Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

YouTube video by J. Draper It's All Henry VIII!: A Beginner's Guide To The Dissolution of the Monasteries

Brides used to promise to be "Bonner and buxom in bed and board" but after 1549 it became "For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health" youtu.be/_H7mvlZ022o

Canary Catch Up: sewage scandal, DWP propaganda, and a haunting return Your weekly telly round-up from the Canary's resident telly addict, featuring Bridgerton, Ghosts, and a shocking Panorama investigation

It's an absolute career dream to get to say this, but I have a TV column!! Every Sunday I'll be bringing to my telly highlights and hate watches with The Canary Catch Up on @thecanaryuk.bsky.social

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The idea that the rule of law separates the system of legitimate governments from criminal gangs was an idea that was proliferated to try (and fail) to answer a question at the start of post-enlightenment political theory around why so much violence by particular bodies and not others was legitimate

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Disability Inclusion in Nazi Germany: The Ideology of the Hitler Youth’s Section for People with Physical Disabilities, 1935–1937 dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

That is really interesting

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This is not quite it but the examples also follow the 60:30:10 colour rule:

black and white drawing of a city with lots of trains

@garethdennis.uk "London in the year 2500" . 1920's Advertisement .

Resisting Carceral Sanism w/ Liat Ben-Moshe & Leah Harris (Re-Air) This episode was originally released in fall 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of discourse surrounding carceral approaches to public space and recent attacks on the term

In today’s episode, why it is so critical for the left to work against involuntary commitment and the criminalization of madness and disability, and how to understand the politics of “carceral sanism.”

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The conservative candidate in last nights election was known literally for one thing; she led the anti trans activity in the police.

Seriously that was her background, and why Badenoch backed her. And what happened?

It’s time to give up the lie that transphobia is popular

labour are an corrupt, authoritarian, right wing party full of scum who think bigotry is just 'common sense'.

why would progressives vote for them?

why would anybody with morals vote for them?

@diane.dianeduane.com This might be of interest : bsky.app/profile/rich...

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Labour Set To Remove Privacy Rights For Trans People Wes Streeting set out details of a order that aims to remove the privacy of trans people who hold a GRC (Gender Recognition Certificate). A GRC is a legal document that allows trans people to update t...

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Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."

An old man sitting in his yard while a little boy whittles on his peg leg. ad for tobacco

The best of luck to Gorton and Denton today, vote Green.

To be clear, this is extremely evil and wrong-headed in concept, but also I'm telling you now that it'll never fucking happen for straightforward operational reasons, namely that you'll never get all those systems and databases to talk to each other.

NHS waiting list delays see thousands die after waiting too long - Hyphen Exclusive: Up to 28,908 patients died in 2024/25 after waiting over 18 weeks, while Asian British children are overrepresented on wait lists

Tens of thousands of ppl have died after waiting more than the statutory 18 weeks for NHS treatment – often for severely life-limiting conditions like cateracts – since Labour came to power pledging to slash waits.

7,737 had waited more than a year when they died.

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Map of Monotropic Experiences Map of an island with the areas: Attention Tunneling Penguin Pebbling Cove of Friendship Tendril Theory (@EisforErin) Mountains of Ruminating Thoughts Cyclones of Unmet Needs Rabbit Holes of Research Infodump Canyon Rhizomatic Communities River of Monotropic Flow States Campsite of Cavendish Spaces Meerkat Mounds (Gray-Hammond & Adkin) Riverbanks of Monotropic Time Shark Infested Waters of Neuronormativity, Behaviourism & Double Empathy Problems (Milton, 2012) Beach of Body Doubling Burnout Whirlpools Panic Hills of Low-Object Permanence Forest of Joy Awe and Wonder Lake of Limerence Tides of the Sensory Sea Sudden Storms of Unexpected Events

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What Newsom understands, is that a very large majority of people in the US do not associate their conception of “normal” with the profoundly evil and sadistic reality is is both parallel to, and in service of.

We have all been acculturated to be ignorant of different aspects of it.

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The entire annual EHCP budget is £12bn, if they reduced it by 270,000 EHCPs it would be approx £7bn, meaning that the £4bn ‘investment’ in SEND over 3 years is more like a *£3.7bn budget cut*

Humans Used to Be Able to Hibernate, Evidence Suggests But it turns out we were pretty terrible at it.

Long ago humans could hibernate to a degree www.popularmechanics.com/science/a659...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The UK is now in a bizarre place where Torys & Reform are far right & the Labour govt has far right policies [anti-people with disabilities, anti-Queer, Islamophobic & treats refugees as if they were vectors of disease! The only English party not flirting* with fascism are the Greens.