cass hartblay (she/they)
@chartblay.bsky.social
**revolution is not a one time event**
assoc. prof University of Toronto
https://cassandrahartblay.net/
assoc. prof University of Toronto
https://cassandrahartblay.net/
Got our almost-2-yo a betta fish. He’s very excited about Fishy. Tried to explain the concept of a name (his name is ___, dog’s name is Arlo, etc). Seemed fine. What is fish’s name? He tries. “Rock?” (Fish likes/has rocks/gravel). We affirm, but he refuses to validate the choice.
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Got our almost-2-yo a betta fish. He’s very excited about Fishy. Tried to explain the concept of a name (his name is ___, dog’s name is Arlo, etc). Seemed fine. What is fish’s name? He tries. “Rock?” (Fish likes/has rocks/gravel). We affirm, but he refuses to validate the choice.
While it’s true one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, I’m wholly enamoured with the cover art for my new book. It looks phenomenal.
Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...
Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...
on cover art
How does one choose an image for an ethnographic monograph? And how did this one come to be? The cover for Access Vernaculars features a painting by artist Andrei Roiter, with text design by Cornel…
cassandrahartblay.net
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
While it’s true one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, I’m wholly enamoured with the cover art for my new book. It looks phenomenal.
Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...
Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...
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Looking forward to the inevitable bombshell report exposing exactly how many university administrators took bribes from edtech AI companies
"Key priorities include embedding artificial intelligence (AI) learning opportunities into the curriculum, cultivating strategic partnerships, strengthening ties with external stakeholders...."
the call still coming from inside the house.
the call still coming from inside the house.
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Looking forward to the inevitable bombshell report exposing exactly how many university administrators took bribes from edtech AI companies
In honor of my book coming out next week, I got some new professional photos taken and spiffed up my website. Hard to believe that the previous version, up since 2014, was more than 10 years old!!
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In honor of my book coming out next week, I got some new professional photos taken and spiffed up my website. Hard to believe that the previous version, up since 2014, was more than 10 years old!!
Join me next Tuesday for a virtual book launch event for my new book, Access Vernaculars.
Hosted by the Society for Disability Studies.
With discussants Raquel Velho and @xcherkaev.bsky.social, and organized by @mw-m.bsky.social !
Get the book at @cornellupress.bsky.social
Hosted by the Society for Disability Studies.
With discussants Raquel Velho and @xcherkaev.bsky.social, and organized by @mw-m.bsky.social !
Get the book at @cornellupress.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Join me next Tuesday for a virtual book launch event for my new book, Access Vernaculars.
Hosted by the Society for Disability Studies.
With discussants Raquel Velho and @xcherkaev.bsky.social, and organized by @mw-m.bsky.social !
Get the book at @cornellupress.bsky.social
Hosted by the Society for Disability Studies.
With discussants Raquel Velho and @xcherkaev.bsky.social, and organized by @mw-m.bsky.social !
Get the book at @cornellupress.bsky.social
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It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times
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Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…
September 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…
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Canada treating MAID like a pressure release valve will never not horrify me. The cold cruelties of a system that exists to repeatedly communicate the message to disabled people that they are disposable, and more efficient at dispensing death than it is at care.
A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
'It was horror,' says wife of quadriplegic man who sought assisted death after ER bedsore | CBC News
A public inquiry into the death of a quadriplegic man is underway in Quebec — over a year after he sought medical assistance in dying following a hospital stay that left him with a severe and painful ...
www.cbc.ca
May 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Canada treating MAID like a pressure release valve will never not horrify me. The cold cruelties of a system that exists to repeatedly communicate the message to disabled people that they are disposable, and more efficient at dispensing death than it is at care.
My 1.5 yo child pointed at this photo in a coffeeshop and said, “mama!”
So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake
So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake
April 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My 1.5 yo child pointed at this photo in a coffeeshop and said, “mama!”
So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake
So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake
It’s slave labor. The goal of the whole tariff grift is a new global chattel slavery order. 🤬
one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them
April 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It’s slave labor. The goal of the whole tariff grift is a new global chattel slavery order. 🤬
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love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish
SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
Trump EEOC Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They Were Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
theintercept.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish
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Among the most offensive things about technocultic rhetoric around so much (AI, robotics, and more) is how easily (often-abled) techbros of all levels deploy disability and disabled people as a cover for whatever asinine/BS claim they make to investors, journos or VCs.
these motherfuckers are claiming that "FSD" benefits people with disabilities
April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Among the most offensive things about technocultic rhetoric around so much (AI, robotics, and more) is how easily (often-abled) techbros of all levels deploy disability and disabled people as a cover for whatever asinine/BS claim they make to investors, journos or VCs.
In the latest episode of @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social someone wondered how and why envelopes fit trifolded paper, asking wouldn’t it be easier to just fold the paper in half.
Guesses abounded but I’m still stuck on one that John & Hank missed (and surely a historian on here will set us straight)
Guesses abounded but I’m still stuck on one that John & Hank missed (and surely a historian on here will set us straight)
April 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In the latest episode of @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social someone wondered how and why envelopes fit trifolded paper, asking wouldn’t it be easier to just fold the paper in half.
Guesses abounded but I’m still stuck on one that John & Hank missed (and surely a historian on here will set us straight)
Guesses abounded but I’m still stuck on one that John & Hank missed (and surely a historian on here will set us straight)
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roses are red
carnations are white
carnations are white
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
roses are red
carnations are white
carnations are white
Canadian disability advocates’ critiques of MAID (Canada’s medical assistance in dying policy) backed by new UN report.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
United Nations report recommends Canada repeal MAID for people without terminal illnesses
International committee also called on Ottawa to scrap the proposed expansion of MAID eligibility in 2027 to people whose sole underlying illness is a mental disorder
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Canadian disability advocates’ critiques of MAID (Canada’s medical assistance in dying policy) backed by new UN report.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.
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I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
March 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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Horrifying that this literal sanctioning of sexual assault got so many GOP votes, but relieved it didn’t pass. Small blessings for girls & women who play sports.
BREAKING - a bill mandating genital inspections to participate at all age levels of girls' and women's sports fails in the U.S. Senate. It needed 60 votes to move forward.
March 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Horrifying that this literal sanctioning of sexual assault got so many GOP votes, but relieved it didn’t pass. Small blessings for girls & women who play sports.
See, college kids, you can’t trust ChatGPT to do your work for you
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
See, college kids, you can’t trust ChatGPT to do your work for you
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Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain
February 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain
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This is a bigger scandal than people realize.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is a bigger scandal than people realize.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
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Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.
February 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.
The scene that just unfolded in the Oval Office is appalling. Trump and Vance berating Zelenskiy on live TV? We’re so focused on how much Musk controls Trump, are we missing a bigger picture?
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The scene that just unfolded in the Oval Office is appalling. Trump and Vance berating Zelenskiy on live TV? We’re so focused on how much Musk controls Trump, are we missing a bigger picture?