This world is not my home.

monster hour season 1 my beloved

a calm place to rest more

You know, I'm not religious myself, I'm agnostic. However, I've been noticing how much stuff is just mass produced and it... you know, it makes me sad

My grandma gave a magnet with Mary on it, and that's fine, might as well put it up I figure. Pop over the back, and of course it's made in China. Something's just kind of wrong to me about that, a religious symbol being made in a sweatshop

So here's my point. You probably know I do wood carving. You have something you want made, drop me a message, we'll work something out. Don't really care what religion you want it for, find it unlikely I'd be asked to do something I wouldn't want to by one of you

Here's what I'll say, I don't share your beliefs (because I don't see anyone wanting agnostic symbols, not sure what that would even be). However, I can say I'd make it with care and good intent

I don't know, it just bothers me and I can literally do a better job. So yeah, for your consideration. Also, here's an example piece I made for a friend (waiting to stain it till I get some woodburning stuff to write a prayer on the back)

The people who believe that people with any preexisting conditions, high risk, or elderly should stay locked up for years during the pandemic so they can go around their daily lives without so much as a minor inconvenience of a mask or disruption in their get-togethers or parties because they are “healthy” are the same people who would have locked up disabled, autistic, elderly children and family members pre-1980 because these people were an “inconvenience” to their lives.

They are the same people who believe this group of people, mental ill, disabled, neurological diverse, elderly, are just inconvienent, burdensome, and disposable. They measure our lives by inability to have machine-like qualities, to output goods and services. They measure our lives by the time and cost of our care, that some how the financial cost of medications and treatment exceed our own human value. We were forcibly sterilized and not allowed to so much as have the staple of humanity, love, relationships and families, we were groomed to appreciate the most basic and low quality care, to grovel those who are willing to love us because we are “difficult” and to work thousands of times harder to “overcome” our illnesses, our disabilities, to get a shred of affection, appreciation, value, and to be used for “inspiration” for those with abled bodies and minds.

Now, as it always has been, we are the burden of society, our deaths are excused away as lives worth only a 1/4 of a healthy persons life. It’s only a loss to society when an athlete looses his life to corona, it’s only a loss to society when a person with no underlying illnesses, or with no pre-existing condition of “age”, it’s only a loss to society when they leave behind family they were allowed to have. It’s only these losses that are mourned. Those in nursing homes, with pre-existing conditions, those who are over weight are said to “gonna die anyway”.

I want everyone to know, that I see you. I see those who look at these lives and scoff, “so we are inconveniencing our lives with a mask because someone who will die anyway is dying from a virus?” I see those who believe they have more right to vacation, work, shop, party, have gatherings then the “lesser and weaker beings”. I see you donating to the athlete who has the virus, who’s gofundme has reached 100,000, while your disabled neighbor begs, as they always have had to, for their life. And in the same breath you say, that people should have the right to choose where their taxes go, rather than it go to some unknown disabled or poverty stricken human being. Because so clearly, you have chosen correctly, right? I see you also talk about freedoms of your country, your rights to shop, your rights to not wear a mask, your right to happiness, even if it means smothering the life out of anyone that stands in your way. I hear you speak of the past in horror, seeing documentaries of disabled or mental ill locked away in facilities so their families can live unaffected lives. I see you. I see you in my family and friends.

I also see you in my religious brothers and sisters. Who demand their services be open, but only for those most healthy. The elderly who sit week by week in their houses alone, and live for the voices of others every Sunday, must shut away. Those with pre-existing conditions or illnesses, who depend on their graces of the sacraments of their faith to get them through treatments, through the medications, the financial losses, the abandonment of friends and family, are told to stay home. Stay away. The healthy people are practicing their faith. The healthy people are living their lives, where as, you cannot. Those who need their faith most of all, cannot practice.

They say “it’s for your own safety”. Just as being heavily medicated against our wills, being forced to communicate when your non-verbal, forced to have implants when you’re deaf, forced to endure abusive therapies for your neurologically diverse brain, forced to “overcome your physical disability” when you’re presented stairs instead a ramp, are some how for “your own good”, they say.

We won’t forget that people with chronic autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus were told to go without their medications, Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, when it was being used for corona virus. They were only given days if their medication instead of month refills, and told “thank you for your sacrifice”. A sacrifice that was demanded, expected, while able bodies screamed about their rights and “forced” to wear masks, screamed about the inconveniences to shop with the “forced” consideration of the lowly minimum wage employees health, who should have “chosen a better career if they didn’t want to be at risk”, from the negligence and selfishness of others.

Even if the pandemic some how kills us all, we will always exist, we will always fight for the basic rights to live, and to be human. Our value will never be measurable, especially by those with the least human qualities; those who will smother the vulnerable and the needy to be unbothered and unburdened.

Since I’ve been locked inside my house (had quit my management job because of customer refusal to use safety measures to protect me, and because my work place did the same as well) for months to protect myself, my family, and the lives of others, I hope I do not contract this virus. If I do die from corona virus, or when I die my natural death, those who saw my life or the lives of disabled, mentally ill, elderly, weak vulnerable as of lesser than “healthy” and abled lives, or saw them as lives that were not “worthy” of protection, and safekeeping:

You do not have permission to mourn me, you do not have permission to post how sad you are on your social media to use me for affections and pity from those around you, if you did not value my life or the lives of others ‘like’ me. You do not have permission to attend my funereal and weep tears on my grave, because the only liquid that I want to touch my grave is the liquid that you spat on my life and the lives of others; do not visit me in my death unless you plan to spit on my grave, as you spit on the lives of others and on my life, and as you hacked and coughed on min wage workers, cashiers, food service workers, retail workers, laborers that also you demanded serve you. These will be my dying words, to treat my grave for eternity as you have treated those whom you discard. So you will never forget. So others will never forget—

—that our lives are divine gifts, who are deserving of protection, and who have immeasurable value, even when we die alone, and even though we are discarded, ignored, unloved, used, abused, and smothered generation after generation by people who claim to be champions of freedom, of morals, and of love.

Palpatine looks like an evil Colin Mochrie

but why would you hide this in the tags though

Art by Andy Nguyen on Artstation.

Music :  give me the Zucc -mark zuckerberg lofi

Poster for Seasons of Fear (prints, patreon)

Disabled lives are worth living, being disabled is not worse than death, death is not a liberation for us, death is not kinder for us, our lives are more than pity and inspiration stories, we have rich and varied lives as much as people try to take that away from us

there's two types of conspiracy theories in american culture:

seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

Does Firefox not count for anything?

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

This is really long and I can’t focus enough to read and understand the whole thing, can somebody summarize??

Firefox used to have a big part of the browser market but it has been by FAR surpassed by Chrome, which is a bummer. Firefox is free and open source and has been since 2003, they don’t track or sell your data and have built in privacy protections as well as many excellent extensions to customize your browser. Additionally you can install firefox on android devices and use extensions like ublock origin to block ads on your cellphone, which is great!

by  Evan M. Cohen