Happy Labour Day! October is Disability Employment Awareness Month in the US!

This is something I wrote for FWD that won't be going up for a couple of days:

John Stossel, if your business doesn't accommodate wheelchair users chances are you don't have many customers who are wheelchair users.

(Gentle reader, I cannot believe I just typed that sentence 20 years after the ADA passed into law.)

(There is more than that in the post, I promise.)

Today is Jerry Lewis Hates Cripples Day!. (He really did tell people with disabilities that if they don't want pity they should just stay in their homes. I'm so happy he got a humanitarian award for his work with "the disabled", aren't you?)

I was reminded by this post by Bad Cripple about new ways to create social change about how much I want to do some things on campus, like block the front access to the main admin building and advise people to "find another route" (without a sign), and go around one day and put up signs in front of every inaccessible building with "This building does not allow wheelchair users to enter".

Of course, I also want to write in chalk in front of various buildings in Halifax "Wheelchair Users Not Welcome".

You should now talk me out of this.

Srs Bsn Poll: Linking vs Commenting

So, let's say you've created the Platonic Ideal of Internet Something. You've made the most awesome vid ever, your artwork is so awesome it's making grown Annas weep, you've written the most awesome blog post ever on an important subject, your fic is the best thing since sliced bread and maybe even before... You know, the sort of stuff that people link, comment on, and discuss.

Noting, of course, that every Awesome Thing is going to get negative as well as positive commentary, what do you think about people who just link with 'Go see this, it's awesome' (or even lengthy additional commentary) versus people who comment to say "This was awesome, thank you!". Or do you prefer people to do both? And what about people who think what you've created is awful and you should feel awful? Comment? Link? Both? Neither?

I'm genuinely curious what people think and feel about it in regards to themselves.

Poll #4287 SRS BSN

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Assuming Positive: Linking vs Commenting: Fight!

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Linking is awesomer than Commenting!
6 (13.6%)

Commenting is better than Linking!
1 (2.3%)

Link AND Comment! Two great tastes that taste great together
34 (77.3%)

I am deep in Not Caring Country and I'm not coming back
3 (6.8%)

Assuming Negative: Linking vs Commenting

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Linking is better.
10 (23.3%)

Commenting is better.
12 (27.9%)

Link & Comment.
15 (34.9%)

Keep your negative commentary to yourself, thank you.
6 (14.0%)

Obligatory Melle question

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Maple
9 (22.5%)

Vanilla Bean
16 (40.0%)

Cinnamon Kiss
16 (40.0%)

It's like deja vu all over again....
9 (22.5%)

Other
8 (20.0%)

Turnabout being fair play, I sometimes feel woeful when something I worked really hard on gets very few comments, even if it ends up getting a lot of hits that seem to be from "positive" responses (like a recent post I did that I can see doing the rounds of twitter links, but has garnered all of three comments). And yet, I rarely comment anywhere anymore, I mostly link, and I'm not sure that all spaces are generating discussion so much as they are generating back-patting. I don't know. It's very fraught, isn't it?

In more positive news, school starts soon and I am so excited I could dance. Late night openings at the library!!!!!