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re: ableism incl. ableist slur, tech jargon question
@packbat Yup! Reasonable default settings, shapes that imply intended usage, using color and other visual elements to draw the eye to "the obvious", responses to incorrect use that nudge the user toward the correct use, stuff like that.
ableism incl. ableist slur, tech jargon question
@packbat I'd say that to "idiot proof" something is to design it such that an user with no familiarity or direction is likely to use it as intended on the first attempt.
You know, like a dark pattern, but when it's what the user actually wants.
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So I must once again ask, is there anyone in the Seattle metro area who would like to pay very little money for my very expensive couch? Who is able to provide their own transport for it, of course. Even if that means, like, renting a U-Haul or paying someone to move it for them.
It's a fancy expensive couch and I don't want a lot for it. Heck, I'd be happy to give it away to someone who can't afford it.
strategy re: Any other nerdles about?
@packbat Not a bad plan! One neat thing about nerdle is that it's possible to test every possible input within two guesses. It's just that putting together a functioning equation after that – inside one's head, even! – can take a while. I've had several where I had to pause and come back later.
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Identity euphoria is a lovely feeling
Dearest Wilhelmina,
In this time of monsters and madness, I have learned many terrible truths that I feel shall haunt me until the day I am reclaimed by the soil. Yet, amongst all the knowledge that weighs my heart and catches my voice, none chills me so thoroughly as my most recent revelation.
It is beyond belief, but that which I now see before me is in no way the sweet cream butter I enjoyed as a child.
Creator have mercy on us all.
With fondness,
Maize Butterworth
@Leucrotta There's no feeling, no experiencable moment, quite like perusing a line of arcade machines whilst holding a full coin-purse! Or, you know, with a full pocket!
(Red squiggle, ya came to the wrong town. Experiencable is too a word! ...right?)
Any other nerdles about? (24 square emoji)
I get a lot of 4-guess games, but my super-secret opening guesses have paid off! (Lemme know if you want me to share those.)
nerdlegame 58 3/6
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tired: From Software
wired: Softwhence
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it's lawful evil, not lawful steve'll
complaining re: Web UI question
@packbat I was just complaining elsewhere about how frequently websites override default browser navigation and other functionality to make it slower and buggier and non-configurable. Like... why waste coder hours on that? What benefit is it to make people remember yet another set of rules on what keys do the same old stuff?
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I would absolutely do work for my friends and community that I would not do for my job.
That's why jobs insist on being your friends and community too.
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You are not inherently more capable for being sighted, hearing, physically mobile, or verbal.
Your access needs are likelier to be met by the dominant society. That is all.
transmisia, genitalia not-mention, weapon re: Trans Fucking Rage Jam
@packbat I don't even care what kind of game it is, I'll play it.
My if-I-were-making-games game would basically be ToeJam & Earl reskinned as a pair of transfolk trying to help each other through the many levels of bureaucracy it takes to get away from previous names and pronouns. I might call it "No Form For That".
uspol (military adjacent), drugs, dunking on headlines without linking to them, unsanitary sex act as metaphor (butt stuff)
@LexYeen I want to ask that headline writer just how much worse it all might have been if, instead of merely buying the drugs, they were to actually _use_ them.
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rumination on ableist language (by a sighted person)
It's so backward that "blindness" is used as a shorthand metaphor for being careless, ignorant, or oblivious when in fact many blind people I know are trained to be careful and pay attention to small details for their own safety. If anything, it's sighted people who are likelier to blunder carelessly by being overconfident in our vision and letting our preconceptions get in the way of good sense. So shouldn't ableist language targeting blindness be the other way around, like "stumbling sightedly" or "turning an oblivious, sighted eye?"
But that's unfair, sighted people might say. There's a wide range of carefulness or carelessness within any group, and it's prejudicial to chalk up obliviousness, ignorance, or indeed immorality to any whole group based on ability!
Yes, that would be unfair and imprecise, wouldn't it?
My point exactly.
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please start adding fatphobia to the list of oppressions you’re against ty ty 🙏
- shortname
- Keet
- pronouns
- they/them
- species
- some kind of pony thing?
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)
Joined Apr 2017
