Over the summer I went to an art museum with my S/O and their son (age 10). The son wasn’t as engaged as we’d hoped, but also we probably should have known. 

He whined about and my S/O said “we went to legoland for you, this is for us adults” which is fine, but that didn’t stop him from whining about. 

Immediately jumping into teacher mode, I pulled out my notebook and a pen and I said “hey, every time we stop to look at a painting for a while, I want you to draw it.” He didn’t draw a single picture. I showed him how to do it, still didn’t draw a single picture…but he also stopped whining. He couldn’t complete the task, but his focus was taken away from “I don’t want to be here” and was transferred to “what does this image look like? how can i draw this”

It doesn’t always work, but it teaches kid to channel energy and focus instead of wondering what “stop” means. Because “stop” really means “do something else”. 

for some reason your icon being a knife gave me the really strong impression you were telling me all this information at knifepoint

I was not downplaying this. The stigma is real, and people are 100% willing to let people with allergies die.

This woman was laughed at for asking for allergy accommodations at multiple points in her trip, and was denied to the point that she was practically told she’d be refused care in the event of anaphylaxis.

I work in healthcare. I cannot get my coworkers to consistently change their gloves after handling a PBJ. They literally do not think of it, and I don’t understand why. I also don’t know how to make it stick in their brains that this is a thing they need to do.

I grew up in the early 2000s with severe allergies to not just peanuts, but ALL nuts as well as beef, pork, shelfish, seeds, kiwi, and some food dyes. The resistance that my family faced from educators in the early 2000s is frankly bananas, not to mention the shit other parents and kids got up to.

When my mom tried to enroll me in preschool, the school principal refused any basic accommodations like asking everyone to wash their hands after lunch before re-entering the classroom, not bringing straight up peanuts to snack time, etc. There was no such thing as a nut free classroom at the time. The principal told my mom and me (I was 4 at the time and definitely in the room when this happened) “if she’s so sick, she belongs in a bubble, not at school.” THE FUCKING PRINCIPAL! My mom had to threaten legal action under the ADA to get them to comply.

Look, I was on a 504 accommodation plan under the ADA for the entirety of my formative education (elementary thru high school). That’s all 12 years!!! And yet I have had teachers hand me items I’m allergic to as a “reward”. I have had other kids intentionally try to send me into anaphylaxis. One girl in 3rd grade asked me why I “wasn’t dead yet” when she had put on a lotion with almonds in it and then held my hand. I’ve had other parents write letters to the school saying what a terrible inconvenience it was to them to not be able to send their kiddo to school with PB&J, demanding I be Removed to a special education only class if my “needs” were such a “burden” to others. During elementary school “parties” held in the classroom on holidays and for student birthdays, I was always sent to sit out in the hallway or go to the library, because even though parents were only supposed to bring safe foods into the room (they had a list of all my allergies) they never once got it right. Administrators fought me tooth and nail for the right to carry my epi pen and other meds on my person at all times. Why they thought I would start dealing benadryl on the playground, I do not know. At lunch, I was always sat at a specific segregated table labeled the “Nut Free Table” alone because who the fuck is going to sit there with the literally segregated outcast? But ONCE notably I was sat on one side of a line of blue masking tape down the table top with the rest of my class on the other. One side was the NUTS side!!! As if allergens would respect that tape barrier. (Spoiler alert: they do NOT!)

Literally from preschool to my senior year of high school, I was “the peanut kid”. Other parents gave my mom books about how to “cure your child’s food allergies from HOME” by micro dosing with things they are allergic to (please never ever ever even attempt anything like a food challenge with a known allergen outside of the care and supervision of a medical professional, holy shit that’s so dangerous). My mom joined the PTA in my last year of high school so that I could maybe participate in all the senior-focused events like pool parties and breakfast at school on the first Friday of the month. The number of times another parent either (a) decided it wasn’t worth it to care or (b) intentionally brought peanut products to an event to spite either me or my mom??? I literally could not count. It happened constantly.

College was better, but I still occasionally had people BALK when I asked them to please not eat a Nature Valley bar with whole nuts in it right the fuck next to me in lecture, thanks. Work parties and catered lunches were always impossible. A few conferences I went to as an undergrad were SUPPOSED to be nut-free, but always fucked up the catering. At one, they set up snack tables by every exit of the conference auditorium so that when people left after the talk, they all congregated around the exits and opened macadamia nut cookies and granola bars. When I had subsequently had a massive allergic reaction and needed help getting home (I’d walked) after taking like 200mg of benadryl, the staff offered me a stack of napkins and a lukewarm apology.

Food allergy is a disability which touches literally every aspect of a person’s life. Everytime I share with someone new about what it was like growing up with my allergies, they have never heard anything like it in their lives. They’re always like “holy shit, seriously??? People did that??? Kids tried to kill you??? Parents wanted you kicked out of the classroom????” Yeah, man. Yeah. My own brother (who doesn’t have any allergies at all) doesn’t understand why I don’t “eat more adventurously” and why I won’t travel internationally. So, saying it REALLY LOUDLY for people in the back:

FOOD ALLERGY IS A DISABILITY FOR WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS ACCOMMODATIONS AND HAVE THEM TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

My grandmother was allergic to so many commonplace foods like eggs and corn. Eggs and corn are in every-fucking-thing. Almost everything sweetened is sweetened with CORN syrup. Ugh. Anyway, when I was a kid, she was in the hospital for something and a NURSE deliberately put eggs in her food because the asshole didn’t believe in allergies. What the actual fuck? We know this because, of course, my grandmother had a reaction and saved her own life by giving herself an epi injection. (Asshole nurse ignored the nurse call bell.) They found out what happened afterward when they did an investigation and the nurse confessed to almost killing her patient. (They fired her. I wish they’d fucking arrested her for attempted murder.) Btw, the hospital told my grandmother she couldn’t keep an epi syringe (this was before epi pens) in her room because of some bullshit policy. My mom slipped her one to stash under her pillow. If she hadn’t, my grandmother would have died in her 50s instead of at the ripe old age of 93.

Food allergies are not a fucking joke. They kill people all the time.

Like I'm gonna let y'all know, all the stuff I post, I have saved on a hard drive. The issue is while I'm saving this and archiving it, it's not open access. It's personal and I can use it for personal references. I have countless videos from eye.on.palestine that was removed from IG, but far from all of them as their account's updates were like. Up to hundreds of videos from the ground every single day.

Oh what coincidence - was gonna make post that one way can be active n "do something", is that as many people should backup everything that can.

Archiving can be form of activism n keep information alive.

Backup image, video, original news articles wordings, social media posts, websites, the contents of shared links - like save PDFs and books, whatever.

n it also useful that if some the proof is on Tumblr blog, for not lose archive if Tumblr (or other social media) delete account or post - to backup the blog n posts.

For Tumblr blog.

• Google Docs: Magz Guide on how to backup Tumblr blog.
  (Archive Webpage of Tumblr backup guide)

Tumblr backup script save as HTML, and have option to locally save all media (image, video, audio) from a blog. HTML mean that a backup can be re-upload as a site online elsewhere if know how. "static site hosting" tend to be cheap or even free (though hopefully it wont be taken down, whichever you choose).

For saving individual webpages to online.

• Use Wayback Machine and Archive.org in general for taking snapshots of a webpage where people can access online (it won't save whole websites).
• Wayback Machine's Browser add-ons can make easier.
  (Firefox add-on "Wayback machine")
  (Chromium add-on "Wayback Machine)
  (Safari add-on "Wayback Machine")

With the add-on active, just right-click on a webpage and choose "Wayback Machine" and "Save Page Now"

If want have your own personal dedicated Archive.org dupe and are have more technical knowledge, can use Archive Box locally or online, or have pikapods host and setup Archive Box online for $2.7u.s+ per month.

There also just classic right-click (on PC) or hold tap (on mobile) or take screenshot to save image and video, n save to specific folder on PC or phone.
But beside that ...

Of course there more options.

Miscellaneous options and Information:

what appear in search engines when search "[insert social media] video downloader" for sites or "[insert social media] video browser extension" - but they vary in quality.

also different android apps that add download options in the social media app itself (like "fritter" or "quacker" app for twitter / x. "newpipe" for youtube. Downloadable on F-Droid. "friendly social media browser" for multiple socials, on play store - though current version buggy n broke)

or dedicated downloader (like "seal" app for video and audio. "twittasave" for twitter / x. Downloadable on F-Droid).

and of course other web crawlers and web scrapers -that automate going thru websites and the web, to save information and links. can vary in difficulty with tweaking to have saves not broken. httptrack, webscrapbook, hitomi downloader & hitomi downloader chrome add-on, etc.

There always more options if one not work. Search github, f-droid, play stores, search engines, on reddit discussions, ask people you know that know more, so on.

General Advice.

Get an external hard drive. or for usually cheaper, have a normal internal hard drive / SSD and an external hard drive enclosure.

if know how to check credible online stores -

to start - online buy can be usually as low as $10u.s. for 500gb of internal HDD, and $10-$20u.s. for decent HDD enclosure - but can be $5u.s. for cheap quality ones - like on ebay. (make sure is compatible. like 3.5inch enclosure made for 3.5inch HDD, n not just SDD sticks or 2.5inch)

better than local price in local currency, personally.

Example.

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(described in alt text) Image Examples. $9.99 Hard Drive of 500gb. $19.49 "decent" external HDD enclosure. (U.S. dollar)

- Also, if you have an old hard drive or unused computer, can wipe the contents if there nothing important, and put it in a hard drive enclosure so can connect to a PC thru USB. So can do backups.

More backup locations is better, do not rely on 1 backup that if 1 thing go wrong get lost. (example: have on local device, on private cloud, on website, on external hard drive)

know your tools, know your options.

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just gonna leave this here again

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