So you might have seen this image going around the internet.
[ID: A high school hallway crammed with shoulder-to-shoulder teenagers, about three of whom are wearing masks. End ID.]
This is a high school in my area. This was the first day back. This picture, taken by a student, went viral (ha), and the superintendent was more or less forced to make a statement. It’s long and it’s a lot of bullshit but here’s the big stupid part.
“One area where we have received a good deal of feedback is mask use in our schools. Wearing a mask is a personal choice and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them. What we will do is continue to strongly encourage all students and staff to wear masks.”
If I have to explain to you the staggering level of bullshit in this statement, then you’ve never been an AFAB person in high school. Tank top? Sent home. Jeans too tight? Home. Collarbones showing? Home. Never mind the application of out-of-school suspension, which is its own kind of bullshit that we’re not here to discuss today. If you can send someone home for showing too much ankle you can send them home for not wearing a mask.
I’ve seen pushback against him on Twitter but they’ve already proven they don’t give a shit what we think, or care about the safety of the students OR staff. Only that things look like they’ve gone back to normal.
So it’d be a real shame if people from all over blew up their phones at 770-443-8000 or used faxzero.com to send 5 free faxes per day to 770-443-8089 making known their concerns about this anti-response to a massive public health risk. Make it a national issue and maybe shame our government into acting like they’ve got a single brain cell between them. It’d just be real upsetting. I’m just saying.
Fearing such hits as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Masochism Tango,” “The Element Song,” “Be Prepared,” and “Lobachevsky”
MAILING ADDRESS
Town of Tusayan
P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive
Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE +1 (928) 638-9909
Mayor Craig Sanderson
mayorsanderson@gmail.com
Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth
tusayan.rwirth@gmail.com
Councilor | Brady Harris
Tusayancouncilharris@gmail.com
Councilor | Al Montoya
almtusayan@hotmail.com
Councilor | Robb Baldosky
robb@tusayanaz.com
if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA
just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!
Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction.
can't expect to be able to use bathrooms in public
Hear me out: I think the trans and disabled communities should be bffs (like the ace and bi communities are). Not only are there a lot of people who are both, but consider our shared experiences:
The grand and noble tradition of lying to doctors to get semi-adequate medical care.
"It's all in your head."
Being told we're faking it to get those sweet, sweet benefits of being oppressed and having unusually high rates of poverty.
People asking us invasive personal questions within 0.2 seconds of meeting us.
Being told that we're not REALLY trans/disabled because we don't fit into preconceived notions of what we should look like.
Being held to ridiculously high standards of appropriate behavior/attire/language because if our whole lives don't revolve around being the perfect cripple/performing gender to the max, we are either faking or somehow being bad representation of ourselves.
Shocking people by actually being happy with our bodies and celebrating them.
Also shocking people by expressing negative feelings about our bodies.
Getting frustrated when people act like we're oppressing them for wanting to exist comfortably in public.
In short, we have a lot in common re: the shit we put up with, and we should be besties.
xoxo--a disabled
Is that an OCTOPUS and an AXOLOTL in that FRICKIN WINDOW‽
INCREDIBLE PHOTO <3
link below to see:
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credit to: ketul
top 3 underrated phineas & ferb songs go (and do NOT say busted or gitchie gitchie goo)
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
unfriendly reminder: this is a sex worker positive space. I will not tolerate the disrespect of sex workers here, and if you cant agree with that without a doubt then you're not welcome here.
This makes me so happy!
[image ID: Text reading Texas State Aquarium staff stated that the animals have been getting a little restless. One of the employees had an idea to let some of the land animals spend time with some of the sea animals, and it has worked out brilliantly.
Putting the sloths near the dolphins was the biggest surprise of all. The dolphins are absolutely delighted with the sloths, and the sloths, normally very quiet animals, have been squeaking replies back to the dolphins for hours at a time. Who would have guessed these two species would be such a great match?
There is a photo of two dolphins in a large pool, their heads peeking out above the water to look at a brown sloth, who is hanging on a branch. End ID]