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fifewanderer.bsky.social
English ex pat living in Fife. Man City supporter. Retired Local Govt Manager. Disability advocate because who else would stand up for me in the 1970s?
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When many people state that the lockdowns caused the deepest depression they’ve ever experienced, just a reminder that many disabled people are still in lockdown, five years later. Isolation is a form of torture. I want to live in a world where disabled people are wanted in society.

Hey y'all I'm not tagging in someone I don't know who was just trying to tell a nice story but just a reminder that the word is disabled. Not "differently abled." Not "handi-capable." Not any other euphemism that was cooked up to make abled parents of disabled children feel better about themselves.

Thoughts with the people of Liverpool after the terrible scenes at the fan parade tonight. Football community stands with you.

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

Wes Streeting has been very open about his opposition to assisted dying and said palliative care needs to improve instead However end of life care services are set to close in NHS England as he won’t fund the NHS properly He is an absolute waste of space

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

Let’s see how many 1000s of people take to the streets in protest as quickly as they did a recent Supreme Court ruling? I’m not holding my breath unfortunately the British civil rights movement is a very fractured beast.

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

So yet again Israel literally buried the evidence along with 15 bodies and an Ambulance & Netanyahu is visiting the White House as if he isn’t a War Criminal. When will enough evidence be enough?

Hey Apple You gave me a USB-C to USB-C cable with my iPad but no charging brick. Meanwhile, every built-in outlet and power strip in my house is still USB-A. Did you expect me to charge my iPad with thin air? Not all of us live at the Apple campus—some of us live in the real world.

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CNN will host a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Wednesday, April 9 at 9p ET: cnn.it/43Jw0jC

And they should be…👇 We. Will. Come. For. Them. Too. ✨

Hilarious NYT headline: REPUBLICANS LOVE TRUMP’S SPENDING CUTS. JUST NOT IN THEIR STATES.

Sweden’s right-wing government said it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country’s deadliest mass shooting at an adult education center where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

Whyyyy must I be the one responsible for doing all this work to unsubscribe when I never subscribed in the first place 😩

This is what happens when you don't properly evaluate pardon requests on an individual basis. Trump didn't look at prior criminal history, behavior in prison, or risk of dangerousness to the community following release. Now we all pay the price for him using the pardon power as a political reward.

Cowards

As best you can, ignore him.

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But wait - he did keep his promise to a former celebrity TV personality & allow a free vote on assisted suicide in the hope he can cut social care costs that way.

It’s like watching speed dating

Personally I wouldn’t have let her prosecute a parking ticket her performance was that bad

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Well things just got a whole lot more interesting in BlueSky www.thefp.com/p/jesse-sing...

Just finished Banishers:Ghosts of New Eden has to be the second best game I’ve played this year easy 8/10 only beaten by Veilguard. Definitely in my top 10 RPGs in the 2000s.

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