We are excited to announce the Computation Moonshoot, a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing using BOINC and World Community Grid. Read more about this competition here: worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/artic…

Abusive people will attempt to miscast your boundaries as grudges. Boundaries are the sensible shields you establish after learning damaging patterns. Boundaries represent growth and introspection. Grudges are static. Build, update, and maintain your boundaries regularly.

One of the hardest things to do in any relationship is to admit to yourself when it's time to end it for your own safety, happiness, and future growth.

Job hunting is painful for everyone. I'm blind, so sometimes need adjustments to be made to recruitment activities in order to make them accessible. Multiple HR departments have ghosted me when I've asked for this, preventing me from applying. It's illegal but it happens.

X-Ray tech to me a wheelchair user: Tech: “Can you walk?” Me: “No.” Tech: “Can you stand?” Me: “No.” Tech: “Well that’s a problem. I don’t know how you’re going to get up on the table.” The problem is not the disabled person. The problem is the inaccessibility of exam tables.

🐾 Guide Dogs on duty! 💼 While my mummy is hard at work on her laptop, I've decided to take on the crucial role of "moral support snuggler." Sometimes, all you need is a fluffy reminder that you're not alone in the daily grind! 🦮.

Another tale of a man reaching down to touch the dog who was lying between my feet as I stood waiting for my friend. “I just wanted to stroke him because he’s such a good boy” he said in protest after I very abruptly told him to get his hands off my medical equipment.

Corporate twee is an accessibility issue.

Sorry parents/carers… You do not have “Lived experience” of an illness or disability that your child has. You have lived experience of being a parent/carer of that child… that’s it.

Y’all gotta stop saying “are you deaf”, “are you blind”, and “can you read” as insults. It’s extremely ableist and treats deafness, blindness, and illiteracy as some sort of failure or burden.

An @uber driver illegally refused to take a group of blind people because one of them had a guide dog, physically assaulting them. When the police were called, he claimed that one of them, a Muslim woman, made him feel unsafe. She was almost shot nfb.org/images/nfb/pub…

Close your eyes for a moment. Feel the world around you—the sounds, the textures, the rhythm of life beyond sight. Blindness isn’t darkness; it’s a deeper connection, a world felt rather than seen. Vision is not the only way to truly see.

These parents know their kids will go blind, maybe deaf. They’re making lasting memories now. “Let them live life to the fullest now in order to create core memories that they’ll have to look back on when their vision starts to go,” she says. READ MORE: trib.al/NRBeZqh

Extremely disappointing article. Being blind or def doesn't mean you can't make worthwhile memories.

🏆 ⚽ ⬆️ We are going up! I just guided Broadley FC to play-off glory in Non-League C football-chairman.com Football Chairman Pro 2 : New for 2024-25!

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