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Ember Green

@embergreen.bsky.social
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Disability & neurodiversity video essays & commentary on YouTube (ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, hEDS, POTS) British immigrant in Germany she/her/they/them linktr.ee/Ember_Green

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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 3h
Looking at a disabled creator’s output & deciding for yourself the truth of their condition, then announcing publicly that they don’t really have the care needs they say they do… Well that’s just Daily Mail shit. They also say they’re protecting “real” disabled folk, & also are not.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 3h
This is true of all marginalised groups. I think sometimes we have a preoccupation with reducing the Silly Things Said Online Quota in our ranks, under some vague idea that our political opponents will “use it against us”. But if we never said owt silly, they’d just lie. Making stuff up is easy.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 3h
I’m sure there probably are some people exaggerating for TikTok views. But honestly that’s besides the point. There will always be people doing silly things online, governments want to reduce our support regardless. Even if there were zero people exaggerating, they would still just say we are.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 3h
I’ll call disabled people out for actively engaging in fascist or white supremacist propaganda, but you will never catch me lending credence to the “faking for attention” narratives which are spreading like wildfire rn. Narratives which will be used to reduce support for all disabled people.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 4h
That sounds fantastic! Got my eyes crossed and everything 🤞
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 14h
I’ve been doing magic things
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Claiming needs they don’t really have” & how would you know? “This is why there’s a backlash” - that’s literally just victim blaming. The powers that be will find ways to not support us no matter what we say, is this your first day on earth? I’m so mad.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The campaign to cast doubt over all young disabled people is wide-reaching & well-funded. It is pro-austerity propaganda. I’m so disappointed to see so many disability advocates lean into it by “calling out” “false claims” of disability, based on their assumptions of strangers online.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(I’m joking about the silencing disabled critics btw this all happens automatically)
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve been making videos for almost 7 years now & I have never, not once, earned the minimum taxable income. In my best year, I still made less than half the minimum wage (all revenue streams including Patreon). I was really hoping this one would bring in some cash before the slow season 💀
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026
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About the Role This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Someone who can see the bigger picture, move quickly when an opportunity emerges,
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks!
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Channel 4 copyright claimed my review of their ADHD documentary. Silencing disabled critics etc and whatever.. I’ve disputed it (like it’s quite clearly fair use) but they have 30 days to drag it out. If you’d like to buy me a coffee to get through this there’s a link in my bio 😩
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mission impossible: finding stock footage of a pregnant woman just going about her day & not just standing around stroking her belly
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Probably got another 2 days of editing to do, but once this video is out, I’m taking 3 weeks off to prep for my actual wedding. I’m getting married in 3 weeks! Like, “I do” & everything (but in German I suppose)
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I remember how they reacted to the “let’s plant some trees” idea & you’d have thought Corbyn wanted to plant 500k trees in their back gardens.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I won’t complain about Corbyn’s policies being floated by the government but I will make A List of all the political editors who suddenly don’t feel the need to say “magic money tree” every 15 seconds..
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feeling particularly bridge burn-y this morning I must say..
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For all their talk of wanting to end human suffering, anti-natalists sure do cause a lot of it every time they open their damned mouths 😩 like actually stfu this is the most useless ideology out there & I am actively suffering just knowing you exist tbh
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve tried “multitasking” and I’m sorry but it’s just not for me
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“…was arrested after allegedly slashing a boat on camera during a livestream…” “Allegedly” has never done less work in a sentence lmao
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need to stop calling them “trad wives” & use the more appropriate term “religious fundamentalists”.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need to stop calling them “trad wives” & use the more appropriate term “religious fundamentalists”.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not the nicest thing I ever cooked but I did make shit loads of it, so
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"the kleptocratic regime that's in a stalemate against its much weaker and smaller neighbour is going to occupy the UK and so we must destroy our welfare state and cannibalise productive sectors of our economy pre-emptively" simply isn't good enough.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cleaning, no. But having a potter around and a little tidy, oh yes.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The part of life I live on easy mode is falling asleep. If I lay down, I’ll be asleep in a couple mins. I’ve had problems with this on occasion (usually being somewhere else or super stressed) & it felt so unjust. I don’t always get good sleep but you are NOT keeping me awake.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would love to be one of those people who “find cooking relaxing”. I hope you know you’re living this particular part of life on easy mode 😤
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Premiere later!
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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sept 2021: climate activists sat in the road at the Port of Dover. Kent Police arrested 39 Sept 2026: ~200 masked far-right men blocked the same port for hours, jammed the A20 for four miles, painted a slogan on the road Arrests: zero Same force, same port, same conduct, we have harsher laws now
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How did a masked far-right mob block Dover for hours without a single arrest?
Plus the dramatic collapse of Kent's council reorganisation, a Tory split at County Hall, and the week across the county
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Honestly the doom I feel after scrolling this app, it might fucking be. Nothing sucks the hope out of me faster than reading bluesky posts tbqh
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apparently we love calling everything a PSYOP these days. How about this.. Bluesky is a PSYOP.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
beans
A close up of my cat’s feet from one of the below photos
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Baby got his drugs
Four photos of my cat playing with his valerian toy on an armchair. This one is mostly toe beansOn his back biting itOn his back looking at the camera Resting his chin on the toy
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That’s what I remember. How every adult around me lost their fucking minds & became bloodthirsty racists (seemingly) overnight.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was 14 in 2001. In the UK. I don’t remember any unity. I remember a collective hysteria, suspicion, paranoia & warmongering. We were taught to believe they might attack absolutely anywhere next, our school, the train to Chesterfield, who knows. We were taught to actively fear all Muslims.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think younger people would be shocked at how little (not none, obvs) Islamophobia existed before 2001. Now Islam is synonymous with terrorism & that was a completely purposeful act by govs who wanted to invade a bunch of places for oil. Fuck your sense of unity. A sense is all it ever was.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I remember all the “we’re not going to let this divide us” talk in between debates on the threat Islam poses to western countries. Very few people gave a shit about Islam before 9/11, but it’s still the main battle cry of today’s far right. Instantly, millions of people became targets & still are.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It wasn’t just “those early months” and it wasn’t just America. The Islamophobia you exported is still thriving, still driving support for fascists. All because you were desperate for an excuse to wage the illegal wars America was planning on waging anyway. They’re still using that excuse today.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“You appeared on my screen therefore I have a right to demand you change something about yourself” half of all internet comments
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do see folk in the ABA subs saying autistic perspectives are crucial, & the course I’m doing (for research) also says that. But also, they’re not really supposed to centre the inner experience of clients when designing plans & there are plenty of BCBAs who think autism self-advocacy is a problem.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Take pain. People in pain are not pain “experts”. 1. Nervous system research is one thing. 2. Pharmaceutical research is based on 1, but is also another thing. But if people in pain said treatments don’t stop the pain, then 1 & 2 would reevaluate their approaches, because clearly they fucked up.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The post i read this morning which prompted my post was by an autistic BCBA.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Like obviously not every autistic person is an expert on autism & might not know things that a non-autistic autism researcher might know, but that’s a different thing. When autism is so much about one’s experience, our insight should be fucking valued, actually.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve been spending time in ABA forums for research & I really am shocked at how often people assert that “being autistic doesn’t give you any more insight into autism”. And like..how? How can you actually think that?
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People are genuinely afraid and cannot be reasoned with because fucking twats on the internet have convinced them that the truth is unknowable and the “real” super ai is already out there laying its plans.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They’re manufacturing a mental health crisis & it’s already impacting people i know. ALT for OP: tech bros talking about how ai will kill all humans. Someone from Anthropic saying they think there’s a more than 10% that will happen in the next decade.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trying to keep my script tight when responding to a 45min documentary that says something incorrect every few seconds is HARD 😭
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When your policies are some of the most extreme far right fascist policies the country has seen in decades, it actually helps to have some even more extreme guys over there to compare yourselves to. Restore makes Reform look legit. Ffs this is so obvious.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Imagine this being your job and still thinking Reform & Restore are competing with each other. They are to Farage what Farage was to Johnson. Also imagine thinking that Reform voters could be scared off by increasingly extreme rhetoric. They beat a woman & thought it was hilarious.
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