ADHDeanASL

Humor, mostly. Rants, sometimes. Midvale School For The Gifted Alum. A bit much.

Kindness costs nothing; give it to everyone you meet.

Husband, dad, friend, ally. I really do have ADHD. Protect trans kids.  Photos I post are taken by me unless I state otherwise. Please don’t steal them.  Banner pic: whole coffee beans waiting to be turned into the Elixir Of Life  Avi pic: yours truly looking happy and hopeful, yet somehow powerfully sexy.

Married to JenTheRed (npub1ll9…jwql)

Today: Is the only day you have. Use it.
Get mad: At my silly jokes. Sure, why not.
Black Lives: Matter
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2026-07-26 13:49:01 UTC

A great thing to do for alt text is to simply describe what’s in the image. It doesn’t have to be Pulitzer Prize winning prose. Something as simple as “a cute black kitten sitting in a tiny bandage box,” or “a middle-aged man with graying brown hair looks directly into the camera as someone pours beer over his head.”
What isn’t as helpful is when one simply repeats the text of the toot to which the image is attached (unless the toot itself is descriptive text) or oversimplified descriptions like “a cat” or “a man and beer.” Or when someone posts a comic in which two cute foxes have dialog about sadness and hope, but then for alt text writes something like “a comic about a fox being sad” without describing the foxes and their actions or repeating the dialogue.
Descriptive alt text is awesome because it lets everyone in on the joke or the beauty or the silliness or the cuteness. Access is sexy, friends.

2026-05-04 23:37:14 UTC

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You’re quite welcome. If you enjoy whimsy, beige.party and jorts.horse have plenty of fun accounts.
*edit* also, beige.party is among the top instances for including alt text on images. It’s totally NOT because we’re a cult or anything; just really thoughtful people.

2026-05-04 18:08:33 UTC

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, [@the_etrain](https://beige.party/@the_etrain ), @npub17el…fwcl, @npub1ppe…qv2g, @npub1c6z…q3gp @npub1ypu…mcxe, [@skinnylatte](https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte ), @npub1xw7…r9m5, @npub14we…7rzk, @npub1ran…dnlr, @npub1ctz…eaml, @npub1yn0…t3te to name a few.

2026-04-16 13:44:43 UTC

Well, it’s happened. I have been reported by the school staffer about my stopping the meeting the other day to address her and another staffer’s deadnaming a trans student. I “crossed a boundary,” according to the report. They’ve taken me off the graduation ceremony I was set to interpret with a team. The graduation is for students I’ve known for years, some of them since kindergarten.
It is what it is. I’ve asked the agency to contact the school superintendent, as I suspect the order came from that staffer and not the administration, but we shall see.
I do not regret stepping out of my role. Not one bit.

2026-04-14 20:54:05 UTC

I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.
Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.

2026-04-03 16:35:06 UTC

Just learned the husband of a colleague and friend died suddenly on Wednesday. What a sad feeling to want to comfort someone and being completely unable to. Ultimate powerlessness. In these moments, I guess all we can do is be there if needed.

2026-03-27 03:03:59 UTC

Live long and punch nazis
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashtagGames

2026-03-23 22:30:35 UTC

Don’t mean to brag, but my suite* is at the top** floor of this hotel^
*room with an extra love seat jammed in
**4th
^Comfort Inn

2026-03-20 01:20:52 UTC

Poultrygeist
#PoultryMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-15 20:40:51 UTC

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Tactile ASL is far more than fingerspelling into the hand. It’s fully ASL, with the DeafBlind person tracking hand-over-hand. There are modification to signs, of course, and the person signing to the DeafBlind person adds important environmental information such as who’s speaking, where people are in the room, etc. ProTactile (PT) is a new-ish form of conveying information via haptics - even more environmental info is shared - if the presenter is pacing, when the crowd is laughing, where questions are coming from, etc. ProTactile is a specific “brand” of haptic communication. @npub1jpy…yfwv

2026-03-15 16:03:23 UTC

We all laugh in the same language.

2026-03-13 16:30:19 UTC

I hate it when I have to work at schools. Got to get up early so I can pack my Indoctrination Kit. It includes stuff like Trans Theory books, bags of kitty litter for the cat students, and my entire drag outfit for story time. Then there are the satanic candles… don’t even get me started on the Woke Ideology pamphlets I have to print every time. SIGH

2026-03-12 18:45:32 UTC

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Brutal curry. Death curry.

2026-03-12 17:41:52 UTC

Beige.party is still only at 71% of photos containing alt text. We can do far better - we HAVE done far better. I think there are some accounts posting memes and cloning from other sites that don’t contain alt text, and that’s sad.
Alt text means access for everyone. Please consider adding it if you don’t.
Thanks.

2026-03-02 14:15:14 UTC

[in orbit]
Me: *shivering and thinking about space heaters* those LIARS

2026-03-01 16:37:23 UTC

Hey, friends and neighbors, a delightful friend just reminded me that today is the start of #MarshMadness!
What it is: any pics of marshes, wetlands, estuaries, etc., especially if they contain awesome critters (but it’s not a requirement)! Let’s share some beauty!
And please don’t forget to use the hashtag so we can all find what you share.
#MarshMadness

2026-02-11 22:56:06 UTC

One of the most entertaining things about Mastodon is that I can read a thread of something like 27 posts and still have absolutely no clue of what it’s about. There are so many varied interests here of which I know nothing that I can do that every single day and still find new stuff about which I am completely clueless.

2026-02-08 00:38:47 UTC

When two dudes achieve something big, that’s a bromentous occasion

2026-02-06 13:24:07 UTC

To My Work Colleagues,
I deeply regret my recent poor choice of wording when attempting to share my photos of Sequoia National Park. After an illuminating conversation with Holly in HR, I now understand it was extremely inappropriate for me to stride into the break room and shout “WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME BIG NATURALS?” I will be personally apologizing to each of you when I return next month. For now, I will be reflecting on my missteps as I work with our dairy cows on the family farm. I’m sure it will be a great reset for me to spend time with our big mommy milkers!
- Dean

2026-01-28 20:26:52 UTC

I just had to explain Pon Farr to my young woman team interpreter. How’s your day going?

2026-01-24 03:50:03 UTC

Just saw a video in which some dude was complaining that the archery in the scene in The Hobbit where Bard kills Smaug wasn’t realistic. In the movie about hobbits and dwarves and orcs and wizards and a dragon. The archery wasn’t realistic enough.
That’s enough internet for me tonight.

2026-01-20 23:24:09 UTC

I can’t be the only person who thinks life was better when Click & Clack were on the air.

2026-01-10 12:23:18 UTC

Sherlock Holmes: This is a tricky problem indeed, Watson. I must employ all my considerable powers of seduction to solve it.
Watson: Pardon, Holmes, but I believe you meant to say “deduction.”
Holmes: *licking lips sensually* Did I?

2026-01-08 11:06:31 UTC

What we should *definitely* do during this most recent crisis is keep sniping at one another. It’s worked wonders so far, and is really, really helpful. The right absolutely HATE it because it harms them so much.

2026-01-01 19:24:14 UTC

Ooh, I’ve got a good one: Let’s let 2026 be the year we stop having arguments in our heads with people who don’t exist about things that haven’t happened.

2025-12-31 15:58:51 UTC

I *just* learned Toni Collette is Australian. That’s how good her accents are. Dang.

2025-12-26 19:07:28 UTC

Society hasn’t completely crumbled; I just saw a kid with his arm out a car window doing the wavy thing in the air stream.

2025-12-25 14:19:59 UTC

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
Happy Thursday to everyone!

2025-12-24 04:27:52 UTC

Thinking about becoming a baseball stats guy

2025-12-21 15:08:43 UTC

Happy Solstice, y’all. May your days be merry and (gradually) bright(er).

2025-12-19 14:49:13 UTC

I don’t know about y’all, but to me it feels *really* close to Flipping Congresspeople’s Cars Over season.

2025-12-17 19:48:20 UTC

If you’re in love with a certain small crustacean, that’s a relationshrimp

2025-12-17 15:31:42 UTC

There’s something really, really wrong with a country when millions upon millions of people are biting our nails hoping those 4 Republicans actually vote they way they say they will so we can still have medical care in the new year. It shouldn’t come down to shit like this.

2025-12-16 03:52:19 UTC

Nog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine
#ChristmasANonChristmasSong
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

2025-12-16 03:38:59 UTC

I Still Haven’t Found Toys I’m Looking For
#ChristmasANonChristmasSong
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

2025-12-15 12:03:25 UTC

WTForecast keeping it real this morning
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/723/481/988/979/969/original/2bebf05a59d5f204.jpeg

2025-12-10 18:58:57 UTC

“Ask not what your Callibri can do for you; ask what your Times New Roman can do for your country.”
-Marco Rubio, probably

2025-12-09 15:48:30 UTC

A Christmas special brought to you by Waffle House in which the protagonist is a small town’s best short order cook who wins over a visiting big-city lawyer when he shows her that true love is Scattered, Covered, and Chunked.

2025-12-09 03:47:04 UTC

The Man In The White Castle
#fastfoodabook
#hashtaggames

2025-12-06 16:25:44 UTC

GUYS, I just got a peace prize from my local sandwich shop

2025-12-02 18:06:09 UTC

Guys, I have a confession to make: For the past six months, I’ve been having an emotional affair with the AI in our refrigerator. It’s okay, though, because I think Jen is seeing the microwave. Looks like we’re poly now.

2025-12-02 13:25:54 UTC

Hey, thanks for fact checking my joke, you joyless enemy of fun.

2025-11-30 14:14:55 UTC

Waiting for the big, revolutionary, hack-proof business practice of moving to all paper.

2025-11-18 23:00:20 UTC

Until the day he dies, he needs to be heckled with “QUIET, PIGGY!” every time he opens his Bill hole.

2025-11-18 16:28:24 UTC

I’m starting a church that centers around eating. You may now refer to me as Repastor Dean.

2025-11-16 14:08:05 UTC

56 years on this planet now. I haven’t lived a famous life, but I can’t deny it’s been… eventful. And I can honestly and unabashedly say that I’m alive due to the love and care of others.
Please don’t allow the hate that’s currently so loud to erode your love. Do something every day in love, and never, ever stop. It’s how we win.

2025-11-13 23:26:50 UTC

Having Netflix on but not watching is streaming into the void

2025-11-12 12:29:31 UTC

The first rule of Passive Aggressive Club is - you know what, never mind. It’s not important.

2025-11-05 02:59:21 UTC

BREAKING: White House China

2025-11-01 11:54:11 UTC

Black and tan Dachshunds are just low rider Dobermans

2025-10-29 10:52:07 UTC

Anyone surprised Grok is a pedo? Anyone? Bueller?
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-mFP1Xzy2RRaGSQtlnLBg7g%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

2025-10-24 10:16:43 UTC

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IT’S WEEKEND BEIGE, BITCHES!!

2025-10-24 10:16:28 UTC

Just checked my most played list. #1 was your mom.

2025-10-21 15:47:33 UTC

Dear Everyone Who Ever Attends Any Kind Of Meeting Where Microphones Are Used: If it’s your turn to speak, USE THE MICROPHONE. THEY HAVE IT FOR A REASON. NO, YOU ARE NOT LOUD ENOUGH. USE THE FUCKING MICROPHONE.
Thank you, have a good day.

2025-10-21 12:49:30 UTC

Today we are gonna shitpost and spread giggles.
We’re also gonna alt text our images, because that’s what the cool* kids do.
*caring and thoughtful

2025-10-13 23:17:18 UTC

That paint company should clarify in their “Ask Sherwin Williams” ads that they don’t want to be asked how to properly dispose of bodies

2025-10-11 12:55:47 UTC

In fediverse, shit posts you

2025-10-10 17:03:34 UTC

TRUE STORY: Jen was in the waiting room of her pain management doctor this morning and saw this.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/350/949/712/578/122/original/32ae4b4046b7bbb3.jpeg

2025-10-10 12:10:15 UTC

Where The Hell Did That Cut Come From And Other ADHD Stories

2025-10-09 15:30:57 UTC

Lots of new folks here from Blewski, and we’re glad to see you!
You might have noticed we’re kinda particular about adding alt-text to images (beige.party is among top performers when it comes to alt text, by the way), and I’d like to share why and what the benefits are.
Why: there are lots of amazing people on the fedi who are either blind or visually impaired, and alt text gives them access to the images shared here. Along with them, there are folks who have visual processing disorders, and there are folks who just who might not know what the hell they’re looking at. Alt text gives them access, too. A third reason why: creating things that are accessible from the start is just a great way to make your images available to everyone without having to go back to the drawing board. The concept is Universal Design, and it’s a great way to do pretty much everything.
Benefits: 1. People who frequently come up against barriers have a space where those barriers are reduced or eliminated, and they’re more likely to stick around. 2. Interaction improves, resulting in more and better connections, allowing for a social network that’s *actually* more social. 3. Other stuff that’s not occurring to me in the moment (I’m distracted by the workshop happening on my computer screen), but which I’m sure my brilliant friends can add.
Alt text is just the right thing to do.
A comment I’ve seen before is “But what if I don’t have the spoons?” Lots of folks on fedi, my own amazing wife included, have disabilities or conditions that limit their energy or capacity to engage in tasks such as adding alt text. That’s 100% understandable and okay. A great way to work with that is to write your alt text a little bit at a time in a notes app when you have the ability, then just cut & paste when you post your image. There’s no rush in interaction here, and we want *everybody* to have access to the amazing stuff shared. Please consider this when posting pics, charts, comics, etc. We all deserve a bit of beauty, learning, and laughter in our days.

2025-10-08 15:40:18 UTC

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I have a few friends who are so finely tuned that it seems like a superpower. “Ugh, that fruit juice is making me feel off.” Off what? I drink fruit juice, and I have tasted fruit juice, and then I need to pee a little while later. That’s it for me. I don’t feel an immediate reduction or boost in energy or alertness or anything - unless it’s dramatic.

2025-10-08 15:07:41 UTC

This morning’s first workshop is about eating disorders, and the presenter mentioned poor interoception, or one’s ability to understand the signals the body is sending.
As a person with ADHD, I *really* relate to this. I’m not hot until I’m sweating, or cold until I’m shivering, or hungry until I’m starving, or in pain until I’m in agony. It’s a weird way to be.
I’ve always found it super impressive when someone has a really sensitive awareness of what’s going on in their body, like they’re immediately aware of how a certain food affects them. It often takes me literal years before I understand how certain foods make my body feel.
Are y’all smelling what I’m stepping in?
#ADHD
#neurodivergent

2025-10-08 01:43:24 UTC

For the record, I’ve always pronounced it “Blewski.”

2025-09-30 11:12:11 UTC

It’s the last day of #Bleptember! Post those bleps, folks! The timeline is desperately in need of cuteness today!

2025-09-29 13:43:40 UTC

A “My Darling” letter from Portland about the War, but it’s obscured by raindrops

2025-09-29 12:37:17 UTC

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This is what should be happening all over the nation.

2025-09-22 22:56:21 UTC

In light of the US President’s press conference in which he made ridiculous claims about autism and literally slandered Tylenol, America has but one question: when will the complete and unredacted Epstein files be released?

2025-09-21 23:40:42 UTC

Probably my favorite shot of the Lone Cedar
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/244/927/414/001/020/original/980e01100fc983bf.jpeg

2025-09-19 03:28:03 UTC

Yosemite today. Going back for more tomorrow.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/228/833/676/843/390/original/d14a710d251efcaa.jpeg
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2025-09-17 14:03:59 UTC

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HOW MANY SLAUGHTERED NAUGAS IS ENOUGH, EDDIE?! @npub1xua…s88j

2025-09-14 22:53:52 UTC

The smartest person I know is Deaf. He’s one of those people who’s intellectually insatiable and who is constantly making and modding stuff. He runs a robotics, printing, and drone program at a university, teaches at camps, teaches college courses, and has decided to pursue his Ph.D. You know, just for something to do. He can wire a house, convert a car to biodiesel, and install a tankless water heater, among myriad other skills he possesses.
Deafness is only a disability because most hearing people can’t sign.

2025-09-13 02:41:29 UTC

Sigh Hard
#BoreAMovieOrShow
#hashtaggames

2025-09-13 00:16:22 UTC

For all the political nastiness out there right now, you still only ever see a friendly rivalry between boob people and butt people.

2025-09-10 23:23:26 UTC

Just got an email from somebody using a Juno address. I spoke “Juno dot com?!” aloud and suddenly, my grown great-grandkids showed up and said “sure, grandpa, let’s get you to bed.”

2025-09-10 18:42:10 UTC

I hope every member of every National Guard unit going to occupy another city is constantly approached by citizens telling them “you’re the bad guy. You know it, we know it. What are you going to do about it?”

2025-09-10 11:24:19 UTC

There is an alarming lack of shitposting today. We need to fix this pronto

2025-09-07 17:26:09 UTC

I’m gonna write a novel titled “Helvetica” and have it printed in Comic Sans because all the comic sans haters can kiss my ass

2025-09-07 14:01:43 UTC

Okay, who of my UK friends just got the piss scared out of them despite being warned for days the emergency system test was coming?

2025-09-05 00:12:23 UTC

I think congressional hearings like the one with RFK Jr should all go something like this:
Senator: what the fuck is wrong with you?
RFK Jr: Excuse me, wha-
Senator: Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with your brain? Did you get kicked by a mule? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
-and it should keep going like that until the person being deposed either tells everyone what the fuck is wrong with them or quits in frustration. Maybe utilize bright lights and sections of hose filled with sand.

2025-09-03 23:52:40 UTC

Say what you will about how certain words gross you out, but if someone gives me the choice between a moist towelette or a damp towelette, I’m picking the moist one every damned time.

2025-09-01 21:02:24 UTC

A few shots from my 6 mile hike today along part of the Chinnabee Silent Trail, part of the Pinhoti Trail System in Talladega National Forest in Alabama. The Silent Trail is notable because it was created by Boy Scouts from the Alabama School for the Deaf over several years. The Pinhoti connects to the Appalachian Trail, in case anyone was wondering.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/131/054/155/107/897/original/0c36ebc6c324fd1b.jpeg
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2025-08-31 00:10:28 UTC

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Same scene, but a few steps back
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/120/481/543/246/893/original/2c01b89b95125c4f.jpeg

2025-08-30 14:58:43 UTC

My scene this morning
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/118/304/086/625/173/original/254cb2202c23e38a.jpeg

2025-08-28 02:18:39 UTC

Tonight’s snapshot
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/103/990/759/028/064/original/9811c44e22e26897.jpeg

2025-08-27 03:25:18 UTC

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Pic of you in an Ontario city: Guelphies

2025-08-27 03:24:05 UTC

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Breakup on good terms pic: Wishyouwellfies

2025-08-27 03:23:21 UTC

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Taken in a certain Pennsylvania city: Philadelfies

2025-08-27 03:21:32 UTC

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The Michael Scott actor’s are called Carellfies

2025-08-27 03:20:30 UTC

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Pic of you eating junk Mexican at 2 AM: TacoBellfie

2025-08-27 03:20:01 UTC

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A certain British singer’s photos are Adelefies

2025-08-27 03:19:16 UTC

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A pic of just your nose: smellfie

2025-08-27 03:18:00 UTC

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A hateful troll’s profile pic is an incelfie

2025-08-27 03:16:50 UTC

Taking a photo of your own edema is a swellfie

2025-08-20 23:45:57 UTC

The name of my band in college was Radioactive Walmart Shrimp

2025-08-16 16:20:37 UTC

This morning, my brother-in-law remarried his first wife after 35 years of their being divorced and married to other people. The bride entered to Rush’s Limelight, and the newly remarried couple exited to Oops I Did It Again by Britney Spears. He was resplendent in double denim, and the bride wore a white dress found on Temu. It had pockets.
They left for their honeymoon on the groom’s Harley, preceded by their thunderous motorcycle club.
This toot is 100% factual.

2025-08-15 15:53:20 UTC

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I ordered it, but I can send you the link if you’re serious. I’ll also have one of mine up for sale at a discount, as it’s being replaced.

2025-08-15 02:11:25 UTC

I’m in danger, yall. I’ve found another beautiful watch. Haven’t bought it, but DAMN, am I tempted. Orient Bambino Version 9 Automatic.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/030/352/328/912/122/original/5578df5d252cf08d.jpeg

2025-08-09 14:15:39 UTC

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I’ve asked for refunds twice on packages we’ve never received. We found one *months* later the first time we barbecued because the delivery person hit it under our grill cover. The second we found nearly a week later because it had been tucked beneath porch stairs, completely out of sight.

2025-08-06 18:01:14 UTC

As Jen was scrolling beside me just now, I spotted a post which read “As healthy male leadership is becoming increasingly rare…” and my thoughts were twofold: 1. Someone doesn’t like that women are finally being recognized for their leadership skills and 2. I’m pretty sure “healthy male leadership” has *always* been rare.

2025-08-01 14:22:09 UTC

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Why does this look like the cover of an elementary mathematics school book?