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kaiyves-backup

fairytalesandfrills

14th century, The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

#ah #Chaucer #truely a mad lad he was #art

mumblingsage

This was a kind of sweet dashboard coincidence.

neurotypicalabusesurvivor

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

yeahokayillreblogthat

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

multishipperpirateking

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

the-fallen-blue

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it

sycamorality

forever thinking about this reblog on the post abt discords survey on whether or not ppl wanted ai. motherfucker you are messages.

gonzos-humansona

my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information

cherrypikkins

all these clothing stores with their 'boyfriend shirts', 'boyfriend hoodies', 'boyfriend sweatpants', 'boyfriend shorts' - every two minutes someone's poor boyfriend is being divested of his clothes for resale and left cold and naked and confused somewhere

oldbutchdanielmolloy

omg you people can do anything

fuckyeahanarchistposters

"It's easy to say "violence is never the answer" if you've never had to fight for your life"

Poster by Vincentrose Art

thewickerking

day one after changing sheets: ok im gonna kick my bad habits i won't eat in bed or leave knives or scissors or lighters in bed I'll have only normal bed things in my bed and I'll change the sheets more often too

day two after changing sheets: oh yeah this half eaten bundt cake is sleeping with me tonight

seymour-butz-stuff

molabuddy

(sees a post about ocd) haha thats relatable im going to reblog it. no wait im not actually diagnosed with ocd so actually if i reblog that im obviously faking to vie sympathy from others and being totally disrespectful to people who have ocd. and everyone knows i dont have ocd and theyre going to see and theyre going to cancel me for claiming to have ocd and theyre gonna find all the other things ive done and yuppp. 10 callout posts by the morning