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Disabled queer communist. Data analyst.

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@conradlandin @GlasgowCC Brilliant news!!

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@Schadengirl @_gracieling "You know it is hard, because I think women with my body type (women with perfect breasts) don't get... We do not see ourselves on screen enough, I'm very proud as a member of the perfect breast community. I'm proud. And I hope you enjoying seeing them!"

(I think)

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

This is a perfect example of why “personal risk assessment” doesn’t work. Did her team REALLY know the risk? Was Gaga masked while getting makeup done (no obviously)? Could they say no & risk their jobs?

Imbalance of power almost always causes harm. It certainly did here.

[Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union @BenClaimant]

John McDonnell: The DWP is a killer organisation because of the number of suicides that have taken place... the govt is causing so much harm"

#PCS #PCSADC24

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@Peter67305335 @Murton26 @MartinSLewis @RachelReevesMP Why not campaign for the tax free allowance to be raised for everyone? With inflation the freeze on the tax free allowance affects all low income people, not just pensioners.

[Peter Tennant has moved to Bluesky @PWGTennant]

Populations get sick when you remove social protections, defund public health, and underfund primary care.

The sickness crisis in the UK is not caused by doctors issuing too many sickness notes. It's caused by years of harmful political choices.

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@Channel4News Covid has left many with long covid, and on top of that the chronic underfunding of the NHS means that illnesses don't get treated adequately soon enough.

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My biggest fear is being hospitalised from not being able to eat (I sometimes struggle to eat during severe crashes).

This sounds like absolute torture.

https://t.co/bc2LfcaEcn

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@Annakwood I can't imagine the stress/distress that must be caused by having these dickheads circling about when you're too exhausted to even eat.
Like... Even having lovely wholesome interactions tends to be exhausting when you're experiencing extreme fatigue.

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

When I wrote about assisted dying last month, I was told by advocates - including a nurse - that disabled people’s fears of a slippery slope is “propaganda” and hysterical. Consider that this is what The Times was willing to print. Imagine what these people are saying in private.

[Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion]

It should be unthinkable that, as a person with a long-term illness living under one of the most right-wing Tory governments ever, I'm worrying about how an incoming Labour government is going to make my life worse. But that's where we are.

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Labour pledging to be even worse than the Tories for disabled people on benefits. The kind of policies which follow on from this rhetoric literally kill people.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Rachel Reeves is asked what Labour would do differently to the Tories, and she says Labour will target people off work and on benefits #BBCBreakfast

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@MxVivianWulf @Chican3ry The audacity of him saying this when Labour are currently pledging to be even worse than the Tories for disabled people on benefits.

https://t.co/1JRhuKlpLk

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Rachel Reeves is asked what Labour would do differently to the Tories, and she says Labour will target people off work and on benefits #BBCBreakfast

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@EveryCountry Labour are pledging to be even worse than the Tories for disabled people on benefits. Which is probably the group *most* at risk of dying from these right-wing austerity policies. Labour have made it clear we won't survive under them either!
https://t.co/1JRhuKlpLk

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@EveryCountry If you are seriously saying that people should vote for this version of Labour (after having campaigned against Corbyn previously), then you're clearly not *actually* one of the people at risk of death from austerity, and you should maybe notice your own gilded bubble.

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@EveryCountry Labour are pledging to be even worse than the Tories for disabled people on benefits. Which is probably the group *most* at risk of dying from these right-wing austerity policies. Labour have made it clear we won't survive under them either!
https://t.co/1JRhuKlpLk

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Rachel Reeves is asked what Labour would do differently to the Tories, and she says Labour will target people off work and on benefits #BBCBreakfast

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

It’s extraordinary. Protesters demanding an immediate ceasefire — echoing the call of 71% of the public — are presented as a threat to democracy, but a Prime Minister who ignores the public and erodes their rights says he’s protecting democracy.

[Shane Bauer @shane_bauer]

When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:

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One day I forgot how to use my hob that I'd been using almost every day for four years (and isn't exactly difficult to operate - it's a hob!) 🙃

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.

Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/

https://t.co/Gq8iylgfBr

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Many disabled people who are entitled to PIP and need it for basic necessities don't have the capacity or support in place to be able to battle through to getting their refusal overturned.
They won't show up in these statistics.

[Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union @BenClaimant]

The DWP accused of reaching the wrong PIP decisions, forcing disabled people into courts for no reason, after it emerged that 50,500 had benefit decisions overturned without any new evidence required.

https://t.co/f6BGfnMBuk