I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵

They have no fucking idea how much “grit” a gender dysphoric kid with ADHD had to show going to a primary school in the Derbyshire coalfields in the 70s. The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life. They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.

I honestly am out of ideas for what is wrong with Streeting if he thinks going back to saying "toughen up" to an undiagnosed 7 year old girl in 1992 crying in the school toilets because i didn't know why i was different, he thinks that's the frickin answer?!

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social can provide a clause to add to your contact. That's what I did.

While cops were freaking out at the nothing happening at Columbia yesterday, other cops were using chemical weapons banned in actual war as actual war crimes against students at CCNY just a dozen blocks north up in Harlem www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...

The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act. I've put in a complaint. So can you.

World Central Kitchen in Gaza are having to burn shipping pallets because there's no fuel to cook with. Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.

Missed the part where trans people were dragging random people out of cars and setting fire to hotels with people inside. Still, we did use chalk on a statue so that's clearly the same.

Reality of being disabled. But the government and media will lie and push propaganda, exactly as the nazis did, that disabled people are a burden on the state. As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.

so SO delighted to see that @andersenpress.bsky.social have reissued this! it's a lovely, lovely thing and I have nothing but love for it. if you love a Streatfeild / EBD / classicy yummy children's vibe, you'll love it too.

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed. End all arms sales to Israel now.

I don't often lack words for what I'm seeing, but I am absolutely without words: TX-03 Congressman really just quoted Joseph Goebbels and then walked out of the committee like he hit a home run.

What the hey, @theguardian.com. Is this your new agenda? Hoping to pick up a few semi-fascist readers, are you? Disabled children - the ideal whipping boy.

They're at it again, friends. Why is the Guardian so invested in painting disabled kids as a burden? This is barely 2 weeks after "potholes"

Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social

Lads I've got a book out the day after tomorrow. This is it, this is the fanfare. To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover. It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.

As someone who smoked for a year or two (not very much and long ago), I think the uptick in ADHD diagnoses over the last 25 years is largely because when cigarettes were in vogue, chainsmoking was a decent way to self-med for it. Sure it kills you, but raw ADHD feels like your skeleton wants out.

This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5

Look at this gorgeous beast. Out next Thursday thanks to @andersenpress.bsky.social - in time for almost all of Autism Acceptance Month. The cover is extremely pleasing and you should judge the book by it.

*Who's* got a book being rereleased in a brand new edition with a beautiful sophisticated new cover a week today? What? ME? www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/too-cl...

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

We're taking the difficult, grown up decision, to steal literal children's lunch money rather than tax wealth.

I wouldn't mind so much if I'd made any proper money out of the bloody books in the first place.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

uk! the government is running a consultation on it’s proposed reforms to health and disability benefits which could cut off vital, life saving support to thousands of people. here’s your chance to feedback, or, if disabled yourself, let them know how this will impact you- www.gov.uk/government/c...

The devastation of decades of attacks on sick and disabled people cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and Labour's new cuts will cost many more. They must be halted immediately.

This is absolutely shocking. Surely instead of cutting benefits for disabled people, the moral thing to do would be to introduce a wealth tax on the very wealthiest people in our society? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Not a drag queen. Not a trans person simply trying to exist in peace. This is who comes after your children: Republican men who hide behind a cross and wrap themselves in the flag. We need to protect our kids from Justin Eichorn and people like him who prey on them. #RepublicanPredators

This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting. This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity. These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

I just found a Cadbury's caramel egg in my raincoat pocket. Proof that good is still possible in this timeline.

God, TV is depressing at the moment. And the better it apparently is, the more miserable it also is. Where is Friday Night Lights for the 2020s please? I need my flawed-good-people fix.

Please invite me to a fancy dress party so I can go as Willie Nelson

Just finished Lost Light Notebooks vol 6. I've loved these books. A great insight into the storytelling process and a chance to revisit all the spectacular highs of MTMTE/Lost Light. I want to give @jroberts332.bsky.social a Rodimus Star for getting all the decisions right (especially the ending)

I really want to have more positive bookish stuff in my feed and repost it and stuff but I've accidentally ended up with a feed full of nightmares and despair studded with an occasional reminder that publishing sucks.

The UK has spent the best part of two decades hammering away at its social safety net on the basis that it's good for the economy and it has been a unmitigated disaster yet every few years a new cohort of ex-McKinsey consultants comes along and oh-so-bravely decides to put the boot in even harder.

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

“Our defence and the security of the British people must come first." These are political choices. If extra money is required for defence then get it from those who can afford it, not the most vulnerable in society.

This is genuinely disgusting, stating that Starmer is finally looking Prime Ministerial now that he is attacking vulnerable people, and celebrating it. The right are loving all this. #ableism #hate #pip www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It shouldn’t be counted an act of bravery that Theo Parish’s illustrated memoir of being trans and non-binary is on this shortlist, but that’s the world bigoted billionaires have made. Bless the librarians forever anyway, but bless them, too, for their bravery.

Every time I glance in a mirror these days I think I'm Al Pacino at the end of Insomnia. Is this perimenopause or just my physical reaction to the onset of the Apocalypse?

disabled ppl are not 'economically inactive'. god damn i fucking hate labour. rich ppl are 'economically inactive'. disabled ppl put every penny back in to the economy which STIMULATES the economy.

There’s probably something to be said about the misogyny of this backlash. Diagnoses are on the rise in part because in the last decade there’s actually been attention paid to how autism (and ADHD etc) can look different for women.

I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees If they want to fight through the forests of North America make them fight for every inch. Be the Ewoks Be the Lorax Make them pay for every inch in time, money, and equipment.

Writers of Bluesky! I'm on the lookout for some fresh new voices for middle grade readers. I love contemporary realistic stories but am happy to be swept away with something with fantasy elements too. All submission details are on our website www.skylark-literary.com/submission-guidelines 📚💕#MSWL