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Books, Legos, 'n other stuff

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Most of what I post nowadays falls underneath the "other stuff" category...
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[transcription of a reddit comment]

ew72 • 19 hr. ago

I'm a type 1 diabetic. I require insulin to live, multiple times a day.

When I was in middle school, many years ago, we didn't have insulin pumps and had to use syringes and vials like everyone else.

The school refused to let me carry it with me, meaning I had to go to the nurses office several times a day to inject. It's not just before lunch but could be any number of times depending on the current blood sugar levels.

The district then cut nurse staff to just spending half a day at two schools, and the nurse left before I had lunch.

I asked the office staff to unlock the office so I could take my insulin and eat lunch. They refused.

By middle school, I'd been dealing with t1 for about 5 years, and didn't take shit on the topic. I went to the school lobby, picked up the payphone (I just dated myself) and called 911, telling them, "Hi, I'm at (school), am type 1 diabetic and the office won't unlock a door and let me take insulin."

They sent a fire truck, and a bunch of firemen met me outside and walked me to the office and asked, while ignoring the staff, which room was the nurses office. I pointed to the door and he was like, "Okay boys, chop it down, this kid need his insulin!"

Suddenly, the office secretary could unlock the door and I didn't need to put it in the nurses office everyday anymore.

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Conservative crackers: nobody wants to work! Black women are welfare queens! Millenials want everything handed to them!

me at work bc this country fails its citizens:

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If u wanna help me out, I still need to pay my car note from last month, rent is due in a few days and so is my car insurance and I still need to buy groceries

Been at $0 for a few days despite the notes!

I have ocupational therapy today and PT tomorrow! Please help me pay for lyfts there and back!

Still need to pay my car payment from last month, my car insurance this month, the installment on my phone bill payment plan and rent is due TOMORROW!

4 days past and also need to pay my car insurance for the past 2 months. Please help! I'm struggling. I also have 4 appts this week 😭😭😭😭😭

$15/530! and I need to pay for lyfts to and from my appt today!!

Please y'all I gotta get home 😭

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i have so many hobbies and interests but each day the four horsemen (instant gratification, shortened attention span, procrastination, exhaustion) grab me by the throat and shake me until i collapse in my comfy bed

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I can't find my original beg post so I can't reblog the original but does anyone know where I can find more art of robotgirls being carefully and delicately taken apart, repaired, cleaned, upgraded, put back together, etc, preferably by someone else, preferably a mechanic girl that invokes a sense of yuri, like this

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Also huge bonus points if one or more is transfem implied or confirmed

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aropride

people have got to get normaler about systems

  • no we are not going to kill anyone
  • introjects aren't literally blorbo from your show and expecting them to act exactly the same as blorbo is weird
  • u cant just demand someone else fronts it's rude and weird. also talking to a system isn't really a choose your own adventure type of thing
  • no there isn't an "evil alter"
  • persecutor alters do exist and are common but they arent evil alters and should be treated with the same respect youd treat anyone else
  • some systems have like 2 or 3 members and others have hundreds. its generally not ur business why a system has the amount of alters they do
  • u arent entitled to know whos fronting 24/7. a lot of systems dont even always know whos fronting let alone want to share
  • switching is often not obvious or dramatic at all. it can be but generally it's not.though it does depend if someone has a more overt or covert presentation
  • did isnt actually that rare. around 1.5% of people are diagnosed with did and it goes undiagnosed a lot. and 1.5% is around the same amount of people who have red hair or ocd or green eyes
  • you have absolutely no way of knowing if someone is "faking" or lying about being a system. "what about-" nope not even if they do that. almost everything that people claim make it obvious someones lying (nonhuman alters, bigger systems, overt presentation etc) are just... ways that systems exist. ur not in their head, u dont get to decide what theyre experiencing
  • no we arent possessed
  • yes it is a real disorder
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npd-narrator

the way people give up of basic decency when they find someone with a disorder

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'Through Fayez [Sayegh], as he moved up the ladder of prominence, I met other Arabs, both in the official, diplomatic corps and among Arab intellectuals. The list still reads well — and not only as names. More importantly, on a personal basis, these contacts fundamentally changed my life — George Tomeh, Walid Khalidi, Fadil Jamali, Muhammad Farrah, Tahseen Basheer, Abdel Khalek Hassouna, the Arab students groups to which I began speaking on invitations which were, at first, recommended by Fayez.  My anti-Zionism was now being fleshed out. From some of the best minds and most responsible statesmen in the Arab world I gained my first, clear and long-lasting impressions and specific details about what Zionism was doing to human beings other than Jews. But we [the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism] were not a pro-Arab organization nor were our primary concerns, in the first instance, with “Arab rights.” All of my new Arab friends understood this. In fact, I have been told by more than one of them and more than once that it was precisely my point-of-departure from American interests and my concern for the integrity of Judaism against the pollutions of Zionism’s politics which gave me credibility in the Arab world. This Arab perception of my motivations never prevented the Zionist propagandists from charging me with “pro-Arabism,” even of being paid by the Arab League. But the bedrock foundation of my anti-Zionism has, so far as I know, remained my most enduring asset with all the Arabs I know, or care to know.'

-Rabbi Elmer Berger, Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew, 1978 p. 29-30, emphasis mine.

Here Rabbi Berger explains that the Palestinians he worked with regularly emphasized the importance of anti-Zionist Jews in the fight for Palestinian liberation. He references "Arabs" since he worked alongside leaders from Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon as well as those from Palestine. He was never asked to stop his anti-Zionist Jewish movement and "fall in line" with Palestinian activist leadership although he took his cues from them on human rights and advocacy like JVP does today--from the beginning, Jewish anti-Zionists were urged to create their own solidarity orgs.

Anti-Zionist Jews in the west: we are not new. We have been written out of history, but there is a place for us in this fight.

May Palestine be free from the river to the sea.

Elmer Berger z’'l (1908-1966) was a Reform Rabbi and lifelong anti-zionist. His 1978 work Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew is an incredible story of his lifelong fight against Zionism in Palestine and America. Rabbi Berger has been unjustly written out of history and I hope everyone can be inspired by his life's work.

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