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fullfathomfive

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Australian with a chronic illness. Sharing things that catch my fancy from across the web. Disability advocacy, film, music, queer history, audiobooks, animals.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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"Tennessee woman who was denied an abortion despite a fatal abnormality says the state’s anti-abortion laws resulted in her losing an ovary, a fallopian tube and her hopes for a large family.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-denied-abortion-ban-lawsuit-b2529144.html

fullfathomfive,
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@StillIRise1963 And after all that, she's afraid of joining the legal case because the stigma of getting a necessary abortion means she might never be employed again? Fucking hell.

fullfathomfive, to Palestine
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ElleGray, to random
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sneaking into the movies with my outside snacks

fullfathomfive,
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@ElleGray
goth toilet roll dolly

dgar, to random
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1: Scooby
2: Yabba Dabba

My 2 Doo list.

fullfathomfive,
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@dgar 3. Baby shark

fullfathomfive, to random
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fullfathomfive, to climate
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Coca-Cola by itself is responsible for 11% of all identifiable plastic pollution. Eleven percent! And they've fought tooth and nail against any legislation that makes them responsible for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/survey-finds-that-60-firms-are-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-plastic-pollution

fullfathomfive, to disability
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'We heart our [wheel]chairs. My chair is the last thing I touch before I climb into bed at night, and the first when I climb out. And, let's face it, without our chairs, there'd be no getting out of bed at all for a lot of us. We are not, as we so often see written, "wheelchair bound". We are liberated by our chairs. They give us the freedom to be who we are, and we love them for it.'
— Stella Young, disability rights activist

#wheelchair #disability #disabilitymatters #chronicillness

fullfathomfive, to random
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jk rowling: there are only four types of people in the world - smart, brave, evil and miscellaneous. a magic hat tells you which one you are when you are 11 years old, and it will never change

harry potter fan: omg i'm such a miscellaneous

#terf

fullfathomfive,
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fullfathomfive, to art
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THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK

For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).

Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.

She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.

Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.

The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.

Fucking love this artist 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/09/mona-ordered-to-allow-people-who-do-not-identify-as-ladies-into-ladies-lounge-exhibit

fullfathomfive, to mastodon
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One day Mastodon will let me have different themes on different devices and browsers, and I won't have to switch manually each time ... I hope.

Dark theme for my laptop, light theme for my eink tablet please thankyou

#mastodon

fullfathomfive, to random
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David Shrigley

fullfathomfive, to Palestine
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'The Zionist myth that Israeli settlers "made the desert bloom" is as inaccurate as the one that Israel was a "land without a people for a people without a land".⁠

As we can see in Gaza and the West Bank, the process of stripping the land of its people, and reducing cultivated land to slashed and burned wasteland, requires extensive, brutal violence. Olive groves that have been propagated for centuries are torn down by Israeli settlers, water sources are filled with concrete, and farmers are driven from their homes.⁠

In the 1948 Nakba, at least half of the Arab population of Palestine, (700,000 people,) were driven from their homes, and forbidden from returning. Villages were razed, and archaeological sites destroyed. There has been a deliberate attempt by the Israeli state to make its claim of a "land without a people" a retrospective reality. As they will attempt to do with Gaza, after this Second Nakba.⁠

According to Decolonizing Palestine: "The vast majority of cultivated agricultural land in Israel today was already being cultivated by Palestinians before their ethnic cleansing... On the eve of the 1948 war, around 739,750 acres of land were being cultivated by Palestinians. These cultivated lands were so vast, that they were “greater than the physical area which was under cultivation in Israel almost thirty years later.” The agricultural core of the Israeli state consists of cultivated farmland that was stolen from Palestinian refugees after their ethnic cleansing."⁠

Colonial ideology has always needed to believe that conquered peoples were idle, ignorant and backwards, unable to manage their own resources, and always requiring Western intervention to improve and utilize the land beneath their feet. The more we learn about the civilisations that European colonialism has destroyed, the more we discover that we were simply importing our own ignorance into these nations, alongside our violence and disease. The people who lived there before we arrived knew all too well how to live in their own land.⁠

So no, Israel did not "make the desert bloom", like all European colonial projects, they did little more than pave paradise, and put up a parking lot.'

Words and image by Darren Cullen

https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/make-the-desert-bloom

#gaza #palestine #genocide

Daojoan, to random
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Belief: Online privacy is highly valued by consumers.

Contrarian truth: Consumers readily sacrifice privacy for convenience.

fullfathomfive,
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@Daojoan

As Naomi Klein wrote, "The Faustian bargain of the digital age—free or cheap digital conveniences in exchange for our data—was only ever explained to us after it was already a done deal."

Most people are not even aware how their privacy is being invaded, or what is done with their data, and we don't really get a choice about it. And it doesn't matter whether we pay or the service is free. As a disabled person I have a "choice" to do my grocery shopping online and have my data scraped, or to starve.

In other words, no choice at all.

fullfathomfive, to Palestine
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This is unbearable.

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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ME Research UK:

Continuing our look at the NIH ME/CFS deep phenotyping study, part 3 of our article presents the results reported in the study: http://bit.ly/NIHpheno3 #MECFS @mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

fullfathomfive,
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@tomkindlon @mecfs

I'm surprised they didn't do two day CPET, that's pretty much the gold standard test for ME/CFS exertion intolerance now.

Also seems like the battery of tests they did would exclude anyone with severe or even moderate ME? A bit disappointing! We really need more studies examining the severe cohort.

But the confirmation of previous findings is something.

Rasta, to Apocalypse
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    fullfathomfive,
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    @freelikegnu @Rasta

    All possession is theft

    fullfathomfive, to ai
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    #AI #noAIart

    ajsadauskas, to sydney
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    Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable

    "Driving in central Sydney will become harder under a plan to make the city more comfortable for pedestrians.

    "The City of Sydney wants to narrow roads for wider footpaths and push for lower speed limits to discourage drivers from the CBD and transform Sydney into a walkable city.

    "The council will also install more pedestrian crossings and prioritise people over cars... five times more pedestrians than motorists on the average street, yet just 40 per cent of road space is allocated to footpaths."

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/greener-safer-calmer-the-plan-to-discourage-drivers-from-central-sydney-20240312-p5fbr7.html

    Some key points of the strategy are:

    We will ensure that there is sufficient space for people to walk.

    We will improve connectivity for people walking by ensuring there are frequent street crossings that give people priority and that align with people’s walking routes.

    We will ensure that footpaths and crossings are accessible so that everyone can use them.

    We will plan our city based on 10-minute neighbourhoods so that people are able to meet their daily needs easily by walking.

    We will make it safer for people to walk by reducing vehicle speeds.

    We will reduce traffic volumes on surface streets and manage through-traffic in residential neighbourhood streets to improve both safety and experience for people walking.

    We will work to make all people feel safer while walking around our city.

    We will work to improve compliance with road rules, especially the lesser-known rules that benefit people walking.

    We will make our streets and public spaces comfortable and inviting by ensuring that they
    are green and cool.

    We will make sure that there are frequent opportunities for people to stop and rest, use the toilet or have a drink of water.

    We will make our city more pleasant to walk in by reducing noise and air pollution from
    traffic.

    We will make all streets interesting to walk along by ensuring that built form has active, permeable frontages that invite engagement and curiosity.

    We will use design, activations and installations to create neighbourhood-based community and encourage people to interact with their streets.

    Full details here: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/policy-planning-changes/your-feedback-walking-strategy-action-plan#strategy

    Unfortunately, the car-brained leader of the local business lobby isn't on board:

    "Business Sydney executive director Paul Nicolaou welcomed efforts to make the city pedestrian-friendly... But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."

    (Worth repeating that 80% of people on an average city street are pedestrians, so it already is a predominantly walking city.)

    Anyway, if you think the plan's a good idea, make sure you let the Sydney City Council know by emailing sydneyyoursay@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

    @fuck_cars

    fullfathomfive,
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    @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

    Sounds awesome. I'm curious what accessibility measures they're going to include in the plan. The CBD is so inaccessible to disabled people it's virtually a no-go zone for a lot of us. I wouldn't want a pedestrian plan that further entrenches that inaccessibility.

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    @jedsetter @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

    Thanks! I ended up reading most of the council document. They're adding more kerb ramps, more tactile wayfinding and more disabled toilets, which is great!

    Unfortunately it looks like some of the worst accessibility issues (inaccessible buildings, little accessible public transport to and around the CBD, no disability parking near the pedestrian malls, no carts or mobility scooters in the outdoor malls, etc) haven't been mentioned.

    It will still be way more disability-friendly than before (just by reducing traffic and increasing walking space), but I wish they'd considered some of those things. I think a lot of folks will still be excluded.

    fullfathomfive, to disability
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    The Inaccessibility Cycle

    #disability #ableism #accessibility

    fullfathomfive, to Eurovision
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    I'm boycotting Eurovision this year. Israel is using its participation in the competition as good PR, and taking it as proof that their genocide is supported by the international community.

    I wrote to the organisers and sponsors of Eurovision to tell them I'm not watching and not buying. I know it's just a drop in the ocean, but enough drops and you end up with a tidal wave.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/11/eurovision-israel-gaza

    #eurovision #eurovision2024 #israel #palestine #gaza #boycott

    fullfathomfive,
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    If you want to write to them too, you can find their contact details here:

    https://www.change.org/p/ban-israel-from-eurovision-song-contest-2024

    tomkindlon, to mecfs
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    New from Australia:
    A Novel Fluorogenic Probe Reveals Lipid Droplet Dynamics in ME/CFS Fibroblasts

    Free full text:
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adsr.202300178

    #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
    @mecfs

    fullfathomfive,
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    @tomkindlon @mecfs

    Could this explain the overlap between ME/CFS and connective tissue diseases like EDS?

    fullfathomfive, to psychology
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    Helpful advice.

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