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The animation industry is in a rough spot right now but the artists and creators are still making incredible things and so I can't entirely resign to doomerism just yet

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Wes Streeting is implying that getting a psychiatric diagnosis gives access to disability benefits. This is untrue. PIP is based on functionality and you have to be disabled++, with extensive evidence from experts, to qualify. No psychiatric diagnosis grants automatic access.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

What mental illnesses are being ‘over diagnosed’ and who by? And what effect is that supposedly having on claims for PIP which uses a functional not diagnostic test? It’s so important that public & political debates about mental health, illness and social security are informed by robust evidence

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Unclear how they believe slashing support for disabled people will help either of these

submitted 16 hours ago • 38 comments

If an MP (or anyone) makes a claim about overdiagnosis of mental illness, autism or ADHD, please ask them by what authority they think themselves qualified to override the judgements of doctors, psychiatrists & trained clinicians, without having even met any of the people they're talking about.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

DID YOU KNOW: you can mute or block someone instead of replying to or quoting them for 12 hours

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

What I see whenever people tell me AI is the future.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Given all public funds wasted on crony contracts and the growing inequality and oligarchy on display, why Labour decide to simultaneously defang the anti-monopoly regulatory and go after disability benefits, baffles and disturbs me

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

Ah, BBC balance. The obligation, if you have the audacity to get someone on saying something factually correct, to have someone else on with wild, errant and harmful nonsense.

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Brilliant column by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social, which everyone in the UK should read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 18 hours ago • 57 comments

As a disabled person with a full time job and 2 freelance positions, I want to state unequivocally that Labour’s obsessional use of ‘working people’ as a rhetorical shield while they attack people on benefits is repressible prejudice and a surrender to the Toryism they pretend to oppose.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Even setting aside over/underdiagnosis of innate mental health conditions and differences, life in the UK has got materially worse for most people over the last 15 years, accelerating in the last 5. You don't think that would lead to worse mental health?

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I didn’t leave twitter to avoid being exposed to ideas I don’t like, I left it to avoid the people who have those ideas. They’re all stupid, disgusting hogs!

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

i have zero interest in most modern low budget shlock because it’s doing this self conscious “haha so bad it’s good just like the 80s!” thing. but you can’t produce that intellectually. you need to be trying to make a normal movie and have it come out wrong because you’re a crazy person

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Once again: Wes Streeting should not be anywhere near the NHS

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Wes Streeting is a fucking arsehole.

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

i see wes streeting has reached Phase Two.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

another reason to block instead of arguing with bad faith replies/takes is like wouldn't be embarrassing if you found out you were fighting with a bot because i would be so embarrassed skdlnfas;dkfa;

submitted 105 days ago • 5 comments

Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.

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Keir Starmer's Government now boasts they are doing what the Conservatives "only ever talked about". But if the "change" Starmer promised is being even harsher on refugees, the poor and disabled than the Conservatives managed, then is it really change at all? www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/keir-starm...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

can’t wait for all the brave, free-thinking comedy bros who were “pushing boundaries” with trans jokes to find some new material now that anti-trans hate is literally government policy. Any minute now. Should be happening…any second…right?

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The “speed at which they’ve operated” is down to ignoring or actively destroying laws and institutions. This is real “say what you will about Mussolini, but he made the trains run on time” territory. Very concerning that a leadership figure would consider this an appropriate thing to say in public.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Media Literacy In 2025

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

The way to protect the most disabled people from cuts, is to not do the cuts. This is the same brand of "kindness" as the Nazis practiced towards disabled people. They will kill us. Not accidentally. It's intentional. #Labour www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

how to use civility to stop the borg

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

If your business can't function without theft, then your business should not exist. Bye bye, shithead.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

AI models in hospitals miss 66% of patient injuries, failing to detect worsening health. A study urges integrating medical expertise, as 65% of US hospitals rely on these systems for patient care. 🩺💻 Direct link to the study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Right. And the “tough choices” never fall on those who by far have the most. In the UK we always say “no one talks about class” but that’s not true. We constantly talk about class - it’s just that, as a society, we defer too much to it. We just don’t put any pressure on hoarded wealth.

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Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

This man is a fuckwit. A credulous, timorous, mendacious bully. A defective moral vacuum, hoovering up bullshit and spraying it everywhere. A zealous acolyte spreading the gospel of mediocrity. A sheep boasting it's a sheepdog, while all the time eagerly following a wolf. A flapping arseful of wind.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Less than one week after a study shows that AI searches are incorrect more than half the time, the human embodiment of an overcast Tuesday in Slough says we’ve got to start using AI instead of civil servants for some tasks. This will surely not be a waste of time, money and energy.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

“It never comes up with an unexpected idea” being a positive quality to these losers tells you everything you need to know about how they view the arts

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

Visiting friends in New York

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments