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As someone who grew up in a boring ass suburb South of Pomona and East of LA, I was not expecting this on my dash today.

But you’re right Roman, it may have been boring, but at least it wasn’t Bakersfield

Whenever people from outside of California ask me where I’m from I always start with “California but not one of the interesting parts” and then they say “oh which city” and I say “you won’t have heard of it” and they say “I oh I might’ve” and then I tell them and they either say “oh yeah I haven’t heard of that” or “oh yeah I think I drove through there on my way to visit Los Angeles”

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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.

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As someone who has realized recently that they have multiple genders, THIS

I can be both man and woman and even nonbinary at the same time, they’re not all mutually exclusive, and that’s Okay!

It’s good even! It is affirming to hear it said by others that my gender can be all of what it is without somehow invalidating part of my life experience

another concept we need to blow up is the idea that womanhood and manhood are mutually exclusive experiences. i am begging y'all to consider multigender people for even one second when you talk about gender. you have no idea how alienating it is to exist as a multigender person when even queer spaces are aggressively binarist and constantly try to divide you from yourself, or reject you for resisting.

if you think "man" and "woman" are opposites which never overlap, I hate to break it to you but that's just the gender binary again. it's not a sliding scale with "boy" on one side, "girl" on the other and nonbinary in between.

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This.

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Remember kids, getting arrested to fill up jails and overwhelm the system was an effective tactic 60 years ago.

Now, though, Los Angeles has a prison skyscraper downtown, and the carceral state would love nothing more than to take you off the street and force you into years of prison labor.

Cover your face, be smart about what you post, and don't get arrested if you can help it.

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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So im making Kronk an NPC in my D&D game

So, tumblr, I humbly ask you this question:

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Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

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Im not 40, I just work caring for boomers and have heard all their music, istg, im not even 30

30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit

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HE'S DONE IT AGAIN ! HE MADE ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE FOOD IN THE WORLD INTO CHOCOLATE !!!

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How is it that ever time I traipse through a field (open this app), I get viscously attacked (the algorithm senses my mood), by demons and lions (posts that put words to emotions im not ready to process yet)?

May I not Traipse in peace?

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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

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my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill… then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old

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Too Much, Never Enough

Im never able to meet any expectations.

Too disabled, too able-bodied

Too mentally ill to relate to neurotypicals,

Not mentally ill enough to connect with neurodivergent friends.

Too autistic to connect with most,

Not autistic enough to have benefits.

Too poor to be well off,

Too well off to be poor.

Too kind to be mean over things that matter,

Too mean over the small things cause they’re easier.

Too happy to be depressed,

Too depressed to upkeep self-care.

Too independent to live with family,

Too disabled to live alone.

Too loud to make friends,

Not loud enough to be heard when it matters.

Normal enough to make friends and belong for a while,

Too weird to belong for more than a few years.

Too creative to work a desk job,

Too scattered to hold a creative job.

Too dissociated to be typical,

Not dissociated enough for a diagnosis.

Too OCD to be typical,

Not OCD enough for a diagnosis.

Too small to meet physical requirements for my job,

Not weak enough to get accommodations.

Too tired to stay awake

Not tired enough to fall asleep.

Too mature for my age,

Not mature enough to be a regular adult!

Too fucking foul mouthed to be professional,

Too professional to be approachable.

Too much,

Never enough.

Too Much!

Never Enough!

Too Much

Never Enough

Too Much!

Never Enough!

Too Much!

Never Enough!!!

CANT I BE PERFECT IN ANY SINGLE WAY FOR ONCE IN MY GOD FORSAKEN LIFE?!?!