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RFID implantee, maker & tinkerer, Doctor Who fan, swears a little, disabled, CRPS, chronic pain, wheelchair user. Geordie. Life is lockdown - primarily bedbound. Free Palestine. Stop the genocide everywhere! (Geordie) mastodon.online/@FourQ

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 20h
Oops! #BookSky
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone saying people fake disability to rake in benefits instead of working hasn't filled in the Universal Credit Work Capability form. Not a single question about work, but 2 pages detailing how often you shit yourself. Purposefully dehumanising for an extra 217 quid a month
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some of the smoke detector capabilities these days are very impressive indeed. The detector itself is tiny. Bonus points added as this one came with very comprehensive instructions as well as the quick start guide and a magnetic base plate. ⬇️
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Smoke alarm HEIMAN H. - Clear
Smoke level - 0.0
Temperature - 21.7 °C


Configuration
Buzzer manual mute - Off
Firmware - Up-to-date
Heartbeat indicator - On
Remote test - [Press]
Smoke detector landing


Diagnostic
Battery - 100%
Chamber contamination - Normal
Identify - [Press]
Interconnectable - Off
Muted - Off
Problem - OK
Self-test - Off
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We've had the ''If he does when you're asleep, do you want waking up?' chat. We both want waking no matter what time of day. Holding in that news for hours, waiting for the other to wake up would be torturous. We don't care what time of day it is, we will have a drink, even a sip, to celebrate. ⬇️
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a special form of frustration when you pick up a phone, unlock it and you forget why you've unlocked it. It's not as though you've entered a PIN, password or pattern - it's a fingerprint. How buggered is a brain when that's enough to distract you?
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment, which it said would only increase pressure on other services. #PIP #DWP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cutting-pip-...
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Cutting PIP would only increase pressure on other services, MPs warn minister
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment (PIP), which it said would only increase pre…
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Working our way through #Ghosts again. It's one of our top favourites. If you've not already seen it, it's definitely worth watching. After watching Ghosts, Ghosts US and Ghosts Australia I can confirm their ranking as 1. Ghosts 2. Ghosts Australia 3. Ghosts US www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Ghosts
A cash-strapped young couple inherit a rickety country mansion, only to find it teeming with needy ghosts. Grown-up comedy from the Horrible Histories team.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've been a wheelchair user for twenty-three years next month. My son jumped off the couch when he was six and landed on my back severing my L2 vertebrae. I've never told anyone he did it and said I fell so he wouldn't have the guilt. I he's forgotten or blocked it out.
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You have to question the actions of any ice-cream van that plays its jingle around a residential area at 05.45!
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Ken Seigle @kenseigle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Having lived with a disability all my life, I have to admit I'm biased. I happen to agree with this statement. 150%
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A reminder, could people please use alt text when posting images. Especially important if any text in the image is tiny.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive victory” for their campaign. #LevelBoarding www.disabilitynewsservice.com/decision-to-...
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Decision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive v…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Disabled activists have spoken of their relief after MPs voted to reject a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England + Wales but they say the focus must now shift to improving social and palliative care. #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide www.disabilitynewsservice.com/relief-and-t...
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Relief and tears after MPs reject assisted dying bill, as attention turns to palliative and social care
Disabled activists have spoken of their relief after MPs voted to reject a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England and Wales, but they say the focus must now shift to improving s…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New government research has exposed misleading calls by leading Conservative and Reform UK figures who have repeatedly claimed that assessments carried out remotely are more likely to lead to a successful claim for disability benefits. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r...
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Government research exposes misleading Tory and Reform calls for more face-to-face PIP assessments
New government research has exposed misleading calls by leading Conservative and Reform UK figures who have repeatedly claimed that assessments carried out remotely are more likely to lead to a suc…
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Abyssal Doomrock @deathbymeteor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Double Anniversary It's 8 years ago today (17/9/2018) that I got my CRPS diagnosis. At the time it just felt like 'a name has been given to it, now how do we fix it?' It's not until you face the bureaucracy that it really gets its power. #CRPS #disability #ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness 🧵⬇️
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the funniest things I've heard recently is a guy repeatedly calling for a dog that won't respond. The dog's name is Sonar.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Upselling is shit, the world was a better place when cinema seats were all the same and we all queued at theme parks.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Irish are good people.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A major new festival next year that will bring together the worlds of disability arts and para-sport could help fight back against right-wing media organisations that are constantly trying to “castigate” disabled people. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-a...
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Disability arts and sports festival will be a double ‘spectacle’ and could aid fightback on media hostility
A major new festival next year that will bring together the worlds of disability arts and para-sport could help fight back against right-wing media organisations that are constantly trying to “cast…
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today is World Sepsis Day, in 20O7 I almost died of sepsis after a shaving cut got infected. Sepsis kills more people a year than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. One of the best ways to fight it is to learn the warning signs
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Took the wrong meds at the wrong time. 100mg of amitriptyline at 21.30 and the big painkillers at midnight. Not tonight, amitriptyline wasn't taken until midnight so fuck knows what time I'll get to sleep tonight. Hopefully being out today will help, but a suspect burger in a pub has me worried.
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm not a fan but it's really good news Celene Dion is returning to singing. She sang in Paris last night with 25 more to come.
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the Tories were still at the helm I'd suspect any move away from the current form of payment would be replaced with vouchers for a list of companies. Those companies would be partly or fully owned by one of their chums. www.mirror.co.uk/money/new-pi... #PIP #Disability
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New PIP warning over DWP changes for some groups
Disability Rights UK has raised major concerns over the Timms Review's draft recommendations for PIP eligibility changes
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So much this. If you can please do consider donating to the RNLI. Remember they're volunteers with regular jobs who drop everything to save everyone. Thanks.
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Holly 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am still (11 years later) unable to grasp how the images of little Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on a beach wasn’t the final word on treating refugees with compassion and dignity. How we are we having attacks on the RNLI for saving HUMAN lives being encouraged by our media. I weep for our world.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nobody says "you have asthma, you must be lazy." Nobody says "you have tinnitus, you're clearly a horrible person who won't listen." But an autistic nervous system reacts to stimuli and suddenly it's a character flaw. Stop moralising our nervous systems!
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sorry? Not sorry. If you're upset and trying to prevent history from being taught to hide the truth, then fuck your feelings. You learned nothing and are the exact same assholes as your ancestors.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Ours ticked so many of these boxes. Happy days.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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FourQ ♿ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ @fourq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Definitely something @c29.bsky.social should see.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PIP fails to provide support disabled people need, and assessments cause harm and distress, survey shows #PIP #TimmsReview @disrightsuk.bsky.social @toynbeehall.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-fails-to...
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PIP fails to provide support disabled people need, and assessments cause harm and distress, survey shows
Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new surve…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick ignores PIP fraud evidence and claims it is ‘common sense’ that claimants are ‘gaming the system’ #PIP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reforms-jenr...
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Reform’s Jenrick ignores PIP fraud evidence and claims it is ‘common sense’ that claimants are ‘gaming the system’
The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gamin…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform UK’s equalities policy swamped in confusion after Braverman’s apparent U-turn @suellabraverman.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-e...
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Reform UK’s equalities policy swamped in confusion after Braverman’s apparent U-turn
Reform UK’s equalities policy is mired in confusion this week after the party’s equalities spokesperson – former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman – appeared to perform a major U-turn in comment…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: after the Tate brothers’ lawyer had to expose their wealth as fake to prove they’re not a flight risk, a judge has DENIED their release pending extradition anyhow. So now we know their fake rich and they have to stay in jail anyhow HAAAAHAHA www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Tate brothers lose bid for release from US jail pending extradition
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate lost their bid for release from a Miami jail on Wednesday as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fashion designers - no one ever complained that their pockets were too big. Whatever size you're thinking - double it.
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C29 @c29.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hate it when I order eggs from Sainsbury's and they arrive looking like this. I have a very, very strong aversion to white eggshells and I'm not sure why.
Dish of eggs in white shells with the lion safety stamp & use by date stamped on in pink ink
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 09/09/2026
NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud
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NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud
Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Personal information of national disability insurance scheme participants may have ended up in controversial software company Palantir’s analytics platform as part of a massive multi-agency sharing program investigating fraud, Guardian Australia can reveal. There have been calls to ban the use of Palantir’s software by the Australian government since May, after it implied some cultures are inferior to others in a manifesto described by one UK MP as the “ramblings of a supervillain”. Continue reading...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I remember a time when we'd get notice of a software update. Usually distributed on a diskette. Excitment! What new cool stuff will we get. Nowadays I dread updates. What new nonsense will they force on us? What settings walked on? What nefarious new surveillance will be embedded?
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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i’ve only just realised as we close in on the evening that today is #NationalBuyABookDay i humbly suggest this book as being available to buy in preparation for spooky season if you haven’t yet decided on which book to buy 😁 linktr.ee/lauracelliott
Two books propped up next to each other on a bookshelf with a felt raven toy balanced between them. The books are Awaked by Laura Elliott and they feature a raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back on the cover
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apparently it's National Buy A Book Day so I'd be remiss not to suggest you check out my book on the history of UK disability activism, if you like that sort of thing hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yeah yeah an ad - you try running a project that takes about two hours of moderation a DAY for fuck all money. Good hoodies though - genuinely are - we got sent two and one of our kids hasn't taken his off yet.
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leicestermercury.co.uk @leicestermercury.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Attendance Allowance is a benefit paid to people over State Pension age who need help or supervision with personal care due to illness or disability — but the DWP has outlined eight reasons why your claim could be rejected
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Eight reasons the DWP says you may not qualify for Attendance Allowance
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🔞 Wysty, CEO of vampire yuri | Comms Open @wysticlipse.art · 07/09/2026
Friendly reminder that any "weird" or "lazy" product you see is probably an accessibility device being mass-marketed to abled people to reach production quotas. Yeah snuggies were marketed like people were in a cult. They were made for wheelchair users.
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