Notices by TheBird (thebird@ni.hil.ist), page 2

@abolisyonista Wow, that's fucked up of them. Not surprised they'd pull bullshit like this because cops are known for disgusting bullshit like this, but still. Ugh.

#KOSA Is horrifying, and honestly, I'm worried it'll pass. That Democrats will throw away LGBTQIA people's right to exist AT ALL on the Internet for this bullshit idea of "protecting minors."

Kids are being used as fodder for culture genocide. It's sickening. Please fight tooth and nail to stop KOSA.

LGBTQIA folks have a right to exist. Our writings, art, existence, media all have a right to exist.

LGBTQIA kids have a right to exist too.

KOSA won't protect anyone. It will be used as a weapon to destroy the lives of people and harass us to death or worse. I'm legit shaken that Democrats in America signed on to this atrocity -- they really don't give a shit about us anymore.

I also worry this will impact the ability for websites and places like here to exist even in other countries that are safe for LGBTQIA folks.

Fighting for the right to exist at all is exhausting. But that's the point, isn't it? The Conversative Right wants to enact genocide, to exhaust us so that we give up and allow them to erase our existence entirely. And it's not just LGBTQIA folks being targeted -- People of Color, disabled people, Jewish people, and folks who exist at the intersections of those identities are as well. Basically anyone who is not white abled-bodied cishet conversative Christian is a target for these assholes.

Please fight this and all the other atrocities that these assholes keep throwing at us.

Don't give up hope.

Choose hope. "Hope is a discipline," Mariame Kaba wrote in "We Do This 'Til We Free Us," so let's enact the discipline of hope and continue to fight tooth and nail for the right of people like us to exist and THRIVE.

@Are0h @GordonIsenburg

Yup. Some people are just evil.

It's also really insulting for those with mental unwellness. Being mentally ill doesn't make one a bigot, nor should someone's bigoted actions be given a pass if they do have a mental illness.

Being a fucking bigot makes one a bigot.

People using mental illness as a 'get-out-of-bigotry' card irritate the fuck out of me. No.

Don't be a bigot.

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote, “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.”

It's interesting how so many quotes of her words leave out those last two sentences, which I think are the most powerful of the entire quote. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

And yes, art (including the written word) indeed plays a role in this resistance and change, but it cannot be the only step taken. We must push forward to resist in all avenues of life. To topple the capitalism empire for good and replace it with a society for the people and run by the people in mutual aid and library economies.

#Resistance #Anarchism #solarpunk #AntiCapitalism

isolation sucks

Being chronically ill and isolated sucks.

Yet society is deadset on making itself as hostile as possible for people like me to survive in it. I wish our communities fought against the normalization of death/mass-disablement and did more collective action like mutual aid. Instead, folks like me get tossed out as inconvenient and left behind.

It hurts even more when my communities claim to 'leave no one behind' and yet people like me (millions of us) are being left behind anyway due to lack of accessibility (Covid mitigations are part of accessibility by the way) and mutual aid to aid in our survival in an increasingly warming, hostile-to-life world.

It's so... exhausting and dispiriting.

Check in with disabled people. Aid us and support us, and please stop leaving us behind. Be accessible, please.

#Accessibility #MutualAid #CollectiveCare #PandemicMitigations #StopIsolatingDisabledPeople

I literally don't know what to do to convince the Disability Lords in America that my disability is real.

Not even losing my job due to LongCovid and its complications is enough for them. They keep throwing out evaluations that prove my condition and denying my claim.

Now I have to push for an appeal before a judge, and wonder how the hell to get through that without ending up collapsed and worsening my condition.

It shouldn't be this hard to get support and care, but apparently it is.

Every step of the way is covered in red tape, requiring health that I simply don't have to keep up with the increasingly impossible demands to prove I'm ill enough to get disablity. And yet I'm too ill to do it all.

I expected the betrayal and backstabbing red tape from the government because that's what the system is designed to do.

The system is set up to KILL us.

And there's only what... five or so people in power (progressive democrats) who for the first time last year tried to fix all this shitty red tape (plus the fact disability payments isn't enough to live on or the fact we can't marry and other shitty restrictions that hurt us), but mostly Democrats killed it (we all expected Republicans to kill it, because they are ableist white supremacists mostly).

So yeah, excuse me that I don't trust any politician in America to give a shit about us.

But that's not the true source of why I'm angry -- sure I'm upset and angry I got the denial.

But I'm even more angry at how the majority of #Leftists and #Anarchists who OUGHT to be building communities of care that include disabled people....

.... just aren't doing it. They are leaving us to fucking die just like the rest of America. The futures they keep depicting? The meetings and conferences they make? Most aren't accessible AT ALL. That glaring lack of access tells folks like me how content these people are with throwing us away as useless for their future and movements.

So is it any wonder that disabled people are pissed off? Is it any wonder we lack trust in abled bodied people? Because y'all don't give a shit about whether we live or die. Your actions keep showing it.

I'm so angry.

Just so damn angry, because it's not just that I could lose my shelter and ability to exist in my own space.

But it's also because I know too many people who can't get on disability. Who can't get any help, who are losing their homes and jobs and who are dying.

And the fact that people claim to be for justice won't include us in their future? In their solidarity? Because they can't even bother to wear masks or do any pandemic mitigations or an accessibility to keep us safe? Because apparently being accessible is "too much work?" (A bullshit reason I've heard one too many times, plus the whole blaming their inability to do access on 'money' even if I offer solutions that was little to no cost).

Yeah. That is a big sign of how much these people don't care. How much they ate up eugenics.

So yeah. I'm angry.

I'm that angry disabled person at home too sick to go anywhere, who is homebound, who is isolated, who doesn't get to see people in real life for weeks unless it's a medical appointment (and even then I've often had to go virtual).

Society throws away disabled folks, and with each denial in my attempt (and the attempts of my fellow disabled folks) to get help, it's just another stab in the back, another blatant abandonment/neglect. Another reminder of how my life has no value because I can't produce for the Lords of Capital. As hurtful as this is at times, it's never as hurtful than those who claim to be allies to disabled people and yet do the same abandonment.

It's glaring and painful to see Leftists not engaging in community care that includes us. That is by far the worst betrayal of all.

I expected the government's betrayal.

But I foolishly keep having hope that Leftists or even fellow anarchists won't betray disabled people, and yet, they keep consistently doing so with the lack of pandemic mitigations, lack of other accessibility needs, and a lack of even checking in and supporting homebound disabled folks.

So yeah. I'm angry. Just so damn angry.

And it's so damn hard to hold onto hope when there's a whole country hellbent on yelling in my face that I have no worth unless I produce (which I can't right now).

Anyway, that's my rant of the month I guess.

Just please be accessible. Check in with disabled folks. Give a shit about us. And stop leaving us behind in your justice and solidarity and equity movements. Thanks.

#NEISVoid #AmericaIsAbleist #LeftistsStopBeingAbleist #Accessibility #CovidIsNotOver #Justice

USA is a fascist state right now, and I really don't know why we are bothering to listen to Democrats whine about reaching across the aisle still.

Don't come at me and say that Democrats are fighting fascism.

They're not. There is a million things they could have done to prevent things from getting to where it is today, but instead, they served the interests of the corporations and the super wealthy.

And now Republicans are ripping apart every single right and program that aids marginalized populations - causing extreme harm and pushing closer to their genocidal aim.

And yet, I get ridiculous asks for more money from Democrats about how I need to vote for them to "fix this?"

What fixing? Y'all did absolutely GODDAMN NOTHING.

And those that wanted to do something? They had their bills killed by fellow Democrats siding with Republicans.

So yeah. Voting isn't enough.

I'll say that again: VOTING IS NOT ENOUGH.

It Will Never Be Enough.

We gotta rise up and stop this. This is getting bloody, and my people are dying because of the lack of action to stop the increasingly horrifying genocidal fascists that run a huge portion of the USA right now.

So yeah, save it with your fucking "vote out the baddies" speeches, and actually get up and FIGHT.

(I'm chronically ill and am in a wheelchair, but I still try to find ways to fight or help out the mutual aids in town. We all got our small bits to do in the Fight. Some of us are warriors that can get on the front lines and take it to the fascists. Some of us are supporters that support the warriors. Some of us are educators to train us all on the Truth that the fascists are trying to destroy and suppress as much as possible. There's all sorts of roles, but we need to actually ACT.)

Mariame Kaba wrote, "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair." Radicalize us toward demanding and fighting for a just, accessible, equitable, equal, loving, sustainable world for ALL people.

(I really want to live in a true solarpunk world. Seriously. Let's make that reality please.)

@futurebird

That's an utterly horrifying take by that Higgins person.

Libraries out to be better funded and expanded to include a library of things and library of repair. To move beyond just books and media.