Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

I can believe what I want. My worldview comes from my own lived experience, the things I've learned, struggled with and made sense of over time But here’s the bit people miss: lived experience doesn’t automatically make me right or wrong. It just explains why I see the world the way I do 1/3

This..⬇️ anyone means anyone! Resulting in long term debillitaing illnesses, unable to work or function normally, not knowing how youre going to get through the day from the moment you wake up, if you're lucky enough to get some decent sleep. 🤷‍♀️🙏🏽

Hopefully the other parties take note of this. Reform voters are not united and with the right messaging can hopefully be swung... #HopeNotHate

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.” Farage - the foghorn of failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs. You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.

Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division. None of our problems are because of too much kindness.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎 youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g #Kimmel #Colbert

Well, this is terrifying. Not just because there are people so openly explicit in their deranged transphobia, but because in practice segregation of trans and non-binary individuals is already occuring, and not just in US. We're seeing it in UK and elsewhere 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...

Trans rights are human rights.

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of chronic illness is being an observer. Seeing everything, feeling it all, able to do nothing. At times I've found ways to channel it +make some small difference. Then everything changes and I'm stuck again. An empath, relying on others with no end in sight.

What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵

The posthumous album of young singer Kara Jane was released to mark #SevereMEDay. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara Jane left a legacy of beautiful music that has moved and inspired many thousands of people around the world while raising money for research. bit.ly/3UVX752

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Most folks are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck. We all need & deserve better social supports

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The UK pretending that sex is binary doesn't just hurt trans people! Intersex people aren't even recognised officially in the Equality Act and IGM still goes on! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Please help Emma if you can? She’s a fab researcher and it sounds like a fun project!

Sounds absurd to assert that a person's desire to know what my genitals are is more important than my desire to keep my genitals private but here we are.

I'm looking for some #ActuallyAutistic #uni students in the UK, for my MSc dissertation. You'll find or create images representing your experiences of identity development at #university. You can share ideas anonymously with other students via Discord. More info here bit.ly/3FuX2l5. Thank you!

SO CLOSE‼️ Just over 7k 🔼 to the MAGIC 100K! petition.parliament.uk/petit... Defend Disabled children's #SEND rights! 📤 with family, school, FB/WhatsApp groups, non-SEND pals—SEND can affect any child at any time: "It could be you" (but you'll have a lot less money than a lottery win) SIGN & SHARE!

Before the darkness falls and consumes us all with the coronation of a raging, criminal madman. Remember, the kindness, the decency, the days of joy and hope, and the smiles and eyes bright without dread and fear. #poetry #poets

Trying to be Reform-lite isn’t working for Tories or Labour atm. It’s hard to see why they are not trying to offer alternative visions to the simplistic, fact-free nonsense put forward by Farage. Make people *feel* better, and they’ll stop falling for the first populists they see. Action needed.

A former “friend” told me he cared for me & wanted me to have everything I needed… but that it was time I realize I’m a net negative in society. He referenced my “free surgeries”, countless ER trips & how the system was artificially extending my life. 🧵

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fabulous new research by this team, looking at what on earth is being measured when teams say they want to stop 'problem behaviour' in autistic young people using Early Interventions (ABA, NDBI, etc etc). I'll discuss very briefly here../

It’s not too late for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment Contact your MP, NOW

A song we adapted from "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls) about seeing and acknowledging what's happening now, in Gaza. youtu.be/7OGcRQtorAM

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This piece is spellbinding throughout. This bit in particular captures so beautifully my own feelings about being disabled, though it’s from the perspective of a parent to a disabled child. My experiences are part of who I am and have made me a better friend, colleague, neighbour.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

If we really want to take on chronic diseases.... by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social and @hmkyale.bsky.social #LongCovid, post-infection syndromes, immune system assessment and intervention gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

The Chancellor seems convinced that her benefits-slashing won't result in poverty. 25 major charitable organisations have all explained, in detail, why that is not correct. A society is judged on how it treats its most vulnerable. Show some integrity and listening skills, please, Government.

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

Things that might actually get more chronically ill and disabled people into work *without* increasing the amount of depressed/suicidal/dead disabled people by removing the minimal security they have [thread] www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

I wish people would stop correlating chronic illness severity with amount of assistance given. There’s almost no correlation. We simply do not have adequate social supports to help the disabled. If you decline & can no longer care for yourself… help doesn’t magically appear.

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important to reflect, but also be aware of an ongoing pandemic. ~10K cert COVID deaths in 2024, majority underlying. Millions suffer #LongCovid . Yet, IPC cell denies airborne transmission. HCW & patients unprotected. Kids exposed to repeat infections. Living with ≠ ignore 💔 x.com/covidinquiry...

Executive dysfunction isn’t laziness - it’s a mismatch between our needs and the demands placed on us. Autistic inertia means we can struggle to start or stop tasks, not because we don’t care, but because our brains work differently.

youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.