Something I think about a lot with neurodivergence is how often the ânormâ our brains are âdivergingâ from is not any sort of human norm, but just a modern norm invented by capitalists. Maybe demanding we all sleep on Henry Fordâs schedule and do endless paperwork to live is the divergent path here.
Next time some dipshit asks you why you're still masking, just answer, "Because I'm not going to stop masking just because Joe Biden said it's okay!" and watch their brains try to pull them in two directions at once.
This is how my grandmotherâs family was âremovedâ. Anne Frank died of the flu in a concentration camp. Disease was not only rampant, it was encouraged. They plan to hold people in Texas. I doubt theyâre planning on air conditioning. People will die. They just wonât be âkilled.â
mutual aid is good and also it is absolutely not an even vaguely adequate substitute for a federal government disaster response effort
Creative writing .matters. for real.
this is why I ignore people who say "just protest the right way!" the issue isn't the method of protest; it's that they're protesting at all.
But I think it says so much that JD Vance was like âmy housing plan, my health care plan, my child care plan? The same plan: massive wide scale ethnic cleansing.â And we DONâT have a strong norm against that.
everybody who writes about living in authoritarian societies is very clear that this is one of the biggest things: self-appointed pro-regime vigilantes snooping on their neighbors, legal requirements to inform on people, self-censorship and pre-emptive compliance to avoid getting caught up
hey, cis folksâespecially pennsylvaniansâlemme ask you a question: would you use the window bathroom? what if your choice was âwindow bathroomâ vs âbathroom where i get assaulted by boys for being a trans girlâ? how would having that be your only choice affect your experience of school?
A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 âto cut windows into the âgender-identityâ student bathrooms so passerby can look insideâ
These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children while theyâre in the bathroom. Itâs absolutely mind-boggling.
Empirical studies just keep beating the absolute crap out of the minimum wage boogeyman. Thereâs definitely a point where that isnât going to be true but it does not seem that weâre particularly close to it right now
Since going into effect on April 1, Californiaâs $20 fast-food minimum wage has not led to overall job losses as industry groups had warned, a study by UC researchers found. (via California Sun) www.kqed.org/news/1200715...
Despite concerns, Californiaâs fast food industry maintained stable employment, though consumers are experiencing modest price increases, new research shows.