Jay Rattray
@msjayteer.bsky.social
Autistic, ADHDer, chronic pain, write-off.
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Jay Rattray
@msjayteer.bsky.social
· Jun 30
For those who don’t know. If you apply for PIP you contact the DWP by phone and are sent a paper form to complete.
You’re then sent for assessment where an ‘independent assessor’ who is a medical professional (usually a physio or nurse) will ask questions based on the areas that PIP is awarded.
You’re then sent for assessment where an ‘independent assessor’ who is a medical professional (usually a physio or nurse) will ask questions based on the areas that PIP is awarded.
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Ana has literally years of making podcasts about mental health so I'll yell it again:
Speculating fhat a corrupt and immoral public figure behaves that way because they have a mental health diagnosis (particularly a personality disorder or 'psychopathy/sociopathy') IS stigmatising mental ill health
Speculating fhat a corrupt and immoral public figure behaves that way because they have a mental health diagnosis (particularly a personality disorder or 'psychopathy/sociopathy') IS stigmatising mental ill health
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Ana has literally years of making podcasts about mental health so I'll yell it again:
Speculating fhat a corrupt and immoral public figure behaves that way because they have a mental health diagnosis (particularly a personality disorder or 'psychopathy/sociopathy') IS stigmatising mental ill health
Speculating fhat a corrupt and immoral public figure behaves that way because they have a mental health diagnosis (particularly a personality disorder or 'psychopathy/sociopathy') IS stigmatising mental ill health
there’s yet another grifter bringing out an anti-diagnosis book next year.
These people really don’t care if disabled people live or die. As long as they get paid.
These people really don’t care if disabled people live or die. As long as they get paid.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
there’s yet another grifter bringing out an anti-diagnosis book next year.
These people really don’t care if disabled people live or die. As long as they get paid.
These people really don’t care if disabled people live or die. As long as they get paid.
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I hunted down the genesis of Admin Night by interviewing the author @chriscolin3000.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/donm...
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I hunted down the genesis of Admin Night by interviewing the author @chriscolin3000.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/donm...
Is Swinney the most useless First Minister in the Scottish Parliament’s history?
I can think of a couple I deeply loathe but I don’t think they’d be silent right now as racist incidents keep mounting up.
I really miss Sturgeon as First Minister.
I can think of a couple I deeply loathe but I don’t think they’d be silent right now as racist incidents keep mounting up.
I really miss Sturgeon as First Minister.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Is Swinney the most useless First Minister in the Scottish Parliament’s history?
I can think of a couple I deeply loathe but I don’t think they’d be silent right now as racist incidents keep mounting up.
I really miss Sturgeon as First Minister.
I can think of a couple I deeply loathe but I don’t think they’d be silent right now as racist incidents keep mounting up.
I really miss Sturgeon as First Minister.
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
Or education is a devolved issue.
If Dundee implodes, which seems to be simply accepted at this point, where were those workers go? Who will employ them? This government is either too stupid to think about that or too callous to care. Possibly both.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Or education is a devolved issue.
I’m going to post this link every single time some plank tries to claim Scotland isn’t racist.
Every single one of these weegie scum should be arrested and subjected to a hard drive check.
Gilruth, Swinney, Forbes, Sturgeon are all bloody silent. Is this the Scotland they want?
Every single one of these weegie scum should be arrested and subjected to a hard drive check.
Gilruth, Swinney, Forbes, Sturgeon are all bloody silent. Is this the Scotland they want?
today's round of online-radicalised racist rent-a-mentals www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Mothers trying to learn English face demonstration outside school
The protest follows a campaign by YouTube influencers against schools offering migrant parents lessons to improve their language skills
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m going to post this link every single time some plank tries to claim Scotland isn’t racist.
Every single one of these weegie scum should be arrested and subjected to a hard drive check.
Gilruth, Swinney, Forbes, Sturgeon are all bloody silent. Is this the Scotland they want?
Every single one of these weegie scum should be arrested and subjected to a hard drive check.
Gilruth, Swinney, Forbes, Sturgeon are all bloody silent. Is this the Scotland they want?
This is around 20 years disability benefits for someone.
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is around 20 years disability benefits for someone.
I’m listening to a book called The Kennedy Heirs, about the children of JFK, RFK etc.
I forgot one of them was married to Andrew Cuomo so that was a jump scare.
I’m laughing at how much the Kennedys hated him.
I forgot one of them was married to Andrew Cuomo so that was a jump scare.
I’m laughing at how much the Kennedys hated him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I’m listening to a book called The Kennedy Heirs, about the children of JFK, RFK etc.
I forgot one of them was married to Andrew Cuomo so that was a jump scare.
I’m laughing at how much the Kennedys hated him.
I forgot one of them was married to Andrew Cuomo so that was a jump scare.
I’m laughing at how much the Kennedys hated him.
You should really get the editor of ITV News to do something about that.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You should really get the editor of ITV News to do something about that.
What have terfs done now? I can hear my mum in the living room ranting about them.
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What have terfs done now? I can hear my mum in the living room ranting about them.
This only sounds beyond the realms of reality if you are completely unaware of how the NHS usually operates.
Look at the way ME/CFS, eating disorders, autism, ADHD, endometriosis and so much more are dealt with and you’ll see this kind of nonsense everywhere.
Look at the way ME/CFS, eating disorders, autism, ADHD, endometriosis and so much more are dealt with and you’ll see this kind of nonsense everywhere.
So there we have it.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1
organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...
organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This only sounds beyond the realms of reality if you are completely unaware of how the NHS usually operates.
Look at the way ME/CFS, eating disorders, autism, ADHD, endometriosis and so much more are dealt with and you’ll see this kind of nonsense everywhere.
Look at the way ME/CFS, eating disorders, autism, ADHD, endometriosis and so much more are dealt with and you’ll see this kind of nonsense everywhere.
Did not see where this would end up
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Did not see where this would end up
His Dundee United season ticket is probably in the post.
Answering questions on Send, Tice says he wants more students to stay in mainstream schools but then also says the use of ear defenders in classrooms “is just insane – this has got to stop." I mean, the second can be useful in ensuring the first.
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
His Dundee United season ticket is probably in the post.
Did any journalist ask them for evidence that there is over diagnosis?
I’m at a Reform UK press conference where Richard Tice is setting out how the party plans to save money in local government. On Send support he singles out what he calls “a crisis of over-diagnosis” among children.
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Did any journalist ask them for evidence that there is over diagnosis?
That’s not what the appeal court said last week
Rape victims in Scotland will be protected when giving evidence, says lord advocate
Rape victims in Scotland will be protected when giving evidence, says lord advocate
Supreme court ruled ‘rape shield’ laws to limit intrusive cross-examination may breach men’s right to fair trial
Scotland’s most senior law officer has moved to reassure victims of sexual abuse that they will be protected after a supreme court ruling warned that Scottish laws designed to limit intrusive cross-examination could be breaching men’s right to a fair trial.
In a strongly worded statement, the lord advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, said: “I would like to make clear that I understand sexual abuse inflicted upon women and children to be the single greatest challenge our justice system faces. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
That’s not what the appeal court said last week
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This implications of this bullshit Hitler DNA project are absolute trash. You can't determine whether someone's gonna become a Nazi via DNA. The effort to explain things that way is itself the kind of thing Nazis would do.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This implications of this bullshit Hitler DNA project are absolute trash. You can't determine whether someone's gonna become a Nazi via DNA. The effort to explain things that way is itself the kind of thing Nazis would do.
I think I find this piece too measured and giving too much grace. But that says more about me than Katelyn.
I find the way the UK media have decided Esther Ghey beyond criticism is interesting when compared with the treatment of other bereaved families over the years.
I find the way the UK media have decided Esther Ghey beyond criticism is interesting when compared with the treatment of other bereaved families over the years.
For my newsletter, I talked about the proposed teenage phone restrictions in the name of a murdered teenage trans girl.
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
Brianna Ghey's Phone Didn't Stab Her 28 Times
The trans girl murder victim's mom has turned her death into an unrelated political crusade against teenage phone use.
Note: I want to be clear upfront that I have no issue with Esther Ghey, mother o...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I think I find this piece too measured and giving too much grace. But that says more about me than Katelyn.
I find the way the UK media have decided Esther Ghey beyond criticism is interesting when compared with the treatment of other bereaved families over the years.
I find the way the UK media have decided Esther Ghey beyond criticism is interesting when compared with the treatment of other bereaved families over the years.
Feel free to correct me but weren’t ministers at Westminster also democratically elected?
Alan Cumming has said it 'blows my mind' to see ministers in London 'interfering in what the democratically elected people have decided to do' in Scotland 👇
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Feel free to correct me but weren’t ministers at Westminster also democratically elected?
They’ve been at the forefront of ‘Autism and ADHD are over diagnosed’ bs, especially ADHD.
It’s now almost impossible to get an NHS diagnosis in Scotland, most health boards have closed waiting lists. The same is now happening in England.
It’s now almost impossible to get an NHS diagnosis in Scotland, most health boards have closed waiting lists. The same is now happening in England.
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They’ve been at the forefront of ‘Autism and ADHD are over diagnosed’ bs, especially ADHD.
It’s now almost impossible to get an NHS diagnosis in Scotland, most health boards have closed waiting lists. The same is now happening in England.
It’s now almost impossible to get an NHS diagnosis in Scotland, most health boards have closed waiting lists. The same is now happening in England.
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Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
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A remarkable choice of booking...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor on to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A remarkable choice of booking...