🧵 CW: Suicide, iatrogenic harm In January 2024 I shared a questionnaire on twitter, asking people about their experiences of making a complaint to NHS mental health services. Its taken me a while to write up, but its finally published here. 1/15 www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/dismiss...

I'd call these people ghouls and jackals, but honestly ghouls and jackals gafe more reverence and respect. Jfc

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Once again.

Betting on death. archive.is/Zz5RR

@basw-uk.bsky.social 'Magic Notes' ... 'Open AI' No. www.gov.uk/algorithmic-...

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

The strikes on Iran by two colonial entities means we're going to enmeshed in yet another awful period of death. A reminder that you also don't have defend the Iranian regime to be anti-war.

What is AI good for? They're not investing billions in it just so you don't have to write your own emails and your kids never learn to draw. If you want to understand why AI is important to them, look at Gaza. In cheerful corporate lingo, they are preparing massacres on an unimaginable scale.

No words.

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

Today this song is more relevant than ever. Sun Ra was anti-war and "Nuclear War" is an #antiwar song. He was a conscientious objector during WWII and was jailed for his pacifism. He believed his music/message could bring peace and "Save Your Ass" from war. bsky.app/profile/obso...

Remember, the enemy of the enemy is not your friend. Because a fascist is mad at a company led by a eugenics cult doesn't mean you should align with the latter.

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

These families are trying their best but suicide is the only public health crisis where the solution offered is signposting to a charity. People don't die by suicide because they don't know that the Samaritans exist. There are lots of causes that we can act on.

Israel and US launch strikes on Iran reut.rs/46vFUWw

I am SHOCKED to find that it's also racist. Tell me more about how these products facilitate "access". doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Could “feasibly lead to unnecessary harm and death”, say health researchers. Meanwhile, @ukri.org, the main research body in the UK, is pouring vast amounts of public funds into the "accelerated commercialisation of AI" www.ukri.org/publications...

Access to Work says Jenny Sealey of Graeae Theatre can only have 10 hours a week BSL interpretation to cover her 47 work week. @touretteshero.bsky.social had a similar cut in support - her blog encouraging everyone affected to send evidence to the Public Accounts Committee: bsky.app/profile/tour...

Racism & anti-migrant policies of UK gov & media are destroying services, communities & lives. "Significantly fewer migrant care workers, nurses, therapists, scientists, education professionals, and skilled tradespeople are coming to work in the UK" www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Matt Badlose

Government of <insert name of state> announce new way to punish neurodivergent people for existing. archive.is/4GcDX

#SEND reforms ‘are a missed opportunity’ to dismantle the barriers driving disabled pupils from mainstream www.disabilitynewsservice.com/send-reforms... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Should the UK Govt be taking advice on what tech to buy from TBI, a group largely funded by the billionaire owner of Oracle? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Ministers plan linking patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics. As Streeting promises to make the NHS "accountable" for whether patients are in work by setting new targets for 'getting people back to work'. That NHSE (DHSC) Palantir contract should help www.ft.com/content/6943...

British policing, an institution that for decades has been infamously guilty of unreformable institutionalised racism, will somehow magically ensure the inbuilt racial bias in AI is "minimised". Sure. Not one critical voice was included in this news report either www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”

This is a very big story. apnews.com/article/anth...

"What is needed instead is a fundamental reassertion of human dignity, and the refusal to reduce individuals to cost centres in cells on an Excel spreadsheet." @freedompress.bsky.social on Labour's #SEND 'reforms' freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/25/s... #Disability #SENDsky

Children’s support is not seen as a priority—just look at the CAMHS initiatives that went nowhere, and the rampant unlawfulness of LAs—why is the government not outraged about that? These reports should make clear they’re not blaming families (unless they are?) as it’s always the impression left 2/

'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises' This is why we need Red Lines reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

Yesterday, Reform UK set out plans for ICE-style deportation agency. Zia Yusuf’s speech was a grotesque display of ethnonationalist, authoritarian cruelty. His divisive and dangerous proposals threaten to divide families and wreak terror and chaos in our communities.

'Early findings from the first National Disabled Staff Survey (NDSS), completed by 837 disabled staff across 127 institutions in 2025, expose deep structural barriers that undermine wellbeing, career progression, and retention.' 1/2

If you're thinking about the BAFTA situation and trying to navigate the intersection of Disability, Race, and systemic rather than merely individual anti-blackness, I highly recommend watching this video (part two as well), from @jumaane.bsky.social D. Williams.

It does feel like if you want to find the dodgiest fuckers just prise open all the big govt IT projects and there they are

NHS Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) pay private consultancy firm hundreds of thousands of pounds for cutting Disabled patients’ NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding, under a "shared-benefit contract" archive.is/zmH5t

@allfieuk.bsky.social response to the Government Announcement of Schools White paper (Policy Paper) and #SEND Reform (Open Consultation) mailchi.mp/allfie/press...

My thoughts and review of the Education White Paper www.linkedin.com/pulse/educat... #sen #send #education

The Disability Justice framework from Sins Invalid would address technofascism too, as the 3rd principle of Anti-Capitalist Politic & the 5th principle of Recognizing Wholeness align well with understanding that human beings have value far beyond only what we can produce under racial capitalism!🔥🔥🔥

This. "AI" is not just a project to concentrate political and economic power, while controlling human bodies, knowledge and experience - but also to flatten *time* itself, into a permanent meaningless present. #ResistAI #CripTime

For a while we had the dream that the internet would make it possible to remember things as everything would be out there somewhere. This isn't the case. The AI consensus machine is already flattening the past and deforming it. It sounds silly to say, but hold onto your memory things hard

I think the modern tendency to not have 'things', either through fashion, economics or other pressures breaches a mental boundary. If you don't have nick nacks, keepsakes, a box in the cupboard, a couple of drawers of stuff, a pile of papers or pic your memories are always porous and easily replaced

Crucial, from @autisticadvocacy.org on writing in Plain Language: "All of us at ASAN are self-advocates ourselves, and we bring our own expertise to cognitively accessible writing. That isn’t enough to make our plain-language & easy-read resources work. publications.ici.umn.edu/impact/38-3/... 1/2

What does work *look like*? From the knowledge worker perspective, it doesn’t have to look like this. Not 9-5 Not M-F Not linear Workplace flexibility enables us to do more impactful work while tending to our full selves. Orgs that force work to look a certain way simply value control

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

SEND Reform Leak: A Neurodivergent Critique A detailed critique of the leaked SEND reform proposals, examining risks to rights, accountability, and neurodivergent children, from NeuroHub Community Ltd.

The way some of your faves use psychiatric diagnoses as insults and signifiers of bad people is... Folks, we've got to internalize, collectively, that being a shitty person is not a psychiatric disorder and that sane people are fully capable of doing harm. Even intentionally.

Not only is this yet another mess from the Home Office which potentially ruins lives and costs the victims of the cockup to try and rectify it, but also, it has to be factored in that the USA is just not a safe country to return trans people too.