Seth Giddings
@sethgiddings
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Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (he/him). Getting by with motor neurone disease (MND / ALS)
Bournemouth & Winchester, UK
Joined February 2009
A rebuttal to Jonathan Dimbleby's emotional blackmail of the Lords for doing their job scrutinising the Assisted Suicide bill, from a doctor who has cared for thousands of dying people, including many with lfielong disability and many who died with motor neurone disease 🧵
Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer By Jonathan Dimbleby
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Jamie we can fix this. Why don’t you go and stand in the middle of the road, wait for a car to crush your spine and then you’ll be eligible for Motability. Maybe. If the DWP decide you qualify. Which they might not.
@judeinlondon Is it fair I drive an 8 year old Ford Focus on £47k yet my taxes pay for somebody who doesn’t work to get a brand new car?
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I’m usually counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory
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Mike, who has MND, is helping to collect survey responses about Voice Banking for a @ucl study. If you have experience with speech loss, please consider completing the survey linked below. 🧡👇 #MND
Have you lost your speech or at risk of doing so? Then please help with this survey: SURVEY https://t.co/HLLq487Vri
@mndassoc @OracleHNCUK @CurePSP @MSAtrust @scope @TheStrokeAssoc
#mnd #als #FND #MSA #PSP
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The core aim of the Terf movement - a tiny number of newspaper columnists who melted the brains of middle aged reactionaries - was always to encourage maximum public hostility against transgender people, and give them the impunity to act upon it.
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17 Union Jacks in shot 11 minutes of applause from the lobby journos in attendance 25 Labour MPs after the next election
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The Cruelty is the Point ™
🚨 SUMMARY: The Denmark-style changes being considered to the UK's asylum system - Allow authorities to take cash or valuables like jewellery from asylum seekers so they cover their own costs before relying on the state - Block or limit family reunions in areas that already
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Above all, time to say sayonara to the 'grown-ups', and hand politics over to young visionaries with a spine.
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"MND took away my voice. My old Warhammer videos brought it back" #MND @Telegraph
https://t.co/la4PCxCI8E
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Vocal deterioration saw Patrick Darling give up his singing career, but groundbreaking technology has given him a cloned AI voice
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As a games scholar I approve this message
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And this person is being passed off by the BBC as 'academic and author.' He's there simply to spout hateful & illiterate nonsense.
This is unadulterated & pure racism. Non-white Britons with British documents and even British birth are not British.
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Congratulations to Hannah Field, Seth Giddings and Ben Highmore! Their #OpenAccess book Playthings and Playtimes published today. Read and download free at: https://t.co/1yqttfjNJF
#ChildhoodStudies #MaterialCulture #Play @arcane_project
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Labour knows the Motability "debate" is a non-issue, but they're relying on the hate being whipped up towards disabled people so they can cut benefits me for @TheCanaryUK
thecanary.co
Social media is rife with misinformation on disabled people getting cars via the Motability Scheme - the reality is quite fucking different
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An absolutely fair question
Israel murdered more Palestinian children in the West Bank (not Gaza) this year than Israeli children were killed on October 7th. Are Palestinians entitled to self-defense?
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New Covid vaccination guidelines mean that @MNDPatients & others with serious conditions affecting respiratory system now don't automatically qualify for the jab. Pls see @bbcsoutheast News item for background https://t.co/CBu1DliqH9
@wesstreeting @SKinnock @IanByrneMP 1/2
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I’m shocked that David Setters, who has motor neurone disease, is not eligible for a free Covid vaccine, unlike last year. I’ve spoken to the BBC and written to the health secretary. It costs £100...
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Our latest grant beneficiary, Seth, used his Challenging MND grant for a long-awaited family holiday — their first in nearly 10 years. “It let us relax, laugh & make memories we’ll treasure forever.” 🌴🐢 #ChallengingMND #MNDAwareness #MNDCommunity #MakingMemories
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"what if the professor punishes me for disagreeing with their argument" Professors seeing a student show any kind of passion about anything in the course at any time
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PEOPLE living with #MND, many reliant on ventilators to help them breathe, are being denied a #COVID booster! ARE these not amongst the MOST vulnerable and deserving in our society, @UKHSA @GOVUK?! 🙏 PLEASE sign the petition: https://t.co/pr84Z8JpQl
#MND #MoreNeedsDoing!
petition.parliament.uk
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care...
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Please sign the petition to protect our vulnerable people with a Covid booster again this year: https://t.co/PnDdDAKruE
@dsetters
petition.parliament.uk
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care...
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Joyce is an unqualified crank activist; Butler is an actual academic. This is like wondering aloud why the astronomy department doesn't also stock books on astrology.
My university @dcu has a masters degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies. The university library does not hold a copy of @HJoyceGender Trans, but has any number of copies of Judith Butler’s works. That’s how seriously it takes activism over the pursuit of learning.
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