Boots & Cats

Hello! My name is Violet. Girl-type creature, 27 years old.

[jabberding0]

how it's done

[tromboneralert]

[kursed-arcana]

[puninyan-wibwob-deactivated2026]

reblog to headpat the one you reblogued from!!

[loki08life]

Lego bottle

[viroflowers]

On Bluesky they weren’t able to come up with even 1 nice thing to say about my, even my mutuals couldn’t bring themselves to say something as simple as I deserve to live

[viroflowers]

There are only two plasma places in my town. One of them banned me for life for being trans, the other banned me for life for taking too many psychiatric meds.

[viroflowers]

Donating plasma could be a decent source of income but legally I am not allowed to do that for being trans and too mentally ill

[viroflowers]

Can anyone on this website say something nice about me, anything

[viroflowers]

my quality of life might be improved by as much as 10,000% if I could just get a new spinal column

[control--panel]

[catboyinchief]

@soyuzam

[milk5]

The science behind THC + alcohol as a combination is literally soo interesting because it basically causes the crimson red duckling in your body to confront the serpent in the bronze vessel of your heart. Basically you feel good because the duckling is able to eat the harmonious seeds stored within the vessel and transfer these positive energies into your body. You can have bad highs when this happens if the duckling awakens the serpent and it bites the duckling. The interesting part is when you ingest alcohol after THC because it floods the vessel and causes the serpent to fall into a deep sleep. The duckling never gets attacked by the serpent when this happens because it is unconscious and the duckling is actually able to get fat from the harmonious seed, which causes an enjoyable sensation.

[viroflowers]

I'm scared we're going to end up on the wrong side of history

[biglawbear]

"Capitalism breeds innovation" girl there are only five websites left and they all look the same

[viroflowers]

I’m going back to bed. Goodnight

[specks-of-time]

[friend-crow]

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[letmefixthatforyou]

I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.

[vorbisx]

Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

[bisquid]

I feel like the increasing predominance of touchscreens is an inverse curb cut effect

Like, yes it's most bad for the disabled, but it's also wildly inconvenient for abled people, too

My car has literally got physical buttons or dials for EVERYTHING. I can do anything from turning the radio up to changing the aircon entirely by feel, in the dark, without looking

The electric car my dad leases has a huge incredibly bright touchscreen where the radio would be in a normal car. You HAVE to look at it to use it, and even though the car also has physical dials for the aircon, using them wakes up the touchscreen to display the changed settings. This is actively dangerous at night, because it's INCREDIBLY BRIGHT and fucks with your night vision. It also means you can't see the satnav for like a minute, which can be a long time in some circumstances.

My old MP3 player had a lil display I could choose playlists and tracks and stuff with but also physical buttons, so I could pause or skip or whatever without looking and without waking the screen, a godsend when I'm in bed trying to sleep or suddenly need to hear the real world. My phone doesn't have that, so in order to pause a song I have to wake the phone up, unlock the screen, and (if I'd remembered to lock the screen while on Spotify) pause the track. This both takes longer and, if I'm in bed trying to sleep - WHICH IS MY PRIMARY MUSIC TIME - stabs me in the eyeballs with bright light.

I tried to use a ticket machine a couple of weeks ago, because the touchscreen wouldn't register any inputs in an invisible area directly over the 'pay now' and 'cancel' buttons. I had to change to the only remaining 'old style' machine, which had buttons next to the screen like an ATM.

My friend has a camera with a touch sensitive display screen and keeps accidentally changing settings with her nose when she looks through the viewfinder.

Touchscreens add $$ to the price of any object, are incredibly fragile and prone to failure, often make the object harder to use, and these days tend to come bundled with a whole host of other 'conveniences' most people would rather NOT have.

[bisquid]

It's not limited to touchscreens, either!

Internet connectivity and Automatic Sensing are a plague growing ever more everywhere.

'Smart' fridges that need a WiFi connection to keep your food cold! Washing machines stopping mid-cycle because of a forced software update! Someone hacking your household WiFi by exploiting a security gap in your smart microwave's internet connection!

Public toilet 'more hygienic' sensor taps that regularly fail to sense Black hands or small hands or glitch and run all the time so they turn off the water so 'oops! No running water to wash your hands with at all!'

That one rented car that just Stopped in the middle of the mountains because it lost signal!

Automatic doors that don't register wheelchair users or children!

Car parks that require you to download a proprietary app to pay for! Concert venues you need a smartphone to enter because they use dynamic barcodes! Local mobile apps that require an internet connection to function even though they shouldn't!

The world is filling up with inconvenient 'conveniences' nobody actually wants, but has no choice but to use

[the-haiku-bot]

Automatic doors

that don’t register wheelchair

users or children!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[princeofbadassery]

And touch screens can be downright dangerous.

A woman drowned in her Tesla X when she accidentally put the car into reverse. Now, you might ask yourself how you can put a car accidentally into reverse; even in automatic cars, those two settings are pretty far apart on the stick. A Tesla X doesn't have a stick at all; you switch gears via a touch screen.

We went from cars with stickshifts that made it practically impossible to put a car into reverse because they had extra safety features to prevent this exact problem to cars that only need a single touch to put yourself and others in danger.

The above article states that this wasn't even the first time that happened to her. Imagine this happening in a parking lot, and a Tesla driver accidentally puts it in reverse and hits other people.

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

I'm so scared of all the safety regulations that don't seem to be required for a car to be on the market. does the fact that one company can endanger us like that mean they could all do it?

[digidiskette]

You know how a self checkout will scream if you don’t put an object in the bagging area?

Mine did that.

Not because I didn’t put the object in the bagging area, it was right there. Both on the screen and on the carrousel.

So what did the employee who came to unlock my machine say about it?

The camera tracking the item lost it, because my spine was malfunctioning and I was hunched over the barcode scanner.

Let me say that again, ai cameras marked me as a thief because of my disability.

A disabled person, who was having trouble standing, had to stand longer, because their machine was not designed for use by a disabled person.

Hell world.