Ryan W. Hill

@bevmacrinacooke.bsky.social

Hello!

Happy New Year, one and all!

It's absolutely bonkers that the leader of the Official Opposition refuses to get Parliamentary security clearance. Please sign this.

Also, apropos of my last post - my handle on this platform (silly-walker) is a little bit of self-deprecating humour about my gait because of my SB, and also a reference to Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch.

... the most favorably, and as the more 'deserving' of the disabled population. How does that bode for those of us who... aren't so deserving?

And if enough people come to agree with the notion that a life lived with a disability isn't worth living, what then?

And, moreover, this is *Veterans Affairs*. It really strikes me that, of all the groups of folks who become disabled, veterans of the Canadian Forces are probably looked upon...

... as opposed to the dignified supports we need to live.

Supporters will no doubt say "But it was just a single employee of Veterans Affairs Canada, who has since been suspended". Sure, I'll grant that. But what are our institutions save for collections of people?

Paralympian claims Canada offered to euthanise her when she asked for a stairlift ‘I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you... medical assistance in dying,’ Christine Gauthier told a Canadian veterans affairs committee

As those who know me offline know, I have spina bifida - i.e. I am visibly and obviously disabled.

For a long time now I've been concerned over the direction this country's euthanasia laws have been going. Canadians with disabilities deserve - and demand - better than "medical assistance in dying"

Open up that can of COINTELPRO and watch what other crimes spill out.

I saw this one post a video from Otyken, a Siberian (Chulym, specifically, a Siberian Turkic ethnic group) music group. No matter how many times I pointed out that they're not Indigenous North Americans, no one would listen.

'all things considered incredibly generic'

Sir, have you met yourself? (and I mean this with the utmost complimentarity)

Sidestepping, if I may, the issue of the hard problem of consciousness (to wit: to what degree, or not, are mental phenomena merely brain-states, is there a spiritual component to the human being, etc) it seems fairly uncontroversial to say that the brain, in some sense, gives rise to the mind.

Props to @ericmjohnson.bsky.social for telling me about this platform a while back.

Hello! I'm Ryan. I confess I don't really understand this platform very well yet, but I thought I'd give it a try.

Interested in tabletop RPGs, disability advocacy, emergency management, data analysis, science communication, and various other things. Not necessarily in that order.