Talk by @atjscreams and me is up on #GDoCExpo's youtube!

Listen to how it's *AWESOME* to be #Cripplepunk! (and ideas to accessibility your life *and* make games!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHly0Jr11Q

Here's the companion page I made for it with the maaaany links in it https://evel.life/articles/cripplepunk-GDoCExpo2024.html

And hey white folks, throw us a few bucks eh!
- https://ko-fi.com/atonyjerome
- https://ko-fi.com/aldercone

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My nystagmus is so bad today I'm having to lie around with a wet washcloth covering the top half of my face.

The coolness might be helping or maybe it's just having nothing to see is helping. It is So Goddam Boring not being able to look at anything!!!

So much of managing a chronic condition is dealing with how boring it can be though. Especially if you have to rest when you don't want to/when other conditions need other things.

I feel like I've happened across a #DisabilityLifestyle metaphor in real life.

I almost have to admire the honestly of a bus driver who, when I ask him "Does this bus have announcements?", says "you know, I'm not sure!"

And then when I say "Can you let me know when we get to the station?" says "Yeah, if I remember..."

Bus drivers never do this when I ask them (if anyone tells me, it's another passenger overheard and this was before I got on the bus so none of them would have). But they don't usually admit their failings in this area ahead of time!

Got some food from the co-op, had to use the self-service checkout because there weren't any staff around on a sleepy Sunday morning.

I hate self check-out but it went basically okay.

Until it said "please press for a receipt" and gave me a countdown that started at two, so I missed that! So much for getting my expenses back!

I assume there are more than two seconds to request a receipt but with just this big touchscreen it took me a bit to figure out WHERE to press!

Just published the very rough alpha of Corporeal Conisderations!

it's a disability-centered solo TTRPG and character generator to make *realistic* characters!

https://aldercone.itch.io/corporeal-considerations

turns out, there's a lot to consider when you are corporeal! (in fact i need to consider all the inflammatory pain bullshit because I have severe #MEcfs and I spent not enough time resting while making this, oops)

The McDonald's by Salford Crescent has an ableist policy, or at least an ableist staff member, gatekeeping the disabled toilets!

A colleague waited patiently outside the locked toilet door and when a staff member saw her they said "The toilets are upstairs." My colleague said she needed the disabled one, she was waiting because someone was inside. The staff said "No I've locked it" and got hostile. So inappropriate!

My colleague was actually told "You don't look disabled." #DisabilityLifestyle

The cleaners cleaned my house while I was away.

They don't mean to move things but they do, ever so slightly.

Which, as a blind person, has made going back to work this morning even more disorienting than it normally would be after a break!

I could NOT find my mouse at my desk this morning, and I nearly kicked over a lamp.

Lord give me and all my friends the confidence of the two people who pushed on the bus ahead of me and my cane when it arrived, and then took the priority seats at the front of the bus so to get enough room to breathe/stretch our legs I had to walk way to the back.

One of those two people was holding like a pizza box and he put the box on the seat next to him. So that pizza has priority over my disabled ass.

D just asked "Any plans for the evening?"

And hag said "Try not to go to sleep before bedtime?"

The deadpan delivery made me laugh so much. " 'Same as we do every day,' huh?" I said.

That's #DisabilityLifestyle for ya

Nothing like sitting down at a bus stop, folding the walking cane, putting it in my backpack, taking out my long cane and unfolding that to make me feel like I'm for sure gonna end up on video as "fake disabled person."

It makes sense to me! I've used the walking cane while going around the city centre and around a museum. Now that I'm waiting for a bus home, I'm mostly done with walking and it becomes more important for the driver and other passengers to know I can't see #DisabilityLifestyle

The gallery's accessible loo has a very fancy door lock. (Which is NOT accessible because I had to read a sign about how to use it!)

But it still doesn't have any hooks or shelf or anywhere to put stuff! Your bag or cane is going to end up on a toilet floor.

Peeing with my backpack on is #disabilityLifestyle

Why are they all like this! Cis abled toilet cubicles have hooks on the doors! What about disabled people makes you think that we don't have MORE shit to cart around than the cisabled?

Just had my eyes tested so now my nystagmus is going to be off the charts for the rest of the day.

I only marginally needed new glasses, basically it was suggested I get them because mine are so beat-up lol. I can only see one more line of letters on the eye chart, but the optician said for me one more line is a big deal.

So I've had to spend three hundred quid on one line! It only had three letters on it and I could only read two of them! That's #DisabilityLifestyle right there.

tell me the most #cripplepunk song you know

i hope its not from white ppl but i'll take whatever i can get

What's more likely, train staff member: that I am fibbing about underground staff messing me around so I'm late enough to miss my train, to save myself a £5 difference in fare, or that disabled people do in fact get messed around by staff who think they know better than us.