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Welfare cuts are a political choice.

685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.

Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.

Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.

Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs Dalloway:

“Last night I dreamed Mrs Dalloway went to Manderley again”

I keep seeing the press describe benefits cuts as a 'crackdown'. Other crackdowns we hear about usually reference crime or anti-social behaviour. What does that imply about benefit claimants?

Claiming the benefits you're entitled to isn't a crime - these are cuts, not a crackdown

What we wear can be a projection of how we want to be percieved.

In my series for Wellcome Collection Stories Sinéad Burke shares why she is so passionate about the fashion and why the industry can be a transformative space for disability justice.

wellcomecollection.org/stories/fash...

“If you are reliant on Pip, it is truly terrifying to witness, but it should terrify all of us, because a government that can front out this kind of denial is one that is not listening, not curious, not realistic and not humane.” @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Only on purpose

Meanwhile, staff stress is skyrocketing and all the OU has done is to offer senior managers a training course and ask the rest of us if we feel better yet?

Hey folks a lot of you are sharing big blocks of text on coloured backgrounds with all sorts of big claims/news and yet providing no link to any actual source.

This is how propaganda & disinformation spreads.

Provide sources. It's absolutely critical

And alt text because almost none of you are.

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. 

My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Government wants more people to return to work, but at the same time, is consciously eliminating the jobs that offer the best paths back into work:

Relevant to the 'disabled people need to work' discussions:
A contact of mine applied for a job.
They asked for one small cost-free 'reasonable adjustment'.
The employer promptly told them they couldn't have this.
No discussion.
It's Not The Disabled People Who Are The 'Problem', #Labour Party.

I was supposed to write from 7am - 9am this morning, but was on a roll so didn't stop until 9:40. Wrote 750 words.
It's part of my literature review for my PhD - writing about different models of disability (I've identified 14) and how they shape discourse

I recognise I'll never finish reading. By the time I've read everything relevant written to date, other people will have written more. People in my field are writing RIGHT NOW. Bastards. I hate them. STOP! I need to catch up!

Is this just impostor syndrome? Do I think I need to earn the right to write by reading "enough"? Is this just self-sabotage, endlessly deferring the painful task of writing by convincing myself to read as displacement activity?

thesis. So this can't be how everyone else does it, all the other academics who write things. Are they just far more well-read than I am? Or are they misrepresenting themselves, citing things they haven't read? Or am I just inventing overly stringent rules for myself that nobody follows or expects?

or misrepresent myself as having read things I haven't. But while I'm reading I feel anxiety because I'm supposed to be writing, not reading, this isn't getting any writing done. & if I have to read a whole article or book or chapter for every sentence I write, it will take me 100 years to write a

cited it. & then I think "I can't cite that if I haven't read it" & I get the feeling that I haven't read enough to authoritatively write anything. So I stop writing and start reading the article/chapter/book so that I feel I understand it properly & won't be mispresenting it in my writing, or

Writing is so anxiety-inducing. I start to write something & then I think "Where did I find that idea from?" & search for an article/book to cite. Then I realise I never read the whole article or book, I read about it in a "...for beginners" title, or I read a review of it, or something I read

I persuaded my partner, who gets up by 7 on weekdays, to bring me a coffee every morning so I can get a couple of hours writing done in bed before I start "work" work. 364 words this morning. I love this plan.

Followed you because I want to read this. It's very relevant to my own work

Oral health and learning disability: common conditions made complex

Got up early to do some writing on my Lit Review. Endnote had a massive tantrum and needs to be reinstalled. Thinking about just going back to bed