This week's audiobook is The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein.

I highly, highly recommend it. It covers how, with the assistance of the US and EU, Israel intentionally made Occupied Palestine a testing ground for weapons for the western powers.

Emma Goldman was right.

@rawchili this is so damn funny

I'm probably not going to be able to do this and I don't have anyone I feel will help me on short notice if I ask and my case manager basically said there are no systemic options for cleaning help unless you're someone who already has an arrangement with a home health aide.

i am not in solidarity with the trans person in my town cold DMing me de4th thre4ts because of my political posts and making posts about how they wish they could "raid" people with no consequences.

idek why I'm still here. I'm so tired of feeling like an inanimate lump of pain and discomfort and burnt out hypervigilance all the time.

Why do people never take survivors seriously?

#homelessness
#homeless

#unhoused

someone on t4t who lives like 10 miles from me cold DM'd me a bomb threat and then posted another bomb threat several days later and has made 3 accounts to circumvent bans, now they're talking about how they wish they could do violence against people without consequences and staff hasn't emailed me back 🙃 anyone else with a history of homelessness get super wigged out when people make threats at you like that? because you know that, given a homeless target, they probably COULD get away with it?

just because your privileged ass hates yourself and doesn't mind throwing your life away in unnecessary violence or carnage doesn't mean other people want the same thing OR want to listen to you complain about how much you wish mass violence was the norm

#edgelords
#whitetranswomen
#privilege
#whitepeople

And people still tell me they don't believe Michel Foucault was a pedo even though there's his signature on a French pedo petition AND testimony from his friend that he paid a Tunisian child to assault them. If Chomsky's a diddler than I'm damn sure Foucault was. Not happy about it but people need to accept it instead of making excuses for influential white men who do horrible things.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHE-l_jrl-/?igsh=NmR1eGZneWpnaDl0

I just got on an elevator with a large box and this lady looked me dead in the eye as I was about to get on. it was me, her, and one other person, and it was a spacious elevator. I had to get in before the door closed, so I shuffled onto the elevator. She STOOD THERE with PLENTY OF ROOM to move and got poked by the edge of the box (which I was already holding as close to my body as possible) and then spent the whole elevator ride complaining under her breath about the fact that the box poked her

Google Voice Typing works perfectly well offline on my phone. I don't understand why there isn't something like that for PCs/laptops?

#googlevoicetyping
#speechtotext
#machinelearning
#ethics
#disability
#accessibility
#google

I'm disabled and voice typing is a game changer for me. The decades of voice data collected by Google and used to train its voice models was stolen from the people, literally there is no other genuinely useable model. The gap between offline Google Voice Typing on my Pixel phone vs. everything else is absurd. I literally can't even get anything like it on my laptop bc Google "owns" the AI it trained on our voices for years.

#google #voicerecognition
#machinelearning
#neuralnetworks #disability

Happy Halloween! your home has another door

I made a thing.

If it weren't for the fact that chicken spoils 🫰🏼 FAST once you thaw it, this also probably wouldn't be happening. I hate how coordinated the process of preparing raw chicken has to be in order to safely thaw, prepare, and eat it before it goes bad. I'm exhausted.

I feel so bad but this raw chicken i thawed that the food distro gave me is definitely going to go bad. I'm upset because I made a marinade yesterday. I'm too tired. I can't cook it today. I'm too fatigued. And now this food that was given to me and I spent time and energy desperately trying to make palatable is going to spoil because I'm disabled and because I don't usually get a say in what TYPE of food distros food banks etc. give me

Calls for class solidarity pretty much always come in the form of "homeless/nearly homeless people need to not show resentment for middle class people! It's not middle class people's fault! Your anger towards middle class people betrays a lack of class solidarity on your part!"

This post is not about victims.