Lizzie Ward
@destinyischoice.bsky.social
Bookworm, creative magpie, writer of poems, essays, and stories. Deaf, Autistic w/ADHD, and mother of a cat. Author of Fragments. She/her 🏳️🌈 UK.
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Lizzie Ward
@destinyischoice.bsky.social
· Nov 18
An intro and (non exhaustive) list for the algorithm:
AuDHD (Autistic ADHDer)
Deaf
Books! I’ll read most genres
Writer and blogger
Cozy gaming
Crafts, Art, Craftivism
Watercolour art
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Romance
Cats and wildlife in general
Star Wars, LOTR, Star Trek (Voyager, Discovery) ✨
AuDHD (Autistic ADHDer)
Deaf
Books! I’ll read most genres
Writer and blogger
Cozy gaming
Crafts, Art, Craftivism
Watercolour art
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Romance
Cats and wildlife in general
Star Wars, LOTR, Star Trek (Voyager, Discovery) ✨
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he thinks they’re for petting 🥺
October 26, 2024 at 1:10 PM
he thinks they’re for petting 🥺
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When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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Most autistic humans were never taught what healthy love looks like.
We learned performance.
We called survival connection.
But healthy autistic love isn’t about intensity or constant closeness.
It’s about safety, regulation, clarity, and repair.
We learned performance.
We called survival connection.
But healthy autistic love isn’t about intensity or constant closeness.
It’s about safety, regulation, clarity, and repair.
Ten Signs of a Healthy Romantic Relationship for Autistic Humans
Understanding safety, communication, and repair through an autistic lens.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Most autistic humans were never taught what healthy love looks like.
We learned performance.
We called survival connection.
But healthy autistic love isn’t about intensity or constant closeness.
It’s about safety, regulation, clarity, and repair.
We learned performance.
We called survival connection.
But healthy autistic love isn’t about intensity or constant closeness.
It’s about safety, regulation, clarity, and repair.
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Any one of the charges here against the former Sun editor should stop Keir Starmer appointing David Dinsmore.
When you look at them all together - it's an absolute outrage.
Sign the petition 👇🏼
www.hackedoff.org/campaign-act...
When you look at them all together - it's an absolute outrage.
Sign the petition 👇🏼
www.hackedoff.org/campaign-act...
No taxpayer-funded job for ex-Sun editor
No taxpayer-funded job for ex-Sun editor
www.hackedoff.org
July 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Any one of the charges here against the former Sun editor should stop Keir Starmer appointing David Dinsmore.
When you look at them all together - it's an absolute outrage.
Sign the petition 👇🏼
www.hackedoff.org/campaign-act...
When you look at them all together - it's an absolute outrage.
Sign the petition 👇🏼
www.hackedoff.org/campaign-act...
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London Trans Pride shaping up to be massive.
Trans people staged a huge lobby in Parliament and have been writing to and meeting their MPs.
MPs have told the government to think again re the EHRC
And the government’s response is: “democracy is irrelevant. We will ignore you”.
Seems ill judged.
Trans people staged a huge lobby in Parliament and have been writing to and meeting their MPs.
MPs have told the government to think again re the EHRC
And the government’s response is: “democracy is irrelevant. We will ignore you”.
Seems ill judged.
July 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
London Trans Pride shaping up to be massive.
Trans people staged a huge lobby in Parliament and have been writing to and meeting their MPs.
MPs have told the government to think again re the EHRC
And the government’s response is: “democracy is irrelevant. We will ignore you”.
Seems ill judged.
Trans people staged a huge lobby in Parliament and have been writing to and meeting their MPs.
MPs have told the government to think again re the EHRC
And the government’s response is: “democracy is irrelevant. We will ignore you”.
Seems ill judged.
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Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
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Privilege is believing that the U.S. is the most dangerous place in the world to be disabled or queer.
That’s not to deny the very real violence, legislative attacks, medical neglect, and burnout disabled and queer people face in America.
It’s brutal.
It’s relentless.
It’s urgent.
A thread 🧵🧶
That’s not to deny the very real violence, legislative attacks, medical neglect, and burnout disabled and queer people face in America.
It’s brutal.
It’s relentless.
It’s urgent.
A thread 🧵🧶
July 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Privilege is believing that the U.S. is the most dangerous place in the world to be disabled or queer.
That’s not to deny the very real violence, legislative attacks, medical neglect, and burnout disabled and queer people face in America.
It’s brutal.
It’s relentless.
It’s urgent.
A thread 🧵🧶
That’s not to deny the very real violence, legislative attacks, medical neglect, and burnout disabled and queer people face in America.
It’s brutal.
It’s relentless.
It’s urgent.
A thread 🧵🧶
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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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This thread. Every single post.
Reminder of what your favorite now so-called tech critic who was in the "singularity summit" mix for years, and was defending his advisor, race scientist Steven Pinker, was saying to me when I raised these issues.
First, he said I "can't call everything I disagree with eugenics."
First, he said I "can't call everything I disagree with eugenics."
July 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This thread. Every single post.
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I personally think this is too little too late. But it is something. I will be writing again and again to Stella, who is my MP, to continue to advocate for the government to push for an immediate ceasefire, sanctions, prosecutions, and to stop selling arms to genocidal countries and governments
Along with nearly 60 other Labour MPs have called again for the UK to immediately recognise the state of Palestine and work to prevent any attempt by the current Israeli Government to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
July 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I personally think this is too little too late. But it is something. I will be writing again and again to Stella, who is my MP, to continue to advocate for the government to push for an immediate ceasefire, sanctions, prosecutions, and to stop selling arms to genocidal countries and governments
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I'm *obsessed* with the badass women writers and artists of the Georgian era.
The "libertine" era of the Restoration was over and women were once again being told to behave. To be modest and virtuous.
Some larger-than-life ladies just kept on being brazen and gay.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
The "libertine" era of the Restoration was over and women were once again being told to behave. To be modest and virtuous.
Some larger-than-life ladies just kept on being brazen and gay.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
I'm So Inspired By These Brazen Women From 300 Years Ago
The Sixties saw the beginning of a long period of glorious liberalization. Women gained more rights and outlets for self-expression. Art and literature...
buttondown.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm *obsessed* with the badass women writers and artists of the Georgian era.
The "libertine" era of the Restoration was over and women were once again being told to behave. To be modest and virtuous.
Some larger-than-life ladies just kept on being brazen and gay.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
The "libertine" era of the Restoration was over and women were once again being told to behave. To be modest and virtuous.
Some larger-than-life ladies just kept on being brazen and gay.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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#WelfareNotWarfare
Please check out Kleo-Sophia brilliant song “They Cut Us Until We bleed”
Written for our protest-picnic tomorrow, Monday 30th June
You tube link here
Check it out 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oirr...
Please check out Kleo-Sophia brilliant song “They Cut Us Until We bleed”
Written for our protest-picnic tomorrow, Monday 30th June
You tube link here
Check it out 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oirr...
Cut Us Until We Bleed-Kleo Sophia (Sophia Kleanthous)-anti-cuts anthem #disability #benefits #cuts
YouTube video by Sophia Kleanthous - Kleo Sophia
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#WelfareNotWarfare
Please check out Kleo-Sophia brilliant song “They Cut Us Until We bleed”
Written for our protest-picnic tomorrow, Monday 30th June
You tube link here
Check it out 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oirr...
Please check out Kleo-Sophia brilliant song “They Cut Us Until We bleed”
Written for our protest-picnic tomorrow, Monday 30th June
You tube link here
Check it out 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oirr...
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Cis folk, if you want to support trans folk, please submit a response to the EHRC consultation on the new statutory code of practice and challenge the overreach.
I'll put links to sources of useful info in this thread.
You will need to copy your answers out, the online survey doesn't send copies
I'll put links to sources of useful info in this thread.
You will need to copy your answers out, the online survey doesn't send copies
June 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cis folk, if you want to support trans folk, please submit a response to the EHRC consultation on the new statutory code of practice and challenge the overreach.
I'll put links to sources of useful info in this thread.
You will need to copy your answers out, the online survey doesn't send copies
I'll put links to sources of useful info in this thread.
You will need to copy your answers out, the online survey doesn't send copies
Currently reading Olivia Laing’s Everybody: A Book About Freedom and it’s very much what needs to be read in this moment, for me at least. It looks at the history of bodily freedom through various movements in history. It’s more of a conversation than anything approaching a solution.
June 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Currently reading Olivia Laing’s Everybody: A Book About Freedom and it’s very much what needs to be read in this moment, for me at least. It looks at the history of bodily freedom through various movements in history. It’s more of a conversation than anything approaching a solution.
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Also step one in writing is having something to say. You can't convince me that people use AI for writing because they, within themselves, have something to say. They merely want the rewards of claiming to have said.
June 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Also step one in writing is having something to say. You can't convince me that people use AI for writing because they, within themselves, have something to say. They merely want the rewards of claiming to have said.
I read widely (including non-fiction!) but I also love romance and paranormal romance (and a bit of romantasy). I find a lot of comfort and emotional regulation in them, plus more likely to find bisexual/sapphic rep in modern romance. Romance can explore serious topics too.
The description of publishing 'reluctantly getting on board' was funny. What genre - with all its subgenres - radically outstrips all others and has done for YEARS without letting up? Romance. This was an engaging piece and a fun bookshop! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Romantasy: Why it's happily ever after for romance books
Despite being mocked by book critics for years, the romantasy genre is booming - and that means big business for publishers and bookshops.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I read widely (including non-fiction!) but I also love romance and paranormal romance (and a bit of romantasy). I find a lot of comfort and emotional regulation in them, plus more likely to find bisexual/sapphic rep in modern romance. Romance can explore serious topics too.
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Please do this if you can
Fighting for Fairness: We Need Your Voice to Challenge Benefit Reforms
The MEA has launched a major project to respond to the government’s proposed welfare reforms - we urgently need your help.
Please complete our comprehensive survey on Personal Independence Payment
meassociation.org.uk/pilw
The MEA has launched a major project to respond to the government’s proposed welfare reforms - we urgently need your help.
Please complete our comprehensive survey on Personal Independence Payment
meassociation.org.uk/pilw
Fighting for Fairness: We Need Your Voice to Challenge Benefit Reforms - The ME Association
The ME Association has launched a major project to respond […]
meassociation.org.uk
June 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Please do this if you can
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A great thread here. But as someone who grew up in the Deep South with no A/C, a caveat: if you are in a brick home, your house stores thermal energy and will heat up quickly. Keep your home closed as long as the inside temp is lower than outside. Once that switches, open those windows!
Heatwave in the UK. OK, I grew up in Italy, and when it is very hot and you have no air-conditioning, you do this -
1) Unless there's a good breeze, CLOSE all the windows and draw all the blinds and curtains until sunset. The outside air is hot, you do not want it inside with you.
2) DRINK WATER
1) Unless there's a good breeze, CLOSE all the windows and draw all the blinds and curtains until sunset. The outside air is hot, you do not want it inside with you.
2) DRINK WATER
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A great thread here. But as someone who grew up in the Deep South with no A/C, a caveat: if you are in a brick home, your house stores thermal energy and will heat up quickly. Keep your home closed as long as the inside temp is lower than outside. Once that switches, open those windows!
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When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
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🐚 EP009: Chicago
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🐚 EP009: Chicago
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
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Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.
DHS confirmed that ICE and CBP agents will be on site “for security” at the start of the FIFA Club World Cup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. ICE also reminded non-U.S. citizens to carry proof of legal status while attending the event.
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.