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Rounding up actual human beings and imprisoning them cost so much more than just leaving them be. Despite the rhetoric, most immigrants pay taxes without getting any of the benefits of doing so. This was never about that.
Trump's major donors were the For Profit Prison System. Are they all racist, yeah, probably, but it's more than that. They don't care who they put in there, it will be anyone they can get away with.
These people have been turning America into the world's largest pyramid scheme, now with prisons for anyone who questions it.
Today I resigned from The Labour Party, I cannot pretend I support a party that is complicit in genocide and would rather cut welfare for disabled people but not tax rich people. A lot of members do a lot of good things but are being badly let down by the leadership.
Kids should not be excluded from social spaces solely because of their age. They deserve to exist in public anywhere they wish and is safe for them
If you discriminate against someone because of some arbitrary age, you are participating in adult supremacy
I understand there are some places where this is justified, such as situations where the law surrounding majority are involved. But we must not expand the scope unnecessarily
๐ขThis Saturday, XR Oxford and XR Waverley held a protest against planet-wrecking private jets at Oxford Airport.
Oxford Airport in numbers: โ๏ธAn average of 38 private flights PER DAY ๐ฉ๏ธOver 30 private jets for charter ๐ซ28% of flights completely EMPTY โ ๏ธPrivate planes are up to 14 times more polluting per passenger than commercial planes and 50 times more polluting than trains.
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Next Saturday we're teaming up with our buddies at Appalachian Medical Solidarity and the Asheville Bail Fund to host a discussion on abolition through the lens of healthcare with Dr. Ronica Mukerjee, co-editor of "All This Safety is Killing Us."
This discussion will examine the book as well as the impacts of over policing and deadly conditions at the Buncombe County Detention Center on our own community's health and well-being. Copies of "All This Safety Is Killing Us" will be available during the event, along with opportunities to support local grassroots efforts toward health justice. We hope to see you there!
Appalachian Medical Solidarity and Asheville Bail Fund host a discussion of All This Safety is Killing Us, the first abolitionist anthology that focuses on healthcare!
@Shadowman311 I do not wish to blow up your notifications randomly, but an issue has come up that deserves some attention.
This individual has spent the last week attempting - unsuccessfully - to identify me and a couple of other users from our posts and behaviors. This is because many of us called them a faggot over the internet. They seem to be doing this to be incendiary, but they are a South Korean journalist/professor by the name of Jesse Coy Nelson.
This individual should be treated as a threat, and people should be reminded to keep up opsec - mixing in truths with lies about their lives, so on and so forth.
I wanna note that I didn't know about Bob Vylan before the UK got mad at them for saying "death to the IDF" on stage, and it caused me to buy their album which was great! Very praxis.
โWe will be delivering supplies + walking the line with our fellow union brothers and sisters in their ongoing fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity on the job,โ Peabody Firefighters union president wrote in a call to action for โsolidarity.โ
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Once I read in this social network someone saying that "being against Assad is the litmus test for an Anarchist". And on one hand that's bull, being against ANY government, standing against being ruled, is the litmus test of Anarchism. Yes, even against "good" governments like Jimmy Goody-Goody-Two-Shoes Carter (who btw sponsored the beginning of the Mayan genocide). Being against a dictator that inherited power is something even a Liberal would do (unless it's European royalty, ofc).
Joy Metzler left the Air Force as a conscientious objector over U.S. support for Israeli atrocities in Palestine and joined a 40-day Veterans for Peace hunger strike for Gaza. She says it is crucial we escalate our protest to stop genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/why-i-qโฆ
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If you fly the flag on this holiday, it should be upside down. Flying the American flag upside down traditionally signifies a distress signal, indicating extreme danger to life or property. In modern times, it is often used as a form of protest to express political dissatisfaction or unrest.
The top one percent have ruptured the United States to make their version the best it can possibly be.. great even.
Theyโre doing it while deliberately destroying all of our lives. Thatโs the point of the tax breaks. Tax breaks, justify destroy, destroying our lives.
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"What the law does do, though, is pour $170.7 billion into immigration enforcementโmore than the military budgets of all but fifteen countries...It provides $45 billion for detention facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an increase of 265% in ICEโs annual detention budget. It provides $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement, a threefold increase in ICEโs annual budget." heathercoxrichardson.substack.โฆ
And to the extent it is about attacking immigrants, it's all rooted in the rot of his racism, hate and malignancy. He must be removed before the killings begin in earnest. But he won't be. There is no one to save us and death looms. NOT hyperbole. I shall be surprised to be alive in 2026 and we can forget any further "voting."
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"they could raise a billion new humans to maturity and train them to be Google customers (e.g., the business plan for Google Classroom)" ๐คฎ pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accโฆ Excellent blog by @pluralistic And lets kick Google out of our classrooms!
I used to think packaged pre-cut veg at the supermarket was for lazy people.
Then a disabled person pointed out it was a lifeline for them because they lived alone and couldnโt cut it up themselves most days.
I had never even considered that. It changed my perspective and I think from then on when something seems โlazyโ I always ask myself โis this just accessible?โ And itโs nearly always the latter.
Itโs not hard to listen to someone when they say something is not accessible and itโs not difficult to shift your perspective. I donโt know why so many people wonโt.
Years ago, back on twitter, I remember the writer George Monbiot talking about an automatic stirring device as an example of how materialist society was obsessed with creating useless things for no good reason.
I'd bought one of those robot stirrers for my Dad. He loved making sauces for everything, but in his last years, illness meant he couldn't just stand over a stove stirring constantly. It was hugely beneficial for him.
I absolutely hate how prevalent is the idea that the wants and needs of disabled people always have to be the first thing to be sacrificed. And it does always seem to be labour-saving devices and produce that are seen as the problem; nobody ever objects to washing machines, presumably because they help non-disabled people too.
I was the same, and I hope I'm learning how to shift my perspective a bit. I've seen it said that most things listed as "convenient" could also be labelled "accessible", but society prefers to think consumers are getting an easy life, rather than someone who really needs it getting assistance.
It hits the button in our brain that makes us feel better for being better at some things, but lied it's way into appearing not morally decadent while doing it.
There is only conservative politics today. You have hard conservatism, soft conservatism and conservatism with sexual & reproductive rights.
Yeah, I had a similar attitude towards "needlessly" electric kitchen tools such as electric pepper grinders and electric knives. Then I injured my hand trying to take the lid off my pepper grinder to refill it, and, being diabetic, it took months to heal. I got myself an electric pepper grinder. Didn't want the same injury to happen again.
Things which might be "lazy" to able-bodied folks, can make a big difference to those less able - even for something as trivial as pepper.
When one reaches a certain AGE or ABILITY.. THERE IS GREAT NEED for things ready made or smaller or as seen in others eyes .. Those in NEED have become INVISIBLE .. because people do NOT want to admit it could be themselves one day ...
it also costs more from grocery POV so I wonder if they donโt talk about accessibility because charging more for accessible things sounds bad. To me at least. #capitalism
I'm chronically ill raising a family and chopping vegetables was quite difficult for me, but I kept it up for a long while. But it made eating healthy tough. Then some years ago, I switched to chopped veggies, frozen veggies, canned veggies, and already washed veggies. It helped me immensely. I now tell everyone do whatever you need to do to eat healthy.
thereโs a similar thing with Christmas stuff in shops in September or whenever. I donโt get annoyed now after someone pointed out that some people really need to plan ahead and buy a little each week to be able afford Christmas.
Yeah I can attest to this, though I still manage so far, for how long anyone's guess.
See for me with MS I can get uncontrollable shakes at times, left side of body is more affected/weaker, I'm left handed, cut left handed, so as you might imagine, a knife is a dangerous and deadly tool, and when you shake uncontrollably the knife then does random chopping motions, it's then I pull back remove other hand, I could easily take out multiple fingers quite quickly.
So what do I do, well, I rest the tip of the knife on board - stability, and slowly cut in down strokes/method, that way because I'm pressing down all the time the knife does not leap around hunting for my fingers.
I knew before I looked at your profile that I'd probably see some variant of autistic identity.
I used to think that my propensity for seeing someone else's perspective was because I was weak; that's what society seemed to think. Then I learned better, and thought it was probably because I'm a scientist, trained to adapt to new information. Only lately (I'm 56) have I begun to suspect that I might be autistic, and that neurotypical people might be deficient in this matter.
I've become convinced there is actually no such thing as "lazy", at least not as the word means.
I got dinged for being lazy when I got a robot vacuum. I asked the person why using a regular vacuum cleaner *wasn't* "lazy" when beating rugs was an option.
"Lazy" just means "that's not what I do".
Sometimes "lazy" means "you found a more efficient way and I resent it".
i had this same ignorant judgement despite needing pre-cut for various reasons including it would help me #ReduceFoodWaste
Thank you so much for sharing all of this including the perspective about the 'hard work is good for us' mentality we, the non-rich, are fed pre-cut and pre-chewed.
It seems more expensive to get pre-cut at least in our area - another #DisabilityTax
As someone who has trouble cutting things, I'm thankful for the containers of mixed fruit, which I use for my bowls of fruit salad to have something healthy at dinner. So yeah, don't judge. Someone may appreciate having fruits and vegetables prechopped, to make life easier.
Nice post. People will change their minds about this once they break their arm or leg. Then theyโll realize how making things accessible is good for everyone. At least thatโs what happened to me.
I thought it was a misguided sales ploy. I would hardly see that stuff at a supermarket - I only got confronted with it through "food saving" in some of our crowds. But of course, this makes sense.
Got another one for you. Buffets? The single least accessible means of providing food to a large number of people.
My perspective, as a cane-user: I am already one-handed. So immediately, I have the problem: how do I hold my plate, while also filling my plate? Rarely is there room on the buffet for a plate to be set down. Almost no one ever thinks to offer assistance to people who have disabilities in using the buffet.
Before I even get to the plate, of course, I have the problem of how they bring people to line up. If, as is often the case, they call it table by table, then I am almost certainly, by random chance, going to end up in a long line waiting to access the buffet. Standing is painful to me, even more so than walking.
So I'm exhausted and sore. I arrive at the buffet. I get a plate and cutlery, which somehow I manage to carry in one hand. I have to balance the plate on my cane-arm while trying to pile food on it with my non-dominant hand.
Moving down the buffet, I come to the dessert tables! Hurrah! Only the only way to get a dessert is to have...another plate!
So I get no dessert, because I don't have a free hand to get it with.
And that's just one person's disability. Wheelchair user? Reaching those bowls up high on the table is going to be hard. Visually impaired? How do you know what you're putting on your plate? What if there's something in it you're allergic to? Gonna read the card maybe?
Missing an upper limb? See above re: being effectively one-handed. Palsied hands? Good luck. And so on, and so on, and so on.
And yet, over and over, I go to conferences, ostensibly social justice-focused affairs, and *every time* they pick the cheapest option, and make no effort to accommodate people for whom the cheap option is the no-food option.
Also worth applying this thinking to a lot of kitchen gadgets that a lot of people would say, โjust use a knife to chop your onionsโ or whatever the purpose
yeah, can honestly say this sort of stuff makes cooking a lot easier for me
Iโm autistic and thus have chronic fatigue + executive functioning issuesโฆplus I work full-time! so pre-cut/peeled vegetables and meal prep tools make a *huge* difference during the times Iโm able to cook from scratch
another perpective might suggest questioning why someone assumes or judges character flaws in people who buy certain products. Who cares who buys cut vegetables or holiday decorations?
I do wish that we could get some sustainable packaging though... Peeling oranges is hard for me but at least the peel will biodegrade eventually :/ I hate having to choose between sustainability and accessibility. Fortunately these days I can just cut an orange, but not everyone can and no one should have to make that choice
related factoid: a lot of the day-time shopping tv suff (amazing garlic peeler-chopper so simple you can use it one-handed! wonderful clips-on-the-side-of-your-saucepan sieve so you can literally just pour out the boiling water! etc.) are often accessibility utensils. sometimes they sell on tv to try to meet minimum production volume from the factory.
I haven't been able to cut a vegetable for 4 years now. Can't even cook for the most part unless my husband is home to lift everything and cut as well. Thank you for noticing this! I probably never thought about it before I had so many issues either. For people who live alone these things are really necessary
pre-cut veg is for someone who works a day job and then still has to get dinner on at a reasonable hour.
600g kipfiletblokjes (chicken breast cut up) 250g soepgronten ("soup vegetables", carrot, celery, leek, a few other things, shredded) 250g Pappardelle (fresh wide pasta noodles) 1 jar of concentrated boullion, plus three more jars of water. Olive oil for sauteeing Spice to taste
Season blokjes as you will. Sautee blokjes in oil in bottom of big soup pot until all outsides have colour. Add boullion, water, veg, cook according to directions on veg package (usu 12 min-ish). Add fresh noodles 5 min before veg should be done.
Bam! Chicken soup, all fresh ingredients except the stock, no chopping, 20 minutes, and if you deal with the recyclables while the soup boils, your kitchen is clean except for pot, spoon, and ladle, and whatever you're serving/storing it in.
That's my fastest recipe, but I've got goodly handful of others that depend on the Dutch penchant for ready-to-cook, pre-chopped fresh ingredients, everything from aardappelen (taters any way you can think of'em, sliced, chunked, pureed even) to zalm (salmon filets anywhere from a single portion to a whole side)... it's extremely *practical* is what it is, and I double-dawg-dare anyone with a day job and no live-in staff to come try it and then argue with me...
(oh, and speaking of sliced bread - the Dutch have half-loaves. They don't tend to use much in the way of preservatives, so it's _good bread_, but it doesn't stay fresh for long... instead of one whole, I'll get two halves, chuck one in the freezer... I lose a lot less bread that way, and even _white bread_ smells and tastes like BREAD and not this Wonder pasteurised processed "bread" food product meal... ptui... and did I mention the good stuff is cheap as chips?)
I never thought of that. I always feel bad about cut vegetables--sure, lazy, but also all of the plastic--and have tried to avoid it. This is making me think harder about it, so thank you.
A couple of decades ago someone pointed out that all the "as seen on tv" devices were aimed at disabled people, but weren't *marketed* as such because then they'd never sell, and at that point I stopped being judgmental about such things. And, yeah, applies to pre-cut vegetables, and smart appliances of various sorts (esp. lights).
the pre-cut veggies section is also really great for single people who want just enough veggies for a meal for one. Otherwise, you are buying veggies for 4, and they are spoiled before you can get through all of them.
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