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wheelerdax.bsky.social
Queer, enby (they/them), wheelchair using scientist ♿🌈 M.E/CFS, endometriosis, autism, mental health issues (and more!). Gamer 🎲🎮 Pagan. Work in cancer research. 🧬 Yorkshire. @WheelerDax on X.
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PIP Update (with gifs). My PIP has not only been approved, but increased. That's how the system should work - I have more diagnoses and symptoms, so I need more help. This means I can replace my literally falling apart powered wheelchair.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Does anyone know what the gender neutral term for aunt/uncle is? Because I'm going to be one!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Releasing a report declaring the intent to gut disability support systems, then voting in favour of a horrendous model of assisted dying 24 hours later: they really do hate disabled people, don't they? #AssistedDyingBill #AssistedSuicide

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Drivers will bitch about cyclists being on the road, then park on the damn pavements. 💀

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's #InternationalPicnicDay apparently. We're doing picnics at work, and it was recommended people bring blankets or find benches. Colleague looks at me and says; I swear, if you say you brought your own bench... Me: 😁

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever created those ribbon bookmarks you sometimes get sewn into books clearly never had a cat.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so angry right now. 6 months ago I booked accessible gig tickets for the first time since the pandemic. Today l'm told the gig has moved to O2 Academy in Leeds. Fine, it's accessible. Except it's undergoing work with the lift blocked, with no alternative access. So I can't go.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The biggest problem within the queer community right now is we've established what a 'normal' queer relationship looks like; 2 cis men or women, usually white, young and able bodied. Anything outside that is immediately deemed fake and attention-seeking.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Remember when we said after the trans people they would come for the bi's? Yeah, that. WE FUCKING TOLD YOU.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Currently in a debate as to whether using a powered wheelchair gives me an unfair advantage at Mario Kart.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Pride Month from Bramble. On an unrelated note, I appear to only have 9 fingers now...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

What actually happens at a PIP assessment? I had mine 2 days ago, and I'm going to talk you through the experience (with gifs!). A thread.🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

One side has been here every week for almost 2 years with no incidents whatsoever. The other side rioted and tried to kill people last year. Guess which group the police circled like sharks, and which group they were all chummy with.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Stop the far right.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If you voluntarily use AI, just go ahead and unfollow me.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

When you find out a disability rights organisation has been using AI to generate social media content, and when called out claims it's an accessibility tool and says the criticism is harassment. This is precisely why so many disabled people are jaded with these organisations.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Just encountered a lorry blocking not 1 but 2 lowered curbs, making it impossible for me to cross independently, and the driver didn't even acknowledge me or apologise. I get parking large vehicles is hard, but there's no need to block every single crossing on a road!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I have my first in-person PIP review in almost a decade later this month. Besides ID and a list of medications, what should I bring? And how should I dress? Theres a balance to be struck between making a good impression vs. being deemed fake for looking too smart.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Shout out to the people having to clean up Leeds after today's football parade; any money brought in by the crowds will just be spent on clean-up. Utterly disgusting. And no, before some smartass says it, littering at Pride is bad and still unacceptable, but it's never THIS bad.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Casual reminder that VE day celebrates a victory against Nazi's. Honour VE day by not appeasing fascists.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Just got a bunch of verbal abuse for saying 'excuse me' as someone walked diagonally into my path. 🙄

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I'm just so fucking burned out by everything. The supreme court & subsequent anti-trans rulings. The anti-disability rhetoric. Watching fascism rise. Watching Palestine burn. Watching the climate collapse. Watching AI become the norm. Feeling so fucking powerless.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck DuoLingo. I'm trying MemRise.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Don't be like T.K.Maxx. Leave a lift broken for 7 months. Close the fully accessible Homesense down. Move it to the top floor of T.K.Maxx. Despite redoing said floor, still don't fix the lift. So now I can't access Homesense at all. Guess my money is less valuable?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

A little bit of faith in humanity restored: A man in a coffee shop moved tables so I could have the one that was easier to access from my wheelchair. A simple act of kindness, but greatly appreciated.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments