anyways now that pride is over and it’s disability month let’s talk about how to make pride more accessible for your disabled friends who had to miss out on pride events these past years because of inaccessibility.
actually yeah lets talk about this. i want to mention some accessibility things most people dont think about.
here’s any easy way to avoid alienating those with mobility issues: rent an accessible venue. it eliminates problems for you to fix, because they’re already handled. obviously that might not be the most easy option, but it makes it easier on you.
maybe hand out earplugs if youre gonna have loud music. because. wow it is loud. or make a clarification that the music will be loud so people can bring their own.
for the love of god turn off the fog machines. leave them at home. my friend had to leave pride early bcuz of an asthma attack from both fog machines and people smoking. if you HAVE to have fog machines, keep it to a specific area where nobody would miss anything by not going there.
^ same with smoking. again with the friend with asthma. and the me with asthma. have a specific area where people can smoke, dont just let them do it anywhere and everywhere. i get it sounds ridiculous to limit smoking but god. there was smoke everywhere and it killed me.
PUT SEATS AT REGULAR INTERVALS AROUND THE EVENT DEAR LORD.
this isn’t even an accessibility thing really but more pride events should hand out free water. thats important. people dehydrate easily and sometimes you forget to bring water or run out. it’d be nice.
sign. language. interpreters. puh-lease. if you’re gonna have public speaking or some music sets, hire some interpreters.
there’s tons more so feel free to add on but this is just stuff i’ve noted from my experiences at pride events
Have like a room somewhere that’s quiet and has some chairs in it for ppl with sensory issues who might need to cool down after being around too many stimuli.
A big Pride event in Boston this year had a quiet-time tent tucked away from the speakers and around a corner, with some volunteers facilitating coloring and stim toys; I’d love to see that more!
Reminder that the “natural cycle” argument against anthropogenic climate change is based on nothing. There is no cycle that “just happens” and would account for changes anywhere near this magnitude, which around the world have been records on the scale of millenia. Every sudden climate shift in the planet’s history had a distinct cause. In several cases, this cause was the activities of living things. It did take a great amount of time but we even owe our entire oxygen-based atmosphere on the behaviors of microorganisms.
It’s ironic because they don’t look at US as real people.
remember that members of congress have the blood of innocent people on their hands
remember that humans are never monsters. The worst of evils are always done by people who laugh and joke at the dinner table, and do not think much of the people they’ve killed
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.” W. H. Auden
Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.
McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life…. But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off
PSA FOR THOSE IN DC AREA - PLEASE STOP FEEDING BIRDS (JUNE 2021)
An unknown transmittable illness is wiping out many native birds. Bird feeders, particularly uncleaned ones, are a major transmitter of disease. Please take them down for the meantime! Your birds will survive naturally without it - the impact of your ‘help’ could be far worse!
A new mystery disease among animals that people are interacting with isn’t ominously scary at all.
Please enforce bird social distancing by closing bird restaurants
Excerpt from an email chain one of my profs forwarded to the vet school mailing list:
I wrote the letter that was attached to the email string (attaching it again here). Cases have now been seen from KY and TN up through NJ and PA, and as far west as OH and IN. Possible report of related cases in FL, but not confirmed. The epicenter is definitely D.C., with most of the cases coming in from there. It’s only affected nestlings and fledglings, and cases have gone to multiple state labs as well as SCWDS, NWHC, and our lab at UPENN. We’ve found some bacteria in some cases, but not consistently enough to say that is the cause. We’ve also found pesticides in some, but it’s mostly dieldrin, heptachlor, chlordane and trans arachlor, which have essentially been banned since the 1980’s, so we’re probably just picking up environmental background contamination. Tests are still on-going…no single smoking gun yet!
Cases are starting to slack off further south, and just picking up in N. PA and NJ, so it could be “moving” with the age of the birds (birds further south have fledged and are no longer susceptible???). It will be interesting to see if we experience a second wave as the next round of baby birds comes in…
That’s about all I can tell you. We’ve been having weekly calls with USGS NWHC and the state agencies that are involved so far. They are working on another press release that will probably go out on Monday.
This isn’t just the DC area anymore, it’s spreading across the east coast.
I might recommend North Americans preemptively removing bird feeders even if you’re outside the currently described range.
Most of the species affected have been omnivorous birds that favor insects. This coupled with the timing has caused many to theorize this is because of a bizarre fungal disease impacting the newly emerged brood X cicadas.
As of the last time I checked, there is no record of anyone successfully saving any of the afflicted birds.
I recently came out to my mother's side of the family who are majority conservative christians and it went much better than I expected. Like, they were weirdly supportive. I only got one comment insinuating that I might possibly be going to hell but it came from my aunt and she's dying soon anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Anyway, I'm telling them how shocked I am and that I honestly thought that they'd have more of a problem with it when my grandma is like "Well you know we've been through this before with your uncle Nicky" and I'm like "what" and so it turns out that my uncle Nick was born a Natalie, came out as a boy at 19, and my great grandma proceeded to pay for his top surgery and hormone therapy. In 1974. And I just had to process for a bit because my entire life no one has referred to him as anything other than he/him and his chosen name. I ask why no one ever thought to mention this and they're just like "tbh we forgot. It's been so long that he's been a man" This man is married. He has a wife and three kids. I ask my relatives how they went about having kids, whether through adoption or sperm donor or what and none of them know. Apparently he just told everyone that they were gonna be parents and then one day showed up at my grandma's house with a baby. No questions were asked. Just. He and his wife had a baby now and that was that. Three times. Weeks later when I finally talk to my aunt Sarah (Nick's wife) all she tells me is that neither of them have ever been pregnant and, I quote, "sometimes you just come into children". She phrased it like people use the phrase "come into money". Like children are something that just happens to you. I ask my relatives if any of them had a problem with Nick being trans at the time, saying I'd understand if they had negative feelings about it, as it was the 1970s after all. They were like "nope" and i was just like "you didn't think anything of it?" And my grandfather was like "these things happen" while the other adults nodded sagely. So I guess the moral here is that if my conservative christian relatives could accept my uncle as trans in the 1970s then there really isn't any excuse for anyone. And also my family needs to ask more questions because I'm fairly sure my aunt and uncle stole their kids.
I’m laughing my ass off at that last sentence- But I’m so glad your coming out went well! That’s one heck of a way to find out you have LGBT relatives.
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
This person thinking a $200-300 bag means you’re the 1%
yeah
I’m sitting here boggling at the idea of spending more than $30 on a purse, when i could put that money towards so many other things.
$300 is pricey for a bag, but I’ve spent more than that on video games, so it’s hard for me to be judgey about it. They’re good sized bags, with a simple design that you could wear with a ton of stuff and won’t go out of style quickly. If they’re really good quality, they could outlast a number of my cheapo bags, since I go through a few of those a year (when I left the house). You would definitely have to have the money up front, though. (Hello, Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.) The designer is Liberian-American, though, so you’d be supporting a Black-owned business.
But I haven’t seen any mention of this brand before, memes or no, so why has this suddenly shown up on Tumblr? Especially since it’s pretty low priced compared to a lot of designer names. Let me google!
Ah. AOC bought a somewhat pricey, but practical, designer name bag, supporting a Black immigrant both directly and by providing publicity for his business. Suddenly, a post appears on Tumblr encouraging socialist and communist-leaning people to hate people carrying this particular designer name bag.
She’s up for reelection in two months.
This is what propaganda looks like.
Why it’s critical to study how social media impacts the movement of ideas
We can’t fuckin trust y’all to eat the rich when y’all don’t even know who the rich are
As a poor person with a telfar literally they are so affordable u can save one weeks worth of a paycheck and buy either the medium bag or the small bag but also this bag is mostly owned by black and brown people so its kinda just really sus to start hating on this company in particular instead of like way more deserving brands
$300 is not pricey for a well-made purse made ethically. $300 may be out of your price range, but that’s because your wages are depressed, not because $300 is excessive for a bag
$30 purses are only available because of, frankly, the deeply entrenched slavery in textile and garment/accessories industries. “affordability” and the proliferation of cheap fashion items is only possible because of labor exploitation.
(cannot comment on the ethics of the production of telfar bags; have no looked and just woke up)
Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.
Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)
If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.
reblog to save a digital arts major
Reblog to save an artist.
oh jEEZ
I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.
- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration
- Krita for painting
- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.
- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.
- Open Tunez for animation.
I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too!
Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)
Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.
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