Natalie Alana Ashton

Natalie Alana Ashton

@natalan.bsky.social

🚊 connecting disabled communities in the North (@transportforall.org.uk) 📚 writing about philosophy, knowledge, social media & social change (nataliealanaashton.notion.site) views mine, not my employer's. she/her.

7,514 Followers 966 Following 3,885 Posts Joined May 2023
5 hours ago

my "reputable URL" label has people asking a lot of questions, etc etc

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11 hours ago

while he was making it he hesitated and whispered "you want a *little* strong?" and i said "im not going to tell *you* how to make coffee" and he smiled and said "ok, a *little* strong". mistake. but a good way to go.

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11 hours ago

don't wake the gaylors

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11 hours ago

this happened to me in costa, but the more senior barista kept reminding him not to make the drinks too strong, and he was so sad. like a tiger in an enclosure with fake plants and pre-killed meat

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1 day ago

person on my train asking chatgpt about liability

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1 day ago

enjoying the repost from @eikebentley.bsky.social who i know has the same brand of *slip on* walking shoes that i do.

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1 day ago

the most german thing ive ever seen (on a train near Bayreuth) was a woman get out a little tupperware containing half a kohlrabi, and a knife, for a snack. and i could honestly see that happening in sheffield

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1 day ago

woman in her thirties with an NHS lanyard? walking shoes

business guy in a suit? walking shoes

grandma with painted nails, a pastel raincoat, and a matching pastel handbag? walking shoes with pastel detailing

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1 day ago

something i love about living in sheffield is you can get on the tram and >80% of passengers, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, and other attire, will be wearing walking shoes

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2 days ago

This is a big reason that someone out there in philosophy should take Jamie on as your PhD student, btw - besides him being a very clever writer. I need backup.

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2 days ago

ahaha. queen of whimsically helping people move

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2 days ago

i say this with love and understanding

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2 days ago

possibly a key bit of info here is that a *sizable* group chat had the link to watch the journey (from Sheffield to Amsterdam over 2 days). they didn't know what route/ferry we were taking. so were on the edge of their seats when she left the motorway and started driving in circles. then did this

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2 years ago
screenshot of an image in a discord channel. the caption says "incredible. Josie has done a self portrait of her driving the van". the image is a satellite map with a blue line indicating the route, and the route clearly resembles a stick man seated inside a shape with a big, square back and and a sloping front end.

just remembered when @bzzjosie.bsky.social was helping me and @morl.bsky.social move, and she accidentally drew herself with the GPS tracker while we were trying to find a petrol station

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2 days ago
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The trouble with ‘Juno’ When Kateri McCann gave up her baby for adoption, she was a lot like the heroine of the hit movie “Juno”: young, starry-eyed, and in love with the idea of doing the best thing for herse…

one of my moots lost a child to #adoption and is centered in this piece. It’s extremely rare for birthparents to be centered in mainstream discussion of adoption.

www.chicagotribune.com/2008/02/21/t...

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3 weeks ago

this is a good husband

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3 days ago

i think we did that, not them

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3 days ago

ive restricted my replies to seven and a half thousand people, i'm sure one of them will have seen some news

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3 days ago

i did see that last night. horrendous.

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3 days ago

that *is* good!

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3 days ago

ok i haven't been on bluesky or looked at the news for 18 hours, what have i missed? anything good?

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5 days ago
screenshot of text::"The United Nations instituted International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975—or so the official story runs. Few remember not only that the origins of March 8 lie in the history of the international workers’ movement, but that it was the socialist movement in the United States that first launched the idea of a day devoted to women’s rights centered on working-class women. In fact, the Socialist Party USA first established a day of education and action around women’s rights called “Woman’s Day” in 1908, and the following year U.S. socialists held demonstrations in several cities to demand women’s suffrage. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the transformation of the U.S. Woman’s Day into an international day of action—International Working Women’s Day—which, in 1914, started being celebrated on March 8. Three years later, on March 8, 1917, Russian women workers took to the streets in St. Petersburg, organizing a strike to demand bread and peace. It was the beginning of the Russian Revolution."

a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza

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3 weeks ago

it is obviously true that there's bigotry of various kinds among the unwashed masses but, despite what the decorum demands of class apparently have some of y'all believing, this is very obviously a feature that the rulers and the ruled have in common

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5 days ago

you're so right. it's posting straight from the heart

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5 days ago

did not expect this to be in the UK

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5 days ago

why is it always the posts with typos that pop off

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5 days ago

you will have to ask @seanmorl.com how to obtain it

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5 days ago

Forced to do the big shop on International Women's Day 👎🏻

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5 days ago

@lastpositivist.bsky.social have you seen it? it's *exactly* the vibe you like in a wistful anime about beauty and transience, condensed down into two perfect episodes

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5 days ago

"it's perfectly normal" *almost walks headfirst into wall"

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