So You Want To Be 'Included In Society'...

...but when you are, you're still not satisfied!

Instagram's parent company, Meta, is investigating AI-generated social media accounts that sexualise disabled people appearing on its platform. It comes after the BBC flagged dozens of profiles showing AI-generated images of women with disabilities, including Down's syndrome or vitiligo. Some profiles post fake images and videos of women with missing limbs, visible scarring or in wheelchairs. Many are in sexualised positions, wearing revealing clothing.

*shrugs*  Differenet strokes for different folks, right? What's the problem, if they are AI-generated, and not real? 

Kamran Mallick, chief executive of Disability Rights UK, said the emergence of "accounts that fetishise, mock, or monetise the identities of disabled people is nothing short of horrific".He added: "What we have here is technology weaponised to strip disabled people of their agency and dignity, turning our lived experiences into digital caricatures for the profit and titillation of others."

How I loathe that modern expression, so seized on by activiats and narcissist, 'our lived experience'! It's nonsense, always employed to help wrap oneself in the comforting blanket of victimhood. 

Well, congratulations, you've arrived - you're now part of society, no different from any other part,  isn't that what you always said you wanted? 

Medical charities have also voiced concern. A spokesperson for Gemini Untwined, which funds specialist surgery for rare newborns joined by the head, said portraying conjoined twins as entertainment was "morally reprehensible".

Good, we'll see you taking action against all those tv shows featuring dwarfs and Tourette's sufferers that infest the lower channels on Sky and streaming services then, will we? I mean, make up your minds - do you want more publicity for disability or don't you? 

The Online Safety Act requires platforms like Instagram to apply terms of service consistently, including where content mocks people based on protected characteristics, like their disability. The Equality and Human Rights Commission said the accounts flagged by the BBC were "deeply disturbing", adding: "It's vital there are robust regulatory powers in the digital space to protect people from harm."

What 'harm' is being done here? And to whom?   

Monkey Business...

An ex-keeper is suing Edinburgh Zoo bosses over alleged discrimination and "humiliation" she faced at work as a result of her ADHD. Lisa O'Hare appeared at the Edinburgh Employment Tribunal on December 1.She claimed she was subjected to "degrading" treatment and "excessive scrutiny" aimed at "constructing a case against" her. Ms O'Hara resigned from her post in February 2025 after starting in the role less than a year prior in April 2024.

It should be an open and shut case, because she sounds like a fucking nightmare to have had to work witrh, but you never know with tribunals... 

Ms O'Hara was assigned to care for primates at Edinburgh Zoo and the court heard she had difficulty identifying individual capuchin monkeys due to her ADHD, which her superior took issue with.

Zoo bosses claimed identifying individual animals is a vital part of a keeper's job to ensure animal health and wellbeing.

Why do I suspect that the welfare of the animals will take second place when the 'disability' card is played? With the tribunal, anyway, the zoo management and her workmates thankfully weren't happy to put up with it. 

Court documents showed Callum Gibson, Ms O'Hara's superior, said: "You have to start taking responsibility for yourself with training. It is not the rest of the team's responsibility to help you with this. There is only so much I can do to support this before you need to take ownership and communicate with others".

Ms O'Hara told the court: "I just didn't feel, given how it was a particular problem for my disability" how there couldn't be more flexibility, adding: "I felt it was unequally applied to me than others" and "there were other individuals" on the team who could identify the capuchins.

Maybe there were, but it was YOUR JOB to do so, not theirs!

She also alleged her colleague Kenna Valles repeatedly made critical statements regarding her timekeeping ability. In one instance, documents showed Ms Valles allegedly said "I'm just waiting on Lisa" in a "sardonic" tone. Ms O'Hara felt this showed her co-worker was "outwardly expressing annoyance with my disability and related difficulties with timekeeping" and "mocking my disability [and related issues] with timekeeping and hyper focus" resulting in "negative treatment and frustrations".

Are the other employees supposed to put up with someone who is continually later for work then? 

A solicitor representing the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, owners of the zoo, mentioned that five employees had lodged complaints against Ms O'Hara.

Seems they weren't prepared to, yet they didn't have a Disability Card to wave.

And Once Again, The Taxpayer's On The Hook

When the costs should come out of the pockets of the morons who fired him:

A veteran firefighter who was sacked for throwing away a disabled YouTuber's phone was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has concluded.

The former firefighter had been fighting a blaze near the banks of the Great Ouse in King's Lynn when he was caught on camera appearing to throw the YouTuber's phone over a hedge.

 And why the bosses' sympathy with a moron attempting to hinder the firefighter in his duties?

Mr Evans, who uses a wheelchair and mobility buggy... 

 Ah.

....had been at the scene of the fire in Hardings Pit. A video filmed by Mr Evans, a self-styled journalist, showed the pair get into an argument over his presence at the scene. The self-proclaimed 'auditing' content creator can he heard saying 'I'm press, mate' and that he was 'legally allowed to do it' as the fire chief approached him. Mr Linden told him that he was 'putting himself in danger' and urged him to leave.

And when he didn't listen and continued shoving his phone in the fireman's face regardless, he did what anyone harrassed by these idiotic 'auditors' would do,  

At an employment tribunal last month, Mr Linden - who had served for 32 years - argued he had been unfairly dismissed by Norfolk Fire Service.

Employment Judge Andrew Spencer said: 'In recent years, [Mr Linden] and his work colleagues have had to deal with self-proclaimed social media 'auditors'.

'These individuals attend sites and public spaces to film emergency workers, often uploading the content to social media platforms.

'Some aim to generate online content by behaving aggressively and obstructively, seeking to capture negative responses with a view to posting this online.

'It is possible to monetise the results through social media channels such as YouTube.'

 And just because this fat fuck was also a cripple the fire brigade higherups took his side, more concerned at the image than of the trouble he caused the firemen. Do they not realise if it had gone to court, a jury would have likrely said 'serves the little bugger right' and acquitted?

Judge Spencer found there were procedural failures during the investigation that led to Mr Linden being unfairly dismissed. He said the investigation needed to be more 'rigorous' for a potentially 'career-ending decision'.

Yes, and it should also have been fait. But it wasn't: 

Judge Spencer said that the police fire chief had directed Mr Rowe not to interview members of the crew, who could have been witnesses to the incident. The judge said: 'This was inappropriate - it amounted to a clear instruction to Mr Rowe not to interview potential witnesses to take statements from them. 'It sought to restrict the scope of the investigation. Mr Rowe complied with this. He did not interview the witnesses or take formal statements from them. 'It was inappropriate for the chief fire officer to be giving that instruction and to interfere with the scope of the investigation.'

What brings more opprobium on the fire brigade - a fireman who acts as anyone else would do when faced with a harassing nuisance, or corrupt fire brigade bosses who seek to oust someone by these methods because they know they are the ones in the wrong? 

Get Ready For Starmer’s Next U-Turn

 

What will Keir Starmer and his colleagues learn from the disaster of their attempt to cut benefits?

Nothing! They never learn - every setback is because 'big boys did it and ran away', never because what they were trying to do was wrong in the first instance. 

One policy area in particular is about to return the political conversation to the subject that defined last week’s fiasco: disability. Once again, Labour MPs from all wings of the party are feeling anxious and restless. Campaign groups and charities – not to mention the huge numbers of people who will be directly affected – fear the worst.

Of course they do! It’s how they stay relevant! If they can’t win people to their cause by terrifying them, they will fade into obscurity and who will pay the bills then? 

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, wants to reform England’s system of provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, or Send.

And it needs it - the growth in special measures for children attending school has been a meteoric rise; either we really are breeding more and more defective children, or there's a perk to the diagnosis of 'special needs' that parents are latching onto. Whichever it is, the sitaution can't be tolerated for much longer. 

A new education white paper will be published in the autumn. Phillipson says the government needs to “think very differently”. She wants to reverse a trend that took root in the Tory years and prioritise the inclusion of Send kids in mainstream schools.

So everyone's education is affected! Just the sort of thing you'd ecxpect from a Labour government, the one's that cannot let go of the failed concept of comprehensive education (except when it comes to their own offspring, of course!)

One of the big teaching unions has already said that without a commensurate increase in day-to-day schools spending, the plans could put “extreme pressure” on teachers.

How totally unexpected! 

There are whispers about families who currently have EHCPs being allowed to keep them, while in the future, kids with similar needs would be waved away, something that threatens a stereotypical two-tier model, another element with worrying echoes of the benefits disaster.

Why not? We already have a two-tier justice system, what better testament to Starmer's (hopefully short) rreign to have an educational sysyem similarly blighted..? Of course, the likelihood is he'll back down when faced with opposition as he's already done so many times.

No Need For Special Pleading Here...

..instead of 'My child should be able to break the rules due to disability', the key take should surely be 'why are there rules about dancing in the aisles at a pop concert?'.

A single mother has told how she and her seven-year-old son who has Down's Syndrome were escorted from a Pink concert 'like criminals' because he wouldn't sit in his seat.

Vanessa Vasey, 48, paid £630 for tickets to take Jesse to see his idol at her P!NK Summer Carnival Tour 2024 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, on Saturday. But Jesse's disabilities and sensory disorders meant he refused to sit on his seat, so Vanessa, Jesse and their friend Kirsty stood near to the seating area while the child danced to the support act.

They were then approached by about six security guards who told them to take their seats, the mother said. When Vanessa explained the situation, she was given an ultimatum to sit down or leave.

I mean, it's not a chess match or art appreciation class - why shouldn't children want to, and be allowed to, dance in their seats?  

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Pink representatives have been contacted for comment.

No doubt there's some H&S nonsense to be quoted but, really....

Stop Calling Them 'Activists'...

...and call them what they are: criminal supporters.

The Florida teacher filmed being beaten senseless by a 270 pound student last year has refused to support a lighter sentence for the teen. Matanzas High School's Joan Naydich, 58, made the declaration Friday, as activists continue to fight for lesser sentence for the autistic high schooler, 18-year-old Brendan Depa.

I don't know how anyone who watched that footage could want a lesser sentence... 

The footage quickly upset much of the nation, and is set to be used as evidence this month when Depa stands trial. He will be tried as an adult, with punishments ranging from probation to 30 years of jailtime.

But the usual suspects are determined that his behaviour should be excused on the grounds he's not mentally competent. Which seems to be a factor for the adults in his life, too... 

Since the attack, Leanne Depa has fiercely maintained her son's actions were not his own fault, but the school district's - since his Individualized Education Plan (IEP) specifically stipulated he shouldn’t have had an electronic device at the time. That's because the youngster would likely rage if such an item were taken away - a forecast that unfortunately came to fruition this past February 21.

So the item was taken away. How can he not have an item and yet have it at the same time? It's not Schrödinger's Nintendo Switch!

Why is the mother a lily-white willowy American, and the teen in question a hulking black boy, anyway?

She adopted Depa when he was just six months old, though only started giving him medication a few years ago - after several manic outbursts.

Ah... 

But his condition only worsened with the new substances, she said, telling the Post that the-then 14-year-old's behavior quickly became a nightmare.' This led Leanne to place him in an autism hospital in South Carolina in late 2019, where he was was ultimately discharged roughly a year later.

However, citing the teen's unpredictable behavior, Depa said she was hesitant to bring him back into her home, due to her husband having serious heart issues at the time, leaving him at particular risk if the teen ever snapped. That led her to drop him off a Palm Coast group home in November 2020, where he remained for more than a year until the home elected to send Depa to a traditional public high school.

So everyone in this case is 'not responsible' for what happened. Strange, because to me, the only person truly not responsible for what happened is the victim. 

Remember When Disability Was Obvious?

The London executive, who worked at Swiss bank UBS, was ruled to be disabled after claiming she was discriminated against at work.

And the nature of this 'disability'? Well, once, no doubt, it would be classed as simple middle-class neurosis. 

This saw her obsess over the negative effects of germs, chemicals, non-organic foods and take 'extreme steps' to avoid them. She was also too afraid to drink tap water, and only allowed her young son to have filtered or Highland Spring bottled water.

And is this now a disability? Really? 

A judge at the London Central Employment Tribunal said this fixation should be considered a disability under the UK's Equality Act 2020.

*sighs* 

Why We Are Failing As A Nation...

Raymond Joseph Bryce said he had been discriminated against after he told bosses his dyslexia meant he 'would be late for his own funeral'.

He said his condition meant he was 'disorganised' and that he often misread his alarm clock in the morning. Mr Bryce insisted he would always be late and asked his managers for 'leeway' in turning up 15 or 20 minutes late, but after a string of incidents they instead abruptly stopped offering him shifts.

The security guard, from Stafford, West Midlands, accused them of discrimination and a failure to make reasonable adjustments for his disability.

He hasn't got a hope in he...

Oh. 

Mr Bryce's claims have now been upheld by an employment tribunal in Nottingham, which concluded his dyslexia made it 'difficult' for him to wake up early, plan ahead, and read the time. He is now in line for compensation.

I'd say this was beyond belief, but these days, is it? Really? 

Mr Bryce explained his dyslexia meant he often reads the numbers wrong on his digital alarm clock, and resultantly believes he has more time.

What a pile of round objects! Get an Echo, man! Alexa will tell you the time, no excuses! Who on earth could fall for this? 

The panel, led by employment judge Rachel Broughton, ruled in favour of his claim of discrimination arising from a disability.

*sighs* Say no more... 

You Used To Go To College To Expand Your Horizons, Didn't You?

...now it seems it's just the opposite:

Fiji Willets, 18, didn't expect the topic of farming to come up when she signed up for the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Animal Management at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

Really? I mean, you'd think it'd be obvious from the title, if not the course outline..! 

She joined after reading it was 'great for people who love animals' - but was shocked to discover the course could see her work on a farm and possibly visit an abattoir.

Oh, well, mustn't be too judgemental, maybe she's one of those ignorant townies who... 

The teenager, whose mother used to be a veterinary nurse... 

Oh. 

...complained to tutors that she was suffering with anxiety over the module.

Ah, yes, 'anxiety'. It's the new 'get out of anything difficult' card. Initially, the college resisted, which is a welcome change. But eventually, were forced to surrender. 

She enlisted the help of the Vegan Society - who once called on bosses to provide workers with their own vegan shelf - to fight her corner and together they complained to both the college, as well as the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

Despite being rejected twice, their complaints were eventually heard by exam board Pearson who decided the college could offer her an alternative module while taking the BTEC qualification.

Good luck getting a job now every employer knows that if you don't fancy doing part of it, you'll scream and scream until you're sick, Fiji...