Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Sign that says "What is 'drama' to some folks is an existential threat to others."

On a more serious note, reminder to take your meds if you haven't already and drink plenty of water, especially if it's summer where you live. Also remember to do something nice for yourself today! You deserve it!!

every single time someone has brought up in general online spaces that you can't make sims with various disabilities, including just, sims who use a wheelchair, without mods

someone says "i just don't understand why you'd want this part of real life in this game about fantasizing having a perfect life"

fuck off, first of all. cripples can have a perfect little fantasy life, *too*, and also, that's not what the sims is for everyone. get the fuck outta here with that. messy breakups happen. sims can die and become ghosts. are no sims allowed to die because death is sad and hurts your feelings too?

and i'm over the couple of disabled people on these posts saying it's Escapism so therefore they don't see the point. first, you can simply not make your sim disabled. it's like saying you want escapism from like, queer content or whatever. just don't click the button.

and if the issue is the stuff being in the game at all - what, do you want escapism from other cripples in life in general? does me being in a wheelchair just pain you too much to see because it reminds you of your own disabilities? sorry, but tough fucking luck, we're in this community together, log the fuck off or mod the cripples out of your game, i'm not putting up with not being visible or able to see myself in media because it hurts your damn feelings

i've gotten pissed off basically every time i've read into this because the sims devs basically said "yeah we'll implement disability" and then they took a while, removed the saneism trait's name and eventually icon, and then never spoke a word about it again

and you know a probable reason why they didn't? because their fanbase, the people giving them plenty of cash, said "yeah nah, this is an ableds only game actually"

edit: okay this post took off, if you wanna materially support disabled people do make sure to do something other than boosting rants on ableism. you could in fact even boost other things in addition like fundraising posts. not that i'd have any of those. https://tenforward.social/@MindmeshLink/110537963686945695

figured I'd pull it out of the thread and make it its own post

I'm pretty sure "high functioning" and "low functioning" is just a measure of how well you can mask and executive-function and otherwise pretend to be neurotypical.

The reason we don't, like, slap our thighs to internal music when we're in public is /purely/ because we learned to hide it.

Doing stuff like that in public doesn't make you "low functioning" it just means you don't give a shit what people think. :3

Character study of the GoToSocial sloth, a future new member, when I'll be drawing the group of mascots of the Fediverse.

Directly inspired by the GotoSocial logo by @Anna − CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://gotosocial.org/

#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt
#GoToSocial #Fediverse #activitypub

Heads up - apparently Patreon changed their payment processor from California to Ireland without telling anyone, and, as a result, a bunch of transactions all got cancelled as "suspicious activity". Whether you're a creator or a patron, maybe double-check all your pledges!

It blows my mind that it’s 2023 and we still can’t have an anchor or a form carry out an HTTP PUT or DELETE request without using a library like htmx.

But Web DRM? Sure, we’re working on that!

*smh*

#web #dev #hypermedia #html #http

https://oliphant.social/@AnarchoNinaWrites/110749578745808454

And while I'm on the subject, why DO we accept thousands of flu deaths each year when many could be prevented??? (Rhetorical. I don't really need an answer.) In early 2020, before any Covid research, I found study after study proving that masks prevented the spread of flu, yet I'd never heard any suggestion to wear masks. We just let it rip and accepted all these deaths. No wonder all the anti-maskers argue that "Covid is just like the flu". If we accepted that, why not this, right? Smdh

Slightly unfriendly reminder to a lot of the white people in Black people's replies when they are talking about racism:

If you are doing that thing where you reflexively push back against a Black person identifying an experience that they are having with white people by trying to say it isn't about race or something else is also a factor that isn't about a marginalized identity, you are part of the problem.

"It isn't about race, it's about politics!"
"It's not just white people doing it, others do it too!"

Stop. You have to stop doing this. Check your instincts and deal with your discomfort with race on your own time please. Don't try make us hold your hand, we've done plenty of that already.

I see this stuff almost every day I'm on here. Well-meaning minimization of someone else's struggles ain't helpful and they damn sure ain't good allyship.