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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I used to have a partner who was very into sim racing. I spent a long time being affectionately perplexed at her for it. We once drove a long way to pick up a sim racing wheel that I found on eBay for her. I remember when I tried it out, I was impressed, but in the rather chill way that one would expect from someone who wasn’t invested in sim-racing.

    Y’all are silly, but I am glad you have something you care enough about that it makes you this silly. I don’t see it, and it baffles me, but I love the energy.



  • What it’s meant to mean is “yay us! We’re doing inclusivity!”

    What it actually means, to me, is “we will make a show of valuing disabled people, but we won’t go so far as to actually include them in the design process, thereby making this bench an artifact to our own self congratulation, as well as making wheelchair users feel excluded in a far more insidious way than they already did”.

    And I feel like an asshole to say it like that, but it’s so annoying to see well intentioned people fall at literally the first hurdle. Like, if they truly do see us as people who have intrinsic value that means we are worth including, then they also need to see us in our full personhood and include us in the process. The alternative is that their enthusiasm will just cause more money to be pissed down the drain on symbolic gestures that don’t fulfill their intended purpose