47 years ago

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Webster's house in 1977.

l-r Paul Simonon, Ronald McQueen, Glen Matlock, Mick Jones, Basil Gabbidon

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

fuck you (runs your cast iron pan through a dishwasher cycle)

my seanoning

Places you should add to your little town/city in your fantasy world!!

(or ways to make your players feel even worse when the villain destroys the town later on :) )

"But why do you let your disability stop you?" Because that's.... what disabilities... do. That's... literally the basic definition... of being disabled... A disability impairs your ability to function. That's what the term means. That's the main thing

Raise your hand if you have also been personally victimized by the barometric pressure changes 🥲

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!

moving your body is very important, take even just 5 minutes out of your day starting with something like this. exercise is a pain in the ass but we all start somewhere

and yknow what i also don’t like the idea that abusers are these like. horrible monsters and there’s something ~wrong with them~ cuz no “normal” person could ever do such a thing like. my abusers are normal people. not even particularly bad people, really, aside from… well, yknow. there’s not some special ingredient that makes abusers abusers. they’re just people, doing fucked up things. you wouldn’t know it from looking at them, there’s no one specific reason they do what they do. it’s weird to try and like… explain it all away like that.

and actually yknow what i’ve always hated the dehumanization of abusers or bad people or whatever cuz like. no! they aren’t monsters, they’re people! this is what humans have the capacity to do! there’s nothing special about it! don’t try to distance ‘nice, normal folks’ from ‘monsters’ cuz we’re the same goddamn thing; we all have free will and the ability to choose how we act and some people choose fucked up stuff and that’s human, unfortunately

Saying that abusers are less than human or that there is some inherent pathology to them makes the world less safe. Because if abusers are less than human, you can’t acknowledge that your beloved best friend is neglecting his children. You can’t acknowledge that your mother emotionally abused you. You can’t take the accusation of domestic violence against your role model seriously. You can’t acknowledge that your girlfriend is financially abusing you. Because they are human, and you know them, so they can’t be unhuman abusers. And they aren’t unhuman. But they are abusers.

A woman with no mental illness can come home and hit her children. A man with a perfectly healthy childhood can manipulate his employees into working overtime with no pay. A woman who is respected in her community can commit a rape. A man who treats most patients perfectly can be medically abusive to others.

Abuse is not a pathology. It is not a function of inhumanity. It is not inevitable. If it was any of those things, it would be morally neutral in the way that a hurricane is, something that you just have to get potential victims out of the way of. Instead, abuse is an action or set of actions that the person chooses to take, and could have chosen not to take. That’s the whole reason that abuse is a moral wrong: that abusers could have chosen otherwise.

Most importantly?

There is nothing separating you, the person reading this, from being an abuser, except for the choice to be careful and kind to others. Not if you were abused. Not if you have little societal power. Not if you just really don’t want to be one. There is no immutable fact about you that makes you immune to abusing others. There are only the choices that you make in how you interact with other human beings.

Anyone can choose to be an abuser. Anyone can choose not to be one.

● Banning media that you believe is immoral is still censorship.

● Banning media that you believe might harm someone's morals is still censorship.

● Banning media that you believe will cause someone to commit an evil act is still censorship.

● Banning media that you feel is disgusting is still censorship.

● Banning media that you think will teach children something bad is still censorship.

What do you think conservatives are doing when they ban queer media???

When conservatives ban queer media, they are banning:

Ah see it’s different, because someone forcing their beliefs on me is oppression, and me forcing my beliefs on someone is liberating and good and moral. Hope this helps!

just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd

So I read the book, and almost everytime Jim gave/made Freddie a gift, Freddie would always show it off and say “My husband got me those!” or “My husband made that for me!” It’s so sweet, especially for this one part when they first started dating:

yeah?

"What about high support needs autistic people who use wheelchairs/have severe motor skill issues!"

What about them? Last I checked, you all treat them like shit and talk over them. Last I checked, half of you saying that kind of thing are still on your "autism actually makes me smarter and better than everyone else :)" schtick. In fact, are you normal about any and all stigmatized psychiatric conditions?

"Eyeglasses are mobility aids too, being mildly nearsighted makes you disabled"

Okay, and have you spoken At All about how people using white canes are treated or about genuinely any accessibility issue the blind/VI community faces? Have you talked about Any mobility aids, really?

"Psychiatric conditions are physical disabilities because it affects the brain"

Okay, and do you identify as physically disabled broadly or only when you're trying to be in cripplepunk? Have you aligned yourself with Any of Us beyond semantics arguing on the internet? Have you talked about any disability issues at all that aren't about your specific mental health diagnosis? How have you approached and reconciled the social, political, and legislative differences in how physically disabled people are treated versus mentally ill people?

Otherwise what it sounds like is you using other disabled people as tools and tokens in your arguments and that you don't actually give a shit about any of them.

Protect yourself during earthquakes!

If possible, DROP! COVER! HOLD ON!

Using cane, DROP! COVER! HOLD ON!

Using walker, LOCK! COVER! HOLD ON!

Using wheelchair LOCK! COVER! HOLD ON!

Oh, this is good! Very good! Must look into this organization more to see what else they might have.

Earthquake Country Alliance is fantastic! I use this image all the time in my classes as an example of efficacy and accessibility in disaster info. They helped create the Great Shakeout drill as well!

Reblog if you've formed a meaningful relationship with someone you met online.

Cripplepunk does exclude some physically disabled people

If someone is physically disabled but Does Not agree with cripplepunk's ethos and goals, then they are not cripplepunk. This is because cripplepunk is not a "community", it is a political movement. Phys disabled people who aren't cripplepunk are not being implied to be abled. They are still physically disabled. They just Aren't cripplepunk.

Some of you seem to be under the assumption that people saying you aren't cripplepunk is saying you're "not disabled" which is not, actually, what is being said. If you are mentally ill/ND but NOT physically disabled, then you simply aren't cripplepunk because it violates THREE of the rules and principles of cpunk. Insisting that you do belong here also violates those same 3 rules and principles: that cpunk is FOR physically disabled people (NOT disabled people as a whole), that cpunk does NOT pander to the able-bodied, and also speaking over people in cpunk (because Tai "fuck you and your functioning legs" Trewhella created the movement and EXPLICITLY stated they did not want able-bodied NDs in here). You literally do not agree with the basis of the movement but want to say you represent the movement and are in it.