frankincennamon:

Hermes in my daily life:

  • keeping things you find on the sidewalk
  • unlocking doors with coins
  • lying to keep out of persecution at work (retail is hell)
  • driving in silence with the windows rolled down
  • reading into meanings behind typos
  • losing jewelry and dollar bills
  • smells that take you back to another place
  • phantom touches
  • the itching urge to break into a run
  • texts from friends and family after get-togethers that say “home safe!”
  • accidental discounts or freebies while shopping
  • body blushes

Disability doesn’t come with extra time and energy

realsocialskills:

I’ve heard a lot of advocates of inclusion say things like “kids with disabilities work twice as hard as everyone else” or “my employees with Down’s syndrome never come in late or take a day off.”

This sounds like praise, but it isn’t.

The time disabled people spend working twice as hard as everyone else has to come from somewhere.

There are reasons why kids aren’t in school every waking moment. There is a reason why vacation time exists and why it’s normal to be late occasionally.

People need rest. People need leisure time. People have lives and needs and can’t do everything.

Being disabled doesn’t erase the need for down time. Being disabled doesn’t erase the need for play, or for connections to other people.

Working twice as hard as everyone else all the time isn’t sustainable. Praising disabled people for doing unsustainable things is profoundly destructive.

People with disabilities should not have to give up on rest, recreation, and relationships in order to be valued. We have limited time and energy just like everyone else, and our limitations need to be respected.

It is not right to expect us to run ourselves into the ground pretending to be normal. We have the right to exist in the world as we really are.

Theresa May plans to control and regulate the internet

thebibliosphere:

rising–dawn:

hellotailor:

Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online.

“Some people say that it is not for government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet,” states the Tory manifesto. “We disagree.”

Senior Tories confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the phrasing indicates that the government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online.

While much of the internet is currently controlled by private businesses like Google and Facebook, Theresa May intends to allow government to decide what is and isn’t published, the manifesto suggests.

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Theresa May plans to control and regulate the internet