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Helen Lawson she/they

@helenlawson2007.bsky.social

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Transitioned 17 years ago now & like all I only regret not doing it sooner. 57 but still under guarantee. Asexual & Lesbian. Lots of hobbies but don't spend not enough time on any of them. Miss not having a garden. Atheist & Tea drinker

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · Nov 11

We exist in some of the poorest, most brutal parts of the world but are told it is just a western fad that will die out.
We have been here to see many civilisations & Religions rise & fall... we will continue to do so as we are a part of what it is to be human, they are just footnotes.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 4h

The one and only positive thing about bigots is what drives them will always cause them to self destruct sooner or later.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 4h

Trust me I'm as surprised as anyone.🤷‍♀️
I'm 13 years post surgery and having difficulties and been suffering, so I think even they were scared to ignore. They have though put me back to the GP and there's no guarantee they'll respond as quickly to him.🙄
Sorry about your wait. 🫂

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks x
I have a private consult in Nov as back up.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 8h

Actually had an email reply from GIC. That's a reply within a month.😮
Ok they've thrown it back to my GP having to request something I've just told them everything about.
Getting closer to "Unscheduled After-care" as they called it, it's been most of the year to get this far.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 15h

The day I transitioned was not a change in me other than I just stopped hiding. 🏳️‍⚧️♀️🏳️‍🌈

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 16h

We need to rebalance the whole system and make it so that it is actually illegal for governments to allow for the gap between the rich & the poor to grow beyond a certain amount. That should then be the real measure of a countries economical health.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 16h

The ever growing earnings gap in the UK between the richest & the poorest has meant property has became a means of not just making more money but as a way of showing off their wealth, the result of this is a property market that no longer works for the majority of those who live here. 1/2

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 17h

I think we both know that would enrage them even more, as anything that publicly includes trans people they regard as keeping them out.
They are segregationists and their kind of thinking belongs in the last century, this is something we should publicise more as it has an emotional element to it.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 17h

It's a chef's kiss that Labour are being replaced by a party that embraces the left wing policies they long ago abandoned.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 17h

I live at my brother's house & he has a gas oven, I can't smell gas & so I live in fear of it.
One day he put the oven on, then popped out. Came back & quickly opened all the windows & doors as I was happily walking around in a house full of gas. Said 'couldn't you smell it!', like it was my fault.🙄

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a genocide because the government aren't murdering anyone... yes... yes they are.
Blood on their hands.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 1d

What would change his mind is money and fame, until being a good person pays as well in the UK as being a total shit, his type will exist. By good person I mean be self centred and care only about yourself as his type won't change deep down..

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

Living on an island city I love that electric boats are finally becoming viable. Would love our harbour ferry here in Pompey to go electric.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0l...

The Floating Hotel That Creates More Energy Than It Uses?!

YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Tanks on lawn metaphor: the Lib Dems have parked a truck with a video screen outside the Conservative Party conference, with LD leader Ed Davey urging those members who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage to defect.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

Labour, Conservatives & Reform... it's all a case of which flavour of MAGA UK would you like.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 2d

This could be such an astonishingly good thing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

🫂💔
Yes my Mum. When she'd long gone we had her living body there to remind us of all we had lost. Sometimes I would think of giving her a quick way out but I can't hurt anything, so each sleepless night would be listening to the noises of a slow dying body. The trauma still blocks my memories of her

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Zack for showing just how right wing the UK Media are and have been for a very long time. I still see people denying it, hopefully you can knock away their blinkers and see the mess our media has helped create.
The Paper Barons have been replaced by the Tech Barons & so we still suffer.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 2d

One thing history shows us is the tight connection between fascist nationalism and big business, so it should never surprise us when they only want to produce cogs for the machine.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 3d

Can we count armpit hair instead as I'm already not bothering?😎

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 3d

Since becoming Labour party Leader he has broken every promise he has made... that's not bad luck, that's a pattern.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 4d

The Daily Mail was a problem in the 1930s and have never really stopped being one ever since... sod tradition, let's break the cycle of abuse and campaign for an end to the Mail.

Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 4d

We know why the average worker worries every time an increase in taxes is mentioned, it's because up until now it has always been their burden. Those above them have been untouched by burden in a world of loopholes that have let them walk away from any responsibilities to the people of this land.

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