(Post on the r/vancouver sub by u/buckyhermit)

PSA: Please Don’t Kick Automatic Door Buttons

I use a wheelchair.

Since COVID started, I’ve seen people kick automatic door buttons to avoid using their hands. This is horrible for me, since these are high touch areas I cannot avoid.

People who can walk can elbow those buttons, but they are often too high for me (a seated person) to do that - meaning that sometimes I have no choice but to use my hands. And if the bottom of your feet has touched that button, that is negating any efforts I’m making to keep my hands clean.

Since I basically have to use my hands for everything, and many wheelchair users are in the COVID “high risk” category, this is really bad.

I would really appreciate if people used their elbows, or literally any other part of their body to press the button. Just not your feet.

Thanks.

https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/electricity-strikers-in-france-light-up-poor-homes-this-christmas-cut-power-and-gas-to-bosses-and-police/

thank you thank you thank you 

Now THIS is how you seize the means of production!

2020 vibe likes charge organizing your workplace casts

Fuck. YES.

[id: First Image: Tweet from @BRRN_Fed, username Black Rose/ Rosa Negro saying "Striking electrical workers in France are reconnecting service to poor families while cutting off power to police stations, management and large companies #WorkersHavePower.

Second Image: The gates to a electrical plant, with a banner on it saying "Pour Noël la CGT baisse Le Prix de l'electricite", which translates as For Christmas CGT lowers the price of electricity. /id]

[Image Description: @kelseyKelsem tweeted If we can all agree that $1200 a month is not enough to survive, can people also get upset that disabled people are expected to survive on $783 with SSI.]

!!!

[id: a tweet by verified account Robert Reich (@RBReich) saying " The fact that Columbus Day is a federal holiday and Juneteeth is not says a lot about the history we have sought to glorify and the history we have sought to ignore. /id]

[id: a minimalist art piece with a light pink background. At the top are the words "Celebrate, Liberate, Educate" in capitals. In the centre there are four female figures, three adult size and one child, all are black and are holding their right hand up. The first one is a short haired girl wearing a light long sleeve top and a darker slitted pencil skirt carrying a red flag above her. The next figure is wearing a long sleeved, long light pink dress and a darker pink hijab. In the foreground, a young girl with a shoulder length bob holds on to her arm wearing a medium pink dress. The final girl, who has natural hair, has a long sleeve top and some leggings, and is also carrying a flag, but this time it is pink. Below the figures is "#Juneteenth" /id]

Amplify BIPOC voices ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[ID1: The text “How to be well read without ever having to read anything by a white man ever again; an incomplete list” overlaid on a picture of a sprawling white porch with columns. End ID1]

[ID2: Text listing books that reads: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou, The Bluest Eyes- Toni Morrison, The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan, Go Tell it on the Mountain- James Baldwin, Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates, One Thousand and One Nights- Anonymous, The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth- Sojourner Truth, Twelve Years a Slave- Solomon Northup, Our Nig-Harriet E. Wilson, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl- Harriet Jacobs. End ID2]

[ID3: Text listing books that reads: The Curse of Caste or; the Slave Bride- Julia C. Collins, Behind the Scenes or; Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House- Elizabeth Keckley, Life Among the Paiutes; Their Wrongs and Claims- Sarah Winnemucca, Wynema: a Child of the Forest- S. Alice Callahan, Jubilee- Margaret Walker, Black Rain- Masuji Ibuse, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen- Queen Lili’uokalan, Up From Slavery- Booker T. Washington, The Souls of Black Folk- WEB DuBois. End ID3]

[ID4: Text listing books that reads: The Autobiography of Malcolm X- Malcolm X (edited by Alex Haley), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man- James Wheldon Johnson, The Weary Blues- Langston Hughes, Some Prefer Nettles- Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, My People the Sioux- Luther Standing Bear, The Blacker the Berry- Wallace Thurman, Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells- Ida B. Well, Love in a Fallen City- Eileen Chang, The Living is Easy- Dorothy West, Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison, The Sound of Waves- Yukio Mishima, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor- Nawal El Saadawi. End ID4]

[image description: tweet by Hampton Institute @ HamptonThink reading: "You can't commodify every single aspect of living and then not understand looting as a legitimate form of protest. Looting is the ultimate strike against a system that deems mass-produced objects to be far more precious than life itself. It is humanity demanding to be recognized. End id]

Hey let’s check in on British politics-

Ah.

[id: a screenshot of twitter showing a trending politics hashtag. This one, with 16K tweets is #CumGate. /id]

[id: a tweet by Nouma ✨ (@naouma_) saying "Recognise your privilege when you refer to COVID-19 as a "blessing in disguise."" /id]

I’m at Ace Hardware, so I figured it was appropriate.

*NO REPOSTS/NO BIGOTS*

[id: a userbox with a pale purple background saying "this user is proud to be ace". The picture on the left is of the asexual flag. /id]

[id: a userbox with a pale purple background and a simplified picture of stars and a Cresent moon on the left. The right says "This user loves outer space" /id]

lesbians love and support our trans sisters 💖💖

the terfs have found this post and they do not fucken like it god help me

reblog to make a terf big mad

reblog to make a trans lesbian feel big loved

[id: two hands linking pinkie fingers. The hand on the left is coloured like the trans flag and the one on the right is the lesbian flag (the pink and red version) /id]

remember when they used to try to hide it?

[id: a screenshot of a tweet. This tweet, by Parker Molloy (@Parker Molloy) - although the screenshot cuts this - quotes another tweet with a screenshot from CNN, and has one visible reply. The quoted tweet, by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) says: "White House advisor Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work" #HumanCapitalStock. The screenshot has Kevin Hassett, a white man wearing a suit and a red tie, screenshotted with a snug smile, and the splash on the bottom of the screen says "#CNNSOTU Hassett on where unemployment will be in November. Most of the scrolling text beneath is not visible, other than words which make no sense alone.

The original tweet says "Human. Capital. Stock." With line breaks between each word. The reply, by the same account says "We are just livestock to these people, and they're eager to send us to the slaughterhouse if it can make them a quick buck" /id]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[id: a comic strip with 8 panels. All feature an unnamed lavender coloured person with a cross body brown sachel, and a plain background.

First panel: The person, making a hero pose with both shoulders and elbows at 90° angles, says "I wanna be a hero, and help people in need!".

Second panel: The person, looking downbeat, says "But how?".

Third panel: A small stall, labelled 'content creators', appears on the left side of the frame. It has a piece of artwork on the left, and a tip jar full of hearts and a place in which to pick up cards that have the reblog symbol. There is a similar-looking person behind the desk, sitting on a chair and wearing a cape. The original person walks towards the stall. "Hmm", they say.

Fourth panel: The person's hand put a heart in the tip jar.

Fifth panel: The person's hand picks up a reblog card.

Sixth panel: While holding the reblog card, the person points towards the art on the desk and remarks "Looks great!"

Seventh Panel: The man is leaving the frame, only half visible. They are still saying "Hmm". The person behind the stall is starting at the leaving figure.

Eight panel: The man is gone, and it is zoomed in to see the stall owner's face alone. With an awe filled look towards where the original character has left to, the content creator says "My hero!" /id]

Can you even get more evil than this

[id: News headline, reads "Alberta minister says it's a 'geeat time' to build a pipeline because COVID-19 restrictions limit protests against them" /id]

"I'm very happy with all the fighting scenes. They're incredibly exhausting to do, and it's such an intense burst of energy, but Hayden and I have gotten them to such a pitch that they're incredibly fast. I'll be very proud of them when it's all put together." - Ewan McGregor working on 'Revenge of the Sith'

[id: two images showing different stages of the same fight. The fight is the final duel from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and it shows the behind the scenes version. One man, Ewan McGregor, who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi, has ginger Hair and a beard, is wearing a cream Jedi Robe and brown boots, and the other man, Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker, is in a black version of the same outfit. Both are holding fake lightsabers, which look like blue fencing sword. In the first image, the swords meet in a cross, while in the second image, the motion of Ewan McGregor is blurred, as he is moving his lightsaber towards Hayden Christensen's too quickly for the camera. /id]

Most Jedi: *ignites their lightsaber with the crystal in it for the first time and that is their saber color forever*

Ahsoka:

[id: three images of the same screen. A grey background, with 8 circles on it in a single horizontal line, each containing an image of a different coloured lightsaber. Above the circles is a line of text that shows the name of the colour chosen. The first image chooses the second option, the green lightsaber, the second image shows choosing the fifth lightsaber, the yellow one, and the final image shows the choice of the first option, the blue lightsaber /id]