an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems
i have some too
@gibbswolfson / gibbswolfson.tumblr.com
an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems
i have some too
July is disability awareness month but a lot of people tend to forget it :/ :/ :/
It’s all OK if you didn’t know, don’t feel bad about it, it’s a great occasion to listen to disabled people! We might not have pretty flags who will catch your attentions like during pride months, but we’re still here!
To clarify, now that I've looked it up, in the US at least July is specifically ADA Awareness Month. A great thing to do this month is look up laws surrounding pwd and our property.
Some examples:
It's also a good time to look at laws that need to be changed or better enforced:
All these things disproportionately affect disabled people of color. Educate yourself, attend a virtual town hall meeting if you can, and bring these things up. Make things better.
Follow @anxietyproblem
Don’t appreciate being called out all the time😣🙃
They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.
It is night, and there is a soft, distant whistle calling you to open your eyes. You must have been asleep.
You're on a train, in a passenger car. It's an older style, but in good repair, all the wood and leather, brass and and paint are slick, free of splinters, well polished. The carpets -well trod as they are- are clean.
You're sitting at a table in a passenger car, where there are many booths like yours. The bench seat across from you is empty, and as you look around, you notice the rest of the car is empty as well. Your only company is the reflection that looks back at you, whenever you glance at the darkened windows. That figure is ghostly, stars speckling through the span of their forehead, and mountains, just beyond the range of your focus, makes darker waves against the sky. They pass through the figure's half formed shoulders, as the train pulls you ever onward, into some distance.
The only light inside comes from lanterns, which are in the spaces between each set of seats, after every second window. The light from the electric bulbs is warm and yellow, a soft glow that casts further distances into stark shadow. It gives the impression that anything beyond the light simply is not there at all, ghostly and half formed, like the figure that stares back from the window.
You cannot possibly be alone. You think that someone must be operating the train, but when you look behind you, toward the engine, the darkness in between the lights seems impenetrable even to thought. Nonetheless, there must be a conductor, someone who knows where you're going, and how to navigate the tracks.
You realize then that you... don't actually know where you're going. You don't remember why you're on a train at all, but there is certainly a reason. The low light and the silence make you tired, making it hard to remember. What's more, you're not certain you care. You are only curious.
There must be someone else on the train. Even if you are the only passenger, the conductor is surely with the engine, and their must be someone taking tickets. That's when you become aware that you have no ticket, and no baggage. You are dressed simply, for chilly weather, your coat plain but functional, your shoes comfortable, worn with thick socks, but you don't know where you're going, and you don't have a ticket.
There must be someone else. There must be someone other than the ghostly figure in the window, who refuses even to give you a good look at their face.
You are tired, the lighting is soft and warm, the train is old, but in good repair. It feels solid as it moves along the track, the ride smooth. You shift on the cushion of your seat, turn your back to the mute figure beyond the glass, fold your arms and close your eyes. There is nothing to worry about. You cannot possibly be alone, because the train needs a conductor, and someone must have taken tickets, because you do not have one. Your baggage must be in the luggage car.
Nothing is wrong. Things will look different in the morning. The light from outside will chase back the impenetrable, black spaces between the soft glow of lanterns, and you will see things more clearly. When the darkness of night has passed, things will seem less confusing. You just need to sleep.
You close your eyes, hug your simple coat a little closer to your chest, and shift down a little further in the seat. The table beside you helps to prop up your legs as you draw them up. It could be more comfortable, but you are tired. It is obviously late. Morning will be better. Morning will be less confusing, and there will be more to see. Nothing here really defies explanation, but it will be more explainable in the morning. You drift off slowly, repeating these things in your head, ignoring the figure in the window, and the emptiness around you.
You begin to fall asleep as the train's whistle sounds again. As the darker dark behind your eyelids closes in, you recall that train whistles blow as a warning, but as sleep over takes you, you no longer hear it.
Someone will hear it. Someone will be there. You cannot possibly be alone. Morning will be better. Morning will make more sense.
Everything is fine.
What if everyone in the US who makes under a living wage just… didn’t show up to work for 1 day.
Just 1 day.
No big march or loud protests that seem to be getting ignored lately.
Instead you stay home and don’t go to work.
Take it a step further and don’t buy anything either.
Can you imagine the chaos??
The 1% and ‘upper middle class’ wakes up for their morning Starbucks/drive through/ gas station/ breakfast run only to find the doors have not been opened yet?
People rushing from business to business, completely confused and upset because there is no one there to serve them?
PR reps for corporations panicking because they can’t just say “they didn’t show up because we refuse to pay them enough to live” that would tank the company. And what are they going to do? Fire everyone? There would be no one to replace that many people because it’s not like the upper classes would condescend to work a “low skill, entry level, job meant for teenagers”
CEOs and shareholders losing shares and billions of dollars because their greed singlehandedly ruined the company.
Capitalism depends upon your participation.
What if we chose not to?
I’m waiting.
It’s called general strike and it is an immensely powerful action
We should do it
If you need us, you can find us on the corner of Hitscan and Choke-Spam.
Okay heads up for all Americans eligible to vote:
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
Yikes
Reblog this shit right now
Here’s a Twitter thread with resources for voters in every state to check on their registration status: https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1006221580458790912
Make sure you check it periodically because the newest voter roll purges likely haven’t happened yet.
IF VOTING DIDN’T MATTER, THEY WOULDN’T BE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHT TO DO IT.
Reblog this and then reblog it again.