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Disabled autistic antifascist queer nonbinary historian&writer. Husky and cat pawrent. Chronically ill. Social Justice Druid. Disabled Not Disposable. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine (They/them) https://enbycriptid.wordpress.com
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From my Trek tumblr:

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A tumblr post from ds9-polycule-tales To me, and this is an entirely personal reading, while Data is clearly autistic- coded, Picard is also just as clearly autistic; just one with more capacity to mask (and the concurrent issues that go with that, like the need to compartmentalise his life and to isolate to deal with the overwhelm). To me, the Picard-Data friendship has always read as a uniquely autistic friendship. ... Data absolutely has broad Special Interests; he's got none of the time and energy limitations us fleshy autistics have. But he seeks to connect with Picard through their *mutual* SpIns. You never see Data trying to bond with him through archaeology; it's not one of Data's Spins, although he can absolutely absorb lots of knowledge about it when he needs to. But music, Shakespeare, ethics - he always goes to Picard about them, and Picard *always* makes time to engage with Data with his whole self about them, even if demands of duty mean he can't do so at a specific time. Connecting through love of Splns is an *intensely* autistic (and AuDHD) way to connect with people you care about. I've been very lucky in that it's how my Dad and I bonded from when I was a tiny child, and many of the most fulfilling relationships of my life have been this way. I absolutely adore seeing it in TNG, and seeing Picard and Data's unique bond validated further in Picard. #star trek the next generation #data my precious baby boi #data #jean luc picard #autistic adult #autistic friendship #autistic family #picard data friendship is so fucking wholesome #audhd
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hello from Wise Women historical 1950s #larp about the lives of women (all characters female; players of any gender) in the blackhouses on the Isle of Lewis (with a touch of the occult). I am the secondary game runner due to chronic illness but the historical research has been wonderful, as has
A selfie of a pale skinned enby wearing a 1950s style blouse and pearls with short dark curly hair The Garenin blackhouses on the Isle of Lewis; a small village of thick-walked stone houses with thatched roofs and a gravel road The Garenin blackhouses on the Isle of Lewis; a side shot of thick-walled stone houses with thatched roofs A shot of a bay on the Isle of Lewis near sunset from the Garenin blackhouses; a gravel road cutting down to a bay and stony beach with pink-touched lilac and grey clouds and bleak but lovely grassland around
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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From my tumblr: www.tumblr.com/enbycrip
A tumblr post by enbycrip I've been on a little deep dive into the Great Famine in Europe 1315-1322. ... This is inadequately covered by a lot of history because of the worldwide impact of the Great Death/Black Death in the 1340s. A lot of the demographic impact of the Great Famine has been swept into the Great Death. The population had been increasing for about two centuries due to the Medieval Warm Period, which saw the best harvests of premodern Europe of about seven to one; seven grains produced for each one planted. The population had reached levels that would not be seen until the late 18th century, which was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the UK though not in all of Europe. Then there were two years of basically constant rain. Chroniclers record less than ten days of no rain per year in 1315-17 fairly consistently across Europe, regardless of location (those will ofc be different days etc etc but the trend is very clear). Seeds were washed from the ground and topsoil washed away; there are, for example, areas of Yorkshire that still show the impact of this in topsoil depth because by 1317 they were little more than bare rock. Herds of animals were reduced from hundreds to dozens, both because of murrains (cattle illnesses), animals being washed away and people eating their herds in starvation - and this had a huge and lasting impact on peasants, whose main source of dietary protein was dairy. Whole towns were washed away and others became depopulated as people fled to forage in the forests and commons. There is increasing evidence the Great Famine was a huge part of the reason the demographic impact of the Great Death was *so* high. Childhood malnutrition has lasting impacts on lifelong health, particularly on immune function. People who were children during the Great Famine succumbed to the Great Death in their thirties in massive numbers. As I said, the Great Famine is underrepresented in scholarship. And some of the only attention that has been given historiographically has been scholars *blaming* the peasants for the Famine. Conjuring up everything from failing to maintain crop rotation to maintain soil fertility to planting on too much marginal land out of greed. Let's say it has been impossible for me to miss the parallels with the media and popular discourse blaming people on benefits for their own food insecurity. It has been thrown into particularly sharp relief with the situation with SNAP benefits not being paid in the US rn due to the fascist-engineered governmental shutdown, but it is an ongoing phenomenon here in the UK too. Let me make it 100% clear; we, as the technological society we are, would be utterly fucked by two years of constant rain. We depend on topsoil and growing food in it as much as medieval Europe did, on a societal scale. We can't stop it raining and our (lack of) capacity to replace fertile topsoil has been thrown into relief by climate change-induced flooding in the past decade. Even with the technological alternatives we theoretically could access, such as vertical growing, hydroponics etc? Doing them at scale would require a willingness to organise, take control of food production and to collect and spend public money on a scale every government on Earth has shown a complete incapacity and unwillingness to do in response to far less immediately impactful threats. I feel I don't need to push the many, many parallels here. The death from the Great Famine was in no way equally distributed across society. The people who died in the greatest numbers were those who were already on the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid. The poorest people. And, of course, those who survived from that class were also the ones with the largest remaining health effects that left a time bomb which hit them when the Great Death hit. The resulting deaths from the Y.pestis pandemic were also unequally distributed in Europe and the Near East (I know less about the demographic effects in the rest of the world and it was part of a whole Several Decades of Calamities in China that was so horrific the demographic effects of the Plague are actually quite difficult to pick out there!) with the poorest people very broadly suffering the highest casualty rates. There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for that historiographically, but there is now increasing evidence that the lifelong immune impact of the Great Famine was a very notable factor. Where am I going with this? Well, broadly, I'm giving a long view as a historian with evidence of why we need to organise immediately with a view to eliminating human-caused food inequality in all of our societies, and to preparing for as much societal resilience to climate change-caused food insecurity as humanly possible as well as eliminating fossil fuels. This particular idea of deliberately starving our society's lower economic levels to fulfil the screaming demands of disaster capitalism - which is 100% what current lack of price controls and benefit slashes are doing; we currently produce so much food we could give mass amounts away for free that are currently destroyed - is societal suicide on top of being horrific by every human scale imaginable. We are weakening our entire society's resilience to the climate disaster and accompanying epidemic disease we know is coming by every piece of scientific evidence we collect. This is one of the reasons I keep breaking myself to do Food Not Bombs. The radical impact of feeding people, and a space for uncoupling food from our current disaster capitalist exchange, is almost impossible to measure. It's only going to get more vital.
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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This is absolutely fucking reprehensible.

I don’t know if this applies outside the US, but if you’re connected to any nonprofit org, or any group that could be *considered* a nonprofit org, I’m going to suggest checking this out, because this is horrific.

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Dina Flockhart. Some of you who work in nonprofits may have heard about this, but if you don't it likely hasn't crossed your radar. That's not surprising; it's very recent and relatively obscure. links in comments. GoFundMe just made a -huge- move into the nonprofit fundraising space; a power grab, really. They scraped data from state and federal public databases to create GFM pages for every nonprofit for which they could find information; literally hundreds of thousands. This was done without the permission or even knowledge of any of these organizations. GoFundMe -claims- that this is an altruistic effort intended to make it as easy and possible for nonprofits to accept donations and raise funds. They-claims- that they are trying to help the entire sector in a time when traditional funding streams are impacted by tightening budgets and changing priorities. They-claim- that this move was widely discussed and publicized at conferences and in professional publications. There are some major problems with this. First of all, GoFundMe is a for-profit company imposing itself into the nonprofit space. It doesn't really understand how nonprofit fundraising works nor does it care. What it cares about is collecting a percentage of donations, which is true of many payment processors. The difference here is that GFM is soliciting -on behalf of- most of the nonprofits in the country, without the knowledge of virtually any of them. That's the second problem. While many larger organizations are aware of the GFM fiasco, most smaller ones that aren't chronically online are not. 90+% of nonprofits are one-or-two person operations, and they are too busy focusing on mission and immediate, known-successful fundraising tactics to even have the opportunity to find out a out something like this, much less incorporate it into their fundraising strategy. The third issue is visibility. GoFundMe has staggering SEO capacity, which means that wh n you search for a particular nonprofit, … The fourth problem is that there's no clear path for donations from unclaimed pages to get to the organization to which donors -think- they are sending them. If people are making donations online that aren't reaching their intended recipients, that's extremely bad both for the recipient org, who has lost out on revenue, and for the nonprofit world as a whole as people lose faith in online payment systems and donation solicitations. One of the most powerful tools available to small non-profits to help raise revenue goes away all because GoFundMe got greedy. Multiple legal professionals have already weighed in, and the opinion is that what GoFundMe is doing is, strictly speaking, legal. There are some states that might bar this conduct, but whether it remains to be seen whether a challenge stands up in state court. Ethically, what they're doing is repugnant. It's no exaggeration to say that this is going to smother a bunch of small non-profits - their online visibility is going to suffer, and ones that are reliant on individual small donors are going to see their revenue streams dry up and they won't know why. This is ultimately damaging to the world of nonprofits as a whole - the organizations that work to fill the gaps in our society and provide desperately needed services are already struggling. We don't need another burden added to what we already deal with every single day. I will no longer use GoFundMe not will I donate to GoFundMe campaigns, because I will not contribute to their profit margins. It's not much, but at the moment it's all I can do.
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The big thing to remember about this, and what all of us must keep reiterating when we talk about it, is that the justifications about “efficiency savings” for privatisation were simply blatant lies.
THE LONDON ECONOMIC "Everything is too expensive and nothing works. £200bn of our money has been paid out to shareholders for privatised utilities like rail, mail, energy and busses. That's money that could have gone into reducing customers' bills or investing in infrastructure. It hasn't, it's gone out in the form of shareholder profit. If you look at social care, which is really the monster under the bed when you look at any local authority's budget, the role of private equity is disgusting. So the first thing we need to do is admit that privatisation has been a failed experiment, it has cost this country dearly and it is an experiment that needs to end." -ASH SARKAR
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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If you have any local business you enjoy visiting, please let them know that an *incredibly* helpful thing they can do to increase their accessibility at almost no cost is to put their accessibility information on their website and post it outside their venue under their menu. There are many guides online that would help them put together a guide in about half an hour. Ask them to do that, put a copy where it is easy for staff to access when asked (hard copy or digital) and post it on their website and outside. If they want to be incredible they would pay a disabled consultant to do an accessibility assessment, but even a free-from-an-online guide version is still incredibly valuable. Even if their venue is totally inaccessible, and the cost to rectify that *far* beyond their means, doing this still increases their accessibility enormously. Businesses posting this information where it is easy to find, and giving their staff the tools to give accurate information swiftly and easily on the phone, would save so many disabled people an enormous amount of time and energy. If you own or work at such a business, please ask about doing this. Abled people having these conversations with other abled people and volunteering to take on some of the work is a piece of praxis that helps in multiple ways.
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Your ongoing reminder that small local coffee shops, restaurants and other venues are frequently less accessible than large chain ones. Yes, there is absolutely a structural issue to this; large chains have the ready finances to build new locations, whereas small businesses very rarely do, and in many places accessibility in existing shop fronts is horrific. But this leads into the fact that small businesses, while they do absolutely often have narrow profit margins, also make choices based on what they see their customers valuing. And they do not see abled people valuing accessibility. If you have a physically inaccessible venue you like to visit, please *ask* them about accessibility. Mention that you are choosing not to spend time and money there with friends due to their inaccessibility. Certain councils in the UK apparently *do* offer grants to help small businesses increase their accessibility, though the information I could find about it online was spotty at best. If they specifically identify cost as why they are not providing an accessible bathroom or a ramp into their store or venue, it’s always worth volunteering your time to help set up a crowdfunding campaign. Remind them that small businesses live and die based on their local community, and that by inviting the community to help them become more accessible to more of the community they are increasing their engagement with them and showing who they value. Abled people having these conversations with other abled people and volunteering to take on some of the work of increasing accessibility is praxis.
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A little #sketchbook drawing of a flowering cactus with alcohol markers, roughly following a tutorial by www.instagram.com/darkestnight.... Really nice to have a guide to shading with alcohol markers as I’ve found it a bit counterintuitive and I’m keen to use them as bedart-friendly #chronicallyill
A sketch of a flowering cactus in alcohol markers A sketch of a flowering cactus in alcohol markers
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Because I posted a pic of me looking nice and upright and functional, here’s the counter-pic that’s much more reflective of my actual day-to-day reality - me lying in bed recovering with my gel ice pack and my hot water bottle feeling like hammered shite #disabled #chronicallyill
A very pale nonbinary person with dark circles under their eyes lying flat in bed looking up at the camera. They are wearing blue Star Wars pyjamas and have short asymmetric dark curly hair. They are wearing a frozen gel ice pack on their forehead and leaning their head on a shaped hot water bottle in a pale furry cover.
September 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A screenshot from Andor with the words of a young pale skinned man as they are spoken “THE PACE OF OPPRESSION OUTSTRIPS OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IT. AND THAT IS THE REAL TRICK OF THE IMPERIAL THOUGHT MACHINE. IT'S EASIER TO HIDE BEHIND 40 ATROCITIES THAN A SINGLE INCIDENT".
September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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There was a sale on monitors at Visible and that and the really bad week I’ve had healthwise after trying to push a bit to give my OH a nice birthday week off pushed me to spend a chunk of my PIP on it.

It’s expensive but not ridiculous. It’s what PIP is actually meant to be for.
A pale arm with a black Visible monitor strip on it quite tight. A Functional capacity assessment screenshot from the Visible app scored 3.7 “Your functional capacity score is lower than a healthy person's score of 6.0. This is an improvement of 0.2 since your last monthly check-in. Learn more about FUNCAP27 Breakdown Your score indicates that your ability to carry out day-to- day activities is impacted, particularly in Activities outside your home. Personal hygiene/basic functions (scale) Walking/moving around (scale) Being upright (scale)” The assessment is cut off by the bottom of the screenshot. A Visible branded box on a lap wearing yellow dungarees with bee print
September 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Made it out to GOMA today as my OH is off on annual leave for the week.

Health is fairly crap atm; had a pretty nasty syncope episode so we had to go to the cafe to sit down. But two things that really helped
A pale-skinned nonbinary person with asymmetric short dark curly hair wearing ear defenders smiles at the camera. They are wearing a khaki jacket with pin badges on it over a black grandad neck shirt and yellow dungarees with a bee pattern and yellow and black eye and lip makeup. They are sitting in front of a display of books with rainbow Pride stickers on them and multiple Progress Pride flags stuck to the walls and shelves. A display of library books with the rainbow Pride sticker on their spines and multiple Progress Pride flags stuck to the walls and shelves. A sign reads “Available in the GOMA gift shop”. A display of library books with the rainbow Pride sticker on their spines. There are multiple Progress Pride flags stuck on the display shelves and walls and many other Pride identity flags shaped like hearts stuck on the shelves too. Awall display from a library with multiple heart-shaped Pride flags and posters reading “Queer Life, Queer Love” and “Read With Pride”.
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Call for submissions for zine to welcome refugees, migrants and asylum seekers to the UK and benefit @refugeeaction.bsky.social and the RNLI

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An image with a lighthouse on the right side of text reading “📣 CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS 📣 Charity zine for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Deadline October 20th. 🌊 "A Stranger is Just a Friend We Haven’t Met Yet." Messages of welcome and resistance. 🌊 Deadline October 20th. Anyone can submit in any artform that can be digitally shared. Simple letters are also encouraged, there is no need to be a creative to be included. All proceeds will go to @refugeeaction and @rnli (unaffiliated with this project). Convened by Selina Shaw: selinashawstories@gmail.com Islands, including the UK, are crossing places in the sea. We have a role and identity as islanders to uphold. We dishonour our heritage and our ocean by denying arrivals to our shores. Coasts are a gift that let us take in new life. That comes with the responsibility to give safety. We are a nation of harbours and lighthouses. “A Stranger is Just a Friend We Haven’t Met Yet” will gather messages of welcome for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, sharing kindness, joy, and protest against brutality. It hopes to tell our friends that they deserve a home with us and xenophobes that they don’t speak for us. All art forms welcome, as long as they can be digitally captured. Simple greetings and letters are also encouraged if you aren't feeling creative. In support of Refugee Action and the RNLI. Out of love for our island and our friends.
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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From my Tumblr
A tumblr post by enbycrip ... Big thing I've got from my study of disability in the early modern period in Britain, including dissertation research? Poor relief that gives money out to the poorest people is probably the most benefit per amount of money, but it's *massively*, *massively* resented by wealthier people. Not only because it's redistribution of wealth, given it was usually raised by local taxation, but because it takes both control and opportunities to benefit from them. The big thing money gives is options, choice, and freedom. Wealthier people value having that and massively resent poorer people having it. They much prefer giving charity to paying their taxes because a) giving charity lets them keep control of the money, even at a remove, and b) they usually find a way to benefit more directly from it. This is basically why we have the current social security systems we have, where so much more is spent on control and policing of the behaviour of poor and disabled people than actually helping. Universal benefits were popular when the systems were set up for a variety of reasons, including reducing resentment by wealthier people, but largely because means-testing is *more expensive* and *less efficient*than universal benefits. Wealthier people screaming for more means-testing are doing so because they prefer to have more money spent on tormenting people who are struggling with the conditions that those wealthier people create and maintain because it benefits them than that money actually reaching them. That's not how they parse it in their heads, I'm sure, but it *is* the reality of the situation. #disabled #disability #disableism #ableism #social security #social safety net #wealth redistribution #social control #charity #universal benefits #universal basic income
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Happy Disabled Pride Month folks!

I actually found some energy to do some face paint art celebrating this today.

It’s a variation on the Disabled Pride Flag. The colours represent:
A pale-skinned enby with curly short auburn hair with their face painted in the colours of the Disabled Pride flag and the words “Disabled Pride” painted across their nose, cheeks and chin. They are wearing a yellow T-shirt. A pale-skinned enby with curly short auburn hair with their face painted in the colours of the Disabled Pride flag and the words “Disabled Pride” painted across their nose, cheeks and chin. They are wearing a yellow T-shirt. A pale-skinned enby with curly short auburn hair with their face painted in the colours of the Disabled Pride flag and the words “Disabled Pride” painted across their nose, cheeks and chin. They are wearing a yellow T-shirt. A pale-skinned enby with curly short auburn hair with their face painted in the colours of the Disabled Pride flag and the words “Disabled Pride” painted across their nose, cheeks and chin. They are wearing a yellow T-shirt.
July 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Guess who has two thumbs and a proper, official autism diagnosis?

This person ❤️

It was a very, very thorough diagnostic process; two *long* appointments plus all the pre-assessment paperwork.
A pale-skinned nonbinary person with short dark curly hair sits on a black leather couch looking at the camera. They are wearing a Stevie Bees “You Can’t Erase Us” T-shirt in the trans flag colours and teal lipstick A pale-skinned nonbinary person with short dark curly hair sits on a black leather couch looking at the camera. They are wearing a Stevie Bees “You Can’t Erase Us” T-shirt in the trans flag colours and teal lipstick
May 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A couple of old pics of me doing a low-key Snow White cosplay out in Mugdock Park with our much-missed Staffie pup Jasmine came up in my memories
A femme-looking pale-skinned nonbinary person with braided-up dark hair sits in a power wheelchair on a sunny forest path, smiling at a small black and white Staffordshire Terrier dog, who is wearing a red harness and playing with a stick. They are wearing a blue peasant-style blouse with a full yellow skirt, yellow capri leggings and blue trainers. A femme-looking pale-skinned nonbinary person with braided-up dark hair sits in a power wheelchair on a sunny forest path. They are wearing a blue peasant-style blouse with a full yellow skirt, yellow capri leggings and blue trainers, with a compression wrist support and ankle supports, and are grinning broadly in delight.
May 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Because I posted a nice pic of me looking cool out and about from Sunday, I’m also posting the aftermath, and the far, far more common state of my life; me propped up on pillows in my bed with an ice pack and a hot water bottle on different body parts to deal with the pain.

This is a thing I do
A pale-skinned nonbinary person lying in bed with an ice pack in a patterned pillow case behind their head, propped up on pillows. They have short dark haired sticking up and are wearing a grey sloth pyjama top. They look pale and unwell and have dark circles under their hazel eyes
May 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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everyone was actually lovely. Even the only piece of open disableism was two people giving me the stink-eye for using my rollator on the tram.

Very cool whale shark sculpture from the mall where the event was held made of discarded electronics.

Will be dead today but it was nice to go out.
Front view of whale shark sculpture made of discarded electronics, originally made for the Edinburgh climate festival 2023 Side view of whale shark sculpture made of discarded electronics, particularly computer keyboards
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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A rare photo of me out and about from the tram interchange bathroom in Edinburgh. Made it out to an event at one of my OH’s clients yesterday with them yesterday. Was braced for potential of increased transphobia as I was very visibly wearing my they/them pronoun badge in the flag colours but
A nonbinary pale-skinned person using a black and silver rollator (wheeled walker mobility aid), taking a photo in a bathroom mirror with a mobile phone. They have short dark hair with a somewhat grown-out undercut and are wearing brown skinny jeans, a teal shirt with an orange fox pattern on it and an olive drab cropped light jacket with pin badges on it. The visible ones are the progress Pride flag and the pink triangle, plus a they/them pronoun badge. They are wearing teal lipstick and black eyeliner.
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Oooh my signed copy of the fantastic @piperstrangeart.bsky.social’s My Gender is Rats has arrived and been devoured (figuratively. I am not a rat. I do not chew books 👀)

It means a surprising amount, in a time when we are so under siege (and have yet again been legally erased) by the govt to have
The cover of Piper Strange’s comic collection “My Gender is Rats”, showing a cartoon nonbinary person holding a rat up and the quote “I didn’t realise that I was, myself, a rat until I read this comic” - Emily Dubious - beneath The title page of Piper Strange’s comic collection “My Gender is Rats”, signed by Piper in Green felt-tip pen “To Red, thank you so much!”
May 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Please keep signing, sharing and amplifying the petition appealing to protect disabled people the DWP’s own systems have judged as unfit for work from the cuts.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

It’s encouraging that despite the incredibly gaslighting reply at 10k signatures, they have still
A light-skinned hand with #WelfareNotWarfare written on it in black felt tip pen
May 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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This is in direct contravention of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social’s manifesto promises to end the 17+ year Tory democide of disabled ppl via the DWP and Austerity policies that cost more to persecute disabled people than it would have to give all of us a decent standard of living. Instead, a party
An image with text over a Disabled Pride flag. “THE GOVERNMENT'S CUTS TO DISABILITY BENEFITS IS AN ATTACK ON DISABLED PEOPLE. MPS WHO VOTE IN THE REFORMS WILL BE DECLARING WAR ON DISABLED PEOPLE. #DisabilityRebellion”
May 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I’ve noticed it a *lot* online, and on the occasions I’ve made it out since this has been announced. It’s difficult for me to go out alone anyway but I’d be increasingly worried to atm.

Increased public hostility not only increases our marginalisation but actively makes it more difficult for us
An image with text over the Disabled Pride flag reading “THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO MANUFACTURE CONSENT FOR CUTTING DISABILITY BENEFITS BY FEEDING HATEFUL RHETORIC AGAINST DISABLED PEOPLE INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. THIS CRUELTY IS DRIVING UP ABLEISM AND ABUSE OF DISABLED PEOPLE ONLINE AND IN THE STREETS. #DisabilityRebellion”
May 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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PIP is not an income replacement benefit. It is a benefit to allow disabled people to meet some of the additional costs of being disabled in an inaccessible environment. It is *particularly* essential to enabling many disabled ppl to work because workplaces are frequently incredibly inaccessible
A graphic with a background of the Disabled Pride flag saying “THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS THE CUTS TO DISABILITY BENEFITS “WILL SUPPORT MORE DISABLED PEOPLE INTO WORK". BUT CUTTING DISABILITY BENEFITS WILL ACTUALLY CREATE MORE BARRIERS TO WORK. IT'S NOT ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE INTO WORK. IT'S ABOUT CUTTING THE WELFARE BILL DOWN TO APPEASE THE FAR-RIGHT. #DisabilityRebellion”
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM