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meganL

@meganL@mas.to

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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meganL, to cycling
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Biking In LA cycling news roundup for May 23. News not just from LA. @fedibikes

https://bikinginla.com/2024/05/23/closing-a-non-existent-bike-lane-newsom-guts-climate-friendly-active-transportation-funds-and-draconian-brit-bike-law-on-hold/

ai6yr, to random

Santa Barbara Fire PIO: "Vehicle Into Building: 7300 Blk Calle Real, Goleta. Sedan w/two adult males drove through store causing major damage. Driver transported to Goleta Valley ER w/minor injuries. No injuries to customers. Fire personnel assisting with cleanup. Store closed. CT 3:35pm"

***No, that's not a Drive-Through 7-Eleven.

***We need more bollards in the US.

Open air 7-Eleven, where a Subaru has conveniently opened up a bigger entrance to the front of the store.
Photo of the front of a 7-Eleven, where it appears the new open air entrance has attracted a hungry gurney and several firemen, who might (or maybe might not) be interested in a Slurpee
Another view of the inside of the &-Eleven. There's a burgundy and gray Subaru which appears to be chatting with the fireman about getting to the Slurpee machine behind him, but appears to have stopped at the Doritos, after crushing many small animals from some kind of stuffed animal machine.

meganL,
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@ai6yr Time to crack down on those pesky cyclists! ๐Ÿ˜‰

ai6yr, to cycling

Family member (as we drive past the "demonstration bicycle lane" here -- which they are not aware of). "Why do they have to have so many cones here? I'm so tired of traffic cones..." ๐Ÿฅบ

(The bicycle advocates here have complained that the "bicycle demo lane" only will cause driver complaints, and that seems to support that thought.)

meganL,
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@ai6yr These things are often done poorly because car-centric planners want them to fail. Not sure if that's what's happening there, but it has happened elsewhere.

Basically, you have to move as quickly as you do with auto infrastructure. There are no "pilot projects" for auto stuff - they just make the change and deal with any complaints as they come.

With cycle stuff, they still prioritize drivers' complaints, wishes and are tentative and half-assed about cycle changes.

meganL, to disability
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I hate when media does inspiration porn stories in general, but particularly when:

  • They let a newly disabled person with tons of internalized ableism become "the voice of disabled people"

and

  • When that "success story" clearly came from access to therapeutic supports the average person doesn't have, yet now everyone who doesn't meet their standard of recovery "must not be trying hard enough". @disability
meganL,
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@disability I mean, "I've always taken the approach of, โ€˜I don't want to let this limit me. I'm still going to just live life and push through any struggle that this might be.โ€™ So I never really saw myself as โ€˜disabled,โ€™ so to speak. It never crossed my mind that I could potentially classify for the Paralympics.โ€" is a dead giveaway as the internalized ableism.

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