Notices by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ (pawpower@mastodon.social)

Once I get home from work tomorrow I will be unable to leave my house unless someone is bleeding or otherwise very unwell because of the Super Bowl the Ubers are surging like nobody's business. My neighborhood is not safe for walking, due to lack of consistent safe sidewalks. So I have saved the new Fourth Wing book to read plus this weekend I'll be making cute heart shaped valentines candles and getting my braille/print valentines addressed and in order for my students and colleagues.

@Fragglemuppet @baxaphobia Yes it just caught me off guard because popularity is something I give 0 mental bandwidth to but also I remember how desperate I was at that age to be popular. Also these kids needs to ask someone who is not me these questions because I never feel like I do the answers justice.

Sometimes my kids like to ask me interesting questions out of left field. Today's question was "Miss Rox'E, are you popular?" It took me a moment to answer because I think popularity stops mattering once you leave high school at least it does to me so I don't actually know! And I told her that, and she seemed very surprised. It just struck me how different things are once you leave high school. I told her that having good friends is more important than being popular.

Finished my morning class. Stopping at the Shawarma Shack for a Gyro and a lemonade mint slush before heading home across the river. Some friends came into town so this afternoon we're meeting up at the botanical garden. It's a beautiful day for it!

I must admit, though that watching blind people on my timeline talk about the tariffs is interesting because so far I have seen five different ways that the word has been spelled. Terrifs, Tarrifs, Terriphs, Terriffs... anyway... very creative. But Tariffs, 1 t, 1 a, 1 r, 1 i and 2 f's.

@gocu54 @JustinMac84 @Fragglemuppet @lynnskyi Yes, my interpreter physically showed me what it looked like and it is absolutely a Nazi salute

So I bought this device for drawing tactile pictures called a Braille Doodle. It uses a stylus with a magnet on the tip to raise up little ball bearings in whatever pattern you want. but after you draw, you need to erase before you can draw again, and you do it by running your fingers over the unit kind of firmly and pressing. This is now one of my favorite stims because the tactile feeling of pressing down all these tiny ball bearings one after the other is really cool! #ActuallyAutistic

That one time I purchased Lush products via their app while I was in Canada and now I am doomed to receive sales emails from Lush specifically tailored for people in Canada… I am not in Canada and have not been in Canada for over six months! 😤

@singingnala I don't skip chapters where they die, but I do skip chapters where there is a lot of suffering for example, I always skip the chapter in the cave in the sixth Harry Potter book, but I don't skip the chapter where he actually dies. But the part where he has to drink, the potion is awful! I don't like to watch that kind of suffering.

Hey my fellow liberals, can we talk a moment? We all know what today is, and none of us like it or the orange menace. There's many reasons to dislike him and his policies. None of those reasons relate to his weight, or whether or not he can walk or drink water independently. Please stop being fat phobic and ableist! Because you know who does read this stuff? Your fat, disabled, chronically ill friends. And we see you equate being fat and disabled with lack of ability and it hurts.

Well… I must not be very good at sympathetic magic because no snickerdoodle cookies appeared. Oh well, I guess baking brownies won't hurt me! Here they are. Peanut butter pecan brownies! Now it's time to get started chopping meat and vegetables for fajitas! But Callisto says we should throw the ball first.

@tayfonay As a child, every single adult said some version of "You will not be so liberal when you grow up." So in my mind I then associated the onset of adulthood with becoming a republican. So when I woke up on my 21st birthday I was shocked to find out that ... even though I could now legally do all the things I was still not an adult because i didn't become a republican overnight. And here we are, I'm 51 now, still not a republican... so I guess I haven't reached adulthood yet!

It's World Braille Day. Usually I'm not a big proponent of "insert name day" kinds of events because I think they are silly. Recently though I saw a post from someone in our blind community no less, saying braille was useless and that blind children didn't need to learn it. Braille is not useless, or obsolete, in as much as print is. Would sighted folks give up reading and writing in exchange for talking computers? Because thats what people who don't support braille propose. (1/2)

Braille is literacy, it is freedom and independence and for Deafblind folks like me, braille is life. Braille is beautiful and as a Deafblind synesthete braille comes alive under my hands with colors, tastes, scents and textures. Braille allows me to have private independent access to everything from bank statement to shopping. Braille, Tactile ASL, and my service dogs are my links to the world and I am grateful that all of them exist. (2/2)

When I first lost my hearing, and was trying to get someone to teach me sign language, there were so many people who told me that I could never learn a visual language as a person blind from birth. I ignored them and advocated until I found a teacher. Now, every time I go to a Deaf event and can participate fully, in my community in my natural tactile language, I am reminded that the things people think are our greatest weakness, can be our greatest joy.

Well, it is about time! This company is a bunch of crooks who have engaged in shameful business practices and who have targeted blind and other disabled people when they spoke out about it. I hope they are forced to shut down FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines | Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-order-requires-online-marketer-pay-1-million-deceptive-claims-its-ai-product-could-make-websites

@Fragglemuppet Yup, I have and use portable note takers. The majority of working age folks who's only disability is blindness seem to prefer laptops or phones. For me because I need braille having a laptop is annoying and I hate it because it's so much crap taking up so much space. So a note taker is all in one and that works better for me.

Trying to find well informed and not hysterical information about the risks of bird flu for raw fed animals. Most articles I'm finding are from the usual suspects, aka from dog food makers and their veterinarian puppets who are paid by said pet food companies. Does anyone who feeds raw have any kind of information or research about best practices, risk mitigation etc? I feel like before I can make a choice I need access to solid science so would be interested in anything like this.

@madeindex That is my next thing. I haven't been able to use it because there has been braille display fuckery which I finally solved today.

@madeindex Only this one, I've had it for 3 years, I installed the new OS and it's moving kind of slow. So I've started thinking about replacing it in the next year but there is something up with the patent so the US retailers aren't allowed to seek the watches with the sensors any more.