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stephdriver.bsky.social

Personal profile. A11y specialist working on Janeway at the OLH. #Knitter #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #IAmWriting with guest posts from #AssistanceDog Archer 🦮 was @driver_steph on the other.

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We must remember the ice berg and not be distracted by the tip!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is not the richest man in the world; men who live at home with their partner and children who love them experience riches he couldn't imagine.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

@ecargo-colchester.bsky.social Nice to meet you today - we continued on to the Wivenhoe trail where Archer got out and ran alongside - that’s why she was impatient about us pausing - she only grudgingly accepts that in order to run, first she must ride in the trailer to get to the trail.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

What a surprise … broken health service, broken social services, broken social fabric disable people and make it harder and harder for disabled people who might be able to work (not everyone can) to do so.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

submitted 18 days ago • 166 comments

Surprising no one, AI makes you stupid. www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

Write what you know

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

And building on this success next month they start their hunt for a point mass.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Why do wrong-doing benefit claimants need special rather than general punishments? Why not same for tax dodgers? And when someone has been caught doing cash-in-hand shifts do you really want to make it impossible for them to find a proper job & get off benefits? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 41 days ago • 43 comments

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

submitted 40 days ago • 191 comments

Happy to announce Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) -- a three-year research project to explore the possibilities of openness within HSS disciplines. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

oh dear Humphrey - manipulative and self-serving, twists everything you say and gaslights you into believing you never said it Why? not Bernard - well meaning, efficient if slightly pedantic. “Yes, Minister character is government's new AI assistant” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 42 days ago • 251 comments

Stop insisting that problems need to be solved via phone. Stop requiring people to use phone calls. #AutChat A4

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

If you're against the government's proposed AI opt-out system, please fill in this survey by the AOI (Association of Illustrators). It only takes 5-10 mins, and the results will be submitted by the AOI to the government. You don't need to be an AOI member to fill it out either

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

The Labour government says it will stick with Tory plans to cut £billions from disability benefits, despite losing WCA court case that judge ruled was unlawful. bigissue.com/news/social-...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

“ We do not provide preferential treatment, extra opportunities or unjustified credit to anyone based on protected characteristics “ My heart goes out minorities at Meta,“preferential treatment… unjustified credit” this empowers discrimination, hostility and abuse. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Meta has just ended its major diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

Ensign, some days you just need to hole up in the Jefferies Tubes with a blanket. And a book. And snacks. And drinks. And some candles. Maybe some incense. A heating pad. Slippers. A friendly vole or two. Your favorite holodrama. Several pizzas. A charcoal face mask. A charcuterie

submitted 52 days ago • 24 comments