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Cathy

@cathy-eldrad.bsky.social
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Interested in gluten dodging, sobriety, cats, nerd culture, bipride, c-PTSD recovery, feminism, Star trek, Dr Who. Work in Alt formats/e-document accessibility. Personal account. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩷💜💙🏳️‍🌈

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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 15h
That fancy GF pasta is the biz.
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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey apparently it's World Sight Day. If you've got a young baby, do look out for how their eyes respond to flash photography. If they have red-eye in only one eye (or neither eye) when photographed with a flash, that can be a symptom of Retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer my daughter had.
nhs.uk
Symptoms of retinoblastoma
Find out about the symptoms of retinoblastoma. The main sign is a white glow or reflection in the centre of the eye.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hi @coeliacuk.bsky.social I have had no response to several emails or on here, work hours make helpline tricky. Please can anyone respond at all??? I'm a member etc.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't know if this is a neuro diverse thing or what but I hate any time restaurants have vague "we have lots of gluten free options just ask" statements, I'm on your website for just only exactly that information, I don't take that statement as "you're welcome here" truly, that's all I want.
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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 04/10/2026
Boost! I am recruiting participants for my study on reading (not solving) statistics equations with low vision; complete the screening survey at forms.cloud.microsoft/r/925LMZgGzn. George Mason University IRB-approved. #MathEd #StatsEd #MathsEd #a11y
forms.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Forms
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Got to the end of the Anneke Wills interview, so DWM backlog much more in hand but I do feel maybe a badge/prize/certificate may be due because that was looooong!
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Makes me think of being in a very dark archive, doing star jumps to get motion sensor lights back on! Tres chic.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trying to buy an ok/medium-sized portable first aid kit for volunteer thing, not with an org, no funds so has to be as budget as possible... Bit overwhelmed at the options...anyone been through similar?
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also though, top Pass the Parcel tunes here #totp
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really thought I'd get a big perm & blue jeans as a grown-up & then maybe be super cool #totp
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's back #totp
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beloveds! Who has interviews, focus groups or workshops needing transcription? -we timestamp speaker changes as standard -we don’t charge extra for ESOL speakers or people with atypical vocalisations (and if you do, shame on you!) -we treat every contribution with care & respect. Email us!
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First soaked to the skin, had to get changed level caught in a shower of autumn 2026 🏊
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cryptic text from Boots, cute to think I'd only have 1 prescription. (In Sean Bean voice, *which one?*)
Dear CATHERINE, it's time to re-order your repeat prescription using your usual ordering method
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@coeliacuk.bsky.social hello! I sent an email question on 30th Aug & not heard back, am I languishing in the junk folder by any chance?
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yep, you're in Heaton, not Jesmond. That's so funny. Also, it's all knocked down and rebuilt so it's very ship of Theseus.
Start of a Wikipedia article:
"Jesmond Park Academy
School in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Jesmond Park Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England."
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤬 my old school has been renamed to be more aspirational/ named for neighbouring posher area! Shameless.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I Have Mostly Been Having IT Issues.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't possibly, am under a cat.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fans of zoonotic Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)? (Lots of non bird species carry it too. Fun times!)
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's the joyless bits that really stand out.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pet psychic rocks For All, when the revolution comes.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big Spaced vibes at the end there. #TOTP youtu.be/sfSndZPynQk?...
youtu.be
Tyres' Everyday Raving | Spaced
YouTube video by Channel 4 Entertainment
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*sigh* can we stop doing this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Major blaze at former Lanarkshire primary school building
Firefighters are working to control the fire which has taken hold of the former Greenhill Primary School building in Coatbridge.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Normal to be fighting the urge to check work email 3 hours after logging off???
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you use the clapping hands emoji between every word for emphasis, screen reader users will hear "clapping hands" after each word. This is true for any emoji. This will be distracting, annoying, and disorienting. The message you're trying to emphasize will likely be lost.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shit. Guys it's just hiding under drama. Sorry!!! Audiobooks doesn't have subcategories.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BBC sounds just got rid of sci fi as a category entirely???? Wtf. That's my category. That's like 99% what I'm looking for.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh and sexy fish man as well...that's as tricky to headcanon explain as Geoffrey Palmer 1 & 2 being the same guy (I like to try). (Hey we all have our own ways of having fun).
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching Doctor Who until I feel a bit better. Got to Voyage of the Damned & defo didn't appreciate at the time how iconic it was to have Geoffrey Palmer back for a 3rd appearance. I think the first is the best, for him & overall.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can't remember it because I'd just been born but this is how 70s I remember the 80s being, parse that if you can #TOTP
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😭 Been so busy next DWM has arrived & I only got 9 pages into last month's 😭 got a fandom backlog!!
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Omg new cat just dropped www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pink sand at these Athletics - Tanith Lee would approve.
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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are disabled and ever had notetakers at university. What do you wish they had known or done either outside the basic notetaking (e.g. don't phone the deaf person) or done in notetaking style. I had notetakers, many who couldn't cope with my technical subject or asshole lecturers = funtimes.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New to have left-sided neck pain. One of many times "a change is as good as a rest" turned out to be a lie.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
100%
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I forgot, last time there was an issue at this spot, the council & ScotRail argued for 2 years over who should repair the fault. So we shall see 🫠
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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Does anyone know of a plugin or other trick to force the academic ebook access platforms into dark mode? If I'm able to download a book, I do that and read it on my Kobo in dark mode. But some books only have online access, and I'd love to be able to read those in dark mode too.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shut up brain not now please 🫥
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Right, bloody done it, hopefully 7 minutes well spent. Good luck with yours, sounds a lot more complicated.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not as egregious but I really need to report a bunch of overgrown paths & now a collapsed handrail & just never find the time.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I hate approximately everything.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the #C19. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets #BookHistory www.nls.uk/collections/...
nls.uk
Reading by touch: Scotland's early tactile reading systems | National Library
Explore the history of reading by touch for blind readers in nineteenth century Scotland.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Woke up in a panic that there was a general election & I'd forgotten to vote & it was 9.55pm. I don't know whether to be pleased at quite a chill nightmare or disturbed to be so pedestrian.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
✨the boots you lick will stomp you too✨
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have heard some people are different on this front.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am not at my best when highly stressed.
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Cathy @cathy-eldrad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New episodes on YouTube 🥳
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