Ugly laws will be enforced in Louisville. Medical masks will be allowed at “police discretion”.

Police chief says: “We do have to look at behavior of person, what they're doing at time, those kinds of things."

I have a disability that makes me LOOK nervous. I “appear” like I could be doing something wrong. As a result these bans terrify me.

Disabled people have been begging others to mask for years because we were afraid of this exact outcome.

Failure to normalize masking means those of us who NEED to wear them are seen as outliers. Deviants. Possibly criminals. There’s a target on our back.

Medical exemptions are not the answer - they leave too many people behind.

Everyone should have the right to protect themselves from a deadly & disabling virus. Whether already disabled or not.

Banning masks and then saying that the police will determine who is “legit” in wearing one based on their overall behaviour? Its terrifying.

This is exactly HOW profiling occurs. These bans will disproportionately impact marginalized individuals and people of colour.

They could also impact someone with a condition like mine. I’m immune compromised and high risk for Covid complications - so I ALWAYS wear a fitted respirator when I’m outside my home.

I also have dysautonomia - a literal malfunctioning of my autonomic nervous system.

If I’m upright - I “look” nervous. I’m sweaty, shaky, twitchy and sometimes wobbling. I’ve been accused of being drunk in public on MANY occasions.

It’s not my fault - Dysautonomia means I can’t regulate my blood pressure, heart rate, sweating & even pupil dilation.

The things that cops are trained to look for and consider “suspicious” are all symptoms of my disease.

In the past - the worst thing I had to worry about was being accused of public drunkenness. Even THAT was scary for me.

Mask bans mean I could be arrested and charged with a crime. Just for trying to keep myself & others safe.

I tell this story to encourage others to speak up against mask bans. To mask up in solidarity and help us normalize them so they will be harder to ban.

To encourage people to stop assuming if you have a “legitimate medical reason” you won’t have to worry. We DO worry.

We need less judgement, assumptions and gaslighting and more allies. These laws are dangerous. They will lead to more death, disability AND division.

Many of us have difficulty convincing HCWs of our illnesses - what hope do we have with police?

Please - if you CAN mask - now is the time. You don’t have to wait for a mandate or permission. You can choose to say “enough is enough” & be part of the solution. Break chains of transmission. Protect the vulnerable. Don’t allow government to decide who is & isn’t expendable.

We all have power and agency and can choose to do the right thing. We don’t have to sit idly by and accept repeated covid infections & exclusion of disabled people from public life.

Let’s work together and stop these bans before it’s too late.

wdrb.com/news/louisville-polic…

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans #UglyLaws

XDC 2024 starts in Montréal, on Wednesday, October 9th. You'll be able to find various Igalians from the Core, Graphics, and Compilers teams attending the conference.

#xdc2024 #conference #igalia

Hello there ! :)

Do you know if someone is working on use #webxdc in #matrix ?

Actually I wonder how how much it's the same as widget? 🤔

#deltachat and #xmpp can already use it ! 😁

Breaking: the Judge in the Epic v Google case has just issued his final ruling, which states that Google must open up its Play Store catalog to 3P app stores and distribute those 3P app stores within Google Play.

The judge also ruled that Google can't require Google Play app billing, stop developers from telling users about other ways to pay, stop developers from linking to alternative distribution methods, and more.

ja som to nepochopil

"Více možností stahovat aplikace a platit za transakce v nich uskutečněné mají získat uživatelé systému Android."

seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/ekonomi…

Matrix v1.12 is here! This spec release brings account locking, marking rooms as unread, and a few other quality of life improvements.

Check out the blog post for more details, and what's coming in v1.13: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/07/mat…

#Matrix #Releases

Microsoft warns that a new bug may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr…

I have failed to promote this very much.

In a couple weeks I’ll be presenting at A11y Camp in Melbourne, Australia.

On Tuesday, 22 October I am running a workshop:
a11ycamp.com.au/workshops/#wsh…

I'm keynoting the talks on Wednesday, 23 October:
a11ycamp.com.au/program/

So if hashtags #accessibility and/or #inclusion are your deal, then you should attend. You can get 10% of tickets with the code A11Y FRIEND10.

Hoy he visto por aquí varios retoots sobre el tema del impacto ecosocial de los #CentrosDeDatos, sobre todo en relación a la inteligencia artificial.

Menos conocida es su relación con el libro electrónico, ya que la generación de un lector electrónico + centros de datos para almacenar esos libros dejan más huella de carbono que la publicación en papel.

The moron who didn’t understand how HIS OWN COMPANY’S “private browsing mode” worked thinks we should listen to him to solve the climate crisis.

STFU, Eric. You’re well-past your best-before date. mastodon.social/@jplebreton/11…

In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ____" (as in "as American as apple pie")

The winner was:
"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"

Reading the manual of my new #Shearwater dive computer before class, as one does, and I noticed a note "Color Blind Users:"

The warning or critical warning states can
be determined without the use of color

Color blind users
Warnings display
on a solid inverted
background

Critical Warnings flash
between inverted and
normal text

The note is illustrated with gray scale pictures.

I'm not color blind (that I know about), but I appreciate the attention to #accessibility.

#SCUBA

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Not sure why it's the TBI and not the FBI coming down on these guys, but if they're not lying about FinCen access then that's a pretty big deal.

"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A well-known Arizona election denier says his group — working through a conspiracy-minded assistant police chief in tiny Millersville, Tennessee — gained access to a highly confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions and other financial data.

Mark Finchem, who pushed lies about the 2020 presidential election and waged an unsuccessful campaign for Arizona’s secretary of state in 2022, made the stunning admissions during a series of recent interviews with far-right podcasters and in a “press conference” staged in Las Vegas to support Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor.

Taylor's department and residence were raided last month by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation following questions raised by an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation.

"There's a system called FinCen where we're actually able to track money laundering," Finchem said two weeks ago in that “press conference” to which only other far-right podcasters and conspiracy theorists were invited.'

newschannel5.com/news/newschan…

Some of us are aware that -40° Celsius is also -40° Fahrenheit. It's the only point where the two scales agree.

But did you know there are palindrome temperatures and they're very useful also!

16° Celsius = 61° Fahrenheit
28° Celsius = 82° Fahrenheit

Adobe acrobat pro has got to be the most nonsensical piece of software in existence. It’s infuriating!

Want to tag elements? Surely the tags panel would make sense but nope, use the reading order panel instead.

Want to fix reading order? You’re out of luck with the reading order panel. Check the contents panel instead.

I spend most of my time just googling where to find things 😤

Oooh those reports, so colorful. But seeing a colours in reports has at least one benefit - there is a slightly lower chance someone is deliberately lying to you and even red should not be a disaster but a starting point of a discussion how to make the things better.

#babyciso #lifehappens

"My media mentions and summaries seem to be missing a story about Angus Reid this morning. Anyone able to point me to one?"

-- Greg MacEachern @CBC Power & Politics

#polling #cdnpoli #poilievre #canada #pmjt

User Group idea: cURL girls. a group for women dedicated to hacking the internet via the command line.

the name popped in my head, and thought it should exist. Someone should run with it.

#linux #curl #CLI #NameIdea