John-James

YouTube video by Nico de Benito Nico de Benito - TRUE FREAK (Music Video)

made a music video for my new song, didn’t I

some of you have been very supportive of my musical output in the past, and I've just released my first new song in about a year, if you care... if you don't, I also support and accept you, simply avert your eyes ffm.to/truefreak

A long haired figure with blood pouring down their face is holding out a hand towards the screen, in front of a backdrop of flames. The image is “dithered” meaning it has been replaced by a series of squares that simplify the image, not unlike pixelating. The image is pink and black.

features some very cool artwork which is a still from a forthcoming music video made by me and my husband @johnjames.bsky.social

Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."

For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social

Being disabled/chronically ill means constantly balancing two impossible tasks: convincing the state/doctors that you’re “disabled/sick enough” to deserve help and convincing everyone else that you’re “well enough” to be worth keeping around.

I'm more likely to be made destitute by Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves or be hatecrimed by Reform than be affected in any way by Iran and so are you.

Politics is not a game. It's people's lives.

The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.

It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.

Ms Undaztood @TheRealBrandWiz · 4h This is not what I’ve marched & fought for since 1978. Lesbian & Gay Pride wasn’t about violent threats, intimidation or demands to defy reality. It began with a rebellion against police action but has always been peaceful protest since. This can go in the dumpster…so can Matt. Mattxiv: Queer People will outlive fascism. happy pride

"It has always been a peaceful protest since." ...Who wants to tell her?

So the #PlanForChange is that the NHS offers you assisted dying when your illness is untreatable because it can't afford to treat you or to offer palliative care – or you can choose to die in pain and poverty when too ill to earn a living, because disability welfare will no longer be there for you.

why can’t liberals go a day without resorting to sanism to describe the acts of evil, selfish people? Men that the political party they are so dedicated to has enabled for years 🤡

Essential reading:

I have a short chapter in this! Go check it out and the other books in the series

After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie.

A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.

Three circle Venn diagram, showing: Benefit cuts, Social care crisis, and Assisted dying. With the cumulative intersection being: Disability Democide!

Government Strategy Explained.

Lime green poster with pink text reading: The Raging Sew & Sew! Continuing Lorina Bulwer's Legacy. Beside an image of a sampler on multicoloured fabric, white text on a brown background reads: Lorina Bulwer created long needlework samplers to record her rage at being incarcerated in a victorian great yarmouth workhouse lunatic ward. We want to re-create Lorina's famous tapestry with modern womens voices, especially disabled women and women with mental health difficulties in 6 workshops with yarmakers at Primeyarc in Yarmouth. Starting 12th March every weds 1-2pm for 6 weeks. Every Contributions will be turned into long scrolls to be exhibited at Primeyarc on May 10th. Interested? Email Dolly at dollysen70@hotmail.co.uk for more info or to book your place.

🪡 @dollysen.bsky.social is creating a modern version of Lorina Bulwer's embroidered scrolls and is looking for raging sewers to join her raging sew & sew.

disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...

Figures show 1.8 million people now in Limited Capability for Work Related Activity (LCWRA) category as broken Work Capability Assessment continues to push people out of work

Please hear this from me as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist re latest press release—it’s important.

The ‘not needing to seek work’ group (LCWRA) does NOT push people out of work. It exists to stop people from killing themselves or their health hugely deteriorating.

Misrepresenting is dangerous.

ITV has discovered details of the disability benefits cuts:

- PIP will be harder to qualify for
- PIP will be frozen not rise with inflation
- universal credit rate cut for unfit for work but raised for those looking for work or in work

This is so unspeakably cruel + will kill disabled people

No Other Land (2024) Oscar-winning film offering an insider's view of the destruction of the West Bank

I’m amazed that No Other Land actually won an Oscar and its brilliant makers spoke about the injustice of Palestine before a global audience.

No US distributor took it - even before Trump’s election, but it is currently free to view in Ireland and the UK here:

www.channel4.com/programmes/n...

me as a kid setting up the video player to record classic who episodes

I wrote the source text based on a recurring lucid dream/out of body experience I had during a period of really bad insomnia.

I’m very new to coding but you can try it out if you feel like it. 🔵

last year I took an online course with the School for Poetic Computation called Scripting is Scrying & during the classes on Markov chains I made an interactive oracle of sleep (I have refined it a little over this last week).

jhnjms.github.io/sleeporacle/

I am disgusted by the government’s relentless demonisation of disabled people.

All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.

Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.

Assisted suicide bill will have ‘serious and profound’ negative impact on disabled people, MPs are told A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of po…

A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned.
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying

It’s in this context that the assisted suicide bill is being steam rollered ahead
‘I’m having to spend the last days of my life fighting for the right to live.”

High court victory over Tory DWP cuts will provide impetus to fight any Labour plans, say activists A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers …

A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers to meet their legal obligations to co-produce policy.

Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled peop…

DNS will focus a lot in 2025 on the need for a public inquiry into the countless deaths linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions over the last 15 years. And the many years the department has spent covering up those deaths. Here's why:

Episode 70: 30 YEARS OF VIOLENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS w/ John Pring

: bit.ly/4fjEyQa
Spotify: bit.ly/4gm9RuG
@plutopress.bsky.social

pouring one (bloodwine) out for the crew of the Cerritos now that Lower Decks is over.

Four low-cost alternatives to puberty blockers for transgender adolescents Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Do not take any medication without appropriate medical supervision.

Just gonna leave this here, courtesy of Zinnia Jones. zinniajones.medium.com/four-low-cos...

A screenshot of my Letterboxd recent activity featuring Dracula (1958) which I gave 3 stars, Serial Mom which I gave 4.5, Dracula (1931) which I gave 4 and Nosferatu (1922) which I gave 3.5

Recently I’ve mainly been watching films about camp, blood thirsty, over-the-top killers… and Dracula adaptations