Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing

The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)

Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."

It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x

ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions. CHOTINER: How do you play? ROS: How do you think? CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking. ROS: Statement, 0-1 me. CHOTINER: What? ROS: What don't you understand? CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you - ROS: Statement, 0-2 me. CHOTINER: OK wait-

ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you. CAT: [grunts] ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!! CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]

(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)

NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World, published by Verso. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant

Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.

[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money

Together: small vine tomatoes, nectarine, green olives (Perello gordal picante), red pepper, a little finely chopped red onion, burrata, balsamic vinegar + good olive oil + salt + pepper. (You may also accompany with bbq'd chicken thigh with crispy skin).

Thinking a lot about Winnie Soon's Unerasable Character Series, on the horrors of erasure and the scale of unheard voices within the contexts of digital authoritarianism and the 'blank paper' protests in China (calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)

The chapter on 'Deviance' in my book is on payment processors in the adult entertainment industry, spurred by going to b2b pr0n trade fairs and being 🧐 about why?? the fair's main sponsors were all processors??? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Shannon has been such a support & lodestar for me over the past decade; a brilliantly inventive scholar and astonishingly generous human. So much of what she writes so beautifully here is resonant, of being (a woman) in arts/humanities academia, and of carving weirder paths through the green 🌿

In an extremely specific way, '28 Years Later' feels like a sister-piece to 'Isles of Wonder'

Full fat Cherry Coke with an original Magnum chopped up into it (large pieces) + massive ice-cube, you're welcome

Had some Proper Feelings seeing these posters in the tunnel up to the V&A today - an essential show at any time but especially in the current moment, and by such excellent folks.

You may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like.

Apropos of this moment: in a creative writing for performance group I was in we went round the room & described what we wanted to dig into. 'Care', 'queer joy', 'clowning' from other folk [genuinely great!]. From me, truthfully, it has always been 'men being terrible little bitches to each other'.

(Happy Pride month!)

Lads this looks so good ✨

i dont care what AI can do "better" than me. the point of me doing something isn't to be the best at it. it's for me to do it.

Been thinking and working so much over the past years about living in (often hostile) systems and how to communicate and work with that complexity as it unfurls; and I'm so looking forward to seeing what work the @unbreaking.org crew will do.

Gorgeous gorgeous girls write gorgeous gorgeous books about complex technological systems / join us in Cambridge on May 22nd for this! So honored to be @mayameme.bsky.social 's discussant ✨🐋

I used Paul's thoughtful letter as the grounding for the email I sent to my MP about trans rights, adding in my own memories of growing up under Section 28 - the lyrics are different but the tune of 'common sense' + 'fuck deviants' + 'protect the pure & vulnerable' is identical.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...

did you know i have stickers about how for the price of a tesla *someone* could have commissioned a light comic opera making fun of *literally anyone*? it's true! spite operas are cheap! these stickers are cheaper! duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch/your-t...

Girl! I wanna put you in a group chat I wanna put you in a group chat I wanna put you in a group chat, group chat, group chat Let's start a war, start a nuclear war In the group chat, group chat, group chat Wow! In the group chat

I am so bad at social media these days unless it’s being extremely mad at our government on a certain image based platform, but for some reason I’ve had loads of new followers here. I’ve been really occupied working towards our show, Design and Disability, tickets were released earlier this month.

Quite stunned to see Katherine Losse written out of this media cycle, despite being the first Facebook whistleblower, the first to experience Facebook wrath and retaliation (and the first to publish a tell-all book!)

1. They're lesbians Harold 2. The deep state does crimes 3. Adventures in animated / puppetted sublime psychedelic non-human landscapes (crying). 4. Men being terrible little bitches to each other in pursuit of power (v funny but not funny) 5. You will surely enjoy this DoP living their best life!

Featured for a SECOND time in 'Perfect Sentences' = a tiny medal (drawn on a plotter) for me 🏗

Also to say: if you commission essays and articles & and would like me to write for you on the current moment and any of complex tech, air traffic control systems, supply chains, car crash testing, fintech, and what we mean by 'systems', then do get in touch at [email protected] 🏗

NEW POSITION UNLOCKED (curled in lap, head *buried* in / elbow) (an upgrade on sitting in lap, head buried in armpit??)

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

(a platter? a bouquet? whatever the collective noun is for mascs & butches, from Lucy Dacus, for your hydration in difficult times www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90_...)

reupping for the morning crowd, here's my working paper on why AI is fundamentally corrosive yo democracy that CHI rejected, please enjoy!

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

(very cool to write a book on systems, and put the parts on the history and temporal qualities of airspace, and the parts on finance/deviance/Musk-bros in *separate* chapters?)