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Day 1: Favourite outfit - Glasgow

Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.

“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”

“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”

(Source)

[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]

You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.

I think not.

But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with. 

The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

They’re not allowed to restrict access to “when we have a staff person available and not busy doing other things, after they’ve been contacted by someone who’s waiting to go to the other floor.” Note that, even if people sometimes run on the stairs or do stupid things like jumping off the sides of the staircases, they don’t lock those and require people to ask for an attendant to give them access. 

If they need to have it operated by an attendant, they need to keep an attendant RIGHT THERE ALL THE TIME. 

Building the airport in this location will destroy an ancient landscape, one shaped by the Incan people with terraces and routes.

Critics also suggest that planes flying low over the nearby village of Ollantaytambo and its archaeological park filled with ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause incalculable damage to fragile Inca ruins there and destroy the peace and beauty of the area.

The new airport will make access to the site much easier, and thus encourage greater numbers than ever before to visit.

But Machu Picchu is already overwhelmed by almost double the limit of tourists as recommended by UNESCO. [see also India’s Taj Mahal - an incredible site simply reeling under a relentless, ineffectively managed tourist, both domestic and international, onslaught]

          Don’t step on the glass 

                   Tinsel in your foot

    Bauble in your foot 

                         Bauble in your eye

                    Everybody cries when you go to A and E with a bauble in your face

      BLOOD

Proof: This bullshit

They are saying with a straight face:

This. Woman. Is. Not. Attractive.

Yeah, everyone’s taste’s are different, complicated, etc. 

But to call her ‘unattractive’  is simply and objectively false..