iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Even celebrations are getting shrinkflation 😂

Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I get that! At least there’s always the ability to “share the pad”. Had a lot of great multiplayer experiences that way tbh.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

What was the innovation that won them the award?

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Delighted to have a chapter in this book alongside so many amazing contributors. I have co-authored a chapter with @fergus.oolong.co.uk all about "Embracing Monotropism and Flow" www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I’m not sure about social services, but I’ve found that people in general are really resistive to written information when what they want is the ability to adapt in real time, or they don’t know. Both are things they could say, but seem scared to express.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

There’s no such thing as a single accessible solution, because different people have different needs

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

While we’re at it, bring back camera perspective being an option

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I just think they should be optional modes, not the entire focus of the game. They shouldn’t be required to be able to play Games always want to support multiple play styles, after all

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Wouldn’t it be great if you could choose, though?

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That only works when everyone else is treating it as that - when the world becomes a stage for speedrun towards “endgame”, it no longer serves a purpose to inhabit that world

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Even to the point where even being flexible enough to consider an alternative system that would allow more flexibility is an impossibility

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

ROCKSTAR UPDATE: Keir Starmer was just asked about the Rockstar firings in Parliament today where he described the situation as "deeply concerning" and promised it would be looked into by government ministers. Not that a Starmer promise is worth much, mind.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Did they not watch Sesame Street 🤣 too true. I keep feeling like “this was everywhere. You couldn’t avoid it. How could you not learn this?”

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

All they had to do was say they couldn’t help with lifting the scooter (probably a liability thing), are you ok with some alternative? Just. Cancelling it on you unilaterally? Awful behaviour, sorry that happened

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

“But people don’t want those ugly things they don’t need” Yo if you don’t see the beauty in someone being able to access their home, then I don’t know how to help you. Your world must be so drab. If you buy a place with a ramp, you just expanded your friendship pool. How’s that an ugly world?

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What society thinks disabled people want to hear: “You’re so brave!” “We look past your disability!” What disabled people actually want to hear: “We acknowledge your disability and will happily accommodate your needs.” “You can marry without losing your benefits.” “We’d like to offer you the job.”

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

That’s pretty much the mechanism of white supremacy. People are always like, but why do you care? And I’m like???? Cause we’re next. It’s always someone else.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Funnily enough, “communication is a two way street” was always used to describe why I was wrong, not why the “other guy” also needed to try harder

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hate is hate, it’s not enough to stand by and allow for hate not directed at us, we must not tolerate hate towards anyone.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

“Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to protest”

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

From elsewhere in the thread: they’ve done one and decided it’s a price they’re willing to pay

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

“Justify” is so much to say 😂

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

There are a lot of people who will happily suffer for a cause they consider just

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The decision to use it was at least partially because it’s far more readable to more people on screens. Of course, the point in official communications isn’t for many people to get them, it’s to look official. I’m sure you can see why it’s a DEI frivolity to favour inclusion over looking good.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I’m glad to see, for a change, that the takeaway is “clearly we need more resources” instead of “we need to stop diagnosing / recognising so many people”. Less diagnosis doesn’t mean less need, it means less needs being met.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Failures make you better, success makes you complacent

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If an old dog with sausage fingers (me) can write alt-text for all their image posts then it can't be that hard.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

you know yourself, you say? well, it’s not what i would do, so are you *sure*?

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Maybe the issue is that we’ve built a society that requires vehicles to participate in, in many instances, and if we want to lower spending on the patch, we should look for an underlying fix?

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Unfortunately, some folks seem insistent on comparing needs to wants. If taxpayers that “fund” it can’t afford a car, and also have a need for it, then they should also have access to help, right?

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Trying to treat everyone with a given diagnosis uniformly will never help, that’s why these programs are *criteria* based, not condition based. Impact on daily life has as much to do with environment as it does condition.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interesting, you’re right, I double checked and *I* have used YouTube on switch. I wonder what I’m thinking of, because there was something about them not wanting it to be seen as a general purpose device. It escapes me 😂 🤞 fingers crossed for getting the videos, ofc

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If it’s anything like the switch, iirc: because Nintendo see it as a “games” device, and for that reason, don’t approve streaming apps. They don’t really treat it as multimedia, and I wonder if it’s because they don’t want to compete with smaller tablets?

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

An odd argument attempting to justify inaccessibility is that building things accessibly would only benefit a minority of the population. However, that is not the case at all. More people benefit from accessibility than inaccessibility.

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I've Been Autistic All Along? @autisticallalong.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I need space between tasks. I need time to transition. I can’t just jump from one thing to another, and that’s not laziness—it’s how my brain works. Monotropism isn’t a deficit. It’s just a different type of focus.

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Disabled people should not have to conduct an in-depth research analysis on the accessibility of every new place they wish to visit.

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Joost rhymes with ghost @whatisvisceral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a huge pet peeve of mine: The Inventory tab has a 'new' marker on it, yet no category has a 'new' marker and after going through all of them... I can't find any new items and the marker won't go away. Please, my OCD requires that I am able to make the 'new' marker go away 😓

A screenshot of the Assassin's Creed Shadows inventory

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Arevya - Gaming is for EVERYONE 💕♿️ @arevya.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@ubisoft.com has made a tool for game developers that lets you detect colour blindness related issues in your game: UbiChroma! It is open source and free to use! 💕 Accessibility win for the day!

A picture from a discord server showing the GitHub link and picture

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

When I didn’t have “I’m autistic” I had “I need a minute”, “I don’t understand”. I had a lot of ways to communicate my needs. Better than what to many is a vague medical label. I was still autistic. #AutismAcceptance means accepting all autistic people, not just ones with “certificates”.

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Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Please put the ability to save anywhere in a videogame I don’t wanna have to risk dying and lose my progress trying to specifically get to a save point. Please and thanks. 🙏🏻

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It absolutely does, if you can exit and save from any point in the game. It doesn't address other valid concerns / needs for more flexible saving, though

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

You always have the ability to stick by the choices you made. If you'd want to retrace them if the feature existed, it sounds a lot more like you'd appreciate the feature

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It’s so so so awesome that there’s a lot of positivity around autistic traits in Bones, and it’s so important for autistic representation in media to exist and not just hint. The only way you convince folks it’s not a dirty word is by saying it out loud, not hiding it, what a shame on the network

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 02/04/2025

Join us for “Autism Myths and Misconceptions” on Thursday, April 17 at 4:00pm ET! Many people get confused about autism, and there’s a lot of wrong information about autism out there. This panel will talk about many of these ideas — register today!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Myths and Misconceptions About Autism. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I need autism awareness awareness I am chronically unaware 🤣

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I should point out that’s an “afaik” on the first claim as well - it could well be very convincing smoke and mirrors on the part of first party games, and I don’t have any insider info on the Xbox dev tools

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Afaik, if a game supports the system narrator then enabling it in system settings is enough - but if a game has T2S of its own, it won’t necessarily see this setting

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Xbox, at least, has a system T2S (Narrator) that’s available to games - it’s used by Minecraft

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Joe McGeoch Osborne @jubjef.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Accessibility features aren’t doing much if players don’t know about them! It’s great that Nintendo are including, and making sure we know about, system level accessibility for the Switch 2!

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