why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where’s the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees
Modern Odyssey, he comes home 20 hours later then expected. The Ogs meet the modern au and they are SEETHING with jealousy.
Every person in a position of political power should have their daily needs matched to the lowest class of their country.
You make $6 an hour now, Mr. Congressman, and you’re not allowed to sit down or take breaks during your 7.5 hour daily shift. If you don’t like that, then you’re welcome to make some changes
This.
i’ve never understood being able to enact laws that will never impact you
It legitimately works. When politicians chose to live on the food stamp budget for their state they worked to increase the allotment after only a week of living that way.
And honestly? It should include having to spend time living on disability, navigating their district in a wheelchair, and taking public transit.
These people should have to live with their choices the same way they force us to live with them.
there is something inherently shitty that people in positions of power have to physically do the same things as people who are less fortunate than them to be able to empathise with them and make a change.
I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)
cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.
For real, it’s nearly every disabled person who deals with this shit. Artificial limbs cost more than many make in a year. Medications you need to literally stay alive, that keep your heart beating or your lungs breathing, your body processing sugar which is in everything, that keep your hormones’ regulated. Items that let you see or hear or walk.
This is literally reality already for millions of people, including people you know. “Don’t cry to me when your ability to run is behind a paywall’ my ability to breathe, see, concentrate, and sleep already are. Help us. Fight against it NOW and stop joking about how it’s a hypothetical future because we’ve been suffering, we are suffering, and we’re dying and we didn’t make any choice.
People are always talking about making John Green say “I love cocks” when it comes to having fun with tumblr’s ability to edit everyone’s posts but that one post where that person was saying fuckers and it got repeatedly edited to fudgers and meaners was 10000% funnier
The initial “punishment” for refusing media was a $15,000 fine.
She was completely okay with paying that, and said it was “worth it” to her, to pay the fine and just play tennis.
Only after that statement from her & her team did the Powers That Be decide the original stated “punishment” was not harsh enough (likely because she was a Black woman who wasn’t doing as she was told, because this ABSOLUTELY is about race) and tell her that she might not even be allowed to play at all.
And she still refused to be intimidated- to jump because they told her to.
I stand with her, but she shouldn’t have to do any of this.
And yes- notice how people on the right and racists will say “shut up and play” over and over… until someone (particularly a Black woman) literally says “I would very much like to shut up and just play”, and then it’s “we’re going to fine you if you don’t talk, and not even let you play”.
*missing the charging port on my phone* don’t think about it don’t think about it don’t think about it
my two favourite things about this
everyone knows what this is
the scene was an adaptation of a scene from the original novel where instead of a charging port on a phone, it’s a winding key in a pocketwatch. I like to imagine people having this exact same kind of thought when they missed the watch keyhole 100 years ago
