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Debz

@debzlarps.bsky.social
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Full time weirdo, part time LARPer.

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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The math is a bit wonky in the middle segment, but a very important point, that when existing and maintaining your life takes energy, you CANNOT spend ALL that energy on work and expect to survive. That the amount ANY person is able to do needs to cover life in a work/life balance (and fun too!)
People love to talk about whether or not disabled people can work
but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all yout energy and more)
Dead Silence. Nobody cares.

File this under, oh you can be active for 4 hours? You can work part time. Um, no, I have to get ready for work (30 min) get to work (15 min) get home from work (15 min) feed myself all day (30 min) maintain myself, my home and my life (15 min, yeah right), which leaves 15 min for work and absolutely nothing else.
(note bad maths here is the picture's and not my own, the point remains valid though)

This is so accurate, back after I'd relapsed I wanted to try and go in for one class at school so I could still stay in contact with the education system. I let slip during a meeting that I managed to drag myself to thatI could manage about 4 hours of activity a week, which the teacher sprang on to mean I was being lazy for just trying to get to a 1 hr class. Never mind that it was 30 minutes travel, that I would have to get washed and dresed, that I would probably still need to recover for 3 days from it.
Far too often abled people see the things they do easily as "non activities", they don't realise that for many disabled people these things have to be carefully planned and measured, and sometimes they simply can't be done.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/03/2025
The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare plans: betraying the vulnerable | Editorial
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The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare plans: betraying the vulnerable | Editorial
Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s suggested benefit cuts are deeply unfair to poor, sick and disabled people – and ignore expert warnings that these measures won’t boost employment
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Seems like a solid plan... seems like a good idea to invest in research into the vast amount of problems we have at the moment even if there wasn't a sudden availability of skilled candidates to tempt across the Atlantic.
What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous, science and research funds. People arelosing their jobs over there NOW. Lets welcome them.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Boots Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness, by Terry Pratchett

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so think that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Spirit City: Lofi Sessions @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Draw This In Your Style - Cozy Kitchen Edition! 🎨 Draw your avatar doing an activity in the kitchen with their favorite Spirits for a chance to win some prizes 🎁! Share your artwork on socials with the hashtag #SpiritCityDTIYS + tag us Full rules linked in thread below ⬇️
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/01/2025
Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it | Caroline Lucas
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Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it | Caroline Lucas
If the courts let 16 climate activist’s draconian sentences stand this week, we are no better than an authoritarian state * Caroline Lucas is an environmental activist and former Green MP Sixteen jailed Just Stop Oil activists will appear in court…
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wishing my friends celebrating around the world a very happy lunar new year - I hope the year of the snake is a happy and prosperous one for you all #LunarNewYear2025
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 28/01/2025
I’m not saying “we should stuff banned books into all the front yard community library boxes” - but I’m also not saying “we shouldn’t” 👀
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 27/01/2025
On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember those murdered during the Holocaust and all genocides.
Learn and remember, for a better future.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Personally if there was a discussion on whether I'd just performed a Nazi salute I'd probably avoid saying that it's a bad thing that academics were writing about antisemitism in the 1940s.
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How much will this cost the treasury? Shame on this govt for taking away pensioners' winter fuel payments while giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires - totally skewed priorities www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Rachel Reeves to relax non-dom tax rule amid millionaire exodus
Budget measures to be changed as almost 11,000 of Britain’s wealthiest people have left the country
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 23/01/2025
The next Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, California in 2028 (Trump is excited about this). Perhaps those in the international stage will boycott the American Olympics for its human rights atrocities if things continue on the path they’re going. . . #Olympics2028Boycott
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Support each other, no matter what is happening around us. We exist outside of programming. In the streets, online, with our wallets, with our words, with our might. We are the infinite.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hey there cats and cat-wannabes... where is it at, and what is it?
A confused bird: Lets bring back the term "cats" when referring to a group of people (i.e. "see you cats later")
Pros:
1) it's gender neutral
2) you get the chance to look like a cool jazz musician
3) you can compare all your friends to cats (always good)
Cons:
1) ????
Kittenesque:
It makes sense sin, from what I'm aware,
*everybody* wants to be a cat, because, apparently, a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 20/01/2025
Lawmakers buying Meta stock then banning TikTok is a conflict of interest. When we do it it’s “insider trading” and we go to prison When lawmakers do it they get paid.
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Em Grimm @spookyfoxghost.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Rep. Crockett is a true gem and ally.
Tweet by Acyn featuring a quote from Crockett addressing the connection between trans rights and racism, emphasizing resilience. Below is an image of Crockett speaking into a microphone during a formal proceeding.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Infographic:
Why do ADHDers Accumulate Clutter
Central image of a woman emptying a bag full of assorted items
Exhaustion from decision making and fear of making the wrong choice
Image of person holding a cross and a tick
Poor task initiation and task persistence
Image of person resting head on pile of laundry
Executive function difficulties with the multi-step processes of decluttering and organising
Image of person holding knees with back to coloured rectangles
Heavy emotional ties to objects
Image of a red string with a loop in it shaped like a heart
Impulse buying novel things
Image of two people looking excited with a star shape between them which says "hot new"
Overwhelm of shame and rejection sensitivity which leads to avoidance
Image of person with hands in front of face fending off a cross in a circle
Watermark across centre of image states "coaching with brooke"
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The data is coming from inside the post... Unfortunately too often the case that when non-men and/or non-neurotypicals express themselves SOMEONE has to try and invalidate them. Most men are lovely but dammit there's always THAT GUY. The devil doesn't need more advocates, he has a legal team.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Feeding the bees! Glad they're still in there (as it has been cold and they weren't coming out and it was a bad idea to go letting drafts in checking on them too often). Hopefully next year I won't need to, as now I have them home I am going to be more restrained on my honey harvesting. #beekeeping
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
a friend texted me this and I felt I should share it
cat ignoring 3 bowls, text: tfw you have wet food and dry food and water but you want a secret fourth thing, something nobody has yet imagined or invented
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just felt like sharing a few of my favourite phrases: Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. (It is worth doing even if you CAN'T do it well.) Yes, my ADHD is "all in my head" that's where I keep my brain, just like my anaemia is all in my blood... It's not a joke if you are punching down.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 13/01/2025
"It matters. There's a reason we have elections." Green councillor Rachel Millward on the councils wanting to postpone their elections amid local government reorganisation.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Generally annoyed by the tendency of people to throw around "logical fallacy" and "bias" when they don't actually understand either of those terms... I know I should not feed the trolls, but part of me wants to believe people can be better and learn if you explain things clearly enough... *sighs*
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Let’s be clear about why Meta is removing fact checking.
Tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar). The tweet includes a quote from a question-and-answer session where someone asked Trump if he thinks Zuckerberg is responding to threats he's made to him in the past. Trump's response was "Probably. Yeah. Probably."
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The scale of suffering we're seeing in Gaza is intolerable, and the UK government must act now to immediately end its complicity. The UK is still providing parts for F-35 Strike Fighters which are being used in Gaza - I will keep pushing for an end to all arms sales to Israel.
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Debz @debzlarps.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So, it is seeming increasingly likely that the book of face is going to end up going the same way as the bird... a billionaire's rightwing propaganda factory. I have been on FB since you needed an academic e-mail to sign up, but I guess I will need to figure out more platforms... wish me luck!
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