i totally missed that second thing!

Great policy resolving one of life's great headaches.

'My So-Called Life' at 30 - like Freaks and Geeks, one of those shows that as much as anything showed how casting agents knew what they were doing(and that writers were sometimes just ever so slightly too far ahead of the curve) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Clearing down my emails and have discovered the D*List - I love this for being about disabled peoples' experience in NZ but with the personality of a pop culture mag thedlist.co.nz

Also, some fun diagrams about the spheres of civic design (though i'm twitching in that I think l-r axes switch from diagram 1 to 2). From raco.cat/index.php/Te... . Second diagram defo inspired by both liz sanders' research methods and dubblerly's play on it www.dubberly.com/articles/an-...

Some interesting models in this, though I always want to ask "how did this work with someone that wasn't a white abled dude" as I often wonder if these assume even power dynamics (could be wrong though) gustavorazzetti.substack.com/p/the-10-bes...

The Mexican government is using AI to help prevent suicides restofworld.org/2024/mexico-...

A Christmas present - gift article of the NYT best book covers of 2024 (there are some beauties here, ranging from excellent execution to running with excellent wordplay) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...

Inspired by the accessible forms workshop @cjforms.bsky.social and I did earlier this year, I dashed off a festive note for @lori-t.bsky.social’s accessibility advent accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk/advent-calen...

happy “I’m gonna start a side project” holidays

A man in board shorts is gingerly walking barefoot across a beach carpark on a hot day, wincing and muttering: "Shit. shit. shit. shit." under his breath with each step. His partner calls from their car: Do you want your jandals?* He replies stoically: Nah. I can take it. *flip flops (2)

Spotted while cafe writing and roaming in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (20s) in full 80s romantic goth regalia is strutting down the street in the sunshine, grooving to his own personal soundtrack as he pulls a folding shopping trolley full of vegetables behind him. (1)

He's making a list He's checking it twice He's put an image in the document oh heck

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

if I had billions of dollars I would do cool things like revive Wishbone and fund a Muppet film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express with Daniel Craig doing a silly Belgian accent

Congratulations to Microsoft NZ for launching their Cloud Region datacentre in Auckland giving more Māori Data Sovereignty opportunities, jobs, considerations to Papatūānuku etc. news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2024/1...

A look at my 10 favorite movie posters of 2024. Winding down at the end of the year... These are the posters that really stood out and stuck with me! Here's my list: onfs.net/3OKUDUi What are the other great posters from 2024? Any other favorites worth mentioning? #movieposters #cinema #bestof2024

The nurse was holding my hand as I opened my eyes. She leant in close. “The operation was a success,” she whispered. “You’ve got endometriosis, but we’ve removed the cells we found. They were in your pouch of Douglas." www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-pouc...

Something I have remembered about “tours of duty” - normally involve extensive training. Get techies on training of “public service for the digital age”, the public sector accessibility duty, devolution, ethics - then a 6-12 month uk gov tour of duty will be more productive.

Something I don’t love about self-published books is when it’s also meant no professional editor. Symptoms of this I have seen over the years include: - unreadable type (tho some small pubs are bad too) - questionable assertions - style guide mistakes (a name not being capitalised and so on)

On day 7 @tink.uk illustrates how good AI is at accessibility. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Working on prototype kit guidance and getting exasperated with myself that the muscle memory is not quite there in correcting 'Github' to 'GitHub' (camel case arrgh things i've learned in the last month)

How should access to digital publications be provided once they enter the public domain? This new report sees a role for both dark archives and national libraries in moving beyond preservation to ensure widespread legal access. arcadiafund.org.uk/highlights/t...

TIL what the Boys of Summer line “deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” meant, basically didn’t twig it was Deadhead as in the Grateful Dead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/a...

This is very very good

EA just made a whole bunch of #accessibility patents open-source This means that other developers throughout the industry can use the technology at no cost. The news comes after EA made a pledge not to sue rival companies for co-opting these types of tools. www.engadget.com/gaming/ea-ju...

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

OK I take it back, I got one - did I manifest that? 😅

I seem to be the only person in my internet friend groups that did *not* get a ticket in the govcamp lottery 🙃

accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk #accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityRegulations

I was all "I didn't write this post this year surely, wasn't it maybe 2022?" nope, this January 👵

You guys, there's a whole database that documents the taxonomy of bread tags. And it is fascinating. horg.com

Me: man my bacbook is struggling with Teams, Office stuff and coding Also me:

It's not just the best film version, it's better than the original text because Scrooge ends up sitting down with Bob and not his awful relatives. Dickens must be kicking himself for getting it so wrong, and not including singing fruit.

🚨 NEXT THURSDAY AT 6PM 🚨 It's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social #2, with: - @cthimon.bsky.social & Holly Simpson, MoJ, on product development/policy/digital - Isadora Schappell & Anna Goulden, @ucl-iipp.bsky.social , on missions & capability Join us in person at MoJ, or online! lu.ma/4gdplw35

I was listening to an interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a few days ago who said we need more stories in Hollywood depicting a solutions oriented future beyond dystopia. My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.

Journal: Going Offline is online …for free Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours. 🔗 adactio.com/journal/21578

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Vanity Fair's weird story about Cormac McCarthy grooming an abused 16-year-old girl and then stealing her stories and voice for his books thing has really bothered me (and a lot of other women). A bit more on that subject from my memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence about muse as trap....

Defo did not see these at the HMRC digital delivery centre Newcastle in 2015 (though I remember the HMRC “register once update everywhere” mantra) anyone else in digital gov in 2015 see or not see these?

We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

A fun little quest story for culinary nerds: slate.com/life/2024/11... 🍽️

UKRI is recruiting a Director to lead work on R&D and Place. A great opportunity for an action-oriented leader who wants to tackle the many well-documented issues of the geography of R&D in the UK! careersportal.taleo.net/careersectio...

Honestly forgot she was playing against herself in this short

100 followers and we promise to start planning the next Content Teatime...

This looks super cool…