"40% of deaths of learning disabled people were deemed to be avoidable." This has been known for decades, while services are slashed. Yet the priority for UK politicians is handing over £ millions to private tech firms. #PeopleNeedPeople

Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al More time and research needed into this neglected area

You don't fund life by funding death. Welfare not warfare. Survival, not slaughter. #GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #DPAC #CareNotCuts

5 years ago I got this text from my Dad 😭 @nellh.bsky.social @researchpixie.bsky.social

“Amnesty International UK called the revisions to the welfare bill “nothing more than a superficial attempt to get MPs to vote through this cruel and harmful legislation” www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Shared on X, posting here too:- One of the hardest and proudest things I’ve done to date and it’s only a preprint*. The product of working with incredible people with lived experience of harm in community mental health services. *not been peer reviewed. osf.io/preprints/os...

😂 I asked ChatGPT for a hair cut and this is what I it gave me😂

If anyone knows of any qual research assoc / fellow, systematic reviewer, intervention development posts out in the field of mental health please do let me know x doesn’t need to be full time - could be 1 - 2 days a week. Need something else alongside my PPIE role or I will wither and die. Thanks X

Internet FTW

Read @hatporter.bsky.social and @researchpixie.bsky.social preprint (BMC Psychiatry): “Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)” An important piece: osf.io/preprints/os...

Green Paper Consultation, online, email, postal; forms.office.com/pages/respon... [email protected] Disability and Health Support Directorate Department for Work and Pensions Level 2 Caxton House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NA

If the welfare changes do come in, I fear people will be 1. Forced to cause themselves serious harm / injury to be able to survive & score 4 PIP points (because it will be weighted towards physical disability) or 2. Taking their own lives. It will be catastrophic for people with a mental illness.

“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ” www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

Five years ago I could not take a wheel off a bike, change a tyre, take the cassette & break disks off & put it all back together again. I’m growing as a human being everyday 😂

From 2016…..

When’s the next marches on Westminster protesting against this shower of sh*t government?

Emailed my labour MP to tell him that the Labour Party with their Assisted Suicide Bill & Welfare cuts are orchestrating a programme of state sanctioned eugenics.

I feel I need to up my blue sky game. Twitter is feeling quite lonely.

In London Tues eve and instead of having an evening meal alone, anyone fancy joining me? 😂. I’ll be in UCL main library & staying in Camberwell. Say 7pm ish?

A reminder for these times.

good morning

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

New paper published today but a long time in the making. A critique of the pseudo-diagnosis of complex emotional needs. We outline a number of concerns and risks of the term which has quickly become widely adopted in the NHS. #MadSky #AcademicSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"the crisis team will never not recommend a warm bath and a hot beverage, and unruly behaviour will be punished with a personality disorder diagnosis." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What’s occurring?

Not sure why i tweeted on the other site yesterday. I’m paying for it now because its attracted 845 likes & idiots responding to me.

@benhannigan.bsky.social i was wondering why Father Christmas was following me & then I realised it was you 😊 good to see you here Ben!

This feels like twitter in 2014