#curb cuts

[spurious-accessibility]

Stonestown Galleria, San Francisco, CA

#accessibility #disability #curb cuts

[ride-a-dromedary]

"Halsin shouldn't be that big or muscular or look middle aged because he's an elf and the lore sa-"

I actually think he should be bigger and look more middle aged, personally.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #the man has been non-stop stressed for a century like i'm surprised that didn't prematurely age him MORE #i think he *should* have silver hairs peppered throughout from the endless stress he's been under #and be built like a professional strong man with a significant healthy layer of fat because he *hibernates* and is *practically strong* #and because he says he likes sweet things and doesn't find any point in denying himself things he likes #so you're telling me that man is chiseled and cut like an unhealthy bodybuilder? #no i don't think so #'elf lore says-' this game is literally all about curbing your expectations when it comes to what people are 'meant' to be #elf lore says a lot of things that halsin fits *to a t* - his appearance being out of the 'norm' is not a flaw #but it doesn't matter then does it? only when he physically fits the species paradigm? #'that's not how elf aging works!' why not? you've seen how human's age yeah? different people age in different ways #you can line up ten 50 year olds next to one another and not a single one of them will look the same #the thing is that under every single umbrella there is diversity of experience #people will look and age differently from others - that's just how life and genetic diversity *works* #anyway this is a gripe at two different things at once don't mind me

[morganbritton132]

Eddie decides that he wants to do a whole Day in the Life of a Middle School Math Teacher thing when Steve gets the go-ahead that Eddie can come talk to his class. Steve thinks that’s dumb because it’s not like he has an interesting life.

The first video in the series starts the night before. Eddie is filming Steve while they get ready for bed (mostly removing the five hundred pillows Steve insists they need

on their bed) while he warns Eddie that these kids are not like The Party. Middle school kids have not developed empathy yet and they’re mean in like, an accurate way. It’s like having 16 to 22 Erica Sinclairs every class period.

It then cuts to the morning where Steve is lecturing Eddie on the do’s and don’t’s. DO encourage students to find safe creative outputs to express themselves. DO talk about your struggles in school and how you overcame them. DON’T tell them about the illegal shit we used to do. DON’T antagonize student athletes and, for the love of god, DON’T climb on the tables. This lecture spans every room in their house as they both get ready.

The second video is filmed inside of seventh grade English teacher, Mrs Casal’s Honda Civic. Steve doesn’t drive anymore and Eddie insisted on joining his teacher carpool, a decision he has come to regret and Patty Casal drives like she wants them all to die. He’s squeezed in the back between Ozzy and another teacher that keeps fussing with his jacket collar.

The whole video is just zoomed in on Eddie’s face while you can hear four middle school teachers telling the most batshit insane stories you’ve ever head. The caption is: Why am I having RV flashbacks?

The third Tiktok is just Eddie filming Steve reviewing the last test with the students before Eddie’s Q&A. The text overlay says, “Why is this so hot?” Hot for Teacher is playing.

Eddie doesn’t actually film his little Q&As with Steve’s classes because it feels weird to film kids he doesn’t know, but a lot of the students do so videos go up on Tiktok of Eddie answering each question sincerely while still maintaining his usual chaotic Eddie charm. A student called his music old and Eddie flipped backwards off his chair, grabbing his chest, “You wound me! Rock n Roll never gets old and it never dies!”

He does talk about the hurtles he had to jump to get into the music industry, how his uncle bought him his first guitar and that he had to teach himself because they couldn’t afford lessons. He talked about school and his three repeats of senior year. He talked about how Dustin and Nancy sat down with him and worked out a way to teach him that actually worked. One student asked why he was with a math teacher when he could be married to a celebrity and Eddie tells them, “Don’t let the dorky sweater fool you. Mr H, over there is a total bad A S S. Coolest guy I’ve ever met. He’s saved my life.”

Someone does try to ask about the murder allegations but Steve shuts that down so fast no one dares to try again. It gives Eddie the worst case of heart eyes ever seen by man.

Steve’s class before lunch asks Eddie if he wants to eat with them and he says of course. It’s only by good fortune that one of the students catch on video Steve calling ‘Mr Munson’ back to his desk and then tells Eddie that if he climbs on a table, Steve will give him detention.

Eddie does, in fact, stand on the tables. He gives a big dramatic lecture about forced conformity but instead of talking about jocks and basketball, he talks about instagram and Tiktok and how it’s constantly hounding kids into looking a certain way, acting a certain way, and it’s destroying creativity. And that’s what’s killing the kid’s.

And Steve does, in fact, walk into the cafeteria mid-way through this speech. He lets him get through the important bits before calling out for Edward Munson to get off the table.

Someone post this whole speech on Tiktok and Eddie duets the video from detention because Steve was not kidding.

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#Eddie after Mrs Casal hits a curb on the carpool home: Babe you know we could get you a driver #Steve who taught Robin to drive and regularly gets driven by her: what are you talking about? #I think Eddie would take offense to people saying you shouldn’t do stuff because it’s ‘cringe’ and how originality is just cut out of #everything now in order to get popular on social media #like Eddie likes posting to Tiktok but he’s not blind to the negative impact it has #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie #eddie munson tiktok saga

[fansplaining]

Accessibility is a huge topic that is very valuable and interesting to learn about. I encourage everyone, disabled or not, to learn about accessibility, because it benefits everyone. Some examples of accessibility we see in transformative works spaces are content notes and image descriptions. These may be aimed at particular disabled fans, but often benefit others who are not disabled, an effect commonly called ‘the curb cut effect,’ after those dips in curbs where you can roll your wheelchair, bike, or stroller up from the street to the sidewalk. In my years in fandom, it’s been nice to see content notes spread from fanfic to mainstream media.

— Sandy in our “Disability and Fandom” double episode. Click through to hear their whole segment or read a full transcript.

#fandom #fansplaining #disability and fandom #accessibility #content notes #image descriptions #curb cut effect

[qvincvnx]

people need to be puttin alt text on their posts some of us have bad internet

#some of us also need to use screen readers but the curb cut effect is. genuinely huge.

[junglejim4322]

Also if you have an addict in your life that’s destructive to you and you want to cut them off of course you can but pretending it’s any different than cutting off someone with mental illness or who’s going through a mental breakdown that’s destructive to you is disingenuous and claiming EVERYONE should cut them off is just straight up cruel. Sometimes you have to weigh what you can handle personally and realize it doesn’t apply to everybody as a whole. For example I have trauma related to suicide and I cannot maintain a relationship with someone who constantly threatens suicide and if it continues yes I will cut them off which may sound insanely cruel to some people but that is my personal limit and I’ve also reconciled with the fact it may have consequences (just as cutting off any of the people above may as well) but I also realize the fact I shut down so severely related to this means I’m probably not a good fit for someone in this state of mind.

#to be clear on the last one before someone calls me heartless I do mean that THREATENS suicide constantly not that I’m tossing everyone #who has ever been suicidal to the curb or would cut someone off because of an attempt or something

[xerserise]

I've made a few more customizations, but this was the first thing I added to my wheelchair.

Image: The back of a lightweight foldable electric wheelchair, with a black fabric back. A large patch of burgundy fabric is pinned to it with many safety pins. Bold white lowercase lettering on the patch reads, "my other disability is society's refusal to accommodate disabled people."

I'm not going to go into details about what it means. If you know, you know. If you don't know, look up 'social model of disability'.

A shout out to the person who put my words on a t-shirt and sent it to me, years ago. I don't wear text or logos, but I hung onto it until I could find a good use for it.

The text of this patch was written by me, and is released into public domain / CC0 (Creative Commons Zero license)

#disability accommodations #wheelchair #my first punk patch #my other disabity is society's refusal to accommodate disabled people #part time wheelchair user #occasional wheelchair user #don't get me started on the curb cuts in my town

[fission-mailure]

Super glad right now that I'm no longer friends with a particular person, since I can guarantee that in the wake of the Russell Brand allegations she would be desperately trying to come up with excuses for him and/or asserting that all of the women involved (who purportedly don't know each other) are lying. The moment she learned he had allegations of rape against him, he would've become her absolute favourite person.

Not even because she especially ever liked Russell Brand, just because she never failed to express her undying support for sexual or domestic abusers (at least so long as they were men). Like, this is also the person who steered unrelated conversations constantly towards rants in defense of Johnny Depp, and who sulked about how the MeToo movement was going to 'destroy the acting industry,' the number one way to shoot to the top of her estimations was to be credibly accused of violence against women.

#it actually remains amazing to me that i just lingered in that friendship for so long #because the moment i should have known to cut her off was when i realised that she got furiously angry and sulky at people #if they dared to not seem happy #because it 'made her feel bad' and because she felt it was taking attention away from her #and that was when i was like nineteen #i stayed friends with her for years and years after that even though i should've kicked her to the curb then #and spared myself her gaslighting and emotional abuse #and her abuse apologia and her eventual descent into transphobia and anti-vaxxery

[noisytenant]

sorry, i think this might come across mean, but it is simply how i feel.

almost always i genuinely enjoy writing alt text and im glad im in the habit of doing it. but also, the idea of having someone else describe my images instead of me is so viscerally repulsive. I wonder if we could use this to get more people to write alt text. if you dont wanna write alt text then someone else decides how your post looks to people using screen readers (or people with slow internet). shudder !

and i want to be clear. the people who add image descriptions are incredibly kind and doing a great service often for little to no recognition or appreciation. And a lot of them are good at it. But it isnt about the quality of the description--they could be the best damn writer in the world, they could knock my piddly description into smithereens--if someone else ever became the voice to describe my art, or my face in a memey selfie, or literally anything i posted for public viewing, i would explode. i was born a control freak and i will die a control freak. ONLY I DECIDE MY NARRATIVE ‼‼‼

#indexed post #It would be noble to say that making my work accessible is the only reason i do it... #But this is admittedly also a factor #And as usual I recommend the “alt text as poetry” workshop which informs how i approach alt text. i want to make a summary sometime #also bc like we live in an instant gratification timeline #lots of times i share something privately on discord or on a locked acct where i know nobody needs the descs #so i can be like yayy everyone like my picture like 2 mins after i post it and get 100000 notes #and then after like an hour or the next day if its late i write the alt text which almost always takes like 2-5mins tops #and post it publicly and then im like yaayyyy ayyaya yayayyayayayyayyyay ayayayayyay #but yeah i think like as a sighted person writing alt text is its own expressive form that grants you extended control over your art #so even if you dont personally know or feel the impact of alt text on others #You can come to appreciate it for self-serving reasons HAHA. #the optics of this are obviously not as good but personally i think the pragmatic results outweigh the purity of the sentiment imo #and curb cut effect etc. #anyways. just my musing for the night

[strangersinwinter]

I guess it's inspiring that we see Snape as a child struggle to verbally articulate himself, using violence as a means of emotional expression then become an adult who commits to a life of non violence (or as close as you can get in the midst of a war) and uses words as his weapon of choice, flexing an eloquence and mastery of the spoken word that is unmatched by any other character in the series. Still want to see him punch someone in the face though.

#he wasn't a violent child by any means far from it in fact #but you can argue that the branch falling on petunia and cutting james face were examples of using violence as emotional expression #i don't think it has to be condemned necessarily #not when he only uses violence because he lacks other means to successfully articulate himself #and he isn't the aggressor only responding to others' attacks #don't start none won't be none after all #but there is something to be said about adult snape still having the ability to curb stomp others but choosing not to #not only getting over the problems he had with verbal expression but commanding entire rooms with a soft whisper #i still crave violence tho like pls let him go apeshit just once #lupin and sirius were about to kill a mf in front of a bunch of kids but snape doesn't even get to throw a single punch? boooooo #Severus snape

[labyrynth]

i cannot stress this enough:

nie mingjue tried to kill jin guangyao, both before and after he died, but nmj’s reasons for trying to kill jgy never included “jin guangyao killed him.”

nmj never knew that jgy played a part in his death.

he was generally paranoid, but there is no indication that he had any real, concrete information about anything jgy was dealing with. nmj never actually knew anything about what jgy was doing.

he did not know that jgy had done anything to the music, and he had no reason to believe that the progression of his qi instability was anything other than natural. we don’t see any indication that he even acknowledged that it was getting worse.

moreover, nmj tried to kill jgy multiple times BEFORE he died, even before jgy started playing for him. even after jgy was playing for him, what finally set off nmj’s fatal qi deviation was not, in fact, the revelation that jgy was trying to kill him, but overhearing jgy’s private comment to xichen that nmj was treating jgy poorly. that was what sent him into his fatal, paranoid rage.

#mdzs #mdzs talk #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #meta #does this count as a meta? it’s more of a PSA. like. it’s indisputably canon that nmj DID NOT KNOW bc if he DID then jgy would just be dead #like if nmj thought that jgy was actually trying to kill him he would have just straight up killed jgy #if nmj somehow not only knew that jgy was trying to kill him but also that it was specifically the MUSIC?? #like what he’s just gonna sit there and be like ‘ah damn he’s trying to poison me again :/‘ #‘too bad there’s literally nothing i can do like getting up and leaving or kicking him out’ #like???? lmfao???????? #anyway fanfic writers i’m looking at you #none of this deus ex “da-ge’s spirit tells us exactly who killed him and how’ bullshit #like even assuming such a thing were possible (which canonically it’s explicitly NOT) they all saw him qi deviate!! #like idk about you but if a dude has heart disease and his family has a history of early death due to complications from heart disease #and like especially if all he’s doing to curb it is like. idk cutting down on sodium. but not taking meds or lowering stress or anything. #if a guy like that has a heart attack and dies like. ur gonna have a hard time claiming that he was murdered #especially if he died literally attempting to murder the guy you claim supposedly murdered him (even though he died of a heart attack) #ngl even the fact that nmj’s body was all chopped up and even JGY HAVING HIS HEAD isn’t really substantial evidence that jgy killed him #bc let’s be real: even if jgy hadn’t done anything nmj probably STILL would have tried to kill him. #if you have the corpse of a dude who fucking hated your guts and tried to kill you multiple times coming after you??? #yeah you’d be kind of justified in taking the necessary measures to keep yourself safe #also i feel like one question we don’t ask enough is how tf jgy even got nmj’s body to begin with?? #he died in the unclean realm and presumably huaisang oversaw his burial?? was nmj ALREADY going after jgy??? #anyway #mxtx talk

[mac-n-cheese-flavored-arson]

I got harassed by a cop today because I was pushing myself in my wheelchair in the road because the sidewalk is physically impossible for me to use in a wheelchair in my city (no curb cut outs AT ALL on extremely tall curbs) and he told me that if I got hit by a car it would be my own fault and I'd be legally liable for it, I genuinely fucking hate able bodied people AND cops

#I was as far on the side of the road as I could physically get #and when I told him that there were no curb cut outs so I physically couldn't use the sidewalk he said #'I dont care you still cant be in the road figure something out' #ended up just saying okay and then ignoring him and kept going #there was literally nothing else i could do but even if there were i wouldn't have because he pissed me off so bad #disabled #disability #wheelchair user #cpunk #cripplepunk #tags so that other disabled people can share in my rage and maybe I wont have to carry it alone #able bodied people please don't interact with this one post at all im looking for community and understanding right now

[ookaookaooka]

i think i was possessed by a lumberjack yesterday, i spent all afternoon until dark splitting wood into planks with a hatchet and LOVED it

#did you know that in my city christmas trees have to be cut into 4' lengths before putting them on the curb? #and did you know that some apartment complexes have giant christmas trees with 12'' diameter at the base? #anyways i'm making raised beds with free lumber

[iirulancorrino]

The truth is, I think it’s important for smart people to analyze the ways in which the architecture of social media facilitates and incentivizes witch hunts and the dissemination of hateful, dishonest content. And the government likely has a role to play in coercing tech platforms to prioritize the public interest over the profit motive in crafting their algorithms. But I don’t think it requires any great leap of conspiratorial thinking to find fault with a disinformation board under the aegis of the DHS. Government officials — whoever resides in the White House — are professional liars. They lie haughtily in the interest of “national security,” sheepishly in the interest of saving face, and passionately when their jobs are on the line. Would Jankowicz’s office have been empowered to counter “disinformation” coming from her own department? Or only from those criticizing it? And what would its remit have been under the next Republican presidency? As one conservative writer put it, “It’s not clear to me that Democrats have fully reckoned with the non-negligible possibility that Donald Trump is in charge of the new Disinformation Governance Board in 2 years.”

But the other pernicious problem with liberals’ fixation on “disinformation” is that it allows them to lie to themselves.

Trump’s ascendance in 2016 posed a painful psychic challenge to liberal elites. It suggested the possibility that many millions of Americans were motivated by deep, venomous dissatisfactions with the world they had helped create, that our cultural disagreements were profound, not superficial, and that our perspectives were practically irreconcilable inversions of each other. Political reality seemed to tilt on its axis. How could a man who appeared to them so transparently abhorrent and clownish be welcomed by others as a savior — or at least as a tolerable alternative to the status quo?

“Disinformation” was the liberal Establishment’s traumatic reaction to the psychic wound of 2016. It provided an answer that evaded the question altogether, protecting them from the agony of self-reflection. It wasn’t that the country was riven by profound antinomies and resentments born of material realities that would need to be navigated by new kinds of politics. No, the problem was that large swaths of the country had been duped, brainwashed by nefarious forces both foreign and domestic. And if only the best minds, the most credentialed experts, could be given new authority to regulate the flow of “fake news,” the scales would fall from the eyes of the people and they would re-embrace the old order they had been tricked into despising. This fantasy turned a political problem into a scientific one. The rise of Trump called not for new politics but new technocrats.

Like other pathological reactions to trauma, the disinformation neurosis tended to re-create the conditions that produced the affliction in the first place. (Freud called this “repetition compulsion.”) By doubling down on elite technocracy — and condescension toward the uneducated rubes suffering from false consciousness — liberals have tended to exacerbate the sources of populist hostility. As Joe Bernstein documented in Harper’s last year, the “antidisinformation industry” has attracted massive investment from wealthy Democratic donors, the tech industry, and cash-rich foundations. Hundreds of millions of disinfo dollars are sloshing around the nonprofit world, funding institutes at universities and extravagant conventions across the world. Last month’s “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference was headlined by Barack Obama and featured Anne Applebaum, David Axelrod, Jeffrey Goldberg, and a lengthy list of other academic, journalistic, and political luminaries. I’m sure very interesting ideas were discussed there. But gathering the leading lights of liberalism to an auditorium at the University of Chicago — so that they together can decide which information is true and safe to be consumed by the rabble outside — strikes me as a hollow exercise in self-soothing, more likely to aggravate the symptoms of our legitimacy crisis (distrust and cynicism) than resolve any of its impasses.

Don’t get me wrong: There are obviously hard problems to be worked out regarding technology, speech, and democracy, and I have great respect for scholars working in that nettlesome nexus. But as Bernstein put it, the new class of disinformation experts, however well intentioned, “don’t have special access to the fabric of reality.” If faith in our institutions is to be restored, I don’t think it will be accomplished by stigmatizing doubt or obstructing the dissemination of falsehood. After all, faith is not a matter of fact and fiction.

#yeah idk if I believe in disinformation sorry #or like. idk if it is meaningfully different from the way people have always believed in lies bigotry and conspiracies #(and that's coming from someone who is fairly negative on how social media is affecting us) #but as you all saw I just finished reading bloodlands and while I'm sure the internet isn't doing anything to help curb the spread #of hateful rhetoric it sure as hell isn't its originator #frankly if people would just cut a check to their local news orgs instead of creating these big initiatives I think we'd be in better shape

[mediterraneanmenace]

So I wrote this on my Twitter and

I guess I am about to make a small extra chapter writing about Raphael's emotional suffering for all of you who enjoy angst :,D (I *did* manage to write the first half of the prologue from my prequel focusing on them here already, part 2 coming soon, lads) Neither of them reacts well finding out they have romantic feelings for each other 😭

Raphael because she made it her mission in life to kill beings like him, because she is a descendant of his father's most hated rival (Baalzebul) and because, despite everything, she's still a mortal. (Later in the story he tries to "corrupt" her in the sense to indulge in her so-hated infernal origins. He outright tells her she loves her for the devil she is)

Raksha grew up in the context of civil unrest and wars - born in 1458 DR, one year later the kingdom she hailed from (Damara) lived through major political events. She has seen many people she cared about getting drafted and die in war. Being raised by an extremist religious sect, she doesn't live sexuality in a healthy way - so you can imagine how the two things mix.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #raphael #raphael x oc #txt #fun fact: raksha was born with wings #the man who raised her cut them off to “curb” her “devilish nature” and make her pass as a (big) tiefling #major plot point is that while she has very dubious morals she's not as bad as him so finding out some of the more effed up stuff... #it breaks her in the sense she loves him even after realizing the monster he is lmao

[aldieb]

i hate how people on bikes treat pedestrians like people in cars treat cyclists… [beloved brooklyn neighborhood] made me evil about this bc yes the bike lane is not always safe or usable but if you hit me coming down the sidewalk at 30mph on your wannabe motorcycle ebike, i will also probably be doing not so good. we have to destroy cars to stop the cycle of h8

#text tag #person on bike came up behind me and seemed surprised that i was standing on the curb cut waiting for the light to change. my b for not #paying attention to my surroundings but also this is my spot this is where i’m meant to be #*except can we really destroy cars if the alternative is ‘be jammed into a metal tube of humanity post-2020 when you know 95% of the ppl in #there don’t care what they’re hacking and coughing out.’ this troubles me often