i have a job interview in 2 minutes i’m gonna cry

this is what i saw immediately after leaving the interview. do you guys think it’s a good omen

this was in times square, for more context.

and you can’t see from that angle, but here’s the back. immediately underneath this giant ad is a military recruiting station

im crazy

People are trying to bring back 1880s-era anti-ASL sentiment. Worst timeline.

You'd be surprised how often I'm told there is no interpreter at an event, there are no captions at an event, and they act like I'm asking for something absurd.

This isn't a performative dance routine interpreting what is going on.

But hey, deafies, we're woke now because we require interpreters.

This is all absolutely true. Also, to add, many deaf people receive a much worse education because the schools are unwilling/unable to invest in proper education for deaf people. So there are deaf people out there who struggle to read English because the structure of English is completely different than the structure of Sign Languages.

Also, Sign Language is NOT international. Signing in London is different that Ireland, or Paris, Toronto, Mexico, New Zealand, India-- some of the signing may be similar or even related but they are all different languages. So if you see several interpreters at an event or a news broadcast or en EU summit, and they are doing different signs, this is why.

And for the idiots who still don't comprehend that for many people English is a second language, even signers who were born in an English speaking country-- and still argue 'you get captions what's the problem' - Have you ever watched the auto-craptions on the news or a live event, or even a film on Amazon that they couldn't bother to get a human to properly provide subs? Yeah. A good percentage of the time, it's just word salad that means absolutely nothing. You're likely to just get a pile of words that may or may not have to do with anything going on in what you are trying to watch.

Some time, put on the news with no captions or sound. Put on a film or show you have never seen before, and try to lipread what is being said. Try to figure out what the plot or context is from just the actor's faces. Just try to engage when the only queues you have are facial expressions and movement on the screen-- if you can even see them talk at all, a lot of films and shows are shot over a shoulder with the back of someone's head.

Wear ear-plugs when you are out having a coffee with a friend and try to figure out what your friend is even saying. No music, no nothing-- just earplugs and trying to figure it out.

Do all of this for a week and then tell me that craptions are enough. Then tell me we don't need interpreters. After two days, you're going to be angry and frustrated because you don't know what the fuck is going on.

Interpreters do more than just tell you the exact words. They INTERPRET English language and put it into sign. They aren't just randomly throwing around their hands and looking silly. And they do it on the fly, live, as something is going. A good majority of the times, Interpreters have no idea what is going to be said. In those moments they are hearing something in English (or French, Spanish, what have you), figuring out what the best way to sign these words back to a sign-user base, and they have to do it all in seconds. It's a LOT of work.

So if you are at an event or you see two or even more signers who keep switching off after half an hour or an hour, know that the money is NOT being wasted having multiple interpreters there. They are not being lazy. They are doing a whole helluva lot, and their brains and hands and faces occasionally need a break.

So if you are hiring interpreters for an event, don't be surprised if they say you'll need to pay more to have several interpreters there. The interpreters are incredibly skilled, and they work bloody hard. If they tell you they need more than one, don't have a fit at them and try to talk them into just having one interpreter, thinking you can pay less. Understand that they work their arses off, and it's a very intense job that requires a lot of brain power and body power. So please, PLEASE be kind to interpreters.

And for chrissake, STOP DOING THIS. STOP DOING THIS. STOP FUCKING DOING THIS.

just wanna let you guys know whats been going on on twitter

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me burning the candle at both ends: oobh i got plany off wick

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

THEY’RE ING THE CAT!!!!!

*INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY SCREAMING*

Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

can't keep that in the tags

[image id: a screenshot of tags from horodragon which read “#this is actually an extremely important thing to keep in mind in regards to being anti-death penalty and pro-prison reform #just because i personally think youre the scum of the earth doesnt mean my political stances suddenly shouldnt apply to you” /end id]

Begging and pleading on my hands and knees for addicts to be included in your disability advocacy. Let me tell y'all a story about a woman I once knew.

She had faced a lifetime of trauma by the time she was 25 or 26, and despite spending her early 20s addicted to meth, she managed to get clean to take care of her physically disabled mother full time. When her mother passed away, she turned to drinking, unsure of how else to cope with the loss.

Within 10 years, she had become so chemically dependent on alcohol that detoxing, even under medical supervision, caused delirium tremens- an often fatal form of alcohol withdrawal. In June of 2021, she was in the ICU in critical condition because she tried to quit drinking. She survived, but she was warned that, should she drink again, the delirium tremens would cause her organs to fail and she would die.

She managed to stay sober for about a month before falling back into her old habits. In September of 2021, she attempted to get sober again, and within two weeks, she was dead.

This woman was my Mama. She was 38 when she died. During the week she was in hospice and in the months following her passing, my family and I had several discussions about what held her back from staying sober even when her life was at risk. We feel it was a combination of lack of adequate healthcare (both mental and physical, as she drank to self-medicate her mental illness as well as to numb her physical chronic pain), and so many layers of shame and stigma.

Had my mother had access to regular therapy appointments and medication management, as well as physical healthcare providers that took her pain seriously, she likely would have stayed sober. In fact, the times throughout my life where she was able to remain clean and sober for years at a time were when we lived in states with Medicaid expansion, guaranteeing her access to the healthcare she so desperately needed.

To those who only knew of my Mama's addictions, she was no more than an addict. Anyone who knew her clean and sober, though, knew how important she was. Notably, she often acted as a mother figure for my queer and trans friends who did not have supportive parents, going as far as to work multiple 12-14 hour days in a row, fighting through her pain, just to make sure kids who weren't hers would have their needs met. Now that all of those kids are adults, myself included, we would give anything to have our Mama back.

Demanding that disabled people, including addicts, have access to healthcare and other supports they need is the closest thing we can do to bringing her back. I will not shut up until people like my Mama stop fucking dying.

guys..... I'm re-entering my klance era...... and I redrew this old comic to start us off <3

more thoughts under the cut ⬇️

Rick Astley's father Ossie Astley celebrating "Never Gonna Give You Up" making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.

libsoftiktok going after a beloved inventor furry for some reason

if you're wearing a fitbit, you're using spottacus's technology. be grateful.

oh boy

This guy seems extremely fucking based

so it takes "inventing the technology behind FitBit" money to own that many fursuits.

This takes my “make yourself indispensable and you can wear anything you want to work” to a whole new level.

tumblr where are they

F is for (The) Fool