tavablake.bsky.social
@tavablake.bsky.social
he/them, 'Strayan, queer, disabled.
"your house looks nice but I dunno why you bothered with all that fussy 'front door' nonsense.
how else would you get in? there are windows right there!
oh, 'some people' can't 'just' climb through windows?
but they can climb all those stairs to get to the house can't they?
what's the difference?"
Accessibility is not optional or “would be nice.”

Accessibility is absolutely necessary.
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
a new Travelling While Disabled moment.

train replacement bus pulls up, it's raining, I have a suitcase precariously balanced on my walker. I call out to the driver to please fold out the ramp.

the attendant at the bus stop takes my umbrella from my hand, opens it, hands it back.

...what?
January 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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... fuck
Jesus Christ the first four months of 2025 have just been brutal, haven’t they.
January 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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My latest newsletter is hopefully my last one on Substack before I move it. It’s about Meta, tech leadership, and the increasing refusal of tech to listen to or care about the people who use its products.

open.substack.com/pub/leahreic...
January 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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a friend texted me this and I felt I should share it
January 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
kmart is a particular kind of online shopping hell
it's on the category page but it's marked "out of stock"
it's not marked out of stock but "this popular item sold out online"
it's not sold out but "products in your cart are unavailable"
you bought it but "we've already cancelled these item(s)"
December 29, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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so grateful to exist it is such an honor and a blessing to be alive. reeling from this unfathomable gift
December 20, 2024 at 1:28 AM
wife: [shows me warhammer mini for Mortarion, Daemon Primarch of Nurgle]
me: he looks like an anime magical girl
December 29, 2024 at 4:51 AM
I feel like moving house is always a race against time to see how much can get done before Chuck-Things-in-Boxes o'clock.
December 1, 2024 at 9:52 PM