"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
"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.
@glightly I read an anecdote recently about a city having an issue where a significant number of the streetlights were out in poorer neighborhoods, and luckily a local official cared enough to investigate why.
It turned out that the streetlight replacement process in the city was "wait until someone calls it in".
@nix Yup. It shouldn't have to require residents to have to constantly be after their elected representatives.
Our backs are bowed under the weight of duties that politicians and corporations are ducking responsibility for. We have to do our own jobs, then get forced to do theirs as well.
@glightly I try to be productive, but I know I just got lucky to have the energy to do stuff. That said, I cannot do stuff I am not interested in... I just can't motivate myself to do stuff I hate to do, at all. (i.e. I still have to do some accounting for a small business, but have been putting it off for weeks... even though I have hired an accountant for all the mentally hard stuff...)
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.
@ai6yr@glightly I rode my Ebike in sustained 35mph winds once (on Turbo), it was a wild ride. I've ridden a road bike in 20mph sustained winds. It's tough into the wind, but an eerie quiet when you're going 20mph with the wind at your back. It's worth the effort going out to experience it coming back, but not vice versa. 🤣
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
At least this kid has a wheelchair designed with his input, you say.
Yes. That's great. His abled parents' viral videos caught the attention of one of the biggest YouTube accounts & he got a custom wheelchair given to him.
How many people who'd benefit from wheelchairs or better-designed wheelchairs can afford that or have access to that?
But building the world as accessibly as possible benefits EVERYONE. Dismantling ableism benefits more people. #InspirationPorn
For a clue as to what #InspirationPorn is, just read the comments on the YouTube video. There's effusive praise for making the kid work over and over and over again and no critique for not actually giving a shit about accessibility for their son and the millions of other disabled people in the world.
Inspiration Porn gives abled people warm fuzzies about the fact that they keep systemic ableism in place. #Ableism
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.
Given that no mods have called them out on their axe to grind about me, and the absence of a block function, I'm likely going to have to give up what is a good source of advice about van stuff.
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.
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 People who have noise-related disabilities get zero consideration. Every single time I have ever complained about noise violations, it's always been turned around on me, that I'm imposing on them for not wanting them to impose on me. Mentioning my disability just gives them an opportunity to double down and tell me I'm a special case so I can't expect everybody to adjust for my needs. Never mind that my whole life I have been adjusting to the needs of the non-disabled folks who already have their needs met 90% of the time, while mine are almost never met.
@hosford42 Oh, I agree. I think ppl have a right to their noise within their own area...not leaking out onto others.
It's a broader problem in society that we don't have good soundproofing codes required in dwellings...so it makes it harder for people not to come into conflict with one another.
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
@aubrey@glightly it’s the California law that requires products with certain chemicals to have a warning label (which you might have seen even if you don’t live in California).
Eg “WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.”