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- They didn't want to sit through demeaning and bigoted religious services just for a place to sleep. (Church run food banks do this a lot too btw).
- They were late and the shelter wouldn't let them in and voided the rest of their allowed stay bc they didn't call and tell the shelter they couldn't make it in before closing.
- One of the other people at the shelter got violent/threatened violence and the shelter refused to do anything about it.
- One of the SHELTER EMPLOYEES/VOLUNTEERS got violent/threatened violence and the shelter refused to do anything about it.
- The shelter refuses to disclose if allergens are in the food they're providing saying, "This is all you're getting, be glad for this much and thank god!"
- Shelter refused to believe person is homeless saying, "You are FAR too clean and nicely dressed!"
"refused services" how much did the services cost? i'm not talking about money here, we know they're offered free in financial terms, but nonmonetary strings are still strings and they can bind you, cut you, cut off circulation, suffocate you, yank you into discomfort or danger, or hold you down while worse chains are applied.
sometimes the services offered aren't right for that person, aren't helpful, make things worse, involve unacceptable risks, or involve forcing the recipient to accept a permanent loss in order to receive a temporary benefit.
sometimes calling them "services" is more polite than truthful.
This is a school that gets 95% of its funding from the government. Jesus christ. I really think we need to just go back to feminism for babies 101 just as a cultural movement because apparently we're still having the "are girls allowed to wear pants at school" debate. To be clear, the sc declined to hear the case leaving the decision of the lower courts to stand which sided against the school. So that's nice at least. But Jesus Christ.
Gotta love a government funded school that every day has your child recite that they're going to guard against the stains of falsehood such as listening to experts relying on rational arguments. Making it out of this current wave of christian nationalist assault on education is gonna be so fucking rough
But it does.
It does… one at a time. It’d be useful to be able to select more than one. G&T but not higher, M&E only, everything but E for those who just don’t like smut. (btw I just checked and there is none of the exclusion filters showing on the search page at least in my computer)
AO3 does ‘and’ filters.
You don’t filter for M&E. You filter for not the other stuff.
I have never seen so many users clearly baffled by and too skittish to push buttons/toggles that are very clearly meant to be used.
If a trusted website has a button and you don’t immediately know or understand what it does, push it. Check out every drop down, every link, every configuration imaginable. Be adventurous. Fuck around and find out. If it breaks the website, they shouldn’t have had that button in the first place. Not on you. Indulge your curiosity instead of complaining it doesn’t do something it absolutely does if you poke around a little.
You’re not going to get a bad grade in filtering by using interface features from AO3, I promise.
Look, there are library systems that don’t have filters as good as AO3. You have to learn how to use Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) and construct a proper query to exclude in several academic databases, and AO3 just performs “NOT” for you by clicking a button.
Do you know how many grad students would love to have the kind of power you have with AO3 in filters?
Ao3 filters are amazing. You can filter out ratings, you can filter out characters or pairings, you can filter out specific tags (as long as it’s an official tag)! (Type it in under “other tags to exclude”)
This is why the antis complaining about seeing content they don’t like on Ao3 is so frustrating. If something squicks you out, filter it, and you never have to see it again! Voila! Or even if it is just something you don’t like. I have High School AUs filtered out because I just don’t like them! It’s an amazing system and makes it so easy to curate your experience.