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Usher syndrome, deafblind, retinitis pigmentosa, cochlear implants, guide dog 🦮 🌈, AltText and capitals on hashtags,
♿️ she/her,
Equality, Equity and Justice
♿️ she/her,
Equality, Equity and Justice
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I will follow you just for being a kind soul who uses #AltText on your images
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♫ He shouldn’t have run
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
♫ He shouldn’t have run
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
#BlindSky
Please can you recommend news apps for iPhone that use dynamic text (that is, use the iPhone text size you have chosen on accessibility menu)? I have only currently found AP News (USA) and Metro News (UK). Metro does not report everything so looking for more content. Thank you .
Please can you recommend news apps for iPhone that use dynamic text (that is, use the iPhone text size you have chosen on accessibility menu)? I have only currently found AP News (USA) and Metro News (UK). Metro does not report everything so looking for more content. Thank you .
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#BlindSky
Please can you recommend news apps for iPhone that use dynamic text (that is, use the iPhone text size you have chosen on accessibility menu)? I have only currently found AP News (USA) and Metro News (UK). Metro does not report everything so looking for more content. Thank you .
Please can you recommend news apps for iPhone that use dynamic text (that is, use the iPhone text size you have chosen on accessibility menu)? I have only currently found AP News (USA) and Metro News (UK). Metro does not report everything so looking for more content. Thank you .
The only way to avoid accessing AI unknowingly is to engage in real life. Go to the theatre. Go to music gigs. Go to poem recitals. I say this even as a deafblind person. Access DVDs, CDs, books, physical media of old. Talk to real people in real life.
AI can be the end of screen time. Let’s hope.
AI can be the end of screen time. Let’s hope.
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The only way to avoid accessing AI unknowingly is to engage in real life. Go to the theatre. Go to music gigs. Go to poem recitals. I say this even as a deafblind person. Access DVDs, CDs, books, physical media of old. Talk to real people in real life.
AI can be the end of screen time. Let’s hope.
AI can be the end of screen time. Let’s hope.
So what I’m learning here is that media have been photoshopping a dry crotch onto Neeson for years to protect his star status? His urine has been air brushed out of red carpets and paparazzi shots? And Neeson knew they would so he carried on regardless ? It’s a very strange world.
Liam Neeson did the narration for an anti vaxx pro RFK Jr. documentary. Attached pic unrelated.
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
So what I’m learning here is that media have been photoshopping a dry crotch onto Neeson for years to protect his star status? His urine has been air brushed out of red carpets and paparazzi shots? And Neeson knew they would so he carried on regardless ? It’s a very strange world.
You know what thought did, followed a dustcart and throught it was a wedding
9. What idiom, phrase or proverb did you grow up hearing?
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
You know what thought did, followed a dustcart and throught it was a wedding
Regular marshmallows will no longer be acceptable
Marshmallow Snowflakes
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December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Regular marshmallows will no longer be acceptable
I love Eurovision. But it has become pointless, ironically due to the points scoring system which has been manipulated for unpleasant reasons . I am glad Iceland have joined the other nations boycotting it. I hope @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can address this issue and the BBC also boycott 2026
Bluesky
thebbcnewsnight.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I love Eurovision. But it has become pointless, ironically due to the points scoring system which has been manipulated for unpleasant reasons . I am glad Iceland have joined the other nations boycotting it. I hope @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can address this issue and the BBC also boycott 2026
It is traditional for the star on the top of the tree to be wonky, right? Starts off well and gets more slipshod as December progresses
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It is traditional for the star on the top of the tree to be wonky, right? Starts off well and gets more slipshod as December progresses
In my town today a man entered a woman’s vehicle without her permission, to drive it in a traffic jam. The woman, reporting this on FB has been widely admonished for not locking her doors. Not one person has advised that others should not enter another’s property without consent.
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In my town today a man entered a woman’s vehicle without her permission, to drive it in a traffic jam. The woman, reporting this on FB has been widely admonished for not locking her doors. Not one person has advised that others should not enter another’s property without consent.
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I got to see my foster momma and family after we passed recertification. I was fostered for the first year of my life to learn how to be a family dog.
This is my first momma. She’s a veteran as well.
#WillowTheServiceDog #ServiceDog #WorkingDog #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #GoldenRetriever #Veterans
This is my first momma. She’s a veteran as well.
#WillowTheServiceDog #ServiceDog #WorkingDog #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #GoldenRetriever #Veterans
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I got to see my foster momma and family after we passed recertification. I was fostered for the first year of my life to learn how to be a family dog.
This is my first momma. She’s a veteran as well.
#WillowTheServiceDog #ServiceDog #WorkingDog #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #GoldenRetriever #Veterans
This is my first momma. She’s a veteran as well.
#WillowTheServiceDog #ServiceDog #WorkingDog #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #GoldenRetriever #Veterans
A festive sight from Ramsbottom and Holcombe Hill! Father Christmas and his flying reindeer enjoy a visit to Lancashire
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A festive sight from Ramsbottom and Holcombe Hill! Father Christmas and his flying reindeer enjoy a visit to Lancashire
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Good morning! We’re all ready for the first day of our Christmas running event - Christmas food and cheer, and free bus rides linking us to Manchester City centre for the market. Buses in use today will be 1001, 612, 5871 and 11.
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Good morning! We’re all ready for the first day of our Christmas running event - Christmas food and cheer, and free bus rides linking us to Manchester City centre for the market. Buses in use today will be 1001, 612, 5871 and 11.
Indeed. They have worth or they do not have worth. By worth we mean to the nation and not one man.
the supreme court birthright citizenship case will not determine the answer to any constitutional question, but it will determine which justices do not meet the bar’s character and fitness requirements
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Indeed. They have worth or they do not have worth. By worth we mean to the nation and not one man.
I’m weighing in on Pantone Cloud Dancer .
The blurb says it’s balanced, neither being a blue stark white or a yellow cream white.
So it’s not magnolia and it’s not brilliant white.
I hadn’t heard of it before and I now I have. So well done Pantone on this low cost highly effective marketing!
The blurb says it’s balanced, neither being a blue stark white or a yellow cream white.
So it’s not magnolia and it’s not brilliant white.
I hadn’t heard of it before and I now I have. So well done Pantone on this low cost highly effective marketing!
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’m weighing in on Pantone Cloud Dancer .
The blurb says it’s balanced, neither being a blue stark white or a yellow cream white.
So it’s not magnolia and it’s not brilliant white.
I hadn’t heard of it before and I now I have. So well done Pantone on this low cost highly effective marketing!
The blurb says it’s balanced, neither being a blue stark white or a yellow cream white.
So it’s not magnolia and it’s not brilliant white.
I hadn’t heard of it before and I now I have. So well done Pantone on this low cost highly effective marketing!
I read the first chapter of Ulysses (James Joyce). I found the prose fine to read (especially after just completing A Tale of Two Cities which takes commitment in the first chapter).
But
I did not become invested enough in the characters to pursue to chapter 2.
Is this common?
But
I did not become invested enough in the characters to pursue to chapter 2.
Is this common?
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I read the first chapter of Ulysses (James Joyce). I found the prose fine to read (especially after just completing A Tale of Two Cities which takes commitment in the first chapter).
But
I did not become invested enough in the characters to pursue to chapter 2.
Is this common?
But
I did not become invested enough in the characters to pursue to chapter 2.
Is this common?
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My next craft project is a felt Christmas light garland. Started on it today. 😊🎄🎅
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My next craft project is a felt Christmas light garland. Started on it today. 😊🎄🎅
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I am partying so fucking hard right now
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am partying so fucking hard right now
Don’t make disabled people work for their access.
If you tout your commitment to equity and inclusion and then say “accessible options can be explored upon request” - that is neither accessible nor welcoming to disabled folks. Virtual/hybrid meeting options, abundant seating, and water access should all be easy, advertised, and already available.
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Don’t make disabled people work for their access.
Just broken out the strong words “as previously stated” in an email #VeryBritishProblems
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just broken out the strong words “as previously stated” in an email #VeryBritishProblems
I have completed A Tale of Two Cities having inexplicably not done so previously.
Absolute genius.
From the famous opening lines to the also famous closing lines I was hooked and mesmerised and stunned.
Marvellous;Marvelleux
Absolute genius.
From the famous opening lines to the also famous closing lines I was hooked and mesmerised and stunned.
Marvellous;Marvelleux
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I have completed A Tale of Two Cities having inexplicably not done so previously.
Absolute genius.
From the famous opening lines to the also famous closing lines I was hooked and mesmerised and stunned.
Marvellous;Marvelleux
Absolute genius.
From the famous opening lines to the also famous closing lines I was hooked and mesmerised and stunned.
Marvellous;Marvelleux
There is a direct contradiction between “we don’t want to accommodate disabled people to study or work” and “we don’t want to pay for disabled people to not study or not work”.
Which of it?
I was pushed out of the workplace e by refusal to accommodate me.
Which of it?
I was pushed out of the workplace e by refusal to accommodate me.
Also, lots and lots of thoughts on this as a deafblind professor who would not be able to thrive in a classroom as a student without accommodations
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There is a direct contradiction between “we don’t want to accommodate disabled people to study or work” and “we don’t want to pay for disabled people to not study or not work”.
Which of it?
I was pushed out of the workplace e by refusal to accommodate me.
Which of it?
I was pushed out of the workplace e by refusal to accommodate me.
Do you know what a wild, reckless thing I do as a vision impaired person?
I open any random door of my advent calendar and not the allotted number (cos I can’t see the numbers).
It’s very anarchic and I love it
I open any random door of my advent calendar and not the allotted number (cos I can’t see the numbers).
It’s very anarchic and I love it
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Do you know what a wild, reckless thing I do as a vision impaired person?
I open any random door of my advent calendar and not the allotted number (cos I can’t see the numbers).
It’s very anarchic and I love it
I open any random door of my advent calendar and not the allotted number (cos I can’t see the numbers).
It’s very anarchic and I love it
The first seasonal play of my original Bing Crosby White Christmas vinyl album, passed down from grandparents to parents to me.
It literally fills the air with Christmas vibrations.
It literally fills the air with Christmas vibrations.
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The first seasonal play of my original Bing Crosby White Christmas vinyl album, passed down from grandparents to parents to me.
It literally fills the air with Christmas vibrations.
It literally fills the air with Christmas vibrations.
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Given the emphasis on delivery - this document alone uses the word "deliver" 250 times - we should assume that this plan won't sit on the shelf and gather dust, it will be put into action straight away.
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Given the emphasis on delivery - this document alone uses the word "deliver" 250 times - we should assume that this plan won't sit on the shelf and gather dust, it will be put into action straight away.
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A playlist for curry lovers…
🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love
🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere
🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor
🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy
🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman
🎵 Poppadom Preach
🎵 Tears On My Pilau
🎵 Paperback Raita
🎵 Nessun Korma
🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love
🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere
🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor
🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy
🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman
🎵 Poppadom Preach
🎵 Tears On My Pilau
🎵 Paperback Raita
🎵 Nessun Korma
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A playlist for curry lovers…
🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love
🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere
🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor
🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy
🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman
🎵 Poppadom Preach
🎵 Tears On My Pilau
🎵 Paperback Raita
🎵 Nessun Korma
🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love
🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere
🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor
🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy
🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman
🎵 Poppadom Preach
🎵 Tears On My Pilau
🎵 Paperback Raita
🎵 Nessun Korma