsAmerica #Abortion #AbortionCare #BodilyAutonomy #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
via @ejdickson.bsky.social #GOP #Women #ReproductiveRights #ThisIsAmerica #Abortion #AbortionCare #BodilyAutonomy #WomensRightsAreHumanRights Ej Dickson • Bejdickson GOP: abortion is bad WOMEN: ok we'll use birth control GOP: thats bad too WOMEN: .. GOP: I mean if yall could just like die that'd be ideal 9:57 AM - 6 Oct 2017 26,389 Retweets 73,922 Likes StephEVZ43 replying to @ejdickson I keep posting this, but it's from the 1917 trial of Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist. Still accurate 100 years later. In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conceptice: If a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex." The book is "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" if anyone is interested.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#Neurodivergent #Neurodiverse #MentalHealth #Humor #Haiku
via Atypical Erin @atypical.erin #Neurodivergent #Neurodiverse #MentalHealth #Humor #Haiku Neurodivergence: A Haiku my skin feels so weird please don't be mad at me i cant find my keys
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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An excerpt from 'The Politics of Reality' (1983) by Marilyn Frye
#feminism #MarilynFrye #Politics #Human
An excerpt from Marilyn Frye's book, 'The Politics of Reality.' (1983) "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving." - Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory #feminism #MarilynFrye #Politics #Human
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I think about this quote a lot.
Owl! at the Library @SketchesbyBoze : "No one wants to hear about your special interest—" I do. Tell me all about how the Appalachians are older than Saturn's Rings or how the invention of the compass led to the atomic bomb. Life is so brief and the world is so big and we have to learn from each other. 8:34 PM • 03 Oct 22 • Twitter Web App
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This might be an #UrsulaKLeGuin stan account from now on

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#NationalBookAwards #TruthToPower #SpeakingTruthToPower #Confrontation #Capitalism #PeopleOverProfit #Libraries #Resistance
This might be an #UrsulaKLeGuin stan account from now on #NationalBookAwards #TruthToPower #SpeakingTruthToPower #Confrontation #Capitalism #PeopleOverProfit #Libraries #Resistance aspiringwarriorlibrarian ® Follow Aug 22, 2019 I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going aroun but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement awar from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck ir front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it's t to make a standard "thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah" speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives d in the eye, and says "Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship." She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity producer only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries their products and censor writers in favor of something "more profitable". She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazor employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: "We live in capitalis Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the of words." Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the mos powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly "Your empire will fall. And I will help it along."
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of Al #AI #ArtificialIntelligence -artificial intelligence-in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not Al was going to evolve out of control and "kill us all." I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don't think anxiety about Al is really about Al at all. I think it's certain white men's displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they're unprepared for. There's a reason that Al is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There's a reason they're almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I'm not worried about how we're going to treat Al some distant day, I'm worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that's depicted in Al movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This this this

#socialism #polyamory #veganism #RadicalKindness #disability #advocacy
Via Caitlin Johnstone, @caitoz this this this #socialism #polyamory #veganism #RadicalKindness #disability #advocacy So many of the hot topics today, from socialism to cryptocurrencies to gender identity to polyamory, could simply be described as humanity waking up to the reality that all our rules were written by dead people long before we all got here, and that we are free to re-write them. 6:22 AM • 26 Jul 18
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#alt #neurodivergent #audhd #autism #add #neurodivergency #ocd #dyslexia #dyscaculia #personalitydisorders #schizospecdisorders
via @kamlo on Tumblr #alt #neurodivergent #audhd #autism #add #neurodivergency #ocd #dyslexia #dyscaculia #personalitydisorders #schizospecdisorders kamlo ... please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd kamlo i dont know how to articulate this well but some of you act like neurodiversity starts with adhd and ends with autism. you talk about "the neurodivergent experience" and everytime you mean "the overlapping experience of adhd and autism." please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity. please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean "autism and adhd." this post is okay to reblog but do not clown on it
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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@ninagrewal97 on Twitter
nina @ninagrewal97 I'd still love my partner if they were a worm. l'd get the best terrarium and fill it with plants and enrichment toys. I'd tape mini photos of art pieces on the outside for cultural stimulation and make sure they had a view of my tv to watch shows 11:38 AM • 06 Sep 22 • Twitter for iPhone
September 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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thank you @glorious-spoon.bsky.social
from glorious-spoon on Tumblr: the weirdest thing about a lot of the common criticisms of millennials i see is that they all seem to boil down to: you are soft. you belleve the world should be kind. you expect people to treat you fairly, you think your needs are important, that you deserve to be listened to, that you shouldn't be hungry and frightened and in pain. and people are seriously SO OFFENDED by this. like, how dare you. how dare you believe the world might be a good place, how dare you believe you should be treated well just for existing. life is pain, princess, anyone who tells you different is selling something, now wipe that smile off your face, shut your mouth and go suffer like i did. and it's just like... I have a kid. If she grows up expecting better treatment than i experienced as a young woman, I'm doing my job. i know the world isn't perfect, but random crueity isn't something we should just shrug our shoulders and accept, and it's so fucking weird how angry people get at youngsters who refuse to do just that.
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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@HappySonship writes:
Carlos A. Rodrígue @HappySonship writes: You cannot love your neighbor while supporting or accepting systems that crush, exploit, and dehumanize them. You cannot love your neighbor while accepting less for them and their family than you do for you and your own.
August 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This has made it through three phones. Y'all tried it.
June 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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People can sing to Jesus, praise/shout/whatever gets you off, but according to your own holy book that's not what he came for. He'd be called a woke, beta, simp. He didn't call for praise, actually quite the opposite. He called for revolution.

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Original Image and text by Carlos A. Rodríguez, @CarlosHappyNPO Jesus wasn't nice. Yes, he was loving and inclusive-but in the way that gets your rejected by the religious. Yes, he was generous and truthful-but in the way that gets you persecuted by the powerful. Niceness was not his mission. Destroying oppressive systems was. Our turn. ‪@hollowgraphic.bsky.social adds: What digs at me is that y'all people can sing to Jesus, praise/shout/whatever gets you off, but according to your own holy book that's not what he came for. He'd be called a woke, beta, simp, whatever language insecure people use to devalue others. He didn't call for praise, actually quite the opposite. He called for revolution.
August 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Hmmm...
Image and text, via St. Simeon the Happy Easter Fool @SimeonTheFool posits: EVANGELICALS: "Our nation needs to be governed by Judeo-Christian biblical principles!" CANDIDATE: "Ok, here's a policy to enact a Year of Jubilee where all debts will be graciously forgiven by unmerited favor for—" EVANGELICALS: "You godless socialist!"
August 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I could give a FLYING FVCK about the opinions of men specifically on my outward appearance. I dress to impress women and terrify men. For your viewing pleasure, a curated selection of my eyebrows in groups of four. #selfies #strongbrow #whybrows #nofilters #still a better love story than Twilight
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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This is why groceries and food are political.
By Tumblr user Laeffy Every time I get groceries I'm always appalled at how little you can get for like, $20. I was making banana pudding so I needed vanilla wafers but the brand name nilla wafers cost $4 a box. The minimum wage in my state is $7.25/hr. My friend put it really well when he said "imagine you work for an hour and someone hands you two boxes of nilla wafers and said 'actually this is a bit more than what I owe you'" How are some of y'all missing the point so bad. "Shop at aldi instead" "make your own food" "don't buy brand name" "don't buy unhealthy processed food" It's not about the box of cookies. This is about how minimum wage pays peanuts and has stagnated for 12 years while the cost of living keeps growing. No one wants your financial advice about how to survive on beans and rice and frozen veggies. The smartest grocery list in the world is not gonna help you budget your way out of poverty. Please get a grip for the love of god
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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You called? #TraditionalBrat #Brat #Buns #ALDI
July 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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#ADHD #Gothic #HotTakes #Dramatic read by @hollowgraphic.bsky.social

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July 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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via @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social on the former bird app, on 10 March, 2022
via Owl! at the Library, @SketchesbyBoze (Twitter) on 10 March, 2022: Stop shaming people for reading kids books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids' books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who's winning
July 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Apparently I generate soot sprites 😂 #SpiritedAway #SootSprites #Salon #LGBTOwnedAndOperated
Above a photograph of a salon's floor covered with many small curls, below is written: Soot sprites, also known as "Susuwatari" or "dust bunnies," are small, black, fuzzy creatures that originated in the Studio Ghibli films "My Neigh- bor Totoro" and "Spirited Away". They are characterized by their spherical bodies, white eyes, and tendency to move by bouncing or extending stick-like limbs.
July 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Ursula LeGuin is a time management icon. How could this go wrong?

And definfitely don't make any judgments of your life/past after 9pm. #UrsulaLeGuin #Writing #Author #Classic #EarthSea #Schedule #Procrastination #EatBreakfastLosts
via Dr. @sabinastent.bsky.social Ursula LeGuin is a time management icon. How could this go wrong? And definitely don't make any judgments of your life or past after 9pm. #UrsulaLeGuin #Writing #Author #Classic #EarthSea #Schedule #Procrastination #EatBreakfastLots
June 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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#adhd #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #trauma #infodump
What people think adhd/add/autism is like: lol im so random XD look a squirrel! I am soft and docile What its actually like: • "Im bored, lets rip my fingers off" • **happy rocking** • I NEED TO STEP ON THIS LEAF OR I WILL DIE • "Have you heard of (niche special interest)? Well- **infodumps**» • "Why are you rocking? " "why arent you?" • Tired • Hoo golly here comes the Depression™ • "Could you repeat that please?"/"what"/"huh" • HhhoooHHH CRUNCHY • Those weird ass invasive thoughts that make u go:/ at ur brain • Not being able to eat • "Why am i thirsty? I had a full one drop of water three weeks ago" Source: ego-ann-16
June 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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via Tumblr user (deactivated) sweetschizo. I read this aloud to an audience of 50 or so people at a poetry event who probably consider themselves allies of the mentally ill but still use "mentally ill" as a catchphrase for things that are not the purview of mental illness. I will challenge that.
Tumblr post from user: sweetschizo "Are you saying that murderers are right in the head??" No there's definitely something wrong with someone's way of thinking if they can justify killing innocent people, but this doesn't necessarily mean that they have a mental illness. Extremist beliefs isn't a mental illness. Bigotry isn't a mental illness. Entitlement isn't a mental illness. Hate isn't a mental illness. Having a dysfunctional moral compass isn't a mental illness. We need to stop categorizing all these things as some undefinable "mental illness" and start looking at what we do as a society to develop and justify these things to a degree where people use them to justify killing.
June 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Tweet from UrsulaV, who is TKingfisher on Bluesky. She tweets: If you're ever feeling guilty about not cooking a fresh home-cooked meal, a reminder that people in cities historically either had cooks or ate at food stalls, going back to Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt, too, although since everybody ate bread, beer, and onions, less of a thing. [The rest of this is in a different font, but I think it's still her words and not an image she's quoting?] It's a weird quirk of our obsession with nuclear families that everybody is expected to have time, skill, and equipment to cook daily and that if you're a woman, particularly, you are a lesser person if you aren't casually able to cook every day with random fresh ingredients. Don't buy into that. People since forever have hired cooks, gone to inns, lived in extended families where it wasn't always your turn to cook, or ate such simplified diets that it was less of an issue. You haven't failed at a normal human task, you have been sold an unrealistic expectation and told it was a normal human task. Go get takeout. Or beer, bread, and onions. Eat cheese and some dates. Relax.
June 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM