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You know what, I'm sick of all this "autism may be interpreted as a disability if you choose to identify that way" like I'm not gonna police what others say about themselves that's not the point here but I am objectively disabled. And that will still be true even if there's a revolution and the world becomes more fitted to people like me. Even if everything wasn't set up with assumptions that you are okay using the phone, I would still have more limited options for communication than most people. Even if public spaces avoided too much noise, there would still be loud noises in the world and they would still affect me more than others. Even if we had universal income and every job was as accessible as possible, I'd still lack the executive functioning skills that make everyday tasks more doable. And none of this means I hate my autism or myself for being autistic, and no I don't want a cure. But my disabled status is not debatable, or a matter of your philosophy or whatever. It's just reality. Denying it is just ableism.

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Can't believe Peter Griffin really tried it.

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This is a question that really should have occurred to me before - how *did* all the late 60′s-70′s hippies physically get to India in the numbers culture has told me they did? Flights were of course an option, but only for a few - the prices pre-1980′s were ruinously expensive, and hippies may have been from more elite backgrounds but they were still a ton of broke college kids all the same. And its not like you would take a boat through the Suez or around the horn as a passenger, and no train lines existed for most of that journey. So what gives?

Well you drove of course!

I somehow never learned about the Hippie Trail, but it was a big thing apparently, a gap in knowledge for me. But I see why I forgot it - its an artifact lost to political revolution. British college students renting a bus and riding through…Iran…and Afghanistan….that stopped being an option by 1980. But under the Shah and Khan these were western-looking states open for business. And until the late 1970′s the price of gas was pretty much irrelevant, neither costs nor borders was a barrier. Chalk up another cultural artifact undergirded by - and undone by - global political and economic realities.

(also note the critical fact of Yugoslavia being communist-but-third-way-unaligned to open up that path)

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I still can’t believe that in the last 10 years Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Supergirl all had live-action shows about them with 100-200 episodes, meanwhile Batman literally didn’t have his own show since the 60′s??

Like yeah he’s definitely overexposed on the big screen, but the fact fact that he (nor any of the Batkids) never had their own TV show is crazy to me.

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rare vent art from a few months ago

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I don’t get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist characters 

Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuries 

If you didn’t feel like talking to a man, you just “took up your sewing” and he’d have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended

Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each other’s work, and enjoy each other’s company in peace 

The skill the female character has doesn’t have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because there’s strength and power in any skill she has 

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D&D is ramping up these multiverse themes, but the fun of a multiverse is seeing weird alternatives and other universal laws.

Do you want to go to the heroic fantasy Renaissance hodgepodge world? The dark heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world? The heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world? The heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world?

The high magic urban sprawl ruled by specialized houses? The high magic ecumenopolis ruled by specialized guilds?

Ancient Greece?

How about a school?

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In Washington state there is now a civilian police oversight board and this board can decertify (thats right) any cop for their conduct on or off duty, in the physical or online world.

Cops all over the state are quitting in droves, every department is scrambling to figure out how to do their jobs now that the use of force and use of deadly force policies have also changed.

These uniformed gang members are scared they will lose their jobs. And to that I say, good

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You weren’t bullied because you liked anime, you were bullied because you were locked in a prison with 1,000 other teens and a combination of institutional frameworks and environmental stressors led to the construction and enforcement of brutal social hierarchies

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if tumblr users found out about the simple concept of “different people have different boundaries about media and that’s normal” their brains would explode

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