disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

ultimately i think mutual aid has a very specific scope of utility, and that's to pick up bureaucracy's slack. there's always gonna be situations that bureaucracy isn't fast enough for or doesn't have a solution to, and in those times your community should be ready and willing to step in.

i live in an area that gets very bad winter storms and helping dig our neighbors out of the snow is very much part of the culture -- a couple seasons ago a whole crowd of people showed up to help dig out our football stadium ahead of a game, and a different time a few years ago a bunch of people dug the players themselves out of their homes and driveways so they could make it to the game. our plows can't always keep up with the conditions, and we step in to help each other out in those cases. but if all snow removal was left to the goodwill of neighbors, we'd still be left with a hell of a lot of snow on the streets and sidewalks and driveways.

I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

I do often think about how the origin of “he would not fucking say that” was in reference to a post which depicted Cartman SouthPark responding politely when asked for his pronouns

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Coins picture Finwë, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon and Gil-Galad (from left to right)

Always embarrassing realizing you don't know basic facts about your friends. Like yeah hey, here's this person I love dearly, I've known them for 23 years, we've been through so much together. They're currently working in a lab.... developing... medicine? and also getting a PhD. I think. Don't ask me what subject.

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i have been so fucking cold and keep forgetting i can move to warm up

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Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

things about middle-earth that sound fake to people who haven't read the silmarillion

• the earth was flat until some people pissed off god enough that he punched it round
• the sun and moon used to be trees, but a big spider ate them
• elves even being in middle-earth can be traced back to one (1) dude hating that people mispronounced his mom's name
• sauron is a werewolf
• elrond's biological parents are a star and a bird now
• there's a sexy vampire lady
• fighting a balrog barehanded is so cool it'll get you reincarnated right away even if there isn't a current big crisis going on (sorry gandalf, glorfindel just did it better)
• satan got banned from heaven for playing his own music too loud
• if you were intense enough in life, when you die, you might literally explode