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Usher syndrome, deafblind, retinitis pigmentosa, cochlear implants, guide dog 🦮 🌈, AltText and capitals on hashtags, ♿️ she/her, Equality, Equity and Justice
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I will follow you just for being a kind soul who uses #AltText on your images
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Truly there is no entertainer better cast, who fits so completely, and does the job so satisfyingly, than Claudia Winkleman on The Traitors.
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As a person born deafblind, the below thread is so true - wouldn’t it be winded to if the skills I have were normalised for everyone from early education onwards.
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Most people if they live long enough will experience significant vision loss. Almost every person who does would benefit from learning enough braille to say, find buttons in an elevator.
Frankly, there are no windows in an elevator, and in an emergency we’d probably all benefit from some of it.
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Tactile communication (such as braille, manual sign language that is done on the receivers hand, and vibrating tech) overcomes many communication issues. It absolutely would benefit everybody if it were normal to learn and use it.
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These dogs will also lunge at guide dogs.

Please don’t take pet dogs into spaces where only service dogs should be . Or take disobedient untrained dogs into any confined space. Guide dogs do get attacked, lose confident and have their careers ended through incidents like this
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tbc, these are not guide dogs and if they're "emotional support" dogs, they suck at it. I don't want to be barked at and lunged at in the grocery store and I feel like that's a reasonable to place to expect that won't happen.
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Maybe a united fan was in charge of choosing the colour…
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Possibly an increase in senior level appointees using it extensively from the start of a new role? Stress related sick leave?
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Multiple providers .

With the number of hacks and retailer outages happening weekly, it’s not difficult to surmise the cause . Malicious interference. The question is who by? state funded, terrorism or organised crime
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This is truly the year of the subtle raised eyebrow. The surprising news and the swift recovery. Surprise is the new normal. Of course the world is bizarre.
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I mute so much, and avoid mainstream media so only TIL about Trudeau/Perry AND about Melania being blackmailed and publicly speaking to reveal her Putin relationship. Astounding rate of collapse of civilisation
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
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I think the North West suits Autumn so well. We have the right building stone and industrial backdrops, as well as the weather tones!
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If republicans thought only democrats would suffer, they FAFO.
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There is a difference between free speech and just being insulting . It adds nothing to anything .
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Thank you for this thread! So well curated !
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Please use alt text. Guide dog partners require in for all posts with images
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Yes it is but the Equality Act 2010 isn’t actually enforced by the Crown Prosecution Servuce, meaning that employers know there aren’t real consequences
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And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.
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President Barack Obama makes a statement on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House, Oct. 9, 2009. Source: Flickr
President Barack Obama makes a statement on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House, Oct. 9, 2009.
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My grandma’s roast dinners
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19. What is something from your childhood that you wish could come back?
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Fairy lights, daft jumpers, dancing and being giddy
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18. How do you show whimsy as an adult?