And by all means join the NRMA and learn to handle fireararms as well. Nothing makes politicians think like the gay pride marches including a bunch from the Rainbow NRMA group. Be Straight shooters in the aiming sense only. Straight supporters welcome.
In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…
And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…
Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.
He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.
It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.
If it's any help the Senior Australian of the year runs a group that makes children's wheelchairs for Overseas Kids. You can fet together and swap information, You are both doing g
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od in the wrold and surely have tips and 'work arounds".
Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool
i am going to eat my own entire skin
Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.
Definitey born last Century - doesn't that sound Weird. But anyone over 25 was. I am, however Old. I write cursive, and often have to resort to Printing out written recipes etc, because they can't read it.
please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts
Good news! At various points in your development, it is!
As you write, you level up in little ways. It's not like D&D where you get a level all at once. Oh, no. You get tiny improvements to your skill tree, and there will be points where your build is entirely unbalanced. As you adjust to these changes, you will naturally regress in some areas. This is just your mind and overall skill level getting ready for the final leveling, where you're briefly fully balanced again!
TL;DR: Regression is a natural part of improvement, and while it's frustrating as hell, if you keep going, you can write through it.
Also this.
Not good at writing, but most writers have really bad patches. Keeping at it and devoting a set time seems to help some. and there's the dreaded 'Writer's Block', which leaves those who write a set amount filling the page with random words. But Write. The World Needs people who can communicate and create new ideas or just entertain. Waiting for the next instalment or the next book has literally kept sucidal people alive and helped dig themselves out of the pit of misery.
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
Definitely over 3o.
Finished my latest sweater!!!
This is the Fitu sweater on Ravelry; I did some shenanigans with the colorwork to make it turn out right, plus very minor shaping in the body and another inch and a half of length on the sleeves. It fits like a glove and is so toasty warm— I love it!!!!
Beautiful and snuggle and enjoy it as the weather turns colder.
This is so good.
tl;dr: it's a software bug in the Amazon Prime player, yet unresolved.
Basically, CC can be turned on remotely by a show, even if you have Captions explicitly turned off. Some shows (the example cited here is The Boys) do that whenever a character uses ASL to sign important dialogue. The TV kicks into CC mode during the exchange.
But then seems to get stuck on the last line of dialogue, which (for The Boys) is often "I hate you". The remote signal to turn CC back off again then gets lost or ignored or.. something. Resulting in the I Hate You ghost text staying on your screen forever.
Anyway, that's the current theory. It does not, however, address other shows that are not The Boys, wherein there is no sign language subtitles, that have also triggered I Hate You ghost text.
Amazon says they're working on a fix.
So um, it's my birthday today, and I heard you can ask for reblogs on your bday 👀 so um if you'd like to support my work today, here's a nice compilation of some of my best art from the last year!
I'm starting full time freelancing as an artist this month, so any help with visibility would be much appreciated!!
Have a happy One.
please reblog this until i find my true love. i am so alone
Made it poly friendly
oh hell yeah even better
Made one for aromantic trans people 👍
reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺
Virtual Hug! Find something small and simple that lifts your heart, even a weed in flower is beautiful.
Tim Curry might be the epitome of "understands the assignment" and never gives less than 110% and damn I love him so much for that.
One of my favourite actors. Never given a bad performance.
After the occupation, the princess was confined to the palace.
Once a month she'd be taken on a walk around the city, heavily guarded of course, to show the people that she still lived. It also served, of course, as a reminder of what they stood to lose if they made trouble. The princess did her best go wave and smile and give the people what encouragement she could.
The rest of the time, her life was spent in musty rooms and dusty towers. She filled most of her time scouring the castle for materials which she would sew into more and more elaborate outfits, which she would show off on the days when she was allowed outside.
Indeed, the public loved their princess and her dresses so much they'd often sketch or paint them along the route and pass the images on so that all could see the princess at least was well.
This pleased the occupiers for two reasons. First: it kept the princess out of trouble. Second: it gave them a reason to sneer and they did love a good sneer.
"What a vain creature she is!" They would remark.
"Doesn't even care we murdered her brothers so long as she gets enough satin to make her little dresses!" They squawked.
This was unfair, of course, for to call her creations "little dresses" was to call Queen Murderfun the Needlessly Genocidal "a tad piquey". Her dresses were gravity-defying wonders lace and pearl. They were thunderstorms captured in velvet and waterfalls summoned in silk. She was a wizard with silk.
Still, she bore their mockery with a tight smile and careful deference.
"Please, good sirs, my home, my people and my city now belong to you. Let me keep, at least, this one last joy."
And they sneered and they crowed most unpleasantly, but they let her keep her sewing room.
Of course, they would have known their mockery to be doubly unfair had they realised the true purpose of the princess's elaborate designs. For hidden in the intricate embroiderings across her gowns, jackets and fans, the princess had encoded secret (and very detailed) messages. When she would go on her monthly walk, the city's loyalists would line the route, sketching down the patterns to decode later.
Thus did the princess transmit all the occupiers' secrets (unearthed while supposedly 'searching the castle for old fabrics') to the city and thus did she build her resistance.
On the day the revolution finally came, she girded herself in armour of thick spider silk and whale bone. She cut a fine figure with a lacy handkerchief in her top pocket and a razor sharp knitting needle keeping her hair up.
As she waltzed through the castle to open the door for her army, the Usurper King tried to stop her and she simply unfolded her handkerchief and showed it to him.
Upon seeing the impossible arcane pattern emblazoned across it, he fell to the floor with blood streaming from his eyes.
She always had been a wizard with silk.
Kudos!
Reblog if you think trans women:
A. Are women
B. Can be lesbians
C. Deserve love and respect
D. Also deserve hugs and fluffy animals
E. All of the above
Definitly.
tiktok is a cesspool in many ways but then sometimes you see one that really hits
“Why didn’t we ever learn about this in scho—”
WE DID. We did learn about it. If you were playing MASH in the back row everyday that’s on you.
This is true for like, 95% of all the things they do that with. "We never learned about this bad thing the US did" fucker, we spent two days on that specific atrocity. You had a test on it.
[captions]
first speaker: -is not entirely your fault, because in the us school system we learn maps like with with alaska being down here, but geographically al-
second speaker: no. no we're not doing this. if you thought alaska was an island that is your fault. that is not the map's fault, that is not your teacher's fault, that is your fault. we are not excusing this. what? huh? huh? you're giving the europeans ammo agains- what do you mean?? [mocking the first speaker in a higher voice] "it's not- no it makes sense that you though alaska was an island" [regular voice] no it doesn't! no it doesn't, don't excuse that! no, it doesn't.
Alaska came into USA hands when they brought it from Imperial Russia - and when the cold war hit were they Glad they did.
The Alution islands form a kind of bridge between the two continents and Once upon a time when things were much, much friendler there was talk of the trans Siberian Railway connecting with North Americaa via USA through Canada and back to the USA. Now That would have been one of the Great Railway Trips of all Time. Steam Buffs eat your Hearts out - it Never happened, Sigh!
If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.
Anyway, here's a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don't be shamed into not asking questions, and it's alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don't let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.
Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.
yeah okay ill reblog that :]
Analog clock knowledge essential if you teach spinning. Make sure the 'pitman) - connection between treadle and wheel is at the 'One o'clock' position and drop your treadle for an easy spin. to ply it's the 11 ''clock.
billford is real to me but if you think bill cipher feels anything akin to romantic or sexual attraction in the human sense you don't get it. there is something much more sinister and deeply confusing going on here
