John Thornton ♿🏳‍

Online, interested in accessibility & equality. Off t'net, many other things! My disability is SOCIETY (my main impairment is #PsA).

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@flickhwilliams Funny seeing the photo of that doorway. Memories came flooding back of buying my first singles (45rpm) and sheet music of the Beatles in that shop. #accessibility in historic places like York often means better staff training, not just ramps.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@ai_picup Hi, I am thinking of buying a subscription but I need to know about previews first. It says that previews are unlimited but I can not find the preview button on the page I'm on. Can you help please? I'm on "https://t.co/QPAiVQsQs6"

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@flickhwilliams This looks like yet another highway engineer who has played "Lucky Dip" with utterly random features from the revised Manual for Streets. What was he smoking? 😵‍💫 Do they play this on Friday afternoons after a visit to the pub?

[NFBUK @NFBUK]

@EHRC The new floating bus stop guidance published by the Government will simply create new barriers for blind people to access the bus independently. The guidance is not fit for purpose.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

#Disability group accuses @MayorofLondon of failing #disabled Londoners in nightlife overhaul #Hackney https://t.co/32D1OBj2PU

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@BBCr4today One of the BBC's highest paid journalists @Emmabarnett has just bitterly criticised a Labour Government minister: "You raised the minimum wage, you didn't need to do that!" From today, the National Living Wage (21+) will increase by a mere 4.1% to a measly £12.71/hr

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@BBCRadio4 #Youandyours Why describe Costa Coffee as a British chain when it's owned entirely by the US company Coco-Cola?

[NFBUK @NFBUK]

@FT @LizClements Well this is what is happening in London, which is not safe or accessible for blind people. It’s absolutely terrifying.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@JoeDirt34272 @fasc1nate Check out "illuminated manuscripts". 🤣

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@iTheWolfman I've never dared to step out onto the ice. But if I could borrow this brilliant skater's outfit, I might just be brave enough. I love her!

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

I'm sorry proud of @tressaburke head of Glasgow's disability rights organisation who turned down an MBE in the New Year Honours over what she described as the "simply intolerable" situation facing disabled people in the UK today.

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#AssistedDyingBill

Falconer dismisses attempts to protect four groups of disabled people in assisted dying bill

https://t.co/C9CJTZxAJV via @johnpringdns

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@BBCLondonNews A policy of leaving 1.5m of clear footway isn't much use when one single strategically-placed @limebike bike, blocking someone's gate can cause utter mayhem & injury to blind or VI pedestrians and entrap wheelchair users.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@BBCLondonNews Moving a bike "in an hour" isn't good enough, in an emergency. It takes just one single strategically-placed @limebike bike, blocking someone's gate, to cause utter mayhem & injury to a blind or VI pedestrian or entrap a wheelchair user.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@BBCLondonNews Many thanks for your great coverage. The great piles of bikes look "impressive" but it takes just one single strategically-placed Lime bike, on tactile paving, to cause utter mayhem & injury to a blind or VI pedestrian.

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

https://t.co/QeEBQLhofq

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@MatthewMarks42 @BBCTomEdwards Uber has a roughly 29% stake in Lime and its partnership includes a multi-year agreement allowing Lime's bikes and scooters to be rented through the Uber app. As part of a 2020 deal, Uber sold its Jump bike-sharing business to Lime and invested $170 million in Lime. #notgreen

[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

18 months after releasing a flawed and dishonest review of floating bus stops suggesting a “high-visibility education campaign, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service”, we have seen one tweet and a press release about a poster campaign to change cyclist behaviour!

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@OpenChiswickW4 Ah ha, so rural blind people who travel to cities for work or family or leisure purposes are NOT entitled to express their concerns about irresponsible road users? They should only express solidarity with other rural blind people? Gotcha! #sillybu99er

[John Thornton ♿🏳‍ @JohnLThornton]

@MikScarlet 2/2 But Signpost Entertainment, which won the contract to produce See Hear for the BBC, is based in Gateshead so you aren't going to understand the voice-overs anyway ... Divvent naa, wor kid?" 🤣