Today's #WeekWithoutDriving #NDEAM binge blog is quick and dirty: highlight cool content with a bunch of Doing It Right points and MAYBE some whines about accessibility issues.
Doing ANYTHING on a scooter does not sound fun to RantWoman and RantWoman says this a lot in meetings where some is waxing exuberant about the wonders of micro transit.
Also kudos to Ram for wearing a helmet in the picture at @CityOfSeattle_ITDept and in general to the City of Seattle for its robust commitment to online accessibility.
RantWoman has compiled several videos. The first 3-4 hit all the main points on RantWoman's mind:
--We just don't know...
--regular pneumonic plague is not easily transmissible.
--the significance of key responses is unclear.
Easy for RantWoman woman to go to
--infection control measures sloppy?
--Gee Russia is too busy bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and trying to dramatically increase th size of the usual fall military mobilization.
Oh yes, and RFKjr, DOGE, and President #StableGenius imposed harsh cuts at the CDC as well as $750M of grant funds for state emergency preparedness funds
Okay, Okay, RantWoman is REALLY BORING about what color mobility cane out to use out on the mean streets. White. Reflective but not lighted up.
Memo also to lighting designers: people have all kinds of different vision issues. Totally blind people probably don't care what lighting designers do except if they want sometimes distractible sighted people to see them before running into them. RantWoman, thouh, has enough vision to find any form of light, be it mobility cane or cute landscaping that shines up from below what she can see extremely painful and dangerous. Just don't do it. Please.
But RantWoman digresses: A cane that plays music and can change colors could be REALLY fun in lots of social situations.
Watch the demo above and check out the deals at Home | Sideways Innovations
RantWoman would like to try one just to see whether the extension in the top section satisfies her preference for longer canes. Stay tuned.
There. Now that RantWoman has touted some cool seeming gear, a few more #WeekWithoutDriving comments.
RantWoman has a very fitful relationship with Instagram. More elsewhere but it was really FUN to see people from all kinds of places talking about their local #WeekWithoutDriving efforts.
RantWoman does in fact need to think about another mobility cane. TWO different canes in the Ambassador Thwack role have gone AWOL. One is definitely in the Weed Whackin Wenches' car. He was found after the Wenches dropped RantWoman off and headed back home. We are due to be reunited at White Cane Day.
RantWoman swears that she had the other AWOL aid when she got out of a different car but NO... RantWoman still hopes he will turn up. And in the meantime....
Interests: Digital Inclusion, Languages and language access, walkability, accessibility, disaster preparedness.
When in doubt, laugh about something!
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