@neilhimself thinking about introducing my child¹ to Neverwhere² but I'm not sure she'll get the references (she's spent like 2 days total in London). Thoughts? Maybe I wait? I will take any advice
¹ almost 10 years old only, but precocious....a big fan of Jane Austen for example.
² my favorite of yours.
@Girlonavespa Yes. When I read Neverwhere, I had never set foot in England (I was an adult, though), I knew there were many references flying way above my head, but it didn't prevent me from loving the book and becoming a lifelong fan of @neilhimself in the process.
@neilhimself well it was a moot point. A day or so after I asked this I went into her room to find her reading it! I was v confused because I hadn't mentioned it to her, but we recently finished watching GO2 and I think she must have known that was you too, wandered past the Folio Society edition of Neverwhere on the bookshelf and your name caught her eye.
She is enjoying it greatly and loves Door! I might try Stardust next.
(It's also a lesson in the value of growing up with a home library.)
I am no branding expert, but calling your opponents an "illegal shadow library" makes you sound like a villain, and elevates your opponents to protagonists, in an anime series like Read or Die.
For sure. Textbooks being that expensive is a paywall for knowledge and only means the rich have access to it without having to sacrifice quality of life.
Didn't even know until I read the comments that textbooks even come with one-time-passwords now for online only homework.
@demerara@rewarp@bookstodon libgen and scihub are out here fulfilling the Internets original goal of becoming an open library of all human knowledge to enable a scientific and educational renaissance.
And those profiting from perpetuating the under-education and ignorance of the American people are having none of it.
The discussion about the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag is really annoying. It's the hashtag for Autistic people either self-indentified or officially diagnosed and if your research about the Autistic community didn't provide you this knowledge, then maybe you should do more research or ask the community before you start complaining. Who are you to criticise a hashtag that connected and empowered thousands of marginalized disabled people for years? (1/2)
Yes, as I see it, the structure itself is designed to accommodate and enable the large accounts, and it wants and needs those accounts to have the most impact and influence. It's all part of the planned structure. It's built-in. A feature, not a bug.
Just name if Final Fantasy 7 - Remake part 1/2/whatever… or something.
I’m not gonna buy this shit cause the prices are fucking stupid, but it’d still be nice to be able to keep track of this shit in a way that makes sense to human brains.
I know what ableism is & educate true ableism. I also know the damage to the community that the 'ableist police Karens' do
Here I sit in a motorized wheelchair, hooked up to a feeding tube pump, with a pump in my abdomen & cath in my spinal column that delivers medication to my brain and an anti-ableist 'police' Karen came at me in a DM over a gun violence boost
When I wouldn't engage, it abused two of my HashtagGames tags with a lecture & a 'take a look at yourself' with a misquote
2/2
Just to be clear, I don't send my followers after anyone. Many of my followers are people that live with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges and they're tired of the inequality within the disabled community as well. They categorize it as Ableism just as I do. It's their prerogative to challenge what they see as Ableism and I have no control over that. People with MI challenges are not criminals or abusers. Criminals or abusers come from all walks of life, backgrounds and health circumstances.
The claim that I attacked both hashtags saying "take a look inside" was not directed at this individual but, the original poster and everyone else who feels it's okay to make derogatory comments about people with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges. Someone has definitely misinterpreted but, it wasn't me. The post reference about "take a look inside", is linked to the post above.
Regarding health issues: I'm not very far behind the description of the health issues noted in this post. I have two brain injuries, a spine injury, multiple orthopedic disabilities, autism, fibromyalgia, and a host of other disabilities. Apparently secret posts of misinformation has resulted in "cancel culture". As long as these things continue, right wing fascists will continue to be victorious.
@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice@paul@disability@disabilityjustice@MadMovementMastodon I read it as an adjective rather than a noun: referring to a person who is simultaneously a criminal and mentally ill and a drug addict and a wife abuser. It reads to me like it's meant to be a list of risk factors for violence.
Who has what disabilities is irrelevant.
The ableist part is using mental illness as shorthand for predisposed to violence.
#Autistic special interests are really about hierarchy of motivations…
I spend a lot of my time being pissed off at interruptions/intrusions/diversions to whatever I happen to be focussed on in that moment, however compelling or tedious it happens to be.
If, however (as just happened), someone asks me a question about stationery, or dog breeds, or the astronomical tides, or the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement, I’m going to drop literally ANYTHING else I’m doing to deal with that.
The dodgiest example of this is when I’m driving, and I see someone walking an interesting dog… 8-|
And now I consciously understand how it works, I see that I intuitively have been working it against fellow monotropic neurodivergents my whole life - parents, siblings, colleagues and PhD supervisors - to derail their efforts to talk about things I don’t wanna talk about. 😳
@drandrewv2
I am known to drive of the road in order to engage with what the person in the other seat is trying to tell me. 🤣 (noone got hurt)
But really if I did not have uninterrupted space to myself, I'd never get anything done. My self defense is to make people around me engage with whatever I happen to be focused on at the time. Can be annoying I guess, but can also create intense closeness. It's a lifetime of learning how to respect these things, both inside myself as in others and find wise ways to deal with it socially. @actuallyautistic
Fisted my way out of Tartarus and found a new fwend. I came really close to defeating it, we were both at near death and in the end I was the one that was bested. Oh well, completed a prophecy and became one achievement richer!