Still getting compliments on my mask chains. I make layered chains a feature. Thick chain like the ⛓️ emoji, across nose bridge of a black mask. 1 - 3 chain necklaces, same style chain as mask. Hoody unzipped enough that you see chains. Sleeves rolled up, thick chains on my wrists. CHAINS. Yeahhh.

Any difference?

Why’s the city so chaotic so early? I’ve only been out 3 mins. A lone man is screaming but not in a distressed way. Another’s telling strangers all the crimes he’s done. He’s listing them chronologically. I got as far as ‘nicking car stereos’ so there’s a while to go, assuming he still does crimes.

Weirdly reassuring when people in other countries speak about how the British government’s murdering disabled people while polite society nods approvingly from the sidelines. Disabled people in other countries with legal assisted suicide have said they feel the same. Thank you to the witnesses.

Something very bad will happen to me soon. Seizures in my sleep now too. People die in their sleep from these. It’s getting worse. GP didn’t call back on Monday. I couldn’t get through today. Still haven’t seen a neurologist for 8 years. No help is coming. I really want people to know I did try.

Scapegoating disabled for poor IPC. bsky.app/profile/elho...

*looks nervously into the audience* Okay, I'm officially asking for help for my household. The full story is on the GoFundMe page if you want to read all about it. If you can donate, share the link, boost my posts, add a comment to the GFM page, anything at all to help? TY! gofund.me/abe18ba0

Harriet Tubman was disabled from a traumatic brain injury she had as a child. She had epilepsy because a slave owner threw a weight at someone else and it hit her. She had hypersomnia too and surgery on her skull to treat very bad headaches.

They euthanise disabled kids in the Netherlands and Belgium. The same network of eugenics lobbyists want it in Canada. It’s inevitable in the UK. Today, The Guardian had an article bemoaning that councils spend more money on disabled kids than on road maintenance. Lethal overdoses are so cheap.

I follow an account who only posts lefty political jokes, except for 2 panicked, recent tweets about having had a baby with a rare epilepsy that doctors don’t understand. She’s started posting against the assisted suicide bill. She realised what future doctors will suggest to her baby, didn’t she.

Banning face coverings just gives the police even more powers to crack down on our ability to speak out Our fundamental right to protest MUST be protected Agree? Then JOIN US in calling on the Gov to SCRAP THIS PLAN 👇 action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/...

Face coverings allow us to protest safely: Without risk of infection Without being spied on by police’s creepy facial recognition tech Without fear of endangering our family if protesting actions of other States

BREAKING Face masks could be BANNED AT PROTESTS under Gov’s new Crime and Policing Bill It’s going through Parliament today Sound familiar? That’s because Rishi Sunak’s Gov tried to introduce it last year… 🧵 👇 (1/6)

GP’s writing to Neurology so at SOME point I’ll get ANOTHER hospital appointment. When? 2026? I don’t NEED one. They only saw me A MONTH ago and prescribed an anti-epileptic that made me want to die. I just need one that DOESN’T. This could be solved over the phone, now. Solved in a fucking text.

A note by my sofa says “How do you feel?” to prompt me to take meds if my seizures are dangerous. Just now, I wrote it twice in magnetic Scrabble on my fridge too and on a chalk board by the sink. Maybe I’ll write it on EVERY surface. You can’t stop me. Second-guessing yourself isn’t illegal.

the pandemic broke society and the vibes have been off ever since..

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

I used to think the problem was that most folks just sort of burned out, but now I'm on the opposite side of it (a parent of young kids) and almost losing my mind feeling like I really can't do public participation in local politics or organizing. Childcare is just so expensive.

This is so real. And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here. If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.

If it’s legalised, the inevitably ever-expanding number of disabled people who are eligible for assisted suicide here will be able to access that quicker than state health care, state social care and benefits. That’s the intent.

@politicaladrift.bsky.social seems like you haven’t been on here for ages! you shifted to another platform? 👀

Harriet Tubman believed her seizures came from a higher power. I’m an atheist but I know how a religious person would interpret them like that. Dostoyevsky had ecstatic seizures. I get them for a tiny fraction of a second. Feels like access to god. Others feel like world-ending evil.

Must be so scary for babies and kids to take anti-epileptic drugs if they get bad side-effects. Most adults wouldn’t even care about terrible side-effects if the medication stopped the seizures. Not if it created less work for carers or professionals. You see that with a lot of kids on psych meds.

People will ‘choose’ assisted suicide instead of this.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: QC VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, North, NS, ON HIGH: BC, MB, NB, NL, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 52 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

But they only want to break women's jaws, hit them with machetes, and rape them, like their favourite HEEEWWWO. Will nobody think of the poor oppressed boys? 💔💔💔

FA FO

Stats Canada (their version of ONS) found that long covid risk went up with the number of infections too. Almost 40% had it by infection 3. Governments have always known that our health is depleting as we get reinfected. They’re silent because they won’t pay to protect you. YOU have to protect you.

[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing: “We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. “It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. “The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

“This moment rings with the chilling reminder of the rise of fascism following the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.” Eugenics followed mass-disability from flu and TB. Sterilisation in multiple countries. Euthanasia in Nazi Germany and then camps. Here in the UK they’re legalising assisted suicide now.

@why-should-i.bsky.social theharvestpodcastnetwork.substack.com/p/the-cruelt... One of those nights where the anger over Reform Red ended up being creative.

DWP's dreaded brown envelope arrived today. It informs me: "You need to claim Universal Credit You will soon stop getting ESA." I must apply for UC, at a rate that's due to be cut, as disabled people like me are unfit for work and seen as worthless burdens, worthy only of disability benefit cuts.

The point of benefit cuts isn’t to get disabled people to work. They know millions of us can’t. The point is to save money by killing as many of us as possible. After weighing up the alternatives, like starvation or homelessness, some disabled people will ‘choose’ assisted or unassisted suicide.

Check out my knitting patterns! I have this and two others in this thread. Patterns are $7 each. #bsnm

I haven’t taken Keppra since yesterday. Took it for 2 weeks. This is the first time in 2 weeks that I haven’t wanted to kill myself. It’s the worst drug I’ve taken in my life. It’s the kind of drug I wouldn’t even be able to sell for recreational use in a prison. Fucking hell, that was dangerous.

"We know that infection and reinfection, even when mild, is linked to cell and organ damage that may harm their future health. More needs to be done to protect our children, and the first step is ensuring that our schools are safe."

It reduces quality of life and can cause loss of ability to work and, in some cases, severe disability. This is a large burden of illness for our communities, healthcare system and the economy."

As many as 400 million people worldwide - ~5% global population - have Long Covid. "Essentially every organ in our bodies can be involved in clinical Long Covid, and it can impact people of all ages, sex, and ethnicities.

The briefing says Long Covid can also lead to a 'substantially increased' risk of sudden death and 'silent' damage to cells and organs which can lead to later illness.

Long Covid warning: 'Silent organ damage is a real problem' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#NoMoreAusterity Central London March & Rally 7th June 2025 @peoplesassembly.bsky.social Save the date and invite friends, neighbours share amongst activists

#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits Sunday 9th March 2025 2-4pm Register via link to attend the online meeting @susanp64.bsky.social @peterstefanovic.bsky.social @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @janelauppen.bsky.social @blokeonwheels.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social

Benefit cuts, health care cuts, assisted suicide bills and unmitigated disease-spread are all the same project: eugenics. Governments are disabling people, creating unsurvivable conditions for disabled people and then eliminating us as fast as possible, the second we can’t do paid work.

Phil DeFranco, the number one news influencer in the U.S. according to Pew Research, both-sided Lively's harassment claims while boosting commentary from an extreme far right influencer who has terrorized Me Too victims and pushed people to follow creators defending Harvey Weinstein.

I wrote about how right wing creators are dominating the coverage of Lively vs Baldoni and how it has become a massive growth engine for the right wing media pipeline. Liberal creators are either ignoring the biggest story in pop culture or regurgitating Candace Owens’ coverage to their audiences.

All I keep thinking about regarding this is that I've been on the waitlist for the GIC for 3 years and I am lucky enough to be able to start my care myself since I still haven't even had an official letter from them. Bet Labour would provide this a lot sooner, though.

I saw a thread by a physically disabled, depressed woman in Canada, who tried to kill herself but wanted help to get better. The paramedic who put her in the ambulance suggested assisted suicide to make it easier because it must be what she wanted. Anyone involved in patient care can bring it up.