Legit Kicked A Friend Out Of My Apartment For Messing With The Liquid Level Indicator While I Was Already

Legit kicked a friend out of my apartment for messing with the liquid level indicator while I was already panicky. XD She was just testing it out, it went off LOUDLY, and I was just like "...you have to leave. o_o" If I even still have that piece of shit, it is rotting in one of the crap drawers and I salvaged the batteries for something else. XD

Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall

Top 5 least useful

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest

This is a big ask and I will do my best to answer, with the caveat that I am just a single blind person with memory issues who doesn't remember everything my blind friends have told me. XD I am counting other people as tools in this list because a person with eyes sometimes is a handy tool for us. XD

Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out 1. White cane 2. Blindness skills training through centers, government programs like Vocational Rehabilitation, Orientation & Mobility specialists, and anywhere you can find it 3. Membership with the National Talking Book Library aka NLS in your state (US); I think the UK is RNIB and Canada has one, not sure about other countries 4. Supportive family and friends and other blind people if you can find them 5. Screen reader (NVDA is free for Windows, iPhone has VoiceOver, Android uses TalkBack)

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall 1. White cane and/or guide dog 2. Text to speech, screen readers, audio books, audio described movies and tv 3. Accessible smart phones (often iPhone but Android is catching up) 4. Bump dots (stick-on tactile dots you put around your home) 5. Braille and refreshable braille displays/notetakers

Top 5 least useful 1. Sighted people inventing crap without talking to any blind people ("smart" canes, "smart" shoes, dangerous devices you hold in your only free hand that claim to tell you what's in front of you but actually don't, screen reader breaking "accessibility" overlays, etc...) 2. That ring which only shows one braille cell at a time (that's not how anyone reads) 3. Strangers giving/yelling vague directions ("It's right over there!", "Oh my god watch out for the stairs (that you are halfway down)!", giving directions to the guide dog who doesn't speak English or any language because they are a dog...) 4. Hot liquid measuring devices (always broken, the noise they make is so fucking loud it's caused me a lot more injury than just sticking my finger in the hot liquid, will wake up the neighbors) 5. All but one use case of AI claiming to be for the blind, at least as far as I've seen

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest 1. Ping pong balls (good for measuring hot liquids) 2. Funnels (really helpful for pouring liquids) 3. The lanyard strap that sticks to the back of your phone so you can wear it around your neck (looks silly, is incredibly useful) 4. White cane holster (yes it's a thing, I have at least three XD) 5. Things being organized Very Specifically (close your eyes and YOU try to find the remote after someone put it in a random place! XD)

I sort of modeled my current DnD character, The Smoke, after this guy, only they don't have the attitude. And in tonight's game they ended up in a space suit. XD I guess it's canon now, they're nice, Southern (it was the only accent I could do on the fly), Scratch. XD

Been playing this since last week. It's very good and really cute!

Every donation gets more Petey pics. And believe me, I have a looooot of pics of this dog (even though she hates getting her picture taken). XD

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This silly girl is Petey, my third guide dog, and she’s 12 today! I bought her a filled bone and a bag of carrots for us to share and she go

This silly girl is Petey, my third guide dog, and she’s 12 today! I bought her a filled bone and a bag of carrots for us to share and she got lots of treats today. She’s also getting all the ice she wants. :D

I’d like her last year or so to be the best it can be. If anyone wants to gift her something specific I will put funds towards that. Anything else will go towards paying off the $2k in medical debt this cutie has wracked up in the past couple years and if I can raise more, I would like to be able to get her arthritis shots once a month so she can be more comfortable (they are $150 a month after vet visit fees; they help her a lot and I’ve shed some tears knowing I can’t do this for her).

I will of course pass on any birthday wishes and pets. :)

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?