I’m new here and don’t know what to put in my profile. She/them, living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • No, there are not handicapped stalls in the other bathrooms. In this particular art gallery/museum the womens’ and mens’ are very difficult even for some disabled people who can walk, because each is fitted with two fire doors (heavy doors that self close) - one to get into the sink area and another to access the stalls area.

    If it was like @[email protected] was saying, I might feel differently but this is in a new part of the building and they are only a few years old. There’s also an enormous supply closet next to them. It really shouldn’t have to be like this.


  • Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That locked due to sex thing is irksome for sure. How can their logic be “other people have sex therefore you have nowhere to pee”?!

    It creates a weird fear in my mind of using one while I could be using another but instead I’d be blocking someone who needs the special infrastructure in the toilet.

    This is a big part of it. As a bi cisgender disabled person I feel like we are being herded into making decisions about sharing/competing for a scarce resource somehow. It sort of feels like they are ticking off all their “other” boxes with this one toilet.

    I felt quite selfconscious when a person with no visible disability walked out of it and I was outside in a wheelchair waiting. I’m pretty sure they were rainbow community and I didn’t want them to feel like their use of the toilet was at my expense.

    It also feels a bit problematic to me that there’s an assumption that disabled people specifically are never bigoted or unsafe for gender diverse people to be around.



  • It’s a bunch of crimes.

    He illegally imported endangered species parts.

    Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

    Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

    With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it’s illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

    The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.



  • When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

    The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

    No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

    When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.