i have some discontent about the narrative “we will all end up disabled” “it is likely that you will be disabled before you die” and “you are only one accident away from disability” to convince people to care about us disabled people.
human health is fragile and it is very possible to become disabled, even severely disabled, when previously abled. but the sort of care and activism that will arise from “it could happen to you too” won’t be helpful to disabled people. it isn’t, for example, helpful to disabled people who were born disabled, and have been told many times by eugenicists that they should not have been allowed to exist. it also undermines the experience of disabled people who in their childhood, teens, twenties, thirties, are living a completely different lifestyle compared to their abled peers. people who only care about eventual poor health will not care about these young disabled people. will not care about the rights and autonomy of disabled children, will not care about accessibility in schools or playgrounds etc.
abled people also have the illusion that even if it could happen to them, it won’t. most people do not think they will become permanently disabled. telling them they might will not change this assumption, because there are many many misconceptions and untruths about disability. on some level many people may still believe that disability will be a consequence of doing something wrongly.
finally people should care about us even if they will never ever experience ableism, disability, or poor health in their lifetime. this is true for many groups. my white friends care if i experience racism even if they don’t. abled who never will experience ableism shouldn’t need to be reminded, persuaded, coerced into caring about disabled people
I’ve shared my battle jacket before but it’s been updated since so sharing again for solarpunk aesthetic week
By far my favorite piece of clothing, though it’s too damn hot to wear it right now. I embroider all the patches by hand, so it gets added to very very slowly.
[ID: A green army jacket covered in studs, safety pins, and colorful embroidered patches]
I have a question that’s probably pretty stupid, but I thought I’d ask someone knowledgeable. I know china is nothing like how it’s painted by imperialism, but the “social credit” system that affects people’s lives and privileges is real right? A lot of people online default to it for the argument towards china being terrible in one way or another, and from what I know it seems like a legitimately bad thing used to punish or censor people. Do I have this wrong? I’m sure there’s more to the story
In brief, while the ‘social credit system’ exists, it’s both fairly regional (as lots of things are in China, everywhere is constantly experimenting and trialling different paths), and generally applies only to corporations, and the rich. Western reporting likes to act as though they’re talking to fellow rich people, which obfuscates things - when they say 'your social credit score can stop you from getting plane tickets’ they mean 'if you’ve committed acts of embezzlement or corruption you can’t get first-class tickets and have to fly economy with everyone else’.
In the vast majority of cases the system is aimed solely at corporations and regards things like not paying social security benefits and the like. China doesn’t have a FICO-like credit system as the US does, because most Chinese people aren’t debtors. People in China generally don’t go into debt to buy things, they save up (because the Chinese economy is based on the sale of production, rather than the sale of debts, like the US economy). Before this system was established there lacked a unified system of punishments for non-criminal corporate violations.
That’s why the western businesses, which own the western news outlets, were very upset about this, and painted it as they did. They complain about stricter regulations anywhere, but for China they get to piggyback off of existing sentiment to get people who otherwise would support these types of regulations to oppose them. The 'environmental pollution regulations are tyrannical government overreach’ line goes down a lot smoother when people have already bought into a story of 'authoritarianism’.
Here’s some reporting from western sources backing this up:
Contrary to common belief, the cities mainly target companies, not individuals. Nonetheless, legal representatives of a violating company are also included in the blacklists to prevent reoffending elsewhere or under a different company. Nationally, about 75 percent of entities targeted by the system end up on blacklists because of court orders they have ignored—the so-called judgment defaulters. The remaining companies are typically collared for severe marketplace violations—for instance, for food safety infringements, environmental damage, or wage arrears.
im at a restaurant right now and there’s this like 16 year old kid sitting at the table next to me completely alone with like 6 racks of ribs. hes eating like 1 rib every 10 seconds and the poor server who was assigned to him has to keep getting him new ribs. ive been here for an hour just watching this kid inhale ribs like he’s gonna die the next day. he probably will given the amount of hot sauce he put on them
i cannot stress enough that this is a stick-thin teenage child sitting alone at a restaurant absolutely going to town on these ribs. this child is eating like hes trying to personally rid the world of ribs. i’ve been timing him, he orders a full other rack of ribs every 2 minutes. this is fucking insane i dont know what to do
Y'know that Mbmbam question where a kid goes to CiCi’s pizza because their doctor said they were too skinny, and to eat as much as possible? This is his spiritual successor.
Ok but why when I search for solarpunk art does a bunch of AI generated stuff come up. Using technologies currently used to disenfranchise and steal from artists is like the definition of not solarpunk, people. That doesn’t change just bc you generated pictures of some pretty art nouveau greenhouse with moss growing up the walls.
lou wilson I’M A FUCKING PUPPET in an incredibly strained high pitched voice at a cricket vs lou wilson YOU LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEDabout wanting to get in a bowl of pasta’s pants