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Amberlin

@amberlin.bsky.social
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I dislike bio’s, really. I’m a 50 year old female with a 25 year-old child. We have two dogs and two cats. I live in the UK. The England part. I enjoy commenting on U.K. and U.S politics. Warning: Sarcastic sense of humour.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16h
Give the picture editor a raise
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Jack London @jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"my mental health issues are down to the presence of brown people" "if I sit in a cafe it's because I'm a creative. If they do, it's because they're benefit scroungers" Is that what this saddo is trying to say?
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RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"No, no, you don't understand: brown people loiter while I, a white person, simply wait for my muse to come to me at the cafe like I'm in 1920s Paris."
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you’re suddenly ashamed that you backed Brexit - or accepted Brexit - now that you know the Russian role in it, don’t be. Be ashamed because you backed (or accepted) Brexit, because it was (and is) stupid, racist and built on lies and xenophobia. Russia is just the icing on the cake.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I won't be returning to the Nazi CSAM site, even if centrists think it's cool.
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Death Of The Death Star - Star Wars
ALT: Death Of The Death Star - Star Wars
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…
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Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why just foreign AI? Is it suddenly benign if it wears a Union Jack?
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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"hoax they pulled with Biden". Biden has done speeches THIS YEAR completely lucid. Their god keeps on falling asleep on camera!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Is it now a feature of failed Tory PMs that well after leaving office, they keep going on about the main thing they pushed as PM despite it not working at the time? Sunak: Rwanda. Truss: Mini budget.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/10/2026
Every single edible object that enters this house must pass through me. Chicken nuggets? Me. Leftover pizza? Me. Frozen spring rolls? Absolutely me. An experimental zucchini recipe your mom found at 1:12 a.m. on Facebook? Unfortunately, also me.
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I Am Your Family’s Air Fryer, and I Have Seen Things
Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crim...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A federal judge has sanctioned a DOJ attorney for accusing an ICE detainee's attorney of misconduct without any evidence. The punishment: Two hours of legal training about the "special role of US attorneys" and the need to support claims with evidence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I mean, yeah, but maybe the party funded by Cryptobillionaires, led by millionaires, and pushing policies, by their own acknowledgement , specifically aimed at making the poorest poorer, should sit this particular argument out?
Tories are for the wealthy not the workers, says Jenrick
Reform’s Treasury spokesman to say Conservatives’ inheritance tax pledge proves party has ‘given up’ on ‘strivers and savers’
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Amberlin @amberlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Going to mute the words autism and ADHD, so I can use Bluesky without wanting to hit somebody.
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Amberlin @amberlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Had to unmute the words to write this. I’ll do it all again after I’ve got it off my chest. My daughter for the sake of a week is 26 now. She was diagnosed with #Autism when she was 19, in 2020, because she was struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. Has actually since she was 13. 1
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Amberlin @amberlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Going to mute the words autism and ADHD, so I can use Bluesky without wanting to hit somebody.
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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge
Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold
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Amberlin @amberlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*goes to drive virtual trucks around virtual America before my head explodes* Anyone wants me, I’m off to drive from Watertown in South Dakota to somewhere in Nebraska. Later on.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/10/2026
Hot take: coffee makers do not need Wi-Fi. www.tomshardware.com/networking/i...
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IT pro says his parents’ Keurig smart coffee maker sent 1 terabyte of data over their Wi-Fi in 10 days — it saturated an access point on its own, but he says most of the traffic never left the home ne...
Turning it off and on again seems to have fixed the problem, but its data was not captured.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Harry Cole is annoyed that Restore have robbed Farage of third place and handed it to the Tories. No question where Harry's loyalties lie these days.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Anonymous sources are bad, says an anonymous source.
Greens do 'things differently', says source over former deputy's criticism
A Green Party source has responded to earlier comments from Caroline Lucas on the party's motion at its conference over the weekend.
They say: "There are ups and downs in politics and when people are passionate they disagree in the heat of a campaign."
The source adds: "We do things differently, unlike Labour who use anonymous sources and resort to factionalism."
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/10/2026
Sadiq Khan claims he's a trans ally. But actions speak louder than words – and further lining JK Rowling's pocket helps her fund her transphobic campaigns 🏳️‍⚧️ Take Action now 👇 goodlaw.social/3440b9
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it's funny how politicians treat "never afraid to speak their mind" as a virtue. I think there are times when you probably should be afraid to speak your mind. There are thoughts you should keep to yourself.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
£10bn for a weapon system we don't need that will serve no defence purpose?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/10/2026
UKR: We’re hitting Russian oil refineries. RUS: In that case we’re going to aim missiles at your civilians. US: OMG. There must be an immediate ceasefire … that stops attacks on oil refineries.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're a politician, journalist, lawyer, artist, medic or social services or civil servant and you follow me, then this is the one thing I ask you to read. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The more you read this, the more it beggars belief. Do politicians and civil servants think disabled young people get magically un-disabled (and un-discriminated against) if you take away social security? That cutting Motability would help get them to work? How? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s important to note “those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.” But we know too often state tests are not accurate in judging “severe”, just as we know people with less severe conditions still face vast expenses and discrimination.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Extended waits for a diagnosis can have life threatening outcomes. Setting a minimum of two years for diagnosis risks being catastrophic for some of those needing one. It shows a callous disregard for neurodivergent individuals lives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Woman died after three-year ADHD assessment wait

The exterior of Grove House Medical Practice is brown bricked, and there is a porch entrance with a grey slate roof.

Bethany Hewitt told staff at Grove House Medical Practice she was having thoughts about hurting herselfCharity threatens legal action over two-year NHS wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Exclusive: ADHD UK may seek judicial review of West Yorkshire NHS integrated care board’s ‘unlawful’ policy
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it was good but god get a grip please
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if your marketing pitch is 'AI may be about to end humanity! but first, we will kill music' then i feel superintelligence may be a way off
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 30/09/2026
There’s a part of me that worries that they hope that Europe is turning hard right and that if the EU can become a club for authoritarian nationalists they are more relaxed about membership.
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This kind of thing is infuriating and it is constant. PIP is an in-work benefit designed to cover the extra costs related to disability (and for most people it's desperately inadequate). Many people are only able to work because of the equipment, transport etc. that PIP makes available to them.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.
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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mariah Carey defrosts earlier and earlier every year due to global warming.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I did a painting outside my comfort zone today and I am so proud of myself
A little house on a grassy field under a lightly cloudy sky from a photo I took in Tierra del Fuego in 2017
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This 'stop benefit claimants buying cigarettes and alcohol' policy ties back to the idea of 'smart cards' which can only work in particular shops for particular products. There are *so many* things wrong with the policy it's hard to know where to start. The main thing is the message it sends...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Benefit claimants are scroungers and wasters who spend our money on cigarettes and alcohol, and you should look down on them, remove their money, and put them under surveillance'.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With great thanks to the hundreds of people who gave me their testimonies. If I hadn't said "stop" after a few hours, it might have been thousands. The sheer scale of this scandal is hard to get your head around. 2/2
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