Crimperman 🏳️‍🌈

Apropos of nothing more than I needed it today, I am reminding whoever else needs to hear it of one of my favourite #Welsh #proverbs

Deuparth gwaith yw ei ddechrau

Loosely translated into English it means

Two thirds of the work is starting it

#procrastination

[Edit: typo]

I suspect this guy from Norway is trying to invoke Harry Styles but he just looks like he's going salmon fishing #eurovision

TIL you are not allowed more than six people on stage during a #Eurovision performance. Feel free to count each act - just in case.

( Also, animals and children are banned )

Serbia singer is just off for a strepsil in the green room. #eurovision

This is like the start of camberwick green #Eurovision

I have voted twice. Okay not really but I voted once for me and once as proxy for someone.

The officials got most excited as they don't get many proxies. In fact when they produced "the proxy list", it had just the one name on it. 😂

#UKLocalElections

Want to know more about you can help those of us with CVD (1 in 12 born with XY, 1 in 200 born with XX =~ 300,000,000 people)

Take a look at my blog post on it
https://www.crimperman.org/creating/colourblind/

#1in12 #1in200 #colourblind #colorblind #colourVisionDeficiency

I've just moved instances so here's a quick #introduction
I am (in no partic. order) a Dad, husband, dog & cat owner, FOSS writer, user & advocate, feminist, LGBTQIA+ ally, author, creative, woodworker, upscaler, potential diabetic, colourblind #Iam1in12 and passionate about mental health.
I've been on the Internet since the mid 90s and writing for and enjoying computers since I got a ZX-80.
By nature l, an introvert, so even somewhere like this I listen + watch more than speak.

In addition to the #hnefatafl set I made (and tooted about yesterday) I also made a couple of stokcing-filler gifts for my wife and daughter.

They're page-keepers and bookmarks. You can read about them on my website
https://www.crimperman.org/building/bookmarks/

#WoodWorking #handmade

Over the last year I've tooted [1] a few times about a #woodworking project I've been making as a gift.
I've finally given it to them so I can say more. I will add it to https://crimperman.org/building in due course but here's a couple of photos of it.
It's a #Hnefatafl/Tawlbyrdd set, entirely #handmade, no power tools.
[1] e.g. https://fosstodon.org/@crimperman/113571027802992633
_edited to include the reference of my previous toot_

Slightly #nichetoot but R4's The News Quiz in just dire these days (since Zaltzman took over). It's just one big scripted unfunny predictable mess interspersed with stupid sound effects.

Sigh. At least Just a Minute is still good. Sue Perkins does a great job there.

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

This is my last one. I've had it rough but for kids today I think it's worse. Colour is used everywhere in teaching and the tech uses for it. Seems to be little thought given to including colourblind kids.
I've been posting this lot because, after 50 odd years I honestly think it should be better not worse.

I shouldn't be surprised given the way ppl with known disabilities are excluded but it still sucks.
#1in12 #1in200

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

Despite what I've been saying here, it's not too bad living with colour blindness. You get used to the fact that your eyes lie to you.

The problem is the recent proliferation of poor colour choices in websites, modern tech (is that router light flashing green or orange?). This excludes us.

If you want us in your audience, make the small effort for the big impact. (See my first post today)
#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

When I was tested and found to be colourblind my mum asked what it meant. The nurse said "oh not too much, he won't be able to do certain jobs, like being a pilot"

I had always wanted to fly helicopters and so this was devastating news for me. I found other great careers but I wish I'd been able to pilot helicopters.

Colourblind people are not allowed to do certain jobs: military, electrician, among others.
#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #colourblindawarenessday

I've had this since birth but I didn't know until I was tested aged around 8.

My mum thought I was mucking around during the test and kept telling me off. Eventually she was asked to step outside so they could test me properly.

#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I have deuteranomaly, commonly known as red/green colour vision deficiency. It's the most common form. I can see both colours but the red and green cones in my eyes are defective (to put it simply) and it means I mix those parts of colours up quite frequently.
#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I was playing snooker with a mate and had to pot the brown ball. As I bent down to play it merged into the cushion shadow behind it.
No matter what I did I couldn't see the ball.
I had to ask my opponent to hold his finger above the brown and trust that he kept it there.

#1in12

Stories about living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

Genetic/hereditary Colour blindness cannot be cured. Nope not even by those stupid sunglasses. They don't work and are a rip off.

#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I have often had to point out that I can't tell which line on a business chart is red, green ,blue, purple etc.

I have frequently been told I should ask the person next to me to point at it!
#1in12

Feel free to mute the hashtags if you are fed up with these Stories from living with #colourblindness for #colourblindawarenessday but do please try to be more inclusive to your colourblind colleagues and friends.

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

As a schoolboy I spent a lot of time in shops being told by my mum to put the navy or dark green trousers back because I needed black ones.

I still struggle with this and rely on my wife or children a lot.

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I can't remember the last time I ate a ripe banana. It's very hard for me to tell and bananas tend to go
Green
Less Green
Same Green
Brown
Black
#1in12

Stories of living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I once fainted in a meeting and fell off my chair because the person in front of me had a green t-shirt with red pinstripes.

My eyes couldn't focus on the lines and I got a kind of vertigo.

It was a bit like when someone says "don't look now..." I couldn't look away and paid for it.
#1in12

More facts
- 6th Sept is John Dalton's birthday. Apart from a founding leader in atomic theory he was #colourblind and the first to investigate it
- ambient colours make a difference

What can you do?
- give more thought to colour in your designs
- alt text your images (you should be doing this anyway)
- stop using colour as the sole indicator of something

#colourblindawarenessday

Today, 6th Sept is #ColourBlindAwarenessDay. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/about-us/campaigns/colour-blind-awareness-day/
Please Boost

Some facts:
- colourblind people can see colours, we just get them mixed up and inconsistently
- #1in12 people born with XY chromosomes have it
- #1in200 people born with XX chromosomes have it
- 300million people have it
- it's hereditary[1] and due to a defective X chromosome
- more in my blog post https://www.crimperman.org/creating/colourblind/

#colorblind #colourblind #Iam1in12
[1] v.rarely it's a side effect of another condition

I have colour vision deficiency, often mistakenly called colour blindness (I can see colours).

If you are like me you might struggle to see anything but dots here

For several years I've written help guides for employers and colleagues on including people like me but I've never written anything publicly.

Until now.
https://www.crimperman.org/creating/colourblind/

#colourblind #colorblind #colourvisiondeficiency #1in12 #1in200

Have to say I feel a lot less guilty about ranting about my computer headaches on here because I can use CW which means you only get to read it if you want to. #mastodonFTW