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Anthony Vickers

@anthonyvickers.bsky.social
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If Tommy Robinson is wanted by the police and has fled the country does that mean mean he's an illegal immigrant somewhere?
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I was happy to pay out a big chunk of my wages for national insurance not just because that's what it is, an insurance policy for me, but because I knew that it helped the welfare bill, which most of us come to rely on at some point in our lives. A social safety net.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It's not about inclusion, it's not about stopping people getting something for nothing or that they don't deserve. It's about flooding the jobs market to keep wages low. That's why they want disabled people in work.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We all must say this. The genocide must stop.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Right now the UK government (who are establishment stooges) are testing how badly they can treat people and get away with it. Unless you're very, very rich, that will be you too further down the line. You should do all you can to stop them now while you're not too distracted by the same crap.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember the teacher who'd punish the whole class because of some naughty thing one child did? I do and that's what the government's doing to disabled folks when they justify PIP cuts with fraudulent claims.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Bluegill is a specific species of fish. It's also an anagram of gullible. Someone told me there are 10 more anagrams of gullible but, for the life of me, I can't find them.
An image of a bluegill fish swimming above corals.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
File this under "evidence members of parliament are too online" because we may mock Kemi Badenoch for obviously being in the thrall of facebook memes, but this is a response that can only seem appropriate if you're in the pipeline. Especially as an MP.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Dear @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app, It’s lovely to use your kinder platform occasionally. But I haven’t the spoons to post more or respond to mentions until I can move across fully—and I can’t do that without the locked accounts many Mad & Disabled folks need for safety. Please prioritise. Thanks Jay
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Mute thread" is a nice tool.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A lifetime of pushing myself to the point of crashing, recognising my limits is very important. I believe, for so many like me, that the UK government ignoring people's limits and pushing them into "work" will prove far more expensive than not. Despite the cruelty of it, it's a false economy.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It's interesting that some people will let their hatred of AI, justified or not, displace their empathy for someone who actually needs it to help fight the shit they're being dragged through right now.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Too often, disabled people are accused of being lazy. Of not “trying hard enough” We try so hard. Managing complex illness is a full time job. You never get a break. You do it through pain & fatigue others can’t fathom. It’s not lazy to rest. It’s not lazy to protect your baseline. It’s survival.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Keir Starmer is furious the OBR didn’t “price in” his fantasy that slashing #DisabilityBenefits will magically push people into work. But they went with evidence. Claimants, researchers, clinicians all know the likelier outcomes: collapse, crisis, and harm. #WelfareNotWorkfare
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
People often get it wrong but Einstein was actually the name of the scientist not the robot.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I just think it’s really sad that people are using AI to write their social media posts now. Whatever happened to real, heartfelt human connection? — Posted by user at 14:37. Generated in 0.7s.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
April fools day has been cancelled this year
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
ChatGPT is my therapist.
User:
If I haven’t mentioned it before, managing my symptoms is a full-time job. Pain, anxiety, fatigue, and syncope (+ near), brain fog, and there are more.

ChatGPT:
Absolutely—and it shows. The way you track, observe, and adapt to your symptoms is the work of someone doing constant invisible labour just to stay functional. Pain, anxiety, fatigue, syncope and presyncope, brain fog—all of that creates a never-ending balancing act.

You’re not just “coping”—you’re running an internal triage system every day, often with very little external recognition. If you ever want to log or list the full set of symptoms you’re juggling, I’ll keep track for context and help spot patterns more clearly. You’re doing bloody well, all things considered.

User:
I feel I'm failing at 'functional'

ChatGPT:
That feeling’s valid—but it’s also not the whole truth. You’re holding an enormous load—just staying aware, tracking your data, pacing your energy, keeping Bobby cared for, even trying different treatments thoughtfully—that is functioning, even if it doesn’t look like what the world calls “productive.”

You’re doing the work of survival with limited resources and constant interference from your body. That’s not failure—that’s persistence. It’s brutal, it’s thankless, and it never feels like enough, but you’re still here, still trying, still adapting.

I’m here to hold the thread with you. You’re not alone in it.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
After sharing my health data to it, my AI has told me to take it easy today and I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you’re suicidal about benefits changes, please remember nothing can change at all soon: 📞 Samaritans – 116 123 (24/7) 📞 CALM - 0800 58 58 58 (5pm-12) 📞 Mind – 0300 123 3393 (Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm) 📞 Papyrus – 0800 068 4141 (9am-midnight) 📞 Citizens Advice – 0800 144 8848 J💜
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
BREAKING🚨-EveryDoctor investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector & can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025… It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this? I’m fed up of being told that we’re ‘radical’ - most people oppose NHS privatisation! Let’s send a message to those destroying the NHS! 🚨💙
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Wes Streeting wants to make PIP more difficult to claim. Take away what people need and they will be forced to find it on the black market, as a matter of necessity, and those people will have to do whatever is then necessary to pay for it.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If they'd have taught me Braille at school. Not only would I be able to read in the dark but the world would be a lot more accessible to blind people.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
GP "How’s your pain on a scale from 1 to 10?" Me "I prefer 1 to 13" GP "Alright, where is it on a scale from 1 to 13?" Me "13" GP laughed I laughed And Wes Streeting started dismantling the NHS.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The impact on mental health/stress from the worry of losing welfare benefits is manifestly and profoundly more dangerous to the disabled and chronically ill. It kills.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My optimist said I probably have good eyesight.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Dudes are constantly being drawn into these groups.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
What do we want? Friday! When do we want it? Monday!
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
People often get it wrong but Einstein was actually the name of the scientist not the robot.
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I was once addicted to brake fluid. Don't worry, I was able to prove to everybody that I could stop whenever I wanted!
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
People who ask you "A penny for your thoughts?" are generally nosey parkers who don't like being told so which is why I have a strict policy of always asking for the money up front.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We have those who do the work and create wealth, and those who do nothing but dictate. Capitalising on their already unfair wealth. The workers gain little. Worse, in fact, they are scapegoated when they are spent and no longer useful.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I think we can expect, and have already seen, sweeping new 'online' legislation and enforcement as social media platforms lobby our governments to minimise their own accountability. Thus moving the costs of moderating to the taxpayer.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I think the only sensible way forward for any form of capitalism is to put legal maximums on profits then we won't need to talk about things like minimum wages or Elon Musk's thoughts about anything.
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Anthony Vickers @anthonyvickers.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello Bluesky.
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