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"terminally ill people should be allowed to choose to die if they feel it is the best decision for them" and "euthanasia can easily become eugenics" and "we should provide support for depressed and suicidal people" are statements that can come into conflict but should all be respected
also “offering euthanasia to people who can’t afford actual treatment is murder”
How do I say this as inoffensively as possible..?
It is absolutely true Kendrick should not have used a slur for indigenous ppl on his record. Honestly we need to get better at recognizing that word and others as slurs.
At the same time, it’s never not given me a pause it seems like the only time these types of things come up, it’s like hours after black folks get excited for a musical project. Lizzo (before we knew she was weird), Megan, Beyoncé.. hell even as a black trans person Kendrick the last time was odd. The only time I’ve ever seen it handled well is like with Glo I think that’s because it was black disabled ppl calling it outs
Idk, I’m not against ppl calling this shit out but the way non black ppl do it never sits right with me.
I can’t say this on my other social media so I’ll say it here:
I am “retiring” my mentors name and number this month and giving her a special helmet to go with it…hand painted as I do with my own. I’ve cried multiple times over it so i thought I got over it.
..But,
I was putting the finishing touches on it which included her active years skating (2014-2024) and I just.. started bawling.
It is so SO fucking unfair how many Black skaters are pushed out this sport before their time by jealous white skaters. It HURTS to be privileged enough to “retire” a skater’s name and number who had so much left to give to this sport and these players.. and know they probably will never get to because of racism. And it hurts knowing the skater who did it will get to retire properly, when she’s ready, after tormenting me and my mentor and others because our former team doesn’t give a shit about how black skaters are treated.
Each step getting ready for this game, knowing she is here but that she should be playing with me wreaks me. Especially watching champs and seeing the same thing happen on the global level in micro aggressive ways.
Black skaters deserve so much more and I hate the only way we often get it is through each other.
And the worst part is… it is damn good helmet.
And it will only be ever worn once.
I can’t say this on my other social media so I’ll say it here:
I am “retiring” my mentors name and number this month and giving her a special helmet to go with it…hand painted as I do with my own. I’ve cried multiple times over it so i thought I got over it.
..But,
I was putting the finishing touches on it which included her active years skating (2014-2024) and I just.. started bawling.
It is so SO fucking unfair how many Black skaters are pushed out this sport before their time by jealous white skaters. It HURTS to be privileged enough to “retire” a skater’s name and number who had so much left to give to this sport and these players.. and know they probably will never get to because of racism. And it hurts knowing the skater who did it will get to retire properly, when she’s ready, after tormenting me and my mentor and others because our former team doesn’t give a shit about how black skaters are treated.
Each step getting ready for this game, knowing she is here but that she should be playing with me wreaks me. Especially watching champs and seeing the same thing happen on the global level in micro aggressive ways.
Black skaters deserve so much more and I hate the only way we often get it is through each other.
I hate speaking about bisexual issues cause even people who are “friends” will eventually get tired of you being loud about it.
Like why is it you know I research bi history, and then when I talk about how it’s gross ppl always want bisexuals to preform queerness for them to be seen as queer you are telling me “not everyone is trying to force you to be gay or straight. Most bisexuals are even out so” As if that’s not one of the studies I had previously talked about and how it is known that often bisexuals are rejected in queer spaces even in the context of abuse?
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The transmasc experience is growing up as a little girl, constantly being told to sit down and shut up, that we're just overly dramatic and hysterical. Then when we transition we get told to sit down and shut up, that we're overly dramatic and hysterical, and not actually oppressed and in fact are privileged! Nothing has fucking changed, in fact it's even worse now than it's ever been!
Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.
LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.
Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.
Sources:
can we talk about how this is even more annoying when websites start forcing AI on us even though we didn't FUCKING ASK (@ meta)
like, you stole my art. you stole my writing. and now you're making me fuck up the environment even though i DIDN'T FUCKING ASK
Made the mistake of bringing up that needing glasses is a disability on tiktok and people got real mad.
“You can fix it with glasses” yeah, cuz they’re a disability aid? But like, I still have to pay 160 bucks to use my own fucking eyes?
Like, by definition, if your eyes do not work without aid, you have a disability to see.
Having a disability doesn’t automatically put you in what people consider the “disabled” category, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is in fact, a disability.
Thank you to the person who brought this post back into my notifs because I just recently got a new pair of glasses!
And it only cost me $305!! What a steal!! A perfectly acceptable price to pay to be able to properly function in society! (Internal screaming)
Please always remember that glasses are a disability aid. Some of us literally cannot function without them.
A tip to those with glasses - 39DollarGlasses is a really useful site for ordering new ones if you already know your prescription! Every pair they sell is $39 USD, which is LEAGUES cheaper than the glasses I've had to buy from eye doctors, plus they've got more styles than most clinics too!
I don't know if this will help everyone who needs a new pair, but it was a lifesaver when a friend recommended it to me. Check it out if you can!
The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.
With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.
"If the Israeli assault stopped today, and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months, it would take us 100 years to honor them all."
The Palestinian speaker at the UN Security Council highlights the devastating toll of casualties among Palestinians resulting from the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
stop. stop. it is not just the women and children of gaza. it is not just the mothers. it is also the men. the fathers, the uncles, the vendor, the neighbor, the barber. stop dehumanising them. they are also being killed. they are also being bombed. they are also losing loved ones. palestinians are also losing their fathers and brothers. stop it. stop erasing the pain and suffering of palestinian men. they deserve our love, care and voice just as much as the women and children do.
I noticed today that the deadname of a client was clearly visible in their client file because it was their legal name, and flagged it for IT. I specifically flagged it as "Hey, if someone sees this and calls our client the wrong name, we'll lose them as a client." IT emailed me back immediately, and it's now invisible except on their contract with us, which the majority of us don't have direct access to, as opposed to their client file.
The reason I flagged it framing it as a loss is that what matters to most companies is money. If you can flag a bigoted practice as something that will lose customers, clients, or get them a lawsuit, that is significantly more likely to get taken care of quickly than trying to appeal to their better nature. I could have flagged it as "Hey, this is going to make our client really upset if they hear it.", which was my actual motivation for flagging it, but if I had, then it probably would have been taken care of in a few days or even weeks, not hours.
Always hit them with the profit argument for quick and decisive action.
