@14thcdisability
Eternal doctoral candidate currently at University of Waterloo. Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They. Always check the alt-text for bonus jokes.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
(I think I've also said before that even if you grant that these systems may be conscious, however we mean that, then that'd mean that they're minds constantly raised & reared on the absolute worst frameworks of carceral capitalist militaristic kyriarchal white supremacist bullshit. So. Not Great 🤷🏿♂️)
Can confirm, caramelised onions areamazing in ramen
The cognitive dissonance associated with discovering that this news came via THE DAILY FECKING MAIL is difficult to overstate.
(wanders off) Time, I think, for a pre-bedtime glass of wine. :/
The media smells blood in the water and they are goddamn right to.
Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...
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A macro image of the backside of a sleeping bee, whose head is not visible because it's jammed down into the center of a yellow flower. The bee's abdomen is dark with thin light-colored bands of hair. The flower's petals surrounding it are smooth, and the flower's fuzzy stigma is next to the bee, like a yellow pom-pom.
Guess what
Bee butt
A small (under 1 cm., way smaller than a honeybee) male Dufourea sp. bee sleeping in a sun cup (Camissonia campestris) flower in the Mojave Desert last week. Males of many solitary native bees sleep in flowers or use their mandibles to clamp onto thin plant stems. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky
Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.
A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”
Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.
Noooo
Another horrific and transparent use of the passive voice. You can’t write a headline this bad unless it’s on purpose. It takes too much effort.
Tech bro: haha we made a digital trickster demon and its organising my files haha
Tech bro: so the demon deleted all my files and is pretending it didn’t
White House blocks report warning of rising homeland terror threat linked to Iran war Story by Shawn Cohen and Philip Nieto
As with so many other stories, this should and would be the major scandal of any other administration.
"They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home."
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What if I told you autism doesn’t need a cure tho
This really should be on every front page in America.
The fucking President, an adjudicated rapist and Epstein BFF, almost certainly assaulted a 13 year old child
this sounds incredible ngl
It's easy to spout "better dead than..."about little girls when you don't think other people are actually people. 🙃
The Defenders of Women, lads
Yes! Tomorrow is #internationalwomensday
No. Do not ask me why there isn’t one for men.
I can’t imagine a more auspicious place to share the legendary women of the past than in @salisburycathedral !!
Come and see me tomorrow and let’s be brave together xxxx
Remember to do one thing* every day that scares you.
*read from a book you think is too difficult for you because it's probably not and even if it's hard or you don't get it at first, if you stick with it you'll develop the resources to read it, & even if you don't what's the harm, losing a couple
Out of all the apps I use regularly, I think Adobe Acrobat has enshittified the most rapidly with the addition of AI features, features which I adamantly do not want to use. No, I do not want a summary of this "long document," it's a five-page student essay and I'm trying to grade it
I'm fumbling for words right now on just how important the question this thread raises is.
Quick 🧵 on concerns about #AIinEducation
TLDR; if we believe AI can help create differentiated work for lower attaining pupils, then we admit the AI requires more and more sensitive data, which raises concerns over privacy and questions as to the ultimate aims of 'Big Tech'
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A beautiful window and intricately carved panelling in the solar at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire 💕
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
