Immediately mesmerized on open 😍

You know what's helpful information? The Safari start page I specifically customized to what I wanted it to look like. And yet — they put this message in the middle, pushing down the content I chose to go there. Leave me alone! Stop pushing AI on people who explicitly turned it off!

In what fucking world is this school shooter drone system less militarized than cops?? Where do ppl think these get tested / come from?? They can go 100mph, fly through double-paned glass, play a deafening siren, launch pepper spray bombs, hit a body at 60mph www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-s...

Indiana's Butler University launching Deaf Education master's program that focuses on listening & spoken language. Has ONE class for ASL. One. single. credit hour. We have an interpreter shortage. Programs are being merged/closed down. Gov Braun forced 5% budget cut on Indiana School for the Deaf.

This real reply to disabled people using food delivery (is hateful, and) makes no sense: “If you can’t feed yourself you should be institutionalized” Ordering food delivery and then eating it is feeding yourself.

“We used to be able to engage in discourse” We who??? When??? Bc my experience matches the formula Alice Wong (@sfdirewolf.bsky.social) described over two years ago: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/d... It’s cyclical. Disabled people can’t have anything.

Indiana BMV is removing the option to change gender markers using a court ordered gender change or physician statement. This Thursday — February 12th. www.in.gov/bmv/licenses...

“Disabled people can just contact us and we’ll tell them what accommodations are available!” Don’t do this. Because EVERYONE does this. It’s utterly exhausting. Put all your accessibility info online. Keep it updated. Stop making disabled people use extra time and energy to participate.

I think a big reason we see a rise in ableism — at the beginning of the pandemic, nondisabled people learned about a few disability concepts like “Zoom fatigue” then the pandemic “ended” (it’s ongoing) they returned to “normal,” stopped experiencing those things, they believe bc of their willpower.

git commit -m “pls work”

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

If came down to it I’d probably choose withdrawals and brain zaps over this

Might turn this into a little blog post? Haven’t published in a minute. That’ll feel good

Feels so weird to play this thing in my home. It lived at Grandma’s from the day I got it until her will gave me permission to take it out of my room at her house. It was 25+ years. I remember opening it, having to get the expansion pack for DK64, loving how cool the red looked through the green.

Hire accessibility experts. A lot of us are disabled and so know what we're talking about. Your AI-agent-whatever-bs is trained on myths and inspiration porn.

So where’s the business book about dealing with paralyzing anxiety

Made myself timer google sheet because all the time tracking apps do about 10,000 more things than I care about doing

no thank you

My roman empire is that the Sign Language success criterion for WCAG is level AAA. Effectively implying it’s non-essential, not scalable, too hard to achieve. Signed languages are many deaf folks’ first language and non-signed languages are taught heavily through hearing. #wcag #a11y #accessibility

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Listening to this feels the same as when I read this 1901 passage that says rural people shouldn't need as much government support because they should be neighborly and take care of each other

Mentally I am here (again)

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

He murdered Sonya Massey in 2024. So it’s very intentional that the article mentions his 2023 stage 3 cancer diagnosis, just before mentioning his new (worse) cancer diagnosis.

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

It is so completely fucking absurd & enraging that an Indiana bill to legalize execution by FIRING SQUAD lost by a close vote: 48-47 This is fucking cruel, violent, inhumane. The drugs are expensive & instead of abolishing the death penalty, these fucks want to shoot people instead? What the FUCK

What’s EXTRA FUCKED is this can be called for a revote because it didn’t at least 51 votes in either direction.

It is so completely fucking absurd & enraging that an Indiana bill to legalize execution by FIRING SQUAD lost by a close vote: 48-47 This is fucking cruel, violent, inhumane. The drugs are expensive & instead of abolishing the death penalty, these fucks want to shoot people instead? What the FUCK

Complaint retracted! I pay for Google Workspace for my biz and it comes with email layouts. You have more text style options like line-height and paragraph spacing! Easy to add branding too.

Another Google complaint. Why do I have to make the header AND footer different on the first page of a google doc? Why can't I just make one of them different? I want the same footer on every page. But I only want a header on the first page. There are workarounds I just want it to be easier lol.

Random complaint – I hate how much space Gmail puts around lists.

If you’re feeling helpless amidst the ongoing horrors being perpetrated by ICE… engage in mutual aid. Donate to someone in need. Give to a community library or food bank. You could also help Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held by ICE for a year. His story is often forgotten:

New article just published: Indiana Anti-Mask bills without adequate medical exemption. Also FYI the site is currently being migrated to Drupal. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Accessibility #MaskBans

I found 2 Indiana mask ban bills today. This shit sucks. Can we please be disabled in peace??? drupal.semanticfish.net/indiana-anti...

Let’s abolish ICE now

In search of a web browser for personal & (self-employed) work use. Safari/Chrome are a lot for me anymore. Some reqs (unordered): - No AI/LLM slop - macOS - Accessibility - Privacy - Switchable profiles - Reader mode - Extensions - Dev-friendly

I’ll forever resent being forced back to “business as usual” every week while everything is on fire

I’ve met many ICU nurses. Most recently when my beloved Grandmother was in a cardiac ICU. I went daily for almost a week. Every one of them was so good, kind, caring. I think of them often. It takes a special person to be an ICU nurse. To work with Veterans? Alex Pretti must’ve been incredible.

“There have been at least 27 shootings by immigration agents since January 20, 2025, of which 8 have resulted in deaths.”

I just want people outside of Minneapolis to watch this and imagine listening to that noise over you literally all the time

I get why people reach for all the terms from 1930s/40s Germany, but it entirely erases centuries of violent history of the US, and all the ways it influenced and committed violence in other countries’ histories.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

What are the chances I can these with bifocals 👀

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...