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I went out with a friend I haven't seen for over a year (due to covid) and I can't tell if my social skills has stayed the same or gotten worse.
Like I didn't know that speaking out what I'm texting was weird, or just saying what I see outside the car window and adding a tiny opinion of it.
And apparently, my tone of voice always sounds sarcastic. So with this and other stuff, I was described as awkward by 2 of my friends :/
It went fine, but I suppose just not really the way I really wanted it to go.
Chronic migraines. Dyslexia. ADHD. Autism. Vision impairment. Visual sensory processing disorder. Colorblind. & Neurotypical. Abled.
These are aspects of people that are affected by Discordās new update to its color scheme and font, and there very well could be more I didnāt mention. Yes, you read it right, abled people and neurotypical people too. You are not immune to eyestrain.
A font which is both overly uniform and overly squished, with many letters that have essentially the same silhouette as others and could easily be flipped and look the same as another. ā» This is dyslexic-unfriendly, as well as generally harder to read and an issue for people with visual impairments who may find that letters bleed together or that their eyes āskipā over letters or words at times.
A color scheme that is so highly saturated that it both immediately draws your attention and also makes you want to immediately look away. ā» This is generally unfriendly, affecting people with sensory issues the most (ADHD/Autism, migraines, processing disorders), but itās also colorblind-unfriendly. Due to the differences between the colors being exclusively the part that changes the named color (hue; āgreenā vs āblueā) instead of both that and the colors being different intensities (saturation; āneon greenā vs āleaf greenā), they look practically identical.
Arenāt there more? No. This is pretty much all that was changed.
Discord changed TWO THINGS and pretty much managed to land every single person possible to genuinely hurt with a visual design change that doesnāt add or remove any elements. Including abled and neurotypical people!!!
Discord is currently a good number of peopleās lifeline and way to connect with others. And with this change, they just made using their app hurt. They know that we canāt leave their app without leaving our friends and communities behind. They know that if they can just sweep this under the rug, they wonāt have to do a thing.
...So we canāt let them.
Itās actually fairly simple. Discord was hemorrhaging money from its very conception. Discord only exists because investors think itāll make money in the future. If Discord doesnāt do as well, investors will push to make it ābetterā or theyāll drop their funding. Discord was probably forced into this situation, they probably knew exactly what would happen.
We have to show their investors that Discord was right.
DONāT:
Reply to Discordās tweet about the design change. ā» It gives Discord more attention, and if any complaints are acknowledged they are directed to Discordās accessibility forums.
ONLY post on Discordās accessibility forums. ā» It gives Discord stats to work with, but it also means the outcry isnāt public. We need everyone to see this, not just Discord.
DO:
Reblog this post. ā» Spreads the awareness, and all.
Retweet, reply to, and/or like this tweet: https://twitter.com/KarklesMarx/status/1393223369571586053 ā» This tweet is part of our and our friendsā initiative to get this big and get this public.
Make your own posts about it on different social medias. ā» Tumblr, Twitter, Discord servers, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever ground you have, use it. You can help make this change too.
Find other people doing the same thing. ā» One initiative is never enough. Look for other people making posts like these and boost their posts too.
IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MAKE POSTS OF YOUR OWN BOOSTING IT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. ā» Please. There are probably a lot of people we havenāt reached because this is an all-English post.
We do. Theyāre under the cut, to prevent causing issues for people reading the post.
This compilation post of the smaller problems: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001066342-Fix-Your-Stuff-or-ALLOW-CUSTOM-CLIENTS-or-BOTH-
Images that show some of the changes:
[Two screenshots of the Discord icon on an IOS device. One is a cool indigo gradient, the other is a solid, brightly saturated indigo.]
[The words āgaming centralā twice in Discordās new font. One is bold, the other is not.]
[The words āreddit fart reddit smellā in Discordās new font. Underneath, the highly saturated indigo as seen in the icons, stretching across the screen to indicate new messages.]
[Discordās old indigo, icon, and stylized font displayed above Discordās new indigo, icon, and stylized font.]
People on Tiktok need to learn that they can't just post other's artwork without even trying to credit them. Like "they didn't think about it." It's even better when one of the pictures has a big "DO NOT REPOST" mark on it š¤¦āāļø
hey fully vaxxed (american) people ur still gonna like. wear a mask right. on account of thereās no visual indicator that ur vaccinated. and on account of u wanna give service workers and nonvaxxed people peace of mind when ur interacting with them. and on account of vaccines arenāt 100 percent effective. and on account of so many antimaskers and antivaxxers are gonna lie and say theyāre vaccinated so they can not wear one and then ur at an even higher risk. yknow. on account of vaccines arenāt 100 percent effective.
Hello please reblog this if youāre okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better
Nomura beloved
douxie adopting krel as his new little brother and then teaching him guitar>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Can we talk about Gwendolyn? Like I have no opinion of her other than what the fuk. Her design is cool tho, even though this episode felt like a fever dream
NEVER trust an adult who wonāt apologize to a child
Concept: Nari playing with the sewer rats while waiting for the train in New York. Douxie's supportive in her quest to make new friends, but a little squeamish due to his past experiences with the plague. šš
hey bi people
today I bring an editĀ
jewish =/= israeli btw
not all jews are israeli and most jews worldwide are abhorred by israelās actions. there are palestinian jews too. dont turn this into antisemitism (hatred of All jews), make sure it stays anti-Zionism (anti-israelās colonization of palestine)
If you want to begin to understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as a non-Palestinian, as a non-Jew, as an non-Israeli, take a step back.Ā Take a deep breath, andā¦
ā¦imagine you are a Palestinian father living in an occupied refugee camp outside of Bethlehem who cannot get to his work without going through a security barrier..Imagine the humiliating feeling.Ā Imagine you are an Israeli child living in Sderot, having to rush inside frequently due to frequent barrages of rockets aimed at your home.Ā Imagine that you are a young Palestinian teen living in the United States, unable to return to your grandparentās birthplace of Lydda due to their forced evacuation in 1948.Ā Imagine you are an ultra orthodox Jewish woman living in a settlement in Gush Etzion, told that if you moved there you would live a more fruitful life - and constantly scared of her Palestinian neighbors.Ā Imagine you are a little boy living in the Gaza Strip or in Ramalah, taught to be scared of Jews and Israelis, due to frequent visits from the IDF.Ā Imagine that you are a young Yeshiva boy living in a settlement, scared to be kidnapped by Palestinians - a fear justified by the recent kidnapping and murder of three Jewish residents of the West Bank.Ā Imagine that you are a Palestinian olive tree farmer, and discovering that your trees have been cut down by settlers.Ā Imagine that you are a Jewish settler living in the West Bank who actively makes deep connections with her Palestinian neighbors, forging peace-building initiatives between Jews and Palestinian that you can only do as a resident of the West Bank.Ā Imagine that you are her partner, a Christian Palestinian man who works hard with her to combat hatred and bigotry.
Imagine youāre a queer Arab Israeli living outside of Tel Aviv⦠an Israeli teen activist against the occupation⦠an American Jew who cries when their family in Israel is bombarded by rockets⦠a young Palestinian man in Greece who has made a life outside of Palestine ⦠a young Christian child living in Jerusalem under a barrage of rockets⦠a Palestinian teen who is so fed up by years of Occupation that tries to stab an IDF solider at a gate outside of the Old City of Jerusalemā¦. a young Bedouin child heartbroken to grow up around violence and fear⦠a Palestinian educator with Israeli friends trying to teach their class tolerance⦠a rabbi living in Tel Aviv trying to teach their congregation toleranceā¦Ā
damn š©
How yāall feeling after yesterdayās fiasco?
Okay so I usually try to block all of the Kr*xie shippers I can find when I first make an account public, right? But then I see one and they're obviously like-- twelve or something and then they follow me; welp mission failed because now I don't wanna seem mean to a little kid that doesn't know better and just block them like hshshshsbggshs
And then I try to see if someone's old Kr*xie posts are just old news to them and that they changed their minds, OR they still do but just don't post about them LIKE I DONT KNOWW
mutuals get free access to my blanket fort
Support all gnc men not just the ones you find attractive or fashionable.
you donāt have to cancel everyone the second they misstep or do something dumb but you also DONāT have to defend everything that your fave does. you can say āhey this particular thing suckedā without getting into this all-or-nothing mentality. you are not an extension of the things you like. you can think freely and criticize the things (and people) that you like, and a criticism of something you like is not something that you should take personally or feel the need to correct/defend.
Like-- YOU'RE GONNA LISTEN
Sometimes I think about how 20+ people witnessed me simping for Aja's mom during my Instagram story. I mean luckily it expired after 24 hours, but still.
This take is pissing me off so Im going to just rant about it to get it out of my system.
Elon Muskās SNL bits werenāt unfunny because heās autistic, they were unfunny because heās an out of touch conservative billionaire with a cult of personality who panders to online nerd communities who are obsessed with 4chan, cryptocurrency, and saying slurs as often as possible. Every time this man says a single thing itās incredibly clear he has no idea what life is like for the average person and has been spoonfed by others his entire life. He didnāt start tesla, he bought it. Heās more of a detriment to SpaceX than a positive. Heās rich because mommy and daddy being racists in apartheid South Africa. He owns a fucking diamond mine. He calls literal heroes pedophiles for daring to criticize his stupid plans thatd kill innocents. His companies violate almost every OSHA standard (and thats just the shit in the USA) and his space company rains dangerous shit all over American cities.
People donāt hate Elon Musk because heās autistic. People hate Elon Musk because heās a Captain Planet villain.
And, trying to level that disgust towards him as disgust towards autistic people is so extremely ableist. Elon Musk getting made fun of for being terrible at comedy and being an unrelatable billionaire is not the same as autistic people getting made fun of for not being able to communicate ideas.
Fuck all the way off.
Sometimes I think about how 20+ people witnessed me simping for Aja's mom during my Instagram story. I mean luckily it expired after 24 hours, but still.
I'm gonna draw Claire with a wolfcut and/or mullet at some point. And Douxie too probably. No one can stop me.
no Iām never getting tired of drawing them as siblings lol
no U are not anyones āyandere girlfriendā you are a white girl with cat ear headphones who calls herself mizaki chan
i feel like bi/queer people that say "omg i hate being attracted to men eww" really need to sit down and think about WHY they feel like that. this might come as a shock to you but youre supposed to enjoy and cherish the attraction you feel towards people, not hate it.