Lexi

he is late for the conclave

they should do emmys for gifs

everyone is trying to take your oxford comma away from you. don't give them that satisfaction, reward, or pleasure.

"empowering women by sending katy perry to space for 2 minutes" shut the fuck up. samantha cristoforetti was the first female commander of the international space station and she became an astronaut because of star trek. and there is a real chance she is a kirk/spock shipper

once when I was at old retail job this woman came up to the counter very obviously on her phone with earbuds in which I consider extremely disrespectful so whenever someone did that I would like. wait for 20-30 whole ass long seconds to see if they even noticed I was alive and if they insisted on being an asshole i would ring them up because I had to but they would NOT get their rewards points or any sales unless they spoke to me and apologized ANYWAY the woman moseyed up full ass on the phone placing her Products to Purchase on the counter alongside her iPhone 97 or whatever but not speaking (???) which was kind of weird usually the Disrespectful ones would be in the middle of some Facetime conversation with half their family or something so I glanced down at the phone to see WTF was going on and if she was one of these people who skipped out on their work from home job to do errands and say "uh huh" every 2.5 minutes on the Office Zoom Call ANYWAY i took a gander to see what kind of corpo Inc. idiots were in the corner of the phone screen and it said...... "BetterHelp" And before the "ummmmmm" hit my body and as soon as I got my eyes back up in position the woman finally speaks she puts one finger up and says "Excuse me" taps to unmute and speaks into the phone and says for real "and how does that make you feel?"

this is a horror story

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day

we make fun of americans and their burgers but a good burger at the right moment really will return your will to live, is the thing

Wish I had a good burger right now. I just ate the most mid pasta of my life.

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

I was in the Navy for 6 years.

During that time, I was advised to:

I never had to ask for an order in writing, because I was never given a blatantly unlawful order. I never had to report anything to the Inspector General, although one of my friends did and HOO BOY things changed with a QUICKNESS.

As part of my training, I was told about an electrician (Electricians Mate) and junior NCO (petty officer third class/E4) who was ordered by a Chief (E7/senior NCO) to install a washer and dryer in a berthing space (room on the ship where a whole bunch of people sleep, keep most of their stuff, bathe, etc.). He wasn't given the proper materials, and when he pointed out that he didn't have the proper materials and it would take at least a week for those materials to arrive, the Chief told him "You're not leaving this ship until it's done."

This was on a Friday. The petty officer wanted to go home for the weekend. So he cobbled together some bullshit, took four extension cords and plugged them into each other, ran it through the passageway and into the berthing, plugged in the washer and dryer. He "water-proofed" the connections between extension cords with electrical tape and trash bags.

I don't know what (else) went wrong, but over the weekend someone tried to use the washer and/or dryer and got zapped. It wasn't properly grounded. The outside of the machine had 150V running through it. There was no safe way to use it.

The petty officer was brought to Captain's Mast, where he said "but chief said" and the Captain said "you should have known better." The petty officer was busted down in rank from E4 to E3, probably given restriction and reduction in pay for a period of time, and allowed to re-earn his qualifications and certifications. His career hit a speed bump, he learned a valuable lesson and became an object lesson to other enlisted personnel.

The chief had already transferred to another ship. It was his last day on the ship. The chief got recalled to face the Captain, and possibly a Court Martial, for giving an illegal order that resulted in endangering the lives of at least 100 sailors.

It has *always* been the (official) position of the US military that service members are required to refuse unlawful orders. It's even in the oath of enlistment: "I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice"

The US military does not endorse the fucking Nuremburg defense. You can and will get in trouble for "just following orders"

this tweet is new but it is actually a fundamental text for me

Russian Jewish avant-garde artist Sofya Dymshits-Tolstaya (1884-1963), of the early 20th century. Known for her constructivist and Dadaist works. Aleksey Tolstoy's wife.

Soviet Jewish actress Tatiana Samoilova, 1958

Hey russiphone jews do you say суббота or Shabbos/Shabbat or something else.

Because I’ve seen суббота but that’s literally just a word for Saturday

"women are always like—"

"men are always like—"

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sorry I’m not leaving this in the tags

Can't hang out in your great-uncle's den anymore. Because of woke

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers