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About ART BLOG: @aindoesart Name's Ain. I draw things and reblog the odd thing. Expect dragons, hedgehogs and ramblings.

[ain-person]

HEY EVERYONE I've been doing a bunch of captions lately :-)

Almost all of SimplySnaps' stream supercuts are done! Only the latest has no CC

And everything from Reject Convenience in 2025 is done :) wowee!

[hell-on-sticks]

Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they don’t care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare.

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.

[soft-lovely]

people

[hope-for-the-planet]

70% Drop in Levels of Forever Chemicals Observed in Seabird Eggs Tracks Regulatory Success

These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

[sattarehi]

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

[aroandawkward]

I love the word aspec. I love the simplicity and broadness of it. I love the way those five letters group aroaces and alloaros and alloaces and non-SAM aros and non-SAM aces and aplatonic people and demis and greyaces and greyaros and so many other identities together into a community. I love the idea that, even though people under this umbrella may have very different experiences, we are all bonded by not experiencing attraction the way society expects us to.

The word aspec feels like a declaration of solidarity in the same way that queer does. Like queer, the label aspec doesn't require a person to specify or understand their exact experiences. It is welcoming in its vagueness. It builds bridges through its broadness. I love this word and I love everyone who feels at home under it.

[dorothylarouge]

[maryfitzroy]

What Movement Would You Have Joined in Early Modern Europe? A Typology Quiz — theodramatist

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, merce

babe wake up new quiz dropped

[maryfitzroy]

[terramythos]

they call me 'ol fucked up in one eye. on account of my fucked up eye. now every word I type has a beautiful halo around it

[terramythos]

i showed one of my friends my glasses prescription and he sent me this gif

[wheelie-sick]

radical feminism is not about hating men, it's about bioessentialism. bioessentialism can result in people hating men but that's a side effect. most radical feminists are just fine with cis men and consider cis men their allies (even heavily misogynistic cis men!) in their attacks on trans people.

[diserbillyti]

It's why ableism is such a common thing in that strain of feminism.

They believe at their core that all men are monster mash rape apes who are perpetually at war with the impulse to do some kind of cruelty on women. So it follows, intellectually and psychosocially disabled men are simply more dangerous because they cannot contain that impulse like other men might. Therefore we must be "watched," kept segregated from others, institutionalised or "minded" for the sake of others. They believe we are Lennies in a world of Curley's Wives, basically.

On the subject of disabled women, they tend to view them as these feeble helpless beings existing from one experience of sexual violence to the next, and so the only move is to Rapunzel them away from the world. You point out this robs disabled women of pretty much all choices and they act like disabled women basically can't have choices on account of having "children's minds" or whatever.

A lot of prominent RFs cut their teeth getting involved in disability rights issues, especially here in Australia. They especially love autism because they can characterise autism as creating these sort of gendered extremes. You know, arguments like: pornography might not be immediately observably harmful on most boys and men, but when autistic boys are exposed to it, it creates violent and sinister incels, a kind of extreme version of boy/man, blah blah blah.

[enameledcoppergirl]

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[krippe90]

[worldsbeyondpod]

Never beating the bird freak accusations.

Ep. 7 of Solari is out NOW on your favorite podcasting platforms!

Join us by the fireside: https://www.patreon.com/posts/public-episode-7-160531521

[worstjourney]

Help Canterbury Museum

As hardcore polarheads know, the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch – holder of one of the world's greatest archives of documents artefacts from the Heroic Age Antarctic expeditions – has been closed for a while as they make the building safe against future earthquakes and bring it up to date for accessibility etc. The archives have been closed to visitors since the earthquake! We are all looking forward to being able to enjoy this resource agin someday in the future.

But they need our help. As the Human Histories curator Adele Jackson has put it:

I’m writing to ask if you will support the Museum by lodging an online submission to Christchurch City Council? The City Council hasn’t named the Museum in its draft annual plan. Positive submissions will encourage the Council’s financial commitment to the Museum’s redevelopment to ensure the building reopens as planned in 2029. Submissions from overseas and within New Zealand are accepted. Sending a submission takes only 2-3 minutes. https://standupforyourmuseum.co.nz/ As I’m sending this to people across the world in different time zones, please will you make a submission before Wednesday 25 March, to meet the Council’s deadline. [NB: Given NZ's proximity to the International Date Line, those of us in the Western Hemisphere should submit before Tuesday the 24th, or this weekend just to be safe.] We’re trying to get a high number of submissions to show just how much support there is for the Museum. Your submission will make a huge difference.

Speaking up for the museum is free, and only takes a few minutes! Let's show them how much the internet loves those cold boys!

[dorsetgirl1]

This confused the hell out of me until I realised that it's the Canterbury and the Christchurch in New Zealand, not the ones in England.

[pmamtraveller]

lunar corona, colorful rings around the moon.

[maxknightley]

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

[maxknightley]

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

[str-ngeloop]

david graeber described three fundamental freedoms: freedom to move, freedom to disobey orders, and freedom to reorganize social relations

[prudencepaccard]

fundamental human right

[februarytrash]

being sad and horny is a privilege

[wearegoingfuckinganywhereman]

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality