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Sam Barnett-Cormack

@sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk
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Liberal Quaker, disabled, neurodivergent (ADHD), interested in most things. Eclectic education. He/him. narco_sam on X. Lancaster, UK Writing/speaking on disability, patient experience, Quaker stuff, & whatever I feel like. linktr.ee/quakersambc

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/08/2025
"Operator error" I could just about consider plausible. "Coding error" would seem incredibly unlikely, but also unlikely to be fixed that quickly. Not impossible. But pretty implausible. Just from a technical point-of-view.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 04/02/2025
I am trapped in St Helens. Replacement bus showing up as being in one hour. My narcolepsy meds start to be unreliable in about ten minutes.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 13/01/2025
Since I got my new glasses, both with the varifocals and the readers, when I watch someone doing face-to-camera on the TV, my depth perception goes weird sometimes. Like it looks like someone's head has been recorded separately and stuck on to the video, like it isn't really attached to their body.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 11/01/2025
I really wish that celebs and major institutional users (like media, government etc) - and, frankly, anyone else in a position to - actually used domain verification on Bluesky. Always feel a sense of doubt if accounts are really what they claim to be if they haven't.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 11/01/2025
Knowing that the reason one has exaggerated emotional reactions is emotional dysregulation/lability due to #ADHD doesn't actually help deal with them as much as one might hope. Easier to be kind to yourself about it, but the emotions are still there.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 03/01/2025
Really sad to have learned that Lisa Egan - @lisybabe.bsky.social - has died. Dedicated, passionate and also capable of being a lot of fun. Will be sorely missed.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025
Looking at data dispassionately, there are a number of ways that the US doesn't fit in with the global economic north. This is one of them.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025
I recently got my first ever pair of varifocals. Optician does free second pair (with single vision lenses) so ordered readers as well, thought it would be useful sometimes. Readers were delayed, finally got them, and my god it's better to use them if I'm doing mostly close stuff.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024
As a postscript... anyone know *why* every #rollator I could find on sale is wider than the one I got like ten years ago?
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024
That last thread was quite banal, but this sort of thing is actually a significant part of the life of some of us, so, yeah. If you get it, you get it. If not, might be worth learning more about the everyday realities of being disabled.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024
The other week, a nut fell off my rollator. I still had the bolt and wheel, and fortunately my selection of bits at home included an appropriate sized locknut, but getting home with 3/4 wheels was interesting.
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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Chatted with a bloke who felt he should have moved on his wife’s death by now and be feeling Mwrry about Christmas. She only died in August 2023! If you’re finding the festive season tough due to bereavement, you’re not alone. There’s space for you here. #JoinIn
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024
My head is too large for Christmas
A white man with a beard and a wry expression, wearing glasses, and also wearing a paper crown from a Christmas cracker that is clearly significantly too small to actually go over his head.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024
This year's Christmas dinner. Not entirely happy with it. Potatoes should have been in #sousvide longer, and both the meat stuffing and the dryer stuffing have the wrong texture. But I'm not beating myself up about it. So, score one for #mentalhealth I guess.
A picture of plated Christmas dinner, with slices of rolled turkey breast stuffed and wrapped in bacon, pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon), a meat stuffing ball, a piece of baked stuffing, and roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips and beetroot. Cranberry sauce on the side.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024
Happy Christmas to all, and any other relevant season's greetings.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 21/12/2024
I got Whammed by the London International Horse Show #whamageddon.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 07/12/2024
I'm beginning to suspect that entryists attempting to disrupt Bluesky as a place for liberal/left wing/just generally chill people by use of blocklists that appear to be sincere are being fairly successful and bizarrely inclusive. Some of the ones I'm on are just bizarre.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/12/2024
I wonder if many Americans have been served a British corned beef sandwich without being told what "corned beef" is over here, and how they felt about what they received?
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/12/2024
Red wine triggers both my migraines and IBS. Which puts a bit of a crimp in some cooking. Finally found a simple substitute! A bit sweet, which will be a problem in some recipes, but easy to do. White wine and pomegranate molasses. Still working on ratios. (Don't drink it, though)
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Dan Maier @danielmaier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames
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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Yes, that’s all true. But it has not happened yet. And I’m seeing a lot of disabled people talking of giving up, when we need to keep fighting. And we need the support of allies even more, so please keep spreading the word. Giving up at this stage is not helpful. We need to keep fighting.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024
Seeing various things about different cultural assumptions people are making here about following back. FB is presumed, FB is all but obligatory, FB should always be at least carefully considered, or FB is just because someone following you means you notice they exist.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024
I recently got blue-light blocking overglasses in an attempt to reduce #migraine frequency, and set all my computers to 'night mode' (also reduced blue light in pretty much the same way). Too early to tell if it's making a difference, but I have to say the world looks weird through them.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024
Elon fans seem to think he's actually some kind of superman who can do anything... Or the screenshotted post is actually parody. (Image shows Scottie Pippen's tweet asking how many championships they would have won with Elon Musk, with a presumably edited photo of Musk as a basketball player)
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 30/11/2024
Classic rubber chicken stuff.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 30/11/2024
Sometimes I wonder... I see people here posting "this is the good place", possibly even with a GIF from the show (The Good Place), and I wonder if they've actually watched the show...
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Now I'm going to turn this around a little bit. Those of us who are pretty militant about this issue would do well to be chill with people who just haven't considered it before and need to build the habit. I've seen some replies that are... not chill.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If you can sometimes do alt text but sometimes your disabilities preclude you from it, why not wait to post that image til a better moment, if you don't want to ask for help? That's what I do. I like writing my alt text. It's fun. But sometimes I'm just out of both fucks and spoons, and wait.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Opened Twitter this morning for the first time this week. Got called a "cultist" for "believing in mainstream archaeology." Closed Twitter. So, how ya'll doing today?
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 30/11/2024
Repost not for the actual current affairs/political element of this, but the handy exploration of the law and relevant practice that it has given rise to.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 30/11/2024
A bit on the nose... blueskyroast.com But my wife would certainly tell you that the tangents are NOT all philosophical.
Partial screenshot, showing a text box headed "perfect match". The text in the box read "Someone who can bring the heat to the kitchen and the wit to the discourse", and then roughly highlighted by hand "must love random philosophical tangents".
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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 29/11/2024
For everyone’s benefit: Just because BlueSky is overwhelmingly progressive/liberal, doesn’t mean you get to be an asshole to people that disagree with you or who you’ve found a problem with. If you do that, then you’re just as bad as the far-right assholes over on Twitter
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 29/11/2024
UK media coverage for those who find this incredible and want the details... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
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Canadians with nonterminal conditions sought assisted dying for social reasons
Some people have asked to be killed due to non-medical reasons – including isolation and homelessness
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 29/11/2024
#Train at Preston with no livery...
A modern looking train with very light grey paintwork, viewed in a station across intervening platforms and a section of empty track. Foreground includes benches, columns and people.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I used to feel like this till I found out how search engines basically force them to write this or they just scrape and steal the family recipe
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.” Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
Two friends recently woke up in hospital to find ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders on their notes. We’re all too aware that some lives aren’t valued as much as others, says the actor and disability rights a...
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 28/11/2024
Today has been a mix of work, other (voluntary) work, tidying, and a fruitless trip to the pharmacy that were supposed to have ordered something in for me to buy but couldn't for bizarre reasons, but didn't know that when they took the request...
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 28/11/2024
Great video from @legaleagle.bsky.social with @lizdye.bsky.social on the unholy and hilarious mess of the InfoWars auction, and I'm looking forward to seeing what further unhinged legal submissions Alex Jones is going to make... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmDN...
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The Insane Story of How the Onion Bought InfoWars (and How Alex Jones Is Trying to Steal It Back)
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/11/2024
One of the things that was common listening to (almost entirely women) give acceptance speeches for winning awards for writing romance novels was how many of them praised their husbands for doing basic household chores.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Even I'm getting some, and I'm a tiny tiddler of an account in comparison.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I just had an ENTIRE 6th GRADE CLASS email me with questions about ancient Egypt because their teacher *assigned them to do it.* What in the actual fresh hell? Teachers, there is this magical place called a LIBRARY, full of BOOKS, which have WORDS and KNOWLEDGE. Do your job. Mine ain't this.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Lists are one of the more insidious ways this can work, but look out for accounts as well, trying to get a good following by talking the talk. Can occasionally be spotted by completely over-the-top or misguided representation of typical left-wing views or attitudes, looking more like parody.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 27/11/2024
This. Is. Hard. Getting to step 3 and making a more constructive reaction than step 4 is hardest.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It’s always nice to get post.
A glass trophy sits on a teak sideboard. It is in the shape of a speech mark and has MFA written in large purple letters on it (Media Freedom Awards). On the bottom of the trophy, there is an engraving: Commentator of the Year Broadsheet, Frances Ryan The Guardian. To the right of the shot is a glass vase with an orange rose slightly visible.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/11/2024
If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say
California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/11/2024
What's happening with what we're calling #AI is pretty much a textbook example of #disruptive technology. Technology being 'disruptive' is a morally and ethically neutral statement. It means that the introduction of the technology disrupts existing patterns in tech, and optionally in society. Long🧵
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/11/2024
Read whole thread, first bit isn't the most important bit. Apologises and explains some over-moderation, notes appealing suspensions etc.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/11/2024
My take on the assisted dying business. This bill would be a good first step, if we were ready for it socially. We aren't - social and palliative care need to be better, and social attitudes to ill health, impairment and disability need to be better. I support it in principle, but not right now.
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