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Sam Jennings

@samflower.bsky.social

#DisabledByTheRailway Powerchair user exposing inaccessibility & encouraging others to do the same! Love live music, hate steps. www.DisabledByTheRailway.com

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I am good thanks, sorry I missed this i turned a lot of the notifications off on apps! Happy new year - I hope you’re well!

10.01.2026 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Parasocial Model of Disability by Liz Jackson and Rua Williams In 2017, Caroline Casey β€œrode 5 weeks across Colombia on horseback from Cartagena to Bogota [and] onto the main stage” of a...

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06.01.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are wrong to do this. Case Law exists.

Look up the Paulley V First Group case.

@kingqueen.org.uk is the expert on this as it’s his litigation that got the clarification that legally wheelchair uses have the right to that space, no one else.

07.11.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disabled By The Railway Advice, campaigns and legal action: asserting our rights against discrimination on public transport.

Thanks for tagging - I am on here but it’s better to use contact form on website:
DisabledByTheRailway.com

Happy to help if I can!

03.11.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

30.09.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4839    πŸ” 1444    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 128
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Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

05.09.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3770    πŸ” 1702    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 64

His party only has 4 or 5 MPs but the media have him on everything constantly. Other parties that aren’t on the right don’t get a look in despite being more established & functional. It’s a media problem as much as a far right problem.

04.09.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. He’s evil. It was him and Banks etc behind Brexit. He even did media for Russian TV. Proper fascism vibes. Voted in by one of the poorest communities in the UK (rural maga probably the closest comparison even though it’s a town)
Glad he got called out for this!

04.09.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Notting Hill Carnival Open Day with Prostate Cancer UK Notting Hill Carnival Open Day with Prostate Cancer UK

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22.08.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's shocking that with a new Labour government and in 2025, equality of access to our railway for disabled people is actually being downgraded, not tackled.
An important letter here to the Transport Secretary to do the basic decent thing and get disabled people's needs right on the agenda.

15.08.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microdosing Study 2.0 Recruitment for an upcoming trial - Microdosing in London or online

www.imperial.ac.uk/a-z-research...

13.08.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders - This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work' The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they're not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson

πŸ”΄β€˜MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’

The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/14/w...

16.07.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: β€˜Nobody is safe’ Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

β€œNobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

15.07.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5559    πŸ” 2808    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 313

β€œIf you’re religious then you believe those girls deserved to drown to death in that flooding because god intended it to happen”

-Donald Trump supporters on Twitter defending cuts to NOAA

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β€˜There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...

"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40"

Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

07.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 173
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London’s low-traffic zones β€˜cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

When I pointed out on Twitter a couple years ago that available evidence indicated that campaigning *against* Low Traffic Neighborhoods was functionally the same as campaigning *for* more kids to be run over, I got absolutely monstered for it.

Anywhere, here is more of that famed Social Injustice

07.07.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

07.07.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we don't start telling the truth about why this happened, it's going to keep happening. We have an idiot running this country who thought FEMA & NOAA were a drain on the budget. How much is YOUR child worth? That was TX, so you know most of them voted for the man that just killed their children.

05.07.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

The NWS did issue a flood watch but it took 4 hours for the state to send an alert. The state should have immediately sent an alert to cell phones but....Abbott, Patrick, et al...

06.07.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop

Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?

04.07.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11697    πŸ” 2760    πŸ’¬ 397    πŸ“Œ 117

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

04.07.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5891    πŸ” 1024    πŸ’¬ 325    πŸ“Œ 69
Parking space #404 is empty.

Parking space #404 is empty.

car not found

03.07.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 10425    πŸ” 880    πŸ’¬ 204    πŸ“Œ 56

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Due to a β€œstatutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit,” Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (which Rs just passed) requires β€œautomatic sequestration cuts across the board,” including Medicare cuts, as β€œconfirmed by the Congressional Budget Office…” 1/

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😳

03.07.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

03.07.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29177    πŸ” 6803    πŸ’¬ 389    πŸ“Œ 216
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Dozens of Labour MPs still expected to rebel over welfare bill as government defends reforms - live updates Keir Starmer and his ministers have been scrambling to convince MPs to back watered-down welfare changes after concessions were made last week.

#DisabledByTheRailway is one of 138 orgs who signed the reasoned amendment that has been selected today.

Urging all MPs of all party colours to now put their constituents first!

#TakingThePip
#DisabilityRebellion

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01.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FUCK. THE. FASH.

26.06.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Text of tweet posted at 9.33am on 26th June (i.e. this morning) by Diane Abbott:

The fight over the welfare bill is not about Morgan McSweeney or Keir Starmer. It is not even about the Labour party, even though it could be strongly affected.

It is about the hundreds of thousands of people who will be pushed (deeper) into poverty.

Text of tweet posted at 9.33am on 26th June (i.e. this morning) by Diane Abbott: The fight over the welfare bill is not about Morgan McSweeney or Keir Starmer. It is not even about the Labour party, even though it could be strongly affected. It is about the hundreds of thousands of people who will be pushed (deeper) into poverty.

I'd say roughly 75% of mainstream news reporting about the disability benefit cuts has been from a Westminster angle rather than the actual impact the cuts will have

26.06.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 364    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

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