It’s so great and normal that Israel can just pause and unpause ceasefire agreements in-between bombing Gaza

It’s almost like Israel never respects ceasefires, neither in Palestine nor in Lebanon.

Critical Health and Learning Disabilities by Sara Ryan — Stephen Unwin Sara Ryan’s new book, Critical Health and Learning Disabilities , came with some serious trigger warnings. This, I was told, presented an entirely negative vision of the lives of people with learning...

Sara Ryan's brilliant new book.
www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...

Although meaning, purpose and belonging can be part of a career, it is a kind of ableism to assume disabled and ND people should be satisfied with that for years. If you aren't getting paid money,

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Folks will be quick to ridicule people who do this, but it can’t be separated from the media hype and ai boosters telling us the tech is a magic answer wizard that knows all and sees all.

Post over a autistic young man being volunteering at waitrose for 4 years...now being told he can't do the job after asking to get paid.

Post over a autistic young man being volunteering at waitrose for 4 years...now being told he can't do the job after asking to get paid.

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️

Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...

All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social

Important article.

Unless resisted, the uncritical, and increasingly enforced, use of 'AI' will impact (harm) all areas where human knowledge and relationships are essential including advocacy, agriculture, care, education, environment, health, housing, social justice, and technology itself.

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

This, also it’s genuinely stupefying that the lesson Lam takes from her ancestors having been refugees is that we shouldn’t accept refugees

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-seventh installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled …

The latest Dialogues on Disability interview with Karin Boxer who talks about OCD, moral responsibility theory, ableism, and more!

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/10/15/d...

Inclusion Needs Recognition, Not Erasure: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach | Autistic Realms When headlines claim that autism and ADHD are “invented labels,” it’s more than rhetoric, it’s erasure. A explores why removing neurodiversity from educatio ...

Inclusion can’t come from erasure.
Removing neurodiversity and diagnosis from education doesn’t create belonging—it silences it.
True inclusion means recognising difference, not pretending it isn’t there.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...

CN article about a child's death

This is a nightmare.
Doesn't need much for a person to not speak or react in a "normal" or "expected" way. A learning disability and trauma, such as w/ this mother, absolutely is in line w/ not perfectly neurotypical reactions. This isn't evidence for anything.

Reeves plots £1bn cut to Motability scheme for disability benefit claimants cars The scheme provides cars and tax breaks to more than 800,000 users

This government hates disabled people.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Lampard Inquiry: Statutory Inquiry into deaths in Essex mental health services resumed on 13 October 2025 On 9 September 2024, a statutory public inquiry opened into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex.

Lampard Inquiry: Statutory Inquiry into deaths in Essex mental health services resumed on 13 October 2025 - A number of DSC members are involved including @mayasikand.bsky.social, Fiona Murphy KC, Sophy Miles, Tom Stoate and Laura Profumo.

Red more here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/lampard...

Also, Billy has misunderstood what reclaiming means.

Eg, Queer people can reclaim the word 'queer'.

But white people cannot reclaim a symbol 'on behalf of' people and communities subjected to white supremacy.

3. I work for a think-tank funded by the tech industry and do as I'm told.

Disabled claimants losing out by hundreds of pounds a month through hidden impact of universal credit Disabled people have suddenly become up to £200 pounds a month worse off because of unexpected impacts of being moved from their old “legacy” benefits onto universal credit. Disabled People Against…

Disabled claimants losing out by hundreds of pounds a month through hidden impact of universal credit
#UniversalCredit #DWP
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-cla...

Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention A disabled MP has failed to persuade ministers to show exactly what progress they are making towards ensuring there are enough community services to halt the “scandal” of disabled people being inap…

Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention
#MentalHealthBill #MentalHealthAct
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-le...

Relentlessly grim gaslighting by politicians knows no end:

"removing autism or a learning disability, in and of themselves, as criteria for detention under the Mental Health Act (...) will only be switched on when systems are able to demonstrate sufficient level of community support"

#ItsATrap

Clarkson's Parliament? Jeremy Clarkson's hint that he might stand against Ed Miliband at the next election has got the right-wing press excited. Unfortunately, it's not such a ludicrous idea.

“I’m not sure if that’s a worse nightmare than Nigel Farage at the head of a Reform government filled with unrestrained brownshirts, but it’s up there…”

Clarkson's Parliament? - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Tech industry 2025 executive summary:

“exploitation, not innovation.”

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

It can't be underestimated how important this is.

Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals.

Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.

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Killer Crips 3000.
A disability-focused tabletop RPG
Email us to sign up:
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‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows One in 10 people unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally ill even if they have recovered, Mind reports

Who’d have thought that politicians and their client journalists demonising people with mental health issues on a daily basis would have negative consequences?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

BREAKING: An NHS Trust has been forced to admit the potential misuse of surveillance technology Oxevision (now “LIO”) in psychiatric inpatient bedrooms at the Lampard Inquiry this week.

NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.

1/ 🔥🔥🔥 " #Oxevision is fundamentally incompatible with safe, lawful, trauma-informed or person-centred care and this continues to be proven to be the case"...

This company (now called #LIO) breached US market in 2024 w Summitstone Health Partners, contracted to Larimer County, CO. seeking expansion

✊️lives over profit, dignity over big tech, surveillance will never be safety, I stand with #StopOxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

YouTube video by Stop Oxevision Statement on the Lampard Inquiry

Following the Lampard Inquiry hearings on the 13th and 14th Oct related to Oxevision, here is a statement provided by Hat Porter on behalf of Stop Oxevision.

youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...

And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"