iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Georgia @ Sun Princess.jpg @geohen17.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THERE IS AN ARACHNOPHOBIA SETTING IN FIRE EMBLEM OH MY GOD I love accessibility in games

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 07/09/2026

Mmmmm. Protein. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Ian Pouncey @ianpouncey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Friday, the 4th of September, at 3:00 PM (UK time) I will be talking to @micmath.me.uk and @garethfw.bsky.social. Register at www.linkedin.com/posts/how-to... to listen in to our conversation.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 01/09/2026

Our guest for this month's Accessible Thinking Live Session is Ian Pouncey, a web developer, accessibility specialist, and, since 2019, a director of Tetralogical, a highly respected accessibility consultancy and services provider in the UK. This is live, FREE, and open to anyone. luma.com/a5h9sm05

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How to Talk About AI and Accessibility · Zoom · Luma

Our guest for this month's Accessible Thinking Live Session is Ian Pouncey, a web developer, accessibility specialist, and, since 2019, a director of…

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 30/07/2026

luma.com/wooj5uhp If you’re interested in accessibility at scale, or how to keep ESG (environment, society, and governance) front and centre whilst delivering it in an age of AI, you won’t want to miss this. It’s online and free but spaces are limited so register now to save your place!

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Neil Milliken is Sick of Hearing the Word AI · Zoom · Luma

Neil Milliken is the former VP, Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion at Atos, where he led accessibility strategy across a workforce of 100,000+.…

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 21/07/2026

The dead giveaway is: “Not just what people do, but who they are.” LLMs can’t stop themselves from producing such breathless but trite negative parallelisms. It’s my new em-dash for detecting gen AI at a glance.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 19/07/2026

Accessible Thinking — Session Notes accessiblethinking.substack.com?r=6kq5y3&utm... We’ve been sharing some amazing live sessions with some important voices in the field of accessibility advocacy but if you couldn’t make the Zoom meeting we now provide a recap: our Session Notes newsletter.

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Accessible Thinking — Session Notes | Michael Mathews | Substack

A monthly recap and discussion of the issues and information raised in our Accessible Thinking Live Sessions. Click to read Accessible Thinking — Session Notes, by Michael Mathews, a Substack publicat...

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 02/07/2026

Or maybe it just _thinks_ the test shows the code works fine?

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 02/07/2026

What do autism, electric toothbrushes, and agentic AI have in common? I'll get to the bottom of that question on Thursday the 9th of July, when we have Jamie Knight as a guest on our next Accessible Thinking Live Session. Places are limited, so please RSVP to save your spot: luma.com/5ud3ap2v

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Autism, Electric Toothbrushes, and Agentic AI · Zoom · Luma

For this Accessible Thinking session, we're welcoming a guest who describes themself as a Digital Accessibility Specialist, Principal Engineer, Podcaster, Lion…

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 22/10/2025

Is the answer that we were the bunny all along?

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 21/10/2025

To be fair, that code almost certainly was “borrowed” from open source npm projects. I just spent 10 minutes studying it and had a few AHA! moments so you can still exercise your grey cells. Also, you can’t assume LLM gen code is correct so you def should study it until it makes sense to you anyway.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 20/09/2025

“Due to the special nature of the BBC…” was how many, frankly bonkers-sounding, requirements were presented to us. But to be fair the BBC was right on the cutting edge in many technologies and damn if they don’t have a whole lot of “special” requirements!

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 19/09/2025

I feel like I worked on that “feature” when it was first introduced. We were told, for performance reasons! and how they configured their caching, we could NOT redirect server side. There was some mitigation about it only ever happening once on first visit and only non-UK. Not my proudest work. 😬

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 17/09/2025

Did this originate with the onboard computer in the original Star Trek series? At the time that was written, the idea of a crowd-authored, widely distributed knowledge base was certainly not as relatable as a single all-knowing supercomputer.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 17/09/2025

Did a spit-take when I read "Linux distributions… rarely suffer from these sorts of attacks." Maybe I misunderstood the XZ Utils near-disaster, but wasn't that the same issue? OS libraries maintained by unpaid and unsupervised contributors, each a hacker's target? Is that fixed in Linux world now?

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 06/09/2025

I moved away from Tidal after they raised their fees—Apple had a good family package deal on Music, Games and TV. Spotify were promoting far right podcasters so, no. I saved money but Apple’s recommendations ate pants compared to Tidal. Now I just keep listening to recommended music I don’t like.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

How did America lose its democracy? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 18/06/2025

Safari tends to be hyper reactive to these things in my opinion but I assume they have reports of baddies trying to run hacks using mDNS .local networks? They recently stopped connecting to 0.0.0.0 for the similar reasons. I’m lucky I switched to using the .test TLD a while ago (as per RFC 2606).

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Zane Gray sez! @zanegray.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Good doggie

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Those who don't criticize the government have nothing to fear.

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And to anyone thinking "impact is more important than intent"... that may be true in many/most cases... but saying this in relation to autism is placing blame on a disabled person for their disability.

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 16/05/2025

Don't mess with zooming on a website. Don't mess with scrolling on a website. Don't mess with default cursors on a website. Don't mess with the default Tab order. Don't mess with the back button in the browser. Thank you.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It’s good. Really, really good :)

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If you think you know what autism is but your only reference is what you've seen on TV or your cousin's/sister's/neighbor's kid... there's a very good chance you're wrong.

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 28/04/2025

It's British Sign Language (BSL) Awareness day! BSL is a visual language used by over 150,000 people in the UK. Explore our range of accessibility videos, all with BSL. Quick Accessibility Tests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PS... Browsing with Assistive Technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNW...

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Quick accessibility test: Keyboard support (British Sign Language version)

YouTube video by TetraLogical

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Caught up on Doctor Who and it was joyful to see Rose Ayling-Ellis playing Aliss. True representation front and centre So glad the Beeb went with a Deaf actor and smoothly incorporated BSL & live caption tech into the episode Really good episode. Worth a watch! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Doctor Who - Season 2: 3. The Well

Far in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Oooo! I forgot to mention. I’m joining a panel on neurodiversity & design stuff tomorrow. The questions look cracking :) It should be a fun one & it’s free if folks want to come along: clearleft.com/thinking/onl...

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Online panel: Is neurodiversity the next frontier of accessibility in…

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 16/04/2025

Don't send all your users' data to the broligarchs. The Astro Fonts API downloads and caches fonts so they're served from your site, not an ad company's. Better for CLS *and* GDPR.

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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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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 14/04/2025

This. Every time I consider writing in public lately, I know all my options will involve LLM leaches taking my work and turning it into slop to sell back to the same people I want to connect with. It’s incredibly demotivating. I assume this is true for all creative people at this point.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 02/04/2025

Notpat says: "What's so great about being hinged anyway? Unhinged is highly underrated if you ask me. Rarrr!"

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility dear friends! We see you, we appreciate you and we can't imagine the world without you! ❤️

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 31/03/2025

I’ve seen the same trend in music creation. After Suno (and other AI music generators) no human can expect to get paid to create music for low-end commercials or corporate videos again. Irony is these AI models were all trained on music shared online by the same human artisans they are replacing.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 31/03/2025

I’d be more convinced to do this if you could provide someone from a robowar-ravaged future who time-traveled back to implore me to do this. (But honestly, I say that about most things.)

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 31/03/2025

So true… “You can’t educate these crawlers. They jupiter up sunspots with kludge modern.”

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 28/03/2025

“The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone” www.theguardian.com/global/2025/... If you are not disabled you need to read this incredibly smart and useful piece by @novicsara.bsky.social

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The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone

Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

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Diversify Tech @diversifytech.com · 26/03/2025

If you are hiring, we'd love for you to share your technical roles on our job board. We'll share them with our community of 20,000 underrepresented people in tech. buff.ly/C18NeeX

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

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Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com · 04/03/2025

“Normal” people expend an awful lot of effort stating the obvious, like pointing out the currently observable weather. How weird is that? 😅 #WeirdPrideDay

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 04/03/2025

Seems like a lot of trouble just to get a hamster.

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