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I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.

#first reblog in a while #bc i am the blind bitch that can see a bitt

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Final evolution to hadrosaur fakemon i made the other day

#my art

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evolution to my indohyus fakemon

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Final evolution to the dimetrodon pokemon i made the other day

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Evolution to the hadrosaur fakemon i made the other day!

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Evolution to the dimetrodon fakemon i made the other day!

(https://www.tumblr.com/blrb-art/734879615049433088/my-dream-pokemon-region-is-all-prehistoric?source=share)

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indohyus fakemon for my all prehistoric animal fakemon region idea

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Another starter for my all prehistoric animals pokemon region concept

The grass type hadrosaur pokemon!!!

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My dream pokemon region is all prehistoric animals

Have a starter pokemon for that concept. The fire type dimetrodon pokemon!!!

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Okay because I'm genuinely curious, what does everybody call this little guy

Put where you're from in the tags if you want! (general regions only obviously pls don't doxx yourselves)

#sure ill post again for research bc i think its interesting how we do things where im from #kids say rollie-pollie #adults say pillbug #north us

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signs in to tumblr for the first time in months to tell you all that i love him

#bullfrog #captain laserhawk #captainlaserhawk #captain laserhawk bullfrog

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people new to tumblr angry about being blocked or writing huge paragraphs about why they chose to block someone like i promise you it’s not that deep i once blocked someone because their blog was obnoxiously orange and i hate the color orange

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Poll: The Celestial Spear from Drawtectives vs Emma from Jim Button

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#Vote drawtectives #If they don't win I'm leaving this site for good/lh

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i think being incapable of engaging with a fictional narrative that deals with oppression without saying it endorses that oppression is indicative of deeper issues with like, being unable to deal with feelings of discomfort. which isn't to say that there's no such thing as narratives that do endorse oppression, only that defaulting to paranoid reading is. not great

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neighborhood garden enthusiast here to give another friendly reminder in the midst of all the vegetable price inflation-- most of the people telling you to just grow your own have no idea what theyre talking about. growing most vegetables can be expensive, cause good dirt aint free!

instead, find local farmers to support, put your effort and attention towards community gardens, work with food pantries, just dont expect to be able to feed your community (or even just yourself) with stuff from your backyard... unless youre willing to dump a huge amount of time and money into it

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as in "does the concept of a tornado fill you with fear", NOT "do you live under threat of tornado".

If you're on the fence, ask yourself with you would do if you were suddenly under a tornado watch/warning :3

#100% not #i've seen enough tornados in my day that they dont scare me

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I think the word "power" tends to get kind of abstracted in conversations about oppression, and I think the scale of this also makes it difficult to get this idea across. So I'm gonna explain with a microcosm:

You start a small business with two friends.

When making decisions about the business, you all meet together.

Eventually, the business grows enough that you need more employees. You include all of them in the meetings, because all of them want a say in the decisions that impact them.

But as the business continues to grow, this gets a little out of hand.

You decide it's time to scale it back.

Now it's just you and your co-founders making decisions again. You still have all those people working for you, of course- you're just making decisions for them instead of with them.

When it comes time to adjust salaries, well... suddenly, there aren't twenty people advocating for a fair and even split. In fact, nobody else even knows what the budget is. You could just give yourselves more money than they get, and none of them would even know about it.

So that's exactly what you do.

One day, you and your friends have a falling-out... and you remember that while you're all co-founders, all the paperwork actually says that you're the owner. So you fire them.

You have to hire replacements, of course, but you don't know these people, and they don't need to know any more than the rest of the staff. You take the excess from their salaries that your friends were collecting, and add it to your own salary.

Now you're making double what you used to, and nobody can do anything about it- because nobody else is in the meeting room with you. Nobody else has any decision-making power.

The more staff you employ, the bigger the company grows, and the more money you make.

If you were to include anyone in that meeting room, you'd just be dividing up your power again- and probably your money, too. It's in your best interest to continue to exclude everyone you can.

Here's the thing: oppression is based around excluding people. Oppression literally cannot work with any kind of inclusive principles.

Inclusion means dividing power; not just money or whatever other resources, but the decision-making power that allows oppressors to maintain their status in the first place. It's in the best interest of the oppressor to exclude everyone they possibly can; which is why definitions of oppressor classes tend to be so narrow and hyper-conditional.

It's also why exclusionary movements within activist spaces are so counter-productive. People claim to be protecting vulnerable groups, but even with the best of intentions, this only ever perpetuates the overarching oppressive systems: they are recreating those oppressive systems, validating their logic, and leaving people who deserve a voice in the decisions that impact them out in the cold- and all it does is benefit the few who remain included. For now.