does anyone else who struggles with fathers/mother’s day struggle more with the influx of “don’t want our emails” emails than they do the actual emails themselves?? or just me

i don’t want to lose the cute divorced couple :( but surely there’s no other way #RaceAcrossTheWorld

lost money belt klaxon 🚨🚨 #RaceAcrossTheWorld

feel like i complain about this every season but i HATE the 5th place elimination. so pointless. #RaceAcrossTheWorld

i just love the pair of sisters so much 🥹 what down to earth lovely souls #RaceAcrossTheWorld

this son is gonna kill his mum in 20 mins flat 😆 #RATW

one of my favourite #RaceAcrossTheWorld things is when they all run off from the start line as if 1) they know where they’re going 2) aren’t racing for many weeks

Anyone I know interested in sewing and maybe being on TV? I’ve been nudged by the production team for the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ to say they are looking for ND / disabled folk for the next series of the show. Sign up form is here: eu.castitreach.com/ag/love/gbsb...

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.

✍🏻 me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on the benefit cuts as a feminist issue

At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

i’ve truly had a DAY and now somehow i’m watching a documentary about white chocolate digestives

guess who’s part of the meta scrape! very upsetting as an anti-AI author. libgen is a useful resource and I’d honestly rather people had the info in my book than not but that’s not the same as a scrape this huge for thousands of authors

“Under the rule of the Conservatives, I felt under threat… But, even after all of that, I’ve never felt as dehumanised as I do now, under Labour’s current rhetoric and reforms.” ✍🏻 my debut for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/demonising...

a reminder that disabled people who chose to live with their partners, as all people should have the right to do, no longer qualify for any out of work benefits. their only crumb of financial independence is PIP. women trapped in abusive relationships under these circumstances have little to no hope

Austerity with a red rosette is not the “change” people voted for.

can’t believe someone just said that those w mh needs should only be able to do “socially useful work” for benefits - what a horrific double standard and a true notion of the ideas of eugenics that this society holds

it would really be nice for someone to actually acknowledge that pip isn’t an out of work benefit actually :)

well AT LEAST they’re not changing it to vouchers!!! we’re so lucky!!

you can’t have a binary of can or can’t work!! that’s not how most disabilities work internally nor is it our experience of society and how employment/corporations work!

the words “genuine need” are so violent and loaded in this context. you do not get to set a fake bar that does not acknowledge any of our needs

objectively hilarious to say this is all due to tory failure only to treat disabled people just like they did - or arguably worse!

disgusting to put the north and midlands in your mouth as a justification for taking our benefits

we cannot “unleash talents” when there are no accessible jobs, you cut access to work, we are waiting years for surgeries and therapies and social care!!

“it’s not a post covid problem across the world” maybe because we didn’t have stringent lockdowns, had mass spreading initiatives eat out to help out, were plunged into a cost of living crisis, have no support for those with long covid, etc etc…

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

I just don’t think it’s that radical of an opinion that we’ve let companies go too far with what they can charge a monthly subscription fee for

in better news today is new severance, love is blind and traitors us day so. big day for the most annoying person you know (me)!

apparently I’m no longer disabled enough for my specialist dentist care!! which is not the fault of the dentist but considering I went to a new one today they didn’t even ask me any questions to ascertain whether I scored highly enough and just assumed about my communication & support needs!!

in one of those phases at the moment where I’d give anything to be not chronically ill

“testing if love is blind” would be a whole lot more interesting and accurate if they weren’t all conventionally attractive, non-disabled, thin and largely white

I’m just a human with severe misophonia asking companies to stop putting eating sounds in their adverts

is anyone else just measuring their life in days until #Severance or is it just me

I don’t care which superpower you’d like the most, I want to know what power would stop a random inconvenience in your life

am I just resistant to change or is a vending machine that shows you the contents on an LED screen instead of just… through the glass completely and utterly redundant

enjoyed my train conductor’s freudian slip of “please take all your personal lives with you” today

sorry I can’t actually talk about how dangerous she is because I’m too busy laughing at this sentence

has anyone made a resource about investing for neurodivergent people because what on earth

I am currently wrestling with the new knowledge that was “acceptance” of my chronic illnesses wasn’t really acceptance, it was passivity. and now I know that, I’m having to consider my anger and grief in a different light again, which is so exhausting (on top of living in the exhausting body itself)

finally facing up to the fact I probably have endo, which feels like a slight cosmic joke as someone with dysphoria triggered by my periods (and already dealing with multiple other chronic illnesses 🙃) any recs for resources/ppl to follow who talk about it in a gender neutral way?

I need y’all to understand that the Crip Walk or “C Walk” is Black DISABLED History, but even in our own community, we are erased. The crop walk was invented by Black disabled Harlem dance legend Henry “Crip” Heard, who lost an arm and a leg in a car accident. It was later adopted by the Crips.⬇️

led a session for staff at a children’s hospital on autism & trans/non-binary ppl this morning and after being extremely nervous, it was lovely. they genuinely care about the topic and our needs and are considering it within their practice. the state of play isn’t as bad as they want us to believe.

learning to drive as a dyspraxic with chronic fatigue is truly no joke

trying to explain the impact you’ve had as a lived experience expert when the co-production wasn’t actually co-production

most of the time I’m glad there’s so much more autism info out there than 9 years ago when I got diagnosed and had nowhere to go, but the media isn’t half making that joy difficult at the moment

my weekends at the moment are absolute write offs for chronic fatigue and I don’t even know why. it’s worse than when I was at uni or when I was working my time-bound part time job last year. something’s clearly up with my system or my pacing but it’s so hard to work out

The article going around about how "you can't post your way out of fascism" is, well, imo as a researcher in this field, kinda bad. Connective action is actually quite important! Awareness raising matters! The piece frames "posting" in contrast to "real organizing," and emphasizes local irl...

So anyway these are the vibes tonight after Episode 2x04 😭🤍 #Severance