There are no leaf blowers allowed in #spoonieTown instead we sit in Adirondack chairs in the shade and watch the scythers silently scythe the lawn.
Job posting: scythers wanted. Outdoor work on sunny days, must have good swing.
health update, transplantation, very positive
@joepie91 Drains are super annoying, congratulations on being free of it ^_^
urinary health, schools, genital ment
@joepie91 and there's also a fun patriarchal dimension of this issue affecting the part of the population that doesn't have a penis even more.
urinary health, schools
@joepie91 But seriously, it's a power trip. There is literally no reason to force kids to hold it. "You will miss part of the class" Oh please, do you really think that a child that desperately needs to pee will be able to concentrate on whatever you are teaching? If you are so concerned, put the class on hold and do a short quiz of something.
I really wonder how is this not classified as child abuse.
Gotta say - it’s hard to remember this, but it’s a good goal to keep in mind https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/113851362173573416
urinary health, schools
It occurs to me that I and many many others grew up being told in school to "try to hold it in until after class" when we needed to take a piss, and yet every single medical professional I've spoken to in this kidney transplantation process has told me that doing so is bad for your kidneys, even for healthy people.
Same story for toilets in public spaces. Often simply not available (whether non-existent or too expensive or too dirty) and the response to criticism about this is to "just hold it in until you get home".
Why exactly are we teaching people to "hold it in" if we *know* that doing so is bad for you?
on Americaposting, @ fellow non-Americans
also, while I'm at it, dear fellow non-Americans:
I understand that you, too, are full of dread, but please evaluate earnestly for yourselves what you actually get out of constantly engaging with American politics and posting through it on here
is doing so actually something that benefits you? is getting constant live updates on this stuff healthy for you?
request for cwing, my personal view of constantly reading about America
it doesn't make me a better artist or friend, I don't learn anything new, and I can't do anything about or with the things I do learn
reading about America, its politics, its worst people, all it does is fill me with dread, and for what? to what benefit?
please cw your Americaposting
For the #StarTrek fans, particularly those who listen to shows from the Roddenberry Podcast Network. I'm curious who would be interested in a podcast called Trek After Dark, where a cohost and me explore Star Trek from the perspective of a blind person and piece together episodes without visuals. Occasionally discuss what the episode does or says about disability/neurodivergence/other small communities when relevant? I'm still nailing things down but that's a rough idea and I'm trying to gage interest.
I'm also looking for RPN's contact info in the hopes that maybe I can discuss this with them.
#Disability #Neurodivergent #Podcast
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
I'm attending Arisia science-fiction convention this weekend. THEY HAVE A MASK MANDATE. And it has completely reversed the usual ratio: 95% of people masking, majority N95 or KN95, only about 5% of people maskless.
It's so pleasant and relaxing to see most people masked again.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.