Reposted by Emma SicantyredDisability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are Disabled people invisible? New blog piece by Fazilet Hadi Whilst the funding of the social security system and our support and services are almost a daily discussion, our actual lives never seem to factor into the conversation. Read the full piece 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/are-dis...disabilityrightsuk.orgAre Disabled People Invisible? 1115
Reposted by Emma SicantyredGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361362612
Reposted by Emma SicantyredRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 153163985531
Reposted by Emma SicantyredRachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here’s the final selection of my photos for my 2027 Dartmoor calendar, I chose the December picture, frosty Tavistock not on Dartmoor, but I do live here ..£16 each inc postage available from me direct via PayPal or bank transfer or my Etsy shop. All profits to Tavistock food bank. only 50. 12014
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No, YOU just started making ratatouille at midnight. I'm fast asleep in my bed, like a normal person. 011
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you call yourself an artist, ŵriter, or musician but you use AI to "enhance" your work please DON'T follow me. We are not going to be friends. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026l'm holding my botanical illustration& mental health w'shop just once this autumn-7 Nov I'll teach you how: 🌿to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading 🧠creative activity alters brain biochemistry-like taking 3 different meds for yr mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota... 07427
Reposted by Emma SicantyredCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396412563
Reposted by Emma SicantyredGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925291730
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s still some space on my 2 upcoming zoom w’shops:bird illustr’n & mental health,10 Oct & botanical illustr’n & mental health,7 Nov.I teach you how to draw birds/plants & how creative activity alters 🧠 biochemistry to lift mood.Incl 10% off materials & full recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk 114273
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nigella is great as the new #GBBO judge. But #SecondHelpings is very disappointing - no audience bakes or chat, no viewers photos of baking disasters and no silly games, and (most importantly) no Jo Brand? Very boring. 110
Reposted by Emma SicantyredDr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Every response will help build the evidence needed to ensure Disabled people are not overlooked in future climate and heatwave planning." Very important survey from @disrightsuk.bsky.social gathering disabled expertise on the impact of the climate crisis.disabilityrightsuk.orgDR UK launches survey on heatwaves and Disabled people 0129
Reposted by Emma SicantyredFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026After the recent spate of attacks on disabled people in the media, I wanted to write this week’s Press Access newsletter on how we might fight back. Includes anecdotes about how many British columnists I’ve insulted in print (amongst other things). frances336.substack.com/p/how-to-cla...frances336.substack.comHow to clap back against the British media’s attacks on disabled peopleAnd why the long game is sometimes the best 03518
Reposted by Emma SicantyredDisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Why we choose the bear over any man 051
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What on earth is this mess of a book title?? 100
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Interesting. I asked someone (presumably a non-UK person) to give an example of how the UK "straight up doesn't have freedom of speech" and their response was to block me. Who's curtailing my speech now? 010
Reposted by Emma SicantyredLong Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#LongCovid hasn’t gone away. People have just become much less visible - stopped working - stopped going out - had to change their lives completely - no longer being counted in the same way. Lack of testing has ramifications. Burying the statistics matters. Less visible doesn’t mean less affected 13613
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh no reform are facing a police investigation into dodgy donations what a calamity 🙂 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredLiz Sandwich @silvershr0ud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026u could watch this slop or u could be reading your first Discworld novel written by the pro-LGBT fantasy comedy author Terry Pratchett! much to consider! 13469141
Reposted by Emma SicantyredElise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026For anyone who'd like to direct your anger at the paper in question, the complaints page is: www.telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/e... Be Sure To ✅ Link the offending article. ✅ Cite which parts of the Editor's Code it violates. [I said: Accuracy, i) & iv)]telegraph.co.uk 163
Reposted by Emma SicantyredTom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA): “Patients with ME cannot wait for a cure before the harm stop” by Ona Albizu PhD www.efna.net/patients-wit... #MEcfs #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis 34625
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The whole thread is essential reading, but for me it's this final point that cannot be stressed enough. 'Support' is not support when it just makes you more ill. 1106
Reposted by Emma SicantyredLong Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Another day, another dismissive article. If journalists are reusing the same old tired arguments to marginalise women with disabilities and pour doubt and scorn on them, we are going to reuse the same letters. 23311
Reposted by Emma SicantyredDisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Lots of great screenings are ahead, so check the next post. We start with the complicated disability content in Drop Dead Gorgeous Sat. Sept. 19 at 2pm ET FREE on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...static.klipy.comDon't Cry Out Loud!Alt: A white woman in a wig is in a wheelchair on an IV drip, wearing a pageant sash over a fancy gown. A nurse pushes her wheelchair as she sings Don't Cry Out Loud! 164
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is an incredible, beautiful documentary. If you haven't watched it already then please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now. If you have already seen it then please stop whatever you're doing and watch it again. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredJeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 05/09/2026My film @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social about the brilliant @yrfatfriend.bsky.social is streaming now! 435272
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🎶Psycho kitty, qu'est-ce que c'est? Chat-chat-chat-chat chat-chat-chat-chat-chat-chat better Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201089885
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you’d like to learn a new skill along with the neuroscience of how creative activity improves mental health (clip below),2 full recordings of my botanical illustration & mental health workshop are just £25-synaptic science,lovely twigs, indefinite access: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco... 04712
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Fwiw, my cats' full names are: Willow Arya Heisenberg and Saffron Sansa Reynolds. Lists of their various nicknames are available upon request. 010
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To be clear, this was NOT an invitation for more of these accounts to start following me. Sigh. 010
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Don't bother reading this text, it's not interesting. I'm only posting this as a quote post so I can pin it. See? I told you not to read it. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredDisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Okay, I am going to do an intro thread that I can pin between screenings. Hi, I’m a wanna-be podcast about disability in movies, but also I’m a human behind the account and go by Hilary. When previously I tried to get the pod going, Twitter suddenly went to hell & I lost most interaction. 2156
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I always think it's a special privilege when any animal trusts you enough to use you as a pillow. It's also proof that they don't give a shit what plans you may have had for getting out of bed and doing stuff. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredNot In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thank you to all the women and allies who are still signing our letter, sharing our articles, commenting on our posts or donating to our campaign. This is a groundswell of love for the trans+ community and a way to unite women around the real issues that harm us 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/notinourna... 012650
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I guess it was inevitable, but the number of fake/spam accounts appearing on this site now is quite depressing. 010
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This was in response to a specific post, but I think it's actually just good advice in general. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This forest fire aerial is now available! All profits are going to the Devon Wildlife Trust 🦡 the link to the listing is here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/forest-...victoriaroserichards.co.ukForest fire - 'You'll choke too'My first ever embroidered forest fire. This is a response to widespread climate apathy and selfishness I've been feeling around me. 5260101
Reposted by Emma SicantyredDisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Drop by on Saturday to watch Death Of A Unicorn 065
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's going ahead on zoom this Sat 29,6.30pm UK If you enrol this wk I'll send you a FREE kit (sketch book,illustration pen,botanical specimens) Learn to draw plants & how creative activity improves mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota... 117751
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Trains in this country are so unbelievably fucked. A planned 2 hour journey to day has taken me more than 4 hours due to cancellations and numerous,delays. WHY are we still spending billions on a single high speed line when the existing network is so desperately in need of investment? 010
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"These Wasp Nests In Your Head" hand embroidery artwork of my friend, artist Justin Gilday. I haven't seen a single wasp this summer, its worrying. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p253/w... #PortraitArt #embroidery #WildlifeArt 2568
Reposted by Emma SicantyredEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My new botanical & bird illustration & mental health workshops are now live-29 Aug & 4 Sep.Learn to draw plants or birds & how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to alleviate anxiety & lift mood. Incl 10% off beautiful materials & infinite access to zoom recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk 49048
Emma Sicantyred @dizzymarlcliffe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We keep being told that, even if generative AI is crap, science and medicine is where AI will prove its value. Yet I find this article kind of terrifying; even the reassurances fail to be reassuring. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukArtificial Intelligence used to design brand new virusesScientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence. 000
Reposted by Emma SicantyredChronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 28/07/2026🎵If you're sick and exhausted for reasons no blood test can explain and this year has beaten you down, and you don’t know what you’re doing with your life, clap your hands.🎵 7678
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