Now 99% of the vote is in - Socialist Seguro has come out 7.6% ahead of far right Ventura. That's energy the left can take into the runoff vote in February. Trump's anti-Europeanism won't be helping Ventura. The "progressive" outlets should be cheering Seguro on - not highlighting Ventura.

Typical Guardian only mentioning the far right in the headline despite the left's candidate being ahead of them. A more accurate headline would be "socialist and far right poised to battle in Portugal presidential runoff" - but that would celebrate the left too much 🙃 share.google/2SYWVjjk0rMb...

My neurodivergent self is devastated that my first face to camera video on YouTube is performing well. Now I'll have to regularly make eye contact with myself when editing videos 😤🙎🏻‍♂️

It gets more annoying! I had to block Bear because I was getting ads directly from his account. Now I'm getting ads from random "x person from water 2" accounts. Literally their name + "from water 2". Had to block 3 already. WTF? It feels so dodgy. Leave me alone piss man! 😤

I've had to block Bear Grylls's water filter company. They've been mercilessly targeting me with ads for over a year now. I don't trust the piss man. Feels like some odd supplement adjacent right wing grift. He baptised Russell Brand. Bad vibes all around. They must spend so much money on ads!

Trump may be the only politician less popular than Starmer in the UK. Keir would lose nothing by condemning this obvious violation of int law. He could really put a fire under Farage with it too. Instead he looks complicit or incompetent. I guess he must be doing something "forensic" again 😅💀

... Did the London New Years Fireworks show just celebrate global warming?!? 😅

Why did I agree to a shingles vaccine the day before New Year's eve? 💀 Everything hurts!

My PIP decision just came through. I have the enhanced rate for both categories until 2035 🥹 I thought I'd be celebrating but mostly I'm just relieved. I'm relieved I don't have to fight for enhanced mobility, and relieved they gave me a 10 year award. This is the outcome I didn't dare hope for.

I'm hoping the unexpected payment the DWP sent me today is backpay for them giving me the enhanced mobility component of PIP and not some kind of mistake I'll have to pay back 😬😅 I think it might be but you can never let your guard down with those clowns 🤷🏻‍♂️ It'd be nice to celebrate something!

Fuck off! Why is our society so extractive? It's a bloody pill app for sick people. Why does it need a subscription? 🫩

This is the most nuanced article I've seen in the guardian for a while. Clearly identifies the ways in which a campaign from a relatively small number of people online can poison the national debate (ignoring facts) and impact policy for the worst. If only they could see this pattern elsewhere 🤔

We should resist this for immigration because it's the moral thing to do. Also - where does this end? Will you have to give up your watch to the A&E nurse before you get treated? Will losing your job mean losing family heirlooms for support? It's a dangerous step on a very slippery slope!

“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government” Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government. You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.

Just saw an advert for a candlelight concert of Vivaldi's four seasons... Can't think of a posher way to experience a DWP trauma fever dream 💀😂 I know they've changed hold music now but the moment I hear four seasons I'm transported back to the body shaking anxiety of being on hold in the 2010s 🫠

Been waiting since Jan to hear about my PIP review. Just sat on the phone for an hour to confirm that it's not just the DWP causing delays but serco too! 🙃 Maybe they'll want an assessment. Maybe not 🤷🏻‍♂️ I might be waiting 2 more weeks to find out but idk if that was plucked out of thin air.

My oncologist brought forward my post scan appointment by nearly two weeks (just 1w post scan) and I immediately interpreted this urgency as "it's back!" and started planning my year around the inevitable surgery I'd need... Turns out it just got reported early and they wanted to be efficient 😅

There is not an issue I can think of where labour will do the right thing for citizens over lobbyists. I don't understand the enthusiasm with which they throw themselves into the centre of situations and side with the people doing the shitty thing. Never miss an opportunity for bad press.

How I hot foil stamped the cover for my rebind of Disability Visibility using a foilquill in my cricut. #BookBinding #BookSky #DisabilityPride #DisabilityVisibility #ReBind #Books

Sooo.... I did a thing 🫣

£650 could do so much good if focused in the right place. Cars for the wealthy ain't it. If it went on insulation or heating upgrades for the poor it would play a dual role in reducing the poorest's energy bills whilst also reducing emissions - likely by more than this car scheme.

Temperatures in the UK are reaching life-threatening levels more often. We do not have a culture which can handle that - hydration, sunscreen, shelter, rest - and our infrastructure is built to retain heat. People are dying. Add your name. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

the only stat that anyone should be talking about.

Tears at the thought of having to go back to a cushy finance salaried job but not for the hundreds of thousands people they've condemned to poverty. Self-interested and devoid of morality. Everyone who has an opportunity to remove these people from power and isn't taking it is a coward.

We are such a nasty, cheap, little island.

Disappointed that @zackpolanski.bsky.social hasn't mentioned the welfare bill on here at all this week. The UK left seems hell bent on ignoring disabled ppl. The bill will only cement labour's betrayal for all impacted & the "eco-populist" movement should offer them a home. Instead it's silent 🫩

Call me naive but I think we should maybe have rules that say the substance of a bill should be in place *before* it's allowed to get voted on. The UK's constitutionless vibes based management of our legislative process is shit and should be replaced. Don't care about this history/tradition.

Of course this vote would happen during a heat wave and whilst I'm very busy with other critical things in my personal life. No capacity to engage with it. Fuck labour. I'll forever have disdain for anyone who attached their name to this bill.

"Particularly for those who are unable to work" i.e. the most vulnerable disabled and long term sick folks, who are on ESA and the Universal Credit heath element / LCWRA

This is actually really important but will be missed because of the government's welfare bill. If we installed air to air heat pumps in public buildings as a green heating drive then we could also use them as "cold banks" during heatwaves to protect the vulnerable. This is climate justice.

Hearing someone mention ableism on the news and applying the concept critically to government policy feels so... ...Validating? The state and media have been undermining our humanity for so long that I assumed outsiders just couldn't contemplate this obvious discrimination as wrong.

Keir Starmer is racist, transphobic. Islamophobic and ableist. It’s okay to say it. He is the Prime Minister for bigots. No one else matters.

"NEW BLOG: The failed advocacy for Universal Credit (LCWRA) This is an opportunity for reflection for those who may not be aware of the stigma they may be perpetuating regarding Universal Credit e.g. #TakingThePIP. (and some of you just suck!)" by @/AnushaLDN on twitter ko-fi.com/Post/The-fai...

More evidence that the vote should at least be postponed. How are MPs supposed to vote on a piece of legislation so large that it's impossible to digest in a day when they are still making such massive changes the day before the vote?! #PIP #TakingThePIP

My pet peeve is when programmes don't have the update installer inside their application. *I'm looking at you blackmagic* 😒 I shouldn't have to go into a web browser to download a zip file and then extract it and run the executable file for an update you're bugging me to install!! 😤

"The NHS is estimated to be spending £50bn a year on the effects of deprivation. One senior figure said there are 'medieval' levels of untreated illness in the poorest communities, including people attending A&E 'with cancerous lumps bursting through their skin'"" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The government isn't – creating – a two-tier benefits system, sadly this is how the system has always worked against the most vulnerable disabled folks. e.g. removing payments only from new claimants in the means-tested ESA and UC work-preparation group in 2017 💀

Really appreciate Nadia going out of her way to say this but I find the silence from the majority of MPs who signed the amendment awful. Disabled people have to sit here wondering what will happen with the bill that will decide their lives while MPs play coy about what they'll do. We need certainty.

So the DWP will have even more of an incentive to ramp up the malicious incompetence that strips so many people of their PIP through "mistakes" during reassessments. Even for the people in the old system it will make things worse. More hostile. More cruel. Vote it down #PIP #TakingThePIP

NEW: Disabled people already on PIP will be judged by the original criteria when up for reassessment, The Guardian can confirm. But those that come off the benefit and then later reapply will be treated as new and scored by the tougher rules. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The worst thing is not knowing how many MPs will buy this. How anyone can look at the generational inequality of our politics and then think adding another layer of that will fix anything is beyond me! Keep up the pressure. Don't compromise! Kill the bill! #PIP #TakingThePIP

If the disability cuts were cruel and callous for existing claimants, they’re cruel and callous for future claimants too. This 2 tier system would be totally unacceptable - Labour rebels must stay firm

This is awful and shouldn't go ahead - but if it does, how do we protect existing claimants from a hostile DWP that'll interpret its mission as "get as many people off the legacy benefit as possible"? The main thing that requires reform in the welfare system is hostility. This will make it worse.

Powerful: “Starmer’s Labour sees citizens simply as human resources. As the HR department for the capitalist state, extractivism is the order of the day… It is the story of a neoliberal politics of death, where disabled and chronically ill people become unwanted columns in a fiscal balance sheet”

How reassuring to know that some of the F35s flying over my head will be carrying nukes now. Not like aviation is the most common cause for accidents involving nuclear weapons or anything 😬🙃 (I live in a neighboring constituency)

Labour's right seems to be only shrinking now they've got control and everyone can see how awful their ideas are. This report is from David Miliband - the brother that lost the leadership election on a neolib ticket then went to work in venture capital. As right wing as they get in labour!

This would be the best outcome. Don't give me hope like this. It's cruel 😭😅

This shifted beyond "discipline or fiscal credibility" before the Tories did it! The 2010s were an exercise learning the lessons that austerity only harms state capacity whilst accelerating inequality. Starmer and Reeves have dragged us backwards with fingers in their ears.

The UK parliament has enacted a trans ‘bathroom ban’ on its estate, 48 hrs before a mass lobby taking place there today. The EHRC is an anti-trans led group with huge power.Its recommendations will force trans people out of places of education, work, recreation and leisure, out of hospital wards.

Can't help but think threatening promotions and reselection will be entrenching for most who hear it. The only hope of a promotion or returning after the next election is to remove Starmer for most MPs. The way to deal with such awful gaslighters is to call their bluff and show them the door!