39, male, bi-curious, Autistic with type Ⅲ Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hyperflexible), and Scoliosis, ¾ of my backbone is fused rigid. Lifelong Michigander born & raised in Grand Rapids. Politically left-of-centre, aviation enthusiast, anime fan, and computer geek. Sega will never die. Sixteen bits FOR EVER.
I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference
and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”
national elections so fucked someone's out to become king of the franks
I got a trial subscription to La Dépêche so that I could learn more about this and discovered several additional facts:
national elections so fucked someone's out to become king of the franks
I got a trial subscription to La Dépêche so that I could learn more about this and discovered several additional facts:
clarification: pulling this sword from the stone does not, in fact, grant one kingship, thank goodness. that's no basis for a system of government.
I think I know who stole it.
national elections so fucked someone's out to become king of the franks
I got a trial subscription to La Dépêche so that I could learn more about this and discovered several additional facts:
Don't think I'll ever be able to fully wrap my head around the pure intense hatred for furries that used to exist back in the 2000s. Just about every furry I've interacted with in my years of going to anime conventions have been some of the most chill people, they know how to party, and fursuit makers being so willing to share how they made their suits is a big reason why I got into cosplay.
.... well, actually, I know what one of the big driving forces behind the vitriol towards the furry fandom was: Homophobia.
This is feudalism. This is literally feudalism. You own nothing and pay a tithe to your landlords.
Feudalism is the final form of capitalism.
Feudalism without noblesse oblige
a tweet showed up on my timeline saying that because RWBY has been taken off of CR, Hbomb's video on it is "retroactively, an act of historical preservation."
I don't think I've ever felt more insulted in my goddamn life
Sadly that is how actual history works.
What survives is what is counted.
At least with hope RWBY will return and hopefully someone makes a GOOD video about the series to counter Hbomb's crap.
I mean, sure?
But Hbomb's video is absolutely not the only thing of RWBY to survive, not even remotely close. It's insane to call it anything close to preservation when there is an actual archive that exists created by fans.
And the dvds
And illegal YouTube uploads
And reaction videos
Actually in a few years there might even be a discussion on how RWBY fans thouroughly and preemptively worked to ensure preservation of the content
Great..
... if you aspire to be like the three scummiest people on the planet.
And it's not that you don't understand that...you know and yet..
you just.. don't care!
You WANT dictatorship!
Jesus! What the fuck is wrong with you all?
Does your "God" really want to see immigrants and lgbtq+ people executed? (Answer: Yes!)
Do you realize a Republican victory is a death sentence for millions of Americans and the American economy?
Who will harvest our crops when being an "illegal" immigrant is a death sentence? What happens when other countries close all trade relations in protest?
What's next... rule by "divine right?"
You do realize this isn't the Dark or even Middle Ages.. right?
:)
fairly produced in bangladesh and india? love that only the german part of the supply chain has names. real trust me the brown people i can't credit or tell you the names of are definitely being treated fairly energy. don't even know a single brand in india that has a good supply chain. really dislike this.
actually still thinking over this, like this t-shirt is almost the perfect microcosm of why attempts to address climate change through consumer choices in the imperial core is basically a wash. it is obviously not climate change friendly to make a t-shirt in bangladesh and india, ship it to europe to print designs on it and then reship everywhere else.
why not print in bangladesh? why not print in india and ship from there? there are dozens of on demand printing services in india. because this is how capitalist production under imperial relations works. poor countries in the global south are only good for providing raw material for dirt cheap. the real value add, the finishing touch has to happen in the western world, which will pocket the largest share because its perceived as the "sophisticated" part of production. imperial profits then get distributed to the western world, so even the working class in europe now is complicit in the exploitation of the global south.
Project 25 leadership.
Look at him! Insane, cult minded Christian Nationalists.
Vote Blue.
People have been told repeatedly for the past several years that Joe Biden has a lifelong stutter. Speech pathologists have confirmed that this is how people with stutters talk, and that language/speech deterioration due to cognitive decline does not look like this. I don't think anyone who says Biden has dementia is merely lacking knowledge anymore. It's either they're ratfucking, or they really do think speech impediments automatically equal cognitive decay.
I don't have a stutter, but I know the frustration of struggling to get words out; it's especially embarrassing during a serious, heated conversation. People use your momentary error to pounce. In general, every time I trip over some speech sounds because of my lingering childhood speech impediment, I worry that people disregard the content of my words and think I'm stupid, because that's clearly how a lot of people feel.
Typing as someone with a stutter, I've come to learn real quick whom I can't trust anymore when the subject of Biden's speech patterns comes up.
He speaks a lot better than I do, but uses a lot of the same speech therapy tricks I was taught when I was a kid. Easy onset. Word substitution/"gaffes" when the word I actually want to use can't come out. So on. To anyone with real experience with stuttering and speech therapy, his tactics are familiar and easily recognizable.
The dementia accusation and assumption of low intelligence is just more of the ableism all stutterers end up dealing with.
A year ago, I started having POTS-like symptoms (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome - you can look up more about it), and then a month and a half ago started fainting just about every day, and then a week and a half ago started having seizures.
3 days ago, I was taken to the ER by ambulance for rolling seizures that lasted about 2 minutes each. I started seizing again when the nurse was looking at me, so she rushed to get the doctor.
I shit you not, he literally said, "Stop that, I'm here. You don't have to show me, I believe you." (Inflated sense of self-importance much?) Then created a "pain response" by digging his knuckles into my chest. Not a sternum rub, not a seizure punch, he dug his knuckles, STRAIGHT KNUCKLES, into my chest as hard as he could and twisted while digging. While he's digging into my chest, he says, "Stop it, I know you can control this."
It gets better though. He later says, "Oh, she's not faking it. It's involuntary." ...bitch you literally told me to stop it.
He also saw me for 5 minutes, says, "that's not a seizure, I've seen seizures before." Without doing ANY tests whatsoever. By the way, there's over THIRTY TYPES of seizures. Each of them present in a different way. How the literal fuck would you know it's not a seizure without doing an EEG?
He said they're likely psychologically induced. They ultimately blamed it on my PTSD... that I haven't had issues with in 5 years. 😐 they said therapy will fix it, even though all the coping mechanisms they gave me I already do, and had been through therapy for literal years.
I was discharged 2 days ago and am still having seizures because they refused to give me meds to stop them 🥰
I have been in chronic pain as long as I can remember, potentially my whole life.
As a young tween, I had anxiety.
Then as a teen I had depression and anxiety
Then as a young 20's I had fibromyalgia
Now.
After continuing to fight with medical providers and diligently see a Dr every month or few for my whole life and chasing down every specialist lead that I was given. I finally brought my own research to my primary Dr who I had an excellent relationship with and got my diagnosis of hEDS, which is genetic, I've had it my whole life and been medically mistreated because no one knew this applied to me, for my whole life.
I was diagnosed with hEDS at 32.
From my own research and fighting I have this understanding. Not because of any Dr advocating for me.
