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recoveryinthebin.org A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 18h
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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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · 23h
Palestine is a Disability Justice Issue Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts Saturday 17th October Ascension Church Hulme M15 5TQ 11- 4.30 With Makan & Aman Ahluwalia-Hinrichs. •BSL•Accessible Venue• www.eventbrite.com/e/palestine-...
Palestine is a Disability Justice Issue  
Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts
Saturday 17th October 
Ascension Church Hulme
M15 5TQ
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Makan & Aman Ahluwalia-Hinrichs.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 23h
Join us TOMORROW for a big rally outside Palantir HQ (📍Soho Square, London) at 6pm 🗣️ www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter... 3/3 🧵
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People vs Palantir – International Day of Action
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Join a local action near you!
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 22h
www.eventbrite.com/e/palestine-...
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Palestine is a Disability Justice Issue
Learn, share, resist, liberate.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham going after those on one of the lowest state pensions in Europe is peak Centrism. And of course it’ll allow any future Tory or Reform government to much more easily give pensioners a further kicking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...?
bbc.co.uk
Burnham says existing pension triple lock will end in 2030 to help fund national care service
Under the plan, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When the co-owners of GB News boasted about it shifting the "Overton Window", was this what they had in mind? This is what the relentless demonisation of refugees is leading to.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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ayowhose.bsky.social @ayowhose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tories would outsource public humiliation. The stocks would be provided by Serco and there’d be a year long waiting list as they would fail on a regular basis. In spite of this their £750m a year contract would be renewed for another 5 years…
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“In all, 15 ICBs, which between them cover 19 million people, have brought in various ways of rationing assessments for ADHD and autism to try to balance their books” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Benefits claimants will only be allowed to spend money on dogfood and sawdust. Anything else will be outlawed and will result in public humiliation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes
The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“…adults under 75 with serious mental ill health…are 6.3 times as likely to die from liver disease, 6 times more likely from respiratory illness, 3.8 times more likely from cardiovascular disease and 2.3 times as likely from cancer.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Early deaths are not inevitable’: report reveals why adults with severe mental illness die younger
Exclusive: Charity says NHS data shows increased chances of death due to preventable physical illnesses
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group facing some of the highest barriers to finding work
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DPAC Cymru - Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru @dpac-cymru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our protests have forced the Cardiff Timms Review workshop -- a top-down review controlled by private consultants -- to move online. The DWP should ask themselves the obvious question: why do disabled people feel the need to protest a review that is supposedly ‘co-produced’ with them? #TimmsReview
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#TimmsReview #PIP 📢Stop Disability Cuts Stop The Sham Timms Review 📢Friday 25th September 2026 📢1pm 📢Meet Outside Cardiff Vale College and Business Centre City centre campus Dumballs Road Cardiff CF10 5FE
On white background with black text 
Top of image is graphics of DPAC Cymru, Unite Community & ADFCCAD Welsh unpaid carers 
Title says stop disability cuts 
Stop the sham Timms review
On right hand side is an outline of a person with long black hair shouting in a megaphone 
Underneath it says join our protest 
When? 1pm Friday 25th September 2026
Where? Outside the Cardiff Vale & College Business Centre, Dumballs Road Cardiff CF10 5FE
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edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It says a lot about the state of mental health services in this could that people find chatbots preferable
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In news that will surprise nobody… www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How’s that working out for you Andy? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?
theguardian.com
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The "stop the boats" movement is being driven by the type of English suburban racist who thinks that one black family living in their street is one too many. Yes, it really is as simple as that, and it has been for decades. There is no intellectual depth to this stuff. It is pure, distilled hate.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Burnham ‘must pay heed’ to new research which shows public do not back cuts to disability benefits #PIP #DisabilityBenefits @gmcdp.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @inclusionlondon.bsky.social @campaignfdj.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/burnham-must...
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Burnham ‘must pay heed’ to new research which shows public do not back cuts to disability benefits
The Labour government risks alienating voters if it ignores new research which shows the public strongly oppose cuts to spending on disability benefits, disabled people’s organisations warned the p…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Late-night release of draft PIP recommendations raises fresh fears of future cuts #PIP #DWP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/late-night-r...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Late-night release of draft PIP recommendations raises fresh fears of future cuts
Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest m…
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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is not the time for silence. You can't be silent in the face of fascism. You can't meet intimidation and violence with silence. The @labouruk.bsky.social government has no duty to appease Reform or Tommy Robinson. It does have a duty to the rest of us to defend decency and the rule of law.
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Mental Redhead @mental-redhead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As an RNLI volunteer this means a lot that you've even posted this. Thank you 😊
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Solidarity with all those at the RNLI. Fascism will never win.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What state have we got to as a country when saving human life has to be justified?
BBC headline of RNLI crew rescuing people from the Channel
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Cowardly Labour Prime Ministers pandering to fascists & scared to criticise fascist thugs are two of the reasons why we’re all at risk from fascism in this country.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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DPAC Cymru - Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru @dpac-cymru.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Disabled people were promised co-production. But the Timms Review is giving us co-option! Let disabled people lead an independent review! #TimmsReview #DPAC #Wales #Cymru #TakingThePIP #Disability Save the date - Cardiff 25 September, Bangor 30 September
Text on a pale blue background. In green, it says "Disabled people were promised co-production." The word co-production has stars and sparkles around it.

In red it says "The Timms Review is giving us co-option"

In blue it says "Let disabled people lead an independent review!"

At the bottom is the DPAC Cymru logo and the hashtags #DPAC and #TimmsReview and the text Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Jeremy Vine has blocked us on the site owned by the fascist billionaire
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Former director of neoliberal Institute for Fiscal Studies urges disability benefit cuts. Disabled scapegoated for economic problems. Silence on major causes. Wait for 7.3m hospital appointments. Hard to see GP, dentist. Low wages, poor food/housing, economic insecurity. archive.ph/lZEx2
inews.co.uk
Cut PIP benefits, top UK economist tells Burnham
Chancellor could also raise capital gains tax and abolish stamp duty, Paul Johnson says
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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Friendly reminder: hunger in the UK is an income problem not a food problem.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A crisis team psych once told me, 'you just need to make sure you're eating enough vegetables and doing exercise'. The next week I was back in the bin. Where I was offered, among other things...fucking colouring in books.
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SJ 🏳️‍🌈 🐾 🦕 📝 🤯 @angelusmalus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was invited to a meeting about the Timms Review by my MP, but an in-person meeting isn't ideal for me and I was worried I wouldn't be able to stop myself getting angry and would end up getting arrested or something. How many of these meetings were there and how many people knew about them?
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He has a plan, to get young people stacking shelves in Sainsbury’s for nothing, with no guarantee it’ll lead to paid work. Because young people can live on fresh air and work, because work makes you free!
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In news that will surprise no one…
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sainsbury’s laid off 3000 workers last year & profits of £1 billion. That this government is supportive of their scheme to recruit 10,000 people to work for them for no pay says all you need to know about what Labour is now. Something for nothing for corporations. Very little for everyone else.
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merman hellville @seafoamghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
not just unemployed people - CHILDREN. specifically children already living in poverty. “New programme launching from October will target schools with higher levels of free school meal uptake” www.gov.uk/government/n...
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10,000 work experience opportunities for young people as Sainsbury's joins national drive to tackle youth unemployment
Thousands of young people across the UK will get the chance to gain work experience, build confidence and develop skills to help them get ready for work as Sainsbury's launches a major new “Modern Wor...
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Work is not a health outcome. And what a cheek, saying “Paid employment can boost confidence and wellbeing“ the day after his own government supported plans to get young people working for nothing at Sainsbury’s. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Work is good for you’: how UK scheme could help tackle youth mental health crisis
Paid employment can boost confidence and wellbeing, says Pat McFadden as jobs guarantee scheme gets under way
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Another day, another icon down. Almost everyone involved in the Rocky Horror Picture Show was shamelessly ripped off, including Richard O’Brien & all the actors, but it‘s still a masterpiece, in no small part due to Tim Curry’s mesmerising performance
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hats off and applause to Dolly Parton, one of the decent celebs out there in celeb land
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One of the interesting insights from the Jeremy Vine / Carers Uk debacle is how both seemed genuinely shocked at how people feel about Jeremy Vine & the vile ableism of the show he presents. Why? Because both are completely out of touch with both disabled people & carers.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jeremy Vine is “impartial“, apparently, which is why he was such a popular choice to host an event by @carers-uk.bsky.social that they’ve had to withdraw the invitation.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@carers-uk.bsky.social still don’t seem to understand why disabled people, survivors, activists and carers hate Jeremy Vine so much.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@carers-uk.bsky.social have really screwed up on this one. www.change.org/p/demand-car...?
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Sign the Petition
Demand Carers UK remove Jeremy Vine from 2026 awards
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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