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noodlemaz
Noodlemaz @noodlemaz@mstdn.games · Aug 03, 2026
Oh shut the fuck up Ben Goldacre and anyone else chastising people for celebrating or merely not being sad about another shitty man's death. Liddle was a horrible, awful person who did real harm to people. He basically openly admitted he was a paedophile in a publication that never even retracted it. Maybe before you demand other people don't insult the dead, take a look at yourself and make sure you're not doing things people will abhor while you're alive and bring up when you die. Look after your own affairs and don't police how people deal with the removal of malicious agents fron our society by natural means. If people want to cheer for a slight decrease in the amount of bigotry in the world, maybe just stfu and let them. #death #dying #bigots #ableism #racism #misogyny https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/rod-liddle-disabled-people-hate-media-me https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/liddle-under-fire-over-racist-blog-1835496.html And so many more
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gcvsa
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐 @gcvsa@mstdn.plus · Jul 29, 2026
Regulation of #ebikes is a #racism issue, a #classism issue, a #feminism issue, an #ageism issue, and an #ableism issue. Policing of all kinds, including motor vehicle operation, is always directed disproportionately at people of color, leading to higher rates of license revocation, suspension, citation of infractions and fines against people of color. Power assistance is not just extremely helpful for disabled people, elderly people, and women, in particular… #BikeTooter #FediBike
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meganL
Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to · May 12, 2025
When abled progressives use ableist insults against right wingers, they're engaging in similar shit as right wingers do. "Cretin" is a eugenicist term. These fascists are eugenicists. "Personality disorder" would be a real disorder and something that person couldn't help. In other words, an alibi. So using it as an insult shows disgust for people with disabilities at the same time as it's exculpating fascists by not focusing on their CHOICE to enact violence. #Ableism #Eugenics
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VenusianMars
VenusianMars @VenusianMars@cupoftea.social · Jul 29, 2026
#Neuro #NeuroWeirdo #ASD #AuDHD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #C-PTSD #Anxiety #Trauma #Ableism #Misologism #Misoneism #RudeMoFos #Ab*se #Where'sYourCompassion? So many other horrid and ignorant things to add to this list, but this'll do for now. ❤️‍🩹🌻🦋♾️
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ruemaleficent
Uzi Bobuzi @ruemaleficent@kolektiva.social · Jul 26, 2026
Come on, Fedizens, use ALT text and CamelCase. Please. Folks here should be able to use the site as freely as you. #Disability #Ableism
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MikeDunnAuthor
MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · Jul 26, 2026
Today in Labor History July 26, 1990: President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. On April 5, 1977 U.S. disability rights activist stormed and occupied the offices of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. They demanded enactment of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which had passed Congress four years prior. The law mandated that no federally funded programs could exclude persons with disabilities and put into place legal protections, and the right to accommodations, for students with disabilities. During the San Francisco protests, disability rights activists Judith Heumann, Kitty Cone, and Mary Jane Owen organized a 25-day occupation of the US Federal Building with 150 other activists. Solidarity support was provided by the Black Panthers, allied politicians, and the International Association of Machinists, who donated food, mattresses, wheelchairs, and other equipment, and who helped a delegation get to Washington, D.C. The regulations for section 504 were ultimately signed into law on 28 April, 1977. For a really great documentary on the birth of this movement, please see “Crip Camp, A Disability Revolution” (2020). #workingclass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #occupation #directaction #disability #ableism #union #solidarity # #blackpanthers #sanfrancisco #JudithHeumann #KittyCone #MaryJaneOwen #BlackMastodon
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broadwaybabyto
Broadwaybabyto @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca · Jul 25, 2026
“You’re not fun anymore” This was one of the last things a friend said to me before ghosting me over my disabilities & covid caution. My wearing a mask? Not fun My being bedbound? Not fun My inability to travel? Not fun She then said “I don’t know how you can live this way” Almost everyone with chronic illness experiences this at some point. Many ableds want us to hide our disabilities. They want us to be the same as we were before because it makes things more comfortable for them. If we show them the depths of our suffering? They can’t cope. They see us as better off dead. Let me be perfectly clear… we live this way because we have no choice. No one taps you on the shoulder and asks if you’re ok with becoming disabled. No one gets your consent before stripping you of your health and leaving you bed bound. It just happens. It can occur in the blink of an eye, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. We can’t just go to the doctor and demand to be “fixed”. We have to adapt. We have to grieve. We have to learn to accept our new life and find ways to cope. Is it fun? Of course not. Is it necessary? Yes. Does it mean we aren’t fun anymore? No. We’re still the same people we were before we became ill, our bodies just don’t function the way they used to. We still experience joy and sadness. We still crave human connection. People who decide we aren’t “fun anymore” are missing out on all the joy and friendship we have to offer. They’re also denying the reality of the human condition: Disability happens to almost everyone eventually. It’s a minority group you can join at any time. Chronic illness isn’t “fun”. I’m not going to lie and say otherwise. It’s a difficult life filled with pain, sadness and a lot of disappointment. But there can also be so much joy, and my former friend’s inability to see that is a poor reflection on her, not me. We must stop treating people like commodities. We must stop acting like their value is tied up in what they can produce or their physical ability. We all have value. We all have worth. We all have things that light us up. I was angry at this person for a long time. I did so much for them over the years and then got tossed aside like garbage when I was no longer useful. I’m trying to let the anger go. I’m trying to remind myself that anyone who can’t love me as I am isn’t worth my time. It’s not easy. The pain we experience when people abandon us is real and adds insult to very real injury. But I promise you there are better days ahead. There are people who will stick by you no matter what. People who won’t make you hide your pain and suffering. There are people who will show up for you and accept you as you are. Who will wear a mask, hold your hand in the hospital or visit you when you’re laying in bed. Cherish those people. Nurture those relationships. Make sure they know how much it means to you. If you’ve read this far and have a disabled person in your life, please reach out to them. Say hi. Ask how they are. Offer to visit or provide some help. Show up for them. Never underestimate the power of a small act of kindness, and refuse to leave people behind. #disability #ableism #chronicillness #eugenics #inclusion #COVIDisAirborne
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Arusekk
Arusekk @Arusekk@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026
Today I learned the word #ableism - am I the only one who first read ableist as /ab'laist/ (instead of /'ejblist/) and inferred connection with the German word Leistung instead of disabled people? I am therefore a huge proponent of using #ablism instead. In hindsight, it could have been even /e'bleist/, like along, aside and awry (no, the latter does not come from awe/awre but from wry, an equal surprise to me). #pronunciation #etymology
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broadwaybabyto
Broadwaybabyto @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca · Jul 24, 2026
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Imagine if we just believed disabled people? If we trusted that they were the experts in their bodies? If we listened when they said they could do something, and supported them when they said they couldn’t. If we gave accommodations and assistance without judgment? That’s true inclusion. #disability #ableism #chronicillness #eugenics #inclusion
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meganL
Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to · Jul 17, 2026
The ableism and survivorship bias in comments on yet another abled white male urbanist video saying that we don't need two stairways for a building and that having two stairways is the "big impediment" to building more affordable housing... Amazing how developers get abled white urbanist men to do their work for them. "We drove without seat belts and I'M okay. What a bunch of sissies, the people asking for seat belts." #Ableism #EmergencyPreparedness #Urbanism
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meganL
Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to · Jul 17, 2026
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Same fucking people arguing that elevators should be much smaller because it's "holding back" housing. HOUSING FOR WHOM, ABLED FUCKSTICKS? #Ableism #Urbanism #Accessibility
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broadwaybabyto
Broadwaybabyto @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca · Mar 15, 2024
New introduction post - joined in Nov 2022 (as many did) and back now after a hiatus. I write about Covid, disability justice, ableism, eugenics, the experience of being chronically ill during a pandemic and life, loss and grief. Looking forward to connecting with people here again! #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #chronicillness #Ableism #DisabilityJustice #WearAMask #MaskUp #CleanAir #DisabilityRights
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Aurin_the_classtraitor
:autism: Aurin (ki, ki, kis) @Aurin_the_classtraitor@climatejustice.social · Jul 13, 2026
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currently thinking a lot about how much less disabled I'd probably be if the general attitude in society to people – INCLUDING CHILDREN!!!! CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE!!!! – struggling or being slow or avoiding tasks would be to accomodate them and be patient, rather than to be annoyed or punish them. My earliest memories are of constantly getting chided for being slow. Sometimes it was good-naturedly, sometimes sternly, sometimes I was actually punished (slow at eating? not getting to eat my fill). At no single point did anyone wonder if I just needed more time than others and if this human variance, this diversity, might be tolerable. No, I had to be made to fit into the box, into the schedule. For no reason. Just 'cause. Was I already disabled or chronically ill as a kindergarten-aged child? Was that why I was slower than others, despite trying? It's possible. I don't know how I'd ever find out. But even without pathologising the way I have always been. I needed accommodations. And not getting them trained me to dissociate, to push myself past my limits on a daily basis as the default way to interact with anyone. It was fucking exhausting and everyone told me it wasn't. So I lost touch with my body's signals, distrusted them, actively faught them. A couple decades later my body is breaking down and no longer able to accommodate my rushing and pushing myself. I could compensate as a child, as a teenager. I stopped being able to in my 20s. I could still be part of society by living off benefits instead of having to work. Now, a few days before my 40s birthday, I can't take proper care of myself and can't even dream of participating in society beyond mastodon (and even then it's spotty). I deteriorated in a way that felt imperceptibly slow until it suddenly wasn't. And in hindsight, there was a steady progression. At no point did anyone (except Dion) consider encouraging me to slow down. To listen to my body and its limits. No. They all just assumed I needed to try harder, or that I'd always be miserable and pityable. It's not true though. I have turned the boat around, slowly. I am recovering now and am getting better. Slowly at first, I hope I will look back in a few decades and see as steady an incline from now on, as I had a decline before. Sure, I can't expect to be as spry as a 20yo when I'm 60, 70, 80. But I can be spry for my age. And I will get there by no longer trying so hard. By doing the actually hard work of allowing myself rest. #disability #DisabilityPrideMonth #ChronicIllness #ableism #AbuseCulture #adultism #AutisticBurnout #burnout
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ellespeaks
Elle 💫🧚🏼‍♀️ @ellespeaks@mastodon.social · Jul 13, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116910541487868609 $60 to go for my food goal! Anything helps at all. Due 5 days ago. Diabetic. V: d_fay P: peach77 Tysm! #mutualaid #disabled #disability #ableism #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #directaid #DisabilityCrowdfund #harmreduction #queer #writer #artist #poverty @lgbtq@tagpush.app @lgbtq@newsmast.community @queer @disability @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @disabledvoices@newsmast.community
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116813597037701800 $90 due 4 days ago for food ⚠️ 🆘️ I am out‼ My neighbor helped me with a little pasta today but I need funds! Its disability pride month! Help me eat and avoid hospitalization! Anything helps and is appreciated. Ty! V: d_fay P: peach77 #mutualaid #directaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidSavesLives #disability #disabled #spoonie #chronicillness #lgbtq #queer #gay #hungry #poverty @disability @disabledvoices@newsmast.community @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @povertyandinequality@newsmast.community @lgbtq@newsmast.community @lgbtq@tagpush.app @queer
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beadsland
sport of sacred spherical cows @beadsland@beige.party · Jul 10, 2026
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Per Maarten Steenhagen, in his 2022 essay against health supremacism, "Health is one of the most contingent facts about us human beings. Every one of us is always one infection or accident away from acquiring an illness or disability." Health supremacism, importantly, includes the tendency to dismiss certain managed or "mild" conditions as not being "any of the risk factors" for subsequent health conditions, so to maintain ideation of the (even if "flawed") healthy abled body: disability is other people. This a formulation that ought be front of mind when offering commentary on health conditions of other people we happen, however justifiably, to not like or respect. Careful, lest vulnerable people (to wit, all of us) catch strays. "It's, like, ironic..." Yes, indeed. Irony is the term we use for the mismatch between the actual and the apparent. It's not just coincidence. Not "just bad luck". 6/6 #HealthSupremacism #ableism
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meganL
Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to · Jul 11, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116902204170516740 This kind of ageism is encouraged by capitalism because it views humans as having worth only insofar as they're either very wealthy or being abled & youthful enough to "be good workers". Especially in countries where pensions are slim or non-existent, the years one is allowed to just exist as a person without doing a fucking job that isn't your passion are few. And younger people are conditioned to view those as something older people are not entitled to finally enjoy. "It's no loss, they had so little life in front of them". #Ableism #Ageism #Capitalism
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"But those were elderly people". A large part, yes. But this isn't the way you'd like to see your mom, dad, grandma, grandpa die either.
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PaulaToThePeople
PaulaToThePeople 😷 @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social · Jul 11, 2026
I wish people on the left would stop using diagnoses as swearwords and swearwords as diagnoses. That's nazi rhetoric. #ableism #saneism #WordsMatter
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meganL
Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganL@mas.to · Jul 11, 2026
When I see abled cyclists I know see my posts about accessibility say that an inaccessible rack is "cool", I get overwhelmed by what an uphill battle it is fighting ableism in cycling (and ableism in general). #Ableism #CycleParkingAudit #BikeTooter #Accessibility
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FKFTSH @fkftsh@fkft.sh · Jul 10, 2026
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it's kinda fucked up that us traumatized folk are basically like, socially forbidden from talking about our experiences. like any mention of depression or abuse or whatever is "trauma dumping" we just fundamentally are not allowed to discuss our negative experiences the way "normal" folk are #mentalhealth #ableism
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