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Good morning, low-battery pals!
Today I found an awesome kickstarter for a product called the BrailleDoodle. It is a double-sided pad designed to teach Braille on one side. The other side is a blank grid of magnetic balls that can be lifted with the magnetic stylus, allowing any shape of tactile art or writing to be made. It's like a touchable Etch-a-Sketch! They have guides for the blank side as well, so you can have a little help too.
They have a special going on for the first ten days of the campaign, with each BrailleDoodle being $70. The project is already fully funded! Here is the link if you would like to explore!
(I am not related to this project in any way, just sharing a cool thing I found.)
I hope you all have a wonderful day! Don't forget to wash your water bottle!
#disability#blind#assistive technology#braille#learning braille#kickstarter mention#low vision#wash your water bottle wednesday
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I too am now going to learn braille in spite of anon. Thank you anon for giving me the motivation of spite to learn braille.
some people think i learned braille for Cool Points but i actually learned it bc my medicine holder has the days printed in braille and i forget to take my medication a lot. i didnt feel like turning on a light one night just to see my medication so i learned braille out of spite. now everytime i go anywhere i have to read the braille signs and i have seen “woman” misspelled as “noman” SEVERAL times.
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ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????
#ramble#my first thought was like: how is this even a debate what about blind people. not every book comes in braille but MOST have an audiobook#or dyslexic people#you still enjoyed the book!! you still absorbed it!!! you got EXACTLY the same thing as people who read the words!!!#how does it not count????#i guess you miss out on the 'learning new vocab' you get through seeing the words but also#i don't really do audiobooks but i do a lot of podcasts esp fiction podcasts#and i have ABSOLUTELY picked up new stuff from there that helps with my writing#someone please explain how this is even an argument of COURSE it counts????#idk in my opinion finishing a book means 'i put the words in my brain and i thought about them and i enjoyed a story'#not 'i held a stack of paper in my hands for a bit'#i'm v lucky that i do have time to sit and read. and whenever i commute anywhere it's public transport so i CAN bring a book with me#but if i didn't have the free time or had to drive for hours everywhere i would be STOKED to still get to enjoy books#it's been REALLY bothering me lmao idk why i feel so strongly#for some reason it's giving the same energy as like. being told you can't take a comic or manga from the library bc it's not a 'real' book#of course it's a real book it's a story somebody wrote down#i can see this spiralling into 'if you have a kindle you aren't reading'. you have to sniff the paper. feel the papercuts
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Actually, I hope Jiaoqiu stays blind (at least for a couple years in our time) and just bullies the Xianzhou alliance into inventing disability aids and treating disabled people better
#hsr#honkai star rail#hsr spoilers#jiaoqiu#i want to make it very clear that this is not a Jiaoqiu hate post#i am simply a disabled gal (chronic pain + shit eyesight + neurodivergent) who wants more disabled characters in the game#and with blindness in particular- that rant from the sanctus medicus lady really stuck with me#as did the treatment of the kid#and curing blindness irl is absolutely something that would be great and i think its fine to explore in game too#but its frustrating to watch the game act like thats the only way blind people can live their lives without constant suffering#especially in such a futuristic setting#like if you got space travel i think you can also make cains and railings and audio messages and braille#and I'm just hoping thats an intentional flaw of the xianzhou and not just writers ableism leaking through#with hsr's recent track record of disabled characters though i am learning towards believing its probably the former#I'm just saying that if mail delivering robots are a regular thing i dont see why other forms of robot assistants couldn't
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Chat do we fw blind narrator HC
@an-theduckin
#Tsp#Tspud#The Stanley parable#the narrator tsp#Tsp narrator#Saw a fanfiction about it and now I'm obsessed#I even started learning braille idk
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I imagine they would learn braile later on for The Ultimate Prank™
You’re absolutely right they would
#they really learned Braille sp they could help leo put#but they’d rather die than tell him that#so pranks it is#tmnt 04#tmnt#04 leo#04 raph#04 mikey#04 asks
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Conan why the fuck do you know braille
#when did you take the time to learn braille#dcmk#case closed#detco#shinichi kudo#kudo shinichi#jimmy kudo#kudou shinichi#shinichi#shinichi kudō#shinichi kudou#conan#conan edogawa shinichi kudo#case closed detective conan#detective conan case closed#detective conan edogawa#conan shinichi#conan kun#edogawa conan#conan edogawa#detective conan#conan the barbarian#meitantei conan#detective conan anime#shinichi kudo conan edogawa
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so I'm going blind everyone should know that about me by now and because of that I know braille and back when I wasn't home schooled (like middle school and freshmen year) I would write vulgar notes to my bullies fully in braille but written with a pen so they'd have to manually translate it and I never got in trouble because even if the kids translated it the principal wasn't gonna fact check it because I made em long
i also wrote a bunch of swear words on a poster when I was in a mental hospital (we were making it because we were the first batch of kids in that building) and they never checked it and I'm pretty sure its still up and I'm very happy about that
i also taught plenty of other kids at that hospital how to write swear words in braille
The moral of the story is don't give a god of chaos a secret language
#braille#visually impaired#mental hospital#i am chaos#swear words#fuck that one nurse who told me I'm not allowed to talk bout furries because“it can trigger other patients”so I stabbed myself with a spork#if you wanna learn braille curse words hmu bbg/j#its 2 am#I miss you past patient gremlin child
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wait this is brilliant
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i think my grandpa is in the middle of a duolingo lesson rn which is insane because he is already fluent in like 6+ languages. i think you can slow down a bit king this isn’t pokemon you don’t gotta master them all
#icarus speaks#he’s so cool#he’s also learning to play the flute rn i believe??#from what i know he knows portuguese english german hebrew italian and braille#but god knows what he’s been up to when i wasn’t looking#probably spanish too actually. just all things considered
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There was a blind lady talking about how reading braille is different from print and for some reason I felt like she looked familiar and then I realized she kinda looks like heejin
Like that’s her Russian cousin????
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our current uni project is to train an Ayy-Eye™ that can read braille and it's actually really fun min-maxing the parameters to increase the accuracy by 0.1% it feels like i'm playing a puzzle or trying to solve a rubiks cube the most contrived way possible
#qrevo.txt#LOOK AT MY BOY he's learning braille omg i'm soo proud of him <3 *pointing at an accuracy-by-epoch graph*#is this how it feels to be a parent#tbh i'm very happy that i'm having fun coding again!! last year was fucking intense and i'm finally recovering from the burnout#(also i censored the Forbidden Word this time i have learned my lesson)
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People who are snobbish about audiobooks are so weird. We've both experienced the same words, gone through the same journeys with the same characters, had the same opportunities to connect with a piece of art, but because someone used their ears instead of their eyes it's somehow all invalid? Truly bizarre.
#Sunny Life#and then ofc there's the baked in ableism like are you saying that a blind person has never read a book before?#or does it only count when they've read it in braille?#not to speak of ppl with learning disabilities or other issues that make it difficult for them to read books (like brainfog and fatigue)#anyways if you're weird and gatekeep-y about how people experience art I'm coming to your house and stealing your kneecaps
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i love asl so much it rlly is like the one language id love to be born with i mean i read a book about how we are technically born knowing asl like theres this thing called baby sign language and scientists have studied how babies can communicate with one another and w their care giver thru hand motion but idk the only downside of asl is i need both my hands free to form like a full sentence
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Magnus Archives episode 200
... is over. After much dithering (inlcuding starting the podcast and then immediately hitting pause and just staring at my silent phone for half an hour) I have finally finished it...
and...
I survived!
And so did My Boys! Woo-hoooo!! 🎉🍾
I mean sure, Jon is blind and Martin newly retraumatized and they're both stuck in a whole-ass new universe, but they are fine!
I'm so happy! :D
And just in time to start Magnus Protocol, I believe! Today is a good day.
#the Magnus Archives#tma 200#tma season 5#finale#When Jon told Martin to 'cut the tether' he ment to stab his eyes out#cutting off his connection to the Eye#this is what happened and you can pry that fact from my cold dead hands#They are living somewhere in our Scotish countryside#Martin gets to pet good cows and Jon is learning Braille#DON'T TRY TO TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!#I will fucking bite you.
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Konoha's name in braille
Japanese braille (tenji): このは あきのり
English braille: Konoha Akinori
Korean braille (jeomja): 코노하 아키���리
This is so random. I really need to increase my skill range. By the way, fun fact, Japanese braille has spaces unlike Japanese. And this is kana braille because kanji braille is way too complicated for me.
Unicode versions in case anyone's interested (warning, it looks a little misleading: dots on the right look like they're on the left):
このは あきのり ⠪⠎⠥ ⠁⠣⠎⠓
Konoha Akinori ⠠⠅⠕⠝⠕⠓⠁⠀⠠⠁⠅⠔⠕⠗⠊
코노하 아키노리 ⠋⠥⠉⠥⠚ ⠣⠋⠕⠉⠥⠂⠕
#katrina posts#konoha akinori#braille#i have very normal interests thank you very much#konohafestivalmonth#also just the basic part of kana braille is actually really easy#like really really easy#can memorize in 5 minutes as long as you know the layout of the alphabet#i haven't looked up datuken and stuff yet (because there are non in Konoha's name) but maybe i'll just go and learn the entire thing#why not#also there's a bunch of contraction rules in english braille that i don't know#and it's possible that the 'in' contraction wouldn't work because the pronounciation is “a-ki-no-ri”#but. probably not. hopefully not.#the Korean braille i am totally confident in#maybe i shouldn't be though because i misspelled 'ㄴ' as 'ㅌ' (in braille) TWICE#they aren't even similar looking i just mindlessly clicked the braille that looks like the original character#i feel kinda bad tagging this with the festival month tag but it's probably fine. there's only like 3 posts with the tag on tumblr and one'#i wish i could. do useful things with braille.#i don't personally know anyone who needs braille though#if i did i would translate all sorts of stuff for them (if they want me to) and only charge the printing fee (roughly 10 cents per page)#anyways enough rambling i love Konoha#konoha
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