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Bradley Bravard
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Writer, movie buff, avid reader, photography enthusiast, looking for a more fulfilling online experience than Meta/X. Frequent sharer of movie quotes. #writing #movies #books #photography
QuixoticgeekMy train journey home starts with another accessibility rant (sorry, I've got an hour on a train and I didn't bring a book). Time to talk about something few think of as an accessibility aid
Benches
Most people take for granted that they can stand for half an hour or an hour to wait for a train. But for a surprisingly high number of people. Standing for even a few minutes can be agony. These people might not look like they need accessibility aids. But not being able to sit can be a problem
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PIT17
"Get down on your knees and pray to God for help? And then maybe everything’ll work out fine? Garbage. Not where I come from. You can wear off your knees praying to God for heat in a coldwater flat in February. And icicles would grow from your upraised palms. If you’re freezing to death you burn the furniture, you set fire to the building, but you get off your knees."
-Gene Hackman as Rev. Frank Scott
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Dir: Ronald Neame
Adam GreenfieldI’m not trying to tell anyone how to show up here, please believe me.
I *do* want to pass on that no fewer than three people whose presence On Here I really enjoy have recently told me they need to (at the very least) take an extended break from being here. And it’s all because of the same set of issues: what they consistently described, often in identical words, as the incessant, joyless judgment about choices of tool or platform or mobility mode, tone and language policing, hectoring about missing alt texts, humorlessness, etc.
I think a lot of this is due to context collapse, and probably also the desire to exert shape and control over *something* in a world that is otherwise terrifyingly unresponsive to our needs. But please do consider that others – including many who would otherwise number among your natural allies, comrades and friends – might arrive at different answers to complicated questions than you have, and that it doesn’t make them moral monsters. Thanks.
"The people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself, even foreign affairs, any more than domestic affairs, without the help of the Congress, without the help of the people."
-Daniel Ellsberg
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Dir: Rod Holcomb
Shaula EvansPlease criticize terrible people for their words and deeds, not for their size, appearance, supposed or actual medical conditions, etc.
You can call out the bad guys without being ableist or punching down, I promise.
Bad guys punch down. Who are you trying to align with?
*It's 2026 and you are all terminally online. Why does this still need saying?
"Have you ever laughed at a comedian when he pretended to stutter? There's nothing funny about a man who stutters but people laugh. They're amused but they're not happy about it."
-Hume Cronyn as Bill Rintels
The Parallax View (1974)
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
