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This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Hamster Wheel For Chickens. I doubt very much that this flimsy thing would stop any predator (except a bird of prey maybe?), but it does come with bonus Injure Your Chickens' Feet Action!

The birbs look so silly I canNOT stop laughing

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people always say autistic people think in black and white, but then they *teach* us in black and white. good girl, bad girl. good (normal) behavior, bad (abnormal) behavior. you have to be consistent with these kids

my therapist gave me a feelings chart and when I circled more than one told me to choose one feeling. in social skills group, they were always asking questions like, “is talking about airplanes expected or unexpected behavior?” and “it depends” was not the right answer- talking about airplanes is unexpected, inappropriate, abnormal, bad behavior (at least when you are one of Those Kids. when you like things too much you aren’t allowed to like things anymore)

here is your behavior chart, you either get a sticker or you don’t. here is your anger scale, you aren’t allowed to say you don’t know. we need an answer that fits into a graph because we are graphing your anger. here is a social story where everything is so simplified it resembles real life about as much as stick figures resemble people. here are your right and wrong answers and you play, move, think wrong

special educators are some of the most rigid people I’ve met. you have to follow the program. it has to fit on this chart. you have to be consistent with these kids

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I'm ready to give up on getting my prescriptions refilled online.

Something is always wrong. If it's not the dosage, it's the number of pills. And, sure, I can take those pills... Except that would multiply my annual medication costs by 12 or do whacky things like give me hyperthyroidism.

Asking in person doesn't necessarily have a success rate much higher than 50% either, but I suppose I can do the Belgian thing and react appropriately to the messages sent by my physician and just get an appointment each time they give me a prescription suggesting they have gotten some grave news about my health and I urgently need to have an in person conversation with someone on my medical team. The problem seems to magically disappear the second the doctor gets involved.

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I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD BOB ROSS IS A GIFTED GOD I DREW ALONG TO HIS VIDEO IN MS PAINT AND

HOW

THE

FUCK

THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW PLEASE I ADVISE YOU GUYS TO DRAW ALONG WITH BOB ROSS IN MS PAINT IT IS AN EXPERIENCE I AM SO CONFUSED BUT PLEASED FUCKING DO IT

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The majority of people are horny. People are always going to be horny. You cannot stop people from being horny. Throughout history there have been extensive attempts to suppress horniness and they haven’t worked. You can be mad about it all you want but horniness will prevail against any adversity. There will always be an aspect of horniness within society. Sexuality cannot be contained by having missionary sex with your spouse alone in the privacy of a dark bedroom.

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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The landlord fears the urban oyster mushroom farmer

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Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

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i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh

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...you do know nobody is seriously going to use er/ihm/sein for you right? at this point you're just making a mockery of actual trans struggles.

er/ihm/sein is german for he/him/his dumbass

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one thing that so many students forget is that, a win is a win. if you planned on doing english homework but instead you finished your history essay, celebrate that, don’t be upset taht you didn’t sick to your plan, at least you got SOMETHING DONE. a win is a fucking win and don’t let anyone tell you different.

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As someone living in a city that prides itself on accessibility-based-on-engineering-standards, this.

If anyone wants to know why:

I have a bus in front of my front door, stopping at 3 supermarkets, my job and the train station. Only one of those has no seating, large print schedules or audio help for stops, and the city is really loud about it. Except another one of them had the audio and large print removed after vandalism and/or inclement weather. Two of those stops' seating is anti homeless seating, so I can't wait for the bus without being in pain if my joint pain flares up. Only the train station bus stop is near paid public toilets, but they close with the station.

All buses except some replacement vehicles "kneel" and have space for mobility aid users. Plural, because there's space for 2. Unless one of them is in an electric chair, then it's 1. And then the driver has to get out to deploy the heavy duty ramp. And if anyone is on the bus with heavy luggage or a stroller, they can and will be kicked off to make space for mobility aid users--which sounds valid until you've been on the bus with a mother trying to get her two kids under 3 with a 38°C fever to the doctor on time during a downpour. "Next bus is in 30 minutes" doesn't quite help. The taxi doesn't show up for sick kids--you gotta call the medical transport (prices start at €120 per sick person). 112 only brings you to the ER. Oh, and there's a hierarchy of which mobility aid users need the bus more, if there's 3 chair users who need to get on.

More buses during high traffic times would fix it. Having buses with lengthwise seating would allow wild stuff, like having 2 wheelchair users, 2 strollers and at least 4 rollator users to be on the same bus at the same time while still leaving seating for passengers with the luxury of choice of how much they're lugging along. There might even be leg room.

But hey, no one is forcing anyone to take the bus, right? You can drive! Except you can't pay for parking if you need to stay in a wheelchair. The machines are too high up. I think some accessible parking can be free, you just have to find the right office, go there, fill in paperwork and... Most of them don't have accessible entrances. Or they do, if you're willing to go around the back of the building through the sketchiest alley on the block. And if the ancient elevator (automatic doors not guaranteed) works. Sometimes you have to call a number to have both the accessible entrance and the elevator opened. Hopefully the person at the desk isn't off for lunch. Hopefully the sign isn't vandalized (see: sketchiest alley on the block).

But all pavements can accommodate at least 1 wheelchair! Like the one between those supermarkets and the city center my buses drive by! They even connect to the local hospital and two buildings with several specialist physician practices to the city center! Which is good! Except there's a few spots, without a lowered pavement edge, where precisely one wheelchair can pass for 20-50 m. On the one side is a road where it's legally 30 kmh, but no one enforces it. On the other side is a wall. Wheelchair users don't have friends or partners or (grand)children they want to take to any cultural site in our historic city center, right? And it's not like people go in two directions on the same pavement. Even if they did, engineering standards teach us the other person will never be anyone except the fittest, thinnest, most eagle-eyed and visible whippersnapper with zero things on their person. They'll either notice and wait, or just walk on the road. Yes, we do have several apartments specialized in providing housing for the legally blind, but cane users have zero issues using here. Some blind people walk next to sighted people if they're unsure how to safely navigate a traffic situation, but they can just... Um... Well, most people can get by. As long as they're not overweight and also carrying groceries. And there's pedestrian crossing within 20 m of one of those spots, near the hospital. The lights are timed to the second for a safe crossing at 5 kmh if you start exactly when it turns green, just like the traffic code demands.

They could make those spots that have 1) technically a very low speed limit, and 2) very easily navigated alternate routes from both sides, narrower for cars and force them to go one direction at a time, but the pavements on both sides are up to code and a (1) wheelchair user can pass! This is an accessible city!

As a wheelchair user I'm trying to reframe my language for "being in the way."

"I'm in the way," "I can't fit," and "I can't go there," is becoming "there's not enough space," "the walkway is too narrow," and "that place isn't accessible."

It's a small change, but to me it feels as if I'm redirecting blame from myself to the people that made these places inaccessible in the first place. I don't want people to just think that they're helping me, I want them to think that they're making up for someone else's wrongdoing. I want them to remember every time I've needed help as something someone else caused.

#chronic pain #accessibility #wheelchair user #accommodations #building standards #doing the bare minimum #rant after break #rules for thee but not for Audi #the most accessible place on both those routes is a bakery with 3 steps to get up to to get inside #wheelchair users get served outside #sight or mentally impaired customers get help with the menu #the windows are big enough to look inside but also for staff to see if anyone is outside and struggling #those people had very little to work with and still did what was needed #meanwhile the city won't even put down a speed camera on city property to make people slow the fuck down

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.