Late 40's multiply queer, multiply disabled homebound television loving cat freak. Yes, there are pronouns in my bio. You can use any set you like: she/they/he.
Okay. I'm gonna do a new pinned thread for easy access to other ways to connect with me in case of losing twitter, or you leaving twitter, or me leaving twitter, or whatever.
But I'm QTing the OG pinned thread so as not to lose track of it.
Decided to do a pinned twitter thread intro thingie. Gonna be long, so sorry if I spam your TL. Hi, Iโm Rosemary/sophygurl. You can call me either. My pronouns have historically been she/hers but Iโm trying out they/them in addition and experimenting with a lil he/him as well.
I need folks to understand that these ppl making videos crying about how they don't have the energy to work but have to work but have neither any money nor energy left over for anything else?
That's disability, babies.
@SleepyDjango
@TheIdiotApostle
I feel like he just acts like he has authority over them and it confused and scares them into treating him as if he does?!?! It's some kinda magic, tho.
If you legit can barely make yourself get thru a regular work week and have nothing left over to clean your home or run errands or cook a meal or whatever? You are too disabled to work full time.
That's what that means.
Maybe it's mental health/neurodivergent shit. Maybe it's a chronic illness of some kind. Maybe your immune system is shit because your job and our government has forced you to repeatedly expose yourself to a disabling virus.
All of these things and more are happening.
It's not fucking pretty, folks.
This future we're barreling towards?
Maybe stop mocking ppl who are literally putting their cries for help out into the world and figure out how we start taking care of one another.
ASAP.
Like, IDK how good the powers that be think the economy is gonna be when over half the potential workforce is too disabled to work anymore and ppl are either starving to death in the streets or straining what few limited safety nets we have to keep ppl alive but like.
@terra626
@nimfeachuisce
@StynaLane
Y'know, everyone has different tastes and that's fine, but please understand the criticism here isn't "she's bad now" so much as "she made a mistake that lots of ppl make because they don't know better, so we're trying to raise awareness now and hope she'll make it right."
@animalfndlv
Why don't you give Walter and Jordy back to his human, who was hospitalized when you stole them and adopted them out to separate ppl despite them having lived their entire lives together with their person???
Did you steal Sweet Pea too?
Stop
Leaving
Chronic pain patients
Who rely on opioids
Out
of
your
Opioid Crisis
Narratives.
We matter, too. Our lives are important, too. We deserve consideration and treatment and care, as well.
Not
everyone
who
takes
opioids
is
addicted
to
them.
Awwww, Jared talking about using a gender neutral name for a kid "because you never know what can happen..."
Is that some trans support or am I reading into things??
#BB25
@TheFrankBlaha
@umichvoter
No, these are not voters who are choosing between Trump and Biden. These are voters who are choosing between voting for an entire system that is failing them anyway and not voting at all. Please understand the stakes.
@yduspillurbeatz
@SleepyDjango
@TheIdiotApostle
Right, I feel like they're scared he really is undercover IA or a big time reporter doing a big piece on corruption or something. Or just in general using their same tactics against them makes the wiring in their brains go - he must be in charge here - submit!
#AdoptACasual
You all need to know how amaing IZZY was in that house.
She drove the first 1/3 of the game concocting complicated and hilarious schemes with Cirie who has now basically adopted her an official Fields family member.
1/4
#BB25
@aboutKP
@azeen
@tanyachen
@dvergano
You are one step away from saying you care more about otherwise healthy people who get the covid19 virus than about chronically ill people who need that medication. Please re-think this decision and do better. This is alarmingly ableist.
@bigblackjacobin
OMG, the lion bop is more like when a parent gently swats at a kid to make them stop a dangerous behavior in an urgent moment - not outright smacking them in the face for normal kid behavior in public - this is horrific.
1 thing I don't think folks w/out chronic illness understand is just how much time our illness takes from us.
Thread.
We all have the same 24 hours in a day? Hardly! (Also true for folks for all kinds of reasons - poverty, disability, care giving duties, etc.)
#neisvoid
The flour massacre was only notable because of the sheer number of ppl they killed and maimed in one go.
Every time Gazans seek out aid, they are risking their lives.
They didnโt fire on a defenseless crowd of starving civilians gathering for flour one time. They do it EVERY time. They did it again today! Itโs a hunting strategy. These are the sick fucks Palestinians have been dealing with for over 75 years. They CANNOT be left in control!
Like, not only is covid not actually endemic yet but WE DO NOT WANT COVID TO BE ENDEMIC. All that means is that it's gonna be around forever and still be causing lots of damage like please don't wish for that. Want better.
@faeline711
@NephiteHorse
@vrcraftauthor
Also the part about immediately being apologetic in front of the other man (appealing to authority) but then clearly being pissed off and self righteous when talking to his wife about it later.
@Tati_WM
Ahhhh. I mean, not everyone can afford for every kid to have their own room but UHM yes, parentification of kids is BAD, actually.
"Is emotionally abusing and psychologically stunting your child so bad?"
YES!!!! YES it is!!!!
@idabtells
@yeanopenottoday
@breath_bloom
@diorchanclas
@v4mpgrI
Also the kid was Laotian, so the police brushed off a seemingly gay teen of color who was asking for help. They later found his head in Dahmer's freezer, iirc.
One of the officers involved became head of the Milwaukee police union and just retired a few years ago.
@amandabee
@sesmith
I was almost levelled to the floor just hearing another elementary school was shot up without hearing a single other detail yesterday. There's no way gruesome pictures will help someone have more compassion if it's not already there.
@TheFrankBlaha
@umichvoter
Yea, I'm not gonna get through to you on either issue so this conversation is over now.
You seem to think our government can't do anything about either issue, which is false and disingenuous. Instead, they've caused more harm. Knowingly.
@mpgPhD
@q_aurelius
ffs he doesn't know anything about this woman, what her health conditions might be that make her want to be extra careful, where she might have gone/be going before and after that walk, if she was meeting up with other people, etc. etc. Like calm down dude.
@queersocialism
And *I* find it fascinating that when disabled ppl talk about how we all have different abilities and limitations and not everyone can do all the same things - ppl respond as if we've said no disabled ppl can do anything.
@blobbynfriends
@murderveggie
To all of the lovely and anxious men in the replies who worry about this:
1) TY for caring, being aware, and trying.
2) A lot of the time - we do develop a finely honed creepdar and aren't assuming that Every male near us is A Problem.
3) TY for not being A Problem.
@AnaMardoll
I really appreciate this reminder that our fictional characters can resist in multiple ways, through many modes that might be available to them, and it doesn't always have to look like a big scary battle. Even fucking up the gears of the machine counts. ๐
@ellle_em
If he consistently does well in school the way he's doing it, she should just let him ffs. I always put stuff off til last minute in school and did fine. Once I figured out that was just my process, I stopped trying to "fix" it and went with it. Thank goodness no1 "monitored" me.
@mikablue420
Right, I'm talking about ppl who lack the energy to do anything but their jobs (if that) but still don't have enough to live on so they keep working away and making themselves sicker and sicker.
And yea, capitalism disables a lot of ppl, too.
Stop using โjoblessโ as an insult, as if weโre not in the middle of a situation where record numbers of the population are unemployed, and many people are newly unable to work because of long covid, caretaking responsibilities, or being high risk lol. Just embarrassing
#DisabilityTwitter
would like to know why you stole a disabled man's dogs while he was in the hospital, adopted them out separately to other people, and refuse to give them back. Care to explain it to the whole class??
@hello__caitlin
Right, why is she trauma dumping on a stranger and filming it for internet hits and then making life more difficult by doing the "pass the paying on" chain?
@animalfndlv
How many of those 28 pups were stole from disabled ppl who were stuck in the hospital and adopted out without their human's permission or consent??!
@TheFrankBlaha
@umichvoter
The stakes are also thousands of ppl losing their lives in Gaza. An entire population being genocided out of existence.
The stakes are also millions of Americans who are being reinfected with covid over and over again with no protections or help from the government.
@remembrancermx
Not to mention ... asexual ppl can and do still have sex sometimes? Not all asexuals, but, yea, some do. People are so set on their binary thinking about Everything.
@RichardGmoney
@girdley
We're pretty rare. You can spot us in the wild by using the generational social call of playing Nirvana or mentioning John Hughes's films. Suddenly we pop up out of the holes we were hiding in to give a reluctant thumbs up of semi-approval and then go back to our lives.
@listening_loud
@Inadarkwood
And act like it's the worst nightmare imaginable to not be able to go to concerts and festivals with abandon when my 20-years mostly-homebound self is like ... life goes on without big sport games and conventions for a little while, I promise you.
All the ppl replying to this with "agree except for OUR travel plans, which are totally fail-safe, please listen to all of our excuses as to why" are killing me.
Maybe literally.
Unpopular opinion COVID edition-cancel fall travel plans. After getting breakthrough covid, I can attest-this is not fun. And does not have to be your future. Cancel fall travel plans.
@Warrenk18804864
@SCORPlOSWIFTIE
Maybe some sites would go that route. Others would not. Either way, we're gonna be segregating the internet by country and no longer sharing globally the way we do now. Which would very harmful in innumerable ways.
@LindaHirshman1
Because not everyone has the money or resources to move. They maybe can't get another job or have caregiving duties with loved ones in state. They know our whole country is going the same way so don't feel safe anywhere. They're stuck in abusive living situations. It's their home
@alissacaliente
As a 90's kid, I am still so diligent about this even tho I know the truth. Also learned a couple years back about "wishcycling" and started getting paranoid about which things I thought were recyclable really weren't. I hate it here.
#neisvoid
Brain fog issues:
do you all constantly google words you just typed to make sure you're using them correctly because omg I do not trust my brain for shit.
@thought_less_
@CentristMadness
Yk, I've been alive and also on the internet for a long time now but I am still actually stunned by the passive cruelty of this tweet. Like, just a total dismissal of humanity altogether.
@AMikeBloomType
Busted up laughing at Angela's and how Lisa literally closed her eyes and ears during it. OMG these two were a match made in hell for each other.
"They're threatening people with not paying attention, while simultaneously not paying attention now."
Imani on the centrist liberal threat, the threat of taking "allyship" away if we dare criticize the establishment.
@such_hockey_wow
@redditships
Holy shit this poor guy has been abused in regards to his glasses his whole life!? No wonder he seems to think this is normal and okay. Yikes. I hope he gets some help. :(
@sadoldbear
@AlHendiify
As a queer person? I'm happy this is a thing for everyone now. I used partner even when I was a woman dating a man because we weren't married but were dedicated life partners so it's a term that worked for us. I want everyone to have terms that work for them!
@Imani_Barbarin
This whole essay, but especially the paragraph that starts with this:
"You want well-wishes for the new year? I have none. As I write this, hospitals around the country are reaching capacity."
Thank you for your ferocity. ๐โค๏ธ๐
@AshleighWildest
@grrlintersect
I hear way more allo folk using aces as a weapon in their anti-kink arguments than actual ace folks actually being concerned about it.
You have the ability to organize to fix it, but you choose not to.
Additionally, where was this energy when disability agencies constantly have to sue for ballot access and accommodations?
You are no where to be found when we need you but when you want somethingโฆ
1/2
@danlehnermusic
The screenshot of the "I ain't reading all that" guy is the main one I'm not already seeing in the replies. I have legit used that one on friends in the groupchat. ๐
THIS IS THE THING.
THIS is the Thing.
Infections can cause all kinds of health issues and they can have onset weeks or even months after "recovery." Covid has more of these than anything we've seen before.
There's not just a "long covid" - there's lots and lots of possibles.
No, I Donโt Know Anyone Off Sick From Work With Long Covid. No, Terry Has New Onset Fatigue, Sophie has New Onset Vertigo, Paul From Purchasing Only Had A Heart Attack, Maggie From Accounts Has Developed Intense Anxiety, Maggie In Sales Has New Chronic Back Pain...
@ranbitties
@SamQari
You don't just quick fix up something that the guest can eat too? This is bizarre to me. Even in the highly individualistic US it's expected that if you're in someone's home, they will be giving you food and beverages at the proper times.
I really wish we could stop saying things aren't/shouldn't be political when we really mean partisan.
Everything is political.
But plenty of things should not be partisan that currently are.
@quelsee
omg the way he was describing it I figured you had a lot of serious niche interests or a specifically weird sense of humor he vibed with or something but that was so ... like a regular profile? dude really went wild over the use of an emoji and you being a blonde??
@FawnNoelle
@EcstaticFemme
@trefenten
@billybinion
And brought his dog in to say goodbye as they said they were going to euthanize him and DID surrender the dog to a shelter so he had to locate him on his own after to get him back.
Awwww, Luke talking about how he's isolated in his real life rn and he was really enjoying the socializing in the game right off until he suddenly realized the ulterior motives and how folks were already gaming. Poor dude.
#BB25
@a_h_reaume
Despicable. If they can foster animals until they find forever homes, they can foster an animal while it's human is in hospital and then GIVE THE ANIMAL BACK. FFS.