Holly @hollyamory@mastodon.social
Immigrant (Minnesotan in the UK). Bisexual. Partially sighted. Linguistics student. Also talk about space, cricket, baseball, social justice, dogs. She/her
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
--Terry Pratchett
I'm really happy to answer questions or sanity-check an image description for anybody who asks (time and energy permitting of course).
With of course the caveat that visual impairment covers a huge range of conditions as well as personalities; I can't speak for all of us!
There's a bit of an art to image description but it's really a skill that can be learned.
Of course my normally sighted friends could see things like facial expressions and tears but still, I'll take it (and at least they told me about these kinds of things afterward!).
#Hamilton was SO AMAZING! We sat in Row C so I could actually see things! Like, I could distinguish the actors! I felt like a normal person!
this smol cloud covered the sun as much as it could.
it's doing it's best!
Chilling and thinking about how today I was gently bisexual.
If you or someone you love lives in the US and needs help accessing government services, I just found the BEST WEBSITE
https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/
This site talks about how to get disability, food assistance, medical care, affordable housing, all sorts of programs you may or may not have heard of, and how to apply, and how to appeal, and how to everything! It's great!
I am listening to the Hamilton audiobook (coincidentally! It was just Audible's daily deal the other day) and I dozed off for a bit so when I woke up was confused about what'd happened to his dad and then I remembered "when he was ten his father split debt-ridden, full of it", so I'm all caught up now. :D
40°C heat index for today. I got the most northerly job I could find 'cause I hate hot weather. If I wanted heat, I would have applied in the deep South -- you know, places like Iowa.
Finally on a train.
Going to London to see #Hamilton tomorrow. :)
someone pointed out the other week that we are not below the stars but among them ... and it just hit me that even if I never leave Earth I'm technically already in space
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
good moon tonight
I don't know if it's just a Bad Eye Day or it's helped along by the smoke from the Saddleworth Moor fire (I suspect the first, since I sat in the actual outside for like 7 or 8 hours yesterday without even thinking about smoke), but my eyes are /not/ working today. Dammit. :(
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
--Terry Pratchett
good morning
"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...
The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297
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Will augmented reality let me see the fractal, paper-thin region of space where an automatic faucet senses my hands?
is this one of the greatest headlines about the current world cup or what
(translation:
dribbling the language - mexico fan uses "spanrussian" to break up a fight between russians: "tranquilovsky"
the newspaper "marca" published a video in which a mexican fan tries to put an end to a tumult. attempting [to communicate] in "spanrussian", he said: "tranquilovsky")
