Pippa Durham, 31, visits her local cafe every Saturday for a tea and an almond croissant. She first fancied a cappuccino nearly three months ago and is reportedly almost ready to try asking for it.

Why can we AI generate whole actors in 4K with such range in tone, intonation and expression while my AAC has less natural speech than a self checkout? Because advances in AI aren’t looking to help disabled people or let us shape tools we need.

SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA

The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.

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#TakingThePIP

Abundance!
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#INSAR2025 researchers, if you actually talk to autistic people of all ages, disability profiles, and communication profiles, you'll find that a non-innate commonality is … trauma. And as this is avoidable, this is one of the root areas from which all autism research should proceed. #neurodiversity

If you're #autistic & aged over 50, you can register for Thursday's chat. (17th April, 11am-12. Free) It's a relaxed safe space for older autistic people to meet each other. We'll be chatting about Processing pre-diagnosis life- something most late diagnosed #autistic pple go through
#AutisticElders

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The Disability Price Tag report of 2024 by Scope (updated annually) put the current extra cost per month on average for a disabled household at £1010. PER MONTH. And our Labour government wants to slash the support money people are offered?

For last year, the DWP release figures that there was 0% fraud for PIP, so the announcement that they're going to make PIP harder to get is just admitting they are restricting it from people who could and should be in receipt of PIP.

"By virtue of being autistic and not having a language-based way to communicate, nonspeaking autistic people are not given nearly the level of autonomy (or opportunities to develop autonomy) that most non-autistic people are." Dr. Vikram Jaswal, at TPGA:

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Creating #BritishSignLanguage signs for abstract #Climate terms is different from tangible objects so how did #Deaf scientists, #Deaf educators & #Linguists work together to create 400 #environmental #science signs?

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#Langsky

I have started a Behavioural Science starter pack - just let me know if you would like to be added - see go.bsky.app/CzLwTyZ

Started this Specialty Coffee ☕️ Starter Pack!
I hope to continue to add more strong minds with diverse perspectives in order to organize Specialty Coffee supply chain and development news and the forces which give it form.

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And here are some analog photographers I dig. Because film photography is gorgeous and good for the soul. #BelieveInFilm go.bsky.app/2tD9vhT