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Telling me that I’m going to be the next Helen Keller, or <insert disability activist here> is like me running after you and desperately, determinedly proclaiming, oh my god, you’re so inspirational, you’ll be the next thomas edison! If you are not a carbon copy of whichever famous person or big figure from the past you most relate to, we’re not either. that is essentially telling us we don’t get to be our own person because we have the same disabilities as another person. we don’t much like it.

—@cadence022

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cuppatea (@pistons@dice.camp) (Dice.camp)
At what point are people going to realize that NYT and CNN won't be shamed out of their rightwing asskissing? Yes, what they're doing is dangerous and irresponsible, whether CNN's shitshow tonight or NYT platforming dangerous and willfully disingenuous whataboutism about trans people. But being shocked about it? Folks: have you not been paying attention? how many times recently have they done things like this? Because we can count more than a few times. It's deliberate. Name it.
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I’m going to repeat this so it’s clear.

If the fedi fractures around the ideological lines of safety vs. unsustainable growth, I’m okay with that.

I am very comfortable with being part of the fedi that actually gives a shit about people rather than treating them as product.

I have no interest in repeating the same mistakes and creating decentralized rage engines.

I believe this space can be better.

—@Are0h

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8/ The great disservice #Apple did the world was showing how it was profitable to treat the customer as an idiot.

“We know you don’t REALLY want a floppy drive.”

“We know better than you what to run on your device.”

And ultimately, “You can’t be trusted to program your own device.”

That is the same message the schools are giving kids with the locked-down laptops: “You can’t be trusted.”

In the 80s and 90s, teachers pulled me out of class to help them with computer problems.

—@jgoerzen

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Accessibility can be done, and frequently is done, from a place of saviourism.

This mindset is one where disabled people are tragic and helpless and must be saved by accessibility.

Saviours are not able to see disability as a social issue they see it as a disabled person issue.

We need accessibility practice to be led by people who see disability as the result of oppression of people with various impairments: you are disabled by society not your impairments.

When you use more progressive framings like the social model you can more clearly see that we all are responsible for inaccessibility, it’s not charity work, it’s deconstructing systems of oppression.

—@nickcolley