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Broadwaybabyto

RFK Jr’s push to create a registry of all people with autism should be setting off alarm bells.

We’ve been here before.

I talk a lot about the Nazi’s Aktion T4 program, because many people forget that they tested the gas chambers on disabled people. We were targeted first because we were seen as expendable. “Useless eaters”. People no one would miss.

Did you know they also created a registry of children born who might have mental or physical disabilities? Midwives were paid to report them to the government, and lists were made.

Creating a registry of autistics won’t “solve autism”. But it could set the stage for something far more sinister.

We must remain vigilant and fight back.

Disabled people are not expendable. Autistic people are not dangerous. Health supremacy is.

#uspoli#hhs#rfkjr
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UC Access Now

"According to the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, one explanation about why badly fitting PPE has become a significant issue is that much of the measurement data used to design this equipment was collected by the military in the 1950s and 1970s. It’s likely that these data no longer represent all the body types in the modern workforce, which includes a much wider range of ages, genders, ethnicities, and disability statuses."

Not just sizes, but ease of fastening, ease of donning, accessibility for those who are always working seated in a wheelchair, etc.

Similarly - pay attention to the handedness of tools in your lab/field/office. Make sure the tools work for everyone. or they will not use them or be able to use them correctly & effectively.

cen.acs.org/safety/lab-safety/ #Disability #Accessibility #Chemistry #STEM

@academicchatter

Screenshot of beginning of linked article from Chemical and Engineering news. "Whenever London-based cell biologist Jennifer Rohn joins a new lab, she finds herself being ushered over to a cardboard box filled with an array of lab coats. It’s then that she’s given her first task: to find one that fits. But nearly all the lab coats available are too big for her, and the sleeves are too long, says Rohn, who is now at University College London (UCL). “Sometimes when you’re trying to do work, you have to roll up your sleeves, which kind of defeats the purpose,” she says. Those challenges aren’t unique to Rohn. They’ve come up anecdotally time and time again in popular science comics and on various social media threads. And although there’s little data on the availability of well-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) in research environments, studies looking at firefighting and other occupations suggest the problem of ill-fitting PPE is widespread, especially among women. Those deficiencies have prompted efforts to address them. A 2022 report by CSA Group, a product certification and standards organization, surveyed Canadian women across a number of specialized work environments and found that 58% of the respondents used PPE that was, at least some of the time, the wrong size. Nearly one-third didn’t always wear their required PPE and cited fit issues as the reason."
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Aaron

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As @lauren mentioned in a prior post (thanks!), RFK Jr. is now amassing names of people with autism diagnoses for a federal registry, so our PHI can go to antivaccine researchers to prevent our "disease". If this news doesn't raise your hackles, consider the precedents set for the use of registries of disabled people by prior fascist governments, e.g. the Nazis. We are officially in their sights now. We must be prepared.

#autism
#disability
#DisabilityRights
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

MSNBC · RFK Jr.’s autism registry idea raises all kinds of red flagsVon Ja'han Jones
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Broadwaybabyto

The US government has dismantled all covid related tracking & reporting despite people dying and becoming disabled every day… Yet they’re establishing a registry to track autism cases and plan to access people’s private medical data.

Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics

#autism#uspoli#fascism
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Broadwaybabyto

If the person in charge of health and human services stands up and calls diabetes an “exotic disease” and says he has never heard of lupus or crohn’s… he should immediately be fired for gross incompetence.

This is eugenics. RFK Jr is going after disabled people so the country doesn’t have to pay for them.

His insistence on repeatedly bringing up how many kids can serve in the military gives the game away.

health supremacy and fascism are a risk to everyone. They may start with the disabled, but they won’t stop with us.

#uspoli#fascism#chronicillness
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Jessica Tegner 👩🏻‍🦰

"I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." ... I wish I could say. ⁉️
PyCon DE & PyData 2025

I wish I could have attended PyCon DE & PyData 2025, but was unable to due to unfortunate factors. Let me explain.

My name is Jessica, and I'm a maintainer of python libraries used by millions. I've used python for over 10 years, and have recently started joining the community where ever I'm able to.
I'm also fully blind.

Back In January/February I applied for financial aid to attend, and at the end of February my application was gracefully accepted.
Come the very start of March, when my acceptance had been confirmed, I wrote to the main PyCon DE & PyData help desk, explaining my situation, that I'm fully blind, and asking if any accommodations were possible and could be made.

A few days later I got a reply, that my request had been forwarded to the correct team, and that THEY would get back to me.

Waiting, is not fun, especially when you also have to book flights and accommodations for being there, especially if you don't know if it's all going to be for nothing.
A "Sorry, we are unable to provide accommodations" is totally okay, but that was not the answer I got.

I heard nothing.

Having heard nothing at end of March, I reached out again, to the help desk, asking for a followup at the start of April.
A whole week later, a little over a week away from the conference at this point, I get a response from the main desk again, letting me know that they've followed up directly with the on-site team, and someone will be in contact with me shortly to coordinate the best possible support for me.

Yet again - silence.
No email, no call, no dm... Nothing.

So I ended up not being able to attend. Not being able to join the community that I have come to love and cherish so much. And it's especially hard, because it's the closest PyCon to where I leave.

And let me be clear. I would totally have accepted a no, a sorry we can't do that. But hearing nothing at all, even after multiple followups, is not acceptable, regardless of if they were able to provide accommodations or not.

Personal opinion?
I feel like the community, in some way, has failed. For all the talk about accessibility, inclusion and diversity, it only feels like that mattered in this case if you were able to make things accessible yourself, if you were able to include yourself.

"I came for the language, but couldn't join the community" 💔

Feel free to like, comment or repost

#pycon#PyConDE#pydata
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URGENT :boost_request: please help Dej! they are a queer, disabled artist on the way to self-employment. they need rent support while they work on covering back payments. they are at increased risk due to US fascism. anything helps!

$270/630 DUE APRIL 28

GFM: gofund.me/a49fe7ce
request commissions here: mspsocial.net/@svnynne/1135842

⭐ you can get handmade #art, a short story collection or an email with file storage space for donating to them here:
- riveraerica.itch.io/pasadena
- social.acab.fans/@durian/statu
- weirder.earth/@june/1138898143
- terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/11
- flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11

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a painting by dej of a anthropomorphic duckling in orange and yellow pouting while winking. it has its arms crossed and has big tennis shoes with socks on its feet. all on a navy blue background with the text "hmph." next to the duckling's face. its signed by the artist in the bottom right corner
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