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Wait, we can kill it? Let’s go!

I've contacted the new Minister for NDIS, Jenny McAllister. If ppl want to take action they can do the same: www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...

I would also like people to stop making them rich via their salon(s). They had a 96% rating yesterday. www.facebook.com/luppinohair

10/10?

Disability support service Live Better fined $1.8m after woman dies from burning-hot bath The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and care provider Live Better have reached an agreement in the Federal Court regarding the death of 28-year-old Kyah Lucas, who died in 2022 after being burn...

I mean, LiveBetter BOILED A WOMAN ALIVE and they're still operating across NSW & Qld. If directly killing us isn't enough to be stopped from working with us, nothing is.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...

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Mother starts near-identical NDIS business after son's company liquidated The mother of a man who headed a disability housing provider that entered liquidation days after an NDIS participant died, has been able to start a near-identical business on the same premises.

There's another article about the Luppinos and the #NDIS company they're still running after killing a resident, going insolvent, and walking away from $500,000 in tax debt + all the resident bonds.

Thinking about how we're forced into these places for profit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Mother starts new, near-identical NDIS business after son's company liquidated - on the same premises as one that entered liquidation just days after an NDIS participant died.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Tomorrow is Emily's birthday! Let's get this surgery funded!

Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge We examine the use of cognitive technologies in botanical knowledge for medicinal purposes in the Nahua (Aztec) Cruz-Badianus codex. The Mesoamerican cosmovision, especially the association of human ...

Did you know a lot our medicine is based on Indigenous botanical knowledge? Johan and I wrote this, on the Mesoamerican Cosmo vision and the beautiful 16th c Nahua Cruz-Badianus Ms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:

1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings

So alarming and distressing to see the rapid spread of these fires in western lutruwita Tasmania (image from 430pm) - thinking of firefighters & everyone affected including the precious habitat and creatures

In my country, homes lie empty because they're 'investments'.

And children freeze to death.

Please remember to use Alt text on your images when you post.

ESPECIALLY on Calls to Action and posts about protests!

There's a handy reminder you can turn on in your Bluesky settings so you don't forget.

Not only will this help people to access your info/message, but more people will share it!

This is how living in a community is supposed to work, btw. Humans are supposed to get benefits from sharing resources and infrastructure and working together for common goals that improve things for everyone.

It's the basis of our larger social organization as a species.

Started rereading merchants of doubt it's amazing how much the disease yourself to health crowd followed EXACTLY the same playbook that tobacco companies did to convince people the path to health lay through disease ... and it worked.

People pretending like "the rule of law" is some benevolent force really need to ask themselves whether a law is any worse if it's done through executive order or passed by a vote. What you're complaining about is the abandonment of procedure, as if procedurally attacking minorities is acceptable

Please do this for me. If I lose Medicaid…

I'm dying by inches as it is. Without something like $10k/month in medical care, it will happen faster and my symptoms will get much worse. My only personal income sources are SSI & food stamps.

Anyway reminder that solidarity is not transactional, and giving into eugenics is, among other things - deeply embarrassing.

With enough time and luck, disability is coming for all of us. Do yourself a favour and start dealing with the hole in your politics now 💕

We will never win if we continue to abandon the people most impacted by the very systems we are claiming to fight.

If when it gets inconvenient we’re just replicating the same attitudes as the fash and the same abandonment as the state, what exactly is the point in what we're doing?

It’s not surprising if we look to history- pandemics and a rise in fascist/eugenicist rhetoric go hand in hand.

But if we look to history we should also know that disabled activists have been vital in antifascist + workers movements since forever. Erasing their contributions is helps no one

People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me.

Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

That is quite dodgy

There are dangerous mistakes & assumptions in the Royal Devon & Exeter's #ME guide
1 which stands out, in the jug metaphor they claim 'laughter & having fun' & 'enjoyable activities' improve 'energy supply'
Who will be calling them out on this?
#MEcfs #pwME
www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/media/texncs...

3) These have a normalizing effect on cruelty.

If people see other people being cruel, they are more likely to join in. Bots can start fights and encourage human trolls to join AND normalize the language that these trolls use and make them more likely to use it in the future.

We are consistently told that our way of existing doesn't align with the expectation - because people read between lines that aren't there.

I don't think many people know what writing email is like for a lot of autistic people. Spending a lot of time checking to ensure your 'tone' is correct.

What often gets to me about these situations where people take issue is that they assume the person isn't compromising with the demands of the company.

There is always a significant amount of masking from ND people - communication, emotions, body language - these are NT norms that we must mask.

Fucking pay them, then.

This means it can be resold for more later, because the "interacts with real people and replies often get replies" score will be higher. A lot of networks do the temperature manipulation for the reasons @duendeonfuego.bsky.social enumerates, then sell the account after the first burst.

Everyone needs to be aware of this kind of bot.

Many of us believe we have a duty to respond gently to polite argumentation. Especially in advocacy.

Nope.

If someone sealions, check their timeline to see if this is a pattern. Then report & block, as @rahaeli.bsky.social describes. 🧵(1/6)

tw ableist terms

speaking of, here are some common ableist terms i hope to see less of & try not to interact with (& will unfollow over repeated uses of): the r slur (& reee+), delulu, stupid, crazy, idiot(ic), moron(ic), dumb, insane, psycho, loony, derp/herpderp. resource to change your language