microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

For the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I spoke with advocates about how this law is crucial–and the ways in which disability education can be made better as its under attack from the Trump administration at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid. This is huge Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability. You’re told to “try harder”. It’s “not that bad”. You can “still work”. Not everyone can

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Gut wrenching: “I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie. Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown.”

ACT UP London is planning a die-in on World AIDS Day. Dan Glass: “We thought die-ins were history…We thought that era when people died waiting for justice was over…We’re living under a weak-willed ‘Labour-tory’ government that has gutted the HIV voluntary sector.” www.attitude.co.uk/news/hiv-awa...

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

I don’t want an app for my headphones. Please god. Not another app.

Ramzi is in South Gaza, struggling to feed himself and his family, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...

begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way

"A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the NYPD quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors”. The report was distributed to other agencies across the US." @samtlevin.bsky.social

"Parasocial bonds with technology aren't a personal failing; they're an expected outcome of systems built to optimize attention and retention." I’m quoted in Star today about how AI systems are built to feel familiar and likable through social cues. starmagazine.com/parasocial-r...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Now it’s on the official CDC site… they really are losing it. The statements shown directly contradict: - The NIH - WHO - American Academy of Pediatrics - National Academy of Medicine - Every major medical and scientific body in the U.S. and worldwide

Just one more day to get your abstracts and proposals in for the BSLS Winter Symposium ("Alternate Histories of the Body"): www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I can't wait to get stuck in to the submissions.

This flaunting of pseudoscience will cost lives; vaccines skeptics are slowly being given more authoritative grounds on which to justify not vaccinating themselves and their children, leading more to vulnerability for disease and illness to take serious effects.

Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.

I can’t walk bc of the last (ongoing) pandemic. I’ve been homebound w long covid for over a year . But thanks!!!!!

🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints. share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be

www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... this sweet obit from one of Alice’s close friends, Yomi, is beautiful. <3

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Joint book launch at King’s 🌟 Featuring: • @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures • @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires • @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social & @joannazylinska.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768... I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today): share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be (UMinn Press does some really cool things.)

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.

Thank you Alice for being my friend and comrade. You have been a beacon, a badass crip auntie who modelled incredible boundaries and offered the world such incisive wisdom and grace. We are all better for having known Alice. #ConnectingGaza

I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️‍🩹

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

What an absolute loss. Alice was the best of us. An unbelievably kind person. Every conversation I had with her was lined with the most beautiful contradictions thanks to her: hope and rage, spite and deep compassion, and all the other dualities that made her and her work so beautiful and important.

This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.

The @nplusonemag.com book match quiz is funny--I even cackled--and then the book recommendations included 3 favorites. A good time for a good cause: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

Going to Warsaw for a few days. Open to any suggestions for cool queer friendly spots to buy local art (trying to fill my walls) and good vegan food

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Saw another article about municipal bonds making the rounds earlier this week. Technical but crucial topic. thebaffler.com/latest/payin...

At least 20 people have died in ICE custody in 2025, making this year the deadliest in decades. With increases to ICE’s funding, workforce, and detention space, the system riddled with abuse and neglect will undoubtedly be more life-threatening in 2026. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

"A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.” It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract."

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Any American justifying the government withholding FOOD support from 40+ million people needs to admin what they are supporting is the state’s willingness to starve, disable, let die, and deprive its people for simply needing to eat. There is never a time for soft language about state violence

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

New digital piece available in the latest issue of "The Lit Platform"! "Flight Diaries" is the latest iteration of my ongoing work in finding ways of visualising and poetically narrating my experiences as a glider pilot theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flig... #art #poetry #digital #flight #data #dh

We're celebrating a year of @theflytrapmedia.com with a daily paywall drop on some classic Flytrap articles! Up today: Buying things, how does it work? Are we buying too many things? Are we buying the wrong things? Someone help, our family is dying.

This family did not get their SNAP in October and won't be getting it again in November unless something changes. Can y'all help with to help with food? They say their big needs are stuffer tunafish and beef stew and soup. #MutualAid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Anyone else on here getting an excessive amount of right wing content on their “discover” page? I never experienced this on BlueSky until a few days ago.

Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

Folks, I need to ask for some help this month. My US testosterone scrip has run out & I can't wait the 7+ years it takes to get seen by the UK NHS to renew it. I've been working w private practitioners to fast track getting hormones & this has been an extra £500 this month Any help is appreciated