AShettle

Passionate abt disability rights & other social justice in developing countries & elsewhere. Seeking employment in international development field. She/her(s)

[AShettle @AShettle]

.@SimCityBuildIt
I just learned that, in China, they have vertical forests! Meaning, buildings with 40,000 trees growing all over! These look amazing! Could we please get buildings like this in SimCity, in a season focused on China?

https://t.co/47sg5iuK4E

[AShettle @AShettle]

I've contributed--will you?

Help make it happen for Deaf-Vision: Digital & Climate Solutions Nigeria on @indiegogo https://t.co/6FKT6yMzmj

[AShettle @AShettle]

@CDaedlyn @broadwaybabyto "Hi, so, I have PTSD and am hoping to minimize exposure to triggers!"

"Here, have another traumatic experience to worsen your PTSD!"

😠

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA world erupts in rage at legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma after it's announced that he will be avoiding the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center in favor of other venues.

It turns out that our nation's best artists want nothing to do with this fascist president...

According to The Washingtonian, the Washington Performing Arts booking organization are avoiding placing talent at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts for the foreseeable future.

The Kennedy Center has seen an exodus of top talent in recent months as Donald Trump has fired roughly two dozen board members and stocked it with MAGA loyalists, including Richard Grenell as president.

A spokesperson for the Washington Performing Arts stated that they "will not utilize The Kennedy Center" because they are aiming to "thoughtfully match artists and their work with venues that best serve the art, the audience, and the moment."

They added that they "assessed the variety of artists and performances we have in this upcoming season and decided it was best to explore new spaces that offer fresh possibilities."

With the departure of the Washington Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center will lose out on other exciting performances as well. The organization announced "Sigourney Weaver and the Pacifica Quartet at Sixth and I for WPA’s annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore, Yo-Yo Ma at Strathmore, and Midori at Sixth and I."

This news comes as just the latest blow to the Kennedy Center, which has been hemorrhaging money and sinking in popularity since Trump first got his grubby hands on it.

Katy Waldman of the The New Yorker recently stated that "no matter how well or badly the center was doing before Trump, the Trump anti-Midas touch is in operation here, and now everything is worse.”

“Not only are ticket sales down, but donations have been paused, artists are pulling out. All of the spigots for money have slowed or have been turned off,” she added.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you stand with Yo-Yo Ma!

[Disabled Doctor @DisabledDoctor]

Folks…
I’m so sorry, but I’ve decided to give up my legal case against my former employer, the one who harassed me and illegally fired me for being disabled, effectively destroying my academic career in the process.

Why?

Because it’s been almost four years.
Because this system is built to break you. And it’s very good at it.
And because of something I had never heard of until recently: an offer on judgment.

It’s a legal tactic where the defendant offers you money before trial, and if you say no and don’t win more than what they offer in court, you will be forced to pay their legal fees. Even if you win! It’s a threat wrapped in a loophole, designed to make people back down.

So I’m accepting it.
Because I’m scared I’ll lose and end up owing them money.
Because my health can’t take much more.
And because, unlike a typical settlement, this still lets me speak.

I can still talk about what happened.
I can still do advocacy.
I can still help others protect themselves.
And I will.

But I’m still sorry.
I’m sorry because I don’t have it in me to keep fighting this.
And if I don’t, with all my privilege, resources, and insider knowledge, I honestly don’t know who does.

At every step, I’ve been up against a machine with more money, more power, and more institutional weight than I could ever match. I knew it would be hard, and in some ways, I was more prepared than most (the EEOC did rule in my favor). But I still wasn’t prepared for how brutal it would be.

I wasn’t prepared for the endless tactics they’d use to wear me down.
I wasn’t prepared to feel so manipulated: like the system was daring me to try and fight for justice just so it could punish me for trying.

And I wasn’t prepared for the silence. The lack of media interest. The way the world just kept spinning while this swallowed years of my life.

If it weren’t for the offer on judgment — this manipulative legal trap — I probably would’ve kept going, no matter the toll.
But I can’t gamble my health and risk walking straight into financial ruin.

So this is where it ends… for now.
Not with justice, but with survival.
And with my voice still intact.

I’ll keep telling the truth.
I’ll keep fighting in the ways I still can.
Because I know I’m not the only one.
But these systems are broken. And I hope this info at least helps others prepare for what lies ahead if they go this route.

[AShettle @AShettle]

@ascentovalhalla @ChrisAlvino In the US, I've seen it used as a catch-all for people who are

- Not White
- But also not African American (Black)

So it can be used to refer to Latinx US people, US people of Asian or Middle Eastern heritage, etc.

[AShettle @AShettle]

@SimCityBuildIt Collect taxes and neosimoleons. (I wish for a central location to collect neosimoleons like there is for general taxes!) Check the omega shop for things I need. Send off trains and collect the free train card of the day.

[AShettle @AShettle]

I signed the petition asking for the U.S. congress to impeach our current president (45/47) again. Will you join in signing? #SaveOurDemocracy #Resist #ProtectOurConstitution #ImpeachTrump https://t.co/7DuD0oNsk7

[AShettle @AShettle]

Is the U.S. witnessing the rise of oligarchy? https://t.co/LHiecT3zu8 via @oxfamamerica

[🌸Bibi🌸♿ @BibiBlossoms]

I never expected my post to be seen by Lynda Carter or that it would blow up. I simply was sharing how I felt at the time. And I'm so glad it's touched a lot of people. And made a lot of people happy. I hope it inspires more people to be themselves.

https://t.co/lYbJremyEg

[AShettle @AShettle]

@slangwrites I went to buy your next book but found that I had already pre-ordered it! lol!

[AShettle @AShettle]

@SimCityBuildIt For example, a city wrapped around a large lake. Or a city on the face of a mountain, so some parts of the city would be above other parts of the city all connected by roads winding around the mountain or even tunneling through it. Or a city straddling the banks of a wide river.

[AShettle @AShettle]

@SimCityBuildIt I think I would come to hate the endless scrolling involved with 1 so I would prefer 2. What I’d like is 1. Make it easier to unlock the fifth region, maybe 5 million or even two million pop; 2. Add one or two more regions.

[AShettle @AShettle]

@CalltoActivism This video needs captions because people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have audio processing disorder (where the ears hear but the brain doesn't process the sound correctly) have a right to be well-informed citizens too.

[Jeremy Keeshin @jkeesh]

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.

They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.

Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.

The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

[AShettle @AShettle]

@broadwaybabyto I always use unscented deodorant, unscented laundry soap, hand soap, etc., in part because of my own very minor allergies (stuffed nose) but also in consideration for people I encounter who might have more significant allergies.

[AShettle @AShettle]

@broadwaybabyto Statistics for how many people are negatively affected by scents might be useful if they exist, though I don't know if there have been enough studies to work out a reliable estimate.