i was ranting about ableism on twitter and. i realize a lot of people genuinely do not know this and dont mean harm. so please know this and cause less harm. you will make my life and the life of other autistic people just a little bit better.
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Elizabethan Peasant 1: Look yonder! Someone has writ upon that ceiling that thou art most easily gulled!
Elizabethan Peasant 2: More fool they, for I cannot read.
Elizabethan Peasant 1: *sighing, lowers his visage unto his palm*
Elizabethan Peasant 1: Lo, hast thou learned to read?
Elizabethan Peasant 2: Verily, and to compose as well.
Elizabethan Peasant 1: With haste, then, how is the word “i cup” composed?
Elizabethan Peasant 1: what ho, I know a sporting jest! What art thou when thou art a peasant and art occupied in a privy?
Elizabethan Peasant 2: I wist not, but certain am I that thou shalt tell me speedily.
Elizabethan Peasant 1: Most verily, thou art a peon.
Elizabethan Child: Father, I have not yet broken fast and am filled with pangs of hunger.
Elizabethan Father: Hail, Filled With Pangs Of Hunger! Mine own name is Wybert.
But why
no offense but why can’t more people be gentle to one another
full offense. let’s be kinder
“The world is cruel” well mAYBE if we all started being NICER the world wouldn’t be so CRUEL.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
If you are all feeling lost and nauseous about Italian Interior Minister Salvini’s despicable Roma census proposal, please consider donating to/signal boosting the European Roma Rights Centre. They actively pursue legal action against discriminatory policies/human rights abuses within the international courts, as well as carry out advocacy and research.
For all of you asking, here is a wonderful organization that helps Romani people in Europe. I will try and find some other organizations, as well.
What’s even cuter than a black cat with a pink nose? A black cat with a pink nose AND pink toes!
(His name is Possum and he is available for pre adoption.)
The less-than-believing look and subtle raise of the eyebrow Janeway does adds 3 years to my life every time she does it.
Shaun Leane, Silver Thorn Arm-Vine and Earring, made for Alexander McQueen ‘Dante’ runway show A/W 1996
Listen, I hear what you’re saying, but Young Sam being the deadly combo of his mother’s powerful Ladies Who Organize tendencies, and his father’s stubborn anti-authority pragmatism makes him an ideal community organizer. He’s cheerful and unflagging and drinks coffee at a rate that would impress even Maladict; he has a dartsboard in his office with an iconograph of Lord Downey II pinned to it, and when asked his response is invariably a chilly, “he knows what he did.”
When you look deeply in his eyes you can see the abyss looking back.
(It wants to know if you’ve signed that petition yet.)
#discworld#………look mostly I want a discworld novel about young vimes grappling with his own kind of guarding dark#a guarding dark that protects against a more slippery kind of dark; a waiting dark#cool and patient and careless; as in it doesn’t care about the blood or the death or the cost—it only seeks to further its own darkness#the kind of darkness that lingers in locked bank vaults and unsafe mines and private clubs; places where the darkness is a feature#rather than something to be guarded against#yes exactly I want sam vimes the second Kicks Off The Labor Movement#the Vimes Boots Theory of Wealth Inequality deserves nothing less#also I couldn’t figure out how to turn it into a joke#but the reason you can’t call it “grassroots” politics is because there isn’t any grass in ankh-morpork#“cobblestone level” politics is the closest they get @notbecauseofvictories
cobblestone politics: you pick one up and throw it at the rich bastards keeping you down. then you pick up another one.
sam senior could find his way in the fog by the feel of the cobbles under his boots. sam junior is also an expert on cobbles; he’s just a bit more proactive about it.
(i would read the living hell out of a book about young sam the labor organizer, and the discworld equivalent of pinkertons trying to break a strike by trolls and dwarves. my god it would be magnificent.)
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