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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

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Crochet Capybara // Betsy Handmade Studio

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you see whenever i dont understand someone's sexuality or gender or pronouns or whatever i go "ohwell this has nothing to do w me!" and move on w my day

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I see you. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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So at least in the USA anyway if we want to have this happen, first we need to pressure Congress to amend the Real ID Act, which is what sets the national standards for valid forms of ID. This Act requires gender to be on any ID recognized for federal purposes. Change happens in the USA one state at a time until you have enough states doing something to get a federal law put in place to match. So, here are our steps:

Pressure Congress to remove the gender requirement from the Real ID Act, or file some sort of class action lawsuit that has the same result, which is ultimately that gender on documentation goes back to being controlled by states.

Within each state, work to pressure the state to remove gender from state IDs and licenses etc. for the exact reason @oodlenoodleroodle says above. Gender on IDs serves the sole purpose of enabling discrimination, and thus does not belong there.

After we convince enough states, we go for a federal ban of gender on IDs as an act of insisting that all genders really are equal in the eyes of the law.

Bonus fun fact: X was not "added for nonbinary people," it has historically been used as a gender marker for records where no gender is available. It means "unavailable/unknown" and so for me at least that is not real nonbinary representation. It's better than only having M/F to choose from, but it's the whole "other/decline to state" problem all over again. It doesn't let people actually identify themselves as nonbinary when self-identifying on documentation is desired.

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Call me old fashioned but if the surface of the water in the glass on my table inside my living room is bounce-rippling in time with the music in your car outside my closed windows, I think your music is too loud, to the point of rudeness. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Five Less-Discussed Tips for Accessibility in the Digital World

Whenever you use QR code, include a link for anyone who can’t access QR code. Not everyone can afford a fancy device.

When you make lists like this one, use the actual list feature instead of typing out the numbers, bullets, or letters. This makes it more likely for accessibility software to work correctly.

Test your document’s accessibility by opening it in Microsoft Edge and using the built-in Immersive Reader to read the document aloud. Is it reading the sections in order? Does it skip stuff? Does it annoyingly interrupt the document to read the header and footer of every page? Listen to the whole thing as part of your final proof reading.

Don’t use a series of underscores to draw a line. Read-aloud software will read this as “underscore underscore underscore underscore…” and so on for several minutes. Super annoying.

Test your diagrams by turning your screen display settings to grayscale. Various forms of color blindness cause various colors to look similar to one another or various shades of gray. By toggling your screen to grayscale, you can test whether the colors in your diagrams will contrast enough for people with most forms of color blindness to understand your material.

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Every time I get groceries I’m always appalled at how little you can get for like, $20. I was making banana pudding so I needed vanilla wafers but the brand name nilla wafers cost $4 a box. The minimum wage in my state is $7.25/hr. My friend put it really well when he said “imagine you work for an hour and someone hands you two boxes of nilla wafers and said ‘actually this is a bit more than what I owe you’”

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I’ve made visible progress on Loki’s skirt panels! Well—one of them, anyway 😜

I had to do a lot of mathing (ugh) to map out where the washers were going and how long each leather strap needed to be as a result, but after a couple days’ work look what’s here!

I was a little worried that the rivets wouldn’t be strong enough to take the weight but they are holding beautifully, and the panel actually has a lot of flexibility which is fab. Three more to go!

wip tag

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If you are going to make a prefix (i.e. Dr., Miss, Reverend, etc.) a REQUIRED FIELD to contact you, then you BETTER have "other" or "none of these" as an option! Better yet, include a write-in option!!! Why make people lie to you about how to address them when they contact you?!

This post brought to you by my inability to contact my reps in the USA without misgendering myself or misrepresenting myself as a profession I am not a part of or as having a credential I do not have.

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