That's the dadgum truth, right there.

Crowdfunding is going very poorly. I had to dip into the money I saved in order to afford necessities like groceries, menstrual products and transit fare.

I have $38/$299

I'm exhausted
Anything helps

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatiabesouls

#MutualAidRequest
#Disability #MutualAid #disabilitymutualaid #BlackMutualAid #crowdfunding #PWD #DisabilityCrowdFund #Queercrowdfund
#BlackMastodon #autism #HelpFolksLive2025 @mutualaid @mutual_aid@hexbear.net @mutual_aid@starflower.space @MutualAidVisibility

PIP is not an out of work benefit.
Many disabled people on it have paid employment.
PIP is a contribution towards the extra costs of disabilities.
Cutting it will not get people into work but it may force disabled people out of work if they can no longer cover the extra cost, eg taxis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/15/how-can-i-not-charge-my-wheelchair-the-real-effects-of-benefit-cuts-for-millions-of-disabled-people

I get a kick out of this "budget meal hack" trending hashtag on #scoopz at the moment.

It's always WAY over complicated, and made with processed food, and not actually budget because it costs like 3+ dollars a meal.

If you actually learn how to #cook #baking use staples/seasoning, and plan ahead, THAT is the real budget meal hack.

Don't say you need money. I do this on #disability

The economy is crashing. You should learn now, it'll save ya later.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/0zhuddDj?ctype=native_video&nid=3857500479402&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1742061982&actBtn=videoShare

Hi everyone, it's new article day

This week, Robert Iveniuk examines how anime can be used to shine a light on the ableism people with disabilities face in reality, using Komi Can't Communicate, Your Lie In April, and others as subjects. It's a great read that we hope you'll enjoy.

Link: https://hera.fyi/ableism

"This year a focus will be training people with disabilities to work in the field of emergency preparedness. The recent fires in LA, where some residents with disabilities burned to death, showed the tragic consequences when people with disabilities are not fully included in disaster response planning."

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/disability-employment-barriers-technology/ #Disability #Ableism #EmergencyPreparedness @disability

Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
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The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Good morning, happy Friday! Can someone please send at least $80 to Zay? Please. Have mercy on this kind soul.

#mutualaid #disability #Covid #LongCovid @mutualaid @disabilityjustice

Kev is one of 6 main characters in the wheelchair basketball comic I'm working on. He's is a retired wheelchair rugby player - hence why his chair looks so different to the other characters I've drawn so far - and when his wife (who's art is coming soon) started a wheelchair basketball team, but was struggling to get the numbers to actually play, he signed up too.
Personality wise, Kev is the team's jokey uncle and is meant to be a direct foil to the more serious characters on the team, like Ruby. He's already done the whole "serious athlete thing" and while he enjoys the game, at the end of the day, just there to have fun and support his wife, and remind the younger members to not get too wrapped up in it all.
He's a quad amputee (through the palms on his hands, above the knee on his legs) and is missing a good chunk of his tail too, making him a low-pointer on the court. Low point players are those who's disabilities impact their ability to play more severally, and they usually play in more defensive and supportive rolls than high-point players.
#Furry #SFWFurry #FurryArt #crocodile #disabled #disability #amputee #wheelchairSports

hello! i ran out of money mid-month again due to low disability income and im asking for rent/bills donations to avoid having to do in-person sex work again

https://paypal.me/briellebright
https://buymeacoffee.com/briellebouquet

please donate/boost as you're able

325/600

i've been keeping my eye out for jobs i could work and in the meantime am supporting my partners with childcare and housecleaning

anything that comes in beyond bills will go toward treating facial hair dysphoria with lasers. ive also applied to a local support org for gender care money that might help with hair removal

@mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Disabled #transCrowdfund #disability #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #crowdfund #lgbt

“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence?utm_campaign=post

One of my book's characters is one-handed. Was thinking about what keyboard she'd use.

The best commercially made thing I can find that's really ergonomic for one-handed users is this (1st ), and holy shit is it ugly. It's like "send me into depression that I have to use this thing every day" bad.

There's a guy who custom builds #keyboards like the 2nd , & he has a version with 34 keys in the main area of the each side, which should be "enough" with a little layer magic

5-minute piece on Irish national radio:
"Households with a disabled member at high risk of poverty, says ESRI"
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22495917/

Reminder about Irish ME/CFS Association research
Understanding the economic impact of ME/CFS in Ireland
https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/3-88

@disability
@disabilityjustice
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #Disabled
#Disability

$25/$99 bills
$85/$200 bills

Thanks for all the sharing and support

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatiabesouls

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The family group/tribe is built on mutual support, but the modern conservative version is transactional, based on membership and loyalty. Actions that look like kindness are in reality actions to reinforce tribal loyalty. I think this is why so many people in conservative communties, who are trapped in entirely conservative information spaces, have a hard time breaking free. They see examples of community support as affirmations of their community goodness, and this narrative is drummed into them constantly. Conservative leaders have the advantage of labeling any disruptive people or ideas as 'foreign' and a threat, even if from within the community, so that they never even have to engage with new ideas on merit.

Kindness isnt a relevant trait to their tribal functioning, because the ability to be unkind and cruel to people who arent toeing the tribal line is necessary to upholding 'family law'. Kindness in others undermines their attempts to police peoples behavior (this is why its so important that men are in charge). Therefore, not only is kindness devalued, it is actively persecuted as a threat to conservative values. And that is only treatment of your in-group. If you reject kindness internally, imagine how easy it is to subject an out-group to cruel inhumanity. You can literally justify anything. What is horrifying is the degree to which everyday members of conservative communities have become willfully blind to the terrible treatment of others in order to hang on to an image of community goodness. I have witnessed far too much of this in my life.

Its worth stating that the left has its own, different kind of tribalism. They embrace kindness but there is a lot of pressure to prove the right kind of worth. It has a distinctly multicultural, anti-authoritarian tribalism, where the rules of the tribe are under constant negotiation. This makes communicating a platform challenging. Its a lot simpler for conservative platforms whose rules come from demagogues and an old book.

The flaw of designing a system without compassion is that the cruelty eventually becomes impossible to hide from the tribe, and the cruelty comes for everyone. #uspol #politics #disability #sociology #anthropology #kindness #geopol

A team of aerospace and biomechanics researchers is exploring how people with physical disabilities could venture into #space, visit the Moon, and even travel to #Mars.
#Disability
https://buff.ly/ypjz2PE

Thinking back on how important Dundee University has been for me, giving me a fresh chance as a disabled person to change direction. With marvellous teaching, supportive members of staff and a strong local community. Here's what I wrote a few years ago. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/27/20-years-since-starting-postgraduate-history-study-at-dundee-university/ #DundeeUniversity #disability #academia #Dundee #Scotland