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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

e.g. here there's a focus on the Leadbeater bill from last year, but most of the same points apply to the latest attempt www.newintermag.com/assisted-sui...

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Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder?

The UK cuts welfare and offers death.

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's never too late to learn why this and probably the next few attempts—but NOT the concept of a safely implemented form of assisted su*c*de one day, which most DPOs actually support—should be opposed by all materialists, both disabled and non-disabled

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

huge victory against this euth*nasia Bill which all 350 Disabled People's Organisations in UK asked for input were strongly against! it'll be back again again soon enough (this is the NINTH attempt at legalisation in the last decade!) but big win for today regardless www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

bbc.co.uk

MPs vote against fresh move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales - follow live

The bill would have allowed adults with fewer than six months to live to apply to be given help to end their own life, subject to certain safeguards.

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

that app to this one where there's at least a strong anti-eugenicist communist position, rather than here where the most spicy posts I seem to see are incredibly left lib posts on Mamdani lol

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

snowballed into the usual discourse of "disabled communists are feds"—but I would say the responses are getting increasingly virulent lately, like a lot of overtly eugenic "useless eaters" language is starting to come from ☭ accounts in known orgs now. and most perversely I someone still much prefer

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

anyone who's not on The Other App, there's currently yet another round of "left" eugenicist discourse, this time stemming from a predictably disingenuous post from *The Manhattan Institute* which misquotes a straightforwardly anti-eugenics 101 position from the Health Communism author. and ofc it's

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

some more quotes from here, this time on the subjectivising process of dis/ableism which helps to construct and maintain the othered status of the surplus class

"The UK has been on this trajectory since Thatcher’s neoliberal reforms of 1979 and the logic of privatisation and austerity intersects with and intensifies the logic of social murder. Descriptions of it as “slow” or “structural” or “bureaucratic” violence belie how widespread and relentless and effective this form of mass extermination of surplus populations truly is. We suggest what these phrases capture most of all is how tolerated this form of violence is; the social murder of the surplus class is demonstrably not objectionable enough to have been opposed by the proletariat, perhaps because its victims are so Othered: abject non-Subjects composed by various minoritised identities (read: non-white, non-male, non-cishetero, disabled, non-citizens, etc.), not the proper working class."

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

example 3: the repeated attempts (probably successful this time [11th Sept]) to legalise "assisted dy*ng" (read: euth*nasia in 99.9% of cases) for a vast range of conditions that would be much better treated through improved welfare, health care, palliative care, social care, etc

"Part of this economic saving for the state comes from assisted suicide and/or euthanasia being used to replace adequate care – be it healthcare, mental health resources, social care, or palliative care. A 2024 Marie Cure report found that over 100,000 people each year die without receiving good palliative care and 215,000 people die without any palliative care. People in pain are more likely to seek suicide; indeed, even supporters of Leadbeater’s Bill cite “very harrowing” and “horrific” deaths, patients in “unbearable” and “inhumane” states of suffering, pain, and agony. Yet the Bill simply plans to replace effective palliative care with medical suicide; indeed, part of the economic savings would be made by the UK government removing funding to hospices that refuse to participate in MAiD (e.g. $350m is recouped in Canada every year doing exactly this)."

"...suicide is a well-known outcome of austerity policies in general and specifically of UK welfare policy change in recent years. A 2017 report by the NHS showed 43% of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants had already attempted suicide at some point in their lives and 66% had had suicidal thoughts (a fact known by the DWP but blocked in their report publication). Countless people have attested to the depressing and dehumanising process of trying to secure and maintain welfare through the DWP – with its mountains of paperwork, judgement from unsympathetic staff, constant threats of sanctions, high rate of rejections, and protracted appeals process. “The cruelty is the point” as they say; or perhaps as China Mills frames it in more material terms, “dead people don’t claim”."

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

example 2: further dismantling of already-insufficient welfare policies by the State with particular focus on the surplus class of disabled people and/or people who are not in / cannot work

"Disability causes poverty just as poverty causes disability: 69% of people using food banks in the UK are disabled; 54% of people in severe hardship live in a family that includes a disabled person; more than half of people receiving UC are living in poverty and 43% of households receiving UC are food insecure. While the DWP rejects half of all PIP applications and admits Access to Work support is failing, it is simultaneously pushing through legislation such as the Universal Credit Act 2025 which will push more disabled people into work. Crucially, the DWP attack on disability benefits is not just confined to working benefits, but targets the un/der-employed surplus class; for example, the health element of Universal Credit is being cut by 48% for claimants designated by the DWP as having “limited capacity for work”."

"These plans come only months after the UN’s committee on the rights of disabled people concluded that the UK government had made “no significant progress” in the more than seven years since it was found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As bloodthirsty as these machinations are, they are merely an expansion of existing neoliberal welfare policy which is, by design, insufficient and cruel."

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

example 1: the ongoing p*ndemic and the overlap between sickness and disablement caused by State abandonment of public health and its planned shift to policies of euth*nasia instead

"The misconception of the pandemic having ended is so widespread in fact that it bears stating the obvious here: pandemics do not just end overnight. We have been in a global cholera pandemic since 1961, a HIV/AIDS pandemic since 1981, and arguably still remain in a pandemic of the 1918 (“Spanish”) flu.31

The primary purpose of ending the PHEIC was to permit state abandonment of public health response; furlough pay, vaccination programmes, testing programmes, sick leave, remote work, and accompanying reductions in consumption, travel, and spending were all an unacceptable cost to the capitalist economy, with UK government spending alone on pandemic measures alleged to have cost up to £410bn. The premature termination of the PHEIC is perhaps unsurprising when considering the WHO is a specialised agency of the United Nations and as such exists first and foremost as a tool of capitalist and imperialist exploitation as much as any other institution."

"Latest estimates suggest 5-10% of SARS-CoV-2 infections cause Long Covid, a catch-all for a wide range of chronic conditions which can affect almost every organ in the body – but perhaps is most destructive when causing myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a complex and multisystemic chronic condition which can leave people entirely bedbound, yet is critically underdiagnosed, undertreated, and underfunded. Chloé, an epistemologist with severe ME, describes it as a “controversialised illness“, something “not so much ‘medically unexplained’ as it is rendered medically unintelligible”51; in other words it would threaten capital if medicine were to truly recognise the illness and its cause rather than simply decrying those affected by it as “lazy”, “malingerers”, etc. Long Covid intersects especially with our focuses on pandemic denial, healthcare cuts, medical violence, and attempted legalisation of assisted suicide because many ME patients are forced into “choosing” assisted suicide."

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DyslexicJake @dyslexiccrit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"that vulnerability is itself socially produced and thus capitalist policies which kill vulnerabilised people function just as if they were expressly created to target them, regardless of the stated intention." Prometheus putting out banger after banger!

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

a reminder that social m*rder is not committed with equal intensity across all societal strata but rather preferentially applied by the State to the groups it deems undesirable—something often imbricated with 'vulnerability' (read: vulnerabilisation)

"It is important to clarify that the function of social murder is not to wage unlimited war on the proletariat – the bourgeoisie obviously requires the social reproduction of the class it exploits in order to continue its exploitation. Nor is social murder visited equally or indiscriminately across the proletariat; rather, specific sub-populations are preferentially targeted – for discipline, impoverishment, segregation, or extermination. In this way a surplus class is constituted as both “socially dead”3 and “marked out for wearing out”4. We find useful the naming of this process by Chris Grover as “violent proletarianisation“5; i.e. the use (and threat) of structural violence is to force people into commodifying their labour power. He argues in fact this process is the primary force which simultaneously constitutes not just the surplus class but the working class as well; in other words, defining who is able to sell their labour vs who is not."

"Disabled people are a central part of the surplus class, being failed subjects of violent proletarianisation and subsequently victims of social murder. In Health Communism, Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant argue that the “production of death under capitalism” is the “ultimate conclusion of capital’s violence” and identify the surplus class as being particularly vulnerable to social murder.6 We reframe the intention here more explicitly: rather than the surplus class being happenstantially overrepresented victims of social murder due to their vulnerability, that vulnerability is itself socially produced and thus capitalist policies which kill vulnerabilised people function just as if they were expressly created to target them, regardless of the stated intention.

We view social murder as a highly dynamic process, deploying a range of strategies with varying intensities against shifting definitions of non-desirable groups at different times."

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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Adam C. Jones looks at how neoliberalism has restructured the political subjects required for classical fascism, producing a "Simulacral Fascism" of signs and sensibilities detached from historical forms. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/01/t...

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

here myself and @dashflint.bsky.social try to highlight the very real enactment of social m*rder + e*genics happening right now with 3 concrete e.g. in the UK: welfare cuts, c*vid, and (just in time for the very next attempt being voted on next Fri) the assisted su*cide / e*thanasia bill

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Troy Deeney taking over the reigns perfectly from Garth @markposts.bsky.social!

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

here's an example of the current method (left) vs a method with ~30cm buffer applied to the ~centre of mass (right); the buffered line has much less jitter / is more predictable and seems to even be what Khalilzadeh is trying to align himself with

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

(buffer from the defender's centre of mass or head or something instead of their most backwards extremity obvs)

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

people say a buffer of e.g. 30cm would just meant we're doing microscopy on a different arbitrary line but it would mean the offside line wouldn't oscillate rapidly with defender's leg movement and would be more predictable for the attacker to stay onside of = more goals

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

this shows the worst of VAR offsides w/o any kind of tolerance: the back leg of the defender can move much more quickly than the body mass of the attacker. here attacker is trying to stay level but in literally 0.1s the offside line moves up by >0.5m and he's caught out

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

FIFA continue to sportswash the gen*cide of Palestine

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

fyi if you door a cyclist they may be forced to course correct into your soft body rather than the hard door that might kill them

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

nice one! it's ridiculous having no DMs here! I'll die before giving my ID to that shady KWS service, no idea if others that have can send me a DM though and I just don't see it? didn't know about the dead handle stealing on twitter jesus!

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

hey! I'm not able to DM on here but have you still got your twitter account to check the last DM I sent you on there? :)

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

this is what capitalism's necropolitical "market" favours: we ofc could keep more patients alive and give (predominantly women) workers a better quality of life if nurses and carers were paid more money—and that's precisely why they aren't

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

(stolen from twitter in an attempt to make bluesky more materialist / less liberal)

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

disease is a tool of oppression, and i need everyone who supports palestinian rights but long abandoned caring about covid to consider how they intersect. caring for your community at home also cares for communities abroad. educate yourselves on airborne pathogen prevention.

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

(stolen from twitter in an attempt to make bluesky more materialist / less liberal)

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

passports are imperial documents designed to regulate the flow of people from postcolonies to metroples. they are not neautral travel documents. & it's not like colonizers applied for visas when they went & colonized vast swathes of the globe.

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

maternal deaths related to childbirth are up by 20%. but while acknowledging the leading cause of maternal death is blood clots, there is zero mention that the leading cause of blood clots in 2025 is SARS-2 infection

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“since the start of the cease-fire”

The New York Times headline: "Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza, Building by Building More than 2,500 structures have been destroyed since the start of the cease-fire, an analysis by The New York Times has found."

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

we have to eliminate all notions of the 'good intentions' of western powers, first and foremost the United States. adding this caveat only allows for obfuscation to take place, as though any project of 'democracy' or 'freedom' wasn't always already one of genocide, new forms of servitude, conquest

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

of course, one and the same—they're just getting more comfortable being explicit about their fascism again now

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

reminder Labour did not oppose the OSA in any meaningful way and in fact some claimed the Bill did not go far enough

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 12/01/2026

👉NEW -- David Lammy ‘waiting for us to die’, Palestine hunger striker claims by Phil Miller and Alex Morris Justice secretary accused of ‘insulting’ families of Palestine Action prisoners. www.declassifieduk.org/david-lammy-...

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David Lammy ‘waiting for us to die’, Palestine hunger striker claims

Justice secretary accused of ‘insulting’ families of Palestine Action prisoners

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

depressingly 50% of the population being fascists, 40% liberals, and <10% communists / socialists sounds about right (realistically like 2% communists)

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 09/01/2026

Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

out of desperation I'm trying to double post between here and the dying app again but there's still a painful lack of materialism on the TL, prove me wrong that it's not still like reddit over here

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"Don't spend our money in apartheid Israel" Today, #Celtic fans protested outside their stadium against the possible signing of Jocelin Ta Bi from Maccabi Netanya, whose owners are investing in a military drone company for the IDF. 👇

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

SARS was known to be airborne since 2003 + most ppl who still wear a respirator had to figure it out themselves in 2020/21. ask yourself why the WHO + national authorities like the NHS chose not to protect workers + purposefully spread a disease which kills and disables patients

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

denying an ongoing p*ndemic and rejecting accessibility might seem based or cool or whatever but they are actions incompatible with having an actual liberatory movement, it presents an irreconcilable contradiction

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

lots of dunking on YP today but one thing almost no one will say: that conference is not accessible to immunocompromised people or anyone that can't afford to get sick for the next 1-4 weeks or risk becoming permanently disabled. no masks no tests no filtration no answers no care

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

first time it's happened since 2021-03-04 (only lasted 10 days), time before that 2016-03-01

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

days since last Liverpool home defeat (all comps, back to 2009, most recent first): 4 24 10 217 5 178 153 3 415 115 154 81 366 3 12 13 4 13 57 259 532 242 279 85 3 4 248 113 9 70 71 105 55 134 17 39 139 218 222 58 72 11 21 124 9 29 21 293 137 87 154 109 31 4 50 57 138

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

ha good spot! I was surprised we dropped further after Klopp came in—blame me coding on my lunchbreak!

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