Anna Nicholson @transponderings@eldritch.cafe
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland, Terf Island
Autistic+ADHD queer nonbinary woman
she/her (en)
elle/la (fr, mais mauvaise)
i/ise (gd, nas fheàrr)
Recovering from the birdsite (but still popping in occasionally while so many of my friends are stuck there)
I’ll sometimes talk about mathematics and linguistics, those being fields I attempted PhDs in (but burned out)
I’ll sometimes talk about activism: climate crisis, disabled/neurodivergent/trans/PoC/Traveller/sex-worker rights
And sometimes I’ll talk about railway signalling
And cats 😽
Joined Apr 2022
Anna Nicholson
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ableism
people love to be like "nooo i dont agree with anti-car movements because thats ableist"
like bro do you know how many people are unable to drive cars and as a result completely unable to exist in certain cities because of their disabilities?? how the fuck are non-walkable cities "accessible"
if anything, walkable cities means you have to walk less than in car-centric cities without a car and pedestrian roads are prioritized so you can actually safely cross the road with a wheelchair/cane
👉🏻 New blog post about to drop
An in-depth comparative review of eight Mastodon apps for iPhone
• Fedi 3.2.0
• Mast 2.2.3
• Mastodon 1.4.0
• Mercury 2021.4
• Metatext 1.5.1
• tooot 4.0.0
• Toot! 16.0
• Tootle 1.11.6
Arriving tomorrow at 09:00 BST on transponderings.blog
Anna Nicholson
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Thinking about sex today. Specifically sex education.
How were you taught sex education when you were young? And what kind of positive or negative impacts did your sex education (or lack thereof) have on you as you became an adult?
(Reply and boost this please. I want many people to share their own stories.)
Sadly though, it’s all tied to a commercial service that app developers can subscribe to, and the technique has been patented in France 🙁
This really does seem to make a difference to ease of reading (albeit at the expense of typographical aesthetics)
h/t @embyr
✨Don’t forget your meds!✨
Morning,* Fediverse, from me and my guest, who is currently keeping me in bed 😉
*adjust time of day to taste
Anna Nicholson
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What's the longest you've used a single smart phone? (Boost for a broader data pool.)
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'do cis people question their gender' is an interesting question and i'd basically argue that thinking about your gender position at all already moves you beyond cisnormativity insofar as that system presents gender as a completely unanalysable given that doesn't admit any kind of complex or nuanced relation
Anna Nicholson
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growing up autistic is fun because everyone is like "wow you're so smart" because you know a lot of big words and so you test well in school but then you get into the real world and you can't take care of yourself or socialize or do anything that an adult needs to do and you realize that you're actually like, disabled and nobody wanted to tell you because they think being disabled is bad
scotpol, abortion rights, petition
Please join me in supporting #ScottishGreens MSP Gillian Mackay’s member’s bill to introduce safe-access buffer zones around #abortion clinics
No one should have to run the gauntlet of anti-choice protesters harassing them as they try to access healthcare
As we see the US sadly taking a few steps backwards, let’s not follow them, but instead keep up the progressive momentum in Scotland
To do that, Gillian needs your support 💚
✨Don’t forget your meds!✨
thread on accessibility on birdsite
Mastodon users have a pretty good reputation for using alt text, but this thread over on the birdsite offers some very helpful pointers on what to include and what to exclude if you’re describing an image for #screenreader users
This is just a test video file, for a blog post I’m working on.
This is just a test video file, for a blog post I’m working on.
This is just a test audio file, for a blog post I’m working on.
Anna Nicholson
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✨Don’t forget your meds!✨
Anna Nicholson
boosted
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland, Terf Island
Autistic+ADHD queer nonbinary woman
she/her (en)
elle/la (fr, mais mauvaise)
i/ise (gd, nas fheàrr)
Recovering from the birdsite (but still popping in occasionally while so many of my friends are stuck there)
I’ll sometimes talk about mathematics and linguistics, those being fields I attempted PhDs in (but burned out)
I’ll sometimes talk about activism: climate crisis, disabled/neurodivergent/trans/PoC/Traveller/sex-worker rights
And sometimes I’ll talk about railway signalling
And cats 😽
Joined Apr 2022
