Jonathan Paul Mitchell
@jonathanmitchell.me
Disabled philosopher of disability.
Accessibility person at University of Atypical. All views are my own.
Autumn goth. Music liker. Guitar player.
Accessibility person at University of Atypical. All views are my own.
Autumn goth. Music liker. Guitar player.
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born
(Including music: Varèse, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver)
(Including music: Varèse, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver)
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born
(Including music: Varèse, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver)
(Including music: Varèse, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver)
It's instructive to read this alongside Boris Johnson's tirade against increasing numbers of people getting airport assistance.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's instructive to read this alongside Boris Johnson's tirade against increasing numbers of people getting airport assistance.
You will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
You will be visited by 3 spirits
Fair play to @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social!
Not a good framing by AFP though: artists turning to tradition in the face of change. As though art isn't always technological, or digital art doesn't exist. The issue isn't technology, but the many shitty effects of these particular technologies.
Not a good framing by AFP though: artists turning to tradition in the face of change. As though art isn't always technological, or digital art doesn't exist. The issue isn't technology, but the many shitty effects of these particular technologies.
Belfast Christmas market bans sale of AI-generated art.
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Fair play to @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social!
Not a good framing by AFP though: artists turning to tradition in the face of change. As though art isn't always technological, or digital art doesn't exist. The issue isn't technology, but the many shitty effects of these particular technologies.
Not a good framing by AFP though: artists turning to tradition in the face of change. As though art isn't always technological, or digital art doesn't exist. The issue isn't technology, but the many shitty effects of these particular technologies.
Boris noticed a thing that he didn't like, and burbled out many more words than are required to make his venal, ill-informed and tendentious argument.
Meanwhile disabled people are still experiencing significant disadvantage in air travel: www.edf-feph.org/publications...
Meanwhile disabled people are still experiencing significant disadvantage in air travel: www.edf-feph.org/publications...
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Boris noticed a thing that he didn't like, and burbled out many more words than are required to make his venal, ill-informed and tendentious argument.
Meanwhile disabled people are still experiencing significant disadvantage in air travel: www.edf-feph.org/publications...
Meanwhile disabled people are still experiencing significant disadvantage in air travel: www.edf-feph.org/publications...
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Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
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Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(I could only muster one, but it warrants mention)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(I could only muster one, but it warrants mention)
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(I could only muster one, but it warrants mention)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(I could only muster one, but it warrants mention)
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Aerosmith
The Cure
My Bloody Valentine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sharon van Etten & the Attachment Theory
Aerosmith
The Cure
My Bloody Valentine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sharon van Etten & the Attachment Theory
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
The Lighthouse Family
Wynton Marsalis
Placebo
Reef
Grandmaster Flash
The Lighthouse Family
Wynton Marsalis
Placebo
Reef
Grandmaster Flash
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to
-Kendrick Lamar
-Cryptopsy
-Porter Robinson
-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
-The Wood Brothers
-Kendrick Lamar
-Cryptopsy
-Porter Robinson
-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
-The Wood Brothers
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Aerosmith
The Cure
My Bloody Valentine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sharon van Etten & the Attachment Theory
Aerosmith
The Cure
My Bloody Valentine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sharon van Etten & the Attachment Theory
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
Hell yeah. Thread.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Hell yeah. Thread.
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My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
Oh no. Devastating indeed. Alice was truly incredible. Totally gutted to read this
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Oh no. Devastating indeed. Alice was truly incredible. Totally gutted to read this
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The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
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Journalists please, please, please copy paste your big blocks screenshot text into alt text. It takes five seconds longer and makes your work three times as accessible and searchable.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Journalists please, please, please copy paste your big blocks screenshot text into alt text. It takes five seconds longer and makes your work three times as accessible and searchable.
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Keir Starmer stepping out of the door of Number 10 to give a speech at the podium, finishing, turning around, walking back to the door and slamming face first into it, revealing it had in fact been painted onto the side of a mountain.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Keir Starmer stepping out of the door of Number 10 to give a speech at the podium, finishing, turning around, walking back to the door and slamming face first into it, revealing it had in fact been painted onto the side of a mountain.
Flawless argumentation from noted genius James Watson
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Flawless argumentation from noted genius James Watson
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People who are opposed to any kind of regime running on Gen AI have to exercise our capacity to address it beyond its flaws. Flaws are opportunities to anyone looking for more money bc it gives them something to “fix.” Don’t get stuck in the “flaws.” Think about foundations.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
People who are opposed to any kind of regime running on Gen AI have to exercise our capacity to address it beyond its flaws. Flaws are opportunities to anyone looking for more money bc it gives them something to “fix.” Don’t get stuck in the “flaws.” Think about foundations.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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I know it's a small part of the overall nonsense but the idea that people in small towns in the UK are 'like hobbits' is absolutely sending me
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I know it's a small part of the overall nonsense but the idea that people in small towns in the UK are 'like hobbits' is absolutely sending me