to anybody who is procrastinating switching cuz they dont want to deal with the hassle (like i was): it literally was not a hassle at all it was so fucking easy it asks you when you make it ur default browser if u wanna copy all ur bookmarks and passwords over from chrome the only part that i found a little troublesome was installing different add ons like ublock & night mode and stuff. but that was it go switch now it was very easy
a man: i’ll never let you leave this relationship even when you’re hurt and want to escape, you stupid slut
alt girls on tiktok: omg this is so hot đł anyone else love toxic guys?
in all seriousness, if you do feel compelled to get in toxic relationships due to trauma it’s NOT your fault–I have this issue–but if you romanticize it online to a bunch of kids you’re only going to create more abuse victims.
Every time I see a discussion of equality versus equity there is some kind of addition of a new element. I didnât think about âJusticeâ before and itâs so helpful.
I explained to some absolute idiot on discord that as a blind person I hate when people make their blog titles or their usernames a bunch of letters compiled from different languages. If you use the letter that looks like an A but in Greek is actually an s, the screen reader is going to read it with an s sound. So a blind person cannot tell what you have typed because it reads as garbled nonsense.
And they thought it was just the funniest joke to intentionally type like that to poke fun. Please reblog and spread awareness that typing like this is inaccessible
With my screen reader it can do one of several things.
Aforementioned garbled nonsense that sort-of sounds like parts of words but isnât.
Words spelled out letter by letter (particularly with Greek).
Spelled out, and with each letter preceded by the language itâs from (particularly with Hebrew and Arabic).
In the case of Japanese or Chinese, it just says âJapanese-letterâ or âChinese-letterâ. Thanks for not being informative at all.
Then there are the fun ones where itâs language+the word âletterâ+a string of numbers. Sometimes without the language indicator.
In short, yes, please stop doing shit like this if you have blind friends. We will not be able to tell what youâre saying.
To add on to this, Kaomoji, Japanese emoticons, can be particularly confusing, even for screen readers that can read Japanese characters. For example, the emoticon that looks like a smiling bear is Ęâ˘á´Ľâ˘Ę, which reads as âpharyngeal voiced fricative bullet Latin letter end bullet glottal stopâ on my screen reader, VoiceOver. This is because the first and last symbols making up that emoticon are actually IPA symbols, and therefore represent specific phonetic sounds.Â
Emojis like đťhowever, are accessible. For example, the emoji I used in the last sentence reads as âbear faceâ on VoiceOver. So stick to the picture-type emojis when you can!
Iâm telling yâall that if you donât jump around erratically bc a wasp or hornet flies close to you, youâll have less interaction time with them
If youâre nervous about them (not yknow. allergic. letâs not intentionally misinterpret what Iâm saying) ignore them. And I do mean IGNORE. Donât react.
Also, are you watering or generally handling a source of liquid and they wonât leave you alone? Share some at a distance from yourself. Hell are you eating and they want some? Share it.
Honestly if people treated them with the calmness and affection they show bees theyâd have better experiences.
Anyway, have a little plate for the yellowjackets when you picnic. They are eating the bugs that you donât like so offer them a gift.
âThe boys of Capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope that no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the 20th centuryâwithout exceptionâhas either been crushed, overthrown, or invaded, or corrupted, perverted, subverted, or destabilized, or otherwise made life impossible for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movementâfrom the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the FMLN in Salvadorâno one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; no one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home.
Itâs as if the Wright brothersâ first experiments with flying machines all failed because the automobile interests sabotaged each test flight. And then the good and god-fearing folk of the world looked upon this, took notice of the consequences, nodded their collective heads wisely, and intoned solemnly: Man shall never fly.â
â Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II – William Blum (updated, 2014)
âthis makes me personally uncomfortableâ, âthis seems in poor tasteâ, âthis is somehow harmful but presumably because youâre misinformedâ and âthis is actively maliciousâ are all different things. remember that
âthis makes me personally uncomfortableâ: the work has something that is awkward or triggering to someone, but nothing problematic
âthis seems in poor tasteâ: the work is fine, but itâs about something that maybe shouldnât be joked about/the work has bad timing with the release lining up with a tradgedy similar to the events of the work like the episode tentacool and tentacruel from pokemon
âthis is somehow harmful but presumably because youâre misinformedâ: the work unintentionally has some negative shit in it caused by a lack of knowledge, i.e. a cis personâs trans headcanons accidentally reinforcing negative stereotypes
âthis is actively maliciousâ: the work was made with the intention to cause harm
This post needs mandatory recoloring cause I canât read it.
Anyway here:
âthis makes me personally uncomfortableâ: the work has something that is awkward or triggering to someone, but nothing problematic
âthis seems in poor tasteâ: the work is fine, but itâs about something that maybe shouldnât be joked about/the work has bad timing with the release lining up with a tradgedy similar to the events of the work like the episode tentacool and tentacruel from pokemon
âthis is somehow harmful but presumably because youâre misinformedâ: the work unintentionally has some negative shit in it caused by a lack of knowledge, i.e. a cis personâs trans headcanons accidentally reinforcing negative stereotypes
âthis is actively maliciousâ: the work was made with the intention to cause harm
I am so untrusting of minors on discord as well as feeling bad for them and I think both feelings can coexist
I have been in public discord communities where the majority of fans are minors and honestly the behavior they exhibit is both inappropriate and shows a lack of caution
There have been kids I’ve seen who immediately post pictures of their face in photo-sharing channels, but it gets worse than that. They’ve posted baby pictures, pictures of them with friends and family members (mentioning those people by name as well) pictures at locations with captions relating that location to where they live (“me at the park by my house!”) pictures of them at school.
If you are on semi-decent terms with these kids, and you ask, they’ll often tell you what state they live in. Plenty of kids outside the U.S. will straight up tell you what country they live in as if to brag. If you ask someone what time it is for them out of concern that they’re staying up to late, they’ll tell you what time zone they live in and often end up talking about sleep schedule, home life, etc.
Kids will turn on their cameras in a public vc if someone else has theirs on too. Kids will feel embarrassed that they’re on mute in a vc and always explain it with “my mic isn’t working,” never, “I’m not comfortable sharing my voice”
They’ll share personal information like interpersonal relationships those in the server aren’t a part of. They’ll link their other social medias, even private ones. They’ll introduce themselves in introduction channel with real name, age, and often their neurodivergency or even their triggers. And if you have a vent channel, they’ll use it like a substitute therapist.
If you’re a minor in a public Discord server, I get that you want to make friends, I really do. But you have GOT to be so careful in these situations. You CANNOT trust people, no matter how nice they are to you. You should ALWAYS exercise caution when operating and being part of a discord server. Please, this is not me being a wet blanket, this is me trying to help you be safe.
(P.S. Imo, minors should never be mods if 18+ people who know what they’re doing are on the server)
also be VERY careful of servers with a mix of minors and adults that advertise themselves as âcrazy crackhead insaneâ and as fun places without restrictive rules. they may make you feel grown up and cool bc they donât coddle you and you get to speak unfiltered, but what theyâre really doing is refusing to set boundaries regarding their conduct surrounding minors and are placing the onus of boundaries on YOU, who is not fully developed, is very susceptible to peer influence, and should not be expected to be the one standing up to literal adults.Â
(Image description: a screenshot of two tumblr posts. The first is by @cyangansey, which is a text post that says âLetâs be real: image descriptions help the sighted too since this website never loads anythingâ
Directly below this, a post from @kidovna is seen, showing nothing but an image that wouldnât load, indicated by a tan and grey color gradient. End description)
the hilarity of seeing this post when the image is just a nice gradient and reading the image description
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