Meg seanchaibeag
@seanchaibeag.bsky.social
Writer. Disabled (CP, RA, Long Covid and more). Lifelong political nerd (US/UK/RoI/RU/UKR/etc). Owned by cats. Yes, that's Paul McCartney in the profile pic- and me, left.
And "accommodation/accessible" does not mean "make the thing easier" and it definitely doesn't mean "make the thing so easy it's meaningless." It means "meet the student's access needs so that they can engage with the material in the same way as their peers, as far as is practicably possible."
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 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And "accommodation/accessible" does not mean "make the thing easier" and it definitely doesn't mean "make the thing so easy it's meaningless." It means "meet the student's access needs so that they can engage with the material in the same way as their peers, as far as is practicably possible."
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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A powerful thread (and it’s not that long):
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A powerful thread (and it’s not that long):
Excellent thread as always. As many have been saying for years now, we were *all* failed - kids, disabled people, everyone. Our leaders and govts failed us, and they've been trying to make it our fault ever since. That's part of (not all of) why everything Feels Bad. Denial just makes it worse.
Love, an immunocompromised person who did get long COVID and has yet to see a hint of space for my trauma because I am constantly dealing with theirs
(Also the product of generational trauma, so yeah, I kind of know what it looks like on a personal level when the whole world has it
(Also the product of generational trauma, so yeah, I kind of know what it looks like on a personal level when the whole world has it
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Excellent thread as always. As many have been saying for years now, we were *all* failed - kids, disabled people, everyone. Our leaders and govts failed us, and they've been trying to make it our fault ever since. That's part of (not all of) why everything Feels Bad. Denial just makes it worse.
THIS, I've been screaming about it for years and got nothing for it but more shrugs, so I'm done giving my take. I'm so, so, SO fucking tired. Of being sick, of having no way to move forward, and of everyone going "huh, wow, sucks to be you!" while they clearly struggle in the same ways.
Everybody seems to be at the "what's the point?" Stage of a shared psycho-spiritual/existential crisis. The "death" side of a rebirth cycle, usually. But you only get to the rebirth side by putting the work in and we aren't even at the stage where enough people understand what's going on to do that.
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
THIS, I've been screaming about it for years and got nothing for it but more shrugs, so I'm done giving my take. I'm so, so, SO fucking tired. Of being sick, of having no way to move forward, and of everyone going "huh, wow, sucks to be you!" while they clearly struggle in the same ways.
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You always reach a point in the brilliant writings of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social when you realise this is what American journalism at this moment should be like, and instead it's mostly bog-standard corporate hackery. And that's the "good" stuff.
"I've written two books about the nexus of government and organized crime. As a result, I live under a double bill of apprehension: They'll catch me too early, and you'll catch on too late."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...
The Red, White and Blue Screen of Death
On the day the internet died, and the zombie internet returned.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You always reach a point in the brilliant writings of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social when you realise this is what American journalism at this moment should be like, and instead it's mostly bog-standard corporate hackery. And that's the "good" stuff.
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney (x5)
The Who (x2)
U2 (x2)
The Frames (x5)
John Mellencamp (x2 1/2 - my view was a bit obstructed the first time; I was in utero).
Then again, as a wheelchair user, my view is *usually* obstructed, but that's a whole 'nother thread.
Paul McCartney (x5)
The Who (x2)
U2 (x2)
The Frames (x5)
John Mellencamp (x2 1/2 - my view was a bit obstructed the first time; I was in utero).
Then again, as a wheelchair user, my view is *usually* obstructed, but that's a whole 'nother thread.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Explosions in the Sky
Guster
Switchfoot
The Faint
The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses
Explosions in the Sky
Guster
Switchfoot
The Faint
The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Powerwolf
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Weird Al
Everything Is Terrible! (well, sort of a concert, does that count?)
Dragonforce
bonus upcoming:
Rush (Fifty Something Tour in LA, June 11)
Powerwolf
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Weird Al
Everything Is Terrible! (well, sort of a concert, does that count?)
Dragonforce
bonus upcoming:
Rush (Fifty Something Tour in LA, June 11)
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney (x5)
The Who (x2)
U2 (x2)
The Frames (x5)
John Mellencamp (x2 1/2 - my view was a bit obstructed the first time; I was in utero).
Then again, as a wheelchair user, my view is *usually* obstructed, but that's a whole 'nother thread.
Paul McCartney (x5)
The Who (x2)
U2 (x2)
The Frames (x5)
John Mellencamp (x2 1/2 - my view was a bit obstructed the first time; I was in utero).
Then again, as a wheelchair user, my view is *usually* obstructed, but that's a whole 'nother thread.
I, like many, think about this every day, and I'll never get used to the defensive reaction others have of "LOL oh well, at least it's over!" I understand it's a psychological defense so they don't break, but a lot of disabled people "broke" 6 years ago and few have noticed. Two different worlds.
People have loved ones that have died in this Great Jump backwards. They have to believe it has some purpose. And all those thoughts around disease being inevitable/natural/normal helps them wake up every day and live with what has happened.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I, like many, think about this every day, and I'll never get used to the defensive reaction others have of "LOL oh well, at least it's over!" I understand it's a psychological defense so they don't break, but a lot of disabled people "broke" 6 years ago and few have noticed. Two different worlds.
... the image of Graham Linehan sleeping in a racing car bed is going to be one of those that floats around in my brain in glorious technicolor, surfacing at random inopportune moments as I stifle a chortle of horror. Genuine thanks to my brain for picking a PG element to latch onto! 🤣
Linehan: well, i'm not really working on it
Linehan: i got the AI to make it
Linehan: the creative genius behind such luminous Britcoms as Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd doesn't have time to write games
Linehan: i'm much too busy sleeping in my racing car bed
Linehan: i got the AI to make it
Linehan: the creative genius behind such luminous Britcoms as Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd doesn't have time to write games
Linehan: i'm much too busy sleeping in my racing car bed
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
... the image of Graham Linehan sleeping in a racing car bed is going to be one of those that floats around in my brain in glorious technicolor, surfacing at random inopportune moments as I stifle a chortle of horror. Genuine thanks to my brain for picking a PG element to latch onto! 🤣
Possibly one of my more controversial opinions, but Lord of the Dance is an excellent modern retelling of (some bits of) Irish mythology, actually. I'd take a performance of Lord of the Dance over an evening of hearing Tolkien any day.
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character... wrong answers only.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Possibly one of my more controversial opinions, but Lord of the Dance is an excellent modern retelling of (some bits of) Irish mythology, actually. I'd take a performance of Lord of the Dance over an evening of hearing Tolkien any day.
Unless and until Pete Townshend launches a regular radio show along the lines of Oobu Joobu, the only correct answer here is Pete Townshend. Quite frankly, it might be the only correct answer regardless... the man has so much squirreled away, listening to it would be a full time job!
If you could hear one artist's unreleased songs from their vault, who would it be?
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Unless and until Pete Townshend launches a regular radio show along the lines of Oobu Joobu, the only correct answer here is Pete Townshend. Quite frankly, it might be the only correct answer regardless... the man has so much squirreled away, listening to it would be a full time job!
I've always explained the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to non-American friends as "America's version of Eurovision," at least in terms of gloriously weird moments and their tendency to occasionally enter the general zeitgeist.
I’m convinced that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a large-scale psychological experiment to determine just how much disparate nonsense the human brain can process without shutting down. I dare you to to make sense of everything you see presented in this clip…
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I've always explained the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to non-American friends as "America's version of Eurovision," at least in terms of gloriously weird moments and their tendency to occasionally enter the general zeitgeist.
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The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
This update of the 1995 documentary series is utterly authoritative. And its tweak of the Fab Four’s songs is a thing of wonder – their music absolutely thumps!
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
For those who need alt text, this is a black and white photo of Gerry Marsden, John Lennon, George Harrison, Fred Marsden, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney, sitting in a row and laughing/grinning at the cameras. Nice to see one including Fred - those're a bit thin on the ground relative to the rest!
The #Beatles and Gerry And The Pacemakers, June 7 1963.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For those who need alt text, this is a black and white photo of Gerry Marsden, John Lennon, George Harrison, Fred Marsden, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney, sitting in a row and laughing/grinning at the cameras. Nice to see one including Fred - those're a bit thin on the ground relative to the rest!
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‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
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I've been thinking a lot about how the Covid cautious, the chronically ill and disabled have all been shoved to the side of society. We're walking ghosts, living in parallel universes that only intersect when we're running errands, soley because we don't want to be statistics before our time.
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I've been thinking a lot about how the Covid cautious, the chronically ill and disabled have all been shoved to the side of society. We're walking ghosts, living in parallel universes that only intersect when we're running errands, soley because we don't want to be statistics before our time.
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I reviewed Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future - a mind-blowing doc that does a great job of showing how tech can transform disabled people’s lives (but could do more on the tension in how much of it is made by The Worst Men On Earth). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I reviewed Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future - a mind-blowing doc that does a great job of showing how tech can transform disabled people’s lives (but could do more on the tension in how much of it is made by The Worst Men On Earth). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Anecdotal supporting evidence for this argument: This fella generally only watched Doctor Who, but if Smokey Robinson or The Who were on tv, he'd sprint over to pat and coo at the screen while they performed.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anecdotal supporting evidence for this argument: This fella generally only watched Doctor Who, but if Smokey Robinson or The Who were on tv, he'd sprint over to pat and coo at the screen while they performed.
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This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
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The end result of hours of fiddling and cleaning heads, pinch rollers, potentiometers, replacing dead transistors. The sound is incredible. Hope Bluesky doesn't garble up the audio with compression.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The end result of hours of fiddling and cleaning heads, pinch rollers, potentiometers, replacing dead transistors. The sound is incredible. Hope Bluesky doesn't garble up the audio with compression.
Welp, as a disabled person who's known quite a few people with polio and post-polio since *very* early childhood, that's enough internet for me today. Solidarity to anyone who feels the same. We've got to look after ourselves and each other, cause these clowns keep beclowning themselves.
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Welp, as a disabled person who's known quite a few people with polio and post-polio since *very* early childhood, that's enough internet for me today. Solidarity to anyone who feels the same. We've got to look after ourselves and each other, cause these clowns keep beclowning themselves.
On behalf of my dead friends, my ruined health, and my mother's two heart attacks and cancer, fuck *all* presidents who say "we did a great job with covid." Indeed, fuck all of those referring to covid in the past tense. Ignorant ghouls, all.
Trump: "We got hit with covid, remember. And we did a great job with covid."
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On behalf of my dead friends, my ruined health, and my mother's two heart attacks and cancer, fuck *all* presidents who say "we did a great job with covid." Indeed, fuck all of those referring to covid in the past tense. Ignorant ghouls, all.