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Tom Shakespeare
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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 10
Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.
Cover of 'The Ends' featuring the hero, Fred, being pursued by a voracious polar bear.

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Center for Inclusive Policy @inclusivepolicy.bsky.social · 17h
In this special fireside chat marking the Center for Inclusive Policy’s 10th anniversary, @tomshakespeare.bsky.social and Daniel Mont revisit CIP’s origins, its mission to bridge disability movements and policymakers, and the lessons learned from a decade of linking research, data, and advocacy.
TOM SHAKESPEARE and DANIEL MONT in Conversation: Advancing DISABILITY RIGHTS Through RESEARCH
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30 Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks. Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries, in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 18h
Yes, all fine now.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d
Just to clarify: my argument is with the system, not staff trying to do their best.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d
I have been paralysed & a wheelchair user for 17 years. Since then, I have flown hundreds of times. I have never had worse service than this morning at Heathrow T4 Arrivals.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Not quite sure why Magazine's "Shot by both sides" is going round my head this morning (but thank God for a top class earworm).

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Dosette box. And alarm.

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incredible new trump photo

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 2d
[a woman with eyes wide open and a panicked look on her face - she's in bed with her phone next to her] - did i take my meds or just think about taking my meds

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 3d
Definitely a helpful invention. Let's patent it!

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD 🐸(🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 3d
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d
I love Uganda, meeting old friends, teaching eager researchers, eating mtoke (a sort of green banana porridge). Rainy season though.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d
I'm in Uganda, lecturing. My room has a vast mosquito net. Getting out of it to go for a late night wee isn't easy, particularly if you're in a wheelchair. Think Paddington without the marmalade.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 7d
on radio 4 tonight the 57th episode i've made with @paulsinha.bsky.social goes out (sinha test/sinha games/citizenship test x4/sinha carta/history revision x12/general knowledge x12/perfect pub quiz x26), matching the 57 episodes i've made with @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (jfsp x56 plus the pilot)

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 7d
I am not sure I have...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 8d
“This is an extremely serious and troubling case that raises wider concerns about the academic freedom of staff and students at universities across the UK.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 8d
Let them eat crumpets! I am never a Monarchist on days which contain a Y. Up the republic!

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 8d
Friend messages to tell me how much she had enjoyed the Tove Janssen novel, Fair Play, which I had recommended, & which made her cry several times.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 8d
All the polls I have seen say this. Recent Nuffield Council on Bioethics work found this. I have always accepted that DPOs almost all oppose.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 8d
Surround yourself with the kind of people who appreciate, defend, and respect the Oxford comma.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 13d
I have two "step-daughters", neither of whom actually are, but they are my daughter's sisters, and I have known them, and sometimes looked after them, since the day they were born.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13d
Wait, are people really upset that Mamdani spoke about his “aunt,” and it was actually his father’s cousin and not his father’s sibling?

Because that is an extremely normal thing a lot of cultures do. Including a lot of large Jewish families!
c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 13d
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.

Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 13d
As far as I can tell, "Auntie" and "Uncle" in many South Asian cultures mean "older person who you aren't necessarily related to but is associated with your family"

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13d
It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13d
Wait, are people really upset that Mamdani spoke about his “aunt,” and it was actually his father’s cousin and not his father’s sibling?

Because that is an extremely normal thing a lot of cultures do. Including a lot of large Jewish families!
c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 13d
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.

Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 14d
Latest capitalism.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 14d
I have only read one, but look forward to more.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 14d
Have you read his The New Forest Murders? Also good.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 14d
Very much enjoying Matthew Sweet's novelisation of Bookish.