Ask Twilight & Macintosh

marauders4evr:

A painting of many disabled people of all gender identities, body types, and races. In the center is text that says 'Disabled people are experts of their own lives and know what they need.'ALT
A disabled person with one arm and dark skin, looking gorgeous, inspired by nadina laspina, with text that says: 'Disabled people's lives are not tragedies.'ALT
A disabled person with dark skin in a wheelchair with a speech bubble that says: 'No marriage equality until people with disabilities can marry without losing benefits.'ALT
A chameleon with text that says 'Not all pain is visible.'ALT
Three disabled people of different races, gender identities, and body types. One has a prosthetic leg. One has an amputated arm. One is in a wheelchair. Text says: 'People with disabilities have a right to make their own decisions about their bodies and lives.'ALT
A disabled person with lighter skin next to a service dog. The person's dress says: 'If your activism isn't accessible who is it even for?'ALT
A wheelchair-user with dark skin, looking exasperated, with a speech bubble that says, 'I'm not interested in your unsolicited medical advice.'ALT

Since July is Disability Pride Month

(as opposed to every other month when we’re all demure about disability rights /gentle sarcasm)

I wanted to highlight one of my favorite artists: Liberal Jane.

beemovieerotica:

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

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The above examples have been provided with the authors’ permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

  • They are all 3 sentences long
  • Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
  • Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
  • No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
  • The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

liberalsarecool:

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Expand the court.

liberalsarecool:

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The POS test.

Could we see just a wholesome sight of Ralsei holding a bunch of lil pikmin? :3

lynxgriffin:

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How did he find all of these?? Oh well, I’m sure he’d think they’re adorable!

wordnerdwonderland:

politijohn:

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Source

All hope is not lost

Also what I haven’t seen people talking about is the other changes he made to student loan repayment that are NOT affected by the SC ruling. IE He halved the required payments for the income based plans from 20% of “Discretionary Income” to 10%. And if that isn’t enough to cover the interest, the government will be picking up the tab on that interest now instead of it being added to the principal. The quiet, policy wonk shit is what will actually get changes made. He was smart, he used the forgiveness to distract the republicans from what he was actually doing. I’d bet good money that everything was already written for the HEA approach well in advance.

showtoonzfan:

Man I can’t wait for Helluva season 2 to reveal that Blitzo abandoned his sister when she had no one and is responsible for Fizz missing his arms and legs and yet STILL expect you to root for him and feel bad for him at the end of the day. ☺️

liberalsarecool:

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