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to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚
Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.
[Image IDs: Image #1: a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube; 4 air filters taped together with a box fan on top.
Image #2: Illustrated guide titled: How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box. Body text reads: The Corsi-Rosenthal Box is an affordable DIY air-cleaning system made with simple materials found in hardware stores. The box fan pulls air through the filters on the sides and blows out clean air. It is proven to reduce indoor exposure to airborne particles including those containing the virus that causes Covid-19. The box can also decrease the levels of other particles in the air, such as dust or wildfire smoke.
Illustration by Amanda Hu: Unassembled Corsi-Rosentheal Box, arrow pointing to assembled box. Text:
Filters can last up to a year
Keep away from walls and corners
The Materials. Illustration: 2 air filters, a box fan, scissors, a utility knife, tape. Text:
Filters 3M 1900 MPR (20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 1") or MERV 13 (20" x 20" x 2" or 20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 2" or 20" x 25" x 1" [2-inch preferred)
Lasko or Mainstays 20-inch Box Fan
Scissors, Utility Knife, Duct Tape
The Cube. Illustration: 4 filters arranged to form a cube; hands taping the edges of 2 filters together at a right angle; 4 filters taped together to make a cube. Text:
Arrange the filters to create a symmetrical structure
Ensure the arrows are pointed inwards
Duct tape the four edges
Vertical orientation of the pleats is preferred
Illustration: An air filter, with arrows on the outside edge corners. One corner, with the arrow, is circled in and enlarged.
The Base. Illustration: A cardboard square on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the cardboard square onto the cube; the cardboard square taped to the cube on all 4 sides. Text:
Use one side of the fan's cardboard box
Cut the cardboard box to fit the base of the cube
Duct tape it on all fours sides
The Fan. Illustration: A box fan on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the box fan to the cube; the fan taped to the cube, with an enlarged circle on a corner showing the tape leaves no gaps. Text:
Place the fan on top of the cube
Seal all sides, including corners
Ensure any holes on the side of the fan are sealed off with duct tape
The Shroud. Illustration: A cardboard square with a large circle cut in the middle of it; that cardboard square on top of the box fan; hands taping the cardboard square to the top of the fan which is on top of the cube made of air filters. Text:
Cut the other cardboard sheet to fit the top of the fan
Cut a circular hole (15.75" diameter)
Place the shroud on the fan and tape it on all four sides
The shroud increases efficiency and decreases the noise level
Illustrator: Marija Mladenović. Creator: Shiven Taneja. /End IDs]
Disability Aid of the Day (in honor of my new academic accomodations)
Alternative fonts!
My personal favorite is Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed by the Braille Institute to be easier to read for folks with low vision - especially since each character is very clear and unique. It's also completely free to install, and I've added it everywhere on my devices that let me change the font. I can't advertise this font better than the website can, so here is the link:
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your c
Honorable mention: Open Dyslexic
My friends with dyslexia swear by it, and it definitely does help with legibility,
From the web: OpenDyslexic is a new open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The typeface includes regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users. There are no restrictions on using OpenDyslexic outside of attribution.
OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia.
Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"
Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)
PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!
[ID: Image one is a "Cheat Sheet" table that explains art which does or doesn't need filtering for eyestrain. It reads:
Needs Filtering
Large amounts of bright colors, including backgrounds
High contrast bright colors
Chromatic abberation
Optical illusions
Fast-flashing or bright animations
Intense glowing effects
Doesn't Need Filtering
Small amounts of bright colors
Slow flashing animation (under 3/sec)
Minor glowing effects
Image two is a "Visual Guide to Eyestrain Filters" showing example art by lycanthropylive of a simple person with the following color effects, respectively labeled as needing or not needing a filter.
Small amounts of bright colors (person with splashes of magenta and cyan on their hands): no filter needed
High contrast bright colors (person with bright rainbow shirt): filter needed
Bright/neon backgrounds (magenta square behind person): needed
Chromatic abberation or glitch effects (person with glitch effects): needed
Intense glow (cyan/white glow around person and their eyes): needed
Clashing patterns & optical illusions (checkered black/yellow/cyan pattern on leg): needed. End ID]
[Caps transcript:
Here's your handy guide to what can count as eyestrain!
Please take this seriously!!! This is about the health and safety of others!!! End transcript]
Dear disabled people in school, please know your rights! If you have an IEP or a 504 plan with your school, your accommodations are not suggestions; a teacher cannot refuse them. If a teacher, coach, or other school staff chooses to ignore or disregard your accommodations, you can and should report them to the school.
The school, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, will not/cannot tell the teacher that it was you who reported them, nor can the teacher question you or your class about being reported.
Remember it's against the law for the school or anyone representing/working for them to deny you your accommodations, no matter your age or grade, no matter the disability, and no matter how the school is funded.
Kinda sucks to me that dyscalculia and dyslexia are so often lumped together.
No, dyscalculia is not "dyslexia but with numbers". They're very different, with few similarities. I really wish dyscalculia were talked about more often, so people would understand me just a little better.
Because I'm dyscalculic, I intensely struggle with multi-step tasks, get lost very easily and frequently (not just in new places, but EVERYWHERE), can't remember important numbers, can't remember anyone's birthday besides my own, take a very long time to do most math equations, can't read an analog clock, can't do any oral math, can't manage my time, can't tell what time it as at any point without a digital clock, can't understand maps or navigation, can't recognize some "simple" math terms or symbols, and I can't reliably count backwards.
And much more, but I'm not gonna sit here and list every single one of my dyscalculic traits. If you want to learn more about dyscalculia, then PLEASE research it yourself. The more people who are knowledgeable about a wide variety of disabilities, the better.
Three yaks dance in Lhasa city (cr 情满拉萨,吉吉)(If you do not reside long-term in a high-altitude environment, please avoid intense physical activity at high altitudes, as it may trigger altitude sickness.)
[Three musicians in astonishingly good chubby yak fursuits dance to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat it"]
Me: They're probably dancing to some traditional folk music or something.
Me: *unmutes it*
Me: AH.
we will keep discovering the reach of michael jackson until the day the earth implodes
Tags from @torchickentacos bcs imo this is a VERY important point. We need to avoid boiling any mental illness or neurodivergency down to a specific presentation. People like this do exist and they aren't evil or wrong or bad. They're just different.
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Image 1 of 4: Tweet from Rae (@/ raeOfStarshine), reading:
Autism on TV: I say insulting things to people and when they are upset I argue with their logic instead of apologising Autism in real life: a friend hasn't spoken to me in a few days so I am analysing everything I have ever said to them in case it was rude and they hate me now
Image 2 of 4: Tumblr tags, reading:
#tv characters with autism always seem to carry this unshakeable confidence in themselves #like they've never been truly rejected by people they care about #whereas every autistic person i know myself included #has at some point had to internalise the message 'there is a line at which people will get sick of you.' #this line is invisible and you don't know which of you natural behaviours push you closer to that line #and which are fine to do and help build relationships #so you had a childhood of just being constantly surprised when suddenly you find the line #and it's a bad surprise because now you've lost something or someone you care about and it's your fault #you might not be able to get it back either - you just have to accept that life is like stumbling through a minefield in the dark #sometimes you'll get to the other end. sometimes you'll lose an arm or a leg. and you have no idea which or when. #and this means that a lot of us do the logical thing and don't move #we don't socialise we don't stand out we don't show any sliver of personality in case that's the step that blows up up #we toe the ground so carefully hoping we'll be able to pick up on the danger before we die from it #but there'll always be those you don't see coming #and then you end up lonely and people tell you to make friends you have to be yourself #being yourself is synonymous with deciding to just start running. you know you *could* in theory do it. #but your body's so aware of he danger it physically won't let you #so what now?
Image 3 of 4: Different Tumblr tags, reading:
#there actually are a lot of people with a similar brand of autism as "tv autism" #but it's a really different flavor of autism than the kind you see on tumblr. you see that more in reddit and game forums and such. #in the 2000s/2010s it was called 'male-presenting autism' in a lot of circles but I'm not unpacking all that mess right now lol. #but anyways: those autistic people do exist but with a lot more nuance than TV shows give them. #Sheldon Cooper is a bastardized stereotype of a very real and common presentation. they do exist- just not quite like that. #I grew up in sped classes and therapy groups. I've spent my entire life around other autistic people. I've been friends with this type #and I actually DO think there's merit in digging more into the 'tv autism' thing because they face the same things that reblogger 2 said! #they also have the experiences of missing out on unspoken social cues. #and a lot of times the "insulting" things they say are just factual or very dryly presented and not masked well enough for others. #like how outright disagreeing with someone in casual conversation is seen as rude but to that person it's just stating their opinion. #it's really easy to read into it as insulting when that person meant NOTHING by it- someone shared their thoughts and autist shared theirs #but then the other person gets offended because it came across as contrarian and assholey within unspoken social conventions #and the very blunt logical 'stereotypical' autistic person ends up in the same spot as the more social-anxiety presenting one: #the spot where you lose cherished friends for reasons that don't make sense to you and you feel like you've missed something.
Image 4 of 4: A continuation of the tags in the previous image, reading:
#I just think that we can talk about autism without whittling it down to only experiences and presentations that we personally experience. #not that anyone was explicitly doing that in this thread but it's just good to keep in mind that autism is REALLY varied #and there are people out there who present similarly to type 1 and their struggles are often really similar even if presentation isn't. #I could say so much more about this and I'm sure I could articulate it a lot better and with more nuance but tumblr tags aren't- #-great for that lol. #I just think that pushing back against stereotypes should never end up at the point that you push back against real people. #I love blunt dry factual autistics just as much as I love fellow anxious "overly-emotional" autistics! #and everything in between and all of our overlap! #I just didn't like the implication that that kind of person only exists on TV. I have met him and he works at a card/retro game shop. #almost dated someone like that once actually lol. great person! just incredibly blunt with very little tonal inflection #which understandably didn't always mesh well with my flavor of autism which reads WAY too much into tone. but anyways.
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wheelchair users deserve a minimum of three wheelchairs to meet different needs. like, bare minimum of indoor chair, outdoor chair, and off road chair. chairs that meet different needs for transport, activity, positioning needs, energy levels, etc.
there is not "one chair" that can meet every need. wheelchair users deserve to have multiple chairs that meet specific needs, no matter how complex their seating/positioning needs. we deserve to at least have a backup if our chair breaks that is just as suited to our needs.
wow this blew up
for anyone who doesn't know, wheelchairs are very expensive and insurance will usually only cover one every five years or only cover a new one if your needs have changed significantly. the expense is especially true for anyone who has complex positioning needs (i.e. requiring tilt/recline/elevation in power wheelchairs, general group 3 power wheelchair needs, one arm drive for manual wheelchairs, etc.). as with so many disability related issues, those most impacted by their disability are most at risk of harm when adequate support is out of reach.
this post isn't a joke about how we deserve more for being disabled. this is a very real issue for many wheelchair users, for whom using a wheelchair not suited to their needs can cause very real harm. access to multiple wheelchairs that meet your needs can save lives, and the financial limits placed on disabled people (through insurance, through savings caps, through limited income) prevent that from being our reality!
If you're an American with a disability who receives government assistance, you likely qualify for an ABLE account, or you may starting next
The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.
It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.
Effective as of January 1, 2026, eligibility has expanded to folks whose disabled diagnosis was established prior to turning 46 years old
About ABLE Accounts An ABLE account is a savings and / or investment option for people with disabilities who qualify. It falls under Section
[id: the headline "These little known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest" overtop a background image of a disabled person seated on a couch in a tastefully decorated room facing the camera /end id]
[Image description: a tweet by @eigenlucy (blue checkmark) which says "When I was going through customs they were like "why were you in Mexico so long" and I was like "my wife lives there" and they were like "you and your wife live in different countries?" and i was like "yea yall deported her lol" without even thinking about it and the guy went red".]
VocalEye, a live description service for blind and low-vision people in Canada, is hosting a virtual screening of the documentary film The Great Blue Heron tomorrow evening!
If any of your followers are interested, it's free to attend and will have the documentary with audio description, plus a Q&A after: https://www.vocaleye.ca/events/zoom-205/
awesome! Thank you so much for sharing :) (the showing is 11/28/2026 for anyone interested!)
[id: 6 images of Quark the barkeeping Ferengi in Star Trek DS9 each with a text label. "Up" Quark is standing. "Down" Quark is seated, morosely pensive. "Strange" Quark is a drawn still as in Below Decks one of the animated Star Treks. "Charm" Quark is grinning and pleased. "Top" Quark is suppressing a pleased grin while maintaining eye contact. "Bottom" Quark is shocked eyes wide gasping lips parted with camera framing close up on his face. /end id]
[context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark ]
i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one
what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:
don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode
what it does not mean:
insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.
i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.
This is also very similar to what you should do when people with Alzheimer’s have paranoia episodes
Just because some of y’all won’t listen to this excellent advice without it, I am adding my therapist cosign.
Don't ever let anyone tell you disability rep doesn't matter, because I just got a comment on one of my fics from a person whose husband has struggled with driving for fifteen years because he can only use his left foot to drive, and they had no idea left foot gas pedal modifiers are a thing until they read my fic that involved a character getting their leg amputated.
It was a tiny scene at the end of the fic, one I put in because I'd been researching left-foot driving adaptions for myself at the time due to some leg issues of my own. But it was something the commenter and their husband had never heard of before, so now the commenter is going to get him one as a surprise and for the first time in his life this guy is going to be able to drive comfortably.
It matters. Not just the big pieces of representation, but the little ones too.
(And yes, if you have issues with your right leg, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to modify your vehicle for left foot driving! You just need to be willing to drill into the floor of your vehicle, or have a mechanic do it. No electronic modifications or anything, it's purely mechanical. Just make sure you're getting a system from a good manufacturer that has done safety testing.)
Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down
You go down the stairwell/fire escape. Is that weird?
But what if you have a walker or a wheelchair??
in america at least, in this situation, there isnt one. either your loved ones or the firemen can get you out using the emergency fire escapes or stairs, or you die
That's fucking horrific, thank you
“fun” little story:
last summer my friend who is an amazingly talented artist and i were in this super tall building, and she’s in a wheelchair and i’m pushing her around the room. it’s an art exhibit and some of her art was chosen to be showcased there and so it’s all fine and dandy until suddenly an alarm starts going off
a FIRE ALARM
everyone starts running for the stairs and my friend just looks at me with this forlorn look on her face
“i can’t go down the stairs”
but i’m a stubborn bitch “i’ll carry you”
“what about my chair? it’s too expensive for me to be able to get another one if i can’t get this one back”
“i’ll carry that too”
and i did. we went to the stairs (by then most people from our floor were gone) and i lifted her up in a fireman’s carry over my shoulder and then lifted her chair up and used the ridiculous amount of adrenaline that was coursing through my veins to make it down approximately 20 half-flights of stairs until we met some people exiting lower floors, one of which who kindly took the chair. I changed positions so i was holding my friend bridal-style which was, somehow, easier and the person who took her wheelchair (with her permission to handle it of course) accompanied me to the ground floor and then out the doors
basically there is no real protocol for people who can’t use the stairs in an emergency. it’s up to the people with them, if anyone, to help them or the person to somehow make it down the stairs alone, unassisted
thank fuck that it was just a faulty alarm system, because if i was unable to carry her down those stairs and the building was on fucking fire???? then i don’t know what would have happened to her, but i don’t think it would have been very good.
it’s fucking ridiculous and ableist to the absolute max.
I use a cane. When I did a day-long fire safety training at my northeast American university (UMass Amherst), I asked that exact same question: “what am I supposed to do if the fire alarm goes off and I’m in my lab on the twelfth floor?”
the fire marshal hemmed and hawed for a while and then said to take the elevator- you’re supposed to leave it free for the fire department to use and they want able-bodied people out fast not waiting for elevators. if the fire alarm has just gone off the building probably hasn’t suffered enough structural damage to make using the elevator dangerous, and modern elevator wells are heavily reinforced. many large and high-trafficked buildings on my campus have fire rated elevators that link in with the fire alarm system so they won’t let you off on a floor with a possible fire.
if the elevator isn’t working, wait in the stairwell and call the fire department to let them know where you are. modern stairwells are also heavily reinforced- it might not be pleasant but modern building code usually requires fire-resistant stairwell doors in office and big residential buildings, also to help firefighters get in and out safely. older buildings’ stairwells may or may not be retrofitted with fire-resistant doors but a stairwell is generally the safest place to wait if you can’t get out.
what happened to your friend was horrible, and i’m very glad you were there to help her out, but you can absolutely use the elevator to evacuate if it’s not shut down. those don’t-use-the-elevator rules are for abled people.
This is GOOD TO KNOW. why do they not tell people this??
Okay, firefighter here. If you are not physically able to use the stairs, and the elevator is NOT compromised, use the elevator. But you MUST be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the elevator is NOT compromised before you get into it, because there is always the chance that once you get into it, you may not exit it. Power could go out. The elevator may actually BE compromised and you just couldn’t tell from where you were until you were in there, and it suddenly shuts down on you. Something else could happen.
Understand that once you enter the elevator, you could POTENTIALLY be taking your life into your hands there.
It is NOT LIKELY, to be perfectly honest. It’s only in a pretty catastrophic scenario - think the Twin Towers, USA, on September 11th - that the elevators will be compromised and out of service. But there is a NOT ZERO PERCENT CHANCE and you need to understand that and accept it.
As for leaving the elevators free for the firefighters, okay, here’s the deal. Unless your nearest fire station is literally right next door? Your first on scene fire truck is NOT likely to be there on scene and needing that elevator before you get to the ground. It takes us TIME to find the address, gear up, and drive to the building. Then we need to hoof it into where the elevators even ARE, so YOU HAVE TIME to use the elevator to get down to the ground floor... BUT ONLY IF THERE’S NOT A RUSH ON THE ELEVATOR! And THAT is WHY we don’t tell people this shit. That’s WHY we tell people to NEVER USE THE ELEVATOR... because every self-entitled asshole will use it because they don’t feel like walking, and then put YOU in danger by delaying the elevator’s arrival to you.
IF, however, the elevator IS compromised, or you just can’t get it to come for you, or whatever, and you either don’t have anyone with you who has the adrenaline fueled BALLS to be able to toss you over their shoulder and hoof it down the stairs with you - because, let’s face it, that is RARE AS FUCK, then HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:
You call 911 and tell the call taker that you are in the building that has a fire alarm going off, and you are not able to evacuate because of a physical disability, and you tell them what floor you are on, and EXACTLY what stairwell you are waiting at. And the very FIRST thing that the firefighters are going to do once they arrive, if it is, indeed, a REAL emergency, and not a false alarm, is come get your ass and bring you down. Whether that means carrying you down the stairs, or whether that means locking out the elevators so that no one else can override them and coming to get you themselves, they WILL come get you FIRST THING if it is a real event. And if it is a false alarm? You will probably be the first person who is not involved with the building to know, because the call-taker is going to stay on the line with you until you are under someone’s care and out of danger, or until the scene has been sorted out as real or false, and you are out of danger that way.
These are pretty standard operations in the fire service throughout the United States. There may be some minor variations based on specific municipalities, but, for the most part, this is pretty typical: LIFE BEFORE PROPERTY. So, as long as SOMEONE knows where you are - hence why you call 911 - Firefighters will come get you. You are NOT alone, and you have NOT been abandoned. I PROMISE. It’s like, our whole reason for doing the shit we do: to save lives and to break shit. Sometimes, we get lucky enough to do both at the same time.
High rise fires suck ass, and I always hated them. But the very FIRST thing I asked anytime we got one was if we had “any entrapments” - which is what we call anyone who could not self-evacuate for ANY reason. We ain’t leaving you behind. And yes, your friend who doesn’t have the stamina to carry you down can stay with you, too. Because I would never ask that of someone, honestly.
Also, just a little FYI... MOST fire alarms are false alarms. Not to make anyone complacent or anything, but, yeah. Most of them are either system malfunctions, someone accidentally hit a pull station, or someone burned popcorn in a break room. So don’t let a fire alarm freak you out until you need it to - by smelling or seeing smoke or flames.
i have had multiple nightmares about this very thing because NOBODY BOTHERS TO ACTUALLY TELL WHEELCHAIR USERS THIS STUFF
I am loving these additions!
If you're disabled, this is worth the time and focusing energy to read through!!!
Short version:
If disabled and the fire alarm is just happened, you're allowed to take the elevators down but there's a small possibility you could get stuck if the elevators are compromised.
If you can't use the elevators or don't want that risk, go to the stairwell which is reinforced against fire, close the doors, and call 911 to let them know you are in that particular stairwell and can't get down.
Fire will strongly prioritize finding and rescuing people who might be still in the building during any actual structure fire. This is a major component of their job.
Fire people won't arrive in the course of one elevator run and actually half the deal with "don't use elevators" is supposed to be "leave it for people who need it in the emergency" which is both fire AND disabled people.
i'm tired of ppl always just assuming the word "blorbo" is describing a male character. no. blorbos can be women. i put HER in the microwave. hit HER with a comically large mallet. chew on HER. compare HER to a wet cat. put HER in a jar and shake it. dunk HER in milk and throw HER at the wall to hear the splat.