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Julie G, accessibility dork, at your service. Head of Accessibility Assessment at @intopia.bsky.social. Living in Whadjuk lands. Spending too much time online instead of outdoors or making silly little arts and crafts stuff.
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Oh look, Env Minister Murray Watt could approve a brand new coal mine in the next 10 days. @australiainstitute.org.au #CoalMineTracker 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Today I’m at The Outlook’s Accessibility & Inclusion event. I’m speaking later, but right now I’m just enjoying hearing people with disabilities share their stories and experience. Our MCs for the day are Paralympian Pat Jensen and Deaf designer Nikhil Bora. wearetheoutlook.com.au/event/access...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent column by Ross Gittins "If you want to govern Australia effectively – you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to stand up, but still wants to enjoy the spoils of office." www.smh.com.au/business/the...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Actions across the country protesting ALP's approval of North West shelf gas project expansion If you can't get out to protest, sign a petition: greens.org.au/campaigns/st... nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists saved lives. The village was evacuated a week ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

If Australia kept reducing emissions at the pace we did during the lockdowns, we would have gotten to net zero in 2030, instead....

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Dr Ken Mulvaney thought that once people realised how important the rock art was, there would be no more industrial development at Murujuga. Instead he's seen multiple new developments built, creating acidic emissions that are slowly destroying the rock art. #auspol

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Tabletop Bookshelf is looking for professional writers to contribute sponsored reviews of tabletop RPGs and solo games from our shop collection. Interested? Complete the application form below - spaces are limited! forms.gle/ivRtRGQjZdqv...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

I've got 4 items on my wishlist from the Incognito Art Show. A5 artworks for just $100! The twist is that the identity of an artwork’s artist will remain anonymous until you buy one. The profits fund support for disabled artists. www.incognitoartshow.com

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If I wanted to relive my youth and go through a tutorial book for CSS, what would be good now? I don't have any plans to do FE dev for a living or anything 😅

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

"Japan's domestic LNG demand has peaked" Yet, Australia justifies opening up new gas projects as some sort of heroic act to meet Japan's gas needs.....

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

How much coal would the French have to find under the Louvre to destroy it? How much gas would the UK need to find under Stonehenge to knock it down? Australia must be the richest country in the world willing to destroy its ancient heritage for one more gas project #climate

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

Reminder: cis men who are not married to/dating a cis woman whose data it could be, one simple thing you can do is download a period tracker and use it to track literally anything. Days you saw a Cybertruck. Days your boss was a fuckbucket. Days you didn't get a fundraiser text from the Democrats.

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

If you use the independent non-profit Wikipedia, and can afford it, please donate to it. Most media & AI is owned by billionaires or the politically affiliated who are manipulating &/or defunding the news and commentary. So much AI is wrong & millions are using it instead of research & writing.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

“Watt will travel to WA to meet face to face with the premier, Roger Cook, & mining industry leaders whose lobbying helped sink the proposed EPA.” Actually it was the PM who chose not to do the EPA. Blaming lobbying gives those in charge an easy excuse www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day we'd like to shout out to our translators! NVDA has been translated into over 55 languages. Recently we spoke with Harun in Türkiye, who shared how access in his own language, has helped him: www.nvaccess.org/post/harun-f... #GAAD #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

call out: do you blog about technology in Australia? i want to read and share more of what people are thinking and writing about tech down under (a special call out for people who are writing about things other than AI, too) let me know! self-promo ENCOURAGED

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I know there's a lot of folks in digital #a11y areas with food aversions or kids with food aversions. Let an autistic trained chef help you out!

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment