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Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, by Sarah Handley-Cousins

I've lived with multiple disabilities my entire life. I know how society treats People with Disabilities. I know how we're seen as burdens, as lazy, as frauds. Men with Disabilities often have their manhood questioned, we're seen as weak, women are generally not interested in us romantically. It's the same...

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B. White

It has been said that every writer should read William Strunk and E.B. White's The Elements of Style. Welp, I finally got around to that. I don't feel this book told me much that I didn't already know. It has advice that feels very outdated. And I rather dislike when authors push...

In Creating the Constitution of the United States

“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.” -James Madison, June 8 1789

Just Discovered this Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA9_QJAhr8Q

Up Yours

This finger is for the nondisabled lily-white liberals who have told me I should use kinder language when I post about Donald Trump & the MAGA morons. You think being nice to people who support Nazi ideology is going to accomplish anything?

Sewage

Trump, mad that the press is informing the People about the illegal work he's having done on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, posts an AI generated image of Obama, Biden and Pelosi swimming in a filthy version of the Reflecting Pool with a caption that says "Dumacrats Love Sewage." That's...