*NSFW 18+* I'm Kale. 23. they/them pronouns. I make art sometimes. I have Elhers Danlos Syndrome #spoonie #disabled This blog will have a lot of stuff about trans rights, queer issues, disability, ect. Theres occasionally some content related to kink, bdsm and polyam.
discussing something designed to help blind and visually impaired kids learn braille
and yes it’s “for everyone” but maybe be considerate of your target audience?
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A series of five screenshots from a Design-milk article titled “LEGO Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille” By Keshia Badalge. The article was published on 05/15/19.
Image 1/5 contains text and a photo of four LEGO bricks. The bricks are labeled “P” “L” “A1” and “Y”. Each brick has raised bumps to correspond with the Braille character on its label.
The text reads, “At the Sustainable Brands conference in Paris last month, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks.
The idea, first proposed by the Danish Association of the Blind in 2011, was brought up again in 2017 by Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil, and later developed in collaboration with blind associations in Denmark, Brazil, the UK, and Norway.”
Image 2/5 contains text and two photos. Both photos are of a young boy playing with the Braille LEGO bricks. In the first photo the boy is holding up a LEGO board with several LEGO Braille bricks stuck onto it, he is running his fingers over the bricks. In the second photo, the boy has layed the LEGO board down onto a table, he is still running his fingers over the bricks.
The text reads, “Why now? Philippe Chazal, Treasurer of the European Blind Union, cites the rise of audio books and computer programs. As a result, he claims “fewer kids are learning to read braille.”
Image 3/5 is all text.
It reads, “We strongly believe LEGO Braille Bricks can help boost the level of interest in learning braille,” he continued. In the United States, only 10% of blind children are learning to read braille, even though according to Chazal,
“Braille users often are more independent, have a higher level of education, and better employment opportunities.”
WHO estimates that 19 million children around the world are vision impaired and 1.4 million of these children have irreversible blindness.
The statistics when they grow up look discouraging: In Europe, around three quarters of adults with vision disability are unemployed, compared to 53% with general disabilities.
The LEGO Braille Bricks will be fully compatible with the LEGO System in Play and use the same number of studs for individual letters and numbers in the braille alphabet.”
Image 4/5 contains text and two photos. The photos are of a young boy using the Braille LEGO bricks. In both photos he is running his fingers over the raised surfaces of the LEGO bricks.
The text reads, “The bricks aren’t just meant for braille learners. For teachers and sighted children, these bricks also feature a printed letter or character, so everyone can join in the fun.
The set contains about 250 Braille Bricks covering the full alphabet, numbers 0-9, and math symbols.”
Image 5/5 contains text and a photo of two children playing with a pile of the LEGO Braille bricks.
The text reads, “The product is currently being tested in various languages too: Danish, Norwegian, English, and Portuguese, with German, Spanish, and French testing to begin in the third quarter of this year.
The final LEGO Braille Bricks kit is expected to launch in 2020 and will be distributed free of charge to institutions in LEGO’s partner networks.”
“the leaf sheep sea slug is one of the only animals in the world that can perform photosynthesis. this process essentially makes them solar-powered slugs!”
It is never too early to start talking about outer space labor law
Like even NASA has been guilty of treating astronauts like organic robots in the past (see SkyLab Strike). You really think someone like Elon Musk will care about their employees working in microgravity beyond their ability to continue performing their job?
For example, NASA astronauts are currently required to work out two hours a day to keep up their bone and muscle mass. This helps prevent irreparable damage/loss and lets them eventually return to living their normal lives on Earth. But exercise equipment is heavy, and it costs $10000 per pound when you’re shooting something into orbit. That’s a lot! Can a company be trusted to send enough equipment into space for each of their employees to get that two hours in when the benefit is for the employees after they’ve served their time?
How long will these companies expect their employees to stay in microgravity when it’s cheaper for them to leave a single person up there for a long period of time than to bring them down and switch them out? If someone gets sick or wants to quit?
These are questions and concerns that will need to be addressed in the near future as the space industry becomes further and further commercialized and companies begin to break away from merely contracting for government space agencies.
i love that bon appetit fucking implodes and binging with babish sidles in like “hello :) i’m doing a new thing that i’m calling the babish cinematic universe, for no reason. sohla is here and she does cooking challenges and when she has trouble there’s sad music and the colors change. also when she’s in videos i pay her. :)”
We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water.
So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles.
These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful.
So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term.
Mending! It’s really satisfying, saves money, and saves the planet!
i really and sincerely did not need this to be true
“The structural qualities of the skull, tongue and muscles in a woodpecker have been described as an internal bike helmet, capable of successfully protecting the bird’s brain from the staggering forces generated when the bird strikes a tree.”
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
“Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I’ve landed on your page you’re most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I’m about to share could help save a black woman’s life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you’ve seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn’t feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there’s a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people’s kidneys, meaning we’re less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren’t getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you’ve requested, say to them the following:
sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down
this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard
If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.
“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”
