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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Dear All I'm AWOL, sorry. Virus made me quite ill + dealing with the DWP = also really ill. My head is a mess, my stomach is a mess, I keep melting down & dissociating. I'm generally in no fit state to be awake. Normal rat service will resume when things/I are stable again. Meanwhile; Tyr. xxx

An ex black hooded dumbo boy rat called Tyr laughs at you. Yes, he only has one arm.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yep, there's one more hidden at the back.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm so sorry for your loss *sends ratty hugs* xxx

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We definitely all fit in here. ~ All The Boys Snuggly Raturday everyone! #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats #Raturday

Six big fat boys rats crammed into an old ratty Ikea wall pocket that they use as an igloo bed.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My little Boo is making a comeback. Her PT meds have kicked in and she's feeling SO MUCH BETTER! She's eating well and using her hands again 😊 She's on quite the cocktail of meds now! #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

A little agouti girly rat called Boo sits in a purple hammock. She's holding and munching on a piece of Rich Tea biscuit.

Boo's cocktail of meds; an antibiotic (Baytril), an ACE inhibitor and Furosemide for pre-existing congestive heart failure, and a steroid and cabergoline for the PT.

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Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

have you gently cupped your rat's face today?

Mooncake the red eyed siamese rat and ebi the brown rat resting in a hammock with their heads poking out. Mooncake's head is resting gently on her humans hand and ebi is resting her head on top of mooncake

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I can’t do this one for The Daily Tism because of image copyright so enjoy it on here for free

“How my mask got me in even more trouble than my autism”

Image of Jim Carey as The Mask

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

'Robbed for her pleasure'

Some bloody headline about stolen condoms or something.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 16/01/2025

Clinical psychologist, Dr. Karen Hoyland, who specialises in late-diagnosed non-autistic women, said: “Becky is doomed to a life of team sports and hen parties until she inevitably loses her life at an ill-planned gender reveal.” thedailytism.com/woman-withou...

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Woman without autism will never lead abnormal life

A woman who suffers from not having autism will tragically lead an entirely ordinary life, sources have confirmed. Becky Armitage, 35, whose hair is an ordinary blonde colour without a single streak o...

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 17/01/2025

“I haven’t been able to eat a tuna sandwich for 20 years. Whenever I try, I just think of the dolphins, and then my tears soak through the bread and make the sandwich inedible. Which makes me even sadder because now I’ve wasted it.” thedailytism.com/autistic-wom...

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Autistic woman accused of lacking empathy cries when she thinks about dolphin-safe tuna

An autistic woman described by her family and friends as “lacking empathy” becomes excessively emotional at the thought of dolphin-safe tuna, according to reports. Tricia Squire, 29, has been known to...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

uk.news.yahoo.com/disability-b... Oh dear. The Court found the Government(s) here misled us about why they were 'reforming' disability benefits. It wasn't to encourage better quality of life for disabled people. It was to save the Government money. Lots of money. By forcing ppl into poverty?

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DWP urged to scrap disability benefit reforms after High Court rules consultation 'unlawful'

The DWP's consultation on disability and benefits is “misleading and unfair”

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

*YOINK* *munchcrunchmunch* *boggle* ~Frizzle

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Gooooood evening fine people, may I relieve you of snacks? ~Frizzle #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

A rex ginger boy rat called Frizzle greets you.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hehe, that's okay, Boo doesn't mind.

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Piper🐀 @pipesqueak.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

anyways, i really love rats when they look uncomfortably cozy so here's another #rats #skyrats #petrats

pet rat paulie curled up in an uncrustables box with his head partially under his orb-like body

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Save College Bank @save7sis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thanks @paulwaughmp.bsky.social for voicing your support on BBC North West Tonight for finding the right solution to #SavetheSevenSisters 🙏

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

That's something I guess. If only they could actually change and get better though! (plus do the very basics of the providing decent safe homes job, obviously.)

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is horrific too! I'm so sorry your family members are being put through such a prolonged mess.

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Chris Connor @cdconnor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Seven weeks sleeping on my sofa, two weeks decant in a hotel with another three & half weeks decant in an apartment. Half finished repair work, contractors leaving lights on in rooms plus left my flat unlocked. that’s for starts plus as of today have to again sleep on my sofa. Stage two in coming!

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I too am sorry to hear this is still going on. The level of incompetence is horrific!

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've always believed that small pets are entitled to the same level of care as any other pet & I was lucky enough to find a Vet with a special interest in small furries when I started out (in 1998). Rat Vet care has come a long way since then; I like to think we've played a part in that.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Meanwhile, Fudgey McFidgetface is all healed up and out of her burrito bandage! #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've trained my Vets to be rat-savvy, been going there since I first started being owned by rats, so now they're very good and I usually get the appropriate meds and stuff. Expensive but worth it for my wee friends!

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Being able to hold her is nice, when she came to me she was pretty much feral!

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've dealt with a lot of PTs over the years, they are super common in rats (they are super common in humans too but you don't tend to hear about them).

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

This is how I prefer to spend my Mondays!

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ahhh ... my little Boo has PT symptoms today 😞 Vets tomorrow for some meds. Please cross your fingers that she has a good response! 🤞 #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Whilst these of course are meant as satire, goodness me there's some truth in them. Glad to be part of so many teams who are working hard to change this.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Shoutout to my fellow autistics who cannot wear headphones because hypersensitivity to touch means you can't tolerate them or anything else being on your head! I see you. I also hear you 😉

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Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

forcing ponzu to like me with tasty worm bribes

Ponzu the black rat sitting on a jar of dried meal worms with her hands together having just eaten a tasty worm

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

We still have some frozen snow on the ground today so I think it might still be freezing tomorrow. The wildlife here get the ratty leftovers, and the ratties are very spoiled, so, so is the wildlife! lol

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A pigsty full of rats! @pigstyrats.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

we tried to tell him off but he's got a good counter argument 🙃 #skyrats #ratsofbluesky #rats

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Paul Kershaw @paulsocialist.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"Whereas landlords are generally able to afford all the legal advice they need, the landlord’s occupants are rarely able to secure legal representation. Legal Aid is not available for most housing issues, and free legal representation is almost impossible to find" #ukhousing

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It's been very frozen this past week, I've had to defrost my garden water station every day! Carrots are also left until last here too ... plums and grapes always go first.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

*autistic shenanigans of excellence there's nothing 'normal' to see here 😂

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Thank you ... all my oldies are falling apart but knowing that and the inevitable result definitely does not make it any easier to handle.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Best friends Berry and Fizzgig ❤️ They like to do everything together so they will both be going to the Vet next week even though it's only Fizzy who needs an appointment (he seems to be having what I suspect is a thyroid issue). #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

Best friends Berry (the small agouti girly on the left) and Fizzgig (the chunkier agouti chap on the right) saying 'Hi' at playtime.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Thank you everyone for the condolences on the loss of Curly-Bobs. My heart aches and it will for a while because he's left a very big hole in it, but I know my other ratty friends will do their best to fill it up again, and so on we go.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I like this new research. For decades, teams said that autistic people can't understand that people have minds & opinions of their own. ('Theory of Mind') (sigh). There's been a lot of pushback about this e.g. Damian Milton's work. Now, there's even more. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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APA PsycNet

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My Curly-Bobs has left me and I'm gutted. Bye Curly, my big ol' goofball, I hope you still get to bounce around like a fool wherever you've ended up. 😭 #RatsOfBluesky #RatRitz #PetRats #RescueRats

A smiling agouti hooded boy rat called Curly-Bobs.

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Ratgirl 🐀 @ratritz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Aww, this got me in the feels, that moment when they show they trust you really is everything ❤️

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