Depending on who you ask, the heartbeat bill is no joke. Gov. Kasich vetoed a similar measure in 2016 but now the republican senate has enough majority to potentially overturn a veto. Many republican lawmakers are hoping to use ohio to bring abortion back to the federal supreme court and overturn Roe v Wade. This is all in the last article I linked from the New York Times btw
So if the first article sounds too clickbait-y for you just know that ohio is actually proposing, and has a good chance of passing strict anti-abortion laws 🙃
posting here because i know hayden myers has a large following on twitter and tumblr and i think it’s a good idea to get the word out as wide as possible to prevent any further abuse happening.
he goes by MrHaydenMyers on twitter and misterhayden and misterhaydencomics on tumblr. have included a photo of his face so that people in california know who to look out for.
oh good a callout post for this guy on tumblr
you might be like ‘i dunno who is this guy, he doesn’t sound familiar?’ but a good chunk of people on this website would recognize him if they saw his art:
i know his comics are funny and popular but like please do not support him. i have had no personal experience with him or anyone who knows him but the anecdotes i’ve seen are terrifying
Today I worked out that if you were unfortunate enough to have 106 leeches attach to you and drink their fill of your blood, you would probably die of blood loss.
I looked it up because a fictional crime show had someone die of “drugged in leech pond”, and, yeah, it’s possible. Highly unlikely, that’s a lot of leeches, but it could happen. So, like, don’t let that many leeches attach to you.
hey it’d mean a lot to me if yall’d reblog this since as an autistic person this is really fucking disgusting
we are not fuckin dogs to be microchipped wtf???? this only allows autistic people to be abused even easier than before
im sure non-autistic people can rb this for their autistic followers??
Look, I understand giving your kid a tracking bracelet/necklace/pocket device/etc and telling them what it does if you’re worried they’ll get lost. If your kid is prone to wandering off or getting lost for whatever reason, that’s a good thing.
I think it’s funny that able bodied people think disability prejudice is gonna be solved by cyborg parts, like those of us who will have them aren’t gonna be bugged with constant “Yeah, but you know, you still aren’t human in the strictest sense of the term, I mean whole human, natural and organic, you know what I mean…”
And with capitalism still in existence getting implants or prosthesis will just be grafting planned obsolescence onto your actual body. People honestly think they won’t make limbs the same way they make other electronics?
These never occurred to me but you are right. I can think of worse things. Government control over what parts can not do for parts paid for with government money. You got eye implants while on “welfare”. Then they better not be used for “immoral” things like strip clubs. Gps locks take care of that.
Government legs? You better use them for at least X number of steps a day to prove they were needed.
New arm but unemployed? Better have a job or it turns off.
A big thing I’m also thinking about is cyborg parts that are so specialized for one job-related task that they get in the way of literally EVERYTHING else you might want to do, unless you buy more of them, especially in the early years:
An arm specialized for factory work that’s so heavy it causes spinal damage and chafing around the stump area(more so then even normal artificial limbs)
An mechanized exoskeleton so you can walk in an outdoor-type job, but nobody considered you might want to remove it to bathe or have sex because why would the cripples want to do a silly thing like that
This stuff is such a big deal and yet somehow a lot of transhumanists seem to have totally missed the fact that most cyberpunk authors are totally cognizant of what a nightmare hellscape future digital capitalism will be
And don’t forget the element of coercion/lack of bodily autonomy that will very absolutely come with having widespread mecha-upgrades that can “fix” us broken folks – because for sure, if disability can be solved with robot parts, do you think the able-bodied folk are going to trust us for long to make the decisions for ourselves as to whether or not we want those cyborg bits installed? They’ll be passing laws that say we have to get them or we don’t get accommodations we need anyway, jamming them into us as babies (whether they work fully well or not), using us to alpha test them, it’s going to be fun times.
I’m pretty sure we already do that last one with cochlear implants…
#like this is a thing i already see in the present? #when it comes to deafness and cochlear implants/hearing aids #and hearing people constantly sniping at us #like no i’m not getting a terp #why don’t you just put your hearing aids in #sorry it doesn’t work like that #i’d still need a terp even if i were wearing them #but even if i didn’t just seriously #wearing my hearing aids also aggravated my DEBILITATING MIGRAINES #to the point where i literally could not get through a day of work #without collapsing in pain #abled people just never trust us to make our own decisions about our health and our lives #like that is going to change in the least as technology advances #nope nope nope
Haha yeah that was my tags on that post. XD We are… already there with this on some of these things it’s just going to get moreso as technology progresses.
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