Xena Snowscale
remember folks: the block button's free to use if you don't like the way someone's typing. and also go install chutils, it's also free and great.
five of them (five of them)
- she/they/it and shi/hir
- www.twitch.tv/ehksidian
Xena (🧊), Rose (🌹), Ayre/Willow (🧬), Penny (🐀), Rel (🌊)
• 26 years old (for now)
• 18+ only, might reblog spicy things
• System of five nonhumans
• Trans WLW
• Icon by batnoise/UnholyLykoi, banner by pawberri on tumblr/twitter
🧊xenoblade fan, m:tg lore fan, tabletop roleplayer, ff14 player, bionicle nerd. loves to worldbuild to a detrimental degree. main fronter. a dragon who moonlights as a partially-scaled jakkai. she/her, shi/hir
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🌹Magic: The Gathering gameplay fan, Fortnite player, Gundam and mecha fan. Loves awful puns and foxes. Secondary fronter. Zoroark/Braixen/Dragon hybrid, taur-adjacent, fine with just being called a dragon. She/her.
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🐭robotic lab rat. enjoys scientific pursuits above all else, though also likes being small. desires total world domination but only in the sense of turning everyone into rodents and doing nothing else. third most common fronter. she/they/it
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🧬Deer-shaped robot chassis carrying a nonhuman intelligence. Don't ask about the name, please. Also into mecha and sci-fi in general as well as nature, surprisingly enough. Rarely fronts, extremely grumpy when I do. Would be very horny if not for problems with the body. Is the main one who directs what we wear when being fancy. They/she.
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🌊Aquatic dragoness who's part rat. Tabletop player, fan of tinkering and mechanical things of all sorts. Eternally upset magic isn't real, purely because that means I can't mess with it. Shi/hir, she/her
System Trello (so you know who's who)
trello.com/b/p71AcQ4e/ehksidian-systemBad Bird Site
x.com/EhksidianBad Blue Site
bsky.app/profile/ehksidian.bsky.socialTumblr
ehksidian.tumblr.com/
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in reply to @Ehksidian's post:
Is chutils the QOL mod for Cohost... I thought about it for the perks but if I'm made to perceive numbers on a social media platform Im retreating under a rock
it's the qol plugin yeah, and it's fully customizable. you don't need to turn on any of the number things and the number things only do follower counts anyways.
only on firefox though but swap off of chromium browsers anyways it's good for you
YA I've been on Firefox for years now,, it's so nice having a browser that loads in a timely manner LMAO
I'll consider the add-on though, ty!!
I'm sure this isn't the intent, but given that this conversation does factor with disability, this sort of argument could easily be read as "Either deal with it, go away, or fix it yourself." And that.... doesn't sit right with me. Should the burden of accessibility be on the person who needs it?
there is literally a button in chutils that turns te yinglet typing quirk off it is literally that simple. and if that isn't an option, yes, they can block the people who talk like that. people are, in fact, in charge of their own online experience to a degree and for something like this it is on the people who are complaining about it. there are tools to deal with it. use them.
But like, tagging posts is easier than installing an extension and using that. Especially since browser support for extensions is iffy. And the alternative is... blocking an entire species on sight? Like, the ideal would be some sort of word-spoiler-filter thing to make it easier to just ignore posts (or interact if you have the energy to translate), but I don't like blocking entire people as an alternative. I feel like tagging is a decent enough compromise.
if it's too hard to do like three clicks to download a plugin then i don't know what to say other than just block folks. making anyone with that quirk tag their post and blocking that tag literally accomplishes the same fucking thing.
But... not everyone is using Firefox? Is blocking the only solution for people who are on IOS or Chromebooks?
if it bothers them that much, yeah, because again: making the people using the quirk tag every single one of their posts where they use it (which is all of their posts!) so it can be filtered out accomplishes the same thing as blocking. if it bothers someone that much, that is the solution. it is that simple. no one is entitled to see literally every single post, and acting like this is some catastrophic accessibility issue is, frankly, ridiculous. it's a small number of accounts doing it. do you get this up in arms about folks not adding image descriptions to every image? of folks making big typos and not proofreading their posts, which also makes it difficult for screenreaders to read? of folks using nonstandard unicode stuff in their posts? or is it just this?
I have, actually, spoken against people using nonstandard unicode stuff. Many of the communities I've been in have opted to use standard characters in order to be more accessible. And typos are generally not intentional stylistic choices present in all a person's interactions online.
There's not a way to muffle a user like you can muffle tags, right? See the posts but under a spoiler to make it easier to ignore, like you can with tags? Because that's part of what asking to just tag posts helps with. Being able to choose whether you want to put in the effort to read a yingletspeak post.
Ideally, there'd be a way to muffle all posts with a specific word. But unless that becomes an option, I... really don't understand why we need to make the disabled people do all the work instead of coming to a reasonable compromise.
Like, it seems to me like there's little to no introspection on the Yinglet side of things. Just... "No, we won't consider accessibility, now go away." And that's not helpful or healthy.
once again: telling them to tag every post so it doesn't show up is equivalent to blocking them. that is more effort for both sides than just blocking the fucking accounts. holy shit. sometimes things just aren't fully accessible. it happens. it isn't causing direct harm. just block them. goddamn.
No, that's what I mean. Sometimes, the goal isn't to not see every post. It's to have the option presented to have to process Yingletspeak before trying to read the post in the first place. And having a tag means you can muffle the tag and get the option to view it.
Not to mention that untagged Yingletspeak means that every single time a disabled person sees a new Yinglet on their timeline, they have to block that one too. Just block an entire species on sight. Be excluded from an entire side of the website because the people there don't give a shit.