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James Purser
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I'm a software developer, a father, a husband, a wheelchair user, a photographer and general fiddler with things. You can find my blog at https://www.angrybeanie.com where you can find more of my photographs, podcasts I've created and intermittent blogs
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 1d
The book or the film?
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 3d
@snarkyplatypus.com Yeah helps with air circulation and gives you a bit more wriggle room in floods
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 3d
@snarkyplatypus.com the first house I loved when I was born was a cottage just back from the Brisbane River. Never flooded but the cottage was built on stilts
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 3d
@snarkyplatypus.com build them all on stilts.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 3d
@snarkyplatypus.com but this way your property becomes even more riverside, so winning?
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 5d
Was it the reliance on atomics? The electric type writers?

Part of the problem is that sci fi tends to drive technology development.

1969 saw 2001 a Space Odyssey display computer pads that look very much like tablets today.

Or star trek TOS communicators and mobile phones
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 5d
@rhubarbgrumble.bsky.social I tried watching the first season and I couldn't stop with the "hold on it's not like that in the books" but that's more a me thing than anything else.

It's definitely a much better adaptation than say The Watch tv series (if you're a Pratchett fan)
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
You mean the 13 year old Juliet?

Heres the thing. Shakespeare started out as the equivalent of Days of Our Lives for the common people (with a side order of sucking up to Elizabeth)

Since then it's been idolised and deified so much that when a 14 year old kid gets it, it may as well be Klingon.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
Oh it absolutely is. It's Great Man theory of history in the stars.

And while yes it was - forgive the pun - foundational for sci fi, its relevance to new audiences is low.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
New blog post:

Wheelchairs and vans and things

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#accessibility #disability
Wheelchairs, vans and things - a thread
A thread about some of the challenges faced when people need access to accessible vehicles
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
Wasn't that a bit in the Matilda movie with Danny Devito?
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
@scalzi.com Hold on, are you telling me that the original Foundation books WONT interest someone who was born this century?
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
The problem with "age appropriate" is that you need to challenge kids at that level to make them think.

However just thumping Shakespeare on them without any reference to their circumstances doesn't challenge them, instead it blocks them
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
Just had an interesting discussion with a woman who's son has Muscular Distrophy.

He's using a power assist chair at the moment but is going to be needing a full power chair sooner rather than later.

This means they're going to need a vehicle that can converted.

#accessibility #disability
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 6d
I'd also posit that how the classics are taught in schools doesn't help either
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 7d
He's got "when I were a lad" down pat hasn't he.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 8d
For fucks sake.

I hope ever uber driver who refuses a guide dog gets 1 star
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 8d
They found something less efficient than beaming power from space solar farms.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 9d
Long Billed Corella watching the world go by

#australia #corella #australianbirds #birdsphotography #birdsofinstagram
A white parrot like bird sits on a metal pole. The bird has a bald red face, except for feathered mutton chops.
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 9d
Spring has definitely sprung. Lots of ducklings down by the local pond.

#spring #australia #ducks #ducklings
A group of ducklings huddle together on the edge of a pond. Behind them looms a bank of reeds
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 9d
Oh no, there's been a plane crash at Shellharbour, three people killed
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James Purser @angrybeanie.com · 9d
Not surprised, just disappointed
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