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The thing I like most about Neil Stephenson’s fiction is that it allows you to think while at the same time not requiring you to do so.

I like a good debate as much as the next person. But no one is entitled to a debate, and if someone’s indicated to you they’re not up for one, implicitly or explicitly, that’s your cue to slide out of their mentions or comments.

Harassing an anonymous account into silence or trying to hack it when you can’t shut it up isn’t just cancel culture, it’s the original sin of the web.

If you’re going to spend enough time harassing an anonymous account to get it to shut down only to then stay silent while everything goes to hell so you avoid any backlash you’re a coward.

I’m not saying blind people shouldn’t attend to hygene. But claiming that sighted people will assume that all of us are smelly because they met one of us who happens to be is soft bigotry because it assumes that sighted people can’t treat us as individuals.

Blind people who don’t work in the accessibility space can tell those of us who do how to interact with developers after they’ve spent a week wading through 37 levels of div soup coupled with WordPress shortcode insanity. Until then, keep your advice to yourselves.