Notices by Megan Lynch (she/her) (meganl@mas.to), page 2

Eulogize me while I'm here to enjoy it.

Brazilian? Just got here to Mastodon? Follow @liaamancio , who's been here a while and can show you around. #BemVindes #Brasil

BTW, I'm aware the #Paralympics posts are fraught. I myself mask everywhere outside the trailer I live in. I have had to give up important training and opportunities in grad school because I won't take the risk of being in unmasked crowds outside of critical things like getting groceries and unavoidable med bldg stuff.

I'm aware it can be painful to see society continue to pretend the pandemic was vanquished while COVID still spreads, and disabled/immunocompromised ppl are denied accessibility.

I hate it when they edit out other countries and tell the story only from the US POV.

But I post the links despite things being fraught and imperfect because the Paralympics is the highest profile disability event in the world.

I consider it a time to learn, a time to spread the message about ableism (including internalized ableism and lateral ableism).

So I feel it's still important to link to even though I have many critiques to make about the origin of the event, how it's run, etc.

I get it, because I have and still suffer mental and physical health effects of how the pandemic has been mishandled by an ableist, capitalist society.

I also know that I'm posting a lot of US stuff but that's because NBC has the rights here & Channel 4 UK, the Paralympic Games & other channels geo-block me from showing more. And even though the international aspect was what I always liked best about the Olympics (and now the Paralympics as well), US media always gets so parochial rah-rah.

This is the best I've seen in the US from a wheelchair user's POV. I think there are things it lacks, like changing places for more than just infants/toddlers, emergency cords, etc.

But excellent relative to what you see in the US, esp not rationing which stalls would have room. #Accessibility

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LEo8CbI9zV0

UC takes my name, takes UC Access Now's name off of work we've done, in order to act as if they just spontaneously thought to improve things.

Seems to be a similar thing here.

Global News "A local disability advocate has been pushing for a mat to be installed since 2021" but they don't name who it is.

Luckily, they are interviewed with a title underneath, but they really should have highlighted their work more.

#Ableism #Accessibility https://globalnews.ca/news/10727187/white-rock-pier-accessibility/

I once had an abled student who was one of the privileged few invited to plan a symposium tell me they hadn't made it accessible because "it's too expensive".

I asked them which planning meeting was the first meeting where they investigated costs for accessibility.

It turns out, of course, they hadn't investigated it or discussed it at all. It is something abled ppl are trained to do - think of it as "extra" cost and redirect that budget elsewhere. Like catered lunches at the symposium.

Another similarity to UC is that they do it as a donation thing. The presumably abled councillor said "money's always tight", but it wasn't too tight to make a pier that abled people could walk on, was it?

Disabled ppl are members of the public and constantly excluding us from decisionmaking, planning, and design creates results like these.

Anyone have suggestions for a non-Amazon, non-Walmart, non-big box place to get an 10 - 12 foot extension cord (not a surge protector, but old school extension cord with 3 grounded plugs)? I don't like the woven cord ones nor the day-glo ones Target is carrying right now.

I'm just trying to avoid the worst of the big corps...

Inaccessible websites.

Ads that pop *over* the actual news.

Loads of invasive tracking.

Selling your data without your informed consent.

TOS including forced arbitration clauses.

Jesus, why ISN'T print newsmedia selling better. Hopefully The Onion is leading the way. #Newstodon #Journalism

@ascentale @ai6yr @Brownian_motion A8. I don't name gears (if they even have names). I just do it by feel and would pass the same thing on to anyone I'm teaching.

I would add that some combinations put more strain on the chain because the chain is going more diagonal from front to back, but you can tell by feel what you need to do.

This goes for friction shifting. I can't really comment on latter-day shifting tech. #BikeNite @bikenite

No plant tag nearby so I don't know for sure, but it seems to be Oenothera hartwegii

At UC Davis Arboretum yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

Yesterday, cops put up "No Trespassing" signs and rousted out unhoused folks' tents from around the edge of the Arboretum.

Today the surveillance cams trained on the administration building that were put up just earlier this year were switched out for presumably even more powerful equipment.

UC President Drake issued the anti-protest, anti-tent, anti-mask edicts on Monday. They're moving fast.

UC Davis has no school of journalism so student press isn't likely to cover this.

For folks who are pro-parklet but don't speak up when it's implemented in a way that annexes public space for private business, this is what happens.

I hope City of Davis gets sued to kingdom come by wheelchair users. The space has already been made even less accessible to give this gift to the Chamber of Commerce types, this is bound to make it worse.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/city-provides-g-street-project-clarifications/article_078b16d4-5bef-11ef-9e50-cbca00a9d152.html #Urbanism #Ableism #Capitalism #CarCentrism

"City Guidelines" will remain ableist and capitalist because that's who runs City of Davis.

I can't even ride my quad down these blocks most days so banning cars (nominally...they actually just park across the bollards blocking it all) is of no improvement to cyclists. And the bars have cluttered up the street with their cornhole games while simultaneously ripping down the shitty one-way aluminum ramps they put in for nominal wheelchair accessibility.

#Ableism #Capitalism #CarCentrism

Campground was free when it was managed by USFS, but charges $22/night now that it's managed by a concessionaire's seasonal hirelings.

And sadly, the hirelings are the ones who get abused about the fees.

The campers are lucky to have this guy as a host because he seems to be very upright and hardworking for a low wage and low support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43te3ToVaDo

God, it pisses me off how GOP neoliberalization reduced good unionized public jobs and made everything a profit opportunity for a private sector corp that doesn't give a shit about their employees nor the public.

Listening to someone describe a camp host job that *should* be a USFS job, in my opinion.

Getting it in Google Scholar would also help fight against the ways that UC has tried to cherry pick ideas from it, but bury the credit. It's in UC's interest to bury the work of student-led activism. #UCAccessNow
#Ableism

If there are any librarians (or people working at Google Scholar or both) who would be willing to help me figure out how to get the UC Access Now Demandifesto listed, I’d love your help. The Demandifesto has been cited in a couple articles, a disssertation, and a book, but since it doesn’t appear on Google Scholar directly, I cannot link it to my profile.

#UCAccessNow #Ableism