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SJ [SaliWho]

@why-should-i.bsky.social
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Anti-fascist = anti-ableist. We protect us. 😷🏴 I’m @SaliWho on Twitter and me on here. If I follow you on Twitter, please like my pinned post here, for bureaucratic purposes. 🐤 x.com/SaliWho 📍UK 🗓️Millennial ⚡️Fairly epileptic 🏳️‍🌈Bi bi bi (she/they)

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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Still getting compliments on my mask chains. I make layered chains a feature. Thick chain like the ⛓️ emoji, across nose bridge of a black mask. 1 - 3 chain necklaces, same style chain as mask. Hoody unzipped enough that you see chains. Sleeves rolled up, thick chains on my wrists. CHAINS. Yeahhh.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Any difference?
RFK encourages measles infections Vinay Prasad encourages covid infections
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Why’s the city so chaotic so early? I’ve only been out 3 mins. A lone man is screaming but not in a distressed way. Another’s telling strangers all the crimes he’s done. He’s listing them chronologically. I got as far as ‘nicking car stereos’ so there’s a while to go, assuming he still does crimes.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Weirdly reassuring when people in other countries speak about how the British government’s murdering disabled people while polite society nods approvingly from the sidelines. Disabled people in other countries with legal assisted suicide have said they feel the same. Thank you to the witnesses.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Something very bad will happen to me soon. Seizures in my sleep now too. People die in their sleep from these. It’s getting worse. GP didn’t call back on Monday. I couldn’t get through today. Still haven’t seen a neurologist for 8 years. No help is coming. I really want people to know I did try.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Scapegoating disabled for poor IPC. bsky.app/profile/elho...
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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
*looks nervously into the audience* Okay, I'm officially asking for help for my household. The full story is on the GoFundMe page if you want to read all about it. If you can donate, share the link, boost my posts, add a comment to the GFM page, anything at all to help? TY! gofund.me/abe18ba0
gofund.me
Donate to Help this chosen family make ends meet!, organized by Rosemary Amico
The short story: Three humans (and our two cats) have had a string of bad l… Rosemary Amico needs your support for Help this chosen family make ends meet!
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Harriet Tubman was disabled from a traumatic brain injury she had as a child. She had epilepsy because a slave owner threw a weight at someone else and it hit her. She had hypersomnia too and surgery on her skull to treat very bad headaches.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
They euthanise disabled kids in the Netherlands and Belgium. The same network of eugenics lobbyists want it in Canada. It’s inevitable in the UK. Today, The Guardian had an article bemoaning that councils spend more money on disabled kids than on road maintenance. Lethal overdoses are so cheap.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I follow an account who only posts lefty political jokes, except for 2 panicked, recent tweets about having had a baby with a rare epilepsy that doctors don’t understand. She’s started posting against the assisted suicide bill. She realised what future doctors will suggest to her baby, didn’t she.
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Banning face coverings just gives the police even more powers to crack down on our ability to speak out Our fundamental right to protest MUST be protected Agree? Then JOIN US in calling on the Gov to SCRAP THIS PLAN 👇 action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/...
action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
I protect the right to protest safely
Stop the Government from banning face coverings at protests!
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Face coverings allow us to protest safely: Without risk of infection Without being spied on by police’s creepy facial recognition tech Without fear of endangering our family if protesting actions of other States
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
BREAKING Face masks could be BANNED AT PROTESTS under Gov’s new Crime and Policing Bill It’s going through Parliament today Sound familiar? That’s because Rishi Sunak’s Gov tried to introduce it last year… 🧵 👇 (1/6)
Woman with fist in air at protest wearing face mask
Text: I HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
GP’s writing to Neurology so at SOME point I’ll get ANOTHER hospital appointment. When? 2026? I don’t NEED one. They only saw me A MONTH ago and prescribed an anti-epileptic that made me want to die. I just need one that DOESN’T. This could be solved over the phone, now. Solved in a fucking text.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A note by my sofa says “How do you feel?” to prompt me to take meds if my seizures are dangerous. Just now, I wrote it twice in magnetic Scrabble on my fridge too and on a chalk board by the sink. Maybe I’ll write it on EVERY surface. You can’t stop me. Second-guessing yourself isn’t illegal.
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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
the pandemic broke society and the vibes have been off ever since..
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I used to think the problem was that most folks just sort of burned out, but now I'm on the opposite side of it (a parent of young kids) and almost losing my mind feeling like I really can't do public participation in local politics or organizing. Childcare is just so expensive.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is so real. And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here. If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If it’s legalised, the inevitably ever-expanding number of disabled people who are eligible for assisted suicide here will be able to access that quicker than state health care, state social care and benefits. That’s the intent.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@politicaladrift.bsky.social seems like you haven’t been on here for ages! you shifted to another platform? 👀
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Harriet Tubman believed her seizures came from a higher power. I’m an atheist but I know how a religious person would interpret them like that. Dostoyevsky had ecstatic seizures. I get them for a tiny fraction of a second. Feels like access to god. Others feel like world-ending evil.
Brain ablaze on Twitter: Harriet Tubman was a true hero. She risked her life, making ~13 missions to free enslaved people via the underground Railroad. Despite living with #epilepsy, she showed incredible courage. Her strength is an inspiration.
#EpilepsyAwareness
#InternationalWomensDay

Harriet Tubman 1822 - 1913
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Must be so scary for babies and kids to take anti-epileptic drugs if they get bad side-effects. Most adults wouldn’t even care about terrible side-effects if the medication stopped the seizures. Not if it created less work for carers or professionals. You see that with a lot of kids on psych meds.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
People will ‘choose’ assisted suicide instead of this.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: QC VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, North, NS, ON HIGH: BC, MB, NB, NL, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 52 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Mar 1-14, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: 12.1 - VERY HIGH
Alberta: 10.1 - VERY HIGH
British Columbia: 9.2 - HIGH
Manitoba: 9.8 - HIGH
New Brunswick: 9.8 - HIGH
Newfoundland and Labrador: 9.7 - HIGH
North: 11.0 - VERY HIGH
Nova Scotia: 11.1 - VERY HIGH
Ontario: 11.9 - VERY HIGH
Prince Edward Island: 9.8 - HIGH
Quebec: 16.4 - SEVERE
Saskatchewan: 9.6 - HIGH

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 08/03/2025
But they only want to break women's jaws, hit them with machetes, and rape them, like their favourite HEEEWWWO. Will nobody think of the poor oppressed boys? 💔💔💔
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 08/03/2025
FA FO
@deonandan.bsky.social posts: If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.Some time later, having been ridden like a 3 legged mule by most of the WOMEN on bsky for his previous post, @deonandan.bsky.social posts: You know, I'm not sure I like Bluesky much anymore. There's just as much rudeness, intolerance, and dickotry here as in the Other Place. But it ain't from bots, and it ain't coming from the Right.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stats Canada (their version of ONS) found that long covid risk went up with the number of infections too. Almost 40% had it by infection 3. Governments have always known that our health is depleting as we get reinfected. They’re silent because they won’t pay to protect you. YOU have to protect you.
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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing: “We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. “It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. “The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Materials produced or authored by NCI staff that address topics that may be controversial, high profile, or sensitive must be sent to the NCI Clearance Team for review prior to publication.

Depending on the nature of the information, additional review and clearance by the NCI director, deputy directors, NIH, and HHS may be required. In some cases, the material will not need further review, but the NCI Clearance Team will share it with NCI leadership, NIH, and/or HHS for their awareness.

Examples of controversial or high-profile topics include, but are not limited to:

Cancer Moonshot
NCI budget
COVID-19
Vaccines
H5N1/bird flu
Opioids ,
Marijuana
Dietary guidelines/ultra-processed foods
Obesity
Stem cell or fetal tissue research
Abortion
Autism
Peanut allergies
Fluoride
Measles
Diversity/equity efforts
Gender ideology
Environmental justice
Discussion of federal policies
Topics of federal investigations
Issues concerning pending legislation
Topics that have received recent attention from Congress
Topics that have received widespread or critical media attention
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“This moment rings with the chilling reminder of the rise of fascism following the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.” Eugenics followed mass-disability from flu and TB. Sterilisation in multiple countries. Euthanasia in Nazi Germany and then camps. Here in the UK they’re legalising assisted suicide now.
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Matt D (he/Him) @legionaod.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@why-should-i.bsky.social theharvestpodcastnetwork.substack.com/p/the-cruelt... One of those nights where the anger over Reform Red ended up being creative.
theharvestpodcastnetwork.substack.com
The Cruelty Is The Point
Or How Labour need to learn that trying to appease the fash doesn't make them like you
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LoveDaisyPetals/Mary-Ellen @lovedaisypetals.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
DWP's dreaded brown envelope arrived today. It informs me: "You need to claim Universal Credit You will soon stop getting ESA." I must apply for UC, at a rate that's due to be cut, as disabled people like me are unfit for work and seen as worthless burdens, worthy only of disability benefit cuts.
The dreaded brown envelope from the DWP.The letter inside the dreaded brown envelope from the DWP. 

"You need to claim Universal Credit"

"Your benefit payments will end 2 weeks after you make your Universal Credit claim."
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The point of benefit cuts isn’t to get disabled people to work. They know millions of us can’t. The point is to save money by killing as many of us as possible. After weighing up the alternatives, like starvation or homelessness, some disabled people will ‘choose’ assisted or unassisted suicide.
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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Check out my knitting patterns! I have this and two others in this thread. Patterns are $7 each. #bsnm
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I haven’t taken Keppra since yesterday. Took it for 2 weeks. This is the first time in 2 weeks that I haven’t wanted to kill myself. It’s the worst drug I’ve taken in my life. It’s the kind of drug I wouldn’t even be able to sell for recreational use in a prison. Fucking hell, that was dangerous.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"We know that infection and reinfection, even when mild, is linked to cell and organ damage that may harm their future health. More needs to be done to protect our children, and the first step is ensuring that our schools are safe."
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It reduces quality of life and can cause loss of ability to work and, in some cases, severe disability. This is a large burden of illness for our communities, healthcare system and the economy."
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As many as 400 million people worldwide - ~5% global population - have Long Covid. "Essentially every organ in our bodies can be involved in clinical Long Covid, and it can impact people of all ages, sex, and ethnicities.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The briefing says Long Covid can also lead to a 'substantially increased' risk of sudden death and 'silent' damage to cells and organs which can lead to later illness.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Long Covid warning: 'Silent organ damage is a real problem' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Long Covid warning: 'Silent organ damage is a real problem'
Experts are urging the government to protect people from Long Covid, which they say could have already affected a quarter of a million New Zealanders.
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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#NoMoreAusterity Central London March & Rally 7th June 2025 @peoplesassembly.bsky.social Save the date and invite friends, neighbours share amongst activists
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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits Sunday 9th March 2025 2-4pm Register via link to attend the online meeting @susanp64.bsky.social @peterstefanovic.bsky.social @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @janelauppen.bsky.social @blokeonwheels.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social
Alt text: White graphic with yellow dashed outline and black text: Hands off disability benefits! Campaign planning meeting Sunday 9 March, 2pm to 4pm. Register here: tinyurl.com/yckydmw5 (DPAC logo)
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Benefit cuts, health care cuts, assisted suicide bills and unmitigated disease-spread are all the same project: eugenics. Governments are disabling people, creating unsurvivable conditions for disabled people and then eliminating us as fast as possible, the second we can’t do paid work.
Tweet by Trussell Trust charity: BREAKING: Almost 1 in 5 people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have used a food bank in the last month.

Hunger and hardship are already at record levels, and social security cuts risk pushing even more people to food banks.

Screenshot of the Mirror headline: I’m worried about Rachel reeves’ welfare cuts - I miss meals so my son can eat.

Mirror’s photo is of a man in a wheelchair in a kitchen with a boy
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Phil DeFranco, the number one news influencer in the U.S. according to Pew Research, both-sided Lively's harassment claims while boosting commentary from an extreme far right influencer who has terrorized Me Too victims and pushed people to follow creators defending Harvey Weinstein.
usermag.co
Right wing creators are dominating Lively-Baldoni coverage
Conservative commentators are leveraging the case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I wrote about how right wing creators are dominating the coverage of Lively vs Baldoni and how it has become a massive growth engine for the right wing media pipeline. Liberal creators are either ignoring the biggest story in pop culture or regurgitating Candace Owens’ coverage to their audiences.
usermag.co
Right wing creators are dominating Lively-Baldoni coverage
Conservative commentators are leveraging the case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 07/03/2025
All I keep thinking about regarding this is that I've been on the waitlist for the GIC for 3 years and I am lucky enough to be able to start my care myself since I still haven't even had an official letter from them. Bet Labour would provide this a lot sooner, though.
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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I saw a thread by a physically disabled, depressed woman in Canada, who tried to kill herself but wanted help to get better. The paramedic who put her in the ambulance suggested assisted suicide to make it easier because it must be what she wanted. Anyone involved in patient care can bring it up.
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