“All bodies are unique and essential. All bodies have strengths and needs that must be met. We are powerful, not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them. All bodies are confined by ability, race, gender, sexuality, class, nation state, religion, and more, and we cannot separate them.”
From “What is Disability Justice” (Adapted from Patty Berne’s “Disability Justice – A Working Draft”, Published in Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People, A Disability Justice Primer, Second Edition.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
The thing that sucks is that by the end of it all, I’ve missed a full week of work. I was sort of productive though. I mowed the yard and it really needed it. And worked on AI-filter proofing my resume. I’m even testing out some lying by adding a bit of backend tech that I really haven’t touched. After running my resume through 3 different AI bots to test and improve, one was like “Add MongoDB and Express.js because those are buzzwords that corpos like!” so I did. I’ve actually done a small bit with Mongo and Postgress but it’s database shit so at the end of the day it’s all just queries. What cracks me up is when it was like “Put Node.js on there for more buzzword rizz!” because that’s just the package manager/delivery system for JS stuff and everything else I have listed obviously suggests I am able to type “npm install xyz” into a terminal. But even that is sort of a lie because I mostly use pnpm instead of npm rofl.