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@enbycriphistorian.bsky.social

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Disabled autistic antifascist queer nonbinary historian&writer. Husky and cat pawrent. Chronically ill. Social Justice Druid. Disabled Not Disposable. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine (They/them) https://enbycriptid.wordpress.com

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Since I’ve hit my first 1k followers, I’d like to tell you a little about my published short stories in available anthologies so far.

(I hopefully have a piece of good news to share with you all shortly!)

My published writing so far has all been dark fantasy-horror.

“Let Down” in “Unspeakable”

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I am going to email the Principal, Professor Andy Schofield, at [email protected] and the Rector, Professor Ghassan Abu-Sitah, at [email protected].

I have hopes of the Rector as he is of Palestinian descent and has worked in Gaza since the genocide began with MAP.

Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 1d

As an alumnus of Glasgow University, going to email them to express my absolute disgust at them monitoring students’ social media at the behest of arms firms

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 14d

You can always tell you’re in the North Atlantic Archipelago when the post-surgical advice is “lift nothing heavier than a kettle for 6 weeks” because only we as a culture have to make risk calculations based on odds of harm to sutures vs odds of patient going on rampage if not able to access tea 🫖

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Signal boosting for disabled folk and carers!

Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) @allfieuk.bsky.social · 16d

There's still time to book! 🚨

FINAL session of FREE legal training tomorrow @ 11am: tinyurl.com/allfie240925

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting that “landlords shouldn’t exist” is in no way the call to genocide, eugenics or violence that “trans people shouldn’t exist” is, yet even expressing the former view already has me on lists that people actively attempting to implement the latter never go near, isn’t it?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17d

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler.
Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”.
Well sod that.
Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 17d

Farage is a sick bastard, churning up hate for his own selfish reasons.

I can promise you that applying for ILR and citizenship is an expensive process and we give the UK government many thousands of pounds, as well as paying tax like anyone else.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 17d

Haaaaah

Just saw the headline of a review for The Shape of Monsters that was simply WOKE CANNIBAL EROTICA and honestly that could be panning my book, but I love it.

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 17d

A little #sketchbook drawing of a flowering cactus with alcohol markers, roughly following a tutorial by www.instagram.com/darkestnight.... Really nice to have a guide to shading with alcohol markers as I’ve found it a bit counterintuitive and I’m keen to use them as bedart-friendly #chronicallyill

A sketch of a flowering cactus in alcohol markers

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Because I posted a pic of me looking nice and upright and functional, here’s the counter-pic that’s much more reflective of my actual day-to-day reality - me lying in bed recovering with my gel ice pack and my hot water bottle feeling like hammered shite #disabled #chronicallyill

A very pale nonbinary person with dark circles under their eyes lying flat in bed looking up at the camera. They are wearing blue Star Wars pyjamas and have short asymmetric dark curly hair. They are wearing a frozen gel ice pack on their forehead and leaning their head on a shaped hot water bottle in a pale furry cover.

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A screenshot from Andor with the words of a young pale skinned man as they are spoken

“THE PACE OF OPPRESSION OUTSTRIPS OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IT. AND THAT IS THE REAL TRICK OF THE IMPERIAL THOUGHT MACHINE. IT'S EASIER TO HIDE BEHIND 40 ATROCITIES THAN A SINGLE INCIDENT".

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 20d

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships.

Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...

www.desmog.com

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So far I’m in the “establishing a baseline” phase. I’m also really unwell and unable to do more than crawl to the bathroom.

It was surprisingly validating to see my HR go into the “Exertion zone” - readings associated with vigorous exercise in a healthy person without chronic fatigue - doing so.

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There was a sale on monitors at Visible and that and the really bad week I’ve had healthwise after trying to push a bit to give my OH a nice birthday week off pushed me to spend a chunk of my PIP on it.

It’s expensive but not ridiculous. It’s what PIP is actually meant to be for.

A pale arm with a black Visible monitor strip on it quite tight.

A Functional capacity assessment screenshot from the Visible app scored 3.7

“Your functional capacity score is lower than a healthy person's score of 6.0.

This is an improvement of 0.2 since your last monthly check-in.

Learn more about FUNCAP27

Breakdown

Your score indicates that your ability to carry out day-to- day activities is impacted, particularly in Activities outside your home.

Personal hygiene/basic functions (scale)

Walking/moving around (scale)

Being upright (scale)”

The assessment is cut off by the bottom of the screenshot.

A Visible branded box on a lap wearing yellow dungarees with bee print

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At a time when there’s so much institutional hate, just being there next to all these things letting me know people like me are welcome in this space *really* helped. That feeling of safety helped me regulate properly.

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there was a whole Pride display, with the Progress Pride flag and a whole bunch of other Pride flags up, and multiple shelves of books from all through the queer experience. Including nonbinary and ace ones, not just lesbian and gay ones. Queerness was on display and embraced ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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- I had forgotten to bring my Loops or my sunglasses with me because I didn’t bring my backpack and was getting really sensorily overstimulated. I happened to see their Autism Aware sign up and asked if they happened to have earplugs or ear defenders available to visitors, and they did!

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Made it out to GOMA today as my OH is off on annual leave for the week.

Health is fairly crap atm; had a pretty nasty syncope episode so we had to go to the cafe to sit down. But two things that really helped

A pale-skinned nonbinary person with asymmetric short dark curly hair wearing ear defenders smiles at the camera. They are wearing a khaki jacket with pin badges on it over a black grandad neck shirt and yellow dungarees with a bee pattern and yellow and black eye and lip makeup. They are sitting in front of a display of books with rainbow Pride stickers on them and multiple Progress Pride flags stuck to the walls and shelves.

A display of library books with the rainbow Pride sticker on their spines and multiple Progress Pride flags stuck to the walls and shelves. A sign reads “Available in the GOMA gift shop”.

A display of library books with the rainbow Pride sticker on their spines. There are multiple Progress Pride flags stuck on the display shelves and walls and many other Pride identity flags shaped like hearts stuck on the shelves too.

Awall display from a library with multiple heart-shaped Pride flags and posters reading “Queer Life, Queer Love” and “Read With Pride”.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19d

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Yes, sadly. It’s even more depressing to see this winding its way down the same path all over again.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 22d

(This may not be my best pep talk ever, but I think it is liberating to understand there is no winning by trying to cower in the cage)

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 22d

Be mindful? Be smart? Absolutely. But understand that they will manufacture everything they need, and there is

Remember the beginning of 1984? He knew as soon as he even imagined the idea of something else, he was already dead.

It was just a question of when his body would catch up.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 22d

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 22d

Free speech latest

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 22d

BREAKING: Police have reportedly confiscated an advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

This story is developing

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve been applying for PT remote work actively for months and got one interview. Which was also for an incredibly oversubscribed job.

There’s so few jobs I can do and all of them are swamped by more abled people desperate for work who can do so much more than I can.