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Jess Feehan
@jessfeehan.bsky.social
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Freelance editor & copywriter. Parenting while disabled/chronically ill (ME/CFS). Little treat proponent. She/her.
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francesryan.bsky.social
“As a community, we’ve been put through a mental and physical wringer. But we carry on fighting because it’s our lifeline at stake.” 

After the chaos of last night’s welfare vote, most of the media spoke to MPs. I wanted to speak to disabled people:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘This isn’t a U-turn’: disabled people react to passing of watered-down welfare bill
Campaigners call government’s climbdown on personal independence payments ‘desperate’ and vow to fight on
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
If they persist in making it so you can’t leave a WhatsApp group unannounced, then you should have to consent to being put in one in the first place. I will die on this hill.
March 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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redpenrabbit.bsky.social
AM I BEING THOROUGH, OR AM I OVERTHINKING THIS: Memoir of a Copyeditor
March 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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sianberry.bsky.social
If you want a clear illustration of the Government’s disregard for really engaging with disabled people, they have produced NO accessible versions of their plans today.
Image is a screenshot of the Government’s Green Paper on welfare reform. ‘A highlighted section reads: We have published this paper ahead of the accessible versions to put detailed information about the matters subject to consultation in the public domain at the earliest opportunity.’
March 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
Has anyone told Keir Starmer et al that when you’re the party in power you (supposedly) act for everyone in the country? I’m sick of hearing about what they’re doing for “working people” like the rest of us don’t count.
March 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
It is more than possible to raise the meagre UC rate for healthy jobseekers without lowering the rate for disabled and sick people. There’s no either or here. Whether it’s Labour or the Tories, it only becomes strivers v skivers when it is a convenient narrative for politicians.
March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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maosbot.bsky.social
I'm absolutely aghast to see this sinister piece in the Guardian—the author says diagnoses of Long Covid, autism and ADHD are "robbing people of a recovery identity"
The image shows a newspaper or magazine article headline and subheading titled "DIAGNOSIS OVERLOAD" in large, bold black text. The subheading reads: "The number of people with chronic conditions is rocketing. Are we less healthy than we used to be? Or are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan investigates" That could have been where Garner's story ended. By September 2020, he had improved but he was no longer recovering further. So he started searching beyond the non-recovery stories, for those with more positive outcomes. That was how he found Recovery Norway, a group of people who once had chronic fatigue syndrome but had beaten it. The group gave him a recovery mentor as well as another perspective and, crucially, a recovery identity. He realised that while pacing had helped him at the start, he had then become obsessed with it. As he described in his blog, he had started to unconsciously monitor signals from his body until he became paralysed with fear. He believed long Covid was a metabolic disease that had damaged his mitochondria, but the Norway group made him think differently. He didn't doubt the virus had triggered the fatigue but felt he had later become caught in a vicious cycle of illness driven by his fear. Viruses cause fatigue in order to make people rest, which promotes recovery. But, in Garner's case, his recovery had gone awry because he inadvertently conditioned his body to stay tired. Garner realised he had to retrain his brain to react differently to the fatigue if he was to get better. "I suddenly believed I would recover completely," he writes. "I stopped my constant monitoring of symptoms. I avoided reading stories about illness and discussing symptoms, research or treatments by dropping off the Facebook groups with other patients. I spent time seeking joy, happiness... and overcame my fear of exercise." By the end of 2020 he had made a full recovery. Perhaps what they actually needed from a diagnosis was permission to do less in a world that values only very particular types of success. For some, medical diagnosis is a means to take the pressure off, so they no longer feel forced to continue chasing after an overly idealistic social and work life. One woman's story stood out. She's an artist who has had some significant successes, but not the success she wanted. She would prefer to be an academic, she told me, but it wasn't her talent. As a teenager, she imagined her adult self quoting poetry off the cuff. The pain of not turning out to be that adult was terrible for her. It stopped her enjoying the success she had. Eventually, a diagnosis of ADHD helped her accept that she could not be equally talented in every way she wanted. The diagnosis gave her some comfort but also caused stagnation in her life. It reinforced her belief in a lesser version of herself. Rather than being defined by a successful art career that others would envy, she became a woman whose life revolved around ADHD and was defined by the things she could not do because she was neurodevelopmentally different. I worry that a child told they are different in this way will underestimate themselves and limit their future. Excessive medical diagnosis risks robbing people of a recovery identity and promoting intolerance by othering; by dividing the world into neurodivergents and neurotypicals. It must be very hard to set out or continue on life's big journey if your aspirations have been narrowed by a diagnosis that is uncertain or offers very little. Let's find a way to be more tolerant of difference and imperfections that still allow aneral
March 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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laureneahmed.bsky.social
“Choose a better partner if you’re overwhelmed!” Is hall of fame bullshit. Listen, I am only going to say this once. You can have an awesome partner and still experience working and parenting differently as a woman. Write this down - 🧵
January 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
Usually I treat myself to trip to the nail salon for Christmas; this year, I’ve booked an osteopath appointment. In case you wondered how things are going.
December 9, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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pandamoanimum.bsky.social
Dads: Turn that bloody light off! It’s like Blackpool Illuminations in here. Do you think I’m made of money?

Dads at Christmas: I don’t think 96 strings of lights on the outside of the house is enough, love. Just popping to B&Q for another 47 and a 12ft illuminated reindeer.
December 6, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
my favorite thing about the drake thing is that i should, given my interests and age and world, know absolutely nothing about it and drake has actively forced me to learn what a loser he is
November 26, 2024 at 3:35 AM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
I find it hard to imagine feeling anything other than depressed by this. Who is this for, exactly?
victoriamadams.bsky.social Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · Nov 25
Copy-pasted bros with copy-pasted beards make copy-pasted books. Tell me again how some minority academic plagarised something somewhere, mumble-mumble-beardy-mumble.

'Disruptor', lol. Wait till you find out how much authors make, my beardy dudes

www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

#publishing
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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francesryan.bsky.social
Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.
Sunday Mail front page: Starmer declares war on benefits Britain
November 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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lavender.frompinkpony.club
i’m an album girly
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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lennyvanhelsing.bsky.social
the irony of the mighty polar bear, boiled out of its home by the immense heat these stupid AI systems put off; by the emissions of the huge powerplants that run them.
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Nov 16
Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.
November 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
Maybe this is one of my more boomer takes but I wish the kids’ Christmas books didn’t all use Santa Claus… We’ve always said Father Christmas!
November 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
the only echo chamber I have exists in my head when I’m trying to fall asleep and every stupid thing I’ve ever done clatters around in there
November 18, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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aireadee.bsky.social
What if we get off everything and just start reading?
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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glttrgrl.bsky.social
need to try to curate my algorithm I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan I love Chappell Roan
November 14, 2024 at 10:39 PM
jessfeehan.bsky.social
Toddler: “What’s that? Dog…cat…moon… what’s that? Dog with glasses…raccoon…book…books… MOON.”

Bluesky newsfeed going down well in this house so far…
November 15, 2024 at 4:06 PM