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Chad

@kitation.co.uk

They/he. Queer (nonbinary/pan), autistic, disabled. User researcher, accessibility advocate. Talks about disability, gender, gaming.

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Chad@kitation.co.uk · 6h ago

Seeing a lot of “now men can say they are trans men to get into the women’s” again today, stop it.

Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring@ashleynova.space · 2w ago

Trans men in women's toilets is not a gotcha, the EHRC code explicitly calls out that trans men (and women) could be excluded from all single sex spaces, in order to protect the sensibilities of other service users, but it all rides on services actually policing those spaces in the first place.

Chad@kitation.co.uk · 6h ago

This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 8h ago

"Caroline Savage, 73, died after increasing the dose of the Mounjaro weight-loss drug she had been taking for about four months, a coroner’s court was told yesterday." Times front page. Reminder, they banned puberty blockers for trans kids despite there being zero harm.

Chad@kitation.co.uk · 8h ago

Anyone who is or has been poor knows that boots theory is true; and the only way it’s falling apart (🥁) now is because the expensive shoes are equally shitty

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 16h ago

Boots theory is just a pop culture phrase for part of the poverty trap - A phenomenon where escaping poverty has large upfront costs but not tackling those costs has greater long-term costs, locking people in poverty. This is not a seriously contested phenomenon. It's very well researched.

Chad@kitation.co.uk · 8h ago

Once the Supreme Court ruling happened this was a forgone conclusion, but still part of me never thought I’d see explicit trans exclusion be implemented completely unchallenged. Shame on everyone who let this happen. We will not forget.

Chad@kitation.co.uk · yesterday

This is one of the many reasons why I hate the “let’s just wait for all the old bigots to die off”, society is creating new bigots all the time, we can’t just “wait it out”

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Bob Hoskins with Roger Rabbit
Katie Fenn@katiefenn.bsky.social · yesterday

Ben Goldacre was right. Andrew Wakefield’s legacy is alive and well. The Cass review is based on flawed science and has been widely criticised, yet it has been kept alive by the media. Curiously, the leading voice in Bad Science has been completely silent about it.

Screenshot of Ben Goldacre’s story in The Guardian from 2007: “The MIMR scare has now petered out. It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch. Instead it has terminated because of the unethical behaviour of one man, Andrew Wakefield, which undermined the emotional narrative of their story. The media have developed no insight into their own role - and for this reason there will be another MMR.”
Jay Sid@jaysidgamedev.neocities.org · 2d ago

I see your Fraser TCG and raise you Ricky Martin TCG that my partner randomly brought over mine one day a few years ago I need to put them in a folder

Ricky Martin themed booster box of cards, featuring a huge photo of Ricky Martin on the back of the booster box. There are two cards with photos of Ricky Martin that read "La Vida Loca" in front of the box.
marlo@marlo.ooo · 3d ago

chat they made something in real life that i swear to god would be a shitpost i could have come up with almost a decade ago and i need people to mail me packs immediately as little gifts. do you know how badly i need 1993 Daphne on a trading card with her lil choker and flower skirt

unfortunately for me it is a box of packs of frasier collectible trading cards, which exist in real life but unfortunately not in my gay little hands (yet)
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

"It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%." Spookily enough, this complacency side effect is precisely one of the things we warned about with this and the Online Safety Act in the UK.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Katie Fenn@katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lockdowns went “too far” because we: - had systemically defunded the NHS through austerity - disposed of our strategic PPE stockpile - not listened to the wargaming exercises we had done - refused social distancing measures earlier on Lockdowns were always a last resort. What are we doing here?

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Chad@kitation.co.uk · 3d ago

You can do something about the effects of lockdown, you can’t do something about being dead. Nobody is saying lockdowns were fun or a perfect solution, but we could have built a society afterwards to mitigate the issues instead of “covid is over! Go back to normal and shut the fuck up!”

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Katie Fenn@katiefenn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Watching other sensible trans people contemplate fleeing the country is making things incredibly hard. I don’t really know what to say. We’ve all been let down so badly.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago

Drinking espresso martinis, discussing with my fiancé at what point we need to flee the UK. I don't want to leave my home. My family. My friends. With every passing month, it feels more and more inevitable. We are losing so hard and I can't see how it stops.

innes mck@innes.bsky.social · 4d ago

This used to be the entire point and operating procedure of Amnesty International! The idea was to mutually campaign against injustice, with each response coming from safely outside the nation where it was taking place. Some things have changed, sure, but this would still be a beneficial model here

Gavin Deichen@gdeichen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty should consider relocating their operation somewhere outside of the jurisdiction of the UK, then maybe they could use plain language without risking ruin under our oppressive libel laws.

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you're going to quote an 'expert' or 'researcher' in your book or article, be it on neurodivergence, mental health, nutrition, immunology or whatever, you owe it to your readers to check if most of their peers think they're a crank. Some squares in my personal Bullshit Bingo now include:

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Blimps are so handy for signifying that a story is taking place in a parallel universe. You open a scene in iconic London but holy fuck is that a *blimp*? and you know you're in a parallel universe. Easiest shorthand ever. I think Fringe did it?

Audrey Farnsworth@audipenny.bsky.social · 4d ago

Batman the animated series made me believe in a formative manner that there’d be a whole Fucking lot more goddamn blimps in my life. But there’s almost no blimps. Every time I see a blimp, I gasp. I shouldn’t have to gasp. Blimp should be around for my life. Where blimp

@paulcamislairy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Privatisation does not work, that UEFA know this but no UK government in 40 years has worked it out is staggering.

Isabel Rogers@isabelrogers.bsky.social · 5d ago

Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."

The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders. This model has no place in world football. Football's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return. Nor can the interests of national associations, leagues, clubs, players and supporters become subordinate to investor returns. Football cannot mortgage its future for financial gain. Europe's position is clear. We will never lend this model our legitimacy. No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.