Hi OP,

Hi OP,

Public transport was never ment to be a one size fits all solution. Public transport is great because it gives people options. You don’t have to use that option, but knowing that it is there if you need it is very important.

That’s why funding pubic transit is so critical.

+ To repeat what other person said - if more people will use public transit (because it’s reliable, and safe and they want to, not because they have to) you will have less traffic jams on your daily routes.

Reliable public transit benefits all, not just people who use it.

No actually it's shit to act like public transport, the most common example being trains, is this perfect magical answer to everything. It's shit to act like cars are some symbol of capitalist evil and always would be in any society. And it's shit to pretend that's not a real problem. Yeah I know the people saying things like that aren't in any position to make political changes based on those convictions. That doesn't mean it's not harmful.

I have been trying my best for a really long time to get better at using public transport, but it has cemented the fact that that's never going to be reliable as the only option for me. I know how to go on a specific route on the metro by myself. That's it. And sometimes even that is impossible. Me and my support worker have recently been working on going just the opposite way on the same line, and I'm having massive trouble getting my head around it. There's no way I could do this regularly and also get through whatever activity I was travelling for. And I know there are people who have bigger problems with it than me as well.

Just stop. How the hell would you feel if supposed leftists, people who were supposed to be on your side and for your rights and such, were glorifying something that causes you massive problems and demonising solutions you sometimes desperately need? I'm not evil because I sometimes need to take a taxi or be driven somewhere by my mum, who is my carer, when she is willing and able (something that I know is a privilege and I'm very grateful for).

K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.

It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”

And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume

so the dwarf goes back home, enraged

and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”

and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever  it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth

and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous

and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”

but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are

because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven

i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

Or boop the cat

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