feeling like the health inspector

@brightlotusmoon

Futurama kept warning us. Somebody wasn’t paying anything.

put spikes on your wheelchair's handles. wrap barbed wire around your cane or crutch so it'll hurt like a motherfucker if someone kicks or grabs it from under your hand. wear a personal alarm and pull the pin every time someone moves you without your consent, leans on your chair, takes a seat on your rollator, taps your hearing aid, steals your AAC device. scream for help when you're abducted. wail like you're in agony when people trip you up or knock into you. take pepper spray to the grocery store. take a knife to the club. leave cards that say "fuck you" under the wipers of inconsiderately parked cars and scratch access codes for bathrooms on the outside of the door. we are not begging for mercy, we're fighting dirty. we have to.

someone grabbed my wheelchair today and then shouted "ouch! there's spikes!"

YEAH!! GET FUCKED !!!!!!

I witnesses someone trying to shove a wheelchair user because they felt the wheelchair wasn't going fast enough, I guess. Not even a second later, this asshole is screaming in pain because the handles had razor wire on them the back of the wheelchair had a sign saying "do not touch."

NGL, I was laughing and gave the wheelchair user a nod. They just kept on going after a nod and wink at me. Fucking amazing.

When I was in hs, I had to use crutches a few times. Classmates though it was funny to kick them while I'm standing. Soooo I glues nails on the bottom 18 inches or so. Two students screaming and yelling resulted in no one kicking them again.

Do not fuck with mobility devices. They are an extension of our body. If you decide to violate our boundaries, be prepared for retaliation, much like if someone shoved or pushed you. Keep yourself to yourself.

How I’ve been welcoming the new Fallout fans:

Also, because it's Tumblr I have to spell everything out. Use your own personal definition of what constitutes a major versus a minor holiday

YouTube trying to make me become racist while I listen to 1970s J-funk for 3 hours

The best thing I did for my youtube viewing experience was download an extension that allows me to block entire channels. Now when I don't like a thumbnail? Blam, obliterate it, never see it again - and youtube is none the wiser. Youtube has no choice but to bring me weird music videos and retro game reviews.

You know, needing to add basic functionality to a platform yourself to fight back against the forces of enshittification is something tumblr trained me well for. You need like 5 third party extensions to make this site remotely usable.

actually it's worse than that, Biden didn't say that when MLK was in jail in 1963 -- he said it a full 14 years later in 1977, while arguing against integration as a senator in formal hearings

he then had the gall in more recent years to claim he was arrested while "defending civil rights," which I guess he was counting on no one fact checking because there's no record of that and it obviously runs counter to the fact he literally fought against people's civil rights

he even repeated the claim last week, this time changing his story to not an arrest but just being brought home. no record of it, no one left alive to verify any of his very blatant lies

(sorry for using CNN, it popped up first when doing a search to find a report on it)

🙄.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/biden-admits-he-was-stopped-not-arrested-in-south-africa/

Quit posting half ass information and pass it off as facts. Especially when he clarified this himself in March 2020. And especially when it’s known he has a speech impediment.

Meanwhile The GOP’s plans:

I know the US government acts like a corporation but it’s not.

Not voting isn’t the same as a boycott. Because you can’t bankrupt a government by not voting. All you get by not voting is less control over what the money is doing.

The money comes from taxes, not voting. Abstaining from voting does nothing to reduce the governments ability to get money and spend it on shit.

So yes, sometimes you vote to reduce harm because not voting WILL NOT REDUCE HARM.

It’s not a boycot. Abstaining doesn’t take power from the government. It just reduces the number of people they feel answerable to.

Not only do they not give a shit if you don't vote it's precisely what the most sadistic ones are hoping for.

whys his whole shit out for everybody to see😕

finally some fucking decency

It's that time again, I am asking for help.

After paying for our hamster to be put to sleep we don't have any money for food or our cats asthma medication, if you can donate anything at all you will be entitled to photos of a very scrungly cat

This website is elite. This website is the blueprint, it's the pinnacle. There is no website like it. I lwill never leave this website

no school ever prepared me for what would turn out to be my principal preoccupation as an adult: making sure i cook and eat all the food i bought before it goes bad

People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

Everything is a surprise when you don't pay attention