Shoutout to the Nebraska State Legislative for canceling a meeting with me and two State Senators because they refuse to cover ASL interpreters due to their "ADA policy." Um... you forgot about Title II of the ADA which is a federal law? You're playing with the wrong one.

Huge thank you to Omaha Performing Arts for the invitation to see Hamilton last night! It was my first time ever seeing the show and I enjoyed it! ASL interpreters were acquired. There will be an ASL day of sorts where they will have interpreters already for the 2pm show this Saturday.

Hi. I need to try to be here more often.

just had a scare where one of my hearing aids was missing. god dammit. give me a fucking break.

Happy National ASL Day. I finally got someone locally to listen to me at all about accessibility in grassroots. 🎉

Mutuals in business who like my accessibility posts when they stopped being accessible.. is a bit weird, hahaha.

“The same time they’re contemplating on what they’re gonna use as a sound system is the same time they need to be calling agencies and getting an ASL interpreter. All that sound equipment has to be reserved ahead of time. The same goes for an interpreter.”

🔴 LIVE NOW back from hiatus. let’s chat, check out the @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social dlc & coworking today as we rob twitch. ehehheeh twitch.tv/andrealausell

Were there ASL interpreters at #HandsOff? No. Not for lack of trying, but frustrating nonetheless. Were deaf and disabled people mentioned at all when speakers and posters talked about issues? Also no. Except for a one time tiny, small mention of special needs children, no.

Simon is officially with me forever. ID: Cat paw and nose prints tattooed on thigh and wrist

Should I wake him up and ask him to get us coffee? (Just kidding, he needs his sleep even if it is 11am.) Shoutout to #DeafGain~

In 1993, alt text was created to load in the place of the image. Either because someone was using a text-based browser or there was too much lag or the image never loaded at all. The text entered into the alt attribute loads for the user in the place of the image.

Not sure how much you know about HTML so I don't want to come across as a jerk. Just there are basics. So the "alt" attribute only works on a few tags and they all have to have images. This is because that's the whole point of alt text since 1993.

It's because it's not real and doesn't work. "Alt" is an attribute only for images and doesn't work on video. They made something up and kludged it together.

Hi, I have a question for the hearing people. My Apple Watch just gave me a volume warning for the shower, telling me it was over 90 decibels and could cause temporary hearing loss (too late for that, haha) so I must ask...

I just learned that Bluesky has ALT Text for video. Is this the first time that I am ever seeing ALT Text for VIDEO?? 😯

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! And this is not happening on all videos, but I made my own unlisted video to test it out and there were commas and periods! Things were capitalized! I’m still trying to find some official news on it.

Every time a hearing person uses the "falls on deaf ears" phrase, I'm gonna pipe in with the fact that, no, deaf person here knowing what they said loud and clear. 😒

🚨 Surivial Funds 🚨 losing my job right as i am about to move, i am struggling with my basic needs for this month. bills, medical supplies i need are low & groceries. pls help or share. thank you. 🤍 ☕️ ko-fi.com/senoraandreita 📱 venmo: @ Andrea-Lausell

Someone launched new batch of Simon’s Possessed By A Deaf Demon shirts/merch. If you’d like to honor the late boy, I don’t care if you’re deaf or hearing, you want a shirt or hoodie from this specific batch (but you really can buy at any time), you have until March 22! bonfire.com/deaf-possessed

I'm only on season two episode three, but damn, they really knocked the teen vs. adult casting out of the park. #Yellowjackets

I got accepted to a new apartment. Would love to have new clients and projects so I can save up money the next three months!

Hi again.

The number of posts. 😮‍💨👌🏻 Follow me on Instagram if you don't already. instagram.com/rikkipoynter

Either my deaf accent has gotten worse, my audio tools have gotten worse, or Premiere Pro's auto captions have gotten worse because goodness gracious, the amount of mistakes I have to fix...

Accessibility Tip 🧵: ALT TEXT works for hearing blind/visually impaired/low vision people as they can use Screen Readers. Etc. to access information.

Accessibility tip: White captions/text on top of anything white is inaccessible. Hire me for more training: rikkipoynter.com

Watching #Yellowjackets for the first time and all I can think is why is this woman masturbating in her daughter's room

I thought Simon would get better about eating & getting back on the bed once he got his pain shot. Nope. Zane hasn't been eating as much even more so now. Simon dropped weight to 7.3 from 7.7 and I can't get either of them to eat much no matter what I buy for them.

Good morning from me and Zane. Having a lunch with a friend, doing more work at new job, and filming some customs later~ ID: Rikki laying in bed, cat behind her.

It's hilarious the amount of times I've been called an "ugly fat alcoholic" in the last 24+ hours. Alcoholic only because of my deaf accent, mind you.

I get the official shots in a week!

Huh didn't know my people were responsible for a plane crash when the hearie and abled was the one who got rid of the safety folk

Hi! Just a reminder if you were following this account when I was also posting OF stuff on here, I have a separate account for that now: bsky.app/profile/rikk...

God dammit! You know what I should've said when a hearing man was running his mouth off at me in the Blue Dot Nebraska group about how I/deaf people shouldn't be expecting/asking people to give us access to our needs, etc. at their events? 🧵

As bad and toxic as social media may be, we need to acknowledge that it was traditional media’s gut-wrenching combination of naïveté toward Republicans and cynicism toward Democrats that ultimately gave us both helpings of Trump

shouts to all the media outlets who uncritically parroted him when he said he didn’t know anything about the same Project 2025 he’s now implementing

Since the action hasn't been uniform or officially announced, the hope is that this is a middle-management misreading of the anti-DEIA orders and not an escalation of attempted policy, given how illegal it is. But we will have to see, and likely, sue.

Unless you've done a single thing for deaf or disability rights ever in your life, miss me with your demand for "receipts" from fired interpreters. Every attack on disability rights I've posted this week has since been verified by MSM. I'll provide more when it's safe. We take care of us.

Walking into another "let's bring community together and organize" event that isn't accessible to deaf people like 🫠

Getting some reports that ASL interpreters are being fired across federal agencies. Not sure to the extent yet. Obviously in violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. But with the DOJ Civil Rights Division frozen and general law-breaking plentiful, unsure of recourse rn.

Your girl got officially vested today as a clinic escort. 🥹 ID: Five people surrounding Rikki who is wearing an official rainbow clinic escort vest, smiling.

So when it comes to "grow community locally" stuff, here's something non-Disabled folks especially have to figure out how to counter. There is a long-standing pattern where chronically ill people, even those who previously had extensive support networks and community, are abandoned and isolated.

Do not fucking do this, do not open your phone for the police, you will be giving them the right to look at everything on your phone.

And there it is. The Department of Justice has frozen all case activity in the civil rights division. This is the mechanism of enforcement for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and so much more.

I'm so tired of begging my hearing/non-disabled peers to give a damn about disabled people's rights and access to information. Allyship and inclusivity, my ass.

Instagram is also making it impossible to find the account. This is what happened when I tried to search for the group - even in my own following list

Congrats to everyone who reported that Trump signed an executive order “banning censorship” by social media platforms

using "ambushed" and "attacked" to describe a priest begging the most powerful man in the world to show kindness to the most vulnerable is the hallmark of a society that values cruelty and despises compassion

When you have the opportunity, this is how you show up. In your space, with your power, with your voice. She's a hero. May we all speak up.