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This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

“Three out of four disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — Anna Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with The Urban Truth Collective. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth

Using personal data to train AI should be “opt in” not an opt out hidden in a collapsed part of section 9. 🤯

Disabled people can now report media coverage that scapegoats and stigmatises them and contributes to the hostile environment many of them face in their daily lives, thanks to a new campaign. #InclusionLondon #DisabilityMediaAction www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-campaign...

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OLH joins TSOSI! By making its library membership data publicly available, OLH is helping increase transparency and visibility around the institutional support underpinning scholar-led diamond open access publishing. Read more:

@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

As a non-fan, this is a fantastic bit of explanation. Hoo-boy. This is one spicy meatball right here.

About 30,000 autistic ppl in the UK have Type 2 Diabetes, aren't on insulin, & use wearable monitors (CGMs). These save lives for those who don't spot low-sugar events / can't cope with endless painful finger prick tests each day etc. The NHS has removed funding. Now, have to pay ~ £1500/yr. /

New cartoon: The RNLI

As a counterpoint to nomative determinism, I cannot get a driving license. Cycling was my freedom to move faster than walking pace. Then an injury began to take away my ability to walk and it became what stood between me and being house-bound. We need more reseach on non-driving cyclists!

E-bikes give low-vision, disabled, and non-driving people the freedom cars can't. But new laws are cropping up requiring a driver's license to ride an e-bike. Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option, on the importance of accessible e-mobility: buff.ly/wqd0lMf @nondriver.bsky.social

Equality Act 2010 requires service providers, including the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy to make reasonable adjustments. By refusing to consider relaxing the 100-hour placement rule, the BACP is failing to ensure fair access Please sign and share tinyurl.com/2zj2k9x7

Hooboy. It’s that time of year where year 13 students need to start applying for courses or jobs. My 2p-worth of experience for anyone that age or their families: Degree apprenticeships! TL:DR - not like applying for degrees…

It's all set out quite nicely here, Martin. I think Cycling UK are concerned that the ban could spread to other (or all!) parts of the rail network. Hopefully there is a sensible way forward www.cyclinguk.org/news/cycling...

Decision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners #LevelBoarding www.disabilitynewsservice.com/decision-to-...

Today I’m at the @rnib.bsky.social for the Accessible Publishing Conference. Making my list of people here to buttonhole to talk technicals with a view to Janeway accessibility and enjoying a fascinating discussion on dyslexia friendly books.

Can they even do that unilaterally? It looks far more complicated on the government website. www.gov.uk/derecognise-...

Looking beautiful #Wivenhoe

Open Journals Collective's Executive Director Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social was recently interviewed by Research Professional about our $711,900 grant from the Gates Foundation! You can read more at: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

There really should be fines for this. @colchestercycling.bsky.social

Spotted on an afternoon walk. Reader, I waited till I got home to have a pee.

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

We don't use billionaire donors. We're powered by you. We can win in Holborn & St Pancras. But only with your help! 👇🏽

MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess

[I am currently on a social media break and in hospital. I am still posting about health and/or things I have written.] My thoughts on (not) using AI detectors. eve.gd/2026/08/31/o...

Good!

RIP Dolly Parton. By all accounts one of the very good ones.

Lovely day out on the South Bank.

You have to love the Quakers; they’ve stood by the trans community for many years. Their main spaces are inclusive, with some minimal, legally compliant, outlying provision for bigots somewhere else. And you’re going to see this more and more from SPs. Hey, GCs, you got exactly what you asked for.

I recommend the daily art game Anthropeum, but if you play it regularly you may want to watch out for my giving away answers once I've played it. I won't make any posts from the game until after noon so people will have a chance to take it without my help. Anthropeum.com

I am happy to announce that I have become a patron of @transactualuk.bsky.social

Personal Independence Payments should be available to all who genuinely need them... Please consider signing, my friends. Thanks! the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

Barriers have now been removed from all eight earmarked locations on the city's Pedalways cycle network, including here on Marston Lane on the Purple Pedalway. All places where the gap has been increased to at least 1.5m to allow non-standard bikes such as cargo bikes to use the network.

I signed because I agree a public inquiry is needed. No just because of the media coverage but because of the lack of institutional duty of care too. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

First attempt to get to London with my new wheelchair+triride. Had a great visit to the Science Museum for #StarTrek60 And a pretty smooth journey, other than the extra miles of rolling to divert around inaccessible stations.

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

I love this, by Pete Wharmby, who gives an analogy that may help us understand Uta Frith's apparent argument that it's not autism if it's not 'severe', because we only identified the 'severe' people a long time ago when she first trained. Therefore that's autism and nothing else is. 🤔

One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text that never fades. The visual language of this collection is itself an argument about access — so here it is, with its numbers and its receipts. starstuff.earth/design

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/s/zDwUWi

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

We're delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal is joining OLH! 🎉 The journal brings together research and practice on science museums, science communication, curatorial work, archives, and the history and presentation of science. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/974/

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