If you skip spn s1-3 how will you know about dean, my best friend dean. The one who’s 26 dude. The one who’s tired of the job. The one in his father’s leather jacket that’s too big for him. The one who saves his baby brother from the fire twice. The one who doesn’t believe in angels. How will you know
So my coworker (lab mate?) is partially deaf and was given a sign language interpreter by the university (so he doesn’t pay for anything) and also got one at his new job, which is really cool.
I didn’t realize just how hard sign language interpreters work until I started interacting with his interpreter.
Any time I need a Zoom call from my coworker to get him to explain some machine learning stuff to me, his interpreter joins the Zoom call.
During 2 hour lab meetings, he has 2 interpreters that constantly switch so they don’t get tired, and when there’s only one, we have to take a break in the middle so she can rest.
Both his interpreters spent a lot of time reading complex scientific journal articles in machine learning in order to agree on what language to use during the lab meetings.
We went out for a lab lunch and everyone ordered all this delicious food…and the interpreter couldn’t eat anything, because she had to work (my coworker said it’s part of their job but still!).
She would constantly ask me what the group on the other side of the table was talking about so she could keep my coworker “in the loop” of the “office chatter” instead of only interpreting when someone spoke directly to him.
Having to struggle with words from other languages (I’m bilingual and when I mixed in some Urdu words, the interpreter asked me to translate so she could sign them). Also having to interpret conversations where everyone is interrupting each other.
Just…it’s such an important job and I didn’t realize how much work goes into it. Sign language interpreters are amazing and really do their part to not only “translate” for deaf people, but to make them feel included in all of the conversation.
[Image ID: a young woman helping an old woman with a walker. The old woman says “and THEN misha came out as bi, Jensen wore a brand literally called omega, jarpad ended up in the hospital after a car accident, Jensen and misha had a panel together, and misha came out as straight.” The young woman says “sure grandma let’s get you to bed” /end] — provided by @solarishashernoseinabook
@staff please don’t let the twitter users who are inevitably going to come here due to the elon purchase bully you into changing things.
Don’t make tumblr a second twitter. We love our hellsite(affectionate) exactly how it is. they can get used to it or leave. Tis a delicate ecosystem here.
misha collins seemingly coming out as bi and then having to un-come out and tweet that actually he’s straight on the day elon musk buys twitter sounds like a @one-time-i-dreamt post and yet