Notices by Megan Lynch (she/her) (glightly@mastodon.social)

Wow, did The Guardian scoop The Onion?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/25/texas-name-change-election-candidate #USpol

"Musk, Tesla’s CEO and largest shareholder, moved the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, in 2021, partly because of tensions with various California agencies over practices at the Fremont factory."

Racist practices. That adjective is missing, yet important.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/16/tesla-settles-racial-discrimination-claims

@mattly @Lana It *is* ageist. It's a gross generalization. Just because many landlords are old doesn't mean it's an action of the older generation

Look at the homeless and vehicle-dwelling population in your city. You're going to find A LOT of old people. Because Social Security and SSDI/SSI do not pay enough to live on to be able to even use all of your income on rent. If "the older generation" had all the money, they wouldn't be there

It's more accurate to say rich people are stealing wealth

Dear abled people:

Every time you are asked to provide accessibility and resent "more work", use that feeling to reflect on how much more work it is for people WHO ARE DISABLED to do the work an ableist society requires for just about every interaction in our day (bureaucracy re disability/poverty, inaccessible communication/infrastructure/culture/events/school/work/hospitals/emergency response, etc). and join us in working for systemic change that will make it easier for all of us. #Ableism

If you're anti-fascist and use the word "moron" as an insult, you might want to stop doing that. The word was invented by a eugenicist to further eugenicist framings. https://archive.ph/B8AZn

"Costco workers in Norfolk, Virginia, recently unionized, defying the company’s reputation as one that cares about workers. In an interview, a Costco worker says he and his coworkers are tired of being treated with disrespect on the job."

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/costco-workers-unionization-teamsters #Union #Labor

@Gargron Felicitations on your natal anniversary!

Something that annoyed and alarmed me about our public higher ed systems in California was the extent to which students were forced into giving for-profit corps their data.

In CA we have the resources to have solutions crafted by public employees paid a decent wage & benefits in comparison to the private sector. Not have it filtered strictly to the top. Yet our community colleges, CSU, and UC pimp students out to for-profit corps - more sources of data breaches.

https://medium.com/eqtventures/founders-story-handshake-2dcada4c1482

If you are abled & find providing alt text & image description to be a barrier:

Disabled people are routinely asked by our power structures & by abled people (even our friends/family) to go through additional physical, mental and emotional barriers daily.

So if you think this small barrier of being asked to provide equitable alt text keeps abled ppl from doing things, it's good to extend that thinking to the ableist way our society is constructed & what the effect of that is on disabled ppl.

There's a pretty good guide to the difference between alt text & image description, and how to do it well here: https://americananthro.org/accessibility/image-descriptions/ #Accessibility

Abled people: the primary function of the alt text field is not to act as a little joke for other sighted people. It's not a fucking easter egg despite that having been normalized by XKCD.

You can certainly have a sense of humor in the alt text field just as you do the text text field, BUT after you've actually provided equitable alt text & img description. Transcribe the fucking text that sighted people are given in the image and describe any other relevant non-text parts of the img.

#Ableism

@inthehands @alter_kaker @CptSuperlative Howdy, folks. I'd love to be removed from the mentions as it's getting beyond my level of expertise. Thanks!

@inthehands @CptSuperlative Yeah, I'm not arguing against search. But I don't program and don't own capital so I can't do anything directly about it.

Contributing to a wiki is something I could do.

@inthehands @CptSuperlative Is it possible to go way old school and create a wiki that's a web directory as Yahoo was in the early days?

Warning for photosensitive folks: this video contains flashing images.

Strange to me that they're using LED drone display, which is preferable to fireworks for folks with PTSD, etc. but they are still using fireworks as well. #HappyNewYear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wBcCIlMGw

Subtoot: Just because a billionaire does a few decent things doesn't make them "a basically good human being".

The very act of sitting on a horde of wealth that is as to your actual needs or even the needs of your children as the contents of the Milky Way galaxy is to the size of the Earth's moon is a depraved crime in and of itself.

And that's not even touching the crimes they committed to steal that wealth in the first place.

Follow-up appt today in which I discovered the Student Health pharmacy for our public university has such a tight partnership with Anthem/Blue Cross that if you have any other insurance instead of SHIP (which is Anthem), you have to pay 100% out of pocket. They will not bill even Medicare.

Love what neoliberalism has done to this university. /sarcasm

The Unitrans ("Excepting several managerial and maintenance positions, Unitrans is managed and operated entirely by students of the University of California, Davis who usually work part-time while attending school") vintage fleet of Routemaster double decker buses. #PublicTransit #DavisCA

I finally got the night guard that was sent to me in the mail. It was sent with the mold on it. I was a little excited to have the mold, but when I pried the night guard off it, I saw that it was very carelessly handled and a lot of the teeth were smashed off before it was even packed.

So if I want a mold to see what my teeth would look like if I got into a vicious fight, I've now got it.

I've thought about using the cargo quadricycle to take my propane tank to the hardware store for a refill but didn't do it because it felt hard to do safely.

That didn't worry this person, who has put the tank (about 1/6 the size I have) on a furniture dolly improvised into a trailer. #CarryShitOlympics #BikeTooter