glightly

glightly, 1 month ago to random

Thanks to the tutoring assistance of @rooster , I GOT THROUGH THIS COURSE BY THE DEADLINE! 🎉 🫠🎉

glightly, 1 month ago to cycling

"That sign doesn't apply to me because I'm seeking profit" strikes again.

I've emailed in flagrante delicto photos of businesses flouting the law, but our business-owner city councilman (and now mayor) does not feel like holding business people to the same standards as poor people.

#BikeTooter #DavisCA #Cycling

glightly, 1 month ago to climate

"It was an August day in Lake Elsinore amid an excessive heat warning when 12-year-old Yahushua Robinson — who had been instructed to run — died during P.E. class.

Now, a coroner’s report has reportedly found that the boy died of a heart defect, and that heat and physical exertion were contributing factors." #Ableism #ClimateChange

LA Times unpaywalled: https://archive.is/urRWn

glightly, 1 month ago to random

Wow, did The Guardian scoop The Onion?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/25/texas-name-change-election-candidate #USpol

glightly, 2 months ago to random

To Done:

• Washed one load of laundry

• Hung and re-hung same load on the clothesline

• 2 meals, 2 loads of dishes

• Made and baked batch of experimental cupcakes in a very tight space with little horizontal storage space

• Put away leftovers

• Folded laundry and put away

glightly, 2 months ago to random

From Flickr's Bad Parking group, here's a photo of one of those giant trucks parked across compact car parking spaces. #CarCentrism #Petromasculinity https://flickr.com/photos/johnoram/53609310509/

glightly, 2 months ago to random

Painful, but slapstick moment when you empty the chip shards out of the bag and a spicy corn chip fragment gets in your eye and starts burning like hell.

Animated cartoon of a stylized duck or parrot on fire running over grass.

glightly, 2 months ago to random

A sunny break in the rain and a lot of surfaces outside are emitting steam from the sudden temperature change. #CAwx

glightly, 2 months ago to random

Oh, great. Another abled engineer invents a stair-climbing wheelchair for clicks rather than actually joining disabled people in advocating for ramps & clean, working elevators. #InspirationPorn

glightly, 2 months ago to random

I tried to politely and subtly tell this poster on another forum that they were telling me what to do based on assumptions they were making about me & would keep grinding an axe even if the thread subject was totally different. They kept not picking up on it, kept grinding the axe.

Finally, I made a civil and much more clear four sentence post telling them that.

They accused me of "lashing out".

glightly, 2 months ago to random

I hate how these rude SOBs think that just because they're the slumlords and have relatives/employees living here, that they never have to give notice for invading our privacy and making air & noise pollution.

It is a serious issue for folks with cPTSD and PTSD, as well as many folks who are autistic, to not have advanced notice of when a lot of noise is coming and when it will end.

I could have been doing a paid online speaking gig and they'd just ruin it with their BS like this. #TrailerLife

glightly, 2 months ago to cycling

What's interesting about this point is that implicit in what it says about upright bikes at 2' 30" is the reason why underseat-steered recumbents (and possibly above-seat steered...I haven't ridden those) cannot be ridden no hands.

Each pedal of a USS recumbent actually steers me slightly to the right or left because of its force. And I cannot balance it without my hands steering the same way I could on an upright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac #BikeNite #BikeTooter

glightly, 2 months ago to random

Wow. The moderator is a wheelchair user. I've never seen that outside of explicitly disabled spaces before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCW0xzHmK6M

glightly, 2 months ago to random

Today at Trader Joe's, they had a partly-covered shelf talker with Prop 65 fine print saying their cocoa had cadmium in it.

I cannot imagine how many people are so used to ignoring Prop 65 warnings that they just go ahead and buy.

I'm surprised a more serious overhaul of the product line and reassurances hasn't happened in the months since this hit the press. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/a-third-of-chocolate-products-are-high-in-heavy-metals-a4844566398/

glightly, 2 months ago to accessibility

Another example of how hearing folks can assume that something's hearable when it's not... I can actually make out a largely unmic'd audience member in this video of a con panel, but YouTube auto-captions cannot.

I'm a native English speaker. It's quite possible someone hearing who is an English learner also would not be able to make it out.

Plan your media accessibly: Mic all speakers or have those with mics repeat the question. Plan real human-made captions. #Accessibility

glightly, 2 months ago to random

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/missing-california-woman-hiking-carmel-19308856.php #MissingPerson #Monterey

glightly, 2 months ago to random

@ai6yr Is there a site where we can see very recent satellite photos (like this week) for free?

glightly, 2 months ago to random

@ai6yr This seems weird, perhaps because they're framing it that way, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BBzqgVjdo

glightly, 2 months ago to blackmastodon

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/josephine-wright-hilton-head-land-lawsuit-settled @blackmastodon

glightly, 2 months ago to random

I really feel like we're losing progress on transition to greener alternatives because so many of the voices (and therefore lived experiences) of this space in the US are abled, white, male, middle class,and living in cities with better public transit.

It's not that they never have good points or are unable to persuade folks - it's that they make assumptions based on their own experiences that really do not hold for a lot of other people. And they won't hand the mic over to find out what would.

glightly, 2 months ago to cycling

Got a cargo quad ride in. Saw a shitload of ADA & CVC violations on this ride, some of it done by state and federal instittuions.

July 26 this year will mark 34 years since ADA was signed into law. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #BikeTooter

glightly, 2 months ago to random

More on how "just fill out the form proving you're disabled, it's no big deal" is a big deal, esp when you have to do it many times per year for different agencies:

Rec'd jury summons late Thurs. Called Dr. and talked to a person Friday late morning. They relayed it to coordinators who were supposed to rely it to the doctor (who I know is on board with me re my physical ability to serve on a jury). Was told I'd get form through my email.

No email as of mid-morning Monday, so I message thru

glightly, 2 months ago to random

I called the CA State Insurance Commissioner's office to complain about AAA insisting that my personal wheelchair-accessible van is a "commercial vehicle" and that they'd refuse to insure it. The operator was nice and told me how to start a complaint.

They were closing up the call when I mentioned that as a disabled person I am also low income and am now in a quandary because I cannot free up $ by selling my old car until I can insure the new (used) one. She then referred me to

glightly, 2 months ago to random

I'm so exhausted from being out in the sun doing stuff today that I don't think I can get a ride in.

Like, I'm so tired now that I was going to post a reply to something then realized I wasn't up for typing a clarification if that was needed. So I just didn't send it. Bleagh.

glightly, 2 months ago to random

Sad that it's so often the case that even if a survivor is brave enough to speak out, the rapist still gets away with it. Even gets rewarded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxO4b6f6QGI