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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It’s not directly impacting you, right? We see you. We know who’s on our side and who isn’t. This isn’t a disability issue. This is a humanity issue. Email your MP. Join the protests both online and offline and most importantly check on your disabled friends because we are not OK.

A pale blue ombré background. In big cream italic font, text reads “trust me” followed by slightly smaller font saying “your disabled friends have noticed you’ve not posted about opposing the disability benefit cuts” at the bottom is an oblong which has the author’s username in which is @ HollieAnneB.

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John Barry @zammotheowl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Nearly 5836 jobs listed on the government website. If you add a filter of Disability Confident that drops to 1364, then add fully remote and you're down to 13. Employers don't want to employ or make provision for disabled people. #DisabilityBenefits

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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#WelfareNotWarfare 📢DPAC Day Of Action 📢 📢Wednesday 26 March 2025 📢Welfare Not Warfare 📢 End Labour War On Disabled People Join DPAC. Join the Action ✊🏼

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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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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A reminder - they are going after #DisabilityBenefits cos they are terrified of their donors and the right-wing press, not because you have done anything wrong.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sending so much love to my fellow disabled people today, we’re absolutely terrified. Please switch off the news if you need to, block certain words/phrases on social media and reach out to friends, family or @samaritans.bsky.social if you need to talk. #DisabilityBenefits

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Journalist use alt text on your text screenshots challenge

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#IWD feels harder than ever. We are dying at the hands of men every day. Rape is used as an act of war. Disabled women are 3 times more likely to face domestic violence. Men with huge platforms are freely talking about choking us. We are so far from accepted.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Appallingly tough day but turned around by books* and the love of a Good Man** and wine***. * Finished Rebecca. Instant love. Instant top 3 ever. Started Practice by Rosalind Brown and adoring it. ** Adam. *** Chicken wine.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ve got a £25 Amazon voucher. The obvious is books but I’m currently losing my mind because I’ve realised I can buy… Olive oil! Absolutely buzzing.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What would you spend a £25 Amazon voucher on?

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New article arriving at 330pm about why we need to engrave our imagination more as adults. Shares appreciated 💋 (We’re going to ignore the 11 month hiatus, ok? I have ADHD. Good things take time 😉 ) #WritersOfBluesky #ChronicIllness #MECFS open.substack.com/pub/slowlivi...

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Slow Living With ME | Hollie-Anne | Substack

Everything I've learned and continue to learn about life with ME/CFS. Click to read Slow Living With ME, by Hollie-Anne, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

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Ryan Wichelns @ryan.trailsmag.net · 22/01/2025

I'm not sure yet if this site has the same community of #freelance writers eager to hear a #callforpitches as the other side, but let's see if we can't find out. @trailsmag.net is looking for pitches for Issues 10 and 11!

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

For the gazillionth time, if you really want to get the disabled people who could be working into jobs you are going to have to: Fix social care Reform Access To Work Beef up anti-discrimination laws Make transport accessible But you don't want to do that, do you?

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’m so used to the insomnia / sleep disturbances with #MECFS that I’ve got a recipe for making the most of it. - Get cosy in bed - Listen to white noise city sounds - Daydream of alternative cool girl Hollie who lives without illness in New York Genuinely comforts me during the long nights 🤍

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Mel 🔜 GATEway FATE 504 @melshardae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

related but opposite fun fact: if you click on any google ad for an etsy item and buy anything from that store in the next 30 days, it costs the creator 12-15% on top of standard fees. so if you see something cool..... don't click, type it in

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Bed-bound girl has hobbies. A study.

On a pale pink duvet cover with navy stars lies several of Hollie’s hobbies. On the left is her silver MacBook covered in stickers, a copy of the novel Rebecca and a journal featuring a charming illustration of a country mouse on the cover. To the right is an open large square tin which houses various packets of stickers, washi tapes, printed out book review sheets and a pair of blue scissors.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Appalling fibromyalgia flare up. It’s been a while since it was this bad. My body is screaming, reacting to the pain that is air daring to keep it alive. Stupid bastard.

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

12 days left, short story writers! Get your skates on, and submit! bsky.app/profile/bris...

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Very strong few days working on the novel. Actually liking what I’m writing, too. Weird. Writers- when/how do you work best? For me it’s afternoons, romantic jazz music, candles on, maybe a glass of Pinot noir or a cava. Sounds twee and cringe but I am twee and cringe.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is terrifying. Disabled people are statistically more likely to face physical, mental and emotional abuse. The fact these people had the extra vulnerability of being asylum seekers & the outcome could’ve been so much worse had he not been found out. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Head of security at Essex centre for disabled asylum seekers removed over alleged far-right views

YouTube channel apparently belonging to official at Clacton accommodation suggests support for EDL and Tommy Robinson

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

2025 ins: - Prioritising serenity: evening hobby time, weekend walks by the sea, cat cuddles - Journalling with no rules - Water as our first morning drink - Daily outdoor time: I struggle with this as someone with ME who can be bedbound but even opening the window counts in this instance

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Dom Joly @realdomjoly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Second day of my period induced funk. Good start for a poem, or my reality? Good start for a poem, or my reality? (It’s my reality. I feel crap)

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Imagine supporting the best team in the world 🥹 Exhilarating, silly times. ❤️🤍

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Normalize New Year's Eve parties that involve you and your guests sitting around a crackling fire in a seaside cottage and sharing passages from your favorite books whilst indulging in multiple cups of tea and various pastries.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Family have gone home which, honestly, we’re all varying degrees of happy about. Silence is gorgeous. Cupboards full of treats. Freshly baked bread with butter for lunch. Plans to watch When Harry Met Sally with a bottle of champagne and to be in bed by 10pm.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Logged onto a well known beauty/pharmacy site today. First thing is a huge display of slimming products. It’s Dec 27th, we should be having the sales rammed down our throats. Instead we’re told to be done with the fun and suffer, swallow the pill and the chemical shake and JUST. BE. BETTER.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Boyfriend has a bad cold. Parents with loud voices are being loud. Brother is asleep on a makeshift bed in the living room. I have new slippers. It’s officially Christmas!

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The in-laws got me Henderson’s Relish for Christmas and I’m chuffed. Strong and northern Christmas wishes to you all!

Hollie is a white woman with dark brown hair with a grey steak. She has black rimmed glasses, red lipstick and a denim shirt with reindeer embroidered on. She’s holding a glass bottle of Henderson’s relish which is a dark liquid and has an oranges label.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Writing has been going brilliantly, which surprises me. I’ve been listening to this folklore and evermore instrumental playlist which has a fire cracking effect on it. Perfect for grey December days writing about grief by twinkly tree lights. youtu.be/Iv-geTWVofE?...

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Taylor Swift - Folklore & Evermore Complete Songs [Relaxing Music in Cozy Campfire Ambience]

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It’s party food and a snowball for dinner season! Tonight we have: A snowball. 2 parts avocaat, 3 parts lemonade, big squeeze of lime Leftover vegetarian Christmas tart (pastry, cranberry sauce, Brussels sprouts, vegan bacon, Brie, Stilton) Mozzarella sticks Tempura prawns Roast potato mayo

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

TW I was raped twice. It didn’t make it to court. It ruined me. I will never get over the pain. Thank you, Gisèle. Thank you. To every single man: don’t be part of the problem. Men just like you rape women again and again. Be the change. #GiselePelicot

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Don’t forget to order your prescriptions in time before Christmas!!!! Imagine brain zapping your way through the festivities

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’ve made, packed and posted 10 orders today that came through Etsy. I bought 16 vintage baubles for £1 at a car boot sale. I paid 95p for a plastic pot to piss in. This was my day. How was yours?

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Saw something I’d like to apply for today. I ticked every box. Got to the last requirement- “politically neutral”. Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no no no.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hello, btw. I’m Hollie-Anne. I’m an award-winning freelance journalist and broadcaster, a disability rights campaigner and a lover of daily joy. Published in the Guardian, i Paper, The Times and more. Writing a magical realism novel while also running a small jewellery business. I’ve got a cat.

Hollie-Anne is a white woman with dark hair in two braids. She has black rim glasses, chubby cute cheeks and slightly glossy lips. She wears a burnt orange long sleeve polo neck top under a black camisole slip dress.

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Hollie-Anne Brooks @hollieanneb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Tonight is the final show of the Eras Tour and I’m emotional. Taylor Swift has genuinely changed lives with this tour as people got engaged at shows (not me), wore outfits of their dreams (me) and started businesses as a result (also me) I had the time of my life 💕

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