Silver, they/them. Should probably start posting

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MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.

is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.

it is a several decade long bit in Spain of mishearing song lyrics from other languages into discernible lyrics that kind of make sense if you squint

in fact it’s such a known phenomenon that anything that ever played on radio for long enough probably has a Spanish parody or five specifically riffing on that exact bit like it’s a Silvagunner rip

doesn’t matter how, if it’s got lyrics with vowels and consonants that’s been played on the radio more than once a day, at least one Spanish dude is very confused why the singer is this passionate about running shoes and at least one other is laughing his ass off butchering those same lyrics with wanton intent

I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

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This has been a common method for a long time in some states

Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,

Can read text on the screen,

Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,

Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,

Works on Windows or more than just Windows,

Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)

So Behold!

A free screen reader program that should check a few of your boxes OP

(Features list copied from the website)

Features

NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications.

Major highlights include:

Support for popular applications including web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, email clients, internet chat software, music players, and office programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel

Built-in speech synthesizer supporting over 55 languages, plus support for many other 3rd party voices

Reporting of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors

Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position

Support for many refreshable braille displays, including input of Braille via braille displays that have a braille keyboard

Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation

Easy to use talking installer

Translated into more than 50 languages

Support for modern Windows Operating Systems including both 32 and 64 bit variants

Ability to run on Windows logon and other secure screens

Compatible with Windows accessibility features such as Magnifier, Sticky Keys and Windows Voice Typing / Dictation.

Announcing controls and text while interacting with gestures on touch screens

Optional Telephone Support and comprehensive Training Material available at very low cost

OCR built-into NVDA to read inaccessible PDF files and graphics

Enthusiastic and helpful user community

In-built Add-on Store, with many available add-ons and an enthusiastic community of add-on developers. Add-ons are written in the well known Python programming language.

Add-ons can provide extra features, including: remote access for help, ability to use RDP, Citrix or VMware, A.I. Image description tools and more.

Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,

Can read text on the screen,

Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,

Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,

Works on Windows or more than just Windows,

Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)