I feel like I need to read some weird shit soon. Maybe time to finally get around to the Southern Reach/Area X trilogy. 

 I found an account that does alt text for old #MoviePosters.

https://zirk.us/@FilmNoirPosters/111188328259742191

Anyone aware of an account like this but for #horror movie posters? 

 Well, somebody has to break the 5/5 tie on this sometime in the next five hours.

https://disabled.social/@JustGrist/111180515261640094 

 The pharmacist told me that the pneumonia vaccine would hurt and I didn't believe her because I don't really have a problem with shots. Oof. She was right. That bastard definitely hurt a little. 

 As you can tell, the emergency alert test didn’t turn me into a 5G zombie.

It did however scare the shit out of me even though I’ve seen posts about it on multiple social media sites for days. *shrug* 

 Well, she sewed her field with fucking around and now she’s reaping the finding out.

Link goes to Hollywood Report:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drew-barrymore-show-writers-decline-return-1235606269/ 

 Here’s one I compiled that has all episodes of the BBC dystopian anthology series Dangerous Visions:

https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/dangerousvisions

Many people spent time and money to find old episodes of the CBC horror anthology Nightfall in good audio quality. I just poked through several different IA collections of Nightfall episodes and compiled this Fourble podcast with all the files in the best audio quality available:

https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/nightfallupg 

 Deep Night was a horror/thriller anthology done by the CBC in the early 2000s.

Btw, podcasts you find on Fourble that are created from internet archive pages almost always have a direct link to the internet archive page with all the files included in the podcast, which makes it very easy to download and backup.

https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/deepnightcbc 

 Here’s another cool discovery I found while combing through public Fourble podcasts.

2000X was a series of science fiction audio dramas NPR did. Each drama is an adaptation of a science fiction short story. The set includes one of only two audio dramas I’ve ever found that are adaptations of Octavia Butler stories. “Blood Child” is the story included in 2000X.

https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/2000xtalesof 

 This is how I found the Batman: Knightfall special edition btw. I was checking through the list of all public Fourble podcasts and stumbled across it. Fourble is a cool site that let’s you make a podcast out of any list of files that are stored online somewhere. Going through the list of all public podcasts results in some great discoveries from time to time.

Anyway, if you want to listen to the Batman: Knightfall drama as a podcast:

https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/batmanknight 

 I did a search out of curiosity to see how much the CD release of the original version of the Batman: Knightfall  audio drama is going for now and, holy shit, the least I saw it going for was $150 used. Glad I managed to keep track of that copy I bought for the last 20 years. That’s kind of a minor miracle for my ADHD ass actually.

I should probably go poking through my CD case to see if I can find it and make a flac rip because I think I only have it ripped in lossless aac and mp3 right now. 

 Founds some cool stuff recently on internet archive.

I remember buying the original release of Batman: The Complete Knightfall Saga audio drama on CD in a small bookstore somewhere in Wisconsin while I was on a family vacation maybe 20 years ago. Some kind soul has uploaded the special edition of that drama to IA. It sounds to have been remastered to some extent or other and there's a slightly different intro sequence.

https://archive.org/details/batman-knightfall-special-edition-bbc-radio-1 

 What I know of this movie before watching is that it’s weird psychosexual body horr, which is cool. I also know that James Wood plays an asshole which seems very fitting. 

 Greatly slacking on my horror movie watching this spooky season so I guess I’m gonna do Videodrome tonight.

My plan was to re-read the novelization and then watch without audio description but now that it has audio description I can just, you know, watch it.

Accessibility is cool actually. 

 Sometimes you can find a little gem in the piles and piles of creepy pastas now littering the internet but you can also find a lot of stories based on the shittiest horror tropes. I was just reading one that was pretty good, tense and with good pacing if a bit melodramatic, and the payoff was the old murderer-escaped-from-a-mental-hospital trope that's been around since the fucking victorian era. I would like those 35 minutes of my lifespan back, thanks. 

 Private insurance is without a doubt an active impediment to both individual and collective health. I also find the idea that people should have to negotiate their own medical costs with doctors to be pretty fucked. You thin people working two or three jobs, people with kids, people with complex medical needs (aka disabled and chronically ill people) aren't going to end up on the lower end of that power imbalance? *shrug* 

 Suddenly I’m not getting push notifications from Toot, so now I have yet another small inconvenience I need to troubleshoot on top of all the other big and little shit I need to deal with. *begins to melt* 

 A couple more days to grab any of this month’s on-sale titles from libro.fm.

There’s not one but two Silvia Moreno Garcia titles on sale rn, and a bunch of other stuff as well.

https://libro.fm/sale/all?bookseller_recommended=true&sortby=relevance

#bookstodon @b2e37e2e 

 @cb150cf9 So Mastodon has full text search included in the most recent version of the software but only if people opt into it. Many people choose not to do so for privacy reasons. When people post things they want to be searchable, they will use hashtags because hashtags are set to be searchable by default on Mastodon. So you may have better luck searching for those terms as hashtags. 1/2 

 Seems like this could be good news in terms of being able to push back against doctors who’ve been trying to get #LongCovid included under the umbrella of FND.

https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2023/people-with-long-covid-have-distinct-hormonal-and-immune-differences-from-those-without-this-condition?fbclid=IwAR1RC5rFheGd39JBDjfjCGXxzZfB9Xk4dc-yavT-kw2ff4tyiohNvqYBmYM_aem_AQkyowsk_a2GA_TVfGzJsARHLsPBaQiwO2p6Hf7PyluudN0E8DMNd3dHmIBzsBaM6Hw 

 People really need to spend less time expecting people with power to have any conscience to act upon and start thinking hard about how we get them to relinquish that power. Shame is only an effective tool in situations where there isn’t a massive power imbalance. 

 The extras in the #Southeastern 10 Year Anniversary boxset are, imo, very good.

All the demos have been fully mastered. Three, maybe four, of them have some unpleasant essing but most sound good enough to have been released as is. It’s appealing to hear most of the songs from the album (there’s no demo for “Super 8”) in a stripped down, folky style, just a voice and a guitar. I was pleasantly surprised to notice that the demo for “Traveling Alone” is a #JasonIsbel + #AmandaShires duet. 1/2 

 Maybe spend the weekend downloading your bandcamp library and backing it up somewhere just in case.

Link goes to Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2023/09/epic-games-bandcamp-sale-layoffs.html#:~:text=Bandcamp%20Got%20Sold%20Again,-By%20Justin%20Curto&text=The%20indie%20music%20marketplace%20is,by%20Epic%20in%20March%202022. 

 Fuck sake. I hear google podcasts is getting nuked next year.

I use overcast for my audio drama podcasts, downcast for short fiction podzines, and google podcasts for news and non-fiction type stuff. Now I have to find something new that's both accessible and whose interface doesn't make me want to headdesk into infinity.

Probably need to manually go make a list of everything I'm subbed to on google podcasts too because I don't think it supports exporting an opml file. 

 “Now,” I say to myself, “I’m not gonna stay up half the night and listen to all three of these discs.”

Yeah fuckin right. LOL

So I did and my early thoughts are basically 🤯. 

 Pretty shit day today honestly. My pre-order of the 10 year anniversary edition of Southeastern by jason Isbell got delivered though, so that was a good thing. I have it all ripped as flac and loaded up for listening. Excited to see how the remasters sound and to hear the nine additional demos that weren't included as bonus tracks on the earlier special edition release, and also the live performance packaged as the third disc. 

 So the dogs were playing with their tug rope last night and Taffy dropped the rope, turned around, and started walking slowly toward the opposite end of the house. Then when Taffy heard Muffing drop the other end of the rope she turned around quickly and came charging back full speed to try to grab it before Muffin could pick it up again. She’s sneaky as hell sometimes. LMFAO 

 Instant brands (who makes the instant pot) informs me via email this morning that “to enhance your user experience” they’re discontinuing the app for my model of instant pot. Yeah, great, to help me out you’re fucking up the already half-assed accessibility of the device I have that still works well enough. Oh, but you’re giving me a coupon to buy a new device I don’t need for only $100.

Not even out of bed and some corporate bullshit is already making my life a little harder. 

 In case anybody was wondering about all the emoji available on the #DisabledSocial server, I found this list. I can't see any of them of course but some of them sound pretty fun.

For example: :skeletonlaugh:

https://emojos.in/Disabled.social?show_all=true 

 RSD fucking sucks. That's it. That's the post. :sad_dog: 

 Only a few hours left to add a comment in support of opening up COVID boosters for everyone, as opposed to only older and diagnosed immune compromised people, for this winter in the US. Go to the link and fill out the form. No registration required.

Your comment can be as simple as:

I support opening up COVID boosters to everyone for the upcoming winter.

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CDC-2023-0060-0001 

 I’m curious about whether others find themselves being more critical of types of media that involve the creator becoming as much of the product as the thing they’re creating, e.g. movies, tv, music, and standup comedy?

I’m still critical of books but it doesn’t seem to me that the authors themselves become part of the product to the same extent, unless you’re the type that follows all the authors you like on social media. I also feel like there’s not as much celebrity surrounding authors. 

 A fun but little known fact about the founders of the US is that they were the people who came up with the idea of changing the name of a certain servant to the ruling class from "court jester" to "President." 

 So the Be My AI app that's coming out for blind ppl apparently uses ChatGPT. Saw somebody complaining about it blurring out faces in pics you upload to be described. I personally think it's good bc anything we upload likely becomes part of ChatGPT's training set and possibly part of some facial recognition database down the line.

I say this kindly, we as blind people sometimes need to care about the larger implications of a piece of tech more than we do about how said tech will help us. 

 This is the last day for public comment on COVID waste  water tracking in the U.S. This is currently essential data for tracking community levels of COVID and planning accordingly.

Go to the link, click "comment" and fill out the form. No registration required.

I wrote:

I support the continued collection of COVID waste water data. This is an important tool for being able to track community COVID levels and planning accordingly on both the individual and policy levels.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0055-0001?mibextid=Zxz2cZ