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.
“In Brooklyn, when the sun goes down, pirate radio stations fire up their transmitters and take to the air, beaming transgressive, culture-bearing signals into Caribbean, Jewish and Latino neighborhoods. The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map is an archival home for the sounds of renegade community radio at a crucial turning point in its history.”
Hey London ppl: can you or do you know anyone who can help me get some estrogen and tblockers, just to last a week-month. I just moved here and signed up for a GP and should be registered Wednesday but I'm going to run out of both before then, and hopefully I can get a same day appointment but they are usually taking 3 weeks :o
Boosts and help very very appreciated.
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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