Natalya D

@natalyad

Deaf and disabled cis queer woman. Interests in law, disability justice, cats, technology. Drinks a lot of tea.

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Natalya D@natalyad· Jun 28

My partner made a shade from similar material + acts of sewing for our bedroom window last week. She paid similar to you for what looks like similar material. It helps that we own this house so can drill holes into the walls. This let us open the window and get breeze but reflect sunlight still.

Back wall of a 1950s redbrick house showing a silvered fabric material covering an upstairs window. The material is attached via a pole and hooks to the underside of the roof (soffits) and tied to restraints screwed into the brick.

Natalya D@natalyad· May 22

Saw this in our bathroom this evening and thought of you. Amazing what detail the camera photo lets me see that I couldn't see on the moth itself cos too small.

A bright yellow moth with browny bits on a 1960s bathroom tile of blue and brown line drawn flowers.

Natalya D@natalyad· Apr 20

He's lucky you didn't reply with this Mansplaining flowchart with appropriate circles around the relevant parts ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/1600x900/p06...

Mansplaining flowchart.

Question 1: Did she ask you to explain it? If yes it's not mansplaining.
If no, then go to question 2.

Most of the next questions go to asking if men with similar education and experience would know this, and if the splainer asked if this was needed. Or if woman has more experience and or is an expert.

Unless splainer asked if an explanation was needed, then it's probably or definitely mansplaining or possibly even "just stop talking now".

Natalya D@natalyad· Dec 7

My late stepdad's cats (now reluctantly looked after by my mum) have decided digestive biscuits are steal-worthy food. I'd let the B&W cat sniff thinking she'd agree it was dull earlier that day; instead she kept stalking and went for a full-on chomp while I was trying to take a bite. #Caturday

Photo of me Natalya a white woman with long dark hair tied up in a bin wearing mostly black clothes. I'm sat on a brown leather soda while a pair of cats, one black and white and one ginger and white, stare at me intently as I hold a digestive biscuit out of their reach. I am giggling at the cats' newfound obsession with stalking me for human biscuits.

Natalya D@natalyad· Dec 4

Something like that. 2 screens (one portrait, one landscape), external keyboard, vertical mouse and historically 2 other input devices (trackball and trackpad) depending on how my arms are behaving. (and the mixer, a USB devices switcher and desktop lights controller unit). Quite rockety! 🚀

Photo of Natalya's desk, a light wood desk top with grey metal structure. There are two screens, one portrait on the left and one landscape on the right on a single monitor stand. Natalya's keyboard, mouse, arm-rest, audio mixer, lamp and other desktop clutter are visible. Behind the desk are white twin-slot shelves with a few items on them.

Natalya D@natalyad· Oct 3

My mum's stupider cat, big "annoying little brother energy" actually happy cos he's getting cuddles for a change.

A ginger and white cat called Rocky lying on the lap of a woman wearing blue jeans. Rocky has his eyes half closed and one paw tucked under and one out, looking very happy as he's being stroked and cuddled.

Natalya D@natalyad· Sep 10

You think the hideous font is bad, wait till you see what they do with this PDF: bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/csu2025... I have attached a screnshot of it with ALT text describing the visual horrors. I can't read this, but need to read it for work even forcing it to display black text.

Screenshot of the PDF linked in post. The Level 2 heading says "3. Definitions" in bright red FH Lecturis font which has gaps in the letter shapes. Each paragraph is numbered in bright red bold text 3.1 to 3.5. The hyperlinks are correctly as words but in burgundy text with bright red bold dashed underlines. I perceive this as floating dots all over the place and can't read the document even if I get Adobe Reader to change ALL the text and dashed underlines to black.

Natalya D@natalyad· May 20

Quote-Skeeting this satirical toilet sign mocking the whole stupid transphobic single-sex fuckery that the UK has gone on. ALT text added to this version.

Satirical design of a toilet sign headed TOILETS followed by 4 stick figures, a 2 legs and arm man one, woman with a triangle dress, a half leg half triangle dress indicating gender-wibbly I guess and a wheelchair user.

Heading: for gender criticals. Text below saying "As per YOUR wishes, regardless of how you present or identify yourself, to use these facilities we will require you to show an original unaltered copy of your birth certificate, a full set of medical records including a karyotype test showing your chromosomes and submit to a genital inspection."

Heading: For everyone else. Text beneath reads "We trust that you know which facilities are right for you and respect others to know the same. Please use the space where you feel most comfortable"

Natalya D@natalyad· Nov 29

There's a rollator using elderly man in my technically reserved seat with a manual chair user lady in front of him. We all fit so I'm glad staff let them stay. The table is a pain but moving me round to other side would be tricky.

Me sat in my wheelchair wearing a mask crammed behind the table on a cross country train. I'm giving a peace v sign. It's fairly crammed with a few people standing.

Natalya D@natalyad· Oct 24

Look at my shiny mini mixer. I use so many audio sources and my partner @kimble.bsky.social is a hardware/sound engineer type of geek so she worked out what I needed 💗. We managed to get the mixer to link with my work laptop hub so MS Teams can see it properly and everything.