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Coach driver doesn’t show up to court, so prosecuters just drop the charges because arresting someone for blowing off a court date is disproportionate and not in the public interest. Got it. 🙄

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Ooh, neat! I’m local but didn’t know about this and had never even heard of rainways before. It’s only 4 blocks long, but it improves the north-south connection between two much longer east-west designated bike routes: Off-Broadway (6th Ave) and 10th Ave. https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/st-george-rainway.aspx

He’s been charged with impaired driving, among other things. (Article may have been updated with that detail after you posted?)

Lost the popular vote though

I wish that were true, but the current count has BC Cons ahead by nearly 200,000 votes. 😢

It’s devastating. And as bad as it is for my own trans family, Indigenous folks are in for even worse, nevermind the intersection of the two. 😭 I’ve been SO ANGRY at Eby and was braced for a Conservative majority, but not one this large. I don’t know what to do from here. I was already just barely holding myself together.

The update comes on the heels of NDP Leader David Eby saying Doerkson is “going into hiding” during the final days of the campaign—holding pricey private fundraisers instead of opening himself up to questions from the media.

“Never interrupt your opponent when he’s making a mistake”, as the advice goes, and David Eby has done nothing but make mistakes. As a trans person, I’m so furious at him for calling this cynical power-grab election which even at the outset carried a significant chance of the NDP losing.

I desperately hope for an NDP minority government propped up by several Green MLAs and for David Eby to lose his own seat. But it doesn’t look likely. Le sigh.

Faster to uninstall, I hope.

I read the rest of it. It was not worth my time.

Clever, but disabled people using screen readers shouldn’t be ignored or considered just collateral damage. 🙁

That word “accidentally” is doing a LOT of work for you here… 😉

Oh yes, one of my two cats LOVES the felt texture of the ribbon-dancer. (The other cat expresses cat-like indifference.) I don’t understand how he can stand chewing on it, that would immediately drive my sensory nerves and neurons into red alert. Weirdo cat. 😂❤️🐈

A true champion of free speech. 🙄

“A copy of the UN application says his refugee claim was denied because the adjudicator did not find Mwangi, who is married and has two children, to be a credible bisexual man“

Bi erasure strikes yet again. Bi and pan folks in supposedly “straight” relationships are still LGBTQ+, the letter “B” is right effing there. Bi and pan folks absolutely face discrimination and oppression, even if it doesn’t necessarily manifest in the same ways other queer folks experience.

I’m glad he has a temporary reprieve from deportation, at least.

I love the idea, but I can’t see it actually working. Developers would just sell even more games as subscriptions instead of selling licenses, regardless of any interactive online content or lack thereof. (Think of EA’s 2013 release of SimCity with always-on DRM, for example.) Then when they want to shut their servers down, they just stop selling subscriptions and wait until the last one expires.

I don’t know anything about gnomes and barely anything about TTRPGs, but this question makes me think about social vs. medical models of disability. In our modern-day society, the social model would mean that autism is only a “disorder” because society doesn’t accommodate our needs well enough (or, sometimes, at all). It isn’t a disorder to be allistic because it’s “normal”, “the default”, nothing more than that. For example, in a hypothetical society where people widely use language very literally, the behaviour of not taking things literally could be labelled a disorder. Or if the vast majority of people had sound sensitivity, then someone without it who often forgets to keep their voice down might be seen as disordered. So if you do decide to go with this idea, I think there might be something to explore there when gnomes are interacting amongst themselves vs. with other groups.

If you’re concerned about “game author compares autistic people to gnomes”, is there a different class to use that might be a better choice? (I have no idea, but it sounds like maybe gnomes have a negative stereotype?)