Just got docked 100% attendance points for missing one class for the first time when I have disability accommodations that modify the policy. I then emailed my disability specialist about issues I have been having, and guess what? #DisabledInSTEM#DisabilityTwitter#NEISvoid
Musing about how clients might evolve beyond raw firehoses ...
"While I still want better hashtag-following, I wouldn't need it nearly as much if I could just tell my client to give me a daily/weekly/monthly digest of a person’s posts, based on my frequency preference. Smart clients could even suggest new frequency preferences based on my engagement (or lack thereof) with certain feeds." -- @erlend
During the timeframe I was most active on Twitter, I revelled in the norms + ease of access to well-developed subcommunities like #ScienceTwitter, #DisabilityTwitter, + many others.
With zero boundaries between us, I could just pick deeply interesting folks to follow, + learned a ton. Toxicity was mostly elsewhere, as was extreme silliness, + all kinds of other stuff I could just ignore.
Shaping tools to make this style of curation easier is my jam.
Once again: the ‘death of twitter’ jokes are fun but the disability community is filled with dread. Twitter fills a specific niche for so many of us which makes it the place we organise, support each other, develop theory and practice, and have social lives.
No other solution fits the same need, and the community becoming atomised will be devastating for people’s health, both mental and physical, since mutual aid is such a big part of people’s presence there. It’s the main source of conversation and interaction for many people.
The problem is we each belong to lots of different groups and circles, which overlap a lot but aren’t all the same. We don’t have the energy to check 17 different sites and three different apps, and the cross-pollination which makes us strong doesn’t work like that.
When I wrote this book for my little cousins who did yoga in the street with me I couldn't imagine the impact it would have. Black children deserve representation.
@ninavizz On the big stuff, we disagree far less than you'd think.
I'm inspired by how successfully #BlackTwitter + #DisabilityTwitter activists self-organized within software built via such problematic economic models. In large part, they did so by leveraging affordances designed by folks who are no longer paid to work at said company.
I'd like to replicate those successes now, in a non-corporate context, without having to wait for the rest of society to fix itself first.
Spider silk, covered in dew like a royal necklace. I managed to get several wonderful photos of these webs. No sign of their builders at all that entire morning though. It was foggy and cool, there was dew on everything. A truly fantastic morning for a macro photographer
Grayscale is really fun for flowers because you get to see delicate structures that might otherwise get obliterated by their bright colors. Peony petal with dew, cellphone #macrophotography
Part of my first photos with a real macro lens! Ish lol The lens was not a true macro lens, though it does have a macro mode. A bit of ice on a weight iron lawn lamp. I want to say January of last year. This goes along with my favorite snow pics in my shop
Snow! We didn't get any snow last winter and I'm still mad about it, especially because the spring is already too hot and too variable. Enjoy some snow from 2022!
I'm Rayne, & I want to share my art with you! I'm a Black, queer, disabled photographer, & my passion is nature macro photography. Do you need a gift or a little splash of life to jazz up your walls or desk? I've got you covered!
Grayscale is really fun for flowers because you get to see delicate structures that might otherwise get obliterated by their bright colors. Peony petal with dew, cellphone #macrophotography
@SingsongRaptor:
I'm Rayne, & I want to share my art with you! I'm a Black, queer, disabled photographer, & my passion is nature macro photography. Do you need a gift or a little splash of life to jazz up your walls or desk? I've got you covered!