A thirty-something-year-old autistic asexual computer geek somewhere in the Boston area. (Like that narrows anything down...)
An asexual is someone “who does not experience sexual attraction,” according to a definition found on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, the world’s preeminent asexual organization. But “unlike celibacy, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are,” the definition continues.First in a six-part series, our Huffington Post article goes live today! I’m told my videos will be included. (Also slight trigger warning because they do mention sexual assault on the splash page of the article.) The grayed-out parts will be live one at a time as the week goes by.
Yay!
From the Asexy Fashion files: these two T-shirts are $5 apiece at Sears. Images link to the page on Sears’ site where they can be bought—or just look in your local Sears store (they’re definitely available at the one in Cambridge, Mass, at the very least, because I bought them there).
Edited to add: Oof, with my terrible sense of time, didn’t notice that the sale ends after today! Sorry I didn’t post about this sooner! But even then, $14 isn’t terrible.
Also note that the grey is darker than it looks in these images— more of a charcoal shade. Not sure if it’s my monitor’s gamma setting or just bad renderings or what.
When you see so many details almost all the time, but have trouble figuring out which ones are most important for any given situation or have difficulty sifting through them or making immediate connections
It’s like you see so much of everything you’re not really seeing anything at all and it’s the most frustrating thing ever
This is exactly why I had such a difficult time with driving and finally just gave up on it. Just too much to process, way too quickly… and my brain got so overloaded it ended up filtering out the things that actually were important.
When I was your age, people tried to keep their GIFs under 100 kilobytes apiece because nobody would ever wait for one of them to finish loading otherwise!
…Yeah, waiting for Tumblr to load while in an area with spotty cell phone reception kind of got me turning into a curmudgeon. Heh.
But seriously, to actually put this into perspective: when I was 14 years old, my computer had a then-state-of-the-art 28,800 kbps modem. This meant that a megabyte of data took (2^20 bytes) * (8 bits/byte) / (28800 bytes/sec) = 291 seconds = 4 minutes and 51 seconds to download.
To put this into even further perspective: there are some rural areas where you still can only get dial-up…
(Edited to add: Now that I think about it and check the dates, I may have had a 33.6 modem, but that was entirely a moot point, because AT&T was in no hurry to upgrade the lines in my neighborhood to support that speed. I distinctly remember only actually getting 26.4k throughput.)
Things that matter. Pass ‘em on.The power of words and more importantly, the right words.
Ewwww. Pity porn. We won’t get justice that way, thesocialjusticenetwork. :\
Use of the ableism tag- more accurate than they intended?
Indeed, given that the video only has background music and no narration, with just two lines of audible dialogue, and its textual description is so minimal as to be unhelpful. Thus making the whole crux of the video inaccessible to blind people like the one it portrays.
*facepalm*
Since nobody else has bothered to describe it so far, I’ve written up a brief summary below for those who need it.
Edited to add: The cynical side of me, of course, would not be at all surprised if the video was made inaccessible to blind people on purpose, given the actual content of the video!
Video description:
The video portrays a blind man with a donation jar. He holds up a sign reading “I’m blind, please help,” but only gets few donations by doing so. A woman passing by rewrites the sign and gives it to him—and, from what I can tell, does not tell him what the sign now reads. Donations start coming in by the dozens. The woman returns; the man asks “what did you do to my sign?” and the woman responds “I wrote the same, but in different words.” The sign is revealed to read “It’s a beautiful day and I can’t see it.” Title card: “Change your words. Change your world. PurpleFeather: online content specialists.”
You know you’re ace if your running commentary, while looking through photos of the local Pride parade, goes something like this:
“Meh, another scantily clad dancer… ooh, Star Wars cosplayers… AWWW, CUTE PUPPIES!”
Tumblr, your reblogging text posts as links thing is even more annoying when using something other than a computer when you can’t even change the options
I actually open posts in the web browser on my tablet to reblog them because of this. -_-
Reminder that screenshots to make asks rebloggable are really inaccessible and you can accomplish the same thing by copy-pasting the text
No srsly, in what universe did it become easier to screencap something, paste it to MS Paint, and crop it than to copy and paste?
THIS. EXACTLY.
Reminder that screenshots to make asks rebloggable are really inaccessible and you can accomplish the same thing by copy-pasting the text
So, now that Avatar: The Last Airbender has moved from Netflix to being an Amazon Prime exclusive, it’s been stripped of its closed captioning in the process.
*grumble, mutter* Two steps forward, one step back…
(Seriously, Viacom. You already had the captioning in a web-compatible format! And Amazon definitely supports it, because I’ve watched Justified with captions there.)
