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Interesting Links for 28-01-2017
Jan. 28th, 2017 12:00 pm- Dyspraxia can be serious – it deserves more recognition
It me (with less journalism)
Interesting Links for 16-02-2016
Feb. 16th, 2016 01:00 pm- Diagnosing Dyspraxia: when clumsiness becomes a condition | The Student Newspaper
Minus the fact I've never even tried to learn to drive, this is very familiar to me.
Interesting Links for 22-08-2015
Aug. 22nd, 2015 01:00 pm- Eter9 social network learns your personality so it can post as you when you're dead
CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY!!!
- Paralyzed designer creates jeans for women in wheelchairs
- Gunman opens fire on Amsterdam-Paris train, wounding two people before being overpowered by two American soldiers who were on board
Interesting Links for 14-05-2015
May. 14th, 2015 01:00 pm- Cameron: "For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone."
And I find that sentence pretty fucking terrifying
- Justin Tomlinson, New Disabilities Minister, Voted Against Protecting Disabled Child Benefits
And for those undergoing cancer treatment.
Interesting Links for 24-04-2015
Apr. 24th, 2015 01:00 pm- InvisAbility Girl — On Passing as Disabled
Well written post explaining what it's like to have an invisible disability, when the world judges you on just what it can see. As someone who has both dyspraxia (clumsiness, disorganisation, other stuff), and hypermobility syndrome (double jointed to the point it's a painful problem), I very much agree with this.
Interesting Links for 09-07-2014
Sep. 3rd, 2014 10:00 am- Rolling Coal: Conservatives ‘screw’ Obama by modifying trucks to spew toxic black smoke
- John Barrowman goes Deaf for the Day
Quite powerfully written. Top quote: 'if a deaf person asks you to repeat something, never say “it doesn’t matter.” It does matter. It matters more than you know.'
Interesting Links for 21-05-2014
May. 21st, 2014 01:00 pm- Will UKIP make me Richer, or will UKIP make me Poorer?
AKA 'flat taxes are regressive'
- Disabled students could be 'shut out' by government cuts
Some of the support I got through the Disabled Students Allowance, particularly the PDA it got me, were a real help in getting myself organised, actually managing to make all the things I was supposed to, etc. I think I'd've had a much harder time without them.
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2014
Jan. 18th, 2014 12:00 pm- £1000 certification required to apply to join the Metropolitan Police
Which'll be a fairly massive obstacle to having a diverse force. Especially given that it's no guarantee of a job once you have it.
- I've Been Single For My Entire Life | Huffington Post
A fair bit of sympathy with this, given it's been quite a long time since my last relationship. Though I note it appears to ascribe to the 'Men approach women' cultural model without thinking about it.
- Hate crimes against disabled people soar to a record level - Crime - UK - The Independent
'Last year the Glasgow Media Trust found the public believed between 50 and 70 per cent of those on disability benefits were fraudulent. The actual number is likely to be between 1 and 2 per cent.'
- The Myth Of The Absent Black Father | ThinkProgress
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Interesting Links for 26-10-2013
Oct. 26th, 2013 05:00 pm- When a skeletal horse is a good thing
Awesome, if perhaps creepy, photos of a horse with its skeleton painted upon it.
- Judges find DWP ‘fitness for work’ test breaches the Equality Act and is illegal | Vox Political
- DfE confirms: the schools Gove said he visited don’t exist | Local Schools Network
Interesting Links for 31-05-2013
May. 31st, 2013 05:00 pm- “Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?” — LadyBits on Medium — Medium
A rather good metaphorical escalator
- Peter Mandelson joins board of Russian firm 'with organised crime links' | Business | The Guardian
- BBC News - Incapacity benefit test claims 'conflated figures' - watchdog
'Suggestions that 878,300 benefit claimants dropped their claims rather than take a medical test have been challenged by the statistics watchdog.'
- BBC News - Scottish independence: Dissecting legal advice on student fees post-yes
- Nick Clegg: we will strike a balance on 'snoopers charter' after Woolwich attack - Telegraph
'work is already under way within the civil service to resurrect some of the proposals without the need for legislation, meaning the Liberal Democrats would not be able to vote it down in parliament.'
- Motorola's tattoos could replace passwords for phones- Telegraph
- BBC News - Tory MP Patrick Mercer resigns
'has resigned the Tory whip to "save my party embarrassment" over a BBC Panorama programme alleging he had broken lobbying rules.'
- 33 Teachers Who Got The Last Laugh
I may have to use the Helen Waite one at some point myself.
- How attractive is Britain to ‘benefit tourists?
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2013
Jan. 21st, 2013 04:00 pm- Engineers are cold and dead inside, research shows • The Register
'people who go into engineering are less caring and empathetic than those who enter professions such as medicine.'
- Met officers face judge over mentally disabled case - Channel 4 News
And their response? 'It's too much hard work to take people's disabilities into account, so we shouldn't have to!'
Interesting Links for 30-12-2012
Dec. 30th, 2012 04:00 pm- BBC News - Disability history month: Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh
'Born without arms or legs, Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh was an adventurer who rose to become a successful politician.'
