Alice Bennett
@aliceponderland.bsky.social
Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
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Batman has so many Robins because as a youth Bruce Wayne read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" & decided to use the excessive amount of orphans within Gotham City (thank to the high crime rate) to fight crime.
When a Robin dies there are always more to take its place in the never-ending battle.
When a Robin dies there are always more to take its place in the never-ending battle.
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Batman has so many Robins because as a youth Bruce Wayne read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" & decided to use the excessive amount of orphans within Gotham City (thank to the high crime rate) to fight crime.
When a Robin dies there are always more to take its place in the never-ending battle.
When a Robin dies there are always more to take its place in the never-ending battle.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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There is… a lot to unpack in this article
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
There is… a lot to unpack in this article
If you are or know an academic researcher who’d like to be more disability inclusive, please take a look at this toolkit! Share it far and wide!
If you'd like to see and use the Toolkit (and we very much hope you do), you can access it from our linktree: linktr.ee/DISCOProject 5/
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Working to improve disabled students' experiences through Community & Belonging.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you are or know an academic researcher who’d like to be more disability inclusive, please take a look at this toolkit! Share it far and wide!
In which I meanderingly approach digital accessibility through the lens of this year’s disability history month
It's a little bit late, but here is our latest blog post, in which Alice reflects on UK Disability History month (which only started on the 20th November, and runs for a whole month, so we've not published it all that late really...)
blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...
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UK Disability History Month 2025
We often look for national or international days (or weeks, or months) we can tie in with to help promote our work as the Digital Accessibility Unit, as well as awareness of tools, training and ser…
blogs.york.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In which I meanderingly approach digital accessibility through the lens of this year’s disability history month
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My awesome team won an Inclusive Impact Ward! Details are below, but my team built a Toolkit to help researchers navigate the sensitives around including disabled people in research practice.
We're delighted to announce a project we were involved in, the DISCO Including Disabled People in Research Toolkit, won the award for Building Bridges at the University of York's Inclusive Impact Awards! 1/
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My awesome team won an Inclusive Impact Ward! Details are below, but my team built a Toolkit to help researchers navigate the sensitives around including disabled people in research practice.
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We're delighted to announce a project we were involved in, the DISCO Including Disabled People in Research Toolkit, won the award for Building Bridges at the University of York's Inclusive Impact Awards! 1/
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We're delighted to announce a project we were involved in, the DISCO Including Disabled People in Research Toolkit, won the award for Building Bridges at the University of York's Inclusive Impact Awards! 1/
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
A cat bustle
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A cat bustle
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Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
I had a mild case of whooping cough as a child which absolutely terrified my parents and I can still remember as a standout childhood illness - all of these former “standard childhood diseases” are nasty, and can have fatal consequence, so get vaccinated if you can.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I had a mild case of whooping cough as a child which absolutely terrified my parents and I can still remember as a standout childhood illness - all of these former “standard childhood diseases” are nasty, and can have fatal consequence, so get vaccinated if you can.
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18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
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The very first step for a government on this should be removing official accounts from these toxic social media sites. Otherwise you're basically encouraging people to use them.
"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom bans social media giants from using ‘toxic’ algorithms
Regulator targets ‘manosphere’ misogyny and hate as seen in content produced by Andrew Tate
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The very first step for a government on this should be removing official accounts from these toxic social media sites. Otherwise you're basically encouraging people to use them.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
How dare you
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
How dare you
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
I can’t get a good photo at this distance but I’m watching a grey squirrel adorably chomping through a chunk of red skinned apple, sitting upright in the November sunshine. It’s like the platonic ideal of a squirrel. It’s perfect.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I can’t get a good photo at this distance but I’m watching a grey squirrel adorably chomping through a chunk of red skinned apple, sitting upright in the November sunshine. It’s like the platonic ideal of a squirrel. It’s perfect.
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Some
BODY
Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy,
It ain't a piece of regular bread
BODY
Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy,
It ain't a piece of regular bread
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Some
BODY
Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy,
It ain't a piece of regular bread
BODY
Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy,
It ain't a piece of regular bread
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You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.