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  1. Louis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:

    7. Musical Reading

    Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗

    The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated

    thesqueakywheel.org/louis-brai

    #SqueakyWheel #Disability blog
    Should open a Mastodon account since they'r everywhere else

    #accordion

  2. Today two things happened:

    1. My op-ed in the #Ottawa Citizen was published, in which I rant about the inability to successfully report problems to the City/OC Transpo: ottawacitizen.com/opinion/repo

    2. I heard back from OC Transpo (via my Councillor's office) that they've fixed their web feedback form and are working on further updates per my suggestions. (Apparently you *can* select "O-Train (Trillium Line)" for Confederation Line issues)

    #SqueakyWheel #OttCity #OttPoli

  3. “preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them.”

    #Autistic #autism #selfish #allisticPeopleDGAF #allism #neurodiverse #neurodivergent #neurotypical #communication #comms #society #expectations #hegemony #mainstream #NailThatSticksOut #SqueakyWheel

  4. #squeakywheel
    Wow, I don’t know what I said that worked so well but fast and amazing update

  5. @christinegrothe #counselingmastodon #squeakywheel #gradstudent​ Sounds like a rough week (permanent reality?). Hoping the chronic conditions ease or the institutions bend.

    On a less severe note, after about a month of bronchitis, I'm realizing what it means to be in an industry without sick leave.