@atomicpoet @wjmaggos

We are all equipped with #choice. I came here for the #conversation, spent 2 minutes in the #confrontation, learned about #block and #mute and here we are.

I think #guidance on happy use of the Fediverse makes sense. Ppl coming here after years on #Farcebook and #xitter (pronounced Shitter in deference to #president #Xi), have gotten used to being torn apart over an asterisk or a comma.

Here it takes a moment to realise those people aren't here. They are still on #shitter.

Many folks, me included, didn't even know there was a word for #ablism for example. I do now and try to keep it in mind, simply because #someone pointed out of to me.

These #discussions can become the core of what the #Fediverse is so about.

@ascentale @glightly

A2b. a few years later, similar Circumstances, but a busted right shoulder.

The worst wasn't the pain, but dealing with people stuck in #CarBrain

Not as bad as #ablism but still very annoying.

#BikeNite

I think of the #state of the #world today and want to weep

#politics #morality #ethics #racism #hate #lies #toxicity #abuse #ClimateChange #capitalism #CorporateGreed #hypocrisy #extremism #privacy #respect #HumanDecency #ablism #greed #narcissism #ideology #immigration #sedition #veterans #disability #HumanRights #war #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #Biden #US #China #NorthKorea

@maleandroids Since I cannot solve captchas, I am less than human? No, that can't be right. Some days, barriers like this frustrate me and lower my self-esteem. #ablism #accessibility #disability

1. Geology. Simmons could've spent a couple of minutes checking and discovered that there are several well-known "soft" stones such as soapstone, slate, serpentine, etc but she chose not to: "Like its limestone cousins - marble included - it is the only rock that can be scored with a butterknife". No.

2. History. Simmons prides herself on her travel journalism from the "Middle East", meanwhile back in England the self-described "medievalist" says: "The pond [where a broken axehead was found] was quite close to the present church, so this fitted with the theory that Christian sites appropriated pagan ones to smooth the transition between religious belief systems." Erm, like in Jerusalem? Smooooooth! Or genocidal. One of those. Also, not true that Christian sites appropriated Pagan places except occasionally in urban areas where space was limited.

3. History. Simmons mourns the loss that the Cluniac monastery in Lewes that she claims was "the heart and soul of the town" before the dissolution of the monasteries when in 1537 the 24 monks, who offered the town their thoughts and prayers, were supported by over 22,000 acres of land in Sussex (and more elsewhere so about 1,000 acres per monk). The land had been partially cleared of local peasants, who were replaced by sheep, and was run by unpaid servants known as lay brothers. I suppose unpaid servant was a step up for a starving landless unmarried male peasant, but I wonder where the women went....

4. Gibberish. As I mentioned before, this was clearly not read by an editor and is relentless nonsense, e.g.: "It had been a dry winter so far. In wet weather, travellers followed the ridgeway on the top, avoiding the boggy bottom of the valley. So that's what I would do also." Wet is dry and dry is wet, apparently.

5. History. Simmons describes the Christian crusades as: "the series of religious wars involving Christians and Muslims between 1096 and 1291. One of the Christians' avowed aims was to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land" and one of their aims was large scale genocidal land-theft. Also Louis IX of France figure-headed crusades against the Holy Roman Empire, the Balts, and Tunis, amongst others, even within Simmons' chosen period which conveniently excludes the most embarrassing genocidal xtian on xtian crusades that occurred later.

6. Dis/Ablism. And lastly, on page 323 of 324, we discover illness and disability don't exist in Simmons world, even during a pandemic: "We humans are made to walk, and if we continue walking we'll stay fit and agile into old age, as the many white haired people I met climbing the hills between Southampton and Canterbury proved." Selection bias much?

Don't read this book, obv. /end thread and onwards to more edifying and entertaining reading

#books #reading #history #EnglishHistory #geology #Christianity #ChristianHistory #Catholicism #ablism #disablism

1. Geology. Simmons could've spent a couple of minutes checking and discovered that there are several well-known "soft" stones such as soapstone, slate, serpentine, etc but she chose not to: "Like its limestone cousins - marble included - it is the only rock that can be scored with a butterknife". No.

2. History. Simmons prides herself on her travel journalism from the "Middle East", meanwhile back in England the self-described "medievalist" says: "The pond [where a broken axehead was found] was quite close to the present church, so this fitted with the theory that Christian sites appropriated pagan ones to smooth the transition between religious belief systems." Erm, like in Jerusalem? Smooooooth! Or genocidal. One of those. Also, not true that Christian sites appropriated Pagan places except occasionally in urban areas where space was limited.

3. History. Simmons mourns the loss that the Cluniac monastery in Lewes that she claims was "the heart and soul of the town" before the dissolution of the monasteries when in 1537 the 24 monks, who offered the town their thoughts and prayers, were supported by over 22,000 acres of land in Sussex (and more elsewhere so about 1,000 acres per monk). The land had been partially cleared of local peasants, who were replaced by sheep, and was run by unpaid servants known as lay brothers. I suppose unpaid servant was a step up for a starving landless unmarried male peasant, but I wonder where the women went....

4. Gibberish. As I mentioned before, this was clearly not read by an editor and is relentless nonsense, e.g.: "It had been a dry winter so far. In wet weather, travellers followed the ridgeway on the top, avoiding the boggy bottom of the valley. So that's what I would do also." Wet is dry and dry is wet, apparently.

5. History. Simmons describes the Christian crusades as: "the series of religious wars involving Christians and Muslims between 1096 and 1291. One of the Christians' avowed aims was to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land" and one of their aims was large scale genocidal land-theft. Also Louis IX of France figure-headed crusades against the Holy Roman Empire, the Balts, and Tunis, amongst others, even within Simmons' chosen period which conveniently excludes the most embarrassing genocidal xtian on xtian crusades that occurred later.

6. Dis/Ablism. And lastly, on page 323 of 324, we discover illness and disability don't exist in Simmons world, even during a pandemic: "We humans are made to walk, and if we continue walking we'll stay fit and agile into old age, as the many white haired people I met climbing the hills between Southampton and Canterbury proved." Selection bias much?

Don't read this book, obv. /end thread and onwards to more edifying and entertaining reading

#books #reading #history #EnglishHistory #geology #Christianity #ChristianHistory #Catholicism #ablism #disablism

Sometimes I need to remind myself that I am also a #disabled user who has trouble navigating the web, content, and designs. I'm learning to be more vocal (normalizing is the goal), but the internalized #ablism is real and the fear of stigma never really goes away.

Friends who don't use a mouse to navigate: do you resent language such as "click to see X information", or "click to enlarge" etc. if you're not *actually* clicking with your device? I feel as though this language is pretty benign, but I don't primarily navigate with alternative methods, so I'd love input. If I should be changing my view on this language, I'd appreciate your viewpoint.
#disability #keyboard #AltNavigation #ablism #inclusive #language #web

Zeg, https://kolektiva.social/@waag@waag.social waarom is jullie conferentie over "een online ruimte die onze gezondheid, vrijheid en bestaansmiddelen dient" ontoegankelijk voor mensen met een handicap? Lekker inclusief met je "collective internet" //uit een vervloeking en spuugt voor de voeten van De Waag// #Ablism #Validisme #DeWaag

@Curator just ... do stuff :)

(also am drunk, but sharing is caring, we hope ..) #sharing #ablism

22/23 In previous threads we noted the intersectionality of all of this - #racism, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, #ablism, #ChristianNationalism, #fascism...

What's going on with Republican lawmakers these days (new Jim Crow laws in Mississippi, sex laws in Florida, etc., etc...) is more understandable through clarity on the #PartySwitch.

Those "racist Democrats" deserted their party, and now essentially occupy a Republican Party that is utterly no longer the #PartyofLincoln.

I'm looking for a good graphic to exemplify the concept of #ParticipatoryDesign for a presentation, and...

...it's kind of shocking how many images purporting to illustrate this idea are composed entirely of white people without evident disabilities. #racism #ablism

Phony Stark strikes again, I hope this puts him in the poor house.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-mocks-wheelchair-bound-twitter-employee-he-publicly-fired
#ElonMusk
#fail
#ablism

@UnFitz2

[Laughing and crying]
I resemble that remark!

TRIGGER WARNING: insulin infusion canula stuck on my thigh

#HashtagsAtTheEnd #t1d #diabetes #insulin #cgm #chronicIllness #disability #ablism #Medicine #laugh #wtfAmIDoingWithAllTheseHashtags

Throwing out an idea about #adhd #autism and #class stuff:

Does anyone else baulk at the appellation 'formerly gifted child'? Only I didn't grow up 'gifted' I grew up with a family that mostly resented education.

I don't want to paint that as the main archetype of the British working classes - but I feel like it's a lot easier to throw around that a kid is 'gifted' if you know they're more likely to go somewhere or at least struggle less as an adult (ie, are middle class).

I guess it's not too far from a lot of #ablism dialogues as well - as in disability porn.

@T I queried Contact Energy's continued increase in fixed costs when there was no improvement to my local network. Helpful person on DeadBird site said "Give us a ring we'd love to discuss this with you!".

I didn't have heart to say I'm deaf and really I hate using the phone so email is better. Sigh. I just left it.

#deaf #ablism #deafsurvival

The trauma we endure to get much needed diagnosis. The harms professionals do when they fail to separate their ego and personal beliefs from their professional duty to the living breathing and vulnerable person in front of them.
#ablism #stigma

When someone tells you that they're speech impaired and legally #mute, laughing is not a good response. #ablism

@roelfrenkema @PleaseCaption Ja die cultuur heb ik bij je gemerkt. Het was geen prettige kennismaking #Ablism

@essjaykeys @Geri @puxley @ellieraeuk
No #ablism ?