Exactly. The reason I piped up is that this anti-tech business has buried within it the ablist view that everyone has the same needs/experiences and is accessing the tech for the same reasons (ie. laziness or whatever the gripe is)
You know when you were told something 30 years ago and can't swear it's true, but it could be worth mentioning?
The manager of a Wandsworth day centre for teens with learning disabilities told me that their Hypercard database of client details was coded and created by David Thomas of Pere Ubu.
Just waving the accessibility flag here: some children with dyspraxia waste their primary years being re-taught how to write over and over, rather than getting access to tablets/laptops earlier.
It is. It's just "look, wheelchair ramps are expensive to install actually" but for education.
My version of that is, while stationary at a red light, a car ran into the back of mine. The driver got out and complained about the damage the back of my car had done to the front of his Ferrari.
Reeves said PIP is "a waste of their potential and a waste of their futures.”
PIP is a measure that keeps more disabled people IN WORK, without it many will drop out of the workforce.
This REDUCES the economic activity the country needs.
Reeves is lying by pretending it's somehow the opposite.
At TOTP, we once hosted a web chat for B*Witched with questions from fans. My personal favourite (which, sadly, we did not get to put their way), was "why have you done a song with Lady Mambo Blacksmith?"
Ah thanks, I really appreciate that!
Couple of things I think, that I haven't yet seen said:
1. Autistic people are allowed to be Nazi arseholes, to the same extent that everyone is.
2. If you've never faced serious, life-altering consequences for your actions, everything is up for grabs.
Had a thought I wanted to store as a quick infographic, so I tried a few AI image generators.
None of them can remember how many items there are in five, how to spell the words I've not only typed, but put in quotes or whether or not I want extraneous text to be added.
I'll just draw it by hand.
At the toll booths on the Tamar Bridge, while trying to put my card in my wallet and just after the very friendly man wished us all a nice day, my mouth failed.
To the delight of my family, I replied "cheer up", and then, without pausing to correct myself, drove away like I meant it.
What I am currently doing is writing this, a post about how hard I find it to answer the question "how are you?", rather than answering that question (from two days ago).
Finished it yesterday. Loved every moment and I've come away with a reading list AND a playlist.
I've no great insights as to the benefits of cross-platform migration on social media. But by and large people on here seem not to be misspelling key words on purpose and I'm in favour of that, if nothing else.
Yeah, I wondered if it was interviewing (always my fave) that acts as a bridge from one to the other. I do remember feeling like I wanted to so something that felt satisfying and meaningful and less personally broadcast-y. How about you?
Oh that makes three! I was at TOTP/Radio 1 and now I'm offering person-centred therapy in Cornwall.