@nickidavies.bsky.social
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#Disabled folks, particular people who use assistive technology for web browsing, how do you feel #accessibility has been improving or not over the last few years?
This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!
This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!
July 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#Disabled folks, particular people who use assistive technology for web browsing, how do you feel #accessibility has been improving or not over the last few years?
This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!
This is for a talk I want to write about the actual impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!
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![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
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Your enemy isn't traveling by small boat.
They're traveling by private jet.
They're traveling by private jet.
June 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Your enemy isn't traveling by small boat.
They're traveling by private jet.
They're traveling by private jet.
Boundless (previously Unbound) are absolute scam merchants.
They haven’t paid authors.
They cancelled readers’ orders without refunding them.
They will not enter into any discussion over refunds.
I would never use them again, and would strongly advise authors and readers to steer well clear.
They haven’t paid authors.
They cancelled readers’ orders without refunding them.
They will not enter into any discussion over refunds.
I would never use them again, and would strongly advise authors and readers to steer well clear.
So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Boundless (previously Unbound) are absolute scam merchants.
They haven’t paid authors.
They cancelled readers’ orders without refunding them.
They will not enter into any discussion over refunds.
I would never use them again, and would strongly advise authors and readers to steer well clear.
They haven’t paid authors.
They cancelled readers’ orders without refunding them.
They will not enter into any discussion over refunds.
I would never use them again, and would strongly advise authors and readers to steer well clear.
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The WRU have decided to cut the Welsh Exiles programme, because they think a fucking Zip wire is better value.
Please sign this petition to tell them to stop being a bunch of self-serving cretins.
Thanks.
Please sign this petition to tell them to stop being a bunch of self-serving cretins.
Thanks.
Sign the Petition
Save Welsh Exiles
www.change.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The WRU have decided to cut the Welsh Exiles programme, because they think a fucking Zip wire is better value.
Please sign this petition to tell them to stop being a bunch of self-serving cretins.
Thanks.
Please sign this petition to tell them to stop being a bunch of self-serving cretins.
Thanks.
These are incredible!
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
May 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
These are incredible!
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Hi gang there’s just a week to go until the KickStarter closes for my debut novel EVERYTHING NOT SAVED. It’s been amazing the book is definitely happening now just over £1k away from the final stretch goal an unabridged audiobook which I would LOVE to make so plz share and back if you can #BookSky💙📚
EVERYTHING NOT SAVED
A debut Queer YA novel combining the power of video games, and the potential of young love with magic, horror and the supernatural.
www.kickstarter.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hi gang there’s just a week to go until the KickStarter closes for my debut novel EVERYTHING NOT SAVED. It’s been amazing the book is definitely happening now just over £1k away from the final stretch goal an unabridged audiobook which I would LOVE to make so plz share and back if you can #BookSky💙📚
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The Supreme Court sided with For Women Scotland. Not one trans person was heard. Every intervening org was openly transphobic. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It’s disgusting! To our trans sibling, we won’t stop fighting for you and your rights 🏳️⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Supreme Court sided with For Women Scotland. Not one trans person was heard. Every intervening org was openly transphobic. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It’s disgusting! To our trans sibling, we won’t stop fighting for you and your rights 🏳️⚧️
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The Supreme Court ruling is a travesty.
The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument.
Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations.
This is appalling.
The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument.
Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations.
This is appalling.
April 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Supreme Court ruling is a travesty.
The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument.
Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations.
This is appalling.
The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument.
Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations.
This is appalling.
@wiswell.bsky.social finished reading Someone You Can Build A Nest In last night, and I loved it.
The way you describe things is a joy-I saw the whole book as a film in my head.
Looking forward to Wearing The Lion.
The way you describe things is a joy-I saw the whole book as a film in my head.
Looking forward to Wearing The Lion.
April 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@wiswell.bsky.social finished reading Someone You Can Build A Nest In last night, and I loved it.
The way you describe things is a joy-I saw the whole book as a film in my head.
Looking forward to Wearing The Lion.
The way you describe things is a joy-I saw the whole book as a film in my head.
Looking forward to Wearing The Lion.
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It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
So proud of our boy, getting a Player of the Match award in his first season of 1st XV senior rugby, in a match that sees them into the finals of the Stroud Combination Cup.
#ProudToBeStroud
#ProudToBeStroud
March 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
So proud of our boy, getting a Player of the Match award in his first season of 1st XV senior rugby, in a match that sees them into the finals of the Stroud Combination Cup.
#ProudToBeStroud
#ProudToBeStroud
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To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful.
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
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It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
😡
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful.
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
😡
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
😡
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Individual book requests will be posted in a while, but in the meantime allies can also donate towards the funding pot which will go towards buying nice books for trans people to enjoy as a lil gift: penfightdistro.com/shop/trans-d...
Trans Day of Having a Nice Book – donate to funds pot – pen fight
penfightdistro.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Individual book requests will be posted in a while, but in the meantime allies can also donate towards the funding pot which will go towards buying nice books for trans people to enjoy as a lil gift: penfightdistro.com/shop/trans-d...
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Are you trans, UK-based, and a book enjoyer? @penfight.bsky.social are doing a "Trans Day of Visibility / Staying In And Having A Nice Snack/Book" initiative where cis allies can buy trans people the books they request 📖 🏳️⚧️
Form for trans people to request books here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Form for trans people to request books here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trans Day of Visibility / Staying In and Having a Nice Snack/Book request form
Hello! Are you trans? Do you currently live in the UK? Would you like someone to treat you to a nice new book of your choice? Fill this in and your book will be added to Pen Fight's website with a req...
docs.google.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Are you trans, UK-based, and a book enjoyer? @penfight.bsky.social are doing a "Trans Day of Visibility / Staying In And Having A Nice Snack/Book" initiative where cis allies can buy trans people the books they request 📖 🏳️⚧️
Form for trans people to request books here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Form for trans people to request books here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Yet another reason not to visit the USA! This is horrific. 1984 Thought Police in action.
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Yet another reason not to visit the USA! This is horrific. 1984 Thought Police in action.
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If you’re cis & you want trans folks to know they’re valid and cared for, here’s a tip: Don’t say it to a trans person. Go talk to a cis person.
Talk to your dad. Your coworker. Your friends. Ask if they know whats going on. Ask if they have uncertainties when it comes to the ~trans issue.~
Talk to your dad. Your coworker. Your friends. Ask if they know whats going on. Ask if they have uncertainties when it comes to the ~trans issue.~
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If you’re cis & you want trans folks to know they’re valid and cared for, here’s a tip: Don’t say it to a trans person. Go talk to a cis person.
Talk to your dad. Your coworker. Your friends. Ask if they know whats going on. Ask if they have uncertainties when it comes to the ~trans issue.~
Talk to your dad. Your coworker. Your friends. Ask if they know whats going on. Ask if they have uncertainties when it comes to the ~trans issue.~
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Coming back to this, the bulk of contemporary demographic data favours 'gender' as a category. That's not just for research on gender specifically, but any research where gender might be a variable. Which for health, development, education and social care is...most of it. All to be scrubbed.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Coming back to this, the bulk of contemporary demographic data favours 'gender' as a category. That's not just for research on gender specifically, but any research where gender might be a variable. Which for health, development, education and social care is...most of it. All to be scrubbed.
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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’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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💙🐻🎉 well done Bristol Bears Women, what a fantastic win!
January 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
💙🐻🎉 well done Bristol Bears Women, what a fantastic win!
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I found this story quite heartwarming, for reasons that don't make much sense.
Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there
Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there
Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it
Throughout Roger Thiberville’s long life, he never once visited the Normandy town that gave him his last name. Descended from a family…
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I found this story quite heartwarming, for reasons that don't make much sense.
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🌳 Scraps of woodland in Bristol on/near the Avon in St Anne’s. I want to make sure these go to good owners but don’t have anything like enough funds or beans to run this all myself with Bath / Warleigh acquisition going through soon. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this Land for sale on Rightmove
Land for sale in St Anne's, Bristol, Bristol, North Somerset, BS4 for £300,000. Marketed by David James, Wrington
www.rightmove.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🌳 Scraps of woodland in Bristol on/near the Avon in St Anne’s. I want to make sure these go to good owners but don’t have anything like enough funds or beans to run this all myself with Bath / Warleigh acquisition going through soon. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...