Natalie Alana Ashton

@natalan.bsky.social

🚊 connecting disabled communities in the North (@transportforall.org.uk) 📚 writing about philosophy, knowledge, social media & social change (nataliealanaashton.notion.site) views mine, not my employer's. she/her.

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 12h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Giant luxury fish finger and sauerkraut "Haircut lesbian? I've forgotten what the other type is" Frequently, on a scale from Kissing Too Many People -> Waking Up From A Blackout In A Tube Station Stairway With Assorted Donations Of Small Change Around Me

I'm at the fringe! First show of 27 done last night. Almost sold out but for one empty seat on the front row. After I finished I found the guy whose seat it was sat directly outside the door on the curb eating a 4-pack of cornettos. It's great to be back.

looking for something to watch ITV: we have a lot of dramas about murder. like... *so* many me: anything else in entertainment? ITV: banana man me: uh... ok. what about documentaries? ITV: we have dozens about murder me: hmm. anything not about murder? ITV: do you like celebrities holding dogs?

saw a relative for the first time in 10yrs yesterday and asked if he remembered printing and taping together a map for this game in 1990. he's Very Poorly but immediately lit up and talked about playing with my dad, and i talked about folding and unfolding that map years later as a core game memory.

Natalie Alana Ashton@natalan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Solstice is one of my earliest video game memories, and has an unrivalled expectation/reality disparity between the box art and the character sprite

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d ago

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.