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ew72 • 19 hr. ago

I'm a type 1 diabetic. I require insulin to live, multiple times a day.

When I was in middle school, many years ago, we didn't have insulin pumps and had to use syringes and vials like everyone else.

The school refused to let me carry it with me, meaning I had to go to the nurses office several times a day to inject. It's not just before lunch but could be any number of times depending on the current blood sugar levels.

The district then cut nurse staff to just spending half a day at two schools, and the nurse left before I had lunch.

I asked the office staff to unlock the office so I could take my insulin and eat lunch. They refused.

By middle school, I'd been dealing with t1 for about 5 years, and didn't take shit on the topic. I went to the school lobby, picked up the payphone (I just dated myself) and called 911, telling them, "Hi, I'm at (school), am type 1 diabetic and the office won't unlock a door and let me take insulin."

They sent a fire truck, and a bunch of firemen met me outside and walked me to the office and asked, while ignoring the staff, which room was the nurses office. I pointed to the door and he was like, "Okay boys, chop it down, this kid need his insulin!"

Suddenly, the office secretary could unlock the door and I didn't need to put it in the nurses office everyday anymore.

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I love this story for everything within it.

One of my absolutely favorite things in the real world is to watch / participate in one portion of the government tearing into another portion of the government.

I bring this up because one of the things I find missing

a lot

in the arguments of "we should tear down the ssytem"

is

one of your most powerful allies are the parts of the system that currently align with your current goals

(before you argue with me, please read that again, carefully)

If you want to get intensely nerdy with the law (it's fun) (to me) (not so much to the people I bother with my findings) look at

It's. Fantastic. And happens all the time.

Oh yes.

I love it.

Using every resource available.

Including the system itself :)

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

Salute to our troops (70s careerwomen who put their hard-earned dollars into homemade gay erotica)

It was women with secretarial jobs doing a lot of the heavy lifting, if memory serves correctly.

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

Boss make a dollar, she makes a dime. That's why she's printing Kirk X Spock zines on company time.

NICOLA COUGHLAN AS CLARE DEVLIN IN DERRY GIRLS

as the tweet pointed out, eurovision season is next week, so PLEASE, boycott! boycott the contest, the participating artists, and the broadcasters who are showing it!

until Armenia and Palestine are free & israel and azerbaijan are banned, there CANNOT be a good reason to engage with eurovision. tweet the social media teams, email the broadcasting corporations, make it KNOWN that you are not going to allow them to continue to platform both azerbaijan and israel. send complaints to ofcom, but give the actual contest & music NOTHING - don't hate watch/listen. don't stream the songs. don't even PIRATE it. give them NOTHING, but take EVERY OPPORTUNITY to address the fact that they're allowing genocidal fascists to participate.

BOYCOTT EUROVISION! and boycott the LOT of it!

                                              You remind me of the babe                                                      What babe?                                               The babe with the power                                                     What power?                                               The power of voodoo                                                     Who do?                                               You do                                                     Do what?                                               Remind me of the babe

On my recent cabbage merchant art someone commented on this man’s sheer resilience and how he was the Sisyphus of ATLA and that inspired me.

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hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

can you please make one for Ireland

yeah okay

is she. u know

thrilling four year follow up to this post:

Obviously this is an adorable bit but I'm so struck by how different this is from so many little kid shows today like.......the muted colors. no background noise. no sound effects. you can literally hear Jim Henson breathing between his lines. Ernie is talking very slowly, meandering, letting the kids digest the info. it's a full minute before you get the payoff of it all. man

I'm in love with the stupid baby puppet I want to see her grow up strong and healthy

yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

Muppet Fact #840

The One-Eyed Jack puppet actually has no eyes.

Sources:

The Muppet Christmas Carol. December 11, 1992.

Muppet Treasure Island. February 16, 1996.

Muppets Most Wanted. March 21, 2014.

p.5 of my silly ofmd fanart 🦄🏴‍☠️🐙

Because being a Derry Girl, well, it's a fucking state of mind.

why don't you do arts and crafts for 5 hours and then you'll calm down

me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!

me the entire weekend: