#ableism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ableism, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116636199285272924
Still fully needed
Anything helps truly. Ill have to start June fundraising soon#mutualaid #ableism #disabled #sick #poverty #hungry #helpneeded #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #support #kofi #food
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116636199285272924
Still fully needed
Anything helps truly. Ill have to start June fundraising soon#mutualaid #ableism #disabled #sick #poverty #hungry #helpneeded #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #support #kofi #food
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116636199285272924
Still fully needed
Anything helps truly. Ill have to start June fundraising soon#mutualaid #ableism #disabled #sick #poverty #hungry #helpneeded #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #support #kofi #food
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116636199285272924
Still fully needed
Anything helps truly. Ill have to start June fundraising soon#mutualaid #ableism #disabled #sick #poverty #hungry #helpneeded #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #support #kofi #food
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116636199285272924
Still fully needed
Anything helps truly. Ill have to start June fundraising soon#mutualaid #ableism #disabled #sick #poverty #hungry #helpneeded #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #support #kofi #food
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Just devoured Ashley Shew's outstanding Against Technoableism. It will change the way you see the world.
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New low in closed captioning ableism/audism...
Those familiar with this season will know the captions should have said Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani.
Oh, well, hard to tell those brown comedians apart, I guess. /sarcasm
(The captions are craptions from YouTube. Taskmaster is licensed in several countries. They have enough money to upload with human captioning.)
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💥 Menschenrechte stehen nicht unter Haushaltsvorbehalt! 💥
Wenn eine Stadtverwaltung eine erfolgreiche Sportlerin mit Behinderung von der Bühne aussperrt, weil 1.200 Euro für eine mobile Rampe angeblich zu teuer sind, ist das kein finanzielles Problem. Es ist struktureller Ableismus.⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9BhfnNMf4
#Barrierefreiheit #Ableismus #Ableism #Palmer #Tübingen #DisabilityStudies #NotAboutUsWithoutUs #Inklusion #Teilhabe #Augenhöhe #Behinderung #Grundgesetz #Menschenrechte #kommunalpolitik
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In my opinion, capitalism is subtle povertyism and ableism.
#capitalism #humanrights #disability #ableism #poverty #justice #accountability #society #politics #economics #awareness #truth #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #reform #inequality #oppression #solidarity #dignity #rights
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In my opinion, capitalism is subtle povertyism and ableism.
#capitalism #humanrights #disability #ableism #poverty #justice #accountability #society #politics #economics #awareness #truth #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #reform #inequality #oppression #solidarity #dignity #rights
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In my opinion, capitalism is subtle povertyism and ableism.
#capitalism #humanrights #disability #ableism #poverty #justice #accountability #society #politics #economics #awareness #truth #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #reform #inequality #oppression #solidarity #dignity #rights
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In my opinion, capitalism is subtle povertyism and ableism.
#capitalism #humanrights #disability #ableism #poverty #justice #accountability #society #politics #economics #awareness #truth #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #reform #inequality #oppression #solidarity #dignity #rights
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In my opinion, capitalism is subtle povertyism and ableism.
#capitalism #humanrights #disability #ableism #poverty #justice #accountability #society #politics #economics #awareness #truth #neurodivergent #mentalhealth #reform #inequality #oppression #solidarity #dignity #rights
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It's a measure of ableism that I'm pretty sure this audio description was put here as a "joke". (You know...like saying "this is my emotional support beer" is a joke ableist folks make.)
The reality is that public access should mean access...which means there should be a second channel where audio description of the broadcast is the norm. For all broadcasting hours.
https://youtu.be/7DlF5Cf4VLM?si=kvqP2jE1ga9bOefF&t=2483 #Ableism #Accessibility
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@vicfroh No Alt-Text no boost. I want more people to see this, but not at the cost of people with low vision being left behind. They are just as much a part of revolution as the rest of us and we need to think about their needs to construct a better society
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Companies referring to people as “Lower value human capital”
Welcome to end stage capitalism
Add this term to others such as “economically inactive” & “useless eaters”
The disabled, homeless, elderly and children fall in these categories too
Worth must never be measured by productivity.
https://news.sky.com/story/standard-chartered-to-replace-lower-value-human-capital-with-ai-13545809
#fuckai #capitalism #patriarchy #ableism #eugenics #disability
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Heads up, disabled UC Irvine Anteaters.
"Speaking of the victims of traffic violence, Christian forwarded news over the weekend that an 87-year old man was killed by a driver while riding a mobility scooter in Irvine Thursday night....
The victim was an 87-year old man who needed a mobility scooter to get around. But cops somehow had to blame him because he couldn’t clear the crosswalk fast enough for a driver who couldn’t manage to avoid someone on a mobility device directly in front of them."
https://bikinginla.com/2026/05/19/watch-for-smoke-near-simi-valley-ros-meets-la-traffic-violence-state-of-emergency-and-good-bills-die-young-in-ca-legislature/ #CarCentrism #Ableism #TrafficViolence
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Heads up, disabled UC Irvine Anteaters.
"Speaking of the victims of traffic violence, Christian forwarded news over the weekend that an 87-year old man was killed by a driver while riding a mobility scooter in Irvine Thursday night....
The victim was an 87-year old man who needed a mobility scooter to get around. But cops somehow had to blame him because he couldn’t clear the crosswalk fast enough for a driver who couldn’t manage to avoid someone on a mobility device directly in front of them."
https://bikinginla.com/2026/05/19/watch-for-smoke-near-simi-valley-ros-meets-la-traffic-violence-state-of-emergency-and-good-bills-die-young-in-ca-legislature/ #CarCentrism #Ableism #TrafficViolence
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Heads up, disabled UC Irvine Anteaters.
"Speaking of the victims of traffic violence, Christian forwarded news over the weekend that an 87-year old man was killed by a driver while riding a mobility scooter in Irvine Thursday night....
The victim was an 87-year old man who needed a mobility scooter to get around. But cops somehow had to blame him because he couldn’t clear the crosswalk fast enough for a driver who couldn’t manage to avoid someone on a mobility device directly in front of them."
https://bikinginla.com/2026/05/19/watch-for-smoke-near-simi-valley-ros-meets-la-traffic-violence-state-of-emergency-and-good-bills-die-young-in-ca-legislature/ #CarCentrism #Ableism #TrafficViolence
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Heads up, disabled UC Irvine Anteaters.
"Speaking of the victims of traffic violence, Christian forwarded news over the weekend that an 87-year old man was killed by a driver while riding a mobility scooter in Irvine Thursday night....
The victim was an 87-year old man who needed a mobility scooter to get around. But cops somehow had to blame him because he couldn’t clear the crosswalk fast enough for a driver who couldn’t manage to avoid someone on a mobility device directly in front of them."
https://bikinginla.com/2026/05/19/watch-for-smoke-near-simi-valley-ros-meets-la-traffic-violence-state-of-emergency-and-good-bills-die-young-in-ca-legislature/ #CarCentrism #Ableism #TrafficViolence
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Heads up, disabled UC Irvine Anteaters.
"Speaking of the victims of traffic violence, Christian forwarded news over the weekend that an 87-year old man was killed by a driver while riding a mobility scooter in Irvine Thursday night....
The victim was an 87-year old man who needed a mobility scooter to get around. But cops somehow had to blame him because he couldn’t clear the crosswalk fast enough for a driver who couldn’t manage to avoid someone on a mobility device directly in front of them."
https://bikinginla.com/2026/05/19/watch-for-smoke-near-simi-valley-ros-meets-la-traffic-violence-state-of-emergency-and-good-bills-die-young-in-ca-legislature/ #CarCentrism #Ableism #TrafficViolence
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@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.
If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.
Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.
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@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.
If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.
Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.
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@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.
If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.
Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.
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@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.
If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.
Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.
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@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.
If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.
Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.
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@memes no alttext no boost. people with lower vision need alt text to read this. Accessibility allows more people to engage with the ideas you are sharing here which I want, as a vegan I want more people to be engaging with this but you need to include alt text so that we're not just leaving behind people because of their disability
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@memes no alttext no boost. people with lower vision need alt text to read this. Accessibility allows more people to engage with the ideas you are sharing here which I want, as a vegan I want more people to be engaging with this but you need to include alt text so that we're not just leaving behind people because of their disability
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@memes no alttext no boost. people with lower vision need alt text to read this. Accessibility allows more people to engage with the ideas you are sharing here which I want, as a vegan I want more people to be engaging with this but you need to include alt text so that we're not just leaving behind people because of their disability
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@memes no alttext no boost. people with lower vision need alt text to read this. Accessibility allows more people to engage with the ideas you are sharing here which I want, as a vegan I want more people to be engaging with this but you need to include alt text so that we're not just leaving behind people because of their disability
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@memes no alttext no boost. people with lower vision need alt text to read this. Accessibility allows more people to engage with the ideas you are sharing here which I want, as a vegan I want more people to be engaging with this but you need to include alt text so that we're not just leaving behind people because of their disability
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Not everyone comes from a healthy family or is still a member of one.
Rhetoric that is constantly using "families" or "working families" in place of "people" in issues that are not family-only or working-family- only issues are letting fascists frame the political rhetoric.
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Not everyone comes from a healthy family or is still a member of one.
Rhetoric that is constantly using "families" or "working families" in place of "people" in issues that are not family-only or working-family- only issues are letting fascists frame the political rhetoric.
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Not everyone comes from a healthy family or is still a member of one.
Rhetoric that is constantly using "families" or "working families" in place of "people" in issues that are not family-only or working-family- only issues are letting fascists frame the political rhetoric.
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Not everyone comes from a healthy family or is still a member of one.
Rhetoric that is constantly using "families" or "working families" in place of "people" in issues that are not family-only or working-family- only issues are letting fascists frame the political rhetoric.
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Not everyone comes from a healthy family or is still a member of one.
Rhetoric that is constantly using "families" or "working families" in place of "people" in issues that are not family-only or working-family- only issues are letting fascists frame the political rhetoric.
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"families" "working families" "families" "families", etc etc
I feel like even "progressives" want single childfree disabled women like me to just die now and "get out of the way".
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"families" "working families" "families" "families", etc etc
I feel like even "progressives" want single childfree disabled women like me to just die now and "get out of the way".
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"families" "working families" "families" "families", etc etc
I feel like even "progressives" want single childfree disabled women like me to just die now and "get out of the way".
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"families" "working families" "families" "families", etc etc
I feel like even "progressives" want single childfree disabled women like me to just die now and "get out of the way".
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"families" "working families" "families" "families", etc etc
I feel like even "progressives" want single childfree disabled women like me to just die now and "get out of the way".
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This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.
Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.
https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK
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This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.
Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.
https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK
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This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.
Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.
https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK
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This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.
Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.
https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK
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This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.
Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.
https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK
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@DopeGhoti @Andrew How many characters would be sufficient for Mastodon to not count as ableist anymore?
If you say, 1,500, who or what says that 1,500 characters are sufficient to describe any and all images, but a lower limit is not?
For comparison, look at my cover photo. The one with the weird building. I have a post with just about the same image in it; here's the link.
In this post, the image has two separate image descriptions. One is in the alt-text. The alt-text is exactly 1,500 characters long, a bit over 1,400 of which are image description. And that's the short description. It doesn't even have room for any text transcripts. It actually isn't much more than an "alibi description". It's only there because many people on Mastodon demand there be a 100% accurate and sufficiently detailed image description in the alt-text of each image in the Fediverse.
Only that "sufficiently detailed" isn't always possible even in 1,500 characters.
That's why there is an additional long description in the post text. It's sufficiently detailed, as in, fully detailed. An image like this requires a fully detailed description. It comes with transcripts of all bits of text within the borders of the image, and it comes with all explanations necessary to understand the image and the description. It's over 60,000 characters long.
Yes, over 60,000 characters in one post. Your character limit is 500. Mine is over 16 million.
Oh, and yes, it's guaranteed to be 100% hand-written. It took me two full days, morning to evening, to research for and write the long description with literally absolutely no help from any AI whatsoever. In fact, I've described details that no AI on the planet will ever be able to see in the image.
So ideally, all Fediverse server platforms should have two image description fields for each profile image, one being the alt-text behind the image, one being a long description next to the image. The latter should not have an arbitrarily-chosen character limit.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Ableist #Ableism #AbleismMeta #CWAbleismMeta -
@DopeGhoti @Andrew How many characters would be sufficient for Mastodon to not count as ableist anymore?
If you say, 1,500, who or what says that 1,500 characters are sufficient to describe any and all images, but a lower limit is not?
For comparison, look at my cover photo. The one with the weird building. I have a post with just about the same image in it; here's the link.
In this post, the image has two separate image descriptions. One is in the alt-text. The alt-text is exactly 1,500 characters long, a bit over 1,400 of which are image description. And that's the short description. It doesn't even have room for any text transcripts. It actually isn't much more than an "alibi description". It's only there because many people on Mastodon demand there be a 100% accurate and sufficiently detailed image description in the alt-text of each image in the Fediverse.
Only that "sufficiently detailed" isn't always possible even in 1,500 characters.
That's why there is an additional long description in the post text. It's sufficiently detailed, as in, fully detailed. An image like this requires a fully detailed description. It comes with transcripts of all bits of text within the borders of the image, and it comes with all explanations necessary to understand the image and the description. It's over 60,000 characters long.
Yes, over 60,000 characters in one post. Your character limit is 500. Mine is over 16 million.
Oh, and yes, it's guaranteed to be 100% hand-written. It took me two full days, morning to evening, to research for and write the long description with literally absolutely no help from any AI whatsoever. In fact, I've described details that no AI on the planet will ever be able to see in the image.
So ideally, all Fediverse server platforms should have two image description fields for each profile image, one being the alt-text behind the image, one being a long description next to the image. The latter should not have an arbitrarily-chosen character limit.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Ableist #Ableism #AbleismMeta #CWAbleismMeta -
The way that abled people censor captions when the audio is uncensored really helps communicate the paternalistic side of ableism - as if disabled people are somehow not capable of nor deserving of being privy to the same swearwords abled people are hearing as part of a person's means of expression.
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The way that abled people censor captions when the audio is uncensored really helps communicate the paternalistic side of ableism - as if disabled people are somehow not capable of nor deserving of being privy to the same swearwords abled people are hearing as part of a person's means of expression.