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glightly

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Disabled Masters student @ UC Davis.
Speaker on Accessibility in Higher Ed/Cycling/Plant Science.
Speaker on carob.

#Accessibility #Botany #Cycling #SciComm #NoBot #NoBridge

Most of my posts are not asking for advice so please don't offer it unsolicited. When I'm asking for advice, I usually ask quite explicitly.

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msquebanh, to random
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My 1st stress free day in awhile👍 I worked on some writing this morning. Getting some help around noon with my compost tub. My biggest decision today is deciding what nature trail to walk with my friend in the afternoon.

glightly,
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@msquebanh Yay, you deserve a rest!

docpop, to random
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As a frequent pedestrian and occasional cyclist, it feels like the road rage incidents I've experienced with drivers in the Mission has gotten significantly worse over the past year. This might simply be because there is so much more traffic than before, but it feels heavily related to all those anti-bike signs that businesses are putting in their windows and the dishonest way local TV stations have covered the recent improvements to Valencia Street.

glightly,
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@docpop And if you confront them with their messed-up logic, they usually only get angrier.

"So you'd rather we were driving cars? Wouldn't that take up more space and make for more traffic jams and competition for parking?"

"So when you're walking, you want cyclists to be riding on the sidewalk?"

glightly,
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@docpop Someone just told them that cyclists (or ________ fill in group here) are to blame for everything wrong in society. And cyclists are a target they can push around with very little in the way of consequences thanks to a car-centric judicial system.

glightly, to random
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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,
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the online portal because the coordinators are no longer reading the email address they used to use.

Close of day on Monday: No update either in email or on the portal.

I have 10 days (not business days) from when I received the summons to reply. 5 have already gone by now.

glightly,
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It's just constant form-filling, chasing people to get the form filled out and feeling guilty (not that it's my desire or fault) that medical professionals are constantly asked by ableists to waste their time filling out disability policing forms.

And there are more instances where I have to fill out forms. It's fairly constant for nearly 30 years now.

glightly,
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BTW - to abled people (including folks who fake emotional support animals) who fake their way into something because they just want something and feel disabled people have it easy - FUCK YOU for contributing to systemic ableism's view that disabled people are "cheaters". You're the fucking cheaters.

glightly,
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Made yet another contact with the medical system in which my doctor is ensconced. I tried to reach him on a direct number he once gave me, but apparently this went to an asst. At least it bypassed the large institutional voicemail system. So the total so far of my trying to contact them is phone on Friday (voicemail, then talking to human eventually), portal messaging system early Monday, talking to human again today. At no time did anyone email me the doctor's note, or even respond to me.

maxleibman, to random
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Do community colleges invite celebrities to come speak at commencement and award them honorary associate's degrees?

glightly,
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@maxleibman I think they do invite celebrities if they are alumni. I've not heard of honorary associate degrees, though.

Pasadena City College had banners hanging of its alumni, like Eddie Van Halen, Jackie Robinson, Max Robinson, et al. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena_City_College#Alumni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUeXfm9ua7c

msquebanh, to Plants
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Feeling hoppy?

Hops growing off a cedar fence.

glightly,
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@msquebanh I love how hops look. Don't enjoy beer, but enjoy hops.

ai6yr, to climate

This is why, if you can afford it, heatwave mitigation will pay off sooner rather than later:

Al Jazeera: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro

"A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say.

The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity."

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/3/18/photos-record-heat-index-of-62-3c-scorches-rio-de-janeiro

glightly,
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@ai6yr A big problem is that so many people now have little control over their living environment. They're either renters or living in a vehicle or living on the street.

glightly, to random
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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,
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California's Low Cost Auto Insurance. I'm a little disturbed that once I disclosed I'm disabled, this wasn't immediately mentioned to me as an option. Most disabled people I know are low income. Society's disability policing impoverishes you even if you started out middle class...

In any case, I've updated @ucaccessnow "Benefits Counseling" document to add info for this program. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um9UEJizN_3-kEvkDedRdaPwOyR5PsLv3JKslFI-djg/edit?usp=sharing

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Interesting, an ad hoc VW meet up at a taco truck at the Home Depot. Didn't think an old beaten up Westfalia would be $15K, but I guess they are unique.

glightly,
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@ai6yr Yup. Vans in general are going up in price and there are always going to be retro fans.

glightly,
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@ai6yr That hot used car market depends on buyers not knowing that.

And it's easy not to know when search engines are so shitty nowadays.

glightly, to random
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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.

ai6yr, to cycling

Garage sale buy for $3. Hope it will fit the mountain bike as an in between a backpack and the bicycle trailer. I see people on the Fediverse strap pizzas on these. 😅

glightly,
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@ai6yr Is that hollow or solid tubing? If solid, that must be hefty!

glightly,
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@ai6yr Otherwise that would have been the Godzilla of rear racks. You probably could have put a Marshall stack on that!

moira, to baking
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Time for baking!

Also biking!

Because I'm gonna test the bike trailer hitch with the trailer while dough is rising for an hour. ^_^

glightly,
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@moira Hi, y'all!

Mentioning hashtag #CycleParkingAudit for that "aesthetic" inaccessible rack...

glightly, to random
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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

glightly, to disability
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This is some tin-plated bullshit right here. https://thenewswheel.com/the-basics-of-accessible-van-insurance-coverage/

@disability

glightly, to random
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We could significantly redistribute wealth simply by making corporations pay civil, criminal, and punitive damages for every single bit of harm they've done to the environment and what it would cost to clean up. Including punitive damages for lying and disinfo campaigns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=397zqSPzomo

glightly, to random
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"Musk, Tesla’s CEO and largest shareholder, moved the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, in 2021, partly because of tensions with various California agencies over practices at the Fremont factory."

Racist practices. That adjective is missing, yet important.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/16/tesla-settles-racial-discrimination-claims

ai6yr, (edited ) to WX

War on Cars, conducted by Mother Nature.

O'Fallon, Missouri, car dealership devastated by baseball-sized hail, more than 300 vehicles impacted
https://www.ksdk.com/article/weather/ofallon-car-dealership-devastated-baseball-sized-hail-more-than-300-vehicles-impacted/63-a2720c90-7a74-4b65-a50f-70fc5af3c38c

glightly,
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@ai6yr Local NBC affiliate probably isn't that much more savory a source, but at least it skips the Daily Mail. https://www.ksdk.com/article/weather/ofallon-car-dealership-devastated-baseball-sized-hail-more-than-300-vehicles-impacted/63-a2720c90-7a74-4b65-a50f-70fc5af3c38c

glightly, to random
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Dateline: UC Davis, super-ableist campus that has dropped mask mandates, where many profs require ironclad sick notes for any flexibility for illness in class, and resists offering accessible online options for courses and events.

You should buy pills, buy spray, buy a neti pot, buy a humidifier.

But by all means don't wear an N95 mask - that's for "the weak".

https://www.reddit.com/r/UCDavis/comments/1bg1b4w/i_cant_fucking_breathe/

glightly,
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(nota bene: N95 works well for blocking out pollen, as well as reducing risk of catching airborne diseases like COVID, measles, TB, mumps...)

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