damnit I hate to share a LinkedIn post but Mark nailed it

Everything is just on fire isn't it? Like, everything. And I'm here trying not to dissociate which feels like the smallest non important thing right now given everything in the world.

I hate the rhetoric around welfare. But what I don't understand at all is that there is so much about the winter fuel allowance for pensioners but then not the same compassion for those on PIP or other health related benefits. BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE WELFARE A STATE PENSION IS AN ASPECT OF WELFARE.

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals: No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion. It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports. If it is, it’s not compassion. It’s eugenics 🧵

Why does my partner think going to get my nails done is 'self care'? It's loud and it smells and people are touching me and talking to me and it's just so overwhelming. Ick. Not self care. Just something that has to be done very rarely (sisters wedding on Saturday so needed to get something proper)

Corrections accepted We are a Dr and we are graduating next month!!!!!

Paid employment isn’t a universal healthcare outcome. It might be a priority for some people… but it should never be prioritised over the person’s health and life. And for some, it shouldn’t even be considered.

Having DID is so weird. Like we were a six year old doing drawings and then we drove a car as an adult. And we still have like a six year old inside us who is separate from me (the one writing this post) and it's actually like the actual way our brain works but it still makes like no sense. ♿

Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits. If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace. Let's fund welfare, not warfare.

No one ever says sorry. No one ever wants to believe they are complicit in the suffering of others. It's all personal choice and stop living in fear...

Those who treat disabled people the worst are often the first to ask us for help when they become chronically ill. They say some variation of “I had no idea it was this bad!” They almost never say “sorry”. They ask for our help without even admitting to how badly they treated us.

this is literally fraud. You did not sign authors with the promise to pay their due if you made a profit, you committed to pay them for their work that they delivered and has sold. At the very least this publisher needs to be blacklisted, but hope there are also legal consequences somehow

It is true that most people who claim PIP are unable to work. But that's because to be eligible for PIP you need to have significant health conditions that need a lot of care & support. So it's predictable most won't be able to work. But its still not an out-of-work benefit.

My #dissociated friends in the UK. Please consider getting involved with this research at @mrccbu.bsky.social !! ♿ @didwewrite.bsky.social @chloeapter.bsky.social

Went for a jog and no subluxations and we are like omg it's going to be okay. The exercises are working and we are getting our mobility back

I actually think many disabled people try harder and do more than an abled person does. Like… when I’m feeling bad I tend to go into overdrive. It’s a form of distraction plus my brain’s self-destruct mode.

Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??

the bit about Africans being active in the slave trade is telling. it’s something that is only relevant if you think the point of discussing slavery is to disburse racial blame rather than understanding history.

In the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, guys named Tripp Mickle still write racialized nimble finger stereotypes into the pages of the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/t...

I sent another email

like I dunno maybe if you are going to state something weird and racial about half the population of a country of 1.4 billion people you should have… a (?) source ? ??

"Throughout the collection, coroners pointed to universities’ failure to act when a student went quiet. Whether it was a string of missed lectures, unanswered emails, or failure to submit coursework, many institutions saw disengagement as the student’s problem rather than a potential warning sign."

There are no trans MPs in the UK, and nobody trans is going to subject themselves to this kind of public humiliation and degradation. I’m told that TWO UNIONS SUPPORTED this shocking decision - one being the Public and Commercial Services Union. No surprise, given the head seems to be a terf.

A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.

Reminder for anyone in PIP assessments. They key words are: - Reliably - Repeatedly - Safely - More than half the days. - Support/prompting/assistance.

UK citizens allowed to skip queues at EU airports highlights the middle-class concerns with leaving the EU doesn't it. Over the harm to the economy affecting the most vulnerable (disability benefits cuts etc.), and the referendum also being about white nationalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

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Talk about dynamic disability. Walked 5k unaided yesterday Hip subluxated as I got out of bed this morning... So crutch it is today! Ouch #hEDS ♿

Pregnancy is considered a disability. Adriana Smith was a black, disabled woman in need of medical care. The hospital dismissed her & she died. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant, they’re keeping her body alive against the family’s wishes. Misogyny, ableism & discrimination harm in life and death

Did parkrun this morning. Well Park walk But managed without our crutch and without any subluxations. Are we cured? Are the muscle stability exercises working?? But obviously can't do anything else today. So there's that. #disability #hEDS

I'm reminded of "underlying conditions" at the beginning of Covid. Like it was inevitable that people already sick or disabled would die, so what could we do?

If Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Suicide Bill is passed, it will be a serious criminal offence to encourage someone to take their life by overdosing on medication, but perfectly legal to encourage someone to take their life by asking a doctor to give them an overdose of medication.

He's a eugenicist.

Guardian writers campaigned against puberty-blockers because they were prescribed "off label". Now the Guardian is celebrating Ozempic, a drug being used off label for obesity. The difference...? Puberty-blockers have been used for trans kids for 30+ years, Ozempic for obesity only for 4 years.

Wes Streeting is suppressing the publication of a report that would show that what he's doing to trans kids has increased the suicide rate Scandal upon scandal

New: Rachel Reeves’ own constituency Labour party will call for the chancellor to abandon her plans to cut disability benefits. The embarrassment comes as rebellion among MPs over the policy grows. My @theguardian.com story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People need to believe there’s a robust safety net for people with disabilities for the same reason they need to believe they will never become disabled… they’re scared. They can’t face the reality of how quickly you can lose your health, and how little support is there when you do.

Keir Starmer took only one news outlet with him to Albania? GB News!!! Here that 👂 That sound is Labour voters marching to the Lib Dem’s and Greens. What’s that? Silence? That’s no Reform UK voters marching toward Labour

‘Comment of the day’ award goes to the Good Law Project. And some folk will tell you the the Supreme Court ruling brought CLARITY?🤔

The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – Disabled people are at risk from this bill. Brilliant piece in the @theguardian.com from @lucywebster.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have been working on a team project in therapy for months. And it's finished. Can't even tell you what this teamwork represents for us #dissociativeidentitydisorder #DID #disability #therapy ♿

When you're severely ill, your suicidal thoughts are seen as completely reasonable, and are called nice things like "assisted dying" by healthy people while completely brushing over the fact we never got assistance to live, or even survive. Never say you didn't know. #PwME #SevereME #NEISvoid

Hope people who bought into Fauci and Walensky’s “only the sick and disabled will die from covid, so it’s not a problem anymore” campaign understand how y’all materially helped bring us here:

Getting our second round of Botox for migraine later today. The first round was an absolute game changer. We've had so many headache free days it's unreal. Forgot what life was like before the constant headache. Highly recommend. Sucks that I have to pay for it #disability #migraine #chronicillness

Every time the Government legitimises hate and/or oppression, it gives a green light for the far-right to go even further. It’s literally the worst thing you can do to combat them.

"The RCP outlined a number of issues...including: the bill not making provision for unmet needs, whether assisted suicide is classed as a treatment or not, what the psychiatrists' specific role on the panel would be, & the increased demand the bill puts on psychiatrists" news.sky.com/story/royal-...

Care workers are not “low skilled” Cleaners are not “low skilled” Low wage does not mean low skill. It just means under-valued by society.

Even without the echoes of Powell, "island of strangers" is so offensive when you think about it for ten minutes. I know Labour has never been a liberal party, but FFS.

New DWP research gives a clearer picture of why PIP claims have been rising than government & media rhetoric about the need for cuts People with complex poor health, driven in part by financial hardship to seek additional support to meet their basic costs www.gov.uk/government/p...

There is nothing inherently bad about migration. And when we went and colonised and terrorised a million countries over the last centuries it's actually fine if people want to come here and um... Live in the wealth their ancestors and relatives created for us...