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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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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · Nov 23

I will follow you just for being a kind soul who uses #AltText on your images

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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 10h

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.

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 10h

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

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 11h

The only Canadian I want to see canoodling is Bernoulli with Ginger.
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Bunsen, Beaker, & Bernoulli (@bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social)

Science and Shenanigans. Heart and Hope. https://bunsenbernerbmd.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19h

“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.

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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 15h

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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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 1d

If republicans thought only democrats would suffer, they FAFO.

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 1d

There is a difference between free speech and just being insulting . It adds nothing to anything .

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this thread! So well curated !

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Please use alt text. Guide dog partners require in for all posts with images

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UK Charity News @uk-charity.bsky.social · 1d

Can you help change lives? The charity seeks more puppy raisers in the Borders to support those with sight loss! �#GuideDogsogs https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/25524935.guide-dogs-charity-calls-puppy-raisers-borders/

Charity on the hunt for more Borders volunteers to help raise guide dogs

Guide Dogs seeks around 15 new puppy raisers in the Scottish Borders (TD postcode area) to volunteer and help train future guide dogs for people…

www.bordertelegraph.com

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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 1d

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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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

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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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Clue is in the name

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 2d

So, corruption?

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Obama Nostalgia @obamanostalgia.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

A wonderful
classic

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

My grandma’s roast dinners

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

19. What is something from your childhood that you wish could come back?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Fairy lights, daft jumpers, dancing and being giddy

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

18. How do you show whimsy as an adult?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

A lawyer

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

17. What did you want to be as a kid?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Playing silly games

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

16. What childhood feeling do you miss the most?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

I am very clear on what kind of person, and parent I want to be

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

15. How did your childhood impact your adulthood?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Magical and whimsical whilst also being very real and challenging

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

14. What was your childhood like?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Olives

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

13. What is something from childhood you didn't appreciate until you became an adult?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Headstands

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

12. What was easier in childhood but difficult as you get older?

Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Hillsborough Stadium disaster

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 3d

11. What was the first event that disproved your childhood belief that the world is a safe place?