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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a Bluesky list of people who post a lot about those topics. bsky.app/profile/a11y...

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“Ford said you wouldn’t need credit card for healthcare! That’s BULL! He underfunds system then pays extra to privateers. Ford takes from public to profit pals: Ontario Place, Science Centre, surgeries! It’s sickening!” #cdnpoli

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Pierre is in the group uninterested in making these relationships. Like Trump he wants to break democracy.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Are you attending the 2025 Disability Inclusive Pathways Conference July 15 and 16? I've been invited to be 1 of the panelists for the ‘Making our environments work for kaimahi and customers alike’ session. Learn more and register at www.dipc.nz #Accessibility #conference #Disability #business

Poster promoting my involvement with the 2025 Disability Inclusive Pathways Conference, 15-16 July, Auckland, New Zealand. A round portrait photo of Thea sits on the left of text that reads: Thea Kurdi, Founder – The Accessibility Edge. Accessibility Critic, Universal Design educator and policy specialist. Environments panel – ‘Making our environments work for kaimahi and customers alike’. Proudly hosted by the New Zealand Disability Employers’ Network. Register at www.dipc.nz

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Looking forward to giving the presentation I've been invited to give today to the @accessiblehousgnet.bsky.social about how smart green design also makes buildings and #housing accessible. There's nothing more #sustainable than #accessibility - demographics, durability, affordability, health, etc.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Bluesky, LinkedIn, and other platforms that use hashtags. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Have you seen the Getting to Work: Accessible Employment in Canada Report from the Chief #Accessibility Officer, 2024? Get your copy or read it online at: www.canada.ca/en/employmen... That's me at the top of page 7. Important recommendations (see page 50 of the report) @mark-carney.bsky.social

Cover of the Getting to Work: Accessible Employment in Canada Report from the Chief Accessibility Officer, 2024. Cover includes a blind brown man dressed in stylish closes, using a cane as he crosses a street at an intersection with cars waiting behind him and other people on the sidewalk.

Photo at the top of page 7 of Thea Kurdi looking contemplatively off to the right with her arms crossed while leaning against a wall in the materials sample room used by Architectural Technology and Interior Design students at Sheridan College's Square One campus.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

#TeachableMoment Historic old town in Spain offers solution to overcome the old step up from the street outside problem with a gentle slope ramp inside the entry door. Such an elegant solution. It can be done! ¡Olé! #AccessibleCanada #ADA #DDR #EAA #CRPD #disability #accessibility #BillionStrong

Restaurant in historic old town in Spain offers solution to overcome the old step up from the street outside problem with a gentle slope ramp inside the entry door.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.

They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Including disabled Canadians and tourists. We urgently need you to fix the oversight of the missing Minister of Disabled Persons. We need to ensure all the new building happening doesn’t make all the same discriminatory mistakes of the past. #AccessibleCanada

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@mark-carney.bsky.social please ensure your mandates are aligned with the 40 year old changes to the Canadian Charter and Human Rights Code which recognize disabled Canadians as equal citizens. We need a Minister to sheppard the #AccessibleCanada Act, the #DisabilityBenefit, and changes to education

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

National AccessAbility Awareness Week Accessibility is the evolution of architecture, policy, legislation, business, and all design. It's time we evolve and right size and right cost. Prime Minister #MarkCarney bring down these barriers! Invest in justice. #NAAW2025 #NAAW #disability #inclusion

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Quote from John Pavlovitz posted on social media, "Saying your anti-woke is a whole lot quicker than saying you're a selfish and fearful human being who is terrified of diversity, hostile to progress, and wants no one else to have the rights, representation, love or opportunity you have. #woke #DEI

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

By not appointing a Minister for Disabled Persons you are proving the late Hon. David Onley's point at how systemic ableism is in government. We need a Minister to sheppard the #AccessibleCanada Act which is 5 years old and still mostly languishing. Be the PM for all Canadians including us disabled

Old tweet from the late Hon. David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, "Ableism permeates our governimg structures so deeply, is so embedded into all processes that the ableds within are utterly oblivious. PWDs are afterthoughts but only when thr ableds are reminded and at that, only when they get around to it.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Please add the Minister of Disabled Persons to ensure the #AccessibleCanada Act and the equity we've been waiting for as promised 40 years ago under the Canadian Charter & Human Rights laws require. Don’t let ableism & bias win. 100% of Canadians are born with and get disabilities. You can fix this

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I have my 1st poll question on my YouTube channel! Target audience: those creating buildings & built environment designs. Help by answering & sharing at: youtube.com/post/UgkxOCS... #AccessibleCanada #accessibility #UniversalDesign #architecture #InteriorDesign #Landscape #UrbanPlanning #education

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Poll from Accessibility Edge - YouTube

What accessibility and universal design resource would you like more?

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Pope Leo meets Opus Dei boss in a private audience to get an "update" on its reforms You might recall Opus Dei cancelled a vote on its reforms hours after Francis passed away Leo "listened with great interest to the explanations given" - I bet he did! opusdei.org/es/article/a...

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El Papa León XIV recibe en audiencia al prelado del Opus Dei

El Santo Padre ha recibido en audiencia hoy al prelado del Opus Dei, Mons. Fernando Ocáriz.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 07/05/2025

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2025

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trump’s new budget proposal would slash funding for national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores, and trails by nearly 25%, cutting more than $1.2 billion from the $4.8 billion Park Service budget.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A gift to the NRA.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"Indigenous women and girls make up less than 5% of the Canadian population but represent approximately 24% of all homicide victims. They are 12x more likely to be murdered. Over 60% of Indigenous women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime." #mmiw #mmiwg2s

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

May 5th is Red Dress Day in Canada This day is for "honoring and raising awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people. It began with the REDress Project, created by Métis artist Jaime Black in 2010." #mmiw #mmiwg2s

"No more stolen sisters" Drawing of a young indigenous women with long blag hair and a red hand print across her mouth

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So where are the Golden Globes going to be held this year as US is clearly not suitable anymore

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This image was trending across Canada the day after the election capturing how the majority of Canadians feel about what Trump’s doing to the USA, the rediculous tarrifs, and threatening to invade Canada. #Never51 #ElbowsUp #StopTheCoup

Fake Time Magazine cover with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney giving the finger whike wearing a Canadian flag ring on his middle finger with the words, "Hey, Donald" beliw

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God @thegodshow.com · 30/04/2025

Hi, I’m God. All Trump supporters go to Hell. All of them. Hope this helps.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.

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Fair Fight Action @fairfightaction.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

96 people, including women who changed their names after marriage, were turned away from voting in New Hampshire under a new state law. One voter had to make 3 trips to cast a ballot. It's voter suppression – and the SAVE Act (in the U.S. Senate) would export this nationwide.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

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kissmyace247.bsky.social @kissmyace247.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The National Post in Canada is the National Enquirer of the U.S.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 "Let's make climate change central to every financial decision and build the net-zero future our planet needs." #cdnpoli

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks to Trump Canada united enough during this election to keep Carney the Prime Minister effectively making this true

Fake Times magazine cover of Carney wearing a Canada flag on his middle finger, giving the finger. Text below the picture says, "Hey, Donald."

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Canadian salute found on social media today

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The Canadian election yesterday putting the Liberal Party with the most seats today making Mark Carney again out Prime Minister was only made sweeter finding this on social media today

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It's a great day in Canada, mad greater because I found this floating around on social media

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@profgalloway.com found this online making it's rounds today

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