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The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/medicaid-rfkjr-able-bodied-keyword-mother-tongue/ #ablebodied #bullshit

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

Mother Jones

Your request to not want to see US politics, or any topic, is fair. Especially given your view that it is your responsibility to filter, not others' responsibility to not talk about it.

Many people are so opposed to LLM based systems, that they've given up on regular statistical based regression filters. 🤷🏿‍♂️

You should be able to list topics that you don't want to hear about, and your client should score posts, and hide things that you don't want to see. You can do this without transformers.

Alternatively, BlueSky has composable moderation. Some human can read posts and tag as "US politics." Then you can subscribe to that filter, to not see it. Low effort for posters, good result for readers.

Telling people to add hash tags to everything is silly. It only makes sense from the position of someone in the default category, because they don't really think that they'll have to adorn everything they write with:

#white #male #whiteman #man #cis #dude #bro #ablebodied #whitepeople #pinkskinned #majority #justaguy #guy #caucasian #presumeddefault #stuffjustworksforme #benefitofthedoubt #thoughtoffirst

They presume themselves to be the default, and hash tags are for everyone else that deviates from their view of the world with them at the center.

Faintdreams Dec 17, 2024

It's always surprising to me how quickly a ~certain kind of person~ gets angry if you refer to them as 'Currently Abled' or 'Able Bodied'

No matter what, it's perceived as a threat.

You can see peoples brains trip-over the concept.

I suspect it's tied to some peoples cognitive bias around sickness and morality where sick / ill = Moral failing.

#Disability #Accessibility #AbleBodied #Calvinism #Christianity

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Changeling Apr 4, 2024

And to those who are #AbleBodied and feeling complaint fatigue from those of us who are #Disabled, we sympathize, and it's your damn fault. if you'd learned your lesson when a bunch of us got together to pass the ADA and started designing things to be accessible as part of the building process, we wouldn't have to keep having these exhausting conversations. Since you collectively haven’t learned, here are the take aways.
- We want access to the world.
- We're not going away. (1/2)

Christal Nov 8, 2023

Why is it that people think living with #disability allows for a life of leisure?

Our meds are not #ablebodied people's meds. Could you not go through our cabinets?

Our equipment are not toys or free or extras. No, you may not play with them or have them.

No, we don't all get nurses and caretakers who come in and drive us, or clean our houses and so on. Quit thinking we have it made.

I received a barrage of vile texts from someone I stopped from feeding off me.

We are not your supply.

Broke-Ass Living

May 5, 2023

@grail143 Thank you! You already know that #AbleBodied protestors are representing several thousands of folks unable to do it physically. I'm unable too because of arthritis and bad back problems and keeping an eye on my mature roommate.

Riikka E Nov 6, 2022

As a #singleparent of two (7y and 0y) living #academialife I need support in structuring our daily life. One form that I've found useful is #visualcommunication . This is something I've planned to use also during my #fieldwork with #multilingual group of #children.

One thing that concerns me in these ready made pictures is the #white #ablebodied #hetetonormativity - so if there are good picture banks that have more #variety in their pictures I'd be happy to know!