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

i had a several-years long autistic burnout that robbed me of a lot of skills - but especially my ability to read. that has slowly been coming back and i’m really enjoying reading again. i just want a specific space to share my thoughts and reflections without pressure (or spoilers!).

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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

any workplace which implements trans-exclusionary bathroom rules is *choosing* to do so. unionise and/or organise to fight back against this as the form of discrimination and othering it inherently is.

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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

absolutely. and usually this research now has insipid (sometimes overt) aims of propping up the Nordic model or, at the very least, attempting to undermine the fight for decrim.

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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

right? double happiness when we’ve had a good ball throwing and he lies down with his tongue lolling out all happy. how can i stay depressed then!

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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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jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

not unlike wes streeting’s disgusting recent insta photo with him next to the words “what they do not want to hear” and captioned “sometimes it’s a necessary part of the job”. evil party

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

fuck these fucking bastards is so so right. thankyou lovely, i hope it eases for you too soon

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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

what disabled people need is positive reform of PIP to make it a simpler, fairer and non-discriminatory process, not cuts. we will settle for no less. we need people repeatedly writing to their MP, speaking out, attending protests organised by @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social. we must fight this.

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

applying for PIP is already a discriminatory, hostile process, and it’s extremely difficult to be awarded as it is now. the government knows this. pip isn’t a fun extra: disabled people NEED it to survive. they are cutting costs with our lives.

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1m people to have disability benefits cut by Labour

Rachel Reeves vows to ‘get a grip’ on the burgeoning welfare bill but cabinet ministers express disquiet over £5 billion savings

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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.

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

bro confused physiological and psychological and somehow thinks he’s the smartest asshat since einstein

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

why don’t you Google the people who have killed themselves after being denied pip or having it removed from them? or the tens of thousands who die waiting for benefits? even more who die waiting for support. and you think YOU are the victim? get a grip.

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

do you have any idea what it’s like to go through? the gaslighting, the lying, the trick questions, from private orgs on behalf of the dwp - all of a vulnerable population without enough support in the first place. 70% of denied claims are overturned at appeal. how’s that for nuance?

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

you want nuance around pip? far more people are eligible than actually receive it. fact is the vast majority have to fight tooth and nail for it, for years, only to go through it all again in a few more. many die trying. for a maximum £750 a month which doesn’t even cover the costs of being disabled

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

“what about” no. whatever you have to say, no. funnily enough your advice won’t be my sudden breakthrough lightbulb moment where i am no longer disabled and/or facing ableism jfc

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

yep its insane! the system needs a total overhaul, not more cuts

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

i think this is one of the most annoying things that can happen at pretty much anytime a disabled person talks about ableism or systemic issues or even just, their feelings. it drives me up the wall. your inability to hear what i have to say without guilt or needing to rescue is not my issue!

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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

can’t forget the amazing £416.19 we get a month for lcwra ofcourse! definitely should cut that shouldn’t they, what does it matter that i can’t even cover my bills with it?! absolute joke of a country. what is there to say to a government who don’t give a single fuck about your basic human rights?

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

been waiting for the council to get in touch about organising a personal carer for me for 3 and a half years. 3 and a half fucking years. it took them a year and a half to get an occupational therapist in. but yeah, we’re all just sitting pretty on our measly (max) £750 a month. having. a. laugh.

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

i don’t see enough non-disabled people angry tbh. most disabled folk are honestly fucking exhausted from desperately trying to get even just half of our needs met, living either in poverty or constantly right on the cusp at the dwp’s mercy. this is just yet another attack on a very vulnerable group.

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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

people with endometriosis are struggling with substandard and poor levels of care, long waits for diagnosis with little to no research and no consistently effective treatment options. while it may be helpful, it is no miracle. this reporting is ill-informed, reckless and preys on our desperation.

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