🐧Danni Brennand🐧

Accessible Video Gaming is Awesome

The Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2025. I'm in it 😊 (I had hoped to post this at the time, but my ME decided that wasn't allowed. I'm only about 4 months late 😛) The cool thing I did in the last post? I filmed an intro for a game for the Access-Ability Summer…

It's quite telling how immediately after <thing what is happening>, certain people are crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it, when there is abject silence from them when minorities are being illegally carted away, deported, murdered. Says a lot.

Being well enough to do the weekly food shop with Izzy in my room made it so much easier, and more fun. So grateful I can have her in here 🐧💜🐧

Well, if we're all gonna die, why bother buying toner?

That is gorgeous! I hope the recipient loves it as much as I do 💜

UK online safety law in practice.

Migraines suck. I'm very grateful my meds work so well, but I'd rather not have them in the first place. I have things I wanna do!

Several rocks painted like penguins sitting together in a garden. To their right there is a rock painted like a nun just under a rock painted like a brightly colored fish. She seamlessly fits in.

Closeup of a rock painted like a nun next to a rock painted like an angry penguin.

One good thing today: a child left a rock painted like a nun in the garden, nestled seamlessly with the huddle of penguins.

A one eyed feline / an angry penguin
#critterposting #alttextposting

Sammie went on a helichopper ride! She had an amazing time!

When she got off she discovered her phone (Pixel 6a) had turned into a spicy pillow. Since I unintentionally bought her a potential bomb, I've ordered her a new Pixel 8a as a replacement. Helicopters were too much apparently 😛

Severe ME Day August 8th Estimates suggest that around 25% of people with ME have the severe form of the disease. Severe ME is profoundly debilitating, with many affected individuals confined to their homes, bedbound, or even immobile. Individuals endure a relentless burden of symptoms and also face significant stigma from the medical community and society at large. INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST. 111% i7 UK

Severe ME Day – 8th August – is dedicated to raising awareness about severe ME and remembering those who have lost their lives to this disease. Estimates suggest that around 25% of individuals with ME suffer from the severe form.

Read more: bit.ly/SevereMEday25

#SevereME #SevereMEDay

Things I Learned From Mario's Butt - Audiobook and Art Files Emailed out manually every weekday at 9am UK (or sooner if I am at my PC and not too busy). Have you ever wondered why some video game characters wear trousers and others don't? Or pondered the connec...

Things I Learned From Mario's Butt is officially available as an audiobook.

Enjoy thoughtful critical analysis of the importance of video game character butts, and high quality artwork files.

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Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Happy Yorkshire Day to you wonderful Yorkshire peoples! I hope you have a great day.

(And to those who are wondering when Lancashire Day is, it's the 27th November.)

Illustration of a hedgehog. Text above reads Hedgehog Anatomy. Head is marked with a word “hed”, and the rest of the animal is marked with “gehog”.

What are some particularly good video clips showing the bad state of disability rights in the UK currently? Looking of examples of super ableist news for a documentary.

Kolo, a white woman with ginger curly hair and glasses looks up to the corner with her head resting on her hand. Around her is a collection of screenshots of comments from YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and TikTok in which users talk about Elite Dangerous. The screenshotted comments request in various ways that that Kolo plays Elite Dangerous, or asks when she will be playing it, or if she still plays it, or specifically requests streams of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

Finally answering my most FAQ....

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

Today. Live on Twitch.

5pm BST/ 6pm CEST/ 9am PT/ 11am CT/ 12 noon EDT

It's been 5 years since I played. About time I got to grips with Space Legs!!!

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

the more the merrier if you haven't signed already petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

a small pink bucket, absolutely smooshed full of cuddling rats, a few little faces poking out.

🎶 i’ve got a bucket got a bucket full of rat butts 🎵
(to the tune of natasha bedingfield's pocket of sunshine)

https://makerworld.com/models/869468

This is the one I use. Using the screws it says requires a tool for changing the pen, but I'm trying to figure out what length thumb screw I can use instead to make it easier.

I like mine (is still pretty much the only way I can write) but my favourite pens don't fit so we 3d printed an equivalent that's better for me 😊

Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Annabel Ashalley-Anthony with text attached that readsd "Annabel Ashalley-Anthony. @melaningamers. she/her" Underneath is text that reads "Annabel is a writer, gamer and sickle-cell superhero. She is also the CEO/ Founder of Melanin Gamers, a gaming community that promotes inclusion and diversity in the video games industry. She is a Women in Games Ambassador and International Relations for the Ghana Esports Federation."

Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Laura with text attached that reads "Laura Dale. @LauraKBuzz she/her" Underneath is text that reads "Laura Kate Dale, an autistic accessibility consultant, speedruns the past, present, and future state of autistic player accessibility in video games."

Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of MeleeMira with text attached that reads "MeleeMira @MeleeMira any pronouns" Underneath is text that reads "meleemira (any pronouns) is a Black, queer, neurodivergent creator, voice actor, host, and disability advocate based on the east coast. their lifelong passion for gaming led her to start a career in streaming in 2019. mira enjoys story based, simulation, and indie titles and is a community driven creator who advocates for important topics such as racial equity, LGBTQIA2+ rights, accessibility, inclusivity, and more, all while still finding time for genuine joy and camaraderie."

Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Mollie with text attached that reads "Mollie Evans @littlemotac she/her". Underneath is text that reads "Mollie is a disabled content creator and Director of NWU. She has worked to increase inclusion within gaming through videos analysing diversity within games and through her work on Disability Pride events and at NWU."

✨TOMORROW'S STREAM PANELISTS✨

Tomorrow NWU will be on the front page of Twitch at 7:45pm BST!

Joined by incredible panelists, our Director,
@littlemotac.bsky.social, will be discussing disability inclusion, representation and accessibility within gaming!

See you there!
twitch.tv/NothingWitho...

I mostly use ControlD as an ad block on my tablet, but the location redirection service is now very useful...

Izzy's now downloading it, and wishing she could play it for the first time again. If my brain worked better, I'd be joining her 😊

So far I've avoided needing to verify my age on here by using a third party app. DMs and restricted content still work. Hoping it stays that way (though I do have a DNS location changing app if needed).

I've managed to chip one of my front top teeth eating watermelon. Luckily doesn't hurt (unlike one of my back teeth) but I guess I should actually get a referral to the community dentist sorted sooner rather than later.

After watching DK Bananza being streamed a few times, this has become an echolalia thing for both me and Danni. Feels really nice to say.

Router reboot fixed 2.4GHz network! My devices work again! So glad our living room no longer contains servers so I just had to wait until Izzy took lunch (she works remotely so needs internets).

Our 2.4GHz network is down, and I can't find a reason for it. Obvious next step is rebooting the router, but Izzy is working so have to wait until she takes lunch.

I wish we didn't need it but half my accessibility devices don't support 5GHz so here we are. Argh.

I had mine shaved to a no.1 on Wednesday. It was only about 10cm long before but it's so much cooler. *Squishes*