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Ashlee 🤟🏻

@ashleemboyer.com
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Deaf, ND, multiply disabled. W3C Invited Expert participating in WCAG 3. Software eng. & consultant: @ashlee.semanticfish.com Blog: ashleemboyer.com More writing: @semanticfish.net Interests: crip theory & critical access/disability studies.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 26/09/2026
Why am I arguing in my zotero highlights with the author of a paper from 1880 😂
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 25/09/2026
My Grandma has visited me in multiple dreams the past week 💜
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 25/09/2026
It’s almost midnight on a Thursday and I’m happily sipping on red wine while reading and taking notes on Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning. Little Ashlee would love knowing what a nerd we become.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 23/09/2026
I wonder just how significantly anti-friction perspectives in (agile) software engineering have influenced the negative connotations of friction in (web) accessibility.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 21/09/2026
Fifth Third was my first bank 😂
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 21/09/2026
Please no 😫
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 21/09/2026
I'm learning how to use Blender because I just started playing House Flipper and want to create custom objects. I made a coffee mug!
3D model of a plain coffee mug as shown in Blender.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 16/09/2026
I meant to type "linkedin" but searched "link" on duckduckgo instead and it showed me the duck dressed as Link!!
The DuckDuckGo duck, dressed as Link (the gaming character), next to the search bar with the text "link"
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 15/09/2026
Does he need to wear a tan suit for there to be public outcry from the right
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 09/09/2026
If there's one thing I miss about being on a college campus (there are several reasons actually) it's having a printer within a few hundred feet at all times 🖨️
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 09/09/2026
The term “sickfluencers” was created by ableist bullies, not disabled or chronically ill people. How are we disabled people getting hate for a term or “trend” we didn’t even come up with?? We don’t even call it a “trend” either. 1/
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Venn diagram of anti-vaxxers, transphobes, and chronic illness denialism is a circle. They all have one thing in common, and it's *slightly* more specific than 'bigotry'. Every thought process ends in an Appeal to Nature fallacy.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 06/09/2026
My life’s about to be on track again and when it is, I’m gonna re-learn clarinet with one of these bad boys clarimate.us
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ClariMate — Digital Practice Mute for Clarinet
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 05/09/2026
As an accessibility gal this makes me a nervous accessibility gal
Top of the NIH website. Contains the “An official website of the United States government” disclaimer and a notice the NIH websites are changing: “NIH is moving the launch of its new website to the fall to ensure the best possible experience for everyone who relies on our websites for health information, research, funding opportunities, and other resources.”
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 05/09/2026
My favorite beer is back so it’s officially fall in my book! 🎃🍁🍂🍻
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 30/08/2026
Might start posting on Threads more often. Still getting used to it lol. If you wanna hang there, here I am! www.threads.com/@ashleemboyer
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My close friend Jia (@jiakimchi.bsky.social) is in need of a wheelchair motorized attachment so they can safely go out of their home! And walk their dog too! Please share this post & donate if you're able to below! This will greatly improve their life! To help: ko-fi.com/jiakimchi
Help Jia get a wheelchair attachment! Image showing motorized wheelchair attachment hooked to a wheelchair. And image of their cute dog Toby! To help: https://ko-fi.com/jiakimchi. It will greatly improve their quality of life allowing them to go out and live their life! It will allow them to walk their dog more frequently! Think of the dog!
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We're at 35%!! Please continue to share! So we can meet the goal!!
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/08/2026
I’m not mad, bc I know it’s a biz, and my health team deserves their pay in order to live. But I’m still sad I have to get a new therapist eventually. My account was sent to collections. It’ll never be the same. I’ve saw her from the end of 2019. The biggest things in my life happened since then.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/08/2026
I think I’ve been triggered the past two days. Is that weird? Genuine question. 😕
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 26/08/2026
Who’s writing this fucking timeline
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 26/08/2026
Today I realized my deaf accent intensifies when I’m exhausted I was promptly reminded of the irony that automatic captions can’t tell what I tried to say “meanings” came out as “meedings” captioned as “meetings”
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 25/08/2026
If I cry about Dolly I’m gonna need to take the rest of the day bc I haven’t cried about Grandma in a few and she loved Dolly and Dolly‘s music makes me think of her
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 24/08/2026
There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 23/08/2026
Life after loss is so fking weird. Even as I continually live through it. Like what do mean I lose all bearings at a moment’s notice? What do you mean I have a monthly existential crisis?
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 23/08/2026
Knowing how rejection sensitive dysphoria works is cool and all until you worry so much that you’ve triggered it for someone else that you retreat and isolate, thus increasing the risk of triggering it for someone else
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 19/08/2026
“Less than 2% of workers in the county commute via bus lines so why would we add more lines?” I can’t imagine being so close to the point and still not getting it
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 19/08/2026
Posted some healthy satire on LI today 🤭 www.linkedin.com/posts/ashlee...
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I saw this question recently and it stopped me in my tracks. Are you kidding?? I didn't even have to think about my answer. "No thank you, I want to work on deep technical problems at ext...
I saw this question recently and it stopped me in my tracks. Are you kidding?? I didn't even have to think about my answer. "No thank you, I want to work on deep technical problems at extreme ease...
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 18/08/2026
Archive link if you need it: archive.today/2026.08.18-2...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 16/08/2026
Conner Prairie released some gnarly photos this morning of their flooding.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 16/08/2026
Flooding is very bad in Indy. I’m reading that this fund is a good one to donate to.
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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 15/08/2026
We are not flooded but neighborhoods around ours are. It's NUTS to see the White River so high. This city has been developed almost as if there were no river, except in a few spots, and those places are now underwater. The road by the restaurant *by the mall* where we ate last Saturday is gone. 🌊
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 15/08/2026
Wild lightning and thinder in Indianapolis this morning. While there’s already a statewide disaster emergency from flooding. ☹️
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 14/08/2026
My struggle as a neurodivergent reader of scholarly materials is that Zotero helps me stay organized but it's also SO HARD for me to read and annotate using a device. On one hand... I need to print it out, but on the other hand... I need my notes to be organized and searchable. 😅
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 08/08/2026
CC’s game-losing flop, which happened right after A'ja Wilson’s incredible block that led to Chelsea Gray’s SECOND buzzer-beater three-pointer that won the game by 2 points. I wonder how many Clarkasians called congress. 🤣
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“You’re so resilient!”

“Thanks! It was either that or die!”

Reese Witherspoon, generic white blonde woman actor. Dressed all in pink, pearl necklace, white gloves, hat, a toothy not-genuine smile. probably from the film where she goes from ditzy marriage-obsessed straight woman to a lawyer.”
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 06/08/2026
AI app ad: “You don’t have time to write newsletters.” Me to whoever that speaks to: If you don’t have time to write it, why should anyone take the time read it?
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 05/08/2026
I knew I was having bad executive functioning issues but yesterday I learned about functional freeze. Pretty sure I’ve been there for a long time. I read that creativity and journaling can help, and I’ve already been writing with pen and paper and finding it helpful in organizing my thoughts.
Green text above a portrait layout zine on a striped rug. The text reads “day 1 zine-ing through executive dysfunction.” The zine cover has thin black text on a background of pastel colored blobs. The text reads “how to ship a landing page” in all caps. There’s a light pink paperclip on the right edge holding the zine closed.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 03/08/2026
Oh boy I learned the term “functional freeze” and I’m pretty sure that’s the state I’ve been stuck in for months 😟
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/07/2026
If you lead with ”web developers know accessibility,” I’m probably gonna ask you to write a lil’ persuasive essay backing up your points. You don’t have to of course, but I’m genuinely curious about this when it’s used as a premise. And I say this as a software engineer of 8+ years.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/07/2026
A year ago today, I held her hand as she took her last breath. Her arm was feverish. Shocking bc she was always cold. I’m the same. Touching my arm today, if it’s warm, I’m whiplashed straight to that moment. How has it been 365 days since the woman who mothered me breathed at the same time as me?
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/07/2026
As a deaf person I say HELL YEAH to the ppl who used Deaf applause (see 1:35). Notice I said: applause, not clap. The distinction is important. The rules were don’t clap bc the sound delays between speakers. Deaf applause was silent. But then they added another rule: don’t wave, it‘s distracting.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 27/07/2026
Happy Corporate Accessibility week! #IYKYK
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/07/2026
it’s a good day to remind yourself that you are a mammal, and all animals are going to want to move slow and conserve energy in this heat give yourself some grace and drink some water
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 27/07/2026
Requiring a ”business email” (that can’t be icloud or gmail) to read a report about AI in digital accessibility is so on brand for Corporate Accessibility
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
You don’t have to agree with a woman’s opinion but you do have root your disagreement in something that isn’t misogyny
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