Remote work was an accommodation that disabled people requested for years before the Covid pandemic
It can allow someone to remain in the workforce longer (or enter the workforce for the first time)
When non disabled people needed it, it was arranged seemingly overnight.
Now it’s being ripped away from those who need it most because non disabled folk have decided they want to go “back to normal”.
Ableism is everywhere.
Seit April hüpfen etwa 30 #Ziegenlämmer aus purer Lebensfreude über die #Elbwiesen. Ein buntes Treiben direkt am Elbradweg zwischen #Köngstein und Bad Schandau.
depol, Julia Klöckner
Ich habe Julia Klöckner übrigens während meiner Schulzeit in Rheinland-Pfalz persönlich erlebt, weil ich aus ihrem Wahlkreis komme. Sie ist genau so, wie man sie sich vorstellt.
Einmal hat sie in der Grundschule was vor der Vollversammlung vorgelesen.
In der Mittelstufe habe ich mal meine Teilnahmeurkunde für die Bundesjugendspiele von ihr bekommen.
In der Oberstufe habe ich sie mit Fragen zu Behindertenrechten geärgert. Und sie war wirklich genervt von mir.
This is it. In all my photos of cat yawns, I will never be able to top this one. It cannot be topped. I have reached the apex of yawny kitties. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #CharAndStar #caturday
Someone is mercilessly mocking our company's inept social media posts by reposting them with corrections. It's me.
For the past decade, I have been playing chess on my phone in the bathroom while I have a shit. I'm not ordinarily a chess player and learnt as I went along. After a decade I have finally defeated my phone in a game of poo chess. This feels more like a fess than an achievement.
Work on the 6th floor. Often the cubicles are full so I'll nip down to the 5th. Just spotted that the ladies and gents are the other way round on that floor. I've been using the ladies toilets for 3 years. I'm in there right now terrified about being spotted leaving.
When I worked at AOL search, in Silicon Valley, there was a management proposal to "grey list" lgbt results.
The way search works is that you type in a query and a program assigns scores to loads of websites based on your input. The highest scores get returned first - or they did on the days before search was a duopoly.
Grey listing lgbt sites would have systemically lowered their scores. This would have pushed the results off the first page, unless the query was super specific so their score was high enough to overcome the lowering. This was proposed to be more "child friendly." The search algorithms were internal, so there would have been no transparency.
I was so angry, I was shaking with rage and nobody wanted to fight me, so it got dropped. At least until I was made redundant. I have no way of knowing what happened after that. Nor what similar conversations may have happened at Microsoft (which takes quite a lot of orders from a Seattle megachurch) or Google (which was primarily recruiting "ex" NSA analysts).
Search is so broken everywhere that this maybe doesn't matter now.
But this does illustrate what relying on US tech actually means. The US values are embedded and inescapable.
It also illustrates the impacts of scrapping "DEI".
gesehen von unter'm nassen Dach des Bahnhofs
#Schweiz #Kirche #RX100VI 05-2022
Neulich hatte das Kind Schulfest.
Am Buffet konnte man sich durch die Küche aller Herren Länder durch probieren.
Frauen mit langen, bunten Kleidern und Kopftuch saßen an Biertischen mit schwäbischen Hausfrauen beisammen bei Kaffee und Kuchen.
Kinder aller Hautfarben und Kulturkreise tollten gemeinsam herum.
Wunderbar! Alle fröhlich beisammen, alle genossen die Vielfalt als große Bereicherung 🥰
Warum, warum nur bekommen wir das als Gesellschaft nicht hin? Wovor haben die Leute Angst? 🤔
reposted with alt text https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/114503438337682224
today I saw machine translation render the Chinese term for "American Shorthair" into English as "Maine Coon." Oh my gods, autotranslate, those are conceptually opposite breeds of cats. You can't conflate them just because they're from the same country...
Wo wir gerade erst beim Thema Open Source und digitaler Souveränität waren...
