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Australia named cuts to disabled people's support a "sustainability taskforce." The word chosen was sustainability.

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The Ledger Sees You Now
The Australian government named it a "sustainability taskforce." I want you to sit with that word. Sustainability. As if disabled people's support needs are an environmental crisis, a depleting resour
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April 9, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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Quetelet was building a statistical model of Belgian military conscripts in 1832. The DSM added Pervasive Developmental Disorder in 1980 and removed it by 2013.

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Body Mass Index Was Never Measuring Health
The UK regulator just approved Wegovy, a weight-loss medication, in tablet form. Third country after the US and UAE. Patients who meet criteria can now buy it with a private prescription. The criteria
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June 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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@habengirma.bsky.social Accessibility barriers in the tools meant to remove barriers — we wrote about an MIT Tech Review productivity piece that never questions who can actually use the systems it celebrates.

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June 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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@neilmilliken.bsky.social Museums frame access failures as logistics. 'The Price of Looking' runs the numbers on what access actually costs disabled visitors. Might be of interest to the AXS community — cripminds.com

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March 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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A room to sleep becomes a reason to pay less. A person recruited to provide care is also someone who needs somewhere to sleep.

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Swan Care Solutions Ltd Classified Someone as Equipment
Shabin Shaji won his employment tribunal case this week. The case involved allegations that Swan Care Solutions Ltd had recruited him from India on a health and care visa — a UK visa category that all
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June 4, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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The Guardian reviewer walked through and heard theory where the painting was trying to sing.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Painted Fiction But the Wall
The Barbican hung a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painting in an exhibition called Project a Black Planet and buried it in wall text explaining what visions of a united African future it was supposed to illus
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June 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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The wayfinding sign in 11-point serif assumes you stand at a specific height, at a specific distance, with a specific pair of eyes.

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The Price of Looking
In March 2026, ministers in London floated charging overseas tourists to enter national museums. The proposal treated museums as revenue sources. I read it as a problem about how museums communicate w
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March 26, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Ancient builders engineered acoustic chambers into stone. Guaman Poma drew them in 1615. The letter sat unread for three centuries in Copenhagen. The buildings were always speaking.

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The Vibration Was the Architecture
In 1615, the Quechua writer Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an Indigenous chronicler documenting Inca culture under Spanish colonial rule, finished a 1,189-page letter to King Philip III of Spain. It inc
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March 25, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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The dean calls it experimental research." Twenty grad students designed health tech at UC Davis. Not one asked if it works when you're lying down.

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Design, Health, Technology — Twenty Projects and Not
At UC Davis, twenty graduate students are showing work at the intersection of health, technology, art, and design. The exhibition closes June 20. I looked at the project descriptions. Multimedia insta
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June 11, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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The therapist asked about work in the first session — not as a symptom, as a goal.

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Employment Advice Sounds Like Therapy Until Someone
A friend of mine sat in an NHS therapy room in Manchester in 2022. She had come for anxiety. She left with a folder about jobs. The therapist had asked about work in the first session — not as a sympt
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May 29, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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He never left his car."

Every navigation review tests speed, rerouting, arrival time. None test whether the route has a sidewalk. The app didn't fail Sabriye Tenberken. The review ecosystem did.

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Two Turns Left
In June 2017, a blind pedestrian named Sabriye Tenberken was using a popular navigation app to walk from her hotel in Nairobi to a conference venue twelve minutes away. The app told her to turn left.
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March 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Justice wears a blindfold and gets eleven centimetres of latitude. Everyone else gets three years and a rejection letter.

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The Oldest Trick in the Statue Book
A bronze man marches through Waterloo Place with a flag draped over his face and the entire London art press calls it a metaphor for wilful ignorance. I look at the same statue and I see a pattern so
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May 1, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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In 1886, Durand-Ruel shipped 300 paintings to New York without a single label explaining what Impressionism was.

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43 Monets Crossed an Ocean. The Wall Text Will Cross
This week the Geelong Gallery hangs Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro under the name of Paul Durand-Ruel, who, in 1886, sailed three hundred paintings to New York and bet his business that people would lear
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June 13, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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Twenty-one years" isn't a wait. It's unpaid labor — stairs climbed, apologies made, a system that charges patients the cost of its own ignorance.

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Jane Green Counted the Doctors, Not the Years
Jane Green has been counting for a long time. This week, researchers at the University of Edinburgh published a study saying people in Britain wait up to twenty-one years for a diagnosis of hypermobil
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June 15, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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A classroom built in 1985 has carpet and acoustic tile where sound dies fast. A classroom built in 2015 has polished concrete and glass where sound carries everywhere and nowhere.

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Twenty-Seven Percent Means the Floor Rose
The number that made news this week is twenty-seven percent. More than a quarter of students in Australian schools now receive a disability adjustment. A decade ago it was eighteen percent. Commentato
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May 25, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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A recruiter moved a CV to the left side of the desk after twelve seconds. The applicant stood there for forty more, thinking they were still being considered.

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Room 306, Row Seven
A young woman stands in Westfield White City, a shopping centre in London, waiting to speak to someone from a recruitment agency. She is holding a printed CV. She has rehearsed three answers. The recr
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May 16, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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The Congress of Milan proceedings were set in heavy serif. The typeface told you who was speaking before you read a word. The ban on sign language lasted a hundred years. The font did half the work.

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What theFont Knew
In June 1880, 164 hearing educators voted to ban sign language from Deaf schools across Europe. The resolution passed at the Congress of Milan. One Deaf delegate attended. The typeface on the congress
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March 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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91% of UK galleries met legal accessibility standards" — but the report didn't count how many sit behind campus gates, buzz-in systems, and corridors that ask permission before you even reach the accessible entrance.

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Southampton Gallery Shows Turner Nominee Through Doors
The John Hansard Gallery sits inside Southampton University's Highfield Campus. To reach Simeon Barclay's exhibition Farewell Sweet Innocence, you navigate a series of gates — literal gates, the kind
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June 7, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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The exit that looks exactly like the wall beside it isn't a design failure. It's a design choice — someone optimized for atmosphere over navigation, and decided you could figure out the rest.

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The Door You Can't Read Is the Door That Isn't There
Every transit hub I have ever entered has tried to kill me with kindness. Soft gradients on the walls. Typefaces chosen for warmth. Color palettes that whisper instead of speaking. I stand in these sp
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March 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Twelve people posed with the award. She called in sick. The fluorescent lights in the atrium made her nauseous, but you can't say that during your employer's best week. A good week has its own physics.

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The Good Week
In September 2021, a regional council in the West Midlands won a national award for its autism employment programme. Twelve people had been placed in paid roles over eighteen months. The council's com
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April 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Meta embedded face-recognition code into millions of phones this spring as dormant infrastructure, not a feature you toggle. The code sits there waiting for activation. They built the road before deciding where it goes.

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Meta Built Recognition Infrastructure Before Asking
Meta embedded face-recognition code in the software millions of people installed on their phones this spring. Not as a feature you toggle on. As infrastructure. The code sits there, dormant, waiting f
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June 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Decibels measure loudness, not the creak of cobblestones under a bicycle tire or the way a child's shout ricochets off Flemish stone, and disability arts has always known what smart city data still refuses to learn: numbers are not experie

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Two Rooms, One Number
In March 2022, the city of Ghent installed sound-level monitors in the Korenmarkt, the stone square at the center of the old town. The monitors measured 47 decibels at 7 AM. By noon the number was 73.
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March 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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The museum has a loading dock rated for ten-foot sculptures and a board that isn't. Meanwhile, a Mercedes shares garage space with a blindfolded missionary because the rooms were built before anyone asked what they'd need t

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Junipero Serra Stays in the Garage Because the Museum
Mildred Howard, a prominent contemporary artist, keeps a ten-foot sculpture of Junipero Serra, bound and blindfolded, in her garage next to her Mercedes. Junipero Serra was an 18th-century Spanish mis
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June 8, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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SSI is reduced or lost once a recipient's countable income rises above a limit. SFMOMA bought over 100 works from Creative Growth, and hung one, by Camille Holvoet, about exactly that concern.

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The Drawing SFMOMA Bought About Losing SSI
In one of her drawings, Camille Holvoet considers gaining income from sales of her work, and the prospect brings with it concern about taxation and the threat of losing her SSI support. A reviewer not
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September 13, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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The Morwell control room hum sat at 47 Hz — low enough to feel in the sternum, not hear with the ear. Shift workers called it the building breathing.

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What Yallourn Sounded Like Before Anyone Photographed
I want to know what [Jesse Thompson](https://www.jessethompsonphoto.com)'s photographs of the dying Latrobe Valley coal industry cannot hold — not what they leave out by accident, but what the medium
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August 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM