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Eb
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Sometimes it's empowering to reaffirm that we matter in the face of someone attempting to erase us. Or at least that's how I feel.
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1451 followers 113 following 17142 posts
That Eb.
Stuff-Doer. Autistic. ADHD. ND. (More). Disabled. Disability Justice. A-spec. Filipino-USian. Same name most places. They/Them.
Justice before civility.
My favorite extinct dinosaur is pachycephalosaurus.
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Eb
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Sometimes it's empowering to reaffirm that we matter in the face of someone attempting to erase us. Or at least that's how I feel.
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Eb
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I mean, or a curse. It depends on what pitch they're barking in. But if you can't hear them, then yeah. I almost named Esme Oxytocin and called her Toes.
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Eb
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Sharing Esme with folks is one of the few absolutely good things I know I can do.
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Eb
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And following my own advice about not going to bed angry and having an Esme, this is on-topic.
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Eb
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And following my own advice about not going to bed angry and having an Esme, this is on-topic.
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Eb
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I've been watching a lot of the Pokémon anime in the last month. It's fine.
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Eb
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Honestly, that's all I can think. "as long as I gave it my all, that's what this is about" no it's not. That's what Pokémon Championships are about. That's not what presidential elections are about. Fucking have a sense of urgency here.
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Eb
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Honestly, that's all I can think. "as long as I gave it my all, that's what this is about" no it's not. That's what Pokémon Championships are about. That's not what presidential elections are about. Fucking have a sense of urgency here.
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Eb
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This is really not about you trying to become a Pokémon Master and giving it your best, Joe Biden.
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Eb
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Posting [photos of my adorable dogs] as praxis.
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Eb
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Anyway don't go to bed angry have an Esme.
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Eb
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It's the same privileged bullshit perspective I've been hearing for the past decade but it makes me angrier after we all lived through 2020 and these assholes learned /nothing/.
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Eb
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And how comfortable those folks are just writing huge swathes of humanity out of mattering.
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Eb
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I was thinking about how so many people know that their weirdness isn't just them and has a name because Disabled people have been talking about our shit out loud online.
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Eb
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This is actually one of the most exciting things to me because, yes, there were Disabled people organizing a lot before social media, but social media allowed different voices to be heard. It's not better than in-person groups, because not everyone can do social media. We need both.
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Eb
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I don't know that folks who haven't been paying attention realize how extremely powerful social media has been for allowing Disabled people who are otherwise isolated and excluded for so many reasons to connect and share ideas and be heard.
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Eb
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You can't both shove Disabled people out of offline spaces and then say "online discussion of how not to be a harmful person isn't praxis". I mean, you can but you're being an asshole. And for many Disabled people, those offline spaces were never accessible. It's not just masking.
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Eb
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It makes me angry that people still have such limited and unimaginative and also factually wrong ideas about how what happens on social media "isn't real life".
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AF the Virologist
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“You don’t accomplish anything by posting” is such a ridiculous & boring take. I have learned so much from so many people on social media just from them posting. I have shared that information with others. We have changed our behaviors based on information to impact communities & ourselves.
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J. Skyler 🏳️⚧️
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Auto bill payment hit. I’m in the negative now. Please donate. 💕💸
linktr.ee/jskylerinc
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Eb
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think you have to wager some gold.
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Eb
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At least I'm pretty sure I can afford whatever happens and also I have the pet insurance now and this should be covered once I get past my deductible.
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Eb
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And the thing is, I know my words have made a difference in the world. Many times. And maybe I'm "an exception". But surely that means posting can be praxis.
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Eb
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I dunno, I've seen yelling at people online work out for the best, too.
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Erin Biba
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It’s funny cause people tell me *all the time* how they’ve learned from me and found community through my posts and been uplifted and connected to others and gotten tools to recognize and fight hate and felt less alone in the world. But I guess fuck that right? I’m not accomplishing anything.
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Eb
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I went back and looked at her Embark health/dna test results and she is clear for literally everything hereditary they tested for at the time so. I have to wait until Tuesday and I think it'll be harder on me than her, because she's not seeming bothered by whatever it is in the least.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)
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We're about to post our way to $1,000,000 raised for voting rights. lol
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Eb
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I wish that were true but a lot of people from various walks of life feel very strongly that posting isn't praxis. And some of them felt the need to tell me so this week. They got blocked because fuck them, I know I make a difference.
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Eb
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Looking at the vet stuff, my best guess is that these are corneal deposits if they aren't ulcers and if that's the case Bella might be getting some blood work done.
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Eb
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My big concern is that this is somehow because of my topical hydrocortisone (for the allergy to my own microbiome) that I don't let the girls eat obviously but also I can't cover the area a lot of the time and Bella likes to lick where I've been sitting (weird, I don't know why or want to really).
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Eb
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The booms have ended. We have gone to bed. I found a cloudy spot in Bella's other eye which seems to rule out a corneal ulcer and is freaking me out so I have spent the last hour or so reading veterinary stuff including pro stuff.
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CindyLou
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THEY DID IT!!
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Eb
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Esme and I just played a normally-against-the-rules late-night game of fetch. Because the booms outside are still going.
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Suggestion for folks asking for mutual aid support (based on years of experience): There's no need to say you're embarrassed or ashamed or hate to have to ask. That's exactly how capitalism wants you to feel. And it wants you to reinforce the idea that asking for help is shameful.
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Eb
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Esme saw me retrieving the thundershirts and she is making a point of very deliberately staying far away from me when I do anything with them. I just put Bella's on and Esme got up and left.
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Eb
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I should have bought groceries today but I did not feel like doing that. I have enough food. I just ran out of coconut milk for my cereal.
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RaccoonMoose
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I really need to relearn how to do a cartwheel and not break a wrist doing it, a fat queer rainbow haired woman doing cartwheels around a hate preacher would be very funny
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Eb
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TBH there's more I could have done to prepare for some upcoming expenses but I don't feel like it so.
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Eb
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I have completed the task. Also the f-erworks have started again.
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Eb
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Thanks! It made me chuckle, which startled Esme and Bella and Esme climbed my back and then went on patrol and is only now cautiously making her way back to her nest on the sofa. So we all got something out of the Kimchi's photo.
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KLM
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every covid infection you get increases your chances of long term health problems my long covid life sucks so much compared to my 2019 disabled life masking up during waves is worth it, I promise
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Eb
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It's mostly just tedious and depressing.
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Eb
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I guess it's easier than what people had to do in the past with finding receipts and everything. I just take screenshots of my various account pages and type things into my Excel workbook.
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Greg Pak
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FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/
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Eb
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I have decided I will do this. I threw toys around for the gorls a bit and now I will do this terrible task.
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Citizen.Coping
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"Black disability politics is different from mainstream yt disability politics bc so often disability in Black communities may come from police violence, medical racism, lack of access to resources, etc. So Black folks may organize around something disability-related, but frame it as a race issue."
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Eb
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I strongly suspect the point is just that printer manufacturers make money on the ink.
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Eb
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My printer also feels it cannot print if it does not have its full complement of color friends.
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Eb
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And that's how I learned about zucchini killing someone. Apparently.
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And anyway because I got curious about where zucchini bread came from (not entirely known, but probably a relative of carrot cake and banana bread)... I also discovered one of my favorite veggies can be toxic and killed someone in 2015.
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