Hello everyone! Sava here! I’m a disabled furry artist and I’m opening commission slots for various types of digital art. I need to keep up with the cost of living, and this is how it’s going! Attached are my commission pages. You can send me a message/ask here, or if you’d like, my linktree has other ways to contact me for more information. Let me know if you’d like to reserve a slot.
Your daily reminder that inaccessibility isn’t just a little bother to disabled people but is part of a violent ableist culture that bars disabled people from many parts of life and treats them as unimportant and unneeded
Accessibility should not be an afterthought, especially when it comes to radical events
When you complain about the dashboard icons being removed, please please mention that this is horrible for accessibility.
People with dyslexia and some visual impairments rely on the icons to be able to easily tell who's blog a post is from! Navigating tumblr has just become much harder for anyone who has trouble with following people with similar usernames and reading names with dashes instead of spaces or no spaces at all between words. I have ADHD and likely dyslexia, and with the amount of people I follow with the word "jewish" at the beginning of their url, I'm gonna have a really fucking hard time when the update hits me. "Just read the urls!" doesn't work when you have a disability that makes it wicked hard. Usernames blur together and disappear within the post.
@support since I literally can't submit feedback without the app crashing. I am begging you to read this and understand that you WILL drive away disabled users if you keep this change. Yes, it also means losing a sense of community, but the fact that this hurts disabled people is vastly more important.
see I like bullshit like this more than those "the first letter of your name" things because this one literally can't harvest data because everyone's username is definitionally already public
sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it
In Taiwan we have a special brand of snacks named 乖乖 (literally means “well behaved” but in a casual way like when one’s compliment a child or a pet of being good) that has green package.
It has become the lucky charm in the IT industry because engineers believe it will make machine acting good (like the name of the snack) and stay in green light (like the color of the snack’s package) when a 乖乖 is put on top of a server.
It is the only food allowed in a server room and the biggest semicondoctor company in Taiwan (which is also the biggest worldwide) even commissioned the snack factory to make a customized version with blessing on the package.
This is how a server room is blessed by 乖乖. You put at least one on top of each server. It’s important that the engineers change them before the expire date because legend says the snack looses it’s power after expire date.
You’ll hear engineers swearing up and down that their server room
crushed down the one time they forgot to change the snack. Or some
newbie ate the forbidden snack put on top of their server and caused a
disastrous crush down.
The 乖乖 religion later spread to all people who want their machine to act nice. In the lab we put 乖乖 on ultra-low freezer (you really don’t want it to drop dead along with your 2 years’ worth of sample/data), mass
spectrometer etc.
When Taiwan’s about to launch the first self made satellite in 2017, the develop team even put 乖乖 around the satellite model to prey for a successful launch (it did). This shit is real.
“milk is from bre*sts EW” “eggs are basically menstruation” “honey is bee barf yuck!!” do you guys ever stop sounding like 4th graders who think cooties still exist or what
I dont actually care what people call themselves like it's none of my business but yall have got to realize that saying "actually gay people can totally fuck people of the opposite gender" isn't really a radical statement when gay people are constantly being pressured by cishets to do exactly that
like i 100% understand that sexuality can be really complicated for some people. i am one of those people, so trust me i get it, but you've gotta stop making posts about how its totally cool and radical for lesbians to fuck men or for gay men to fuck women and then getting mad when gay people are understandably very fucking uncomfortable with that concept
full offence but it should be illegal to use flashing or strobing images in adverts like straight up if a company has paid to force strobing shit in front of people then they have paid to directly hurt and potentially kill disabled people and whatever company they paid was fine with it. go to fucking jail and rot there.
SAY THAT!!! the amount of artists that use strobing effects is ridiculous, same goes for theatre shows and musicals. you need to say that shit up front and loudly or even better DONT INCLUDE STROBES AT ALL.
multiple times i’ve gone to see something that’s allegedly seizure safe with a photosensitive person and ended up having to tell them when it’s safe for them to continue watching the show they paid to see, its fucking horrible.
"You can have X and still feel empathy!" True, but the people who DON'T experience empathy don't deserve to get thrown under the bus either
"Having X doesn't mean you can't be smart!" True, but the people you WOULDN'T consider smart don't deserve to get thrown under the bus either
"Having X doesn't mean you're violent!" True, but the people who have been violent don't deserve to get thrown under the bus either
"You can have X and still take care of yourself!" True, but the people who genuinely can't don't deserve to get thrown under the bus either
"You can have X and still act normal!" True, but can you guess what I have to add about the people who CAN'T act normal?
Because if your activism is all about trying to separate your personal self from ableist dehumanization instead of actually challenging said dehumanization, your activism really sucks!