Delbert Whetter

Deaf Mongolian immigrant held by ICE in California for 4 months with no access to interpreter — CalMatters A disabled immigrant’s detention underscores the shift in asylum policies at the Mexico border since President Trump took office.

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@flavorflav.bsky.social is an international treasure. Love to see it.

Are these vehicles road legal? License plates visible? Tags current? Tinted windows in compliance with regulations? If not, our law enforcement needs to impound those vehicles. All federal officials’ vehicles must be in compliance so why should ICE be treated any differently.

Can’t quite put my finger on it but somethings off with this poster.

SYNOPSIS: Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan Roth and Brian Blais finally brought their hearing twin babies home from India to New York. However, their journey through fatherhood meets new challenges when the increasingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. "LOUD Love" is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles. WHEN: July 12, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT Tickets: http://tiny.cc/loudlovebravemaker2025 Price: Tickets are FREE (get your tickets at the above link) Where: BraveMaker Film Fest 1044 Middlefield Rd (2nd Floor Community Room) Redwood City, CA 94062

Excited to return to BraveMaker Film Festival in Redwood City to screen our award winning documentary “Loud Love” on July 12! FREE tickets here: tiny.cc/loudlovebrav...

The joys of indie film producing encapsulated in 25 seconds of video game footage.

We need more politicians like this treating people with disabilities as constituents AND as a key voting bloc.

A MAD Look At Movie Making

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I told you we’d be back

Venice Beach’s slogan is “Where Art Meets Crime” and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Deaf = 1 Hearing = 0

Still pleasantly relieved there didn’t end up being a character in #Andor named Manny Bothans.

YouTube video by Technology Connections Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind

New video time!

A whole lot of folks keep forgetting about closed captions on DVDs, and as time has marched on this means they're getting less accessible.

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Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.

So, I’m wondering how this AI detection would perceive a group of people communicating in ASL.

A Trade War Could Be A Disaster…For Hollywood The Tariff War Will be Digitized - The Most Important Story of the Week for 8-Apr-2025

Gotta be honest: I don't think Hollywood is taking the trade war/tariffs seriously.

But, you may say, Tariffs only impact about physical goods!

To which I say, "Hmmm." That's an assumption. If it turns out not to be true...watch out.

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This seems like an ideal spot for a Deaf dude like myself and my ASL-signing buddies!

LACD Invites you to a special screening of the award-winning documentary BEING MICHELLE. Sponsored by Thriving Roots Initiative and GLAD When: May 17, 2025 3:00 - 4:30 pm - screening of Being Michelle with ASL PiP 4:30 - 5:30 pm - Post-screening panel discussion with filmmakers Where: GLAD Auditorium, 2222 Laverna Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041 NOTE: SEATING IS LIMITED Pictured: Artist rendering of Michelle above screening details. Below are pictured Atin Mehra, Director/DP/Editor; Mae Thornton Mehra, Producer; Delbert Whetter, Executive Producer Summary: BEING MICHELLE is a feature length documentary film about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse, and now uses her artwork to depict the trauma she survived and heal from her past. See the trailer at www.beingmichelle.com

Our award-winning Being Michelle documentary will be showing at the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD) this coming May 17, 2025, followed by a Q&A panel with our deaf & hearing documentary filmmakers.
Trailer available at www.beingmichelle.com

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40 programs on this list has “Disabled” or “Disability/ies” in their title

Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.

🧵🚨 If you’ve been hearing the term “AT Protocol” and are confused, I gotchu!

Simply put, here’s what it means:

Most social media platforms control your data, followers, and content..they set the rules and you’re stuck playing by them. (1/7)

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“Loud Love” documentary screening at LA Queer Film Festival @ 2pm Sunday, Jan 19th in Hollywood - award-winning documentary about the journey of gay deaf couple Alan Roth and Brian Blais (owner of the Sign Language Center in New York City) and their family. filmfreeway.com/LAQUEERFILMF...

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@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires.

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Just making the point, in addition to others pointing out that ASL being a whole other language, that many TVs playing on public places do not have captions enabled. If a deaf person happens to be in one of those places and an emergency announcement is made, those ASL interpreters can save lives.

Meant to type …the moniker “craptions” but the auto-correct gods would not have it.

News channels relying on auto-captions in the last election cycle resulted in captions expressing the exact opposite point that the speaker was making. Missing a word like “not” completely transforms the meaning of a statement. Whether AI-driven subtitles will be an improvement remains to be seen

This is interesting. Auto-captions have been largely hit or miss (more miss than hit) to the point where they’ve earned the moniker “captions”. People underestimate the damage that can be done..