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Fil McIntyre
@filmci.bsky.social
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Assistive Technology Lead for Natspec TechAbility. Aspiring double Bassist and lover of many musical genres. News and opinions about Assistive Tech, music, outdoors and random other stuff.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)
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Ace Centre @acecentreuk.bsky.social · 19h
We recently announced the participants in the AT Scholar programme for 2026, four passionate individuals who are driving innovation and inclusion through Assistive Technology across the UK!

Read more and find out who's involved here: buff.ly/xriQa7T

AT Scholar Project: buff.ly/qcHtStj
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22h
The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 1d
Cue for one of the best first lines ever:
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Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm
YouTube video by Charlie Duran
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing tastes like a fresh Duracell. Proper kick.
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 1d
No Windows voice typing, I do not want to type the word "philtre". I have very little need to refer to magic love potions in the course of my everyday work.
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TechAbility @techability.bsky.social · 2d
Join us at #TechAbility25 to learn about how organisations supporting AT & AAC users can and should work more collaboratively. Are they separate services, or should they be run by integrated teams? We'll look at real world examples of frustrations and successes www.techability.org.uk/techability-...
AAC and Assistive Technology: more integrated support Tina Voizey and Fil McIntyre
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 2d
Today's themed playlist features Kid Koala, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Fugazi, Waiting Room.
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Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Full Album) - YouTube
The full album for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Music by Kid Koala playlist Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Kid Koala Full Album Carpal Tunnel Syndrome trac...
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 2d
Astute as ever from @stephencollins.bsky.social
AND with #AltText - other cartoon posters please take note.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d
Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder
Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards Script: An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past and assembled from all over the world Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light [Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:] WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth [Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps] with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around [Guy has a thought]: “Mmm…" in this endless, silent void. [Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it] "… I want a pasty.” [ends]
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 3d
Ah, truly the best loch name.
"What'll we call this one?"
"What does it remind you of?"
"Well it looks a bit.... lochy"
"Done"
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 4d
It's a microscopically thin fine line between pre-ticked box and an un-ticked "tick to not sign up" box.
Which I think is still a breach but I'm not a highly paid lawyer....
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 4d
Yup and even when you complain to big companies who should know better (as I do cos I'm a sad nerd) they say "we believe our policies comply with GDPR".
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 4d
Fun #StormAmy morning so far: Big branch off tree in garden and neighbour's trampoline landed on our car.
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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 5d
Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.
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Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 5d
"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 5d
A whole day?
20 minutes about it with 13YO daughter and her friend was enough for me.
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.bsky.social · 6d
Shinichi Yokoyama speaking into a microphone while dozens of Japanese Parliament members attempt to restrain him. There is a quote bubble above Yokohama's head with the text, "AI can't be a solution for digital accessibility when those solutions were built with training data built with incorrect and bias data about disability."
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 7d
If Pinky and the Brain were a documentary ...
With rare exception, ideas really are trivial compared to execution. For example, the idea of going to the Moon is simple, but ACTUALLY going to the Moon is staggeringly difficult.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · 7d
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We Can Make an Impact.
Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 7d
"Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’"

Good news, but there's a lot more to be done on the PPE/VIP-lane scandal.
UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’
www.theguardian.com
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