MostlyBlindGamer

I don’t know what kind of film I have in my instant camera. Send help.

The good news, compared to a mystery roll, is I’ll know after the first shot.

#analogPhotography #filmPhotography

Apparently bipolar personality disorder awareness day is coming up, so my company mentioned it in one of its countless internal newsletters.

They actually included a first-hand account of what it’s like, with practical examples.

I’ve talked about leaving my disability Employee Resource Group before and I still think it’s unfair to expect disabled employees to constantly do The Work of educating others, but I have done it to - what felt like - good effect and appreciate when others are generous with their spoons in the same way.

They mentioned different kinds of personal triggers for mania or depression, and the importance of structure, diet, exercise and therapy. It was especially relevant to the general public, because we don’t always understand how what’s totally cool for one person can send another person spiraling. I feel that as well, as an autistic person.

Besides talking about the struggles that come with BPD, they mentioned the correlations with deep empathy and creative thinking. Of course one can file this under “corporate speak to make disabled people valuable to shareholders,” but it’s also personally relevant, and I’ve also noticed it myself.

So yeah, if you don’t have BPD, maybe take the time to learn about it. If you do, I hope this saved you some spoons.

Espresso tonic by the beach. Yum. Can recommend.

@akamran@indieweb.social @altbot@fuzzies.wtf @Jyoti@mas.to be me, be visually impaired, notice comic boosted by mutual, start reading overly verbose alt text. Sigh. This was written by an LLM wasn’t it? Continue being me, get confused by alt text, zoom into comic and strain vision to read it, notice alt text said it’s four panels arranged horizontally when it’s actually a 2 by 2 square, fail to find the “small cylindrical object between the two mice” from the alt text, realize one of the characters is that object but not a mouse and not cylindrical. Sigh. I was so happy with the culture of using alt text on the Fedi, but it’s being flooded by wasteful and incorrect descriptions promoted as helpful. The tech bros are winning. Human art and thoughtfully communication is being chewed up by machines that waste power and water while pretending to help people. If AltBot provides you a description, I beg of you to write one yourself instead. You know what you posted, you know why, you know what’s important and what it means. I want that. I want what the human posting for other humans wants to share. #blind #accessibility #AIslop