Natalie Alana Ashton
@natalan.bsky.social
🚊 connecting disabled communities in the North @transportforall.org.uk.
📚 publishing philosophy on knowledge and social change @ nataliealanaashton.notion.site.
don't blame my employer for my views, they begged me to stop skeeting. she/her.
📚 publishing philosophy on knowledge and social change @ nataliealanaashton.notion.site.
don't blame my employer for my views, they begged me to stop skeeting. she/her.
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watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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But yeah the formula is “I used to do sports! But now I can’t do [basic activity of daily living]. I have tried graded exercise therapy and was concerned when it didn’t help because I want to be Productive Under Capitalism!”
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
But yeah the formula is “I used to do sports! But now I can’t do [basic activity of daily living]. I have tried graded exercise therapy and was concerned when it didn’t help because I want to be Productive Under Capitalism!”
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it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
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⚠️ Closing tomorrow!
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
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We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
⚠️ Closing tomorrow!
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
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If you're not having a cheese toastie and a cup a soup today, what on earth are you playing at
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If you're not having a cheese toastie and a cup a soup today, what on earth are you playing at
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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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there was a big stooshie years back about prisoners getting "flat screen TVs" so the local prison here had to pay through the nose in order to acquire some of the few remaining working CRT televisions it could locate, far more than the equivalent cost of basic flat screens, just to avoid bad press
I recall an Express or Mail front page 20 years ago about prisoners being lavished with brand new mattresses, beds and sheets worth (large sum of money). Hundreds of words of squawking MPs and Taxpayer’s Alliance spokescreatures later, the prison said: “We have to buy new beds every decade or so”.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
there was a big stooshie years back about prisoners getting "flat screen TVs" so the local prison here had to pay through the nose in order to acquire some of the few remaining working CRT televisions it could locate, far more than the equivalent cost of basic flat screens, just to avoid bad press
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I’m in my mid-forties and, during my entire adulthood, the relentless haranguing, stereotyping, scapegoating, chastising, bullying of Muslims has been a central part of British public life.
Cannot adequately express to outsiders how insane it is to think the UK is characterised by "Islamoleftism". Just, absolutely, not a thing, not at all representative of our governing ideology, nor of the ideology of the left factions that exist as any serious presence within our politics.
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I’m in my mid-forties and, during my entire adulthood, the relentless haranguing, stereotyping, scapegoating, chastising, bullying of Muslims has been a central part of British public life.
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sending the most targeted sycophantic precision-optimised email of my life to the people at minute cryptic begging them to restore the streak i lost due to yesterday's cloudflare outage.
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
sending the most targeted sycophantic precision-optimised email of my life to the people at minute cryptic begging them to restore the streak i lost due to yesterday's cloudflare outage.
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This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
this is what i'm talking about.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
this is what i'm talking about.
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At Hillsborough Morrisons many years ago I was at the checkout behind a big metalhead looking beardy bloke who was buying only: beef hearts and a slab of strongbow.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
At Hillsborough Morrisons many years ago I was at the checkout behind a big metalhead looking beardy bloke who was buying only: beef hearts and a slab of strongbow.
this is a long-standing passion of mine.
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is a long-standing passion of mine.
self checkouts have robbed us of the pleasure of looking at the shopping of the person in front and imagining what their evening is going to be like.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
self checkouts have robbed us of the pleasure of looking at the shopping of the person in front and imagining what their evening is going to be like.
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There's a song whose lyrics involve being in a cab in New York (Brooklyn specifically iirc) and whose narrator says she was up until late on day n, immediately clarifying that this entails being up until early on day n+1. What is this song?
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
There's a song whose lyrics involve being in a cab in New York (Brooklyn specifically iirc) and whose narrator says she was up until late on day n, immediately clarifying that this entails being up until early on day n+1. What is this song?
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17/11/25 - nocturn
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
17/11/25 - nocturn
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@seanmorl.com made cinnamon rolls with maple pecan and glaze, and mulled apple juice spiked with brandy.
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@seanmorl.com made cinnamon rolls with maple pecan and glaze, and mulled apple juice spiked with brandy.
saturday night potato party let's gooo
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
saturday night potato party let's gooo
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Let's start with the obvious point. Don't use a technology whose purpose is to enable employers to get rid of workers so they can use an app to do the same job badly. Workers like . . . graphic designers for instance. Next, when using a selection of images, VARY your images. Total rookie mistake. 2/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Let's start with the obvious point. Don't use a technology whose purpose is to enable employers to get rid of workers so they can use an app to do the same job badly. Workers like . . . graphic designers for instance. Next, when using a selection of images, VARY your images. Total rookie mistake. 2/
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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 6:09 AM
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
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
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"I Look In People's Windows" is the "It's Nice To Have A Friend" of The Anthology (complimentary)
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I Look In People's Windows" is the "It's Nice To Have A Friend" of The Anthology (complimentary)