Ex-nurse, usability & accessibility engineer, translator/editor.
Disabled white Finn. #Queer, trilingual, #ActuallyAutistic, #ActuallyADHD, dyslexic & hyperlexic Mensa member with #cPTSD, asthma, digestive problems, chronic pain & more. #Spoonie
Proud parent of neurodivergent & gender nonconforming bi/multilingual zoomers. Married.
I report & block racism & TERF shit & other bigotry tooting accounts at first observation.
Finally, I consider it my boomer birthright to use the Oxford comma.
One final note: The worst, most ineffective, blundering, damaging activists I've personally known and had to work along with have always been people who chased clout first. Who valued the glory of being loudly correct more than they valued being effective.
All of them ultimately did a TON of actual damage in my real community before folks realized what they were. That they didn't really care about any of actual people here if there wasn't an opportunity for them to build up their brand.
Question for any autistic people:
When you were in middle school and high school...
a. Did anything teachers did give you particular difficulty?
b. Did you have any teachers who were particularly helpful? In what ways?
c. How did you feel about "group work" ?
Do you like camping gear but the woods… less so? Are you an irascible tea snob? Let me introduce you to the rarified world of “tea camping”
the premise is simple: prepare and enjoy excellent tea in memorable and breathtaking locations as Lu Yu the patron saint of tea intended. And further have a kit, both minimalist and traditional, high tech and timeless to make tea preparation possible under every circumstance. #tea #teacamping
It's not about "protecting the children." Anti-trans bills now increasingly target adults
Reduce, reuse, recycle... repair!
This week, we proposed the ‘right to repair’ initiative, which will make it easier and cheaper for consumers to #repair defective goods.
By repairing more goods and using them longer, #EU consumers can not only enjoy sustainable consumption but will also achieve considerable savings!
Learn more about the proposal → europa.eu/!KKwHFh
The whole time we were in flagstaff freight trains went by, seemed like nearly on the hour. The cross bells always banged and flashed. Stacked double with containers from the Pacific ports, or tanker trains endless as some early composition like Philip Glass. The scale of the freight operation was grotesque and impressive almost as much as the canyon. Strange to think so much of America acts like rail is antiquated and irrelevant. At least here it obviously is not.
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Food delivery folks from #Wolt staged a protest in front of the company's venue in Helsinki.
A major point of dissatisfaction is the long hours and shit pay.
According to this article, a 12h shift of food deliveries will only make some 70€, give or take.
One of the reasons why these delivery drivers have been treated like this is because of Wolt's own propaganda efforts to brand them as "micro-entrepreneurs" instead of what they actually are, workers.
By branding them as entrepreneurs, Wolt is clearly hoping to prevent them from unionizing. But that shtick won't last forever.
This shit's absolutely unacceptable and #Wolt can suck it.
My puppy: *Has a complex inner life, actual emotions, expectations for its future, relationships*
Humans: Nah animals are just automatons and you can't be sure, so they get no moral status
An AI: Copies back probabilistically generated copies of parts of the internet
Humans: Omg I think we need to consider giving it full human moral status, authorship credit, a professorship, a seat in parliament, all the legal protections of a human AND a corporation, and the respect normally given to deity
Cis women are organising a counter protest against fascist transphobic hatemonger Posie Parker and her ilk when she comes to Dublin next month. Let's hope she gets the sort of 'céad míle fáilte' from Irish feminists she deserves.
🇮🇪❤️🏳️⚧️
#MastoDaoine #Feminism #Solidarity #Trans
"trans-exclusionary radical feminists” have allied with rightwing attacks on gender.” Thus, they “will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism.” Judith Butler
https://facebook.com/events/s/trans-solidarity-gathering/1213884946187266/
Yep!
Nerd definition from Miriam Webster:
1) A person devoted to intellectual, academic, or technical pursuits or interests. A person preoccupied with or devoted to a particular activity or field of interest.
2) An unstylish or socially awkward person.
Listen to Brook argue with his twin brother (also an NBA player) about whose cat is better. Poupin the cat (friendly, needy, clingy), vs Prince Edward Zephyr (stand-offish, scratchy, bitey)🤣
@inthehands @mekkaokereke I went to Berklee College of Music, and people are always impressed by this & say “wow you must be so talented!” and I always correct them & point out “music is 1% talent and 99% hard work; I just never did anything but play bass & video games”.
People get a bit nonplussed by this, but it’s the same for anything if you wanna be kickass at it: you gotta nerd out & go hard.
@muhkayoh @mekkaokereke damn I wish I could remember the name of the Baseball player who said something like "please stop calling me a natural, I've been practicing 60+ hours a week since I was 10."
Sports rant: why nerds win everything, even sports.
Brook Lopez was a traditional NBA center. In the 80s or 90s, he would have had a great career. But the game changed. Everyone shoots 3s now, and he wasn't a good 3 shooter. He only made 3 of them in his first 8 years in the league.
But to become a good 3 point shooter, you only need to:
1) Get someone to help you correct your form
2) Shoot ~1000 3 point shots a day, every day, for about a year.
So he did that.🤷🏿♂️
We stand together for the people in Türkiye and Syria!
The countdown is almost over: everything is ready for the Donors' Conference taking place tomorrow in Brussels.
Together with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, we are calling on the international community to raise funds, mobilise resources, and coordinate recovery and relief efforts for the victims of the recent earthquakes.
Be part of this opportunity and make a difference!
yesterday got 3 trans women out of Mombasa. This morning got a cis lesbian and daughter out. independently, got a cis lesbian couple out of another place.
We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here's how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
Still begging for funds to meet the immediate emergencies.
We do a lot in Kenya, and right now there's a moral panic on the coast, a spill over from Uganda. Many queer folks fleeing Mombasa.
https://transrescue.org/donations/donate
IBAN transfers reach us faster, if you can.
@andrewt Yeah, if they were up-front about that, instead of making me download the app, and eventually discover "lol it's $ Million per month now" all in different ways, it would at least have the virtue of letting me compare them with a reasonable amount of ease
