seconded, they’re so good! they always get off the baked-on stuff that i’m never bothered to scrub off with a scourer

the electronics inside need to be removed & recycled as normal, but it still feels like a cool step forward!

i’d love to see genuinely biodegradable replacements for plastic used everywhere (rather than the trend of plastics that claim to be biodegradable, but just break down into microplastics faster than average). fair play to everyone involved! 🙌

i suspect the cider will not, in fact, ferment in peace… i’m trying to figure out the way it’ll somehow end up attacking misabel, lol!

I probably know what you are talking better than you.

if you know better than resorting to inspiration porn and using ableist terms, why are you doing that?

what word could we use instead?

it depends. if you’re trying to insult someone, many many of the terms available will be rooted in disability in some way. hatred of disability is very deeply embedded into both the english language and english-speaking society at large.

however, if you don’t agree with or don’t like what someone’s saying, you can just say so. if you think what someone is doing is terrible and ill-advised, you can just say so. the result is clear communication and not perpetuating ableism, a win-win!

this is a form of ableism called “inspiration porn”. it frames disability as something to overcome, which ends up being particularly crushing when disabled people have internalised this and despite their best efforts, continue to be disabled because it’s a normal facet of the human experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_porn

also, you might not be aware of this, but “stupid” / “stupidly” and phrasing along those lines are ableist, and have a long history of being used against people with intellectual disabilities, and of being used to insult people via that comparison to disability. it’s essentially placing people in a hierarchy of “worthiness” based on intelligence.

i don’t mean any of this as an attack, btw, i believe you mean well. however, your time might be better spent focusing on getting rid of ableism in society, rather than telling disabled people to not use the word disabled.

is disclosure an inherently negative term, just because it uses the prefix “dis”, even though it’s about being honest & making something known?

disabilities and challenges aren’t interchangeable. generally speaking, someone can’t “overcome” not seeing or not being able to walk. they might advocate for better accessibility by having more braille in public spaces, or for having more curb cuts for better wheelchair access, but those problems are societal, not individual.

ultimately, ableism is something for society to overcome, not disabled individuals. that “challenge” lies with society in general.

and again, even if we lived in a perfect society where ableism didn’t exist & accommodations were free & plentiful: people’s disabilities still exist, they haven’t been “overcome”.

i assume you mean well, but i don’t have challenges, i have disabilities. i don’t see it as a negative thing to honestly talk about how there are certain things that i cannot do.

imo, discussing disability openly and honestly is the best way to work towards a society that provides better accommodations & accessibility. but even if i hypothetically lived in a future where ableism didn’t exist any more, and i could easily access any accommodations i could think of, i would still be disabled. there would still be things i can’t do.

disability is something that effects almost everyone at some point in their life. even if you have no disabilities while you’re younger, disability comes for basically everyone when they’re older, in the form of reduced mobility, hearing & sight impairments, etc.

again, i assume you mean well by this post, but perhaps consider re-thinking why you see disability to be negative framing, rather than a fact of life & part of the human experience.

optimism & hope are skills to practice, and they do get easier over time!

on a bad day, i’m optimistic out of sheer spite because i know being pessimistic only helps my enemies & not me, but it’s also a lot easier to practice optimism when regularly meeting with groups of like-minded people.

if you don’t have any groups nearby you (or online) like zine makers / queer sheds / leftist book clubs / privacy activists / maker spaces / community supported agriculture / whatever it is that floats your boat, you might be surprised by how many people are willing to sign up if you get the ball rolling! 💪

huh, i wasn’t expecting the spying thing to be genuine. poor misabel 😔

we’ve got the best of both worlds!

ladhar mhór - big toe

ordóg na coise - thumb of the feet

so that’d be ladhrag mhòr or òrdag-coise in gàidhlig, not too drastic a difference there! :)

irish uses ladhar to mean toe 😌

but also méar choise, meaning finger of the feet 😔

i had to deal with something similar at work & they initially said that they couldn’t provide a work phone, it wasn’t in their budget

so i started using an old non-smartphone that i found buried in a drawer & said i’d lost my smartphone

they provided a work phone p soon afterwards. it might work for you if you have an older phone lying around somewhere? 🤞

even misabel’s dog needs to unwind, the poor bean 🥲💔

we can have a little hate, as a treat! i’d say not “giving yourself over to hatred” is pretty vital, though.

the more we build communities together, the fewer chances fascism has to convert people. it’s a lot harder to convince you (universal you, not you specifically) that immigrants/trans people/disabled people/whomever are terrible, if you’re in community with people like that & have first-hand experience to tell you when someone’s just being a wanker whipping up fear

“destroy fascism” is still a priority of course, no tolerant society should ever tolerate fascism. i do think the main priority should be to build better communities/systems/societies first & foremost, so that we have safety nets in place asap, tho

(i hope this doesn’t come across as argumentative, my intention is more to add on to your point!)

it’s a phonetic (and maybe playful?) spelling of no more

the majority of videos that i see are just people talking about their hobbies & current events, but content with tags like #brainrot etc is certainly there for folks to find too

that’s a beautiful tabby kangaroo! 🤩

you must have a hell of a voice to be able to do all of these! fair play, break a leg & i hope you enjoy the party 🥳

for double reference points, you can go by temba wide-arm 😎

“please don’t scare me as i am very small and scared of everything”

i love misabel, she’s these emojis as a person:

🥺 👉👈