you heard it here first, folks: wear more fishnets and leather on bart
y'all this single-payer bill (SB562 in California) is even better than I thought it'd be holy shit. "Referrals are not required to see any eligible provider." is LIFE-CHANGING. you get to make YOUR OWN decisions about your healthcare. that is what *actual* freedom of choice in healthcare looks like.
hey what if we consolidated the bay area into one big city so we could plan infrastructure and stuff on a scale appropriate for the region
we live in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. our state has a class character and it's working against us at every turn.
I don't go so far as to say that makes it impossible to accomplish good through policy, but every step forward risks two (dozen) steps back. for every policy that benefits people we get two that consolidate the power of corporations.
(and to disabuse anyone of the notion I'm exaggerating when I say "civilization-underpinning" I mean we have a civilization because ~12,000 years ago some autists were obsessed with plant seeds. there's your autism awareness month story)
we deserve a world in which the (literally civilization-underpinning) strengths and contributions of autistic people are valued.
we deserve a world in which our needs are taken as seriously as allistic people's needs are.
ffs we deserve a world that just lets us do the shit we're good at so we don't have to suffer through allistic people fucking it up lmao
gonna copy and paste some of my tweets from today so y'all get a sense of what I talk about
@haley omg he should host a mastodon server on toot.ly that would just be too perfect