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STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

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reblog to absolutely bap prev to death with your paws

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I just want to remind folks that there is a huge gray area between "Your disability is an explanation, not an excuse" and "Some people's disabilities are so severe that they really do need to be excused from certain things, and no amount of coping skills or therapy or practice will actually fix that for them."

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I've only barely started playing MTG but I am so far baffled as to how the community doesn't have some IRL equivalent of Pokemon gyms. People put so much effort into creating decks with unique theming, and while plenty of people are trying to optimize their decks to be flawlessly unbeatable, even more just seem to really like decks with cool themes surrounding particular creature types or mechanics.

I just think Magic would lend itself really well to a type of semi-competitive scene where you and your buddies can hop on the bus to the next town over to go fight Crab Guy (guy who likes crabs) at the Crab Gym (room at the back of a game store with paper crabs on the walls) to get your Crab Badge (small pin with a crab on it) by defeating his Crab Deck (deck whose only creature cards are crabs)

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Liberal Jane ‘24

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Disability pride month ask game!

When did you learn about disability pride month/when did you start celebrating it?

Are you doing anything special to celebrate disability pride month?

Do you use any disability aids?

If you have disability aids, do you decorate them?

If you don’t have disability aids, are there any that you would like to have?

Is there anything you consider a disability aid that others may not think of?

What do you love about the disabled community?

Is there anyone you look up to in the community?

Have you had any ableist encounters that were just kinda funny?

Have you had encounters where abled people were great allies to you?

Have you had a nice encounter with a fellow disabled person?

Which stripes of the disability pride flag do you identify with?

What’s something you wish people understood about being disabled?

What’s a symptom you have that you feel is underrepresented?

What would you have in your dream accessible home?

Do you play, or do you want to play, any kind of accessible sport?

What tips have you picked up for low spoon days?

Do you have any disabled headcanons?

Have you ever been somewhere where a majority of the people there were disabled?

Ramble about anything you like!

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“The Trump administration’s decision to publicize something like Alligator Alcatraz is not just a useful weapon that they can now threaten their enemies — and Elon Musk — with. It’s also a distinctly new form of propaganda. Something they seem to have picked up from the video tours of Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) in El Salvador. The concentration camp reimagined as a hype house. A place to make content, both real and AI-generated, that glorifies the power of the state. What Democratic super-poster Will Stancil described this week as “pornography for Trump’s sadistic base.” But also content that desensitizes you. That normalizes state violence and, most importantly, turns it into a meme. Trump’s administration knows that most effective propaganda of the 21st century is viral, ephemeral, and, crucially, stupid. Something CNN hosts can joke about on air, distracted by how idiotic the name is. How goofy the T-shirts are. Completely removed from the human misery happening behind closed doors.”

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Trump’s big, beautiful gulag

This is what Republicans voted for. This is what they wanted. 

Don’t let anyone tell you they didn’t vote for this, they actually voted for [low taxes | strong defense | the party | the price of eggs| some other bullshit], and now they are horrified. They never wanted masked thugs to terrorize and kidnap an innocent mother while her children watch. They never wanted masked vigilantes to terrorize entire communities and beat fathers bloody in front of their families. 

They never wanted any of this, they tell us, and maybe they didn’t want it, but he promised it, and his base held up signs celebrating it. He promised to inflict this terror and this sadistic cruelty on as many people as he could, and that even if they say they didn’t want this to happen, his repeated promises to do exactly this certainly weren’t enough to stop them from voting for him.

So many people who voted for him like to pretend that they aren’t Nazis; it’s the MAGA extremists who are the Nazis. It’s not this guy who lives in the middle-class suburb! This guy goes to church and takes his kids to soccer practice! He was appalled by January 6 (though he’s rewritten almost all of it in his head into something less violent). He doesn’t support those MAGA people; in fact, he’s embarrassed by them!

Deep breath. Okay. Hey, buddy, I have some news: there is no difference between you and them. You’re just as deplorable, and you do not get to pretend you didn’t vote for this like they did. You may dress nice and check all the “good neighbor” boxes, just like a lot of Germans did in the 1930s, but you don’t fool me.

Whatever justification you invented to feel good about what you did, doesn’t matter. It’s the result of your vote that matters, and you voted for terror, suffering, and incompetent malevolence aimed at the heart of our Constitution.

I will never forget this. I will never forgive you for the suffering you enabled. 

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"Accessible to everyone"

- Only has one wheelchair accessible bathroom

- The only mixed sex bathroom is the wheelchair accessible bathroom

- Venue has bright artificial light when not called for by the event

- The only outside space is used as a smoking area

- There is a step and no ramp to get to the outside space

- The flooring is uneven

- Doorways are narrow

- There's only enough space to fit one mobility aid user

- No public transport links

- Appointments only available for one half of the day

- Emergency cord in bathroom tied up, cut short, or tucked away

- Loud, echoing, waiting areas

- Very limited seating (yes even at clubs)

- Judgement about entering an accessible bathroom with someone else to help

- Nobody that knows BSL (or whatever sign language is appropriate for your country)

- Limited access to interpretation services (for necessities eg healthcare, banking,)

- Banning single use products

This could go on forever but I'm too tired to think anymore

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there are people with genders you will never comprehend and people fucking in ways you will never understand and people making art you just don't get and that shit RULES

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Yeah uh sorry but we're denying you the medication that makes you regrow the hands you lost in the accident due to cancer risk.

Oh the type of cancer? Hand cancer. It's. It's significantly higher when you have hands.

Higher than for the general population of people with hands? Uhhhhhhhhh well now you're asking really complicated and sort of ideologically motivated questions.

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End of Pride Month doesn't mean it's the end of Pride!

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Source

Let’s go!

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I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

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it doesn't matter how much someone's disability bothers you. it doesn't matter how much or how little they're able to help you bothers you. it doesn't matter how much their ability or lack thereof to "contribute" bothers you. a disabled person is still a person. and yes, that includes psychotic people- especially schizophrenic people, people with "gross" conditions like incontinence and inflammatory bowel diseases, people with personality disorders, people with dissociative disorders, people with obsessive compulsive disorder, people with bipolar disorder, and everyone else who deals with a stigmatized medical condition.

they're people. we're people. nothing else matters: we're human, just like you. snap out of it and stop treating disabled people with stigmatized conditions like we're subhuman. it's not making anyone else respect you anymore, it's exposing your violent ableism, and your desire to push people you don't like down in order to lift yourself up.