Louis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:

7. Musical Reading

Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗

The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated

https://thesqueakywheel.org/louis-brailles-earlier-ideas-ranked/

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Should open a Mastodon account since they'r everywhere else

#accordion

Today two things happened:

1. My op-ed in the #Ottawa Citizen was published, in which I rant about the inability to successfully report problems to the City/OC Transpo: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/report-a-problem-city-of-ottawa

2. I heard back from OC Transpo (via my Councillor's office) that they've fixed their web feedback form and are working on further updates per my suggestions. (Apparently you *can* select "O-Train (Trillium Line)" for Confederation Line issues)

#SqueakyWheel #OttCity #OttPoli

Triumph of the day!
Google Maps finally (after ~ 2 years of pushing) accepted a map edit that changes driving instructions from
“Drive past your destination, make two left turns, drive through a gas station lot, you have reached your destination”
to
“Turn left. You have reached your destination”

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Had a very satisfying experience with the City of #Ottawa yesterday.

I noticed that the waste calendar that I was subscribed to listed items (bin colour, garbage week, etc.) in such a way that the stuff I wanted to know about was often cut off in the summary views. e.g. “Garbage, green bin, yard trimmings, and blue bin” would appear as “Garbage, green bin, yard trimmings, a…” and I would have to open the item to see what I was recycling that week.

I suggested that they list the stuff that changes week to week *first*, and leave the stuff that goes out every week (like the green bin) to the end of the list.

I got an email back the same day, basically saying "great idea, we changed the calendar”.

Yay, CIty staff! 👍🏻👍🏻

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“preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them.”

#Autistic #autism #selfish #allisticPeopleDGAF #allism #neurodiverse #neurodivergent #neurotypical #communication #comms #society #expectations #hegemony #mainstream #NailThatSticksOut #SqueakyWheel

A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:

«
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don’t you won’t get any.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/65209/

#quote #quotes #quotation #complaint #contentment #facade #grumble #request #satisfaction #squeakywheel