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BrahmaBelarusian

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I'm a disabled homesteader, Luddite, origami based artist who's politically an anarchosocialist & Antizionist.
https://ko-fi.com/malkabethwendy

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root, (edited ) to random
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how do you pronounce "gif"?

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@root the peanut butter brand

cvennevik, to random
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This is... such a good tutorial and now I'm going to rework my website's font sizes.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixels-and-accessibility/

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@cvennevik I do want to add to this piece, that most browsers on lower end smartphones cannot do zooming, but the baseline font size can be changed/set, and that's another reason why using both of these is important, as without that you're giving that systemic standard of ableism & classism a boost.

Jyoti, to acab
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I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.

#ACAB #FuckThePolice

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@Jyoti But also I like to remind, that fares aren't a part of the operating budget of MTA of the NYC metro area, as the system is instead funded by taxes, which is why fare collection at all is a waste of money & other resources, beyond an excuse pigs use to assault poor people, as it likewise makes the system less accessible for disabled people. #Accessibility #ACAB #Transit

BrahmaBelarusian, to HashtagGames
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"Don't Go Breaking my worm"
"Wormed in the USA"

SirTapTap, to politics
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For me the thing about income inequality is this:

Is there someone who works TWICE as hard as me, thus deserving twice the compensation? Sure. I'm lazy, some people are very driven.

Is there someone who works TEN TIMES as hard as me, needing 10x the income? Maybe, briefly, before burning out, compared to one of my worst days.

Is there someone who works SEVERAL THOUSAND TIMES harder than me?

...no. No there is not.

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@SirTapTap similarly, at least in the USA, there's a loophole in minimum wage laws, that allows for disabled people to get a lower hourly wage (no amount set so it can be under $1 an hour) than abled workers, so even as some definitely work at the harder end, they legally get the least. #DisabilityRights #WorkerRights

ashleyspencer, to actuallyautistic
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Can I get your opinion?

Iโ€™m hesitant to offer discounts for reviews with Autistic Bookshop because authors would lose 10% profit. I could do 5% for a review, but that results in a different author losing 5% profit for a review on someone elseโ€™s book.

Giving 10% off just my stuff doesnโ€™t seem enough. Could give nothing, but I donโ€™t think honesty and good will are motivating enough. Reviews help the autistic authors make more money.

What would you think as the customer?

@actuallyautistic

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic I think as both an autistic person who loves to read hard copy books, and may well begin writing full books in the years ahead, my main issue is that this sort of petty gaming is what I go to Independent book stores/sellers to avoid.

I read down the thread/responses especially for the price point too & that kind of cemented this for me.... the last time I spent even a penny under $10 for a decent book, that wasn't from a library sale, nor mass market clearance, was over a decade ago.

Paying for book reviews is done by 3rd party entities for big publishers & shouldn't be expanded to the Indy world at all.

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic Good to read, as the average I spend per new book, is $15-25, binding & length depending (& I'm poor) so ... I doubt I'm alone in who'd question your place in as a seller for Indy authors, if you went lower by such discounts. Paying for quality and independence is worth it.

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@ashleyspencer That's just it I, like many, go to Indy places expecting higher quality and higher costs to match it... Don't get me wrong, if I see a pricetag of $50 or more I will flinch, outside of a college textbook bookstore, but at least once I've also gone home & come back after thinking, to get said high end book.

*I've spinal derived peripheral neuropathy that flares & subsides with weather changes so, to have books made well matters.

BrahmaBelarusian, to random
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The Loch Ness Monster, leading mascot for all tours of the lake.

BrahmaBelarusian, to KindActions
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Disabled writer & filmmaker who devotes all of his time writing and fighting for invisible disability rights, needs your help. Now facing homelessness, his worsening disabilities & food deprivation. Please help them to continue on in all these efforts.

https://ko-fi.com/outofexile_idr

aral, to fediverse
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Mathematical italic capital h mathematical italic small e mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small o.

WTF?

Oh, I just said โ€œHelloโ€ to you in italics.

(Thatโ€™s similar to what someone who uses a screen reader hears when you use fancy non-alphabetical Unicode characters to simulate italics or boldface on your fediverse posts. So please donโ€™t do that.)

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral Beyond people using screen readers having difficulty with italics, some people who don't but do have vision problems and/or visual processing problems also have difficulty with them. Depending upon the screen size of my device & if the site is setup for proportional viewing (as it should be) or not I'm among them.

There are other ways to arrange typed parts of things & they should indeed be used.

aral, to SmallWeb
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Kittenยน now keeps two JSDBยฒ databases per project: an internal one ('kitten._db) that holds data Kitten manages (sessions, uploads, etc.) and the default one (kitten.db`) that holds your own tables.

Youโ€™ll mostly only care about the latter.

I also took the opportunity to create a Database App Module example and document it in the readme:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#database-app-module

ยน https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
ยฒ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

#Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #database #JavaScriptDatabase #jsdb

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral thanks for this update in this project, as at this point Kitten is amongst my top 10, tech tasks to do now after I start my tech updates overall (which will be very soon after the roof is done if I'm not sizably injured by that). The simplicity factor is probably amongst my favorite aspects of it, it's a approachability to me, as someone who's spent the most time within coding & prompt realms just before Microsoft basically stole windows from Apple.

OutOfExile_IDR_Voice, (edited ) to disability

Federally Sanctioned Exploitation Of Workers with Disabilities โ€“ Happy Labor Day:

On this Labor Day, Out Of Exile โ€“ Invisible Disability Rights gives thanks and honor to workers and the unions that protect them. Without unions, the experience of many workers may be similar to that of the disabled. This piece will focus on the exploitation and abuse of disabled workers by employers , and how it's perfectly legal under federal and state laws in the US. Section 14(c) of the US Department of Labor's "Fair Standards And Labor Act" (FSLA), has been virtually unchanged since it was enacted in 1938. Under the almost century old regulation, employers can apply for a certificate which allows them to pay workers with disabilities, an unspecified subminimum wage.

The average sub wage and the number of disabled people seemingly exploited by this legislation, seems to vary among the sources linked below. By any account, even one person with disabilities being preyed upon in this way, is far too many. The wages are inhumane. A 2021 Forbes article claims over 320,000 people with disabilities, the majority with invisible disabilities, earn an average of $3.34 an hour. A previous Forbes article put the figures in excess of 420,000 people being paid as little as $2.15, while others cite drastically lower wages. Some organizations like Goodwill, form their own "sheltered workshops", determining their own limits on sub wages for their disabled workers. There seems to be no bottom limit on how little individuals with invisible disabilities can be paid.

"The non-profits use โ€œtime studiesโ€ to calculate the salaries of Section 14 (c) workers. With a stopwatch, staff members time how long it takes a disabled worker to complete a task. That time is compared with how long it would take a person without a disability to do the same task. The non-profit then applies a formula to calculate a rate of pay, which may be equal to or less than minimum wage".

A decade ago, NBC reported that Goodwill industries, presumably by authority of their DOL "Section 14(c) certificate", paid disabled workers twenty-two cents an hour. The report claims that some were paid as little as three or four cents an hour. Think about paying your bills 10 years ago on a wage like this. Some nonprofits, even place Section 14(c) workers in outside, for-profit endeavors in restaurants, stores and even, "IRS centers". That sounds more like calculated exploitation, rather than accommodation and equality. Though the "NBC-Goodwill" article and figures are old, the problem is older and still continues today.

The theory of sheltered workshops is to prepare individuals with disabilities to transition to outside employment. In Missouri, disabled workers packaging T-shirts or sorting and counting dog treats to be sold for profit on Amazon, rarely "graduate" these workshops into regular paying jobs. Pay for sorting the $15 Amazon dog treats? $1.50 an hour while Jeff Bezos builds rocket ships. The title of the recent ProPublica article linked below, says it all. "Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than a Dollar an Hour. The State Says It's Fine If That Never Changes". I say, show me change in the Show-Me state and across the country.

In a follow-up to that story by ProPublica, some participants of sheltered workshops said they approved, saying the alternative is to sit at home and do nothing. Are these opinion formed as a result of gas lighting or years of oppression accepted as "just the way it is"? It's time for new attitudes and alternatives for the disabled community when it comes to wages and employment. In some states, now there are.

About 16 states have changed or passed laws regarding disability subminimum wage exploitation but, nothing to speak of federally. A three year old press release from the National Council on Disability that "Applauded the US commission on civil rights call to repeal section 14(c)", seems to be the sum of that effort. Other states have actions in progress including: Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York. If you live in any of these states, now's the time for activism and to let your representatives know how you feel. Follow the ""legislation watch" APSE link to track progress. The Alternative? Similar actions introduced in Kentucky and West Virginia died in committee allowing this despicable injustice against disabled people in those states to continue. Change is up to everyone. What will you do to help stop the exploitation and abuse?

OutOfExile_IDR ยฉ 2023

"Subminimum Wage: ...Why It Needs to End" โ€“ World Institute on Disability (WID): https://wid.org/subminimum-wage-what-it-is-why-its-unjust-and-why-it-needs-to-end/

"Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than a Dollar an Hourโ€ฆ" โ€“ ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-sheltered-workshops-low-graduation-rate

More disabled workers paid just pennies in our โ€“ NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/more-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-hour-nvna19916979

"Paying Disabled People Less Than Minimum Wage: The Next Frontier for Disability Activism" โ€“ Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/drnancydoyle/2021/07/30/paying-disabled-people-less-than-the-minimum-wage-the-next-frontier-for-disability-activism/?sh=1579a7707fe3

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/10/24/sub-minimum-wages-disability/?sh=4b845da4c22b

Some in Missouri approve of sheltered workshops: https://www.propublica.org/article/what-disability-community-told-us-about-sheltered-workshops

Where Does Your States Stand โ€“ APSE: https://apse.org/state-legislation/

NCD applauds USCCR:
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/17/2095347/0/en/National-Council-on-Disability-applauds-U-S-Commission-on-Civil-Rights-call-to-repeal-14-c-subminimum-wages.html


@disability @disabilityjustice

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice @disability @disabilityjustice And it isn't as if disabled people are truly given the equivalent to a full time minimum wage job in SSI monthly money's either, even as in theory that's exactly what it's meant to replace, especially with it's ridiculously strict and numerous means tests, including marriage penalties. This problem compounds the minimum wage loophole, especially with how vocational rehabilitation services often prioritizes sheltered workshops as "best" for disabled people.

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice @disability @disabilityjustice This though is also a mainstay of why & where I reject Marxism and attempts made to pull me into "the working class" as I never see these problems, nor workplace disability accessibility accomodations on agendas of loud strikers or other pushes for "worker solidarity".

I'm among the disabled who are on the bubble, strong and healthy enough to do more than a few paid employment jobs, but most would need accomodations and at least a completed bachelor's degree, hence ableism in higher education is among my biggest blockages overall. In 2nd place though is the systemic ableism that sheltered workshops and vocational rehabilitation services both give, as I can't physically do any of the jobs in that rather narrow realm.

smallcircles, to privacy
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Yes, you can ditch now..

https://organicmaps.app

is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a -respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on this app is gonna blow out of the water (hopefully ;)

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@smallcircles having used it or at least tried to for about the past year or 2, I have to say it really isn't up to replacing google maps, especially for finding locations, as it lacks far too many street addresses, so minimally you need to use another program to find the gps coordinates (latitude & longitude)of most locations before using that to find places & then get directions from there.

I often use Google for finding the location on my web browser then use organic maps for the actual turn by turn directions.

Also note that organic maps doesn't have audio directions, which likewise makes more difficult than the garbage that is google maps.

If Delorme & street atlas USA would only get back to widespread use and go on calyx OS phones... I'd consider it real progress!

aral, to random
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Just read the term โ€œProof of Personhoodโ€ and it made me retch.

โ€œProof of Personhoodโ€ is how you destroy personhood by tying it to some arbitrary constraint controlled by some asshole; by making it, and therefore by extension, people themselves, a commodity.

So fuck Worldcoin, fuck Sam Altman, fuck scanning peopleโ€™s eyeballs for profit, fuck cryptobros and their cultists, and fuck Silicon Valley very much.

Hope youโ€™re otherwise having a lovely morning :)

๐Ÿ’•

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral I just hate all of it, the entire radioactive manure pile that biometric identity forms are, as it's already been proven that none of them are even truly reliable & all forms hurt at least one subset of disabled people.

One of the absolutely wonderous things about computers & higher tech things overall is their capacity to make this world more accessible for disabled people & thusly to reduce that element of structural societal inequality, but biometric ID does the exact opposite, as it, especially with the mandates it often comes with, adds an accessibility barrier set.


knwmoon, to random
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Defund the Police

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral @knwmoon exactly & there was an ultra comical example of that when the New York City Police Department 3 month long strike was ended, not by their union demands being caved to, but by the report that they got an advanced copy of, showing that the crime rate, of all types including violent most of all, went down during their absence. ๐Ÿคช

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral @knwmoon lol that's a nice piece, as apparently its sharing this pattern showing itself to have roughly repeated at least twice, because the event I'm remembering took place over 20 years ago & it was a full work stoppage with crime rates going down by over 20%.

BrahmaBelarusian, to HashtagGames
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A joint brace wearer of a person, for sharing how many of us with disabilities actually get around

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BrahmaBelarusian,
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@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic phone numbers &/or calls required of good or service providers. Beyond the sensory issues that have always made phone calls problematic, there's PTSD over memories of pushing through, so I really can't endure calls much if at all & thusly don't have a steady phone #. Using my husband's solves some of that, at least somewhat but, I can't really see any validity, beyond a desire to engage in data mining, in them being required for anything. Data mining not being a practice I actually want to continue, especially when, as with this, it worsens everything else.

aral, to tesla
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โ€œโ€˜Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles' potential driving distanceโ€”by rigging their range-estimating software,โ€™ the article published today said. โ€˜The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers โ€œrosyโ€ projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.โ€™โ€

1/N

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@aral I know mainly for 2 things, 1 - having the highest rate of permanently disabling & killing workers of any automobile manufacturing company & 2- having an autopilot of an AI that at it's first rounds of testing swerved for things like light breezes, insects &single tree leaves in it's path, so thusly had to have it's "safeties" removed & then has since pretty continually shown it'll drive over human children in it's path so... whatever else I expect from that company & Musk - it's not "good" nor "ethical products".

BrahmaBelarusian, to HashtagGames
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The internet needs to be an alternative to telephone communication to businesses, because matters & this is among the ways it's too rarely provided.

BrahmaBelarusian, to random
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That sings to my singer sewing machine

oblomov, to disability
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Since is /โ€Œ and apparently is a form of (I keep forgetting myself, despite being a protanope), I'll take this opportunity for a that

WHITE TEXT WITH BLACK CONTOUR (or the reverse) IS THE ONLY WAY TO GUARANTEE YOUR OVERLAY WILL BE LEGIBLE

Don't get fancy with colors, even if they seem to provide decent contrast to you.

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@oblomov so much this & more people should likewise understand that beyond color blindness, that people with sensory overload problems will be harmed with the messes I often see attempted to "get more interest". I'm in that category & can thusly see so much of the details that looking at some of those color menageries as I read, will either make me dizzy, nauseous or give me a headache & a long pamphlet full will yield all 3!

autism101, to actuallyautistic
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It can be difficult to get through a burnout. Iโ€™m in the midst of one now.

Any helpful suggestions that worked for you?

image: @autistic_callum_

@actuallyautistic

BrahmaBelarusian,
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@paleocontinent @lmemsm @ReimanSaara @autism101 @actuallyautistic Yep, as one very bold example, I frequently have lately heard this nonsense of "to boost your immune system you need to expose yourself to greater set of temperature extremes" but they admit that the studies on this are based upon the nonsense that most if not all of us have homes that don't vary more than 15ยฐF year round.

My home improvement goals are to get the temperature variation down to 30ยฐF as now they're over 40, so of course I'm not going to push things to get even worse, as that's definitely not going to 'help' ๐Ÿ˜ฉ After I get the variation down to 30, I'll learn within that what's the most comfortable because now I don't even know what that is!

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