It’s my birthday today, and the start of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month in the States. Please do something nice for me by supporting people in your communities, uplifting Disabled voices, and enjoying some local theatre. Whatever you do, remember that you must be Aware of me. Thank you.

i know i'm hardly on here, but i just want to say that I will probably be even more Not On Here for the foreseeable future. health problems suck; having a body is a scam. happy holidays, take care of each other, make your things accessible, and come get me when i can be a jellyfish or something

Someone asked me if I've ever used ChatGPT to write, so I wrote some prose about it. Content warning: discussion of death, suicide. www.ejmason.com/writing/mean...

Free horror film idea: A developer named Fred, who may or may not also be a murderer, meets his greatest opponent yet: wrangling thousands of lines of API data on a tight deadline. Freddy vs. JSON

hey. chronic illness and chronic pain <expletive> suck. shout out to all my chronically ill baddies. we are here. we are (possibly) queer. our joint pain is moderate to severe.

To be clear: Use this directory! bsky.app/profile/typo... #typography

Typofonderie: fonts & typography@typofonderie.com · last yr.

A lot of fonts for every taste. Perfect to support your local type designers. 🔤 typefoundry.directory

Today is a great day to unionize

Two 100% unrelated things for your consideration: - People keep telling me that so-called AI will help us make the web accessible. - We once had "ugly laws" in the U.S. because non-Disabled people couldn't bear to look at or speak to or even think about the Disabled people in their communities.

Been thinking about this poem by Maggie Smith lately. "This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful."

I held an accessibility office hours session at work today. Someone told me that they always enjoy attending these sessions when they can because they “always learn something” It’s nice to be appreciated, and to know that people respond to my teaching style, as much as I can be said to have one.

is anybody in my network hiring entry-level and/or apprentice engineers? i've got a friend looking for work, and they would be so good on your team. yes, yours.

time once again for my favorite song: "hey, web accessibility professional, how do we build [this thing] accessibly?" "thanks for asking! here are my suggestions" "cool! we will not be doing that because it's slightly different than our original plans. bye now!"

Today is both my birthday and the first day of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Please observe this month by remaining Aware of Me at all times, thank you. I'm gonna talk about my own experience with cerebral palsy in this thread, so read on if you care to. 1/?

Please remember that ableism isn't just foul language, as bad as that is. It's hatred for Disabled people. It's the belief that, if a person's body isn't "typical" and "correct", they do not deserve to be cared for – do not deserve to be alive. It is violent. Respond to it accordingly.

Hey, Internet, I have a problem I am hoping you can help me solve. I want to share drafts of my writing with others - without the finality of publishing it on my website, - outside of a git-based system if possible†, and - while writing in markdown and retaining ownership of my content 1/2

I’m going to use a napkin to touch your hand when I say this: putting people in starter packs without their permission can cause harm. Collecting minoritized people in one list could enable targeted actions against them. You could list a person beside someone who’s done them direct harm. 1/3

part of the growing pains of every community, social media, etc is "what do we do with people who are pretending to be kind, saying the right things, and technically not doing anything wrong right now but are still ontologically evil" and the answer is "stop playing their game and ban them"

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 2y ago

to anyone complaining Singal didn’t technically do anything wrong on bluesky yet: Jesse Singal has a long history of attacking children, pediatricians, & healthcare providers. Example: He once disappeared from Twitter for a couple weeks after “accidentally” leaking a minor’s medical records.

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

hello. i am (very) slowly rebuilding my web site. it even has an RSS feed you can subscribe to, if you like gay fiction writing and soon maybe even technical writing about web development www.ejmason.com

Me, writing the CSS `grid-template-columns: 1fr`: “One for real, please”

[takes the world's longest drag from a prop cigarette] i am so tired

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 2y ago

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

and look how much of this covert racism llms encode www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 2y ago

Imperialism, mass incarceration, and genocide are much easier to understand once you realize that words like "civilized," "western," "hard working," and "unintentional" mean "white" and words like "terrorist," "thug," "uncivilized," "undemocratic," and "lazy" mean "not white."

can we talk about how Circe is a grown woman but she is still so small

I literally just joined this butterfly web site and already I am seeing people talk about being "temporarily non-disabled". No you are not. If you care about the experiences of Disabled people, then advocate for them. You don't need to crush disability into a marketable soundbite to do that.

I feel like making my first post about ableism would be too on brand, so here is a buffer post that is not about ableism and is instead a tribute to what that other might have been