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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 29

damnit I hate to share a LinkedIn post but Mark nailed it

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 29

Even linkedin gets it

Mark Butcher

1) Sandra used AI to write a report
2) Bill used AI to summarise the report
3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions
5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared

No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.

No business value was achieved

But but but AI adds business value

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 22

Everything is just on fire isn't it?
Like, everything.
And I'm here trying not to dissociate which feels like the smallest non important thing right now given everything in the world.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 12

Just the public opinions around both of these very clear welfare benefits for vulnerable people being treated so so differently and I just don't understand.
I mean I do understand. Everyone assumes they will get old, but most people don't believe they will get ill or disabled. No compassion.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 12

So for winter fuel allowance it's fine if some rich or something who 'don't need it' get it. The assumption is most people do need it.
But for health related benefits the assumption is that no one needs it, everyone is a fraud and that it's better to abolish them than allow one 'fraudster'

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 12

I hate the rhetoric around welfare.
But what I don't understand at all is that there is so much about the winter fuel allowance for pensioners but then not the same compassion for those on PIP or other health related benefits.
BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE WELFARE
A STATE PENSION IS AN ASPECT OF WELFARE.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 12

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals:

No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion.

It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports.

If it is, it’s not compassion.

It’s eugenics 🧵

Screenshot of a Dallas express article. There’s a man sitting in a hospital gown. Text reads

Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop
Pushing Suicide
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
MAY 29, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia. Now, he says, they are repeatedly asking him about suicide while cutting off basic needs like food and

Screenshot of a Dallas examiner article which reads Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian
Hospital: He Is 'Dying In Front Of You'
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
JUN 11, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital - which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water nearly one month ago - to stop him from "dying in front of you."
Instead of helping, The Dallas Express has learned, hospital officials told his brother to stop contacting them.

There’s a photo of a man laying in a hospital bed

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yes I hate getting hair done
Last few times I've had to, we've had someone who comes to our house so it minimises the stress

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 5

Yeah I like massage too
I think getting nails done is just so busy and loud and smells strong.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 5

Why does my partner think going to get my nails done is 'self care'?
It's loud and it smells and people are touching me and talking to me and it's just so overwhelming.
Ick.
Not self care.
Just something that has to be done very rarely (sisters wedding on Saturday so needed to get something proper)

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 5

Corrections accepted
We are a Dr and we are graduating next month!!!!!

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · Jun 5

Paid employment isn’t a universal healthcare outcome.

It might be a priority for some people… but it should never be prioritised over the person’s health and life.

And for some, it shouldn’t even be considered.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 3

Omg yes!!!

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 3

Having DID is so weird. Like we were a six year old doing drawings and then we drove a car as an adult. And we still have like a six year old inside us who is separate from me (the one writing this post) and it's actually like the actual way our brain works but it still makes like no sense. ♿

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jun 2

Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits.

If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace.

Let's fund welfare, not warfare.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · Jun 2

No one ever says sorry.
No one ever wants to believe they are complicit in the suffering of others.
It's all personal choice and stop living in fear...

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 2

Those who treat disabled people the worst are often the first to ask us for help when they become chronically ill.

They say some variation of “I had no idea it was this bad!”

They almost never say “sorry”.

They ask for our help without even admitting to how badly they treated us.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 2

Those who treat disabled people the worst are often the first to ask us for help when they become chronically ill.

They say some variation of “I had no idea it was this bad!”

They almost never say “sorry”.

They ask for our help without even admitting to how badly they treated us.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · May 30

this is literally fraud. You did not sign authors with the promise to pay their due if you made a profit, you committed to pay them for their work that they delivered and has sold. At the very least this publisher needs to be blacklisted, but hope there are also legal consequences somehow

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · May 30

Authors published by the crowdfunding publisher Unbound will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books, unless Boundless, the new publisher founded following Unbound going into administration, "survives and thrives" 👇 #BookSky

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'

www.thebookseller.com

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 29

Oh I'm sorry

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · May 28

It is true that most people who claim PIP are unable to work.

But that's because to be eligible for PIP you need to have significant health conditions that need a lot of care & support.

So it's predictable most won't be able to work.

But its still not an out-of-work benefit.

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 28

I've just gone through the questionnaire and sent it all back. So waiting on the next steps but sounds like really exciting research. Maybe they'll be able to 'see' the dissociative barriers in our brain

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 28

My #dissociated friends in the UK. Please consider getting involved with this research at @mrccbu.bsky.social !!
♿
@didwewrite.bsky.social @chloeapter.bsky.social

Research opportunity for dissociative Identity disorder poster.
Do you have a diagnosis of DID? We are seeking individuals to take part in research at the MRC Cambridge cognition and brain sciences unit in Cambridge
What do I do?
Questionnaires
An interview
Computer tests
Two brain scans

Am I eligible?
If you
Are 16 or over
Are native English speaker
Have DID and amnesia between identities
Have never experienced neurological conditions

If you are interested please contact
Julia beker
Julia.beker@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
01223769461

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 28

If your in the UK I use the national migraine centre and they charge about £500 a session. But you get a proper consultation etc too and they may not think Botox is appropriate for you but there are a few options

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 26

Yeah, ikr. Turns out I can figure out how to exercise the right muscles around my hip?? Or I'm just lucky today?

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Dr Nicole Melzack (they/them) @nmelzack.bsky.social · May 26

Went for a jog and no subluxations and we are like omg it's going to be okay. The exercises are working and we are getting our mobility back

Summary from Strava of our jog - 5.05km in 40:15 minutes

Selfie of Nicole looking sweaty chilling by a brick wall. They are in a grey running tank top and blue over ear headphones.

Photo of Nicole's legs on a stone bench. Nicole is wearing black leggings and black/pink running trainers.

Selfie of Nicole just after finishing the run. There are trees in the background. Nicole looks very warm and sweaty.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · May 26

I actually think many disabled people try harder and do more than an abled person does.

Like… when I’m feeling bad I tend to go into overdrive. It’s a form of distraction plus my brain’s self-destruct mode.

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