eating paint

Sorry I'm not low empathy autistic in the "mysterious loner boy who secretly cares about his friends and talks in a monotone voice" way and I'm actually just completely indifferent to the suffering of people I don't know personally and help strangers out of a sense of "this is the right thing to do" and not "I feel so bad for this person" or guilt.

I sit and listen to my friends even though I don't really care about hearing about their problems because I know they'll be upset if I don't, and despite the fact I honestly can't genuinely care about the issue itself, I care about the impact it's having on my friends and that's enough to make me want to help them through it.

Did you know that's actually an expression of empathy all of its own?

It will absolutely happen again I literally am not even sorry

"Because it's the right thing to do" is a fucking excellent reason to do things and the world would be a better place if more people cared about doing the right thing.

if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

The best part of this is the bride up front knowing every word and clearly having the absolute time of her fucking life.

Hello fellow disabled people of tumblr. I know that 2010s-2020s culture has turned against the notion of asking to speak to a manager. I know that “can I speak to a manager” is the mark of the beast.

And yet. If someone at the front desk is telling you they can’t unlock the elevator. If you get a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot when you have the dmv card. If the door to the big stall won’t close and you’re telling the front desk about it for the third time in as many weeks. If the bus driver won’t give you time to put on your breaks and secure your wheelchair

Ask to speak to their supervisor. Mention he ADA. Drop a reference to “my lawyer.” Make a nuisance of yourself. You have to get used to taking up more space, and that doesn’t just mean physical space. You have rights. You deserve access. You don’t have to just take it to be polite.

You’re allowed to ask to speak to the manager.

I work HR and something that I have found very effective in getting corporations to take you seriously is phrases like "my associates" "my counsel" "I've been advised" etc.

Always, always pretend like you have lawyers at the ready. They don't know who you are. They don't know if you have a rich family member. From now on, you always have legal counsel on retainer.

A "Karen" is someone weaponizing white privilege to get things they are not entitled to. You advocating for your rights as a person is not Karening. Be a fucking nuisance. You deserve to exist like anyone else.

My mother learned early that she would have to defend us. I remember when I was little, our (horrifically shitty) dentist had to drill and fill a cavity for my brother. The dentist didn't use any novacaine or numbing agent or anything. My brother was white as a sheet (he was always a brave boy) and when Mom managed to pry out of him what had happened, she went OFF on that dentist. She didn't yell and scream and cry; she was methodical, articulate, and her voice rose gradually in pitch and volume.

I was in awe.

I've seen her use this ability for good purposes: pointing out the ways that my catholic elementary school was failing to educate, complaining about the abuse, and making it very clear that she would NOT be paying tuition for me or either of my brothers.

Thing is, because she was loud about it, and called them on their bullshit, *other parents* came forward and told their stories, too. The school board fired the principal, my kindergarten and 3rd grade teachers, and the 8th grade teacher. My 1st grade teacher was gently asked to retire, which was long overdue at 76 years old.

If my mom hadn't said something, if she'd just knuckled under and discreetly removed us from the school, so many more kids would have been mistreated and abused.

I also have this power. There are two reasons why I ask to speak to a manager:

You're not "A Karen" for asking to talk to the manager.

[ID: Tweet by madoka magicock @rifflexielian: "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being"/end ID]

critics are raving about morbius!

because of hardware limitations of the 3DS, I had to splice the movie up into 10 minute chunks and download them all separately.

this is in fact the best way to watch the movie, as it means I now not only have my own little chapter select screen, but I can also pace myself while watching in case I run into any kind of beasts (rats, ghouls) while in this sewer

official 3ds post

metallic blue n3DSXL

the world is a better place with trans women in it

fine. fine. fine. here it is. DON’T watch this

Both the article and the tweet are disingenuous. Jenna Ortega never praised Hamas, but she also didn't say "Palestinians deserve to live" either.

Her exact tweet was "decolonize Palestine" which holds very different connotations. Implying that Palestine has been colonized in turn suggests that Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation state.

Are you seriously surprised that some Israelis are not happy with people telling them that their country doesn't deserve to exist?

Their country doesn’t deserve to exist, hope that helps!! ♥️

"implying that Palestine has been colonized" yeah. That's what happened.

“In turn suggests Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation-state” hey quick question how come the Palestinian population in Palestine went from 1,300,000 to 156,000 in one year?

All right, so currently, phones are down my tank's on empty, and I somehow have to manage to get my ass across the state and back tomorrow because I absolutely can't miss this laser appointment or I'll be even worse off both financially and in just general dysphoria and everything.

Fuck.

I really don't want to do this again, but I don't have other options. If you can donate and help out, I'd seriously appreciate it: http://paypal.me/tormentedartifacts

Or, even though I'm way the hells behind, if you want to grab yourself something and you're cool with the wait, there's http://tormentedartifacts.com

Either one helps, as does just sharing this around and signal boosting, but at this point I'm look at around $500 I have to get in, so I'm running at a loss for what else I can do.

Ok, 150 down, 350 to go.

anybody know what to do with it all

this always

Still Banging Out Tunes.

Happy 4/13

a wizard... !

LMFAO OKAY... I CANT DENY... even the damn blanket matches by total accident

Why? I’m from Australia so I don’t know anything about this stuff

Because there should be public transit and trains. It is a ridiculously short flight that is just polluting the world unnecessarily but a lot of people don’t have a better option. There’s so many major cities in that small area that they should have train lines between them all

okay so like, I live in Baltimore. Boston is 8 hours by car away. But! There’s a direct train that goes there so I should take it and-

the train is 8 hours. Okay no big deal at least I’m not driving I can relax and-

the train ticket will run me one way between 100-300 dollars depending on when I buy it from Amtrak.

However, I can get an 80 dollar plane ticket one way on southwest, so I do that instead.

anyway it is beyond frustrating to be in the most used part of the amtrak system and still have train tickets be so goddamn cost prohibitive. 

thats not a policy failure, its seven policy failures duct taped together

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Question: why is a sword, a representation of being gay?

cause im gay and i like swords whats not to get

I went looking for this post specifically and only just realized that the op was the same person

you know an awful lot of people dont realise this actually. but rest assured if its about swords and being gay, there is a high chance i wrote it

happy april 13th!

It's time