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Professional Disabled Person, science enthusiast, extremely cosy. she/her
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Me: well it's past my bedtime, I'd better put on my pyjamas and settle down Senator who has been speaking for over 24 hours: And another thing!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is what actual experts have to say about "overdiagnosis" and it differs significantly to Wes Streeting's blatant misinformation. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

As I'm certain Wes Streeting is aware, a diagnosis of a mental illness is not sufficient to be awarded PIP. You have to explain in detail how your conditions prevent you from tasks like washing, toileting, and eating, and then usually have an assessment via video or in person.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

If the government takes away my disability benefits, I will continue to be disabled on a pro bono basis. Some of us are in it for the love of the game.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

If you use #obsidian and want to import your highlights from Kindle into your notes, there's a really useful plugin available: forum.obsidian.md/t/new-plugin... I used it for the first time today and it's really useful if you want to reference a quote or just read through your annotations.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer has said that we're spending more on the benefits system than on prisons - inexplicably, he believes this is a bad thing. Many crimes are born of poverty - if you can improve the lives of the unemployed and disabled so that we don't have to turn to a life of crime, we could spend even less.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Sebastian Gorka has all the charisma of a failed magician who isn't allowed within 50m of a school and legally I think Victoria Derbyshire should be allowed to melt him down for scrap. #newsnight

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Cutting foreign aid is an extremely short-sighted move by a UK government obsessed with reducing migration. Foreign aid isn't given simply to be nice - supporting stability and living standards abroad reduces the need for people to take difficult journeys away from their homes.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

There's a simple answer to all the confusion: it was a Roman salute but only representing the leadership in Rome from 1922-1945.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Here for a long time, not a good time.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to make a wheelchair or mobility scooter with 8 mechanical spider legs instead of wheels. I long to go for a scuttle through the woods.

submitted 225 days ago • 0 comments

There's a frog in the garden!

submitted 248 days ago • 1 comment

People are good #nopasaran www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...

submitted 248 days ago • 0 comments