Notices by Harp :wigglytuff: (wigglytuffitout@elekk.xyz)

hey y'all, please spread this around for folks who are in #california especially, and immigrants doubly so - https://ktla.com/news/local-news/hotline-helps-immigrants-move-hearings-online-to-avoid-arrest-at-court/

excerpt from the article -

Olu Orange, assistant professor of political science and international relations and founder of the USC Dornsife Agents of Change: Civil Rights Advocacy Initiative, files motions to have court hearings moved online, which prevents defendants from being seized by federal agents when they show up for court in person.

Calls to AoC’s hotline — 888-462-5211 — are answered by about 15 volunteers who help the defendants fill out the necessary paperwork to request to move their hearing online. Help is available for both English and Spanish speakers.

if you're familiar enough with the system and have legal training in other states, following this example might be well worth looking into!

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hey y'all

does anyone have resources for how to attend protests safely if disabled + dependent on medication?

i know on some level the answer is "harp, you are not cleared for front line duty for reasons", which is both true and also a luxury we might not be able to hold onto for much longer.

resources about what to bring in a medical kit also gratefully received. i may not be able to get to the level of field medic that riot medicine hopes but i do have a boondoggle of an idea of how to carry supplies in my sign. i have a good mental checklist of things i want to bring, from medical supplies (glucose tablets, saline mix packets, electrolyte drink tablets, alcohol swabs, bandaids and plain gauze squares + coban self-adhesive wraps with bandage scissors, nonlatex gloves, extra paper face masks) to things that aren't quite first aid but are nonetheless very useful (pads + tampons, sunscreen, bug repellant wipes, sample single-serving packets of lip balm bc yeah they make those and that's probably the easiest way to just. hand a stranger some lip balm lol, yeah i know i am ending up with a lot of single-serving plastic-wrapped products that i know can be seen as wasteful but sometimes those single-serving plastic-wrapped containers are pretty useful in certain situations)

i may not be able to be immediately useful as a proper field medic - having a very fuckin bad shoulder is limiting in certain ways, and i'm planning to straight-up wear my post-surgical brace primarily as a reminder to me to not fuck myself over - but i am willing to put some time and investment into being a useful resource for those field medics and for others at the protest. so if you've got resources in that direction, especially lists of "obscure things you might not think of but you'll be at the march going Oh But For Want Of A Nail about it later", please toss 'em at me!

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@gutocarvalho thank you for this informative rundown of the situation!!

honestly, i only have one question - and yes, this is me absolutely being the person in the audience after a talk who is asking a question mainly so the speaker can continue speaking LOL - what should the average person on the fediverse do to help make this place more welcoming for Brazilians? is there anything specific that we should be doing? even and especially if we only know english? is there any cultural trip-ups we should be on the lookout for, or is it just a good idea to generally extend grace and understanding as we welcome new friends?

how can we here on the fediverse be the most helpful to brazilians coming to join us?

(make your own joke here about how i am being very silly because my first thought was "oh, new neighbors! i should go bake a pie! wait this is online..." 😂 it can go next to the jokes about how i am silly for only knowing english, because i took latin as my second language in school and wouldn't you know it, there aren't very many ancient romans around here LOL)

i'm just going to point to this meme and like 90% of y'all

tho soulsborne games are not my thing, i appreciate elden ring for a few things

among them is

1. there is an official manga

2. the official manga is there to be fucking stupid. no lore. no character story. no even summary of what happens in the game really. it's STUPID. it's fucky-wucky times for silly little lads and not just leans on the fourth wall but makes a little squeaky hammer out of it. it's a manga about a very hard video game that knows it's that and there to make you laugh about playing a very hard video game.

it is akin to how, despite never playing dark souls and probably never wanting to play dark souls, i still every so often have to cackle in amusement when i rewatch Happy Souls. the woohoo!!! yeaaaaaah!!!! of having lightning magic lives in my head rent-free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr7KDCsIws

hi everybody it's me, the resident horse girl and token Christian, here to wish you a

here's a subtitles thing that i wish would stop happening:

[ speaks French ]

I KNOW POIROT SPEAKS FRENCH, MOTHERFUCKER. THAT'S WHY I WANT YOU TO CAPTION IT

i will also say here's a transcription and subtitles thing that really does need to stop happening, and it grinds my gears despite the fact that i am in no way hoh/deaf:

hey if you let the computer auto-transcribe or auto-subtitles

for the love of all things good on god's green earth

just

fucking

make a real human being

look at the results

with real human eyeballs

and fucking edit it.

special shoutout here goes to the slate.com transcripts for their advice column transcripts. they're so proud of how accessible things are because they made the computer transcribe it! and then, i shit you not, the computer immediately gets the name of one of the podcast hosts wrong, usually in the introduction, and will proceed to get it wrong in new and interesting ways for the rest of the transcription. along with things like the computer being very bad at distinguishing voices conclusively and deciding to err on the side of "too many speakers" than "combining speakers". so you get the podcast hosts as speakers numbers one through fucking nineteen.

it would take a fucking intern maybe all of thirty minutes to simply edit this, and that's being extremely generous in the time limit. for a lot of it they wouldn't even have to listen to the podcast. you just literally need a human brain and human intelligence going "wait a second, the host of this show is named Jenee, not Jenny, not Genie, not Jeanie..." and fucking caring about it.

anyway slate doesn't put comment sections on those podcast episodes probably to keep me from doing exactly fucking this in them because although i do not wish to do free work for the company, their transcript is worse than useless as an accessibility feature. it is the equivalent of saying "of course we have a wheelchair ramp!" and then the wheelchair ramp is rotten wood that will plunge you down into the sewers when it breaks, but the company wants to stand there with their accessibility rewards and be proud of it anyway.

@Hamasuta

@Hamasuta i can't believe bob the tomato has been closeted this whole time

@silverwizard @DissonantEevee @aradinfinity here y'all all go, specific reciepts as mentioned https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109434660872746471

there's a scattering more in the archived email list wherein dude got so bigmad that he wrote a long blog post calling eugen a nazi https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/arc/mastodon-admin/2022-11/msg00020.html

lol, and, dare we even say, lmao. really underscores the fact that between the using-kiwifarms-scraper-to-email-admins-whining-about-being-defederated and this, qoto's beloved "free speech" actually means "you have to give me buttpats and validation all the time and if you don't i will sue you"

while i know those words are going to be largely wasted, i admit i hadn't figured out the funniest part of qoto's admin being pathetic:

bringing in lawyers when eugen removed qoto from 'recommended instances'