Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

ableism is flying high today so here's a reminder to challenge your knee jerk reaction of assuming a manufactured design is for "lazy" people and instead think about how you don't consider the accessibility and daily life functions of disabled people who sometimes cannot grip lids, can't bend down to put on shoes or socks, who cannot cut vegetables, or who need altered clothing to accommodate their wheelchairs

disabled people exist. i don't know how to tell you that more plainly.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Check out this excellent video on a book about a mermaid race who descended from stolen people thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade. #BlackLivesMatter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnOydQustG8&feature=youtu.be

Trans masculine vocal surgery is an option:

https://genderanalysis.net/2021/02/trans-men-and-transmasculine-people-can-get-effective-vocal-pitch-surgery-too/

"Bultynck et al. (2020) reported on the results of eight trans men who received pitch-lowering thyroplasty at Ghent University Hospital in Belgium from 2002 to 2015. These men had been taking testosterone for at least a year, and were dissatisfied with insufficient masculinization of their voice. The procedure involves a series of tissue excisions to relax tension in the vocal cords, lowering the pitch."

"At a postoperative followup after four weeks, their fundamental frequency had lowered from an average of 156 Hz preoperatively to an average of 105 Hz. No complications of surgery were reported."

nazi.social

Pretty fucking self-explanatory, you reckon?

#FediBlock

Please support AURELIA on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aurelialeo/aurelia-a-disability-qtbipoc-storytelling-podcast

There is very little space for authors of color, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, or disabled. Despite the main audio drama being written by the winner of a very major award, the Kickstarter has barely met its funding goal with only a few hours to go.

I’ve been involved in funding campaigns before and I know money is tight even when you raise more than expected. Please support.

50lbs down. 25 more to go

I find this highly discriminating... where's the "I'm totally a robot, thanks for noticing" checkbox?!

So, worked roughly 40 minutes today. (Not including trying to compose a song and not getting far...)

Anyway, did some animations instead and a level complete screen.

#PixelArt #GameDev

If you have $4 and like cyberpunk, help me put some food in my kids' mouths!
"This is secretly the greatest and also funniest cyberpunk point and click adventure game on Steam. Very low-fi art style but the gags are just too good to pass up, and a lot closer to a "real" cyberpunk dystopian future than most favorites of the genre."
Itch: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

Since everyone is into Wall Street shenanigans right now, here's an org that is buying up junk bonds and forgiving those debts.

I just donated to @ripmedicaldebt and abolished $100 in medical debt for every $1 I donated. Spread the word and give today https://ripmedicaldebt.org/donate/

After I finish Riot Baby I'm going to take the time to sit down and read Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala. This is an as good time as any.

For #BlackHistoryMonth I'm going to begin by reading all of the 1619 essays/articles.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Finish reading Riot Baby. And then we'll see.

What plans do you have to educate yourself?

#BHM

“So, as a trans woman I’ve gotten a lot of strange comments over the years about my body and appearance.

“And one that always sticks out to me is: ‘You know, wearing a dress doesn’t make you a woman.'”

So, she posted this video. ^_^;

https://nitter.net/ayyy_vuh/status/1351663694879584261

Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Gotta scrub that man clean