Notices by Morgan ⚧️ (raphaelmorgan@disabled.social)

@aud @mekkaokereke @saraislet another reason to protect our queer community like hell right now. If you're not visibly queer (or not queer at all), this is a great time to walk with your queer friends and do everything you can to keep them safe. We may have made a lot of progress against STIs, but there are a lot of people trying to recreate this gap for future generations by getting rid of us en masse again now

So now that @roari has a *part time job*, the county has decided we need less than $100 in food stamps! Even though they're making less than our rent!
I've been procrastinating asking for help, but we're already behind on rent and this is the last straw. I keep thinking we just gotta wait out my last year of school, but if we don't pay rent by next month I won't be able to sign up for my last semester of classes :/
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@elexia @ItsMorgan every time someone says sex work is wrong because sex workers are being exploited, I wonder how many jobs they've actually had and how many of those were obtained through nepotism and/or Ivy League networking
Because I've never met anyone else below like upper-middle-class that had a job and wasn't being exploited, even my most enjoyable jobs had some Bad Shit Happening and human rights being violated all the time
So why aren't SWERFs etc calling for a ban on those jobs? /rhet

@InternetEh the tiktokification of Sid 😔 /lh

@InternetEh I'm not sure that's where it came from, but it is a common way to censor "sex" on there to avoid censorship

@AnthonyJK yeah, I can understand thinking there's some sort of conspiracy but assuming the power is in the hands of Jewish people is just repeating the same old anti-Semitic talking points. The reason that no US politician is allowed to do anything that doesn't help Israel is that Israel is profitable for US capitalists (most of whom are not Jewish). Israel has no power over the US, it's just the rich having power over everyone else yet again

@eob and thank you for listening, and of course the bot! You're doing something very good here.

@meganL @eob agreed! If anything, a modification that would make it better for Americans would be adding a state or province where available instead of just city and country. I can figure out the numbers, mostly because the posts give good references, but I don't know all nearby cities and if the state is given I can instantly know if this is close enough to potentially affect me.
That being said, this is also something we can look up! In fact that's what I did with the one post I saw for the US

@AnthonyJK @hrefna yeah I have plenty of problems I've had with TBS and over time most of them have proven to be lies that people told me. At that point it's like... If there are so many things wrong with it, why resort to making shit up? The debunked lies have ended up making me trust it more in the long run because why lie if you can get your point across with the truth?

Anti-car ableds: ban cars! Everyone can bike or take the bus!
Pro-car ableds: actually, disabled people CAN'T bike or take the bus and they all CAN drive! So do absolutely nothing about a car-centric society!
Anti-car ableds: *actually* I saw a bike that people can use without feet so checkmate! Disabled people don't need cars!
Anti-car ableds 🤝 pro-car ableds:
Ableism and not fucking listening to disabled people

@starshine yeah considering Tumblr DMs were being used against trans women on Tumblr and that's a part of this whole thing... Our DMs here are no less private than any social media site. In fact, I'd say they're better because only our 1-10 admins can see them, instead of a whole company's worth of moderation people and whatever corporations they sell our data to

@PamCrossland @starshine ideally, no one else should *be able* to read them unless someone makes a complaint

@burgerdrome you'd think that they would try simply becoming someone who gets less of these criticisms, but apparently that's not an attractive option

@blogdiva as tired as I am of Dems demanding that I vote blue no matter who, I think it would be way more bearable if the same people showed any political goal other than playing keepaway. If I could count on them to criticize officials, I'd be more confident in voting Dem... but every time I criticize any Democrat politician, even if I say I plan to vote for them anyway, they come for me 🙃

@AnthonyJK some people like to think they can save the world with one grand gesture, and as soon as they seize power they can immediately destroy capitalism or something. The rest of us want to eat food in the meantime

@bhasic @TheBird everything people do to hurt us hurts a little more when it's hypocritical. It's not hypocritical for centrists and right-wingers to support eugenics because they'll just say it, mask off. Leftists, on the other hand, pretend to care about other people and pretend to be more pro-human-rights than others. Those mentioned keep a mask on, but not the one that could save lives

@tillshadeisgone lately I've also seen all topics surrounding Palestine being censored (unless they're pro-Israel in which case the algorithm lets them be). Hamas as hummus, using the watermelon emoji to show support for Palestine without being censored, etc. Like not only are they encouraging self-censorship on all topics relating to death or sex, but they fully pick sides

@AnthonyJK like, I know Hamas is queerphobic, and why the fuck should that make me not care about Palestinian civilians? If Israel managed to kill all of Hamas without harming a single civilian I'd be like "well that was harsh" but I wouldn't be 24/7 angry and sad about it like I am. Because that's not what's happening, that's not their goal. How am I supposed to lose empathy for innocent people over someone else's crimes? People still cared abt me when Trump was president 🤷

@Rasp @SecurityWriter no excuse, join a union
(/j, I also don't have a job and am not in a union)

one of my biggest anxieties when writing scientific papers etc is knowing what I need to find citations for out of the stuff that I simply know. because it's okay not to if it's "common knowledge," but once someone is in academia for a while it's hard to tell what counts.
so hear me out: website where academics submit facts and ppl who aren't in that field of study tell them if that counts as common knowledge. writers get to know if they need to find sources, and voters get to learn tidbits?