Many are arguing this highlights the need for better diagnosis and treatment of #autism. While true it also highlights the horrendous and dehumanising treatment of people in some #MentalHealth hospitals. This urgently needs investigating. #Disability www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I must have made a terrible mistake. My "discover" feed is full of cat photos but not a single dog photo. Going to lie down to recover.

🎁 Accessible Wrapping Hack for the Holidays! Gift-opening joy is for everyone! 💚 Make presents easier to open for loved ones with disabilities: 1️⃣ Add a ribbon handle. 2️⃣ Wrap lightly with minimal tape. 🎥 Watch the video for the full hack! #AccessibleWrapping #HolidayHack #CerebralPalsy #yeg

Happily replaying the Outer Worlds, having upgraded to the new edition. Looking forward to a bunch of new games after that. New Year is always a difficult time for me and I am already starting to feel the effects. Video games and my dog are a lifeline.

Doctor: How are you? Me: I'm good. Doctor: What brings you here today? Me: I'm doing bad.

The use of #AI in government bureaucracy is problematic. You only need look at the Horizon scandal to see the dangers when computers get it wrong. Now it is being deployed against welfare claimants in the UK despite knowing it is biased. #disability www.bigissue.com/opinion/dwp-...

Have logged on to discover that playing video games and having chronic pain will apparently turn me into an assassin. Will now go away and reflect on my life. Nah. Just kidding. Will now go away and play some more video games. #disability #ChronicIllness

"Video games cause violence" Meanwhile, me reloading my save because I accidentally made one of the characters sad

Many people do not understand game design. Let me explain: game design is when attacking with your primary attack builds stacks of zorp, and your secondary consumes zorp stacks to add additional slow and lifesteal when you plurk

I wanted to check again, but altometer.atdev.pro is down right now. From what I'm seeing right now, however, the ratio can't be all that great. I'd like to again ask people to use alt text: 👇 1/4

Drat. I forgot to buy an advent calendar again. On that note, shout out to all those people who weren't allowed a chocolate advent calendar when they were kids. Double shout out to those who had to reuse the same advent calendar each year with the same pictures.

Happy International Day of Disabled People. Let’s keep fighting for a society where disabled people’s lives are valued. #Disability

What a great example of sharing #research accessibly - and of research with #autistic people that involves researchers from the community. #AutRes #QualitativeHealthResearch #trans #nonbinary

That Sunday morning feeling. #DogsOfTwitter

I came across this website about eczema/atopic dermatitis in people with darker skin. Hopefully someone will find it useful. eczemainskinofcolor.org

Spoon Theory: Tasks cost spoons (energy). Healthy people have infinite spoons. Sick people only have a few, so must carefully choose basic daily tasks, or get sicker. Why spoons? The author was in a cafe when they invented the metaphor. It's useful but never meant to be deep. #disability #spoonies

As an aside, I am now suffering from wheelchair envy. #disability Image shows Marissa Bode sitting in a manual wheelchair, which although looks fairly uncomfortable, being very upright and mostly made of wood, has fantastic clockwork like decorations on the wheels.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Disability activist: Do you also have spill-proof cups? Then people with tremors would be able to have a full cup.

As Sean says: "I have never understood why, when everyone on the planet is one accident or medical condition away from disability, many people seem to lack any empathy and do not attempt to understand how it must feel to be refused service because of a disability." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

#socialCare #Careandsupport #socialcarecrisis

A carer sends an untrained friend in her place to care for an elderly person with extensive care needs. But neither police nor the Care Quality Commission will act. The lack of supervision and repercussions is plain wrong. #Disabled and elderly people deserve better. news.sky.com/story/amp/th...

Chronic fatigue isn’t just feeling a bit tired and needing to sleep. It’s chronic, debilitating, exhaustion, that can take over your entire life. You need so much more than a good nights’ sleep to manage. You never feel rested enough.

#AssistUsToLive 18 days to release of text of the bill to the vote 5 hours to discuss 38 pages 43 clauses The bill is too rushed www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

A hard hitting article from @bylinescymru.bsky.social regarding the alarming trend of young people's behaviour towards the nation's homeless population Do give the Bylines Cymru a follow It's news for the people by the people #PowerfulCitizenJournalism bylines.cymru/politics-and...

This is true. otoh I was brought up in France where striking farmers was an expected annual event, carefully timed between the teachers strike and the civil servants strike.

Looking for #disability access advice. Almost got stuck in mud in my electric #wheelchair in my garden. There is a lip of about 2 inches to the path. Fine in summer, not winter. What sort of ramp might be suitable, won't move or sink? I can't drill into path but need access due dog 🐕. #accessibility

Something happy for a Monday morning: my little dog being a lot more active than me! Video description: cream coloured long haired chihuahua in a park on a sunny day jumps over 3 blue agility jumps in a row. She then looks expectantly at the camera for a treat. #dog #DogsOfBlueSky

First step: start following other exiled followers from twitter. Hurrah, you can do it automatically with sky bridge! Wait, it only works with a computer, not tablet. Sigh.