Anyone with solid advice and resources etc to back up those of us not wanting to use planet-killing predictive text machines?

Today's hot take: if parents want pushchair spaces on public transport they should do what disabled people did to get our spaces

My new wheelchair on it's first trip to the office

For some reason work has set up a big day long meeting in Liverpool. Because there's only 2 wheelchair spaces in Standard per train, the earliest train with space to get home will get me into Euston at 0016. Then it's an hour by bus home. For some reason that train takes an extra hour as well.

Three years ago today I was in my hotel in Tokyo waiting to head to the airport to fly home and I was treated to this view of Mt Fuji

New wheelchair highlights

Quote from a corporate post marking start of Disability History Month "He lives with Usher Syndrome which has caused him to be profoundly deaf and blind but he has never let it hold him back in life or work." Good to see inspiration porn is still alive in 2025

Paid the balance for my new wheelchair yesterday so it should be arriving soon!

I'd love to use independent bookshops but most of them have access like this so I can't get in. See also independent coffee shops. This isn't a criticism of these specific businesses, just an observation of the kind of premises so many independent businesses operate out of.

Where do you start with this? "LED lights don't carry red wavelengths, they just mimic red light"

Can't believe it's taken me years to get round to seeing The Lady of Shallot by Waterhouse in person. Was introduced to it when doing Tennyson for O-level last century

I can definitely recommend the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain

So lacking in photography inspiration at the moment. Think I need to find an accessible photo walk or similar group to do something with to restart things

Sod pepper spray, I want Worcestershire Sauce spray so I can add it to food wherever I go

Hearing people my age saying it's all funerals and care homes now rather than weddings and christenings. As someone with a life long disability, death has been an almost permanent presence in my life. Only about ⅓ of my peers from school are left. Most never saw 50

Why is it that even on empty trains/tubes bipeds still take up the wheelchair space?

What would you call a Placebo tribute act?

Just chased my disabled freedom pass application as it's been 10 weeks since I applied (start of August). Apparently they are currently processing applications received in the first week of July! How can a straightforward application take that long?

I want to know who decided I should dream about triffids last night

A bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a wheelchair accessible photography studio for hire in London? I'm trying to plan a couple of studio shoots but finding it hard finding anywhere to shoot

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand Have a quiet on-call

Thoughts - is a car park where people who need the accessible space can only park for 3 hours regardless of payment but people who don't can park for as long as they like discriminatory?

I love how one of the symptoms of nerve agent poisoning is listed as "involuntary fecal incontinence" which suggests the existence of "voluntary fecal incontinence"

Anyone got good FOI knowledge? Does a request need to be made to a specific point of contact within an organisation or any of their points of contact?

Got to track down a referral from one clinic to another that appears to have vanished. More soul-sapping disability admin

Border terrier on the tube klaxon! My commute is already better

Me on the way to the rapture.

Spooky literature folks, I've just had a memory bubble up of a tale about a chap camping on an island in a river, probably in northern Europe, that's posessed/sentient and he struggles to escape. Has an M R James feel but not sure it was his. Radio 4 did a dramatisation. Would love to find it again

This is why Street Countdown needs to be stamped out Countdown champion stabbed rival at fans' event in Blackpool - BBC News share.google/JzzMwVWezdir...

The next medic that makes a snide comment inferring I'd still have legs if I managed my diabetes better is going to get properly roasted. Lost one in 1999, the other in 2021. Diabetes arrived January 2025

Interesting conversation with the surgeon. Apparently I've not quite got type 3c diabetes but I've not quite got type 2 either. Somewhere in between apparently

Jersey looked great in the sunshine today

... if you see this, report with a vampire that is not dracula.

I wonder how many of the pseudo-patriots who see themselves as Crusaders and cosplay as Knights Templar have taken the appropriate vows of chastity, poverty and obedience? They've not served as page or squire beforehand either. Criticising the King doesn't really fit either for a knight

Lots of emphasis on that writer being arrested by armed police. It's Heathrow, all the police you see patrolling around there are armed

It's always puzzled me that when a frying pan is used as a weapon in films, it's always the flat of the pan that's used. The edge would deliver more impact. See also spades

I'm sat somewhere very warm and sunny reading a book about staying up through winter in a frozen Wales. Definitely feels odd

I hope all those people putting flags up randomly are lowering them at sunset or are they just disrespectful towards the flag

Always amuses me that the anti-ULEZ types see themselves as rebels yet call themselves bladerunners. Bladerunners are government employed executioners. A robot-age slave patrol

Saw this printed on the pocket of a pair of trousers on the tube this morning. "Fashion with fashion more creaae we aim cerateis more cultural is mission" I thought I was having a stroke when I tried to read it

Going to be watching The Limey at some point this week to remember Terence Stamp

I was at a hospital last week and this was the bin in the accessible loo. Didn't know I'd have to bring feet with me to use it.

Every so often I get the need for a cathartic disability related rant but it's difficult as it often strays into TMI territory. One of the many 'fun' things about being disabled

Yet another hospital waiting area without any space for wheelchair users.

I need to find somewhere that can weld titanium as a nut has come off my wheelchair and needs welding back on

Because of the lack of cross platform access at my local tube station, I've got to go two stops further on then back on myself to get back to the car park. Otherwise it's an 800m push with a hill so steep i can only get up it backwards and even then I lose traction. Would be impossible in the wet

Just once I'd like to do the journey to work without getting stared at. Can't believe that ¼ of the way through the 22nd century people are still surprised to see a wheelchair user in public

Anyone know a good source for advice when a company is selling returned items as new?

My wheelchair treadmill arrived today. Bought as new but turns out was delivered to an NHS hospital back in January 2023, stayed there for 6 months and back to the supplier. Now, I have to wait for a new one to be delivered and this one to be picked up

I got an email today from DHL saying a parcel they have is going to be delivered on Thursday 17th and I need to be in to sign for it. Email i got yesterday said that the delivery on the 17th was delayed and would be delivered the next working day (18th). On their system the package vanished for 27hr