Christy S

I'm blind, a christian, 47 years old, and live in missouri with my spouse and our two cats. I probably have ADHD though haven't gotten tested yet. I enjoy singing, adore any friendly animal and children, and consider myself an ally to plural systems and trauma survivors. I'm also a certified Salesforce Administrator. Asexual/greysexual.

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2024-07-21 00:39:01

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@npub15te…wdn7 So precious! How many creatures do you guys have?

2024-07-21 00:28:23

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@npub15te…wdn7 Aha. She sounds like a sweetie.

2024-07-21 00:01:30

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@npub15te…wdn7 Like, how do such sweet, affectionate kitties end up separated from people who obviously loved them? It's so sad, but I'm very glad to have both of them now.

2024-07-20 23:43:31

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@npub15te…wdn7 Aww. How did she take to being indoors?

2024-07-20 20:31:19

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@npub15te…wdn7 Aww poor kitty! So glad she has a safe home now. :)

2024-03-12 16:49:32

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@npub1cxy…vryr Oh good! It sounds like you've really been through a lot. Here's hoping things continue to improve for you. :)

2024-03-12 16:29:42

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@npub1cxy…vryr I did. I can't do things like that all the time, but when I started working I made a commitment to myself to help people who really needed it when I'm able.

2024-03-10 21:32:53

@npub15te…wdn7 Hi! In case you wonder who this random follower is, saw you had descriptions on your cat posts, so checked your profile. turns out we're also in the same city. I also work in IT as a Salesforce admin. So thought I'd follow! :)

2024-03-05 15:55:45

Curious, do any of my disabled followers know anything about something called open EdX? I may not be spelling it right. I'm curious if it's accessible.

2024-03-04 04:52:51

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@npub1wuj…6uhc haha, yeah. With the ones I got to pet my dad had to take the mom away because she was aggressive to anyone but him. It was only for a few minutes, but it's an experience I've never forgotten. So tiny! much much later as an adult, I adopted two kittens we were told were eight weeks old. I learned at the vet later, they were actually only four weeks when we got them. It's a wonder those poor babies survived, but they survived and thrived.

2024-03-04 04:38:02

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@npub1wuj…6uhc Awwww baby kitties! I remember once getting to pet a few kittens that were only a few days old. By pet, I mean with a single finger. I remember thinking similar, that they were so tiny it was hard to tell where one was separate from another.

2024-02-10 19:26:07

So many #caturday posts without image descriptions and it makes me sad. I want to know what your kitties are doing! On the other hand, I've seen a few great ones that have made me smile so much. For those that take the time and effort to describe your kitty pictures, thank you!

2024-02-08 23:41:09

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@npub12ze…hunm I started wearing slip on shoes years ago because of this *exact* reason. lol!

2023-12-11 23:04:08

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@npub1gaj…78dz @npub1rcg…sm54 Congrats!

2023-11-20 21:54:06

A question for the #CatsOfMastodon caretakers out there, a thread. My male cat, Mister, has gotten into the habit of waking me almost every morning by insistent meowing and scratching on anything and everything. This can be as early as 3 AM, which is super frustrating since I work during the day. It can go on literally for hours, but stops if I wake up and start moving around. I can't shut him out of the bedroom or he'll scratch the door/carpet.

2023-10-19 17:33:38

Ugh, heated up a new frozen alfredo meal I was looking forward to and it has broccoli in it. So many of these have broccoli!

2023-09-20 16:43:44

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@npub12ze…hunm Oooops, I didn't actually mean to boost that. Wrong keystroke. lol

2023-09-20 16:40:34

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@npub12ze…hunm OMG I can't even imagine... I hate classic! Hahaha. Even if you don't count access issues, the interface is just so, clunky. The handful of places where SF loads something in classic I'm just like, ack! Especially because inevitably it also pulls up that switch to lightning pop up and i'm like, hey, I'm not the one who decided to load this screen in classic. Thankfully that seems to only happen on the admin side and only with a few things.

2023-09-20 16:37:19

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@npub12ze…hunm But like, say I worked downtown here in STL, I'd be spending at least $30 a day just getting there and back. Which, I suppose with car payments and gas it's not much different from what people who own cars have to pay, but still. I prefer not having to mess with it.

2023-09-20 16:35:32

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@npub12ze…hunm hahaha yeah. It seems to depend on the person. For me, not spending a couple hours or more a day with transportation and just the getting ready to be presentable in public makes a huge difference. Not to mention, not having to worry about where you live opens up so many more opprtunities. I couldn't do what I was doing now, for the company I work for, if they had insisted on people who live in Denver. Salesforce is such a remote friendly platform, too.

2023-09-20 16:26:15

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@npub12ze…hunm Definitely agree there! Also from an accessibility standpoint, it means I don't have to mess with transportation issues

2023-09-20 15:53:12

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@npub12ze…hunm Yeah, I do work from home full time. Our organization doesn't even have an office, as far as I'm aware, and we have people from all over the country and even one who is international, north masodonia. Gosh, I can't even imagine living in florida with no AC, vehicle or otherwise! I lived there for a few years, may have even been around the same time frame.

2023-09-20 15:42:31

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@npub12ze…hunm Same. I'm 47, almost 48, so maybe it is age related. So irritating, though.

2023-09-20 14:38:48

Kind of awkward question but, I've noticed over the last couple years or so that I seem to get body odor much more often. Like I can take a bath at night and sometimes be smelling myself by the next morning even if I haven't been sweating or anything. Deodorant helps, but I don't understand why the change. Is it an age thing? Anyone else experienced this?

2023-08-31 15:29:21

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@npub12ze…hunm Ugh, captcha! I hate those things so much. Sometimes there's an audio alternative, but sometimes not. So frustrating. You aren't the first sighted person I've heard complain about them, either.

2023-08-24 15:31:05

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@npub12ze…hunm Lol, relatable...

2023-08-19 23:41:36

Question for #blind #android users. I have an issue where I can't seem to turn off new email notifications, and occasionally when one comes in, my phone wants to tell me about it again, and again, and again until I finally reach over and shut the thing up. Turning off gmail notifications doesn't work, they just come back on again. Last night I listened to it tell me about an email 10 times before I finally reached over and fixed it. Anyone seen this? Any tips?

2023-08-18 21:58:13

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@npub12ze…hunm Gees! Our temps rarely get to 105 but with humidity the heat index sure can. Either way it gets miserable and, like you said, outright dangerous. I don't know if what's hitting us will hit you too but if it's that bad already, I sure hope not

2023-08-18 21:53:54

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@npub12ze…hunm Yeah, if I hadn't already left I would be now. Fuuuuuck that.

2023-08-18 21:52:24

Oh boy. We're in for another major heat wave beginning of next week it looks like

2023-08-17 12:01:43

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@npub12ze…hunm Yeah. I should have put them on a diet a long time ago, but the only way was to get microchip detecting feeders for them both, and those things are not cheap. I have them now though so it's the balancing act of make sure the kitties are satisfied but not gobbling down more than they need.

2023-08-17 03:07:24

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@npub12ze…hunm I did, but they both got overweight to the point it was getting scary.

2023-08-17 01:04:42

Okay, kitty, okay, I'll feed you little demanding furball. Don't worry, I totally love my kitties. But she is still, months later, not at all happy about having restricted food amounts now. That said she doesn't wake me up at 5:00 in the morning, so that's definite progress! I try to vary her feeding time just a little, but not let her push me into earlier and earlier times. #kitties #CatsOfMastodon

2023-08-16 01:57:29

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@npub12ze…hunm I am way, way too excited at what I'm seeing in this release.

2023-08-16 01:44:36

Ooo, for my fellow #salesforce admins, and users of SF who are blind, looks like the upcoming release made some accessibility fixes to list views among other things. I'll be very curious to play with this in a preview sandbox.

2023-08-14 14:09:08

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@npub1gaj…78dz Oh it's great when it behaves. But when it doesn't... It's problematic. On a single user instance though, that's different.

2023-08-14 13:16:58

A note for #mastodon #admins. Apparently, a beta of mastodon is introducing #HCaptcha. If you aren't aware, this can present #accessibility issues for some #blind users. If their accessibility cookie works, it's fine. However it breaks on a pretty regular basis. I encourage you to either not activate this, or be prepared to disable it temporarily if a blind user tries to sign up and has problems.

2023-08-08 13:56:07

Most people who don't like cats:
"Cats are so boring!"
"but they're so aloof!"
"I don't want a pet that will just ignore me"
Maddie, my female cat:
*paws at me and walks all over me until I put the keyboard down and let her snuggle*
*brings me spring toys to throw for her*
*meows at me any time I leave, when I've returned back home*
*is always on the bed somewhere when I wake up*
#CatsOfMastodon #kitties

2023-08-06 07:21:17

I'm so confused. I set up a new #instance on #masto.host, and I'm trying to get it to #federate with other servers. But my user on the new server can't see several instances at all, and others like this one it will show me posts from my account here that's following it, but it doesn't see anything else in the federated timeline. I try following my own accounts on some other servers though, and it fails. Does anyone know what might be going on?

2023-07-13 05:03:43

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@npub12ze…hunm Well, that depends on the instance. It seems that by default there's a 500 char limit. That said, it's better than twitter's limit! hehehe.

2023-07-13 04:46:04

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@npub12ze…hunm That said, I didn't realize in sentence hashtags could be visually distracting. That's a useful observation. Sometimes it's just best that way because character count, but if not then, it sounds like just adding them at the end might be the best practice.

2023-07-13 04:36:45

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To clarify, this same string of hashtags at the end of a post, either before or after any URLs, are fine. We can always just stop reading once we've heard the main post, and the hashtags will still work that way

2023-07-13 04:35:56

Just a tip for people here that want to make their posts more #accessible. Note this isn't a demand or even complaint, just a tip. I see some people putting #hashtags at the beginning, rather than the end, of their posts. While hashtags made part of a sentence works fine at least for me, having a string of keywords before the actual content means I, as a screen reader user, will likely not read. To get an idea of why, try reading a post that does this out loud to yourself. #ScreenReader

2023-07-07 18:15:44

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@npub12ze…hunm nods. There may not be, but even if there were, the people dismissed had to go somewhere. Meh, huge corporations are just... Messy.

2023-07-07 18:11:02

Okay, one thing I don't get about that. I have no love for meta, but what I get from that headline is that after firing most of their employees and Musk running twitter into the ground and beyond, they're now pissed off because those employees took their skills and experience to a competitor? I mean, you created this situation yourself.

2023-07-06 18:51:51

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@npub12ze…hunm Exactly that. I've seen sentences as low as 3 years and just, why? I know our prisons are overcrowded and needlessly, but to me these are the exact sickos that should be locked up forever so they never do this to anyone ever again. Rapists in general, but when it's a child, even more. I mean I could think of other appropriate punishments but there's that whole cruel and unusual clause...

2023-07-06 18:47:53

I saw a headline that the excuse for a human that raped that 9 year old that made national news got life in prison, even after pleading guilty. He's eligible for parole in 25 to 30 years. For a guilty plea, that's a lot harsher than I expected given this country's leaniency on such things in many other cases, but I'm very glad for it. He's not going to have an easy time in prison either from what I've heard. Even most criminals don't like child rapists.

2023-07-03 16:21:44

So, my ex left audio stuff here for now. I was trying to get it working so I could play music on the big speakers. Got it working with ex's help, but now Maddie is over there meowing like she expected me to play the drums that are also over there. NO, kitty, I wouldn't know much about what to do with those. haha

2023-06-26 20:10:36

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@npub1rv5…z2l6 Hi! I have a question. I'm one of the admins at our nonprofit company's bitwarden and I, and another coworker, have both noticed this. We open the web vault and log in, but don't see our entries. Instead we have to go to switch products, choose organization, select login and then log in a second time. Then there's those other tabs to close. Why is this? Can we fix it?

2023-06-22 01:18:40

Question for anyone who owns a #mac and has low vision, and has also done anything with #salesforce. I know voiceover doesn't play well with salesforce, but what about someone who is using the zoom feature? Browser unknown. How well does it work? Could someone likely make it through an admin class with such a configuration?

2023-05-12 01:02:36

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@npub1pkx…5kdm I can't actually get the article to load, but it's irritating that they can make this kind of upgrade, but they can't be bothered to install some kind of card readers on call a ride busses. In 2023 they *still* require disabled riders to have the fare in dollar bills or change.