Jaws with Microsoft Teams, Jaws with Discord

I recently found this really great document on
using Microsoft Teams with a screen reader by Doug Lee,
https://www.dlee.org/teams/info.
htm
which, even if you don't use the scripts, gives one of the best overviews of Teams for people using screen readers that I've come across.
Also check out
Jaws scripts for Discord by Doug Lee
https://www.dlee.org/discord/
and you may wish to check out the list of programs for which he has written scripts
https://www.dlee.org/

Amazing list--I feel as if I just fell into Aladdin's cave.

A meme

Alexx feeds me the choicest twitter posts over dinner every evening, and tonight's was a meme that suggests you take the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theatre and the last movie you saw in a movie theatre and combine them and see what you get.
I vividly remember the first movie I saw in a theatre because it totally traumatized me: it was this version of Mary Queen of Scots (1971)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067402/
starring Vanessa Redgrave--and you should check out the cast list because it is impressive--but what I remember is the beheading scene which, okay, *maybe* the movie didn't actually *show* the beheading, but I saw Redgrave slowly moving toward the executioner, and then there was this chop and a thunk, and it doesn't *matter* whether I physically saw it or not, I *saw it*. And I can still see it in my mind's eye. (It's an interesting thing: having grown up visually impaired, there is not a strong distinction between my mind's eye and and what I actually physically saw.)

The last movie I saw in a theatre was the Oceans 11 remake with a female cast.

So this is what I excitedly told Alexx: My movie would feature mary Queen of Scots getting beheaded, and then this gang of female theieves/con artists show up *wearing kilts and swords (hopefully historically accurate), and wreck their revenge--

Alexx (completing the sentence): And they take over Scotland!

Kes: That sounds so cool! Now I want to see it!

Squirrel Girl

A friend and I were talking about books that have made us, or make us, feel better, and we got talking about comics, and I mentioned Squirrel Girl. My friend didn't know who Squirrel Girl was, and I was at a loss as to how to describe the wonder that is Ryan North's Squirrel Girl, so all I said was, "Trust me, Squirrel Girl who who you need right now."

When I mentioned this conversation to Alexx he replied, "Squirrel Girl is who we all need right now."

So, if you feel as if the world is a big scary place and everything you read just makes you feel more anxious:

Go read Ryan North's Squirrel Girl. Trust me, you'll feel better.

Note: Ryan North's incarnation of Squirrel Girl is also a great comic to read to blind people, because she has lots of conversations, even with supervillains, instead of just punching them. One of the best parts is her conversations with her best friend Nancy, and her squirrel partner, Tippitoe (I hope I spelled that correctly) and, if you really need a perk, check out the pictures from fans at the back, including all the girls of all ages who cosplay Squirrel Girl.

Finally, if Ryan North reads this: you may not be an astronaut- Lieutenant Governor of Canada, but, in Kestrell's world, you are very cool.