the good news is i caught the wool-monching fucker before it grew wings and flew away to make more of the fuckers? the bad news is i caught it after it ate through several stands of a hand processed single waiting to be plied. the ew news is: ew.

speaking purely from experience with my 100% disabled brood, UNDER utilization of accommodations — and inadequacy of available accommodations — is significantly more of an issue in academics.

CDC estimates 28.7% of adults have a disability. Obviously this increases with age, but the article's claim that it is like... 5% of the population is unfounded. Broadly speaking, most DSS offices work with 10-15% of the student population. Can increase/decrease in some contexts of course.

I am just one professor, but (a) yes, accommodation requests have gone way up in my classes over the last few years; (b) it has had no negative effect on me or my classes at all (and presumably helps the students who need the accommodations).

If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp

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If all you did today was breathe and survive… that’s ok. Surviving a capitalist, eugenicist, ableist system is hard work. Resistance is exhausting. Never forget that rest is resistance. Survival is resistance. You’re not alone. There’s more of us than there are of them.

it's not that there's no difference between "food insecure" and "steadily employed and homeowner"; obviously there are objectively significant differences. it's rather that we are all in the same class; 1/

strong floor, strong ceiling. strong walls. strong windows. strong basement, bolted to the frame. no big bad wolf is blowing THIS house down!

I still call that work. When I cook every night? That's work. A lot of it. Planning and shopping weekly groceries/menu? Work. This helps me make sure I don't undervalue it, and by extension the people doing it, when I'm using money to outsource it. It's also responsibilities maybe, but still work.

How queer organizers feed their people, from New York to Atlanta

i kept out a knitting project even though it's wool because it's not gonna get moths in it if I'm taking it out and working on it — but i can't work on it because i put all the skeins for it in the dry ice fumigation bags and i ran out of the main color. i hate moths.

People argue and deny this because it's terrifying to accept that you are one random bad luck incident away from being dependent on a food pantry and applying for rent or mortgage assistance, and a couple of random bad luck incidents from losing absolutely everything. It's scary. It's also real.

i made a gif.

If your income relies on you working for a living, you're not rich. If you'd have to change your standard of living if something happened (stroke, hit by a bus, whatev) and you could no longer work, you're not rich. That's the point.

And that’s why we should take it seriously when safety nets are being stripped left and right. Just because you don’t need it right now doesn’t mean you never will. It does affect us.

Yeah, like, I’m incredibly privileged in that I don’t wonder where my next meal comes from, can regularly pay my mortgage on a house I bought in 2008 when prices were LOW, and I can afford vacations and hobbies… but that can all change on a dime if I don’t have a job.

All of you are poor. These hypothetical poor people everyone is discussing are us. We’re poor. Idc if you make 6 figures or not. You’re poor too.

final answer. (if only because my tablet died at almost 4am while working on this 🤣)

I'm definitely on team all of the above. i see it in my teens: the ones who are motivated to engage are too dysfunctional, and the others claim lack of motivation which i suspect is a mask for dysfunction. and we're an anti-ai household, but what does that mean when they're on tiktok every day?

hmm. this is... addicting.

i TOLD y'all i shouldn't be allowed near procreate

my partners spent the day gathering alllllllllllllll the wool in the house (and buying contractor bags and dry ice). i spent the day identifying what was wool, trying not to panic, and playing with procreate. meet widdle deviw, a demon-mouse-shrew who just wants to be your fwiend.

scented garbage bags should be illegal or if not then at least required to be FUCKING LABELED. also contractor bags should be EXTRA illegal to be scented. ow.

Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!

Cannot emphasize this enough. If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media. Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt

so. many. hands. have touched every single thing you eat, wear, use. none of us is independent; we all exist in a web of support, relying on people we have never met and may never meet for our safety, our sustenance, our joy, our satiety. you are alive because of so many people's labor.

Farm workers unearthed these potatoes with heavy machinery. They’ll now be cleaned and sorted by hand for size and quality before being bagged or sent to cold storage for future packaging and shipping.

Yum tamales! This worker is hand weeding organic corn. Organic produce can be labor intensive because no pesticides are used to control weeds.

A farm worker shared this from where he's harvesting romaine lettuce. The crew has 26 workers. One group harvests the lettuce, the next group bags it and the last group puts it in the boxes.

You can see the raspberry canes growing in the background. This worker is going through the flats that were just picked and filling the clamshell retail boxes. She is making sure only high quality berries are included and the weight is accurate.

This WA apple worker is taking a break at the end of a row of apples. This method, where the trees are trained along racks, is most often seen in newer varieties like honeycrisp and cosmic crisp apples. It increases sunlight to each branch and reduces how much ladder work is required.

These are organic onions in Oregon that were bagged after digging, to allow the mud to dry. They are then dumped back out into rows for a machine to collect — the dirt falls off easily once dry.

Green beans are durable enough to be largely harvested by machines and then sorted and cleaned for quality by hand. The specialty varieties are more likely to be harvested by hand in a process similar to the work in this video. (Video shows snap peas from Salinas, CA.)

This is a sweet potato harvest in Merced County CA. Workers began working at 4am to avoid extreme heat. They sort the potatoes and distinguish their size and shape while the sun is rising.

This video is from this summer’s peak cherry picking season in WA. If workers work super fast they can make extra money during these 4-6 weeks. This worker reported being paid $4.50/22 lb bucket. He is very fast and averaged 55-65 buckets/day. It was around 100° that day.

This broccoli isn’t ready for harvest yet. This is an irrigator working to connect the pipes between the rows. The pipes weigh 25-30 pounds and will need to be moved around many times so the broccoli can be watered thoroughly but efficiently.

Cauliflower is sliced from its thick stem and then excess leaves are trimmed off. The heads of cauliflower are often cleaned and packaged right in the fields on platforms that move along with the workers.

Turnips (like these in central CA) are either harvested by hand or unearthed by machine and then cleaned and sorted by hand. These hand harvest workers were being paid by the bucket of trimmed turnips. The yellow tag is their tally to keep track.

Brussels sprouts grow upright on a tough, woody stem. This picture is a partly mechanized harvest, but a crew of workers used machetes to cut off the stalks in the field, while another worker trims off the leaves as he feeds the stalks into the machine. It's grueling work especially when it is hot.

Fresh herbs (whether sold fresh or processed by drying) are delicate. They are often hand harvested, like this parsley in Ventura County, CA.

Here is the poblano chile harvest in Santa Clara County. The workers harvest the peppers, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt and dump them on it. A worker then directs them into different bins.

These workers are harvesting celery. They use a curved blade to cut and trim the bunches. It is often packaged right in the field by another crew of workers.

Workers here are cutting the tough pumpkin vines. Other workers will then collect and sort the pumpkins by size. Pumpkin (like okra and cucumber) has tiny hairs on the vines that can be irritating to the skin, eyes and respiratory system.

There are two methods for cranberry harvest- wet method and dry method. Pictured is the ‘wet harvest’ method where the cranberry bog is flooded and the plants are shaken to dislodge the submerged berries, which float. (Fun fact: in a flooded bog the workers become high ground for the spiders.)

This adorable little acorn squash was harvested by hand with the extremely sharp shears pictured. It takes both strength and skill to work quickly without cutting your fingers.

This Monterey Mushroom facility has a strong union contract. The good union wages and benefits make for low overturn, which makes for extremely skilled workers like this.

oh, okay. sure. we can discover a moth infestation today, in the middle of cleaning up for a feast day and i do not have time nor freezer space to put all of my wool in deep freeze. apologies to the economic blackout, i just ordered $90 of moth traps overnighted and i am not actually sorry. 🧶

i have a lot of gratitude this year. i also have a tremendous amount of ingratitude towards institutions and "leaders" who should know better. not planning to forget.