Disability benefits should be the equivalent of a full time job on living wage. Things don’t cost less because you’re disabled – in fact you often have additional costs of living. You shouldn’t be forced into poverty because you are disabled.
Before anyone comes in with ’ but then ppl would lie so they didn’t have to work!’
Two responses
Universal basic income + better wages is the way forward
Who fucking cares? Not me. This insistence that ppl lie to get benefits and as a result benefits should be a fucking pittance that it’s humiliating to apply for just fucks over disabled people and is inhumane
I’m not usually much for generational generalisations, but it strikes me that there’s something very distinctly Millennial about “I became a supervillain because the other supervillains assumed I already was one and I was too socially awkward to correct their misconception” as an origin story.
Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory
Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions
If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned
But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way
Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy
Hey, this 45-y.o. ‘adult’ didn’t either. Reblog to save bucks!
Other useful things to know:
Rayon is remarkably durable and can usually go in the washing machine if you don’t feel like hand washing. However, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE DRYER. You will pull out a wadded ball of fabric that has become a singularity of wrinkles. The fabric is fine; you’ll just be spending a lot of time trying to get the wrinkles out.
Silk as a fabric is also very durable, but if you machine dry it it will lose its shine.
For a lot of women’s clothing it’s the construction rather than the fabric itself that determines whether it’s dry clean or hand wash vs machine.
IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE
This is pretty much the definition of being an ace person, tbh, and I’m so glad.
this is literally the #that sounds fake but okay meme im dying
#ME#I THOUGHT SEXUAL ATTRACTION WAS RARE#AKA#HOW TO FIND OUT YOU’RE DEMI (via @miseryauthoress)
Honestly, every single cheating plotline never made sense because “but why do you have to have sex with them? just don’t??”
^^^^ Every single cheating plot line ever I was like: What is so hard about keeping your pants on what is your problem??
…do you have any idea how hard it is to do literary criticism that will get published when your reaction to at least 75% of character motivations is this makes no sense whatsoever why do they even care?
When people ask you why you don’t date someone just to try, and when you answer that well you’re not interested in that person, they explain that usually you don’t like the person at first, but you might fall in love after having dated a little while
and you’re just?????? but what?????????? is the point of dating someone if you don’t like them??????????????
what do you mean the point is making out and sex????????? why would i want to do that with someone i don’t already like?????????
I have literally experienced all of these.
my realizations laid out before me. xD;;;
this is adjacent to the Bi Realization of like “oh my god… there are people who… only like… ONE gender??? like, at all? Ever?!?!!?”
Yeah like I know baby boomers who talk like this and you can kind of just tell they don’t have the words and the self acceptance to realize this sorta thing is what’s happening
On the bi thing, really, that’s the feeling that kept me clueless of the fact that I am bi for 32 years (am now 33. It’s all new for me).
I’ve always thought, like, “oh sure I can easily imagine myself with women, and who can blame me it’s a known fact that women are hot right? But I’ve only been with men and I tend to imagine me with them more so that’s what straigth means, right?”
Cue me for years more and more imagining myself as the characters I ship (which I tend to do when I’m touching myself and such) and often I’d imagine myself being the guy doing stuff to the woman, for some reason. Because so many of my ships tend to be guy+woman, but still, look at me touching myself imagining me touching a woman. But hey I’m imagining a guy with a woman so I must be straight right?
And cue my LGBT+ friends baffled that I’ve always realized things like that and never came to the conclusion that yeah I like girls too. Because I never understood the idea of “I cannot ever imagine myself with someone of this gender”. Go figure.
Oh mood, the “everyone thinks women are hot” thing kept me confused for decades
it worries me so much that there’s been this (mostly unintentional) culture built up around coming out, to where young lgbt kids are putting themselves in danger at school and at home because they don’t want to “live a lie.” i just want to say, i came out when i was 15 and it created a lot of difficulties in my life that i could have avoided by waiting until i was older. it isolated me socially, it exposed me to homophobia from my parents, my family, my teachers, and my classmates at the most important developmental stages of my own confidence and sense of self… closeted people are not living a lie. closeted people are surviving. don’t let anyone pressure you to come out before you’re ready. don’t put yourself at risk when you don’t have to.
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