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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 13h

I make the distinction because most the other disabled people I've heard from have supported it in theory but think its ill-timed and with inadequate safeguards.

Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 13h

Do most disabled people support assisted dying or do most disabled people support this bill?

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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 1d

Why does this keep getting more and more true?

Andy Richter
@AndyRichter
It's a great time to be alive if you're dumb and mean
12/5/16, 6:02 PM

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 2d

Forgot to add I live in the south of England.

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 2d

I don't get out much because I'm mostly housebound from ME/CFS and long covid but in my area I've barely seen another face mask since 2021. Maybe an old man in a hospital once or twice. I wear a 3M aura FFP3 outside my home.
And I haven't had a virus in nearly 5 years !!!

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 2d

If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections:

Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Labyrinth, 1991 by Leonora Carrington, UK-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. #womensart

Painting of a spiral green hedged maze with odd figures and creatures appearing to stand or walk around inside

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 4d

I hope some of them are fake because otherwise there are some truly awful people out there.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 4d

So many genuine problems in society right now…

None of them are caused by some disabled people who get less than what’s considered a liveable amount of money.

None of them caused by trans people existing.

And refugees are the result of many of the problems… not the cause.

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 8d

Kind of insulting tbh. Think you should read up on severe OCD. Its so out of ordinary experience.

Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 8d

OCD is a living hell. It is all consuming, you have no space left at all for any other thoughts. Its not a life at all.
I'm lucky that I responded well to setraline and CBT.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13d

When you say only the “genuinely disabled” should receive support, you’re aiding fascism.

When you say people are scamming the system, you’re aiding fascism.

Many disabilities are invisible and it’s hard to get support.

People aren’t scamming. That’s “useless eater” rhetoric designed to divide.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 16d

Your immune system would like you to stop catching Covid actually. It’s not learning. It’s being decimated.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 15d

Work coaches do not belong in GP surgeries.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 17d

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 18d

Actually face-palmed

Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 20d

Especially if distracting yourself is incredibly limited by your disability. I wish I was well enough to play my bass guitar and game / watch as much TV as I wanted without it triggering symptoms

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

I've tried arguing that point to my doctors and they have said I'm not eligible so in that sense I'd be sneaking. But there's nothing morally wrong with it and everything wrong about how it is being implemented.

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

This program is about Essex.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 21d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

Exactly! If the price was similar to flu jabs it wouldn't be anywhere near as much of an issue. I can't imagine a carer on minimum wage will pay for that (or even the care agency)

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

And they have a strict definition of immunosuppressed this time around

Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

I don't even think my carers are offered jabs anymore.

I'm tempted to cancel my care visits until this latest wave blows over but then I might get more sick without help.

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Cat Hulme @cathulme.bsky.social · 21d

I have ME/CFS and Long Covid and both my previous and current GP surgeries have refused me boosters in recent years. So annoying. I also have asthma. And I'm a family carer for a vulnerable person.

Maybe I could sneak on at same time as my flu jab but I really really don't want to.

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