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alefbetsoup
earthvideos

oh to be camping out in a tent in weather like this

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rukafais
bakedbakermom

an internal memo leaked from ceo steve huffman saying the "noise" of the blackout will die out and they just need to weather it until we give up. fuck you spez.

first of all it's OVER EIGHT THOUSAND subreddits that went dark.

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second of all he clearly doesn't give one single shit about the users or the UNPAID army of mods who slog through a million miles of shit every day to keep illegal and offensive content off the site (i'm a mod in a small fandom subreddit and even the shit i've seen is beyond the pale) and therefore make it appealing to the advertizers.

you have no fucking business without us. and you don't care one single bit about it.

he clearly did not mean for this memo to leak, but someone at reddit thought it was important enough to send it out anyway. please spread it (spreddit?) especially because so much of reddit is still in blackout.

lady-wildflower
doberbutts

We are all, at any given moment, about 5 seconds away from permanent disability.

I was driving my car to work. I am a good driver. I have no at-fault accidents in my history. I was hit by a drowsy driver that was later charged with DWI and I still ended up with permanent disability from this.

I stood up from a chair. I was sitting at a table in my work’s break room eating my lunch and stood to throw away my trash and clock in and my knee buckled underneath me and I spent three months completely non-weight-bearing on that leg and even still today there are things I can’t do anymore due to this.

It doesn’t matter if you eat right, sleep right, drive right, work right, only have sex with the right people, only purchase the right things.

Anything can happen to you. You are always 5 seconds away from becoming disabled for the rest of your life.

I have always been disabled. I haven’t always been this disabled.

jewtastic

My fiance has always been entirely able bodied. They would go on five mile walks for fun almost every other day. Never had a problem not only working, but working *hard*. Their pride and joy was once hitting almost forty thousand steps in one eight hour shift, which I for one think is horrifying.

And then they started getting the migraines.

It was one every now and then, sometimes no pain, just auras.

And then it was nearly every day, to the point they had to decide which were bad enough for the medicine they only get four of a month.

CT scans, MRIs, showed nothing.

And then it was pain in their arm, and we were told it was likely carpal tunnel, repetitive stress injury from the register.

And then one day, they felt weird. Heavy. They went to work, and managed about two hours before walking became hard. Twenty minutes later, I got a frantic call, because they couldn’t move their legs anymore.

We spent over eight hours in the ER, only to be told they had no idea what was wrong.

Since then, they haven’t been able to return to work. It’s been almost three months, and they’re going from being a full time assistant manager, down to a part time accountant and self checkout cashier, because they can no longer have a job that requires walking, or even standing for a long period of time.

The current guess is that they have MS.

It took less than three months to go from fully able bodied, no health conditions beyond minor asthma, to borderline bedridden, and unable to walk without crutches, and unable to work most jobs.

Disability is five minutes away from hitting anyone, at any time.

musicalhell

A physical therapist I network with once said “Everybody is temporarily abled” and that hit me like a fucking truck.

Aging happens. Accidents happen. Medical conditions that you don’t even know you have until they put you in a hospital bed happen. Disability is not a moral or lifestyle failing and we need to stop treating it as such.

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