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Bit of a geek. Front-end Developer and creative. Disabled spoonie. All opinions my own. She/her @LeePearson_@mastodon.world Threads _leeleep #myositis #juvenileDermatomyositis
I learned to advocate for myself before I even knew the word.
At 4, my doctors at GOSH taught me to say when it hurt, when I’d had enough, when I wanted to stop. Prof Woo told me: “You’re always the expert in the room.” That’s still the best advice I’ve ever had.
A brand new theatre in 2025 - and wheelchair users still can’t see the stage.
The Hunger Games at Troubadour Canary Wharf literally built inequality into its design.
Accessibility isn’t a luxury or a card you pay for. It’s a right.
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#DisabilityRights
Accessibility shouldn’t depend on who complains loudest. After raising access issues at The Range Cheltenham, aisles have now been widened & a review’s underway. Progress matters — but inclusion must be built in, not fought for. #Accessibility #Inclusion
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At 10, I joined St John Ambulance - the first place where my disability wasn’t a barrier.
I climbed a cargo net at camp, supported but not stopped.
Inclusion isn’t about limits - it’s about belief.
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Reading Patrick Barkham’s Guardian piece hit close to home. In 2022 I was in a flare. Rheumatology said I’d been discharged without telling me or my GP. Even A&E couldn’t get me seen. Like Milly’s, my story shows the gaps. Been through similar? Share it.
#PatientVoice #DisabilityJustice
Most hospitals are built for short stays. But what happens when weeks turn into months? As a child, I lived that reality. GOSH had play specialists, school staff and even the odd celebrity visit to break the monotony. Most kids don't get that.
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Oh hi Bluesky it's been a while, my account got suspended for security reasons for a long while! But I'm back and writing a blog! I post on Mondays and there's a few to catch up on if ya like!
leerocks.substack.com
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threw in some support! never give up share if you can. 😊
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Who made this 🤣
21.01.2025 01:38 — 👍 57276 🔁 11290 💬 694 📌 310I haven't taken it but I bet this course is nice. I love that learn-through-writing-and-interative-examples approach.
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Was not particularly interested in seeing Wicked, and then my wife gave it a Media Studies framing and said it’s actually about how a gullible and ill-informed public is easy to manipulate with misinformation and I was all in, great movie, 10/10 so far.
04.01.2025 20:24 — 👍 11489 🔁 982 💬 229 📌 67Smallpox was a devastating illness, but it was also vulnerable to human ingenuity because:
1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.
One of my big surprises of 2024 was that we are actually making a lot of progress (albeit messy and with a great deal of argument) in the science of the origin of life on Earth.
If you’re under 40, we’ll probably have a pretty good understanding of it in your lifetime.
👨💻🎄 CSS Christmas Tree 🎄👩💻
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IDS
RULES
CLASSES
ELEMENTS
SELECTORS
COMBINATORS
DECLARATIONS
PSEUDO-CLASSES
PSEUDO-ELEMENTS
CSS
So. Veiny!
23.12.2024 14:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woke up today, itchy eyes, snotty, very much hay-fever symptoms. Weird I think as it is December. I take my tablets and nasal spray and feel a bit better. We nip out for our shop and low and behold, trees are in blossom already! Months early! #allergiesAreEarly #globalWarming #stockUpOnFexofenadine
20.12.2024 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
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The most confusing part
12.12.2024 18:27 — 👍 15657 🔁 2115 💬 237 📌 97various ways to scramble text with CSS alone || JavaScript
covered in this week's issue of "The Craft of UI" 🤙
Good writeup from @css-tricks.com on the situation with "Masonry"† and whether it belongs as part of grid or its own `display` type. It's largely neck-and-neck and won't move unless some minds on either side change.
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† Still a bad name.
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
📚 Did you know I self-published a free book about building portfolio sites for developers looking for work?
It’s very short, about 70 pages, and contains a bunch of little tips and tricks I learned when I was doing career coaching.
You can download it here: www.joshwcomeau.com/effective-po...
Spotify wrapped image with my top 5 artists, SIX, Bastille, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Queen and Leslie Odom Jr. Also my top 5 songs, Shut up and Dance, Somebody Told Me, Grace Kelly, Pass Out and Murder on the Dance floor
It's that time of year! #SpotifyWrapped
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🌠 So let’s say you want to use a modern CSS feature like container queries. According to caniuse, the feature is at 93% support.
Is that good enough? How do we evaluate this number?
I dig into this question in my brand-new just-published blog post, “A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support”. 🎉
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After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course.
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and finally, it’s officially live for a limited Black Friday launch price of £189
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