When people say “but what about the good policies” they fail to understand the anger these things produce. As someone living on benefits due to disability & *still trying* to get PIP, the attack on disability alone was so personal, so cruel, literally nothing they do now would make me trust them

When columnists call Starmer "a decent man", they just mean someone they can imagine meeting at a "nice" dinner party

#mecfs #pwME There's an update on Savannah's fundraiser and it is fucking grim. The hospital have not changed course. Continuing to reduce pain meds. Still not reinstated antihistamine meaning Savannah's had no meaningful nutrition in 7 fucking weeks. This is MURDER. All 3 updates are from today.

Because we're consistently in the red & can't pay people back in a timely manner we've had to completely stop sending new eSims. That's devastating for the people of Gaza living through a genocide committed on our dime. #ConnectingGaza

This is us. #Solidarity by Roger Peet @justseeds.bsky.social

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

If you're able to, please use the template in this article to email Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust Chief Exec. Ben Travis on Savannah's behalf. Savannah is currently at QEH in South London and not receiving appropriate care for someone with very severe ME. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Come along on the 17th from wherever you are. Sign up to read in the open mic now! #EmergencyDream #BookLaunch #PoetSky #BookSky #NatureWriting

Fun bluesky fact is that no matter what else is going on, someone is always reading Moby Dick

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

Just published in BMJ Open Large UK Long Covid cohort study finds that recovery is low and negatively associated with fatigue severity bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/1...

Remembered this Poem all of a sudden

4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.

Need a quick change of scene? Explore our playlist of short videos on YouTube. Skylarks, cuckoos, train views, waves... and more. 🎧

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

After 73 days of hunger strike which began in November 2025, three of the Palestine Action prisoners have ended their hunger strikes after it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defense, a key demand of the hunger strikers.

Standard public choice theory says politicians respond to the incentive to get re-elected; that was why I voted Labour. But maybe I was wrong and for some/many their incentive instead is to get a job in tech or finance after a short time in politics. This might better explain UK politics.

Just got a soul-destroying word salad from my MP, about how MPs don't intervene in legal cases (MPs voted for these protestors to be treated as terrorists). This Labour government is the most vicious government I've seen in my lifetime, and every government in my lifetime has been vicious.

Just wrote to my MP (again), a short email, took 5 minutes. Every MP should have a full inbox on this. The only thing that makes most of them do anything ever.

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you! ✊🏼🧿🍉

Oh what an absolute joy that was. Beautifully written. Such a treat. Everyone check out the Goblin King and Me on radio 4/BBC sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Thanks @paulmagrs.bsky.social @bafflegabble.bsky.social

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In retaliation for a solidarity event for Palestinian political prisoners in Israel and a screening of the film “Hind Rajab.” For this they shot students.

Today marks day 65 of Heba Muraisi’s hunger strike. Day 58 for Kamran Ahmed. They are now at imminent risk of death and this Labour government remains spineless and cowardly — refusing even to meet their lawyers while lives hang in the balance.

Please help our dear friend Mo in Gaza, who helps so many others—his work with the stray animals of Gaza and his words to the rest of the world do so much good amidst so much evil. Donate what you can and share the link. Everything helps! 🇵🇸 gofund.me/434dd5013 paypal.me/animalrescue703

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

I don't know who needs to hear this but here's some New Year wisdom from the deer of Grasmere. #NewYear #NewYearOldMe #NewYearsDay #Resolutions #January #Deer #Poetry

“My baby girl Talia is only four months old, facing the cold, wind, and storms in Gaza. There are no walls to protect her, and no blankets to keep her warm. A mother’s heart trembles with fear for her—will mercy reach her and shield her from this cruel cold? - Sama’a 🤍” tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

It's xmas so we're watching LOTR and there's a scene in which the beacons are lit, one after another lighting up across mountains and rivers. It's a great visual of organizing against darkness. Find your people and do what you can, lighting a beacon that will encourage others to do the same.

Tag yourself! I’m “TAKE LOTS OF NAPS”

4 of the hunger strikers are still going. And unless we up the pressure the state is going to get away with killing them. Please read this and use our toolkit to take action. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Just a reminder if you are feeding Foxes over Christmas, I thought I would share this out from Fox Angels 🦊 #bluesky #mammals #christmas #fox

Helping a baby in the Holy Land seems like a good thing to do this season ❤️

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by UK police under the Terrorism Act at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London, which insures the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

This fox has been a regular visitor to our garden this year.

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Oh my god my favourite movie! Then it begins!

I just wrote to my MP using the recommendations and guidelines below. I implore all British people on my timeline to do the same. We have to be better than what the government, the money and the press are trying to reduce us to.

Since mobility aids are the theme of the day: You don't need any excuse to use one. Cane, crutches (heavily recommend forearm), wheelchair, etc. There is no minimum amount of discomfort or disability required. By the time you think you need a mobility aid, you often have needed it for a while.

Imani Barbarin talking about ableism, covid and Gaza on Al Jazeera 👏 pca.st/episode/0ff3...

Hats off to the woman behind the post office counter who was smiling and friendly when I would have been having a breakdown. Honestly, retail workers everywhere, I salute you

3M treating workers, communities and the environment like sh*t the world over 🤬 If you've seen Dark Waters, these stories will seem very familiar www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remember when folks were using safety pins to signal that they’d protect each other (and then capitalists started selling gold safety pins)? Well, this thread is safe for Palestinian fundraisers. Post your links here, or go to www.gazafunds.com if you want to help someone survive this winter. 🧷

A definition of music has been notoriously elusive, and I don’t pretend to have one, but one thing I think ties it all together, why our brains respond so ecstatically, is that it’s evidence of a human mind, not how the world usually sounds in our absence. It’s why music can seem to keep us company.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Now unlocked: we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/jmKcdCpLdiwb...

The thieves who stole my book get Person of the Year while I’m out here begging for donations to get out of over draft. The world doesn’t need to be like this.