The House of Representatives voted in favor of destroying key provisions of the ADA to allow businesses to continue, penalty free, to remain inaccessible, possibly indefinitely.
All y’all who like to talk about ableism on here and are eligible to vote in the US:
call your senators. Tell them no on 620. Tell them why accessibility and the ADA matter to you.
IT’S OFFICIAL. There will be a national school walkout on March 14th. This walkout demands action to finally be taken on gun violence. No more students deserve to be gunned down because lawmakers don’t wanna do anything about it. We are the generation that’s being affected the most by these weak gun laws, and WE are the ones who should be protesting about it. One student dying because of a gunman is one too many. SPREAD THE WORD, this applies to ALL students!!
@weavemama What if our spring break falls on that day? How else can we pitch in?
There’s another walkout date on April 20th! For the 18th anniversary of Columbine.
OKAY!!! REALLY QUICK CAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS!!
#1: YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT END ONCE YOU WALK INTO THE SCHOOL! You need to take a good long look at your rights and civil liberties because they will be called into question. I would strongly advise contact an ACLU representative and asking them about this so you are prepared to defend yourselves from a legal stand point because the shit is going to hit the fan and it’s going to hit it hard.
#2: DO NOT RISE OR RESPOND TO THREATS! There will be threats. They will threaten to put you in detention, call your parents, expel you, get rid of your extra curricular activities, et cetera. Anything they can to control the situation before the media gets involved or the school board. You must have solidarity within your participants, lock arms, form prayer circles, sit down and do not stand. Do whatever it takes to show a non-violent, passive approach to show that it is your intention to disrupt and draw attention to the problem without being physically confrontational.
#3: SELECT A SPEAKER! Sooner or later, camera crews are going to show up. This is where messages get mixed and it becomes very easy to loose track of your goals. Draft a short speech, under 30 seconds, and select a speaker for your school who will address the media with the concerns of the student body and the demands you have before you will return to school and your education.
#4: TAKE YOUR EDUCATION INTO YOUR OWN HANDS! This is not a chance to take advantage and get some time off school. The media WILL USE THIS as an excuse to discredit you. If you can, get teachers on board who will provide you with a curriculum that you can continue to work on from home. Do NOT GIVE UP YOUR EDUCATION! Refuse to participate in a government funded system of education which denies you basic safety.
#5: If you can, GET YOUR TEACHERS INVOLVED! Is there a teacher your trust as a group? Is there a teacher who would offer their support, voice and guidance during this walk out? Get them involved. I know it’s not fair, but teen voices are underrated and overlooked. Having an adult head the operation or at the very least being willing to speak out IN YOUR FAVOR ON CAMERA will go a long way to adding legitimacy to your cause! Remember, their lives are in danger too, and more than once a teacher has put themselves between the shooter and their students. Ask them to be a part of this if you can.
The duties of a lady are to manage the household, to oversee and manage the estate (when her lord is absent), to oversee the education of the children, and so forth.
The only difference between the lady of a manor and the queen is that the queen has the additional responsibilities of organizing the royal court and all of its social functions, but the queen also has more staff to aid her than the lady of a manor.
Ohhhh the duties of a woman would have gone waaaay beyond that.
1: Have and mind children. The most important duty any woman of an equivalent era would have.
2: Oversee the daily running of the castle. This includes everything from the people who clean out the privies to the cooks. This happens whether her husband is at home or not.
3: Ensure that the wine, ale, mead, and beer are brewing correctly and to schedule for the castle.
4: Ensure that supplies are laid by in case of famine or siege, and are being properly maintained and cycled through so nothing goes bad.
5: Negotiate with traders to both sell the products of her household and purchase the things they cannot make.
6: Whether her husband is home or not, she will be keeping the accounts for both their personal household and for their holdings.
7: Ensure that everyone in her household and in the castle are properly clothed. Clothing from her family that has shown signs of wear will be handed down to servants. Clothing from the servants that is too worn to be useful will be re-purposed. Shoes will be mended and patched until they’re useless, then the leather will be re-purposed or composted. Nothing is wasted.
8: Mediate disputes among her vassals to keep everything running smoothly.
9: in her husband’s absence will also run the military forces of the holdings, supervising their trainer, ensuring that they’re properly equipped, making sure they’re fed and watered, and keeping them from taking their boredom and aggression out on everyone else.
10: If the castle is attacked, she will be the one giving orders and deciding tactics. She will very likely have at least a bow of her own, and armor.
11: She’s also responsible for politicking. She’ll host parties, host visits from other nobles, decide when they’re going to be doing the visiting, and be the one choosing gifts for appropriate occasions. Her husband will officially be the one sealing the deal, but she’s likely to have a lot of influence on where their sons are fostered, and a LOT of influence over the boys that are fostered with her family.
12: Girls are more rarely fostered, unless all a family has are girls. Either way, the lady of the house is not only responsible for doing all these things, but for teaching all her daughters and foster-daughters how to do it too.
In the event that a lady has a large enough domain that she is not overseeing each individual thing herself (such as in a queen) she will still be overseeing, monitoring, and evaluating the people whom she has appointed to those positions with individual meetings with each and random spot-checks of their work.
And on top of all of this she’s supposed to be a Master-level needleworker in what one might laughingly refer to as “her spare time”, and will have started learning to do that as soon as she was old enough to thread a needle.
Singing, dancing, music, poetry, etc. are well and good, I’m not knocking the ladies in ASOIAF who enjoy them, but there are so many jobs noblewomen do that boiling it down to just those things is beyond frustrating.
Also – noble ladies get to go hunting (at least in ASOIAF – Cersei goes with Robert on the fatal hunt, and I imagine if it weren’t something acceptable in Westeros, she would have looked down on it, mostly because Tywin most certainly would not have raised her to know how and Robert sure as heck wouldn’t have taught her. He wants to get AWAY from her, not hunt with her). So even if they themselves aren’t using a bow in combat, they may in fact still know how to use them.
“It will be good to see the children. The youngest was still sucking at the Lannister woman’s teat the last time I saw him. He must be, what, five by now?” Catelyn I, AGOT (not my ask, but if it helps.)
Thank you!
How does that quote even make sense, though? Ned last saw Robert in 289, but he last saw Tommen in 291 or 292? (Tommen was born in 291.) How did Ned see Tommen and Cersei (in either KL or CR) without seeing Robert? Was Ned making clandestine visits to Casterly Rock, secret rendezvous with Cersei to watch her breastfeed? Literally I’m so confused
Robert Arryn was born in 292. Perhaps Ned and Catelyn took the kids to visit her and Jon Arryn in King’s Landing after their first living baby was born? That would fit for Catelyn not having seen her sister in about five years, and Sansa not having seen Lysa in a while. If they gave it a little time before they visited (which makes sense because Robert is sickly, it would take some time before se was healthy enough for visitors, plus prep time and travel time), it could have been around 293 by the time they actually got there to see the baby. Tommen would have been a year or two old, so still possibly breastfeeding then. As for Robert Baratheon, we know he wasn’t in KL at all times – he’s been to Highgarden, Casterly Rock, and the Estermont lands and likely back to Storm’s End since then. He may have been away at the time.
And before anyone makes any 4/20 weed comments, the date is the anniversary of the Columbine massacre.
Damn straight.
Fuck, I’ll host GED classes in the damn library if it keeps kids safe. I’ll share what skill with words I have, what life experience I have, and make sure that the kids in my community come home safe and stay that way.
Remember kids: Student walk-outs and sit-in protests are incredibly effective, because it means that the system is breaking down. Their authority only goes as far as you let it.
Don’t bring weapons to protests.
Don’t bring mace or tear gas to protests.
Get bottled water, at least six bottles per person for four hours.
Pack a first aid kit. Ace bandages, band-aids, water, dried gatorade (a scoop in a bottle of water helps prevent heat stroke due to dehydration), and sunscreen.
Keep emergency contacts on all cell phones, and if possible appoint someone in the group to be the designated emergency contact caller. Their job, if shit goes south, is to run to safety and call parents, call friends, call help, not just the police.
Don’t be afraid of Juvie. Your record is expunged at 18, if the crime isn’t something like murder.
The public school system cannot function without students attending, this is a supremely effective strategy.
Keep up with and take food to those who rely on free and reduced lunches. Find a homeschool co-op or go attend classes at those online k-12 things. If you’re old enough to drive now is the time to start carpooling.
just a reminder that this is also to teachers. this is circulating in my program. that teachers are just as much a part of this creation for a walkout, too. because no teacher should have to go to work thinking they’re going to die alongside their students because congress refuses to do anything.
teachers: walk out. for your students. for yourselves. walk out.
In my middle school and high school, the doors lock automatically during school hours and have to be opened by an electronic key in the office. It’s be impossible for a large number of people to efficiently walk out of the school at once without an emergency evacuation. If you attend a school like this, I’d recommend encouraging your classmates to stay outside, and refuse to enter the building in the first place.
And before anyone makes any 4/20 weed comments, the date is the anniversary of the Columbine massacre.
Damn straight.
Fuck, I’ll host GED classes in the damn library if it keeps kids safe. I’ll share what skill with words I have, what life experience I have, and make sure that the kids in my community come home safe and stay that way.
Remember kids: Student walk-outs and sit-in protests are incredibly effective, because it means that the system is breaking down. Their authority only goes as far as you let it.
Don’t bring weapons to protests.
Don’t bring mace or tear gas to protests.
Get bottled water, at least six bottles per person for four hours.
Pack a first aid kit. Ace bandages, band-aids, water, dried gatorade (a scoop in a bottle of water helps prevent heat stroke due to dehydration), and sunscreen.
Keep emergency contacts on all cell phones, and if possible appoint someone in the group to be the designated emergency contact caller. Their job, if shit goes south, is to run to safety and call parents, call friends, call help, not just the police.
Don’t be afraid of Juvie. Your record is expunged at 18, if the crime isn’t something like murder.
The public school system cannot function without students attending, this is a supremely effective strategy.
Keep up with and take food to those who rely on free and reduced lunches. Find a homeschool co-op or go attend classes at those online k-12 things. If you’re old enough to drive now is the time to start carpooling.
just a reminder that this is also to teachers. this is circulating in my program. that teachers are just as much a part of this creation for a walkout, too. because no teacher should have to go to work thinking they’re going to die alongside their students because congress refuses to do anything.
teachers: walk out. for your students. for yourselves. walk out.
The House of Representatives voted in favor of destroying key provisions of the ADA to allow businesses to continue, penalty free, to remain inaccessible, possibly indefinitely.
All y’all who like to talk about ableism on here and are eligible to vote in the US:
call your senators. Tell them no on 620. Tell them why accessibility and the ADA matter to you.
And here we see the results of centuries of racist, propagandized history curriculums. It’s the only possible explanation why supposedly educated white people continue to show their asses like this so fucking much in 20-fucking-18. Many of their own ancestors suffered under indentured servitude and worse, and somehow they *still* want to turn around and do this to other people? White supremacy is a hell of a drug.
(x) It is somehow even fucking worse than the title made it seem. (Oh, and they changed the title. Doesn’t make the article any less nightmarish).
I know. At first I thought it had to just be some clickbait headline for an article about immigration sponsors. Nope.
Anyone else think that the University of Chicago, Microsoft Research New England, and Yale University need to hear from many, many people just how vile their employees’ pro-slavery proposal is?
He was given a swimming scholarship to the University of Indianapolis.
He also played for the school water polo team.
Nick aspired to be in the 2020 olympics.
He was described as being very charismatic and a very likeable guy.
Aaron Feis:
Aaron was a football coach at the school.
Aaron was shot and killed, shielding students from bullets.
He was also reported to have been a security guard.
He was loved by students at the school.
Chris Hixon:
Chris was the school’s athletics director.
He was described as the kind of person who would do anything for anyone.
He had a son with special needs who followed him everywhere.
Luke Hoyer:
Luke was 15 years old.
He loved playing basketball.
He is described as being very laid back, never causing any trouble.
His family is devastated, saying that “it doesn’t feel real”.
He was very happy-go-lucky. Never getting upset.
Cara Loughran:
Cara was 14 years old.
She was a great student.
She loved the beach.
Her family says that her death is “too horrible to be processed”.
Gina Montalto:
Gina was 14 years old.
She was a member of her school’s marching band.
Her mother described her as being smart, caring, and brightening any room she entered.
Joaquin Oliver:
Joaquin was 17 years old.
He was born in Venezuela, officially becoming an American citizen on January 17th.
He was described as being extroverted and always trying to make new friends.
Alex Schachter:
Alex was 14 years old.
He was a member of his school’s marching band.
He was described as being a great kid, full of love and life.
Carmen Schentrup:
Carmen was 16 years old.
She was a national merit scholar semifinalist.
A family member described her as being the smartest 16 year old they had ever met.
Alaina Petty:
Alaina was 14 years old.
She was part of her school’s JROTC program.
She devoted countless hours to volunteering.
Alaina was described as vibrant, determined, and loved by all.
Meadow Pollack:
Meadow was 18 years old.
She planned to attend Lynn University next year.
Meadow is described as being beautiful, inside and out.
I agree it’s important to study causes of shooting and ways to prevent them. But those things can be done without giving the shooter a lot more news time than the victims. Remember them.
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