Poem with a subliminal message.

If I ever end up teaching maths in a classroom again, I'm sticking this up as a poster. xkcd.com/2586/

🎄 Day 9 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the ninth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us the hydra plugin, ate bots a plenty, seven flips upcoming, six journals joining, diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.

Hey 2025 don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. What're you lookin' at 2026? Trying to start something? Come at me, bro.

🎄 Day 8 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the eighth day of Christmas the OLH claimed they ate bots a plenty, seven flips upcoming, six journals joining, diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.

This is everything good in the world

Why didn’t they close part of the road and have the ceremony road-side of the tulips? Cars can cope with single lane traffic, no infrastucture would be blocked and the backdrop would have been cyclists using the lane. 🤦‍♀️

🎄 Day 5 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the fifth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC. Learn about #diamondOA:

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

What makes this campaign powerful is not what it explains, but what it reveals. 🎥 Credit: “The world is harder when it wasn’t designed for you” Created by the Vozes da Inclusão Institute, dedicated to accessibility and inclusion. Shared by @theadnetwork

🎄 Day 2 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the second day of Christmas the OLH gave to us two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC. Read their interviews: www.openlibhums.org/...

🎄 Day 1 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the first day, the OLH gave to us the launch of the OJC / @ojcollective.bsky.social. Open Journals Collective Homepage: openjournalscollecti...

Ah Christmas eve… and the accidental tradition of hurriedly finishing off the knitted Christmas presents. #IAmKnitting

This. ‘The problem is not solely the LLMs, but scholars not checking footnotes and authors not reading the material they are citing. These behaviours… are more about the current crisis in universities worldwide, spurred on by governments who do not wish for an educated population’

This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.

Watchdog dismisses DWP’s description of disabled editor as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’ for asking to see deaths email @plutopress.bsky.social #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

There's no single mobility aid that works for everyone. That's why we'll keep working to help make a world where all #Disabled people can use their ideal wheels to get around. Wishing everyone their ideal wheels in 2026!

Hundreds gather outside Girlguiding HQ to demand trans ban is reversed: ‘Adults debate, children bleed’ www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

#Wivenhoe #sunset Glorious.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

"Because understanding speech is harder for people with auditory processing disorder, we need a clearer signal and less noise. We have a lot more trouble with conditions that muffle, distort, or distract from the speech signal." From @mosaicofminds.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/mosaicof...

Wondering if someone with friends in high places misjudged the tide. #Wivenhoe #Chinook

Philosophical Logic has officially launched at the Open Library of Humanities! This comes after the mass resignation of the entire editorial board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic from Springer Nature. Their open letter is included in the announcement.

Philosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Philosophical Logic at the Open Library of Humanities. This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement). Read more:

@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com !!! 🤣🤣🤣 #Humor #Funny #Penguins #Puffins #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergence

Have you seen the nifty new Apple video about student accessibility? Includes transcript, interested in people's thoughts. www.apple.com/accessibilit...

Deaf people who use British Sign Language face “entrenched” and “systemic” exclusion from health and social care services across Britain, according to a new report by government advisers. #BSL #Deaf #Deafblind www.disabilitynewsservice.com/deaf-people-...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

The NHS just did a big independent review that concluded that ADHD is still significantly under diagnosed and under supported. But that's not the answer he wanted. So he's ordering a new conclusion. bsky.app/profile/hsw3...

Don't cross the picket line at the British Library, their staff are on strike and need our support.

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

Join the Christmas Kidical Mass ride at 09:30 on Sunday 7 December. Starting at the northern end of Norman Way off Lexden Road.

Winter beauty at Fingringhoe Wick

A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives. momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...

I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing. Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.

The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed

Thank you! I don’t know who was organised this or paid for it, but I was delighted to find work had been done to fix the horrible camber around these bends on the #Wivenhoe Trail. Much safer for anyone with parallel wheels.

Don’t buy a self-help book this Christmas. Get a help-others book. Mike Dickson’s 'How to Be a Better Human' is a guide to finding light in an increasingly overcast world. Use our xmas discount code at check-out: TISTHESEASON 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/how-...

“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”

Academic Rejection

“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.” www.ft.com/content/abfe...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Did you know, in addition to our London sessions and exclusive loan scheme we also operate a NATIONWIDE advice line through #Wheels4Me?

This is an absolutely insane screenshot: two really important crossings of the Thames in East London and the lifts have shocking availability, one of which has been broken for over three years!

We can teach people things that they aren't ever going to have any use for later in life! That's an okay thing to do!

A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights. But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

If you or a Disabled person you know has benefitted from the Cycle to Work scheme or hopes to use it in the future, whether that's using a bike, e-bike or non-standard cycle, we'd love to hear from you. Share your story in the comments or pop and email to [email protected].