Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

listen i'm not all 'the south shall rise again' or that shit but i WILL say

if in the afterlife i meet general sherman

i will smack that man across the face for helping to make georgia a wasteland where passenger train service does not exist, even when it could absolutely be my preferred form of transport

@chaosonwheels23 luckily i don't get too much of that shit to my face

of course this may be because all of the old codgers i know most likely to spout that shit are my great-uncles who are all learning firsthand about the constraints of society when you ain't at 100% health

i haven't gloated openly at any of them but i probably have on occasion looked smug as hell

Disabled Spoonie Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind (If You'd Give Her A Hand Up Please, Shit This Thing's Kinda Deep Huh, You'd Think They Would Be Required To Build A Ramp Honestly, The ADA Isn't Just For Show After All Goddamn)

@chaosonwheels23 god yeah, i'm so glad there's the loophole at least

this is just one of those things where i become Disabled Woman Yells At Cloud honestly

i feel like people who aren't in the system are absolutely blind to this shit. i mean fuck, i sure fucking was. but it can end up constraining so much of your life, and then when chucklefuck mcgee goes "well you know these cripples live high on the hog off the state" i sort of just want to become the embodiment of screaming fury tbh

so i'd have to use only my own funds for that. which i can only use 2k of. *and not even that much*. because as soon as you get a CENT over 2k, THEY WILL COME KNOCKING ANGRILY AT YOUR DOOR, CALLING YOU, WANTING YOU TO PAY THEM BACK FOR EVERYTHING. so realistically, the only amount of savings i can ever have ISN'T 2k... it's 2k minus the amount of money i get a month. if not less, so i don't accidentally end up five bucks over and then have to kowtow to the government for three weeks. U G H

i mean i'm glad the able accounts exist but b r u h. do you know how quick 2k of savings goes in an emergency??? if i needed to save up for a wheelchair, sure, that's something the able account will let me spend my savings on. probably furniture as well.

but consider: one of my niblings gets sick. i need to fly up to help. the flight up, the meals i eat there because i'm not able to cook, a toy to distract other niblings or taking them all to see a movie - uncle sam says nope!!!!!

@chaosonwheels23 i did look into those and i'm gonna have to start socking money away into one!

what chaps my ass though is that they demand you have a certain amount of money in the abled account before you get to put any money into their mutual funds/investment funds. (because... realistically... i'm disabled, i'm 30, i need to have been saving for retirement yesterday...)

also you can only use account funds for ~approved purchases~, which is better than nothing for sure, but. see gif

minor sad disabled-in-the-US feel:

realizing that all 'if i won the lottery...' fantasies now include "ok so first off i set up a trust to fund my healthcare, because as soon as i have more than two thousand dollars in assets, uncle sam will jettison me with prejudice from all benefits, and -"

can you trace Listening To Lisa Loeb when young as cause in part of my now favouring cats-eye glasses?

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oof ok that's rough quality on that video, this one's better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSA9GaHLE3s

honestly i hope the whole "90s retro!!!" comeback continues bc there are a lot of really good songs from mid-to-late-90s to mid-00s that are bops more people should appreciate

case in point, lisa loeb is Good To Listen To as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc_2bm8W3GY

just go and listen to the whole sixpence none the richer self-titled album it's nice

not even any weird hymn detours. just a spanish poetry detour with Puedo Escribir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65N5SymEc88 it's nice. listen to it.

idk why people are talking about it but sixpence none the richer put out some bops and should be appreciated more

even if it's just their one-hit wonders (ok i guess if you do it twice you're no longer a one-hit wonder but u kno wat i mean)

ok ok it's actually Secret Midnight Cereal In The Bathroom but honestly, both are excellent band names

https://twitter.com/justinmcelroy/status/577322802606297090?lang=en just the fucking face, every time

@boisdevache@guineapig.party and Secret Bathroom Cereal for the double headline

also here's #todaysselfie , i call today's look "shit fuck no time to fix my eyeliner heck dang it whatever whatever this is fine"