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Sam Jennings

@samflower.bsky.social
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#DisabledByTheRailway Powerchair user exposing inaccessibility & encouraging others to do the same! Love live music, hate steps. www.DisabledByTheRailway.com

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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The Parasocial Model of Disability
by Liz Jackson and Rua Williams In 2017, Caroline Casey “rode 5 weeks across Colombia on horseback from Cartagena to Bogota [and] onto the main stage” of a...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Notting Hill Carnival Open Day with Prostate Cancer UK
Notting Hill Carnival Open Day with Prostate Cancer UK
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Pete Johnson @pedrojuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's shocking that with a new Labour government and in 2025, equality of access to our railway for disabled people is actually being downgraded, not tackled. An important letter here to the Transport Secretary to do the basic decent thing and get disabled people's needs right on the agenda.
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Microdosing Study 2.0
Recruitment for an upcoming trial - Microdosing in London or online
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🔴‘MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’ The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson bylinetimes.com/2025/07/14/w...
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'MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders - This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work'
The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they're not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
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Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“If you’re religious then you believe those girls deserved to drown to death in that flooding because god intended it to happen” -Donald Trump supporters on Twitter defending cuts to NOAA
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40" Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
When I pointed out on Twitter a couple years ago that available evidence indicated that campaigning *against* Low Traffic Neighborhoods was functionally the same as campaigning *for* more kids to be run over, I got absolutely monstered for it. Anywhere, here is more of that famed Social Injustice
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London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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gme11💙 @gme11.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
If we don't start telling the truth about why this happened, it's going to keep happening. We have an idiot running this country who thought FEMA & NOAA were a drain on the budget. How much is YOUR child worth? That was TX, so you know most of them voted for the man that just killed their children.
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Thanet Flint @tflint.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The NWS did issue a flood watch but it took 4 hours for the state to send an alert. The state should have immediately sent an alert to cell phones but....Abbott, Patrick, et al...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
car not found
Parking space #404 is empty.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Due to a “statutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit,” Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (which Rs just passed) requires “automatic sequestration cuts across the board,” including Medicare cuts, as “confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office…” 1/
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#DisabledByTheRailway is one of 138 orgs who signed the reasoned amendment that has been selected today. Urging all MPs of all party colours to now put their constituents first! #TakingThePip #DisabilityRebellion www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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Dozens of Labour MPs still expected to rebel over welfare bill as government defends reforms - live updates
Keir Starmer and his ministers have been scrambling to convince MPs to back watered-down welfare changes after concessions were made last week.
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The Blessed Madonna @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
FUCK. THE. FASH.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I'd say roughly 75% of mainstream news reporting about the disability benefit cuts has been from a Westminster angle rather than the actual impact the cuts will have
Text of tweet posted at 9.33am on 26th June (i.e. this morning) by Diane Abbott:

The fight over the welfare bill is not about Morgan McSweeney or Keir Starmer. It is not even about the Labour party, even though it could be strongly affected.

It is about the hundreds of thousands of people who will be pushed (deeper) into poverty.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I do this myself, but an awful lot of political Discourse consists of middle class people accusing other middle class people of being middle class
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The thing with the disabled people of the future is they can't write to their MP by Tuesday. But if this goes through, one day they will.
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Matt R @bluemattred.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Maybe alt text needs a rebrand? It sounds a bit techy. Like something that geeks do. Maybe call it "Help text" or "Tell people what's in the image, you selfish bastard" text?
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"'Alt text', sir? 'Alt text'? Upon my life I have not the least idea what you mean! I don’t know what it is you call by that name, or where it might be employed, or how it might be in the slightest degree useful. I know nothing about it, I assure you; for I am a mere child!"
A 19th century illustration of Harold Skimpole, a character from Charles Dickens's Bleak House.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025
This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
For every 238 people on incapacity benefits in London, there is just 1 disability confident role. Removing vital support from disabled people will not help them into work, it will only force many deeper into poverty with no way out.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Alt text: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are in bed with a purple bedspread. Trump is sat on the side of the bed on a landline phone which is on a side table as the entire room is on fire.
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Matt Eason @matteason.me · 22/06/2025
Just discovered the equivalent of stationlifts.org.uk for the Amsterdam metro! kanikdemetro.in and they're on Bluesky too: @kanikdemetro.in
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Kan ik de metro in?
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
If you have to self-censor at work otherwise you’ll get fired, what is it exactly that you want to say? www.foxnews.com/media/white-...
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White men are ‘walking around on eggshells at work’, afraid to speak freely: Survey
A survey shows two-thirds of young White men are "walking on eggshells" at work and afraid to speak freely, facing hostility and discrimination.
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Rosemary Frazer @rosemaryfrazer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
If I could persuade more non-disabled people to explore this and gain a better understanding of our lives then my work here would be done.
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/governments-...
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Government’s ‘weak’ response to damning transport access report puts right to travel in ‘grave danger’
The government’s “weak” response to a major report on the inaccessibility of the transport system has left the future of disabled people’s right to travel in “grave danger”, campaigners warned this…
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So much of the faux social justice grievance-narrative around LTNs is fundamentally built on basic misunderstanding, misrepresentation and often just outright lies about impacts.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why do the ‘social injustice of LTNs’ gang never care about the role of drive-in retail in traffic on main roads? Because to them an impact is only a problem if hated outgroups benefit. They’re not interested in main roads they just want to maintain equality of degradation of our urban environment
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Yup
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Private Eye has found that that 281,000 PIP claimants *already in paid work* stand to lose out under the proposed cuts (i.e the four-point rule) That's 55% of all PIP claimants in paid work, according to the article (not my article but I want to flag it)
Private Eye article reporting an FOI request that shows that of 510,000 PIP claimants who are already in paid work, 281,000 (or 55%) are at risk of losing their benefits under the proposed four-point rule
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The Blessed Madonna @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Who is this and how do I give them money to do literally anything forever.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The DWP has admitted it expects 70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under its planned cuts than previously disclosed In total, the DWP predicts 440,000 disabled people will lose their existing PIP daily living benefit By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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70,000 more people to lose benefits due to Labour's cuts than originally expected
The government has admitted it expects 70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under its planned cuts than previously disclosed.
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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Keir Starmer says Labour is the party of work, equality and fairness, but less than a year after the election, changes at the Department for Work and Pensions have forced me to stop doing the job I love. The full video can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpq... #AccessToWork
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Jess Thom: My job hasn’t changed, my disability hasn’t changed, so why has my support changed?
YouTube video by Touretteshero
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Bloody cyclists
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/06/2025
97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘A slap in the face’: Grenfell officials still working in housing eight years after fire
Survivors say careers of many of those involved show there are ‘no consequences for decisions that cost lives’
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.
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