suspend:

tathrin:

positive-memes:

Her first menu.

Fuck man I’ve literally never even thought about this (which sounds so stupid when I type it out but that ‘s the insidiousness of abelism isn’t it? If we aren’t he ones affected we don’t think about it) but that’s ridiculous. Getting a brail menu made up can’t be that difficult. (And if it is, it shouldn’t be.) The big chain restaurants, certainly, have no excuse for not doing this. They can afford to put in that effort, can afford those extra printing costs without question. And they should be doing it, without question. But they won’t unless we say something.

So how about the next time you go into a restaurant, you ask them if they have a brail menu. Tell them you’re “checking for a friend” or whatever, I don’t care. Just ask them. Start making posts and tweets. Heck, tweet at the restaurants if they’ve got twitter accounts. If enough people ask, if enough pressure gets placed, they’ll see there’s a demand. They’ll see there’s a need, an obligation to provide a basic fucking menu that everyone can access. And maybe they’ll take steps to meet it. We can hope right?

Because the fact that this isn’t already standard practice is fucking appalling.

to be honest Ive never thought of this too so I’m reblogging to spread it out there!!

2ollux-captor-ii2-my-dance2tor:

useless-worthless-nobody:

azalea-in-time:

When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.

You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.

These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.

Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO

I feel that this is relevant considering it is October and more Haunted Houses are opening up. I know it seems funny to scare the ‘monsters’ but all you do is hurt real people. So stop.

It’s not even October but I’m still spreading this

SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOSSSSSTTTTT!!!!!!! Now

tea-and-biscourse:

ness-paula:

stephanemiroux:

stephanemiroux:

discoboob:

angelclark:

99-Year-Old Lady Sews A Dress A Day For Children In Need 

Lillian Weber, a 99-year-old good Samaritan from Iowa, has spent the last few years sewing a dress a day for the Little Dresses For Africa charity, a Christian organization that distributes dresses to children in need in Africa and elsewhere.

Weber’s goal is to make 1,000 dresses by the time she turns 100 on May 6th. So far, she’s made more than 840. Though she says she could make two a day, she only makes one – but each single dress she makes per day is personalized with careful stitchwork. She hopes that each little girl who receives her dress can take pride in her new garment.

this lady must live forever

http://wqad.com/2015/03/12/99-year-old-woman-reaches-goal-of-making-1000th-dress-before-her-100th-birthday/

She made it!

She recently passed in May and was still sewing dresses that day (her final count was 1234 dresses).

http://wqad.com/2016/05/06/quad-city-dressmaker-dies-on-eve-of-101st-birthday/

Someone continue this lady’s legacy.

I love her so much.

wilwheaton:

optimysticals:

tethmos:

september-before-a-rainfall:

Jesus.

Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

thecringeandwincefactory:

socialistexan:

demigodwitch394:

socialistexan:

gao-l:

socialistexan:

harbinger-of-reason:

socialistexan:

staticonthesignal:

socialistexan:

When Elon Musk proclaims himself a socialist:

Musk has done more to further human progress in a few years than most do in a lifetime.

How’s that boot taste?

“Progress” should never come at the expense of human life. Never. Flat out.

How about an actual source cause this article sounds like bs.

The source is the Guardian, which is one of the most trusted newspapers out there.

But it’s “fake news” when they say something you don’t like, right?

Here’s the LA Times

Here’s CNBC

And is those are too Looney Leftist for you, here’s Fox Business

Progress comes at a price. You don’t like your job? Get a new one.

It’s not like he’s forcing you to work for him so if you think it’s dangerous, drop it, stop it and jump off to your dream job.

Can I make that a slogan

Drop it and stop it

You know, I’m going to step this past snarky gif use to an actual response here.

You are either young and incredibly naive or rich and live in a bubble, because for the large majority of workers, you can’t just leave your job.

78% of workers say they live paycheck to paycheck, there’s no savings to fall back on. You lose that job without another in line? You’re a month, probably less than, from being homeless. The vast majority of people do not have access to the privilege to even think about presuing their dreams so assholes like Musk can build ego rockets and the Waltons can own a yacht with another yacht inside.

The general population in the US is this creepy fucking combination if a) so fucking duped by this American Dream shit that’s still got its claws in everyone and b) zero empathy for anyone whose experience is even mildly different from their own. Man, I have lived here damn near my entire life and I don’t fucking trust us.