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Emily 🏳️⚧️ (she/her)Hi oomfies.
Quite urgent situation: Our comrade @alina from Germany recently ended up on the street. If you know of a place for her to stay, that'd be great to share.
alina 🐾🏳️⚧️✨💖hot bavarian puppygirls in your vicinity in need of shelter, click'n'leash here
RosethornRanger (it/its) (TTV)Bigotry is woven in deep. Getting it out of your head is not as simple as believing a group "deserves" better. The structure of thinking in this society is loaded with it, hierarchy is the default. Every thought, every assumption, every action, must be changed in order to fight it.
Snue :3Det er åbenbart muligt at få et anonymt basiskort, som man køber og tanker med kontanter. Det plejede der ikke at stå på rejsekort hjemmesiden, men det virker til at de løbende opdaterer den med information, når ting bliver låst fast.
Jeg synes stadig det er noget bøvl med et nyt kort - det ville være federe, hvis vores offentlige transport bare var gratis :p
LillieI posted this elsewhere earlier but I wanted to put this here too and expand on it a bit.
I'm kinda new to being disabled, I've been dealing with my issues for almost two years now, but I've only recently accepted that I am disabled. I always felt like I wasn't disabled "enough" to call myself disabled, but I realized that's nonsense.
Recently I've started using a walking stick to help with my fatigue and balance and its helped quite a bit, but the thing thats been really interesting is how since starting to use it I feel more certain and like I'm more "allowed" to call myself disabled. The thing is thought its not so much because of the walking stick as it is peoples reactions to it.
My disability is invisible and I've noticed people see me with the walking stick and suddenly seem to take my issues more seriously. They notice when I'm struggling more, are more willing to offer assistance, exercise more caution around me etc. and I think those reactions kinda "legitimizes" my struggles to me.
But its also made me realize that I suspect that people unconsciously think disability aids are the disability on some level. Nothing about my struggles or issues has changed, if anything its easier because I have the walking stick, but people suddenly seem to take them more seriously. And whats more when I don't use it that seems to vanish, even in people who took things more seriously when I had it. All that changes is the presence of the walking stick.
But I think that's the thing, it turns my invisible disability visible and in doing so legitimizes it on some level in their eyes. Its really interesting how it both changes others reaction to me and has as a result changed how I view myself. I wish I had something more profound to say here and I'm sure none of this is new but really I just found this observation really interesting and I think it says a lot about how people view disability.
It also really explained something I've seen and never understood, Occasionally I'd see people who seem to get really mad that someone who uses a wheelchair or other (usually mobility) aid can sometimes walk/stand/hear/etc. seemingly "fine" without them. I never got this, to me it was obvious "Well maybe they don't always need it" (There's obviously more reasons too) but with this realization it suddenly makes sense, they see the aid AS the disability so to them if someone doesn't use the aid clearly they aren't disabled/ are lying. Still bizarre to me that people seem to think this way but now I at least have a clue why, even if its still nonsense
I'm kinda new to being disabled, I've been dealing with my issues for almost two years now, but I've only recently accepted that I am disabled. I always felt like I wasn't disabled "enough" to call myself disabled, but I realized that's nonsense.
Recently I've started using a walking stick to help with my fatigue and balance and its helped quite a bit, but the thing thats been really interesting is how since starting to use it I feel more certain and like I'm more "allowed" to call myself disabled. The thing is thought its not so much because of the walking stick as it is peoples reactions to it.
My disability is invisible and I've noticed people see me with the walking stick and suddenly seem to take my issues more seriously. They notice when I'm struggling more, are more willing to offer assistance, exercise more caution around me etc. and I think those reactions kinda "legitimizes" my struggles to me.
But its also made me realize that I suspect that people unconsciously think disability aids are the disability on some level. Nothing about my struggles or issues has changed, if anything its easier because I have the walking stick, but people suddenly seem to take them more seriously. And whats more when I don't use it that seems to vanish, even in people who took things more seriously when I had it. All that changes is the presence of the walking stick.
But I think that's the thing, it turns my invisible disability visible and in doing so legitimizes it on some level in their eyes. Its really interesting how it both changes others reaction to me and has as a result changed how I view myself. I wish I had something more profound to say here and I'm sure none of this is new but really I just found this observation really interesting and I think it says a lot about how people view disability.
It also really explained something I've seen and never understood, Occasionally I'd see people who seem to get really mad that someone who uses a wheelchair or other (usually mobility) aid can sometimes walk/stand/hear/etc. seemingly "fine" without them. I never got this, to me it was obvious "Well maybe they don't always need it" (There's obviously more reasons too) but with this realization it suddenly makes sense, they see the aid AS the disability so to them if someone doesn't use the aid clearly they aren't disabled/ are lying. Still bizarre to me that people seem to think this way but now I at least have a clue why, even if its still nonsense
AaronAutism itself is one of my long-running special interests, so I read a lot of news, articles, and research on the topic. There were quite a few headlines in my news feed on the topic today, and after once again shaking my head in disgust at the pathologizing language of the researchers -- injection of value judgments and assumptions of superiority or "correct" ways of functioning -- it struck me:
>>> I don't remember the last time I made it through an entire article or paper on autism that *didn't* pathologize us, outside of articles actually written by openly neurodivergent authors. <<<
It's like the horrific racist tropes from 150 years ago. They just *assume* superiority, and everything else is built on that. It's absolutely disgusting, but nobody hears us when we tell them. I regularly email the authors and ask them to reconsider the impact of their words and assumptions, but I never get a response. The scientific community is every bit as intransigent as everyone else.
Hassan From Gaza 🍉🇵🇸RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115644196405146700
From the bottom of my heart, I thank every humane person who helps us in Gaza by sharing our story, donating, and trying in any way to save us from this hell. ❤️🩹🫂
myrmepropagandistThis is an excellent video. This is the message. Perhaps we need to refine it more. Find ways to communicate it more clearly. But this is the correct take on LLMs, so-called-AI and the proliferation of these tools to the general public. #LLM #llms #ai #genAI #video #slop #slopocalypse #enshittification
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
HeavenlyPossumDo you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.
And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.
Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.
I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.
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