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Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall

Top 5 least useful

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest

This is a big ask and I will do my best to answer, with the caveat that I am just a single blind person with memory issues who doesn't remember everything my blind friends have told me. XD I am counting other people as tools in this list because a person with eyes sometimes is a handy tool for us. XD

Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out 1. White cane 2. Blindness skills training through centers, government programs like Vocational Rehabilitation, Orientation & Mobility specialists, and anywhere you can find it 3. Membership with the National Talking Book Library aka NLS in your state (US); I think the UK is RNIB and Canada has one, not sure about other countries 4. Supportive family and friends and other blind people if you can find them 5. Screen reader (NVDA is free for Windows, iPhone has VoiceOver, Android uses TalkBack)

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall 1. White cane and/or guide dog 2. Text to speech, screen readers, audio books, audio described movies and tv 3. Accessible smart phones (often iPhone but Android is catching up) 4. Bump dots (stick-on tactile dots you put around your home) 5. Braille and refreshable braille displays/notetakers

Top 5 least useful 1. Sighted people inventing crap without talking to any blind people ("smart" canes, "smart" shoes, dangerous devices you hold in your only free hand that claim to tell you what's in front of you but actually don't, screen reader breaking "accessibility" overlays, etc...) 2. That ring which only shows one braille cell at a time (that's not how anyone reads) 3. Strangers giving/yelling vague directions ("It's right over there!", "Oh my god watch out for the stairs (that you are halfway down)!", giving directions to the guide dog who doesn't speak English or any language because they are a dog...) 4. Hot liquid measuring devices (always broken, the noise they make is so fucking loud it's caused me a lot more injury than just sticking my finger in the hot liquid, will wake up the neighbors) 5. All but one use case of AI claiming to be for the blind, at least as far as I've seen

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest 1. Ping pong balls (good for measuring hot liquids) 2. Funnels (really helpful for pouring liquids) 3. The lanyard strap that sticks to the back of your phone so you can wear it around your neck (looks silly, is incredibly useful) 4. White cane holster (yes it's a thing, I have at least three XD) 5. Things being organized Very Specifically (close your eyes and YOU try to find the remote after someone put it in a random place! XD)

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Her face during this is killing me! I am actually crying laughing! XD Also I love this song, which is also known as The Copyright Song.

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

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welcome to the Murdersex zine, a zine celebrating all things sex and murder. but um. we don't want to romanticize it or anything so don't make your submissions too murdersexy. we will do extensive background checks on all applicants and if we decide a past work of yours has too much sexy murder we'll have to remove you, sorry. we have limits, you know, we want a tasteful gory spread you could put on your coffee table, and having the Wrong people in it would kill the vibe (and we condemn all killing! wholeheartedly!)

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I have the top 5 in my inbox I just have to wait for more brain space to answer it. There's only one right now, if anybody wants to ask more go for it. :)

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Smol Scale

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Went back to my roots during a meeting today and doodled in a sketch book in pen. Got really into the intricate swirlies heh. Yes that's me attempting to draw Lost Dragon by vague memory. XD

Had these sketch books made at an office supply store for cheap. They're just copy paper so I can make a mess if I wanna (also it handles Bic pen ink great). Filling a page as completely as possible is a good art exercise and fun.

Descriptions:

Page 1: A page of sketches done in red, blue, and black pen. Noteable characters: a red bunny head, some German shepherd dogs, a long clawed hand wearing bracelets, various eyeballs, and lots of fleur de leur looking patterns made of swirly lines and dots radiating out from them.

Page 2: Second page of sketches, all in black pen. The main figure is a bespectacled dragon with very fluffy hair, earings in one long ear, and a goatee tied with a bead under his chin. Also more German shepherds, random birds, and radiating swirly patterns. The goal is to fill the page; the less space there is, the more abstract things become.

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Please. I'm begging you. My children need pizza. Think of the children. (It's me I'm children)

(Dad has made biscuits and gravy, which he and Seb are yumming up. Biscuits and gravy is a food which I personally think should not exist due to it being so fucking disgusting. Why would you make a helpless biscuit soggy and lumpy on purpose and then put it in your mouth. I'm hungry and I have to eat and the looming prospect of having to eat biscuits and gravy ((again, I had some last night)) is making me want to run into traffic.)

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Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

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Got the Tomb Raider remasters and, yep, still gives me the creeps. XD The modern controls make it slightly easier to play but I can’t imagine making it very far still. I think the farthest I got as a kid was the Coliseum. Only made it to Venice in the sequel and never got past level one in TR3. The only TR games I’ve ever beaten were Legend (the easiest) and the 2013 gay (literally) reboot that had an easy mode. I love this franchise obsessively but I suck at it. XD

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oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

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put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

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Oh god the ritalin wears off like being hit with a brick to the face. Huaugh...uuuggghhhh... D8

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couple drawings I did today.

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@cyberphuck XD

My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

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Maaaan allergy season is literally exhausting. Between trying to stave off migraines every day with masks that hurt my giant, knife edged nose and the spectre of an asthma attack constantly looming, I am worn out. D: The antihistamines that kind of help also contribute to the exhaustion. Are the trees done fucking yet? I'm dying here.