sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk
Liberal Quaker, disabled, neurodivergent (ADHD), interested in most things. Eclectic education. He/him. narco_sam on X.
Lancaster, UK
Writing/speaking on disability, patient experience, Quaker stuff, & whatever I feel like.
https://linktr.ee/quakersambc
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Fortunately, I was asleep when you posted that😄
I'm definitely going to need today to recover, though. I have chronic balance problems, and it's still off from baseline.
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Taxi to my home station has been laid on.
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Yeah, though it usually takes physical contact.
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There is a non-trivial risk that I will end up in Scotland even in that case.
If I fall asleep, I'll miss my stop.
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I don't think this suggests there's anything wrong, I'm sure it's just me adjusting to the new prescription, but it's kinda disturbing.
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You mean like an entirely philological structure for his fictional languages? ;)
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Moving my head up and down all the time (and somewhat left and right) is annoying, and not great for my balance (positional vertigo - not BPPV, some other unspecified cause of positional vertigo and imbalance).
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So the search ended up being much quicker, and I should have a new rollator Monday-ish. Same as the old one but updated, slightly wider (which is annoying but I didn't find *any* significantly narrower), and with big front wheels.
The end.
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A short time into my search, I discovered that a new iteration of the same range was being made, just with a different manufacturer name. And they were still making a version with larger front wheels (an upgrade I'd been wishing for, for white a while)
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I had found out, over a year ago, that the company that made my current one didn't do rollators any more, so was resigned to arduously searching and making compromises.
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Opportunities to buy a new one in person are limited, though I was near a store for work recently, so tried some out, and figured that I had enough info from that to find what I wanted online.
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I would comment, but you knew what you were doing...
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Fair point.
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People can just mute certain words. Blocklists are a weird way to do it.
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Like "MAGA trolls, crypto scammers, follow spammers, content scrapers," or "Nazis, rapist, vatniks, over the limit porn(animals), MAGA, Assadist etc", or "Larger fake news promulgators RT, Sputnik, Novo, AfD. Reform UK, Corb" [those are, obviously, truncated descriptions]
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(I don't care personally, but I am concerned about the impact of this on the platform and communities)
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It would seem to me that the intention is that capacity is assessed proactively at the time.
I mean, even solicitors are supposed to do that at times, AIUI.
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Wouldn't a purposive reading combined with simple logic suggest that anyone who doesn't not have capacity, has capacity? I mean, in the mental capacity act it's very much read as an either-or proposition. There's no in between state for capacity (bearing in mind capacity is decision-specific).
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That doesn't really apply to content as it exists on Bluesky. That's newspaper and magazine articles. Hard to monetise those on this platform.
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If only they'd picked entomologists as their example, they wouldn't have gotten owned.
Well played.
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It does get a bit surreal at times.
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I feel quite sure we've had a similar dialogue elsewhere in the past.
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Sounds like it ends up as more than full-time total workload - I couldn't cope with that these days. These last 12-14 years or so, I should say.
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I went with grounded theory (Corbin/Strauss version) for my MA dissertation. But I've used things more like RTA during the degree. I like the interaction with both the data and the participant that GT promotes. The analysis being less systematic is harder in some ways, easier in others.
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Will that affect the possibility of seeing posts about a popular bakery chain?
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Personally, I have no problem with Friends who consider the inward teacher I experience to be Christ.
My problem is with those who insist I must do so as well.
But I acknowledge they are still part of the worldwide family of Friends.
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Payments to look at content don't make sense, but tipping may - appreciating content here (more likely art etc) or elsewhere linked here. People may be more willing to tip without going to a third party, and also if they know it supports Bluesky.
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Exactly. And I imagine many are trying to take advantage of people with pro-FB attitudes.
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Evidence would suggest that is correct.
Which sucks.
I guess it shows that he really is making an effort when speaking to you?
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Yes, that’s all true. But it has not happened yet. And I’m seeing a lot of disabled people talking of giving up, when we need to keep fighting. And we need the support of allies even more, so please keep spreading the word. Giving up at this stage is not helpful. We need to keep fighting.
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*resisting rising to temptation to get into long discourse on the diversity of Quaker belief and theology*