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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 29/09/2026

It's amazing what Burnham is setting out re: a universal care service. BUT we need to ensure that it's for working age disabled people (like me) as well as older people -- or we'll have missed a generational opportunity to stop "paying for failure" with respect to disability/benefits costs.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The stress of simply getting off a tube train when the staff member with the mini ramp doesn’t appear as the doors open shared by @annalandre.com. And it’s very obvious that those of us not using wheelchairs can be rather more helpful or at least understanding if we spot this happening.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/09/2026

“When will a Prime Minister’s “tough decisions” mean, for example, rerouting money into making train stations accessible, of which 39% are not? The Institution of Mechanical Engineers says this would add £176bn a year to the economy …” Read the rest: www.lbc.co.uk/article/pip-...

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PIP would cost less if politicians invested in making life easier for people like me | LBC

If Government wants to spend less on disability benefits over time, it has to remove the daily barriers that create these costs, writes disability campaigner Anna Landre

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/09/2026

My latest for @lbc.co.uk: If politicians want to reduce the PIP and wider benefits bill, they should make basic investments in accessible infrastructure and services ⬇️

Screenshot of an LBC opinion article with headline “PIP would cost less if politicians invested in making life easier for people like me,” subtitle “If Government wants to spend less on disability benefits over time, it has to remove the daily barriers that create these costs, writes disability campaigner Anna Landre,” and photo of Anna, a young white woman using a wheelchair.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

It will never cease to infuriate me that something as simple as taking the tube is regularly so disastrous and panic-inducing as a wheelchair user -- in ways that are perfectly avoidable if we prioritized disabled people's experience of transport as much as we do nondisabled people's.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

Later in the day another TfL staff member told me that at this time of year they have lots of staff covering from different stations, so that may have been the problem -- if his usual station doesn't have ramps. But surely that's something we can foresee/prevent! 7/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

I guess Christmas miracles do happen. It's a shame they're just of the surviving-shit-tube-accessibility variety, and never the TfL-actually-lives-up-to-its-accessibility-claims variety. Alas. Jokes aside, TfL, can we address this sort of thing pls. 6/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

I debate whether to fight that battle with him, but given that it looks ... sort of okay, and the people behind me are really freaking out about not being able to get off the train (amateurs, those able-bodied folk), I decide to risk it and go down the ramp. I do not die! 5/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

The man next to me on the train is now getting involved, also telling him "No, flip it!" He flips it. However, the raised bit on the ramp that fits into a slot in the train to secure it is not secured. I am aware that the ramp may move or fall once I get on it. 4/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

He turns the ramp around, but just so the bottom end is now at the top. It's still upside down. Me: Ah ... no, not that way! Flip it! LIKE A PANCAKE. FLIP IT LIKE A PANCAKE." (I suddenly recall that pancakes are different in England and hope they still involve flipping) 3/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

"'I'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE! I'M NOT RAMP TRAINED!" He staggers over, puts the ramp down clumsily ... upside-down. Handle-side up. Me: "It's upside down! It has to be flipped over." At this point people behind me are panicking and trying to push past me to get off. 2/8

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/12/2025

A hilarious play-by-play of the worst ramp deployment I've ever experienced today (@ TfL) The train doors open -- no ramp in sight. I get my wheelchair as close to the edge as I can and see staff member w/ ramp down the platform. I flag him down. Him: "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS! 1/8

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“Who counts as disabled then?” I get extra ‘disability studies bingo’ points if they do finger air quotes around the word disabled

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 21/11/2025

There's a misconception I see a lot wrt to the social model of disability and disability pride more broadly that when we say these things we mean that disability isn't real or that our impairments don't cause real problems for us.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 27/10/2025

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Dr Amy Kavanagh @blondehistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

As a disabled pregnant woman currently taking paracetamol (tylenol) for back & pelvic pain... I don't yet have a response for the ableist, eugenicist, evidently pro-life movatived "announcement" from the US President. But I will say this. If you don't want a disabled child, don't have children.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 12/09/2025

Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake. Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️

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Disability Arts Online @disabilityarts.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Are we repeating history? @annalandre.com provides a satirical take on today's disability politics. disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...

Medieval-style illustration of a group of disabled people being burnt at the stake

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 30/06/2025

As researchers, scientists, & innovators in the disability space, we at @gdihub.bsky.social wrote an open letter on the UK government's proposed disability cuts: They lack an evidence base & don't address the employment barriers disabled people face. cdn.disabilityinnovation.com/uploads/imag...

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Inclusion London @inclusionlondon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Assisted Dying Bill will soon be voted on in Parliament. We need all Disabled people and allies to urgently write to your MP and let them know why this dangerous bill can't go ahead. 📢 Use resources from Not Dead Yet to help you speak out:

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TAKE ACTION TO KILL THE BILL | Not Dead Yet UK

Time left to kill the bill

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you're a disabled person whose mobility devices are damaged at anti-ICE protests by the police etc and you have evidence of it, I'm always interested in you contacting me for a potential @motherjones.com story at jmetraux@motherjones.com or signal: juliametraux.49.

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The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies @disasterstrat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our Global Research & Response Lead, @annalandre.com represented The Partnership this week in Geneva at the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Global Platform that brings together leaders from around the world on Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 04/06/2025

On a train near a man who just said to his friend: “Like, people can become paralyzed at any time — become a burden to themselves & others. Sometimes it’s better to be dead.” But yeah, the UK should totally legalize nondisabled people deciding when suicide should be allowed for us. ♿️

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 27/05/2025

Despite very much NOT being a celebrity (!), I’m proud to be one of the over 100 disabled people undersigning this letter to Keir Starmer as part of the #TakingThePIP campaign against cuts to disability services. Read the letter & share: takingthepip.co.uk

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 26/05/2025

I had a lovely bank holiday morning with @GMB today, discussing my unfortunate train access denial from last week — and some tips on enforcing your rights as a disabled person in a political context where they’re rarely granted without a fight.

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Matt Eason @matteason.me · 24/05/2025

lifts.matteason.co.uk now shows historical reliability data for almost every station lift in the UK - for example, lifts.matteason.co.uk/HRH/history I really hope this is useful for people who need to know how accessible local stations are as well as accessibility and disability rights campaigners

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Lift reliability for Horsham Station

This page shows the historical reliability of the lifts at Horsham station.

Last 24 hours
Lift 1 Platforms 1&2
Reliability: 30%

Lift 3, station entrance to footbridge
Reliability: 12%

Lift 2 Platforms 3&4
Reliability: 44%

Each lift has a timeline graph showing when it was broken, in red, and working, in green

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Every minister should read this. 👇 If the government actually cared about disabled people being in work, they would reform the chaos of Access to Work.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 23/05/2025

This government *says* it’s here to “get Britain working” — but its actions point to a very different, far more nefarious policy goal when it comes to disabled people. Jess can’t work now, because her services just got cut. She’s one of many. @ any media who follow me — this is quite a story!

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

The fact is, disabled people reacting with anything other than gratefulness & deference for being granted basic human dignity is often perceived as rudeness. And the power nondisabled people have over our lives to enforce that dynamic is extraordinary. No trains for me today.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

Standard for denial of ramp assistance. Abusiveness is, and I was certainly not that. I have asked for any body cam footage of the interaction and to know exactly which words I said resulted in a denial of service. …

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

Ramp assistance by any staff due to one’s accusation that I was “rude.” I do not believe I was rude — I believe this able bodied man did not enjoy a young disabled woman speaking assertively back to him in the same tone he was using. And regardless, “rudeness” is not the …

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

staff member (who I assume was a manager) came over to tell me that I was rude and so the staff member would not assist me. I told her I didn’t not believe I was, I simply asked him not to lecture me, but okay. She left and came back to tell me that I would not be given …

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

& did not need a lecture. He continued on and I repeated myself and said I was just looking to the next train since they’d failed to bring the ramp for the original one. He then said I was rude and that he would not be assisting me. I said okay. Several minutes later, another…

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

bring the ramp in time for me to board my train several minutes before. He was telling me that I was a lower priority than those who booked assistance in advance. Very abled-mansplaining. As I work in accessible transport, I firmly but politely told him that I know the law…

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 18/05/2025

Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because Network Rail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me. Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …

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Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Oh hell yeah. Assisted dying bills are NOT progressive and disability rights organizations overwhelmingly oppose them.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 14/05/2025

The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – Disabled people are at risk from this bill. Brilliant piece in the @theguardian.com from @lucywebster.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A photo of disabled protesters with anti assisted dying signs and article text below reads: You’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical
deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder - these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to talk about; this is the narrative that pushes people into unquestioning support for their cause.
But what of the people the law would include who they don't want you to consider?
Proponents keep saying that the bill is tightly drawn to exclude disabled people, because it limits eligibility to those with only six months to live. But this is patently false. The line between disability and illness - a line this bill relies on - is not a sharp distinction. It is

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts

"You will kill me."

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you think what disabled people did by interrupting Congress was cool today, how about you guys stop judging disabled people for trying to get the Americans with Disabilities Act enforced (aka through lawsuits).

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pretty telling the UK is allowing the media to call disabled people "parasites" at the same time as it is fast tracking assisted suicide legislation.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 09/05/2025

Donald Rodney was a Black, disabled, British artist whose pioneering work explores identity, technology, prejudice, state violence, & more. Much of his remaining work was on exhibit in London until last week -- read below learn more. cripoire.substack.com/p/donald-rod...

Text overlaying a photo of a 1990s wheelchair with a laptop strapped to its back. Text reads: Donald Rodney at Whitechapel Gallery, In Donald Rodney's Psalms, a 1990s motorized wheelchair roams the gallery. cripoire.substack.com

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If I see one more tech person, even a well meaning one, mistaking a problem of political will and community care for a technical problem I’m going to become jokerfied.

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Alt: Mr Rogers puts on a clown mask

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.

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