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I just updated my current stock of #LGBT+ pride flag handwarmers and zines of various topics and you can see them all here:
Telegram channel: "Hey, do you want this?"
Things I don’t want any more. You can claim them, usually just for price of postage from the UK (or not even that, if the thing is small).
This is a thread about #drawdown (http://drawdown.org), and a summary of my favourite bits of the very interesting TED talk by Chad Frischmann here: https://www.ted.com/talks/chad_frischmann_100_solutions_to_climate_change
It's really helpful for grassroots activism!
tag urself, im "24. help! i have a body!!!"
I feel like @thewondthewhy@twitter.com is "gay chaos", @Averixus is "have you noticed that nature is beautiful", and @andrea is impressively somehow "damn you, margaret thatcher!!" even though she is French/Spanish. (Andréa, not Thatcher.)
RT 🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ImogenWK/status/1528711340273065991
my little while ago friend and i made a list of all possible novel plots and it has kind of ruined reading for me. enjoy x
Today @Averixus told me that with some types of ticket, if you're going on a UK train in a wheelchair you get a substantial discount on top of a railcard discount, for you AND someone travelling with you! https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/44965.aspx I had no idea, that's so cool!
One of the things I miss about the Google plus interface was how easy it was to search for/find & create small communities of interest.
I wish there was a way to do that more simply in the fediverse.
Would love to find more #writers, especially #specfic (#sciencefiction & #fantasy) writers.
There are some hashtags that can help us find one another - #amwriting & #amwritingscifi for example, but I don't thing many folks use them.
So, where are my spec fic writers at???
(Boosts welcome!)
Where to find people on Mastodon
So far, I've found two resources:
https://fediverse.info/
and
Trunk: https://communitywiki.org/trunk/
Both of these are decent, but not great. They suffer from the syndrome that all not actively moderated catalogs do: people add themselves in many categories because it doesn't cost anything, and they are interested in a topic like #sciencefiction - but they're consumers of the topic, rather than creators.
Does anyone know of catalogs focusing on creators?
Q abt disability and law (UK)
UK #disabled people and #wheelchair users - has anyone ever had success taking a small/independent business to court for discrimination (e.g. no wheelchair access), and it actually resulted in them improving access?
I've been reading
this guide which brilliantly lays out the process of getting compensation from businesses who discriminate.
But what if you don't care about the money?
What a great article, I love that they used some of my comments about what it's like being a disabled person trying to exist in the world!
Anyway, sign the relevant petition: https://www.change.org/MachCoopFrontDoor (And maybe share it if you know people in Wales?)
RT @CountyTimes@twitter.com
The Co-op store has come in for some heavy criticism from disabled campaigners.
https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/20151980.concerns-access-machynlleth-co-op-disabled-shoppers/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CountyTimes/status/1528405324729765888
Like the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) for GDPR/data protection, but for breaches of the Equality Act 2010, HELL YES.
Also, we shouldn't have to make enemies of the local businesses and services we rely on in order to gain equal access.
RT @BlondeHistorian@twitter.com
It’s unacceptable that the burden falls on disabled people to take legal action. It’s expensive, exhausting & inaccessible.
We urgently need a regulator to enforce the Equality Act, establish training standards & issue fines.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlondeHistorian/status/1526483221105475584
Today I saw bluebells like a haze in the distance or foam on a green sea. One of my very favorite moments each year. #florespondence
Made some ✨SPARKLY✨ merino #genderqueer pride flag handwarmers - two pairs, one with wide stripes, one with narrow stripes.
£22 per pair plus P&P from the UK to wherever you are - DM if you're interested or have questions!
Here's my full For Sale page: https://wiki.polyinpictures.com/w/For_sale
I got fed up with how broken my wiki was and how hard it was to update, so I just started from scratch and moved everything over!
So, this is my new For Sale page: https://wiki.polyinpictures.com/w/For_sale
This is an incredible shot:
Reminds me of the magnificent painting “The False Mirror “ by Magritte
Made some ✨SPARKLY✨ merino #genderqueer pride flag handwarmers - two pairs, one with wide stripes, one with narrow stripes.
£22 per pair plus P&P from the UK to wherever you are - DM if you're interested or have questions!
Here's my full For Sale page: http://wiki.polyinpictures.com/wiki/For_sale
Institutional transphobia, homophobia, etc.
I know I'm ranting about this super late but like, I'm a little bit hungry and I'm exhausted and I've just read another article talking about the ban excluding "trans people" as though it includes any adults at all...
Institutional transphobia, homophobia, etc.
And it's not going to work, is it. Kids who end up in conversion therapy are usually put there by parents/guardians, right? So what is the kid going to do, take a conversion therapist to court against their parents' wishes? 😡
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