Can anyone point me in the direction of #disabled persons pursuing self-sufficient lifestyles? The #disability could be mental, physical, or other and the self-sufficiency could be from a #Permaculture, #Prepping or #Sustainability perspective.
Looking for social media accounts, books, blogs, youtube or people doing this kind of thing outside of modern socials that would be happy to have a conversation about it.
@bananamangodog@permacultre@mecfs@actuallyautistic Parkrose Permaculture might be a good YouTube channel. She talks a lot about ableism, and some of her children have various disabilities or are neurodivergent.
I'm disabled and pursuing community-based autonomous structures of social ecological sustainability.
I'm about to move into a trailer and do a work exchange on a permaculture site, which reduces my monetary needs a lot. Getting out of renting has been a big struggle, but one I think is way worth it.
I live in a house with 6 people currently and have bounced around communal houses for the past few days, always filled with disabled folks. We get groceries and cook mostly communally, pool money to hire helpers (friends) on cleaning/chore days, and we interface with other comm. houses, disabled friends, and friends struggling w/ housing or who don't live in houses. Try to support each other and our community.
Self-employment is also big in this for me too. My disability goes through flare cycles, so having flexibility is important. Some of my housemates/life partners and I are starting a cooperative apothecary. Helps meet our financial needs while also helping our community and increasing habitat and food for wildlife on our farm.
Regarding farming/permaculture and sustainable lifestyles, it is tricky being disabled. I think the community aspect plays such a central role for me because it allows so much flexibility and accessibility in roles and fluent abilities. Sometimes I can shovel gravel or harvest plants, sometimes I need to be inside processing herbal remedies or working on communications. And for some folks, they'll be in a role more often because they're great at it or it's what they can do (tho we definitely try not to push our mostly able-bodied friends into large amounts of manual labor). There's always a role folks can fill which is nice, and it's more fulfilling since it's for our community, for our survival, for the restoration of the planet.
I appreciate you posting this as now I want to write more/make videos about the intersection of disability and ecology, food, sustainability, community living.
Please, #ablebodied#privileged people think people like me should just 'work harder'. Ya think your fucking spoiled kids could deal with #disabilities without your fucking bloody money??? SAY THAT SHIT TO MY FACE.
We are capable! We are human beings! We deserve human rights! We will fight for ours!
@msquebanh , I'm lucky enough that I was born abled, and have avoided most accidents that limited mobility. My right hand is a bit screwed up, that's all. Back due to being rear ended when I was 17. But I'm OK.
@msquebanh
Some of the reactions to my sitting there taking rests on natures walks have been very interesting. Most are encouraging, but some it's is obvious they are disgusted.
I try to choose mostly flat trails due to my ME/CFS. That isn't always an option. I need a 4WD scooter so I can do longer trails. #MECFS#MillionsMissing
I can’t speak for the #disabled population as a whole, but the reason i’m giving consideration to filing an aDA suit is because I sick and tired of getting the professional version of Go fuck yourself when i ask for assistance. Telling someone you can't verify their identity becvause your tech is inaccessible is as unacceptable in 2024 as being told you can't eat in a restaurant because your physical disability is making customers uncomfortable.
And to those who are #AbleBodied and feeling complaint fatigue from those of us who are #Disabled, we sympathize, and it's your damn fault. if you'd learned your lesson when a bunch of us got together to pass the ADA and started designing things to be accessible as part of the building process, we wouldn't have to keep having these exhausting conversations. Since you collectively haven’t learned, here are the take aways.
We are poor & cannot afford to do long legal battles. We need the public to help by calling & emailing them. Please help us.
Please send at least ONE EMAIL. PLEASE!!!
It helps if emails come from many different areas of the world too. They're worried about PR more than worried about accountability for abuses of power by their senior brass.
Let them know - how far my message got! They think people don't care. Show them, you care about my family!
Him: so what are you looking for? ;) ;) ;)
Me: to end late stage capitalism and create an economic system that works for #poor and #disabled people and benefits all, and reduces unethical harm to people like what is occuring currently
Him: ……
Him: (thinking) {i thought she was going to say she wants to fucky sucky. Y do i hv to listen to her real thoughts?}
Him: leaves
"1. Most #disabilities and #chronicconditions are invisible. Often, you cannot “see” kidney disease, cognitive disabilities, neurological conditions, cancer, prosthetic limbs, etc. All of these and more qualify as disabilities, and these individuals are allowed access to a disabled placard to make their lives and the world that much easier to navigate."
"Those with #disabilities face hurdles every day the able-bodied cannot fathom. If you are concerned that the #disabled are getting a “privilege” that is somehow “undeserved,” you are entitled to your opinion but please don’t act on it."
Many blame the poor for being unable to sustain their lives in the systems of this society - not realizing the fact that there are many #eugenics at play and this is some of what many of the #marginalized call systemic oppression
The #disabled community has been marked and labeled as "dangerous" as have #minorities and those living in #poverty
The truth is our existence stands as proof that "hard work" doesn't save you from death and despair or poverty
It doesn't matter where you land on the bipartisan "democracy" of the US and many other countries - this is a #colonialist and #capitalist mindset and we see proof of it in #Congo and #Palestine
I fear for my life even if I survive today, even if I make rent, even if I get food
I fear for my mother's life if I am too mentally unwell to function this system will execute her, she's old, brown, an immigrant, disabled - marked as useless to society
Rather than being repeatedly frustrated when seeing someone's posts with photos attached that have no #descriptions, I've just decided to unfollow them despite having certain afinities with them.
Yes. It's the same person about whom I subtooted the other day.
Liberals, you need to check your allyship card. If you're not including #disabled people in that group, you're not a true #ally. All you are doing is pretending.
@ZBennoui I certainly know that I'm not going to be able to convince everyone or even a majority of the people. But not saying anything and expecting people to learn on their own is also not a solution. There are quite a few people in our community who do this or believe that someone else would have done something about it, which results in things not changing. Defaulting to a possible tool should not be the first solution.
@ppatel completely agree, and I'm definitely not advocating for shutting up and being grateful or anything like that. Just wanted to point out that these tools exist, and if people refuse to listen at least we have that option but it should definitely not be the first thing we go to.
A wheelchair-user was forced to drag -- literally drag -- himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas when there was no third-party assistance available.
If you think "dragged" is an overstatement, think again: The flight attendant asked him multiple times to disembark; he had to use "the strength of his upper body to pull himself down the airplane aisle, while his wife, held his legs, which cannot move."
@nesi Curious to see if:
1-The mistreated passenger had properly entered his "disabled" info in reservation within required deadline.
2-Air Canada transmitted the request for help to its Las Vegas Contractor in time for it to prepare
3-The contractor got message on time but didn't act on t.
As this appears to be systemic problem, one needs to eliminate all causes in order to be able to focus on areas of problems and get those fixed.
@jfmezei No matter what did or didn't happen, the answer is never "let a wheelchair-bound person drag themselves down an airplane aisle".
Air Canada is tossing the blame at the third party, which is in the article: “We use the services of a third party wheelchair assistance specialist in Las Vegas to provide safe transport on and off aircraft. Following our investigation into how this serious service lapse occurred, we will be evaluating other mobility assistance service partners in Las Vegas.”
I try really hard to remember accessibility tools (ALT Text).
Still learning how this all works. Not great at social media in general. Previously found with the same handle on the birdsite, and several other instances (weirder.earth and mastodon.social specifically).
@jessica I removed the boost because it looks like the bot is down right now (or doesn't work anymore). But what a great concept to make this place even better for all!
@izabelamisiak That's odd, it messaged me just a couple of days ago about a boost without alt text, I hope any downtime it's going through is temporary because it is great indeed! 😊
@thomasfuchs And at a time when Long Covid is steadily raising the number of people who are functionally disabled in ways which are not visually apparent.
@thomasfuchs Quite apparent that many western societies are just going to keep forcing their entire working age populations into unmitigated Russian roulette with this virus and when they are no longer able to work are just going to throw them under a bus.
Sometimes, I wonder if it would serve #disabled and #neurodivergent people well to arrange some protests. Against how rigid and standardised things have become.
People who could contribute are prevented from doing so because of unnecessary requirements.
The average person has some flexibility and can adapt. Considering this fact, it's ironic that society has become so inflexible and rigid, all in the name of marginal improvements to the safety and comfort of people who were already fairly safe and comfortable to begin with.
Us weirdos were always the ones to get in trouble anyway. Making the rules stricter doesn't make the problem go away. It just creates a society that operates like a prison camp.
@thor Generally, when people go through a Nazi phase and depart from it, they tend to appreciate freedom more, therefore vehemently fighting back any attempts at pushing forward authoritarianism.
Although, Germany, Austria and Italy are going down the fascist rabbit hole as we speak. It’s pretty wild out there with all them alt right parties becoming mainstream. They love to shout out the word “freedom” while taking it away at the same time.
@thor I disagree with you on this. I believe the eccentrics to be the ones who can foresee the evil, not to be first hit by it. Those who are affected by violational policies are a distinct group and often perceived as synonymous with eccentrics.
Most people don’t question such policies because they don’t affect them. They only resist them when the shit hits the fan.
By offering discounts for junior, under-funded, independent, & marginalized #researchers & #ContentCreators, we make our services accessible so you can make your content more accessible.
I think "£5,78 per audio minute for closed-captions plus full-service transcription" is very reasonable since this is a skilled task that requires people to literally hyperfocus.
@kkarhan thanks for the feedback! It really is skilled work requiring lots of hyper focus, especially for public-facing text capture like captions.
We don’t unfortunately do #livecaptioning currently as it’s an even more specialised skill set usually requiring stenography skills we lack. But anything already recorded is very much our thing!
I've been thinking with empathy about the quality of life a person would have to have in order to allow Elon Musk to put an experimental chip in your head. When we are looking at these stories, let's remember the serious lack of support for #disabled people in our country, both on a societal level and in terms of the dwindling social safety net. It's not surprising that a person would feel tempted to reach for a dangerous tech tool, even one with such horrifying potential consequences. #ElonMusk#Neuralink
@kitoconnell
These companies find an endless stream of startup cash by preying upon the vulnerable, dangling the carrot of improvement beyond their wildest dreams. Until the next version comes out and yours is left unusable and unrepairable. You're yesterday's news.
Some scientists do science. Some master the acquisition of venture capital.
Alright. Here's how it is. Once you appoint yourself as gatekeeper, you become part of the problem. We as #disabled people have precious few allies as it is, without actively alienating the ones we have. You can stand up and offer to help, stand up and provide constructive feedback on how to improve, stand up and show appreciation, or just sit your ungrateful self down. Just stop. Thanks @stefan for raising awareness of #AltText. #blind#accessibilityhttps://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112451222240570433
@stefan It occurrs to me that the #AltText hall of fame is not run by a #Blind or #VisionImpaired person because in the decades that alt text has been a thing, nobody from within this community has stopped to think that demonstrating how to do it well might be helpful for our cause. When an ally does it, we treat them like an intruder. Whatever. Enjoy your internet full of suboptimal alt text.
To me it would include it being normal to talk openly about one's disabilities and the accommodations one needs.
"Hi, my name is Bob, my pronouns are he/him, I need alt-text and subtitles, and I prefer ramps to stairs."
We'd just make it okay to put it into the open, like it's no big thing - because if everyone does it, it will be no big thing. Almost everyone needs some form of accommodation, we're just pretending that we don't, and that pretense makes it harder on people who can't pretend.
Ugh, it's been a rough, painful day. When you live with #chronicIllness, there can be a very, very fine line between getting up and moving and pushing yourself too hard. I'm trying to figure out where that line is for me so I can start exercising a little, and yesterday I overdid it. I need to move to keep my muscles and joints from getting stiff and painful and to lose, or at least maintain, weight, but if I overdo it a little bit, I end up with #pain all over, #headaches, and #fatigue for at least a day, and possibly more depending on what I did. Yesterday, it was walking 2047 steps when my average is 1248, and dancing to one song. I'm starting to feel a little better so hoping this will only last a day. Can any other #chronicallyIll or #disabled people relate? #chronicIllness#disability#NEISVoid#chronicPain @disability@chronicillness
@GoatsLive@GoatsLive@disability@chronicillness I know exactly what it's like to want to sleep for a month. I'm always trying to stay up and do stuff when really, I just want to sleep. But then when I try to sleep, I'm in too much pain, can't get comfortable, or just can't fall asleep for some stupid reason even though I feel exhausted.
Just that in order to vote in Florida by mail as a #disabled person in a neighboring Florida county, I would need to complete my paper ballett, then have it signed by a spouse or the person who has poer of attourney over me for the vote to be counted. (1/2)
@podcast@mastoblind Just found out that the person who told us that was very inaccurate. The county does have a way to vote accessibly by mail. Nevertheless, that original answer should not be uttered. Just say, I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you. Don’t answer questions you don’t have the answers to. Sheesh.
Amazing. Good thing it will take 2-3 days to even get my request through for a loaner wheelchair!
Hey, has your wheelchair broken? Do you not have a way to navigate your home? Well too bad!
Do you have to see a medical doctor to get the replacement parts on your chair replaced? Oh, you lack a wheelchair to do that because it broke beyond being useable? Uh...
Wanna know what being #disabled is like? Companies making wheelchairs that don't meet minimum durability standards, getting away with it, and charging for constant repairs in a planned obsolescence model while we suffer.
“Independent testing has shown that manual wheelchairs and power wheelchairs commonly do not pass minimum durability standards outlined by ANSI/RESNA (RESNA is the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, which creates minimum standards for mobility devices for ANSI, or the American National Standards Institute). One of the big takeaways that was neutral to manufacturers is that, for the 10 most frequently prescribed wheelchair models in the sample, repairs exceeded 50 percent across all of them.”
Does anyone know the US #tax rules for a #disabled person bringing a necessary companion on a business trip? Are the companion's airfare and lodging fully deductible?
@LinuxAndYarn I'm not an expert. But if she paid for it (or it came out of your joint account) I'm pretty sure your plane ticket is deductible. I don't know where the line is on your food.
