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I visited Jacob Fishman and the new Lightwriters public access neon studio in Chicago. I learned lots from his "Neon Engineers Handbook" and he has been one of my neon heros for years.

Of course, I was dazzled seeing all the Bruce Nauman pieces, patterns and rejects (Jacob is Nauman's main neon fabricator)- and I am a big Bruce Nauman fan. That copy of "mystic truths" has been all over the world and is the "living template" for the piece.

Jacob makes me wanna play more with radio.

I loved seeing the Bing neon happy sad outlets at Light Writers. It's so exciting that there is now a public access neon shop in Chicago - it's been needed for years with SAIC and UW students graduating and not having a place to work for years. I am gonna send some class proposals to Jacob and Zoell (his daughter) to return one day an teach a class :)

Next stop- Madison Wisconsin!

Kathy X
Does anyone remember Kathy X? I saw her a few times with the Death Valley Surfers. You have to honor people like that, because without them there would be no music at all, at least no honesty. Then everyone would wither away, like the people who only listen to AI-generated radio music.

youtube.com/watch?v=C_btqIVV81

word.undead-network.de/2025/04
#heros #kathyx #music #punk #real #rockabilly #underground

🔸 Les vrais héros n’ont rien à cacher
▶️ "Les établissements de soins de santé doivent reconnaître la violence policière comme un déterminant structurel de la santé, et ne devraient pas promouvoir la réhabilitation de l’image d’un appareil répressif qui participe aux cycles de violence et d’appauvrissement ciblant des communautés marginalisées de manière disproportionnée."
ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/824
#racisme #Montréal #Québec #Canada #SPVM #police #HME #héros #CUSM #justice #droit #santé #hôpital

Le Devoir · Les vrais héros n’ont rien à cacherOn ne peut pas faire abstraction de la violence policière en rendant visite aux enfants hospitalisés.

The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation. Heroes are defined by inner values, stars by consensus. When a candidate's views are forged in focus groups and ratified by television anchorpersons, insecurity and superficiality become congenital. Radicalism replaces liberalism, and populism masquerades as conservatism.
-- Henry Kissinger

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HenryKissinger #Heros #Politics #Populism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

New single - 'Olympos' from me, Lagrange Point 6.

youtube.com/watch?v=TnuiQNa6cC

#Olympus is a track from the forthcoming album '#Heros' in which each of the tracks represents aspects of the great stories of the heroes and gods of ancient #Greek mythology. Here, mighty Olympos is the mythical 'City Of The Gods', atop #MountOlympus, wherein the great characters of antiquity sport and love and war.

Billet de blog 💬 Tu me cherchais?

#Héros de papier glacé ou de case de bande dessinée, de cape et d’épée ou de feuilleton télévisé, de cinéma muet ou de cinoche de quartier, tant de prétendants attitrés passés sur le fil de cette trame que de n’en choisir qu’un seul parmi tous ( pour Un) ne serait que vulgaire gageure. Peu ou prou, figure de proue.

✏️ vent d'autan | En accès libre › blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/une

A social experiment.
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The results are in and somewhat sad.

I did a social experiment last night: "Rolos vs IDR - Invisible Disability Rights."

I posted two pieces and the above "social experiment" toot simultaneously so they would appear on the timeline together. Links to both are below.

The score was:
Rolos 9 - IDR 1

The response for Rolo included favoring, boosting and two comments from the same Mastodonian that seemed to want to give a lesson on geometry in reference to the shape of Rolos.

Only one responce for IDR, a single boost. Thanks Jack. :solidarity:

Social change comes with support from all, abled and disabled individuals alike. As long as candy takes precedence over the abuse, mistreatment, exclusion and inequality of human beings, the future looks bleak for persons with invisible disabilities. Experiment failure.

Invisible Disability Rights are #HumanRights and #DisabilityIsDiversity

Heinous abuse of people with invisible disabilities by humanity (cw):
kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_I

Rolos candy:
kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_I

#equality #change #amplify #inclusion #support #listen #EndBigotry #EndAbleism #disability #MentalHealth #DevelopmentalDisabilities #IntellectualDisabilities #TBI
#DisabilitySolidarity #Love4All #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilityRights #Legend #LoisCurtis #ElaineWilson #OlmsteadDecision #heros

@autisticadvocacy @disabilityjustice @disability

Image courtesy of psu.com

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@MarkRuffalo

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Your wisdom and opinions here are greatly appreciated. The oppression of POC was, and is an ongoing plague on society. MLK and his wisdoms have always inspired and fueled my fight for Invisible Disability Rights (IDR) as well.

To paraphrase your statement, I feel it is equally important to:
"listen to the (disabled) community, uplift their voices, celebrate their achievements, and lend support in the ongoing fight for (disability) justice and equality.

Below are two articles. One about oppression and one about a great achievement from a black woman who is a hero to people with invisible disabilities. Lois Curtis' landmark SCOTUS case is touted as the "Brown vs Board Education" for persons with invisible disabilities yet, so few know who she is and fail to honor her for what she did.

Two of my favorites from MLK:

 “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

  He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” King said. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Oppression:
kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_I

Achievement of Lois Curtis:
kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_I

#equality #change #amplify #inclusion #support #listen #BLM #EndBigotry #EndAbleism #disability #MentalHealth #DevelopmentalDisabilities #IntellectualDisabilities #TBI
#DisabilitySolidarity #Love4All #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilityRights #Legend #LoisCurtis #MLK #ElaineWilson #OlmsteadDecision #JohnLewis MartinLutherKingJr #heros

@disabilityjustice @disability @actuallyautistic

kolektiva.socialOutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️ (@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice@kolektiva.social)Attached: 1 image "Ridge Home for Mental Defectives" [⚠️ CW: Historically, the treatment of people with invisible disabilities by institutions, policies and society, has often been inhumane. Examples cited in this piece, though not gory, may be unsettling to some.] "Ridge Home for Mental Defectives – Are You a Mental Defective?": Do I belong in a cage because I have invisible disabilities (IDs)? Should I be abused under the guise of “caretaking" that I do not require?  Should I be jailed, even if I did not commit a crime, soley because I live with #TBI, am #ActuallyAutistic and have other #InvisibleDisabilities. Do I belong locked away from sunshine and society? Am I mentally incompetent or a “Mental Defective”? That’s exactly what so many others with invisible disabilities were categorized as, and subjected to, in a part of Colorado's dark history. “The Ridge State Home and Training Center for Mental Defectives ”, and some state laws that still existed in just the last decade, are only two examples of some of the barbaric practices.  Some of the articles linked below even demonstrate #stigmatude with use of words like “inmates" and the mental “R" slur.  People with downs syndrome are not the “R" word and those with invisible disabilities and mental health chalenges, are not defectictives. Did you know, if you were having a mental health crisis, that you could be jailed in Colorado if there was no room in medical facilities?  That law was recently changed and funding from cannabis tax revenues was redirected for that purpose but, in some places, it still occurs.  Colorado law gives officials 28 days to get people with such experience proper treatment and placement but, in some cases people with invisible disabilities spent six months incarcerated without even an evaluation.  Is it any wonder that many do not want to ask for help? So, what about the home for “Mental Defectives ”? My blood boils and I cringe everytime I hear that name… “Mental Defective", as if we are a broken toy or a factory second.  We are people with health issues just like someone with cancer or diabetes.  What if your loved one was locked away because they had #covid? In 1909, Colorado chose 310 acres just west of Arvada to establish the “Ridge State Home and Training Center for Mental Defectives”.  The wording in the “Golden History” link below refers to residents as “inmates" and cites the first such “inmate” arrived in July, 1912. By 1936, the Ridge Home’s capacity of 300 was already at 260 people with IDs, many of which, were “exiled” and abandoned by their own families. I will surely expend my generous character limit if I give all of my thoughts, so I will give just a few of the low-lights. The 1937 newspaper headline in the image below claimed that “Everyone”s Happy at Ridge Home for Mental Defectives".  This propaganda is easily refuted by many accounts of actual occurrences at Colorado’s “prison” for people with ID and Mental Illnesses. Aside from residents being forced to work on the “Ridge farm”, other abuses and atrocities were common.  One employee was charged with crimes of abuse against multiple residents after he bragged about his deplorable actions to friends.  The only means of release was by transfer to relative’s homes, to the so called “asylum” in Pueblo or death. In the 1940s, the facility practiced “forced sterilization” of people with invisible disabilities, which some feel was a  attempt at a form of genocide. In the 50s, stories of underfunding, overcrowding and abuse began to surface.  One administrator was quoted in a news article saying that many held captive in “Ridge” were “much too competent” to be in the home but, laws and family abandonment kept them there. In the 1970s, fire safety issues, cracked walls and foundation caused part of the facility to be closed by order of the state. There were no proper fire exit routes, and not even a single fire escape.  In the 80s reports of neglect allegedly due to funding and staffing problems came to light. As recently as the 1980s, “time outs” for those with behavioral issues resulted in some being put in cages.  One report cites a child was caged for nine month with only a bucket and a mattress. Others were said to be packed in wet sheets and ice for acting up.  Does that sound like treatment that will improve mental health, or torture that would make matters worse? From Denver ABC 7: “They were so mistreated. It just wasn’t right,” said Rhonda Sherill, who said she worked at Ridge in the 1980s. “Some of them would be put in what they call time out, which was basically a cage they would put him in until they weren’t combative.” Eventually, this “section of hell" disguised as a medical facility was closed and sat abandon for years. Now, mostly demolished, “Ridge Home and Training Center for Mental Defectives” is the site of apartments and shops. I personally would rather be homeless and not shop than to step one foot on those grounds. One can only imagine the horrors that these individuals must have lived but, one thing is apparent: Everyone was not happy at "Ridge Home for Mental Defectives." Sadly, despite these changes, there is still much work to be done in bringing people living with invisible disabilities and mental illness “out of exile". OutOfExile_IDR © 2022 https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/memories-remain-of-abandoned-state-hospital-that-spawned-eerie-stories https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/spooky-history-arvadas-ridge-home https://disabilitylawco.org/mental-illness-protection-and-advocacy-program https://www.mentalhealthcolorado.org/colorado-jails-wont-used-hold-mentally-ill/ https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=State_Home_and_Training_School_for_Mental_Defectives Golden History - 303-278-3557:   https://www.goldenhistory.org/places/ridge-home/ Pictures: http://www.coloradoaerialphoto.com/pow.cgi?POW_ID=63 #stigmatude #MentalHealth #MedicalIndustry #abuse #advocacy #disabilities #InvisibleDisability #colorado #InvisibleDisabilityRights #evil #DarkHistory #DownSyndrome #MentalDefectives #BrainInjury #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch