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06/07/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…

06/07/2026 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

05/07/2026 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

I was very tired and knew that there were no more food places as I walked home. I only had a little money. Just enough to buy the cheapest fast food. I ordered it.

They had just raised the price.

Not by much, but enough that I couldn't afford it. I told the cashier I was sorry for wasting her time. She told me to wait. She would give me the rest of the money.

Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found on islands and in coastal regions of South and SE Asia and the Australasian Archipelago

No access info for any of the venues

Box office is inaccessible

Google “[festival name] accessibility”; get info on their “accessible pricing” (pay £1 less if you want to). No mention of free tickets for essential carers

Do a lot of disability detective work; most venues don’t have wheelchair access

One claims to be accessible, look inside: “we’re an accessible venue. There are three steps to get in, but we can help you with those”.

“Everybody welcome*”

We have people who can carry you up the stairs

Even worse than "3 steps but we can help you!" what do you mean you're going to carry someone up the 1 to 2 FLIGHTS of stairs? What?

So I carefully explained how I have a manual handling plan that sets out how I can safely be moved and that I cannot just be lifted by a random stranger who isn’t familiar with my disability. And that even if they got me up the stairs, my wheelchair is twice as heavy and there is no way they’d get it up the stairs.

I asked them, knowing that, what was their plan once I was upstairs, just lay me in a corner somewhere and hope I didn’t get stepped on*? Cause that doesn’t sound like a good party

It didn’t change anything. Events continued to be in the same venue, and they stopped trying to include me at all.

so. you want to bring a heavy, fragile powerchair upstairs? a powerchair that, if you drop it, could mean... failing out of school, losing a job (and unemployment for months-years), dying of pressure sores? it's not low stakes.

Because of that price tag, in the UK most people who rely on NHS funding for a CRT powerchair don’t have access to funding for a backup chair. I’d imagine this is similar in other places. Without my chair I’m completely housebound with no independent mobility.

That means if you drop and break my chair I can’t get to my workplace, can’t access healthcare, do my shopping, sit in the garden, visit my elderly relatives or housebound friends, or anything at all that means leaving the flat.

It can take so long to get new parts for a powerchair and even longer to get assessed for a whole new chair. Where I live if you can’t get to the wheelchair clinic (say because someone threw your only means of mobility down a flight of stairs) you’re waiting even longer for the assessment to get prescribed a new chair and the wait for any new part to be fitted is also longer because there are only so many engineers, OTs and physios and making house calls takes much longer per visit.

Masks.

Fuck your supposed "leftist" or "pride" or "intersectional" event if masks aren't required because any space where people are routinely coughing their pathogens all over medically vulnerable people[1] is none of those things, especially not during an ongoing pandemic.

05/07/2026 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

05/07/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…

Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus), juvenile, family Scincidae, Central TX, USA

Lear’s Macaw aka Indigo Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), family Psittacidae, found only in northeast Bahia, Brazil

ENDANGERED.

And scissors and other things, and they're bragging that their knives can cut white bread, because nothing screams "You are almost certainly about to waste your money" than a knife cutting through something so soft it's a metaphor for nutritionally bankrupt soft carb.

But looking at the "brand story" that's on this page, I'm glad Miette is at least about to get her paws on Mother's throat, although this is the first that I've heard about Mother being a ballerina.

I am not going to give you prices or the link because I am not doing their advertising for them and you should definitely be very suspicious about being scammed here, and a knife that can cut white bread is not anything special, and actually the price point is low enough that it is reasonable to conclude that these knives are terrible.