paul @balrogboogie@rage.love

listening to @powderpaint 's new EP and as the kids say these days, it "fucking slaps so hard"
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it'll hurt you, it'll heal you, go listen to it now: https://powderpaint.bandcamp.com/album/powderpaint

yes I'm a MILLENNIAL
I am NONBINARY and I HAVE IBS
I will never be paid A LIVING WAGE
I suffer the TERRIFING ORDEAL OF WAKING UP day after day

@RobinHood this is the koala-ty content I signed up for

Don't meet your heroes. Don't meet anyone. There's a pandemic on, people

...and I just got a follow from a self-declared archiver bot at scrapist.xyz so they’re probably worth a block too. Claims to be managed by the admin of plural.cafe but I assume that’s a lie and it’s the same creepy obsessive as all the others. #FediBlock

the haircut avoider has logged in
[selfies w eye contact]

today i am simply, vibing,

Today was my first day on the wards! Here’s how it went.

I got to the hospital at 6:30. (From here on out, I’ll be getting to the hospital a bit earlier than this to check on whichever patients I’ve been assigned.) I met the members of my surgical team that I’ll be a part of for the next 4 weeks, and we went on rounds. Rounds consists of visiting all the patients on our roster, checking their wounds, changing dressings, etc.

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boseburo.ddns.net is a Pleroma instance that "stands for Freedom of Speech" (sic) and "against politically correctness and censorship", along with a small pile of dogwhistles rejecting accountability ("against character assassination" etc.). admin has thrown xenophobia at me for criticising German trans laws (above).

#instanceblock

Nothing about us without us

#accessibility #disability #activism

it is i, the cute girl at your local bakery (selfie ec, boosts+)

I appreciate sighted fediverse users concern about image descriptions and ways to be "screenreader friendly." Mostly I agree with you, maybe with quibbles but they're not worth trying to nitpick and I'm aware I'm not the sole authority, just one visually impaired person.

But sometimes you all end up talking to each other and I worry that some of the advice that makes me wince is getting solidified into prescriptivism. Please make sure visually impaired people are part of these conversations.

Let disabled people lead the conversation about their accessibility needs and then amplify their voices and help carry out those needs. Don't give attention to white abled techies talking over them as if they know better.

PSA: I know image descriptions aren't possible for everyone and I respect that access-needs clash (all disabled people are familiar with this phenomenon). But I also know a lot more people can describe their images than are currently doing so.

If you can, you should describe
* jokes and memes; it's no good telling me I'm not missing anything
* gifs and videos
* your art! I see so much art I can't boost
* cute animal pics; I'm always sad when I can't boost the cute dogs
* audio clips too!

Elise rules