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Illustrations by mogoshin

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The neurodivergent experience is talking about your brain as if it's a separate entity from your self

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me remembering that luke and rey didn’t even have a good relationship and we didn’t get to see them as a parental relationship or even as friends

#i reject star wars canon and substitute it with my own

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the best way to support libraries is to use libraries. go get a card, check something out. not a big reader? they got movies. they got games. yes, like botw and fallout and let’s go eevee. they also have cds that yes, we workers know you take home and rip to your computer. we also do it. 

if you have a well funded library you might even have access to maker spaces that have 3D printers. or video/audio recording equipment. libraries aren’t these tomb silent homes for books any more. they’re community spaces. they’re full of life and things. 

put a middle finger up at jeffrey bezos and support your local library

#my favorite way to support my local library #is via fines after my ADHD ass forgets to return them for 4 days every time #me to librarian: do you offer accomodations

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Love that in a lot of classic literature people just “randomly” fall ill but bro their homes were stacked to the roof with arsenic and asbestos and lead and radium of course they were sick all the time.

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I’m back on here! At least for a little while.

I came out to..pretty much everyone, and am openly living as a guy. Most people are accepting, my parents are...trying, at least, even if it took a while, and I think we’ll get there eventually. It’s a relief to be out. I’m mostly going to be using my tumblr for escapism, so while there will still be Jewish stuff, most of it will be nerd things, handcrafts/art, and homemaking, since that’s what I’m into.

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#lis:tc #guess who finished this last night and is going to restart it the minute I get an HDMI #and can stream it for H

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just laying facts here

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Please please please learn about this and act on it. 

You cannot torture children just because they’re disabled.

What’s happening to autistic people right now?

(Trigger warning for abuse, electroshock therapy, torture, and ableism.)

The US court has overturned the ban on shock devices being used against disabled students, predominantly autistic students in the US.

The shock device being legalized is called the graduated electronic decelerator (or GED). This is a torture device that is used to ‘correct’ autistic behaviors / symptoms. Autistic people are shocked for stimming, and for having meltdowns, ect. This device was made popular by a behavioral center (the Judge Rosenberg Center, specifically) that is infamous for its abuse and torture of autistic / disabled patients.

(Image ID: someone is holding their arm out and resting it on a table, with their sleeve rolled up. Attached to their arm are wires, which connect to a small cube device.)

This is what the device looks like. It sends electric shocks into the victim’s skin; the victim often being restrained and held against their will. This is torture. GEDs have been reported to cause intense psychological trauma, PTSD, and physical injuries.

In March of 2020, the FDA ruled for GEDs to be banned. (Although, of course, they were still illegally used at a number of places.) This ruling has recently been appealed, and today, the US court of appeals has re-regulated the law to stop the use of GED. Sounds great, right? It would be!

... If not for a huge loophole in the wording, which basically allows this torture to continue. This device is going to have continued use on autistic students in order to “correct their behavior.”

“So.... What can I do??”

Great question! You can:

Listen to and boost autistic voices to spread awareness

As-of now (July 7th), autistic activists are trying to get #StopTheShock trending on Twitter, so Tweet out the hashtag if you have Twitter

If you’re in the US, email / call your legislators

Sign this petition if you’re in the US

Follow this case and look out for updates

If Autism Speaks (known ableist hategroup) says anything about this, DO NOT BOOST IT

That’s all! Thank you. Reblogs are very appreciated!!

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The Biden administration issued an interim rule aimed at ending the evil ugly practice of surprise medical billing Thursday, following up on a law passed by Congress back in December. The new rule, released by the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Treasury, and Labor, will go into effect on January 1, 2022, and should largely eliminate surprise medical billing, at least for people with health insurance through their employers, or who buy individual plans on the private market.

So what the hell is surprise medical billing? It occurs when somebody uses medical services that would be covered by their insurance, but which involves some part of service that — surprise! — is actually out of network, and billed at an insanely high rate. For instance, someone might make sure their planned surgery is done at an in-network hospital, by an in-network surgeon, but — surprise! — the anesthesiologist that day is out of network, and the patient is billed for tens of thousands of dollars. This practice has gotten much much worse as private equity firms have taken over American healthcare, because the whole point is to extract as much money as possible from patients, fairness be damned. Cory Doctorow has an excellent Twitter thread on how it all works, go read it, you.

As part of last year’s big omnibus budget bill, Congress passed the “No Surprises Act,” which authorized HHS to enact rules to put the kibosh on surprise medical billing. The resulting 411-page rule still needs to go through a routine 60-day public comment period and other administrative steps, but it’s not likely to be modified much, because public support for reining in the practice is so strong. Let’s take a look at how this sucker will work!

Fierce Healthcare has the skinny…

The rule would also forbid insurance plans from requiring prior authorization for emergency services, regardless of whether the policyholder goes to a hospital that’s in network or not, or whether the providers of the emergency services are in or out of network.

So if suddenly you are run over by a truck, you will no longer be expected to emerge from your concussed state and tell the EMTs to take you to an in-network hospital, or to call your health insurer’s call center to authorize treatment before they sew your leg back on. And even if an assistant surgeon scrubs in, you can’t be billed more than the co-pay you’d have to pay for in-network treatment.

The rules will also limit how much can be charged for air ambulance services in emergencies, another huge source of surprise billing.

Again, this is a hell of a big change, and will reduce one of the biggest drivers of medical costs in our god damned for-profit medical system.

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my wife sent me this.

#and laughed for an unreasonable amount of time #i love her very much

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i told Yechezkela that i was craving horseradish and she looked Upset.

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do you ever just write a single, beautiful line and feel really proud of yourself. then you look five paragraphs down, and there’s a sentence like, “I walked and my legs were walking” and wonder what in the goddamn heck happened

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just found out paul newman wanted to direct a gay movie but it never got made

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In the tags I said that I burned just my fingertips, but now you can actually see on my palm where I gripped the doorknob to open it. 

pnw update:

IT HOT.

#it's not severe or anything #but the fact it happened at all #I grew up in the south without ac and I swear it never got over 100 back then