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@sophiemattholie.bsky.social

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Public History student, Fundraising + Policy - Disabled Students UK, Trustee - The LUNA Project, writer and reader, disabled, ND and loud about it. Views my own https://aspacewithin.substack.com/

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · Jan 4

books i read in 2025: a thread

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

I would love it if I didn't leave every Ortho appointment having been told completely different things about timelines/what I'm supposed to be doing/what not to do, like that would be really novel and fun

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 4d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 4d

We also had that yesterday

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 5d

"How's your decolonising memory module going Sophie?" Today I legitimately answered a question in a seminar with "he's a rich white man" and that was the correct answer

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 5d

Surely 5 hours of minigolf just becomes golf? Like that's not mini anymore

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 6d

What proportion of that is minigolf? I feel like an hour is already too much for me

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 7d

i would say sprout sends his apologies but he's actually far too busy having one brain cell and eating paper

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 7d

god honestly, this guy will sit anywhere other than a bed

small black cat with green eyes half in a plastic shopping bag

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 7d

was working on a group presentation with some of the new postgrads today, they asked me what my diss is about and when I told them they actually said "woah" out loud, so that's my ego sorted for the foreseeable

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

So it's the combination of needs to move for labs, needs to lock for transfers, needs pressure relief, needs supportive backrest, needs to elevate legs which is doable with a desk chair setup but ergo think that would be more expensive and less suitable. I am crossing fingers they write it strongly

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking logically I don't see how they can refuse it on cost unless they really like court cases. But logic doesn't prevail at any uni and especially not this one

Ergo are specifically saying there are cheaper options but none of them are suitable, so we'll see

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

Super helpful thank you. This is a hypothetical - same person/uni as I've told you about before - but the recommendation is a powerchair with tilt etc because of the combo of pressure and positioning needs. Ergo says cheaper than electric desk chair. Friend is concerned uni will shit themselves

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

She's a brave soldier 🫡

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

He has such excellent markings

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 9d

So hypothetically, if a university pays for a disabled student to have an ergonomic assessment for a specialist desk chair to be used on campus (labs etc), and what the assessor recommends is more expensive than they'd like (for good reasons), can the university refuse to pay for it?

(for a friend)

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 9d

Oh BLESS him. One of ours fell into the bath literally yesterday 😭

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 9d

She fits perfectly onto it, it must be hers! Thank you

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 9d

I am having the most overwhelming 24 hours and I am politely asking for pet pics please

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Did some accessibility room audits with the SU today and most of what I've learnt is that everything which is officially classed as accessible isn't, and everything which isn't officially accessible is. So it's going well, I would say

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Bloody hell

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah when we moved to semesters, all the academics structured them so that they work fine if you plan ahead, and didn't warn us of that or explain it, and were surprised when a whole load of people on my course were very unhappy 😬

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Aiming high when I've seen courses without markschemes or assessment criteria available! (not my place, elsewhere)

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Ahhhh yeah makes sense (does ANYTHING at your place work?)

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Also one of my friends was told once if she complained about a grade nobody would want to supervise her diss, but that's a separate problem 😅

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

Very true. I am more cynical of systems than many so I think if I saw solid grades and a 0 I'd be asking questions, but I'm saying that while not burnt out to hell, so who knows what would happen in reality

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