Thanks, this is a great article. It completely tallies with my experience teaching higher ed as well.

No, there are not handicapped stalls in the other bathrooms. In this particular art gallery/museum the womens’ and mens’ are very difficult even for some disabled people who can walk, because each is fitted with two fire doors (heavy doors that self close) - one to get into the sink area and another to access the stalls area.

If it was like @[email protected] was saying, I might feel differently but this is in a new part of the building and they are only a few years old. There’s also an enormous supply closet next to them. It really shouldn’t have to be like this.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That locked due to sex thing is irksome for sure. How can their logic be “other people have sex therefore you have nowhere to pee”?!

It creates a weird fear in my mind of using one while I could be using another but instead I’d be blocking someone who needs the special infrastructure in the toilet.

This is a big part of it. As a bi cisgender disabled person I feel like we are being herded into making decisions about sharing/competing for a scarce resource somehow. It sort of feels like they are ticking off all their “other” boxes with this one toilet.

I felt quite selfconscious when a person with no visible disability walked out of it and I was outside in a wheelchair waiting. I’m pretty sure they were rainbow community and I didn’t want them to feel like their use of the toilet was at my expense.

It also feels a bit problematic to me that there’s an assumption that disabled people specifically are never bigoted or unsafe for gender diverse people to be around.

It’s a bunch of crimes.

He illegally imported endangered species parts.

Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it’s illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.

So cool!

Yes, it was quite good. They didn’t really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

Me too.

I’m sorry. Just wanted to give you a virtual hug if you’d like one.

Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.

We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.

In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale

Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.

Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone’s right to peacefully protest.

Maybe it’s because I live in a country where the police don’t carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don’t think that’s entirely true.

I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

Yes this was pretty telling:

Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”

I was a bit offended by tourists doing that mmhmm thing until I found out that it’s considered polite in the US.

I was interpreting it as “yes I know you are thankful to me, and so you should be! By the way, I’m an oaf.”

“c’est moi,” meaning, “it’s me who thanks you.”

Ah so that’s what that means. I thought I was mishearing. That’s pretty close to what I was brought up with, “it’s my pleasure” (meaning it’s me who is pleased to be helping).

The informal/vernacular in my country (NZ) is “sweet as” which puzzles most visitors, or sometimes “it’s all good”.

That’s such a cool idea!

That sounds hard.

Do you meditate at all?.Sometimes it can help reset the critical inner voice.

That’s so cool that you’re doing NaNoWriMo! I’ve always felt too daunted by lack of plot. Let us know how it goes!

Ah that explains it. Thanks!

I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.