I'm a disabled non-traditional (i.e. I'm about 30 years older than my peers in grad school) Masters student. My experience falling further into disability poverty, but also being exposed to what elite capture has done to the University of California has pushed me even further left than I was.
03:23 PM - Feb 12, 2023
Went to the Wolfskill mulberry tasting today. Couldn't do any tasting because that would have req'd me putting fruit in baggies, labeling, and eating away from unmasked ppl. Just had some nice convos, took photos...
04:55 PM - Jun 04, 2023
For wholesome viewing, you can watch the Tram-EU championships livecasting from Oradea, Romania right now. Tram/trolley drivers from all over Europe compete in feats of skill and safety in tram conducting.
The 10th European Tramdriver Championship - YouTube
Discover all 50 runs and the best moments of the 10th TRAM-EM European Tramdriver Championship on June 3, 2023 in Oradea, Romania. Twenty-five teams from nin...
04:44 AM - Jun 03, 2023
"Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: Cultivating Accessible Educational Pathways and Spaces" Free, ASL & CART captioning provided. I'll be a panelist on the 15th. https://www.nationalacadem...
04:43 PM - Jun 02, 2023
A nice reflection on how sometimes online diasporas are about generational divides rather than political ones.
04:03 PM - May 31, 2023
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting "Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: A National Leadership Summit". I was involved at a very early stage of planning and will be on a panel on the 4th day. Registration is free, first day is hybrid, all others online.
06:17 PM - May 19, 2023
Californians who value sustainability, accessibility, and equity, take action.
https://www.calbike.org/in...
https://www.calbike.org/in...
07:41 PM - May 17, 2023
Sadly predictable, but the rehabilitation of fascists has been happening in Spain as well.
eldiario.es
Ola reaccionaria en las aulas: “Cada día oigo más ‘Viva Franco’ y ‘Arriba España'”
El discurso ultra que ha penetrado con fuerza en la sociedad también ha permeado en los institutos, y varios docentes relatan cómo postulados franquistas, antifeministas y homófobos, que empezaron “siendo residuales”, se han ido extendiendo
08:18 PM - May 16, 2023
4 Threaded Spouts
I have to admit I'm struggling because when folks leave Twitter, they're going to many different places. Disability Twitter, Science Twitter...these communities are fracturing.
And I don't have a good in-person support network to pick up the slack, esp during pandemic.
And I don't have a good in-person support network to pick up the slack, esp during pandemic.
01:05 AM - May 16, 2023
I have to admit I'm struggling because when folks leave Twitter, they're going to many different places. Disability Twitter, Science Twitter...these communities are fracturing.
And I don't have a good in-person support network to pick up the slack, esp during pandemic.
And I don't have a good in-person support network to pick up the slack, esp during pandemic.
01:04 AM - May 16, 2023
After its recommendation by Dr. John Merriman, I'm reading "The Nazi seizure of power : the experience of a single German town, 1922-1945" by William Sheridan Allen a little at a time. https://archive.org/detail...
05:25 PM - May 14, 2023
Layia platyglossa and Gilia tricolor in an area adjacent to the UC Davis Arboretum.
05:20 PM - May 14, 2023
10:11 PM - May 10, 2023
For all the convenience online order offers (esp during pandemic), I've experienced SO MUCH crookedness in shipping (including in DeJoy's USPS) that I long for stores I can walk in, get my hands on the item, and walk out after paying. No crooked theft rings and corporations with no accountability.
02:42 PM - May 10, 2023
An accessibility request I'd like to make is having the ability to make it so that animated GIFs don't auto-play and to have the ability to stop them once started. It can be really distracting without this. #a11y
01:07 AM - May 10, 2023
@Spoutible To whom should I address #accessibility problems encountered on Spoutible? Should I use a specific tag?
#SpoutingWhileBlind #BlindSpouts #a11y
#SpoutingWhileBlind #BlindSpouts #a11y
09:10 PM - Apr 29, 2023
So imagine you get paid pretty well, but for only 12 weeks a year. And that “pretty well” is 50% what you worked for 5 years ago. And you can’t get job in the other 40 weeks, because the 12 week job has rights to your services…without paying you more.
This is why we strike.
This is why we strike.
05:00 PM - May 09, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Through UC Access Now and other venues, I've done a lot of work trying to raise consciousness and dismantle ableism within the University of California. But UC isn't the only ableist university in CA.... https://lostcoastoutpost.c...
03:47 PM - May 09, 2023
Throwback to when The Daily Show writers did their own program from the WGA picket lines in 2007. If anyone knows of anyone making media like this for this current strike, please let me know.
Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer - YouTube
What do the writers of the Daily Show think of the ongoing writers' strike? If only there were some way to find out like, I don't know... clicking on the ima...
12:21 AM - May 08, 2023
After not being able to get out on the cargo quadricycle for months due to failed batteries, I finally got out for a run to the UC Davis campus today. Got to get the last of the good weather before Davis bcomes a furnace.
05:04 PM - May 07, 2023
This cultivar of Foothill penstemon (Penstemon heterophyllus) has the most gorgeous electric color shift between royal blue and reddish-purple. (As seen at UC Davis Arboretum.)
11:14 AM - May 07, 2023
Which delivery service works best for you (in your experience receiving packages)? Which loses your packages least?
20 votes
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11:03 AM - May 07, 2023
I've been busy as a 7-tailed dog chasing itself. So I haven't had as much time to devote to trying to kickstart my presence and get acclimated to new social media communities. But I'm still here. #Spoutible
02:07 AM - Apr 15, 2023
Probably because most of us are far removed from the production of our food, there's a way that naming what we're really making makes it sound like a witch's potion.
Infusion of roasted seed of Coffea arabica, bark of Cinnamomum verum, an emulsion of cow's milk with cow's cream and voilà!
Infusion of roasted seed of Coffea arabica, bark of Cinnamomum verum, an emulsion of cow's milk with cow's cream and voilà!
09:16 PM - Feb 18, 2023
Shallow depth of field with the hand lens on the iPhone lens makes it challenging to get all the features I want in focus.
I continue to take daily photos of almond vegetative buds starting to leaf out. #botany
I continue to take daily photos of almond vegetative buds starting to leaf out. #botany
09:14 PM - Feb 18, 2023
stanforddaily.com
Review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s research, colleagues allege
His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in 2011 discovered the paper had been based on fabricated research — and that Marc Tessier-Lavigne kept the results..
02:20 PM - Feb 18, 2023
Public universities are playing a shell game & media keeps falling for it. WHY aren't public universities highest common denominator accessible BY DEFAULT? https://www.phillyvoice.co...
#AcademicAbleism #highered #Disabilit
#AcademicAbleism #highered #Disabilit
01:57 PM - Feb 18, 2023
Me to auto-focus: I want a photo of that hummingbird. They so seldom perch!
Auto-focus: Here, have a photo of those rarely stationary almond branches. #WorstBirdPic
Auto-focus: Here, have a photo of those rarely stationary almond branches. #WorstBirdPic
06:11 PM - Feb 15, 2023
Leaf bud emergence on the "sprawlmonds" growing potted outside my trailer.
I took photos in the field as well, but these plants are so small it's much easier for me to get the right angle on things.
I took photos in the field as well, but these plants are so small it's much easier for me to get the right angle on things.
08:30 PM - Feb 13, 2023
