Alternative: I'm glad starmer is cracking down on the scourge of the community pharmacy. Put Boots on notice, king!!

we couldn't be having this because it would make the Good Labourer Training Centre slash "a storage closet for your children so you can go back to work, you feckless scrounger" remotely tolerable

also, yet another announcement of a Thing That Is Already Happening presented as if it's some big innovation. It's standard practice to lose your unemployment benefits if you unreasonably reject work. The journalist knows this, the minister knows this.

Love that they put "claim benefits" in the same category as "literally just doing crime"

"Dishi Rishi" still does me psychic damage

Labour keeps pretending that the "Supreme" court misjudgement is something it HAS to abide by. This is a lie. It could overturn the misjudgement in about 5 minutes with a statutory instrument. This transphobic & unfair situation is there because Labour WANTS it to be there, and for no other reason.

Them: "Do bp now" Me: "if my BP is high, they'll just take all my medication off me and tell me to Just Lose Weight again, so now I'm anxious" BP: "Hi I'm 150/90 right now" literally only went through this mess about 3 months ago, when a clinic reading had my BP at 170/100 (HI ANXIETY AND TRAUMA)

"I'm sorry for saying what I did, but I was right to do it so I'm not actually sorry. I'm a cunt with no principles trying to have it both ways"

Labour MPs attempting to use social media to pander to racism by constantly trying to find the perfect language to avoid being accused of overt racism, "apologising" when they miss, and then trying again, should be spat on in the street. In a purely notional sense, of course.

Also, the NHS just *did* report on ADHD, which concluded it is "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated". www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

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This is three weeks of ADHD medication, just starting and titrating up. Had it go private coz id already been in the waiting list for like 4 years. Assessment, prescription, monitoring and drugs themselves; £1,850 so far.

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Overdiagnosis is actually a useful concept, it's just that Wes is thick enough to not know what it means and has slotted "misdiagnosis" or "the validity of the disease state itself" in its place.

Cass 2: electric boogaloo

The most galling thing to me is that it would take the government, with its "massive majority" basically a single sentence of legislation to fix the fws EqA nonsense. And they just don't want to

I really don't like this new chvrches album art

I hate to say it, but in terms of HE a very sizeable number of staff appear to believe that disability accommodations are unnecessary, a nuisance, and have gone 'too far'. Toxic, precarious and competitive university environments (that ignore staff welfare) lend themselves to this kind of thinking

got me lizzydex

They sent me a paper prescription instead of using their in-house pharmacy so that's something new to fix, because nothing in England ever just works

Dealing with Colin-rat's insurance is 'fun' in a beaurocratic silliness way. "Would you like to cancel the policy?" "I mean, he's dead and so is his brother, so the policy is not insuring anything" "We're sorry you've chosen to leave us"

being british and therefore spiritually inclined torwards spite, I would simply wind up my charity for helping children instead of accepting being told which children I can and cannot help

"Were proud to provide the PIP, so people can be more independent and be more fully included in society." *Person shows any semblance of independence* "NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!"

"being a landlord is the hardest job" Then die

WAS IT THO

My lizzydex arrives tomorrow 🤩 a week of 30mg, then 50 mg, then 70mg ongoing

Look at their little grabby hands though

"we can't get rid of the 'annulment' bit, but we /can/ get rid of the 'jury' bit"

Rats with chocolate, just fyi

we know it's all rachel reeves has ever wanted to do

after finding combination ibuprofen and paracetamol in a shop, we are mere years away from the best invention of all time: 4000mg/1200mg 24h modified release combo ibu-paracetamol

tell us again about the benefit sanctions you were happy to support in return for the 5p plastic bag tax that were so bad they turned out to be illegal

Really makes you think.

TIL MPs were sexist for not letting her starve disabled people to death

on my module, they are explicitly told any use of AI will be considered cheating and... yeah.

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence

Weee the plastic surgeon has agreed to remove the neck lump. I was a bit worried they'd refuse (despite a dermatologist and pathologist saying there's a clinical need to go back in and remove the rest)

It's difficult enough /when you aren't/ an asylum seeker. Can't imagine what it's like for them. I was also just telling hutch that this is a roundabout way of denying healthcare. Referred for hospital care? HO moves you. Need to be referred again. HO moves you again.

Most people in the UK really have no idea how extremely difficult it is to navigate the bureaucratic maze that is our healthcare system when you're an asylum seeker. It's a form of slow institutional violence where we effectively withhold healthcare and blame it on asylum seekers' "incompetence".

more pointless performative cruelty from a government of sickos

i was meant to start medication yesterday but psych hasn't even acknowledged my consent to start it yet... :X nothing in this rancid tofu dreg country ever just works

beautiful

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

“We saw you across the heated mat and we fucking hate your vibe.”

Fun fact: he is claiming to be unable to afford less than I, out of my part time salary and Universal Credit, have had to pay for private medical treatment this year. If I can afford 2k, you can afford 2k.

One of my enduring memories is having a number of automatic firearms pointed at me at point-blank range on a rainy November night, running down the street and ducking behind a car in nothing but a gown while neighbours across the road shouted "hahaha Benefits Street!!!"

Lazlo-rat doing his housework 😍