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Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Buddy ask the average White American how they feel about gay and trans people, since we're taking the census and the piss. Hell, look at the people in charge currently pushing anti trans and anti queer legislation and tell me how they identify. Look at the racial demographics of our last election and tell me who you think is out here going rah rah for the gays and theys.

The audacity to suggest that my entire community is homophobic (I.e., you spend zero time around Black queer and trans folk) but somehow yours is worthy of a closer, more nuanced look... Really some OG white supremacy, actually! "Those savages, they don't understand things like gender and sexuality, they're just angry uncultured brutes!" -mentality shared between 1700s race scientists and 2026 You, apparently.

You asked for it, and it’s happening: the fandom Craft Fair is coming BACK! Get ready for our third annual craft extravaganza, running February 19 - 27, 2027!

Follow us on bsky at @ourfamilyourfight and tumblr at @ourfamilyourfight and fill out this form to get our info emails.

This year’s focus: CREATURES OF THE DEEP and ALL THINGS NAUTICAL. Show us your tentacles, your creepy fishies, your ships, and your stormy seas. 

We’ll be going back to our roots and supporting the Trans Youth Emergency Project at the Campaign for Southern Equality once again, because their work remains crucial and they need our support!

More info to come in a few months, but for now, we’d love to see what you’re making or planning to make, so use the tag #fandomcraftfair to show off (or to say what you’d like to see and bid on!).

Some nitty gritty details to get you started:

No more than 12 listings per crafter, but you can have as many identical items within those listings as you’d like!

OFMD-themed items are of course welcome, but we want to encourage plenty of items that appeal to a wider audience! To that end, we will not be allowing crafts from other fandoms so we can maintain that balance.

Minimum price for physical items is $12 to account for the cost of shipping (the exception is stickers, bookmarks, and other flat paper goods that can be shipped untracked with a stamp).

We’ll be limiting what can be shipped via Lis this year to folks making 10 or more identical items! Otherwise, all crafters are responsible for  shipping their own items.