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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

i have a complex relationship with social media the past few years. i find it anxiety-inducing, and i often find myself drawn into Discourse or chasing dopamine through trying to post “good takes”; so i’ve deleted most socials for good and plan to use bsky to post my thoughts on books am reading!

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

this as an action cis people can take to reduce the risks presented to trans women and femmes. cis people, especially cis women, can also use their voices to fight against workplaces who enforce trans-exclusionary rules around bathrooms. please never assume trans people don’t work with you.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

i think it’s also worth being honest about the fact that researchers by and large engage with sex work through an inherently oppressive gaze; one which looks down upon all sex workers, but especially trans sex workers, and seeks to delegitimatise it as a form of work as a whole.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/04/2025

And like even more than that, they see transition as a whole as frivolous - so needing to sell sex to pay for rent while living as a trans person due to becoming unemployable is seen as a matter of lifestyle choice that could be abandoned if you detransitioned.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

this just in: going outside improves your mood! shock! applause! the nation is scandalised (the nation is me)

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Just Em 🏳️‍⚧️ [illegal lesbian] @agirlcalleddave.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Crips against cuts protests planned for this weekend. Please follow the QR for details and please please please repost on your accounts 💜 @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

having the worlds nastiest flare up and i don’t think all the stress around the cuts is a coincidence. it will be making so many people a lot sicker.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

reminder that this is tomorrow!

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Disability assessments are notoriously incredibly traumatic and triggering. Many claimants have increased self-harm, suicidal ideation and sometimes hospitalisation before them. Imagine the pressure it would now be if 4 points ON ONE ITEM is necessary not just for PIP but LCWRA!

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

labour think disabled people are an easy target; a vulnerable group to pick on & punish with cruel cuts, plunging us further into poverty all to cosy up to fascism & keep their mates & donors rich. fuck that. we’re fighting back. protests this saturday organised by @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social

Crips against cuts call to action
Peaceful protest
22 March - 2pm - southbank
Near jubilee garden
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 7PG
Not a burden
Masks required - Covid tests necessary if exempt

Updates
Organising groups
New today: Truro, Nottingham, Liverpool, West Midlands, hull, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Thanet, Manchester, Hampshire, Northamptonshire
Existing - Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, Bournemouth, north east uk, Exeter, London central, Brighton, Bristol, Portsmouth, south wales
You can join the organising groups via the Crips United community whatsapp. There’s also a community chat for support and one for advice.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Reading The Times report on speculated PIP cuts, I’m struck by not only how many people will lose vital support but how much we are already degraded to qualify. Have a stranger ask you how you wash “below the waist” and then tell us how easy it is to claim disability benefits.

Needing help to wash your hair or your body below the waist would not meet the new threshold while needing help to wash your upper body would. Needing help going to the lavatory is above the threshold, but needing reminding to go would fall below it. Needing prompting to engage with other people face to face would not meet the new test; needing help to do so would.

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Sarah Collins @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The barrier to entry for receiving PIP for mental illness is already staggeringly high. It is unfathomable that this government is moving to make people experiencing psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe OCD, depression, personality disorders, PTSD...more financially insecure. To what possible end?

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Crips Against Cuts♿️🌻 @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What to expect at our Bristol demo!💚

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#WelfareNotWarfare DPAC Day of Action! Wednesday 26th March 2025 #WelfareNotWarfare 📢 Join us📢✊🏼

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We’ve united with Scope, @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social and @turn2us.bsky.social against cuts to disability benefits. Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them. Read the full letter on Scope’s website. buff.ly/FhxKY7U #Disability

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I would urge Starmer to slowly feed his hands into a paper shredder but I'd accept introducing a wealth tax as a compromise

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

we need to push harder. we must force them into not just a u-turn on all proposed cuts and freezes but a vast improvement of the system. we can’t be forced backwards into accepting PIP as it is. people are stuck in poverty and they are dying waiting for benefits right now, already, today.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

i cannot express enough how fucking terrifying this is. it is not an exaggeration at all to say these cuts are going to kill disabled people. it’s hard to even explain to someone who hasn’t been through a PIP application process how evil, barbaric and unashamedly discriminatory these changes are.

Screenshot of article.
Caption for photo of two disabled people using mobility scooters: cuts to personal independence payments, granted to those who struggle with mobility and everyday tasks, will account for the bulk of the savings.
Headline: 1m people to have disability benefits cut by Labour
Subheading: Rachel Reeves vows to ‘get a grip’ on the burgeoning welfare bill but cabinet ministers express disquiet over £5 billion savings

Under present rules, people applying for PIPs are given points based on their difficulties with everyday tasks and mobility. Applicants are able to add up points from activities to qualify for payments of between £1,500 and £9,600 a year. In future, ministers will require applicants to score at least four points on at least one activity to qualify, a threshold that would include those who need help cooking a meal, but exclude those who can use a microwave.

Deaf campaigners are likely to be concerned that needing a hearing aid falls below the new threshold and could lead to some losing out on payments. Those who score four points on these tests would require another four points to qualify for the lower rate of payment, and another eight points for the higher rate.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“DWP claimed there had been a “staggering 319 per cent increase” in working-age people on the health and disability element of universal credit/ receiving ESA. The increase is likely to be about 30 to 35 per cent, if comparing 2019-20 with 2023-24.”THEY’RE LYING to do ideologically driven austerity.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 14/03/2025

Keep in mind when you talk about marriage equality that until disabled people can get married without losing access to benefits, marriage equality doesn't exist.

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/n...), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

Text from a DWP press release: In the current dysfunctional system, a person is placed in binary categories of either “fit for work” or “not fit for work” through the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) – an assessment the government has said it will either reform or replace, so it no longer drives people who want to work to a life on benefits.

Through this process, those not fit for work are told they have Limited Capability for Work Related Activity (LCWRA) – meaning they won’t receive employment support or further engagement from the system at any point following their assessment – effectively abandoning and locking them out of work indefinitely.

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ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

When you mention this stuff as a disabled person, often able people wade in with Well Intentioned Suggestions. Please don't

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

i honestly have nothing to say about the planned cuts to uc and pip as someone on both and LCWRA because actually i can’t be fucking arsed. two years of fighting for PIP as a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities but it’s “too easy to get pip”? fuck off

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

the media is irresponsibly portraying a hormonal management option for endometriosis as a groundbreaking new treatment. people with endometriosis deserve better than re-purposed medications which only manage symptoms sold as brand new miracle drugs. especially when talking about early-menopause.

Screenshots of headlines: “first of a kind daily pill for endometriosis treatment approved for nhs in England”, “first of a kind endometriosis tablet approved for use on nhs”, “endometriosis pill: everyrhing you need to know about the groundbreaking NHS treatment”.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 28/02/2025

This is why chronically ill folk need chronically ill friends Me: I’ve tested positive for X @fiadhaich.bsky.social: That’s great news hun

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

tell me why toxic town on netflix is the first am hearing of how corby’s corrupt new labour council poisoned people, specifically pregnant women, through toxic waste by cutting corners and costs reclaiming the steelworks plant. definitely something everyone should watch.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/02/2025

““What’s going on in these places are inhumane. The civil war in Sudan, the oppression and the war and the tyranny that’s going on in Gaza, is inhumane. And these people are connected with us all as humans, and especially with me in faith.””

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/02/2025

We have enough validity right now, but what cis folks CAN actually do: - Contribute to GFMs for trans care and travel (we are a very impoverished demographic!) - Help a trans person get a job - Help a trans person move - Vocally oppose anti-trans legislation (yell at reps, not random bigots online!

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I would like a word with whoever taught cis people that if they see a trans person who is upset about the rise of transphobia, they have to tell them they’re “valid” I’ve been out as trans for 13 years. I know I’m a man, I don’t need your personal validation, maybe protest against fascism instead?

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

the deeply inhumane levels of violently criminalising and deporting people and then filming them to broadcast how you’re destroying their lives, all in the game of who can cheer on fascism the most. this is who labour always has been, a party of imperialism, colonialism and racism.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

was trying to find out who i got my widows peak from (my mum) but when i typed ‘dad’ into my photos, only my partners dad came up - which is possibly the most adorable thing. just estranged things!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I don't think Trump's "resettlement" talk will go anywhere for now, but it is a clear signal to the Israeli government that it could ethnically cleanse Palestinians out of Gaza + the West Bank. The US would be ok with it. Of course, this depends on the timing, pushback etc.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

we really have to start questioning ethical stances that are used to defend fundamentally anti-solidarity performative actions. US trans people need our support, not a boycott of what will often be their only financial income while under significant and severe threat from a fascist trump government.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

took the plunge and shaved my hair off, the euphoria is realllll

Jae, a white trans masc butch with dark brown hair shaved to a 4, with light gold aviator style glasses and a white jumper on, smiling at the camera

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Linka 🌈👩🏻‍🦼 @emilylinka.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Today is my birthday and I’m finally launching my crowdfunder for a wheelchair. I’ve spent 5 years housebound and it’s time for that to change. Anything you can give is appreciated, even if that’s just sharing this tweet with your followers ♿️ #NEISvoid #MutualAid #DisabledSky gofund.me/f7901daa

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

people’s political understandings of fascism has to move past liberal electoral politics. the democrats enable fascism through their own policies, their own rhetoric, just as uk labour do. you will not be saved from fascism by putting a vote in a box every few years then screaming about it.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

super overwhelmed with the idea of posting atm. feel like when things are just really bad politically it triggers my freeze response and i just don’t want what to say or even how to take in information.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 23/01/2025

The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

nothing like being an acts of service butch to get me out of the house at 8am on less than 4 hours sleep to put the car in for a service ahead of charley’s driving test 😌

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

watching the california fires, i feel deep grief; for the people, for those risking their lives to fight fires made by colonial capitalism - including incarcerated people - for indigenous people watching their stolen land be destroyed, and for the land itself. we aren’t supposed to live like this.

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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

@stillicides.bsky.social i finally get dragon age inquisition: i wasn’t playing it right last time and lost interest bc i just kept going to do things above my level 💀 but after playing veilguard i actually get it and omg am loving it! it’s weird playing it talking to solas ngl

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Aria (Is Drafting) 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @anariablooms.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"sapphic" as a marketing label is ultimately is used to center books about "sapphic people" rather than books that necessarily depict "sapphic" experiences, marginalizing lesbians while also pandering to us on a surface level. It's a beautiful word that encapsulates a vast array of

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