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Sometimes Comedian and Variety Artist and also an Anthropologist doing a PhD in Political Science on the politics of Australian political comedy production. #queer #autistic #auspol

How’s my Monday going?

I just got Siri to help me find my phone which was in my back pocket.

When I did my honours in 2004 I had my knickers knotted re 1500 word methodology chapter in
12 000 word thesis.

I’m currently happy 4 x rewrites to 7500 word methodology chapter / 80 000 word PhD thesis.

Point is - sometimes we have to remind ourselves how far we’ve come.

A fellow disabled human commented how he liked my light sabre walking stick today.

I said “Disability pride: it has to at least give the illusion I could cut someone’s legs off”.

He laughed, revealed a prosthetic leg & said “Too late!”

We both roared laughing.

Solidarity humour!

I have discovered the research cloud my head gets stuck in is like most clouds. It can be lumpy, wispy, dark, bulbous, light reducing, light enhancing and make shapes that I only imagine and no one else sees or understands...and need seeding or Kate Bush level cloud busting.
Accessibility means equitable access. It's right there in the word. If you can't access a workplace or a computer or safe lighting conditions or be free of pyscho-social hazards of any aspect of that workplace that mean you can do your work or study - it's not accessible.
It is my life ambition to be called ungrateful by every old boys club I can find.

Under the new regime at Twitter, things are changing. I'm pretty sure Alan would appreciate a good fart joke, however fart is trending because Marjorie Taylor Greene is erroneously (but somewhat comically) comparing farts to COVID. This is Musk's freedom of speech - freedom to compare odour to a virus and convince people not to wear masks.

Image description: Screenshot of three trending tweets from Twitter.
Alan Alda, 9009 tweets.
Fart, 14.9k tweets
Channel 9 - 8012 tweets

1. History is not there for you to like or dislike.
2. History is there for you to learn from it.
3. History offends you? Even better. Then you are less likely to repeat it.

Read this out loud, then read it again. Then teach it to your children and grandchildren.

Accessibility means equitable access. It's right there in the word. If you can't access a workplace or a computer or safe lighting conditions or be free of pyscho-social hazards of any aspect of that workplace that mean you can do your work or study - it's not accessible.
It is my life ambition to be called ungrateful by every old boys club I can find.