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Food Flasback Sept 13th 2020
This was Baraque chicken i think
Library Accessibility
Using a Library with a learning disability in the 2020s is a walk in hell. For starters most of em aren't ordering there own audio/ebook stocks anymore... They use corporate platforms Libby and Hoopla to provide those services.
These apps are often incompatible with the types of reading assistance software that readers with print disabilities use . They have to be compatible somewhat But the Sec 508 Regs have a major blindspot. Pardon the pun, when it comes to sighted users who are impaired in their ability to read...
The other problem with audiobook/ebooks is that. There are an increasing number of books/ other materials you just cannot obtain. Because of content exclusivity deals. E.g a Netflix exclusive movie or book is netflix only, and they mean it. Same with "Only on Audible" books, ditto with small/vanity presses that only publish on Amazon.
Bottom line there are less resources at the library that i can actually use as a disabled patron then there were ten years ago.
No idea how libraries are responding to these conditions, but i intend to write a public comment for my next district board meeting Any Library people know about this. And what if anything the public can do...
This is home
Further Up and Further in
Ten years ago, on a day like today. I was just settling in for a movie. It was almost exactly this hour, or it was mid fire at any rate. Although that system for marking time would not be invented for another five years. It had been a long hard and lonely day like today. Full of arguments with college authorities, projects due with too little time to do them, and arguments with insurance companies. Almost exactly like today Ten years ago on a day not so different from today, I was feeling very lonely. All of my friends had graduated the previous year and moved away from our college town. And in my depression I had withdrawn from socializing online. had deleted my online presence, and only permitted two people to contact me from that life. Ten years ago today on this day that was indistinguishable from so many of the days before it and the days which followed. There was a knock at my window.
Had I been sane I would have pretended to be asleep, or busy. Knocks at my window at eleven o'clock at night, usually portended hours of thankless volunteer work, helping usually immigrant or other disabled students with computer science or other homework. I must have given assistance to dozens of people in those days. Only one of whom ever stayed in touch with me when my usefulness had expired.
Frankly I was getting tired of the thankless work on top of trying to pass my own course load with undiagnosed learning disabilties and mental health challenges of my own. But in those days all I had to cling to were my values, much like today.
Do not fail to give hospitality to strangers, for by this means some have entertained angels unawares. Information is power, and like all power there are those who would keep it for themselves. To share is to fight. Love is a movement, love is a revolution.
So I got off my tired ass went to the window, and gave an impromptu programming tutorial to a pink haired male athlete. The universe commanded and so I obeyed.
Ten years later on a day so like that day, my phone rings at an inopportune moment. But I gaze set the caller id and smile, and pick up. We talk for longer than we should ten years later that pink haired athlete and his wife are expecting their second child, and although it seems like the world has passed me by. Like I am stuck in place. His final words remind me that not all progress is measured in miles, or dollar signs
I love you M
You to, will see ya
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that is sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!”
Aslan Lives!
Heavy Metal Catholicism
I was once asked on an irc channel what was the most "metal" catholic prayer i know was "metal" as an adjective has no fixed meaning. But these come to mind.
Oh Saving Victim
O Saving Victim, Open wide The Gates of Heaven to us Below Though Foes surround me on every side Thine Aide Supply Thy Grace Bestow
To thy great name be endless praise, Immortal Godhead, One in Three. Oh, grant us endless length of days, In our true native land with thee. Amen.
Preface for Our Lady of Good Counsel
It is truly right and just. our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord.
How generously you poured out the gifts of your Holy Spirit upon the Blessed Virgin Mary to make her worthy to be the Mother and companion of the Redeemer.
Enlightened by these gifts, she sought your will unceasingly and obeyed it with fidelity. In her canticle of joy she proclaimed the greatness of your mercy and gave herself wholeheartedly to your wise and loving plan for renewing all things in Christ.
Through him the Angels of heaven offer their prayer of adoration as they rejoice in your presence for ever. May our voices be one with theirs in their triumphant hymn of praise:
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
St Francis Prayer before the Crucifix
“Most High glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart. Give me right faith, sure hope and perfect charity. Fill me with understanding and knowledge that I may fulfill your command.”