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Laura May

@laura-may93.bsky.social
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I became a paraplegic at 11, then broke my neck at 26 and became a tetraplegic. Outdoor instructor specialising in disability, currently on hiatus due to osteomyelitis in my backside. I love politics (centre left), Manchester City, gaming, history and gigs

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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Got rejected from that job. Here comes the weeklong depression!
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I have applied for a job that’s perfect for me. It’s really got me driven in the right direction post this awful injury and osteomyelitis (which is worse). I hope i get it for many reasons, i think it would really broaden and open up my future opportunities.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The thing that prevents me from spending much time on here is the fact I seem to struggle to find much news or find more than a handful of interesting people to follow.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just put good morning Britain on and my god, they don’t let anyone left of Trump have a voice. Susannah Reid is that girl that thinks she’s clever at school, everyone else thinks she’s clever and i am just there rolling my eyes.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
JD vance looks like every privately educated, tory boy that only got 3 D’s at A level and will still be trusted to take over the family business.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Elon musk wanting buy Liverpool football club? 🤣 that would stop the oil money slurs, I suppose.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Got too cold at football so came home at halftime . Fell asleep all evening so now wide awake. I wish i was being a wimp but despite my clothing, temp was <35° 🫤 but the effort i put in to watch Man City reminds me im not giving up.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Back home from the busiest week ever. Had my first physio session since my neck break with Lorna who’s known me since i was 14. She was pleasantly surprised considering how im not “well” atm and says im not following the patterns of a tetra…some quick acupuncture got my left wrist moving.
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Science girl @science-girl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Raccoon trying to catch bubbles..🦝🫧😍
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Ngl im already looking forward to my beef Sunday roast tomorrow 😆
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
How is she not eternally embarrassed?
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I am knee deep in Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone on gameboy color here with nanna in her puzzle book. Think im about 7.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I try to listen to a variety of views I don’t necessarily agree with. But my god, that political currency podcast with balls and osbourne is dire. Musk apologists, friends with jd vance and not a backbone between them. Balls is now populist. Osbourne ruined my generation’s future.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I think public speaking is genuinely my only talent. I just don’t know how to use it and not done it in years. I’ve written a tribute for my nanna’s funeral and I think it’s good. Is it weird i am looking forward to saying it?
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Institutional discrimination is still the norm in the nhs. Healthcare assistant: Now this is a stupid question, but do you have children? Nurse: How is that a stupid question? HCA: You’ve been like this since you were 11. Me: I am 31, just because im paralysed doesn’t mean I can’t have kids!
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My Nanna died on the 13th, she might have been 92 but it was still a shock. Only got my Mum now who im very close to but she’s complicated. I’m spending my time avoiding everything with pure anxiety right now for so many reasons.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/12/2024
With Nigel Farage once more gracing our TV screens on BBC Question Time, it's time to revisit this excellent article by Dr Russ Jackson which has had over 230k reads! At least this time Farage is an elected MP and party leader. Not so his previous 35+ times 😡 @docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
An open letter to the BBC
Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Started watching question time but getting too riled up at how tory/reform the audience clearly is.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How do i stop our cat from sleeping in her litter tray?
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
problem with living in Manchester when the Christmas markets start far too early in early November is that everything’s mulled, I’ve only just had my birthday bored of Christmas and not even prepared as usual.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
seeing glimpses of the real man city. Not like we ever win at anfield!
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Helbel 🌻☘️💚🤍🧡 @pudner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
...to think that I believed that Jenkyns was just vile 🙄 ...nah...she has well surpassed that understatement 🤮
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My 93 yr old nanna gad a fall in the night and is un hospital with a uti, chest infection and has got confused. Just writing this down feeling sad and worrying she won’t bounce back. Already lost my dad and im so close to my nanna.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/11/2024
Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?...
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/11/2024
Farage walks out of Sky interview because, apparently, having 1m TikTok followers means not having to answer as party leader, about your MP's failure to disclose being jailed for violent assault. But we should definitely trust Nige's vetting going forward. Unless he gets 2m TikTok followers. ~AA
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Elon getting desperate? 40% off blue ticks 😅
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/11/2024
Horrifyingly accurate from Edith Pritchett in the Guardian…
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anyone else’s boyfriend “do movember” just to annoy you because you don’t like moustaches? He better shave it off for my birthday tomorrow.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You have to admire Nigel Farage - who else would have the nerve to pretend to be the defender of farmers, after selling their whole industry down the river with his Brexit shitshow.
Nigel farage in barbour jacket at farmers protest
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Going see SWMRS tonight at night n day. Second favourite band from the bay area 🤫 at my favourite bar in Manchester. Cancel culture nearly finished this band so glad cole and max have kept going.
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I have genuine sympathy towards the few farmers that have pretty much no income but high value land, but there’s not that many. The high value being bought up by tax dodging millionaires and companies came about because of the tax loophole.
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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 18/11/2024
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I have a live-in PA on rotation to enable me to live my life with my sci. The agency is very expensive and after 4 years I still don’t get continuing healthcare funding from the nhs. I need to go to my mp but not feeling well atm physically and mentally. One of the reasons I don’t sleep at night.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/11/2024
This tendency to want to just close the eyes to opposing viewpoints has proven a huge problem for progressive politics. It's rooted in the the idea that even to engage is somehow morally compromising. It means that the argument is not joined and real people aren't won over. bsky.app/profile/lewi...
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Viva la revolución!
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I will get to know people on here, which is such a nice rate feeling in a social media sphere filled with anger, but I am doing well on don’t starve together. I will be on when i can’t sleep in the middle of the night😚
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
@andrewwhewell.bsky.social thank you for being one ot my new early followers 😀
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Laura May @laura-may93.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
First new social media account since I was at school. Feels very 2008! I wish it was! X is just too much right wing propaganda now, been persuaded by the amount of big accounts, journalists and podcasters to make the move. Hello!
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