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Merry Cross
@merryx24.bsky.social
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She/her. Disability activist, ancient old crone, cat lover, poet. Absolutely pro all humans and anti all isms.
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mgwarrior.bsky.social
#DisabilityPrideMonth Sending you love 🤍
Disability Pride Month Sending love to those: Embracing their disability, searching for answers, navigating a late diagnosis, unmasking and reclaiming joy, challenging internalized ableism, feeling they're "not disabled enough," balancing pride with pain, existing in a world not built for you, advocating for accommodations. @blueskylearningto
July 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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oliver48.bsky.social
I wonder how many Labour MPs
would sign a motion
calling on Starmer
to fulfill the 10 pledges
that got him elected
Labour leader ...
July 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Extraordinarily response from the EHRC to our letter asking whether they were using AI to process consultation responses: "It is not for your client to question the manner in which that process is
being conducted while the process is ongoing."

Obviously we won't let it drop.
July 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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owenjones.bsky.social
The judgement of history will be merciless.
July 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The makers of our film ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ tell the shocking inside story of how the BBC basically failed at journalism and at being informant, and refused to air the documentary on Gaza that we at Zeteo, with Channel 4, then acquired:
BBC bosses pulled our film on Israel attacking Gaza’s med...
The producers' story of how the corporation repeatedly delayed and ultimately shelved their damning documentary
observer.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
The DOJ says there’s no client list and Epstein wasn’t murdered, which means there’s DEFINITELY a client list and Epstein was murdered.
July 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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schoolcuts.bsky.social
Joanne has seen first-hand the impact of more than a decade of school cuts and she’s turned that anger into action.

All of us have a role to play in turning the tide on a generation of cuts.
July 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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johnharris1969.bsky.social
This www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'My support plan was my lifeline - Keir Starmer must not scrap them'
Hannah Steadman, 19, who suffers from several chronic conditions - including epilepsy and autism, delivered an open letter to the prime minister, sighed by over 10,000 people
www.mirror.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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handle.invalid
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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anitabellows.bsky.social
Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ign... via @johnpringdns
Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill
A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credi…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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david-s.bsky.social
Instead, after years of Tory destruction of the public services and support we depend on to live, and if possible, work, (as will anyone in future depend who becomes chronically ill or disabled through no fault of their own), Labour is now driving the final nails into the coffin, with attacks on our benefits, Access to Work and SEND, while doing nothing to address the crisis in social care except kick it into the long grass again.
July 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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bigjosh84.bsky.social
The world feels off its axis, and yet-
there’s still light. Still fire. Still us.
These poems aren’t solutions. They’re flares for the ones holding on.
Maybe one of them finds you.

💙 #Poetry #HopeInDarkness #BlueskyPoets #WritersOfBluesky #poems
This poem is about surviving by staying loud in spirit, even when forced into silence. It came from the feeling of being expected to shrink—to stop resisting—but realizing that sometimes just existing is resistance. It’s for anyone who’s been told to be quiet and chose instead to burn. ⸻ The Fire Refuses Silence I’ve bitten my tongue ‘til it bled truth, swallowed the heat just to make peace. But fire does not shrink when it grows old it learns to burn without release. My silence wasn’t silence. It was kindling. It was the hum beneath the scream. It was survival singing soft through the seams. They thought I’d hush with time that ruin would teach me to fold. But I was forged in backlash, in stories untold. I don’t need to shout. I exist. That’s the riot. The fire refuses silence and I refuse quiet. This poem explores a love that was intense, beautiful, and doomed—something fragile pretending to be strong. It’s about the way intimacy can feel like a storm: electric, dangerous, impossible to contain. Even in the wreckage, something survives. This is a poem about the strength that remains after love shatters. ⸻ Glass Heart in a Thunderstorm We wore our love like armor made of glass, Fragile shields beneath a sky of storms. Each touch a spark that threatened to trespass, Lightning strikes where quiet passion forms. You spoke in riddles wrapped in velvet night, A siren song that lured me to the edge. But thunder rolls beyond the softest light, And cracks the calm where secrets dare to pledge. I gather shards of promises you broke, Piecing truth from shards of whispered lies. Our story’s flames ignite the midnight smoke A firestorm beneath unforgiving skies. Yet in the wreckage, something fierce remains A heart reborn through loss, and love’s refrains. This poem was written for anyone feeling worn down by the chaos of the world. It’s about collective resilience—the kind that doesn’t roar but endures, that refuses to be broken no matter how heavy the headlines get. We may not come through unscathed, but we will come through. ⸻ We Will Survive This The air is wrong. The sky keeps bleeding headlines. But so do we we bleed poems, we bleed kindness, we bleed truth the world can’t choke. They want us tired. They want us fractured, folded. But we gather. We hold the line with cracked hands. We hum lullabies that never forget. No, we don’t move fast. But we move. Together. And when they say it’s already too late, we laugh softly, and begin again. We will survive this. Not untouched. But unbeaten. This poem explores how pain, chaos, and emotional fragmentation can become a kind of raw, defiant art. It’s about owning every scar, every storm inside, and refusing to edit the truth out of what makes you whole. Beauty isn’t always calm—it’s often carved from the wreckage. ⸻ Canvas of the Broken Mind A chaos blooms beneath my fractured skin, Colors collide where anger meets desire. I paint my scars where silent screams begin, A twisted dance of flame and funeral pyre. Your voice, a jester in this court of night, Mocks shadows lurking in the corners deep. We chase the ghosts that flicker out of sight, And cradle secrets that we dare not keep. Yet in the madness, clarity will shine A fractured light that breaks the darkest cage. The wild heart’s art, both broken and divine, Transforms the pain and fury into rage. So here I stand, a canvas torn but true, A masterpiece of chaos born anew.
July 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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owenjones.bsky.social
Israel has announced it's building a concentration camp in Gaza.

Imagine seeing this news and deciding you should aim your fire at the few politicians speaking out, rather than condemning the crime.

On Israel and Nazi comparisons 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/on-israel-...
On Israel and comparisons with the Nazis
After Israel announces it's building a concentration camp, condemning the few politicians speaking out is morally twisted
www.owenjones.news
July 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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bsazzled.bsky.social
UK LABOUR govt.
sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · Jul 12
"WE'RE WITNESSING A GENOCIDE IN GAZA. AND THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMPLICIT"
- MSF
July 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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jujuliagrace.bsky.social
I really hate it when people say “my taxes pay your wages” to public sector workers. I have never heard a doctor or nurse say “my training, my long nights studying after work, my moving around from job to job, my absorption of £100,000 in student debt saved your life”.
July 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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shakethescales.bsky.social
Whatever you got up to this week, Roger Hallam was still in a jail cell... #FascistBritain
shakethescales.bsky.social The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jul 9
With Palestine Action being proscribed, and the furore over Kneecap, it's easy to forget that the founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, is still in jail, having been sentenced last year to five years in custody for entirely peaceful environmental protest... #FascistState
July 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Will those on the right who now highlight the appalling rise in anti-semitism acknowledge their part in delivering it? That, in encouraging attacks on Israel to be presented as attacks on Jews, they enabled attacks on Jews to be confused with attacks on Israel?
July 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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rk70534.bsky.social
'“Israeli authorities’ arrest of journalist Israel Frey underscores authorities’ growing intolerance of freedom of expression...

#Israeli authorities must immediately release Frey and all detained Palestinian journalists, and end their ongoing crackdown on the press...”'

cpj.org/2025/07/isra...
Israel arrests Israeli journalist over tweet, opens terrorism investigation  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Nazareth, Israel, July 10, 2025—Police arrested and detained journalist and activist Israel Frey on Wednesday, July 9, in Tel Aviv after the State Attorney’s office opened a criminal investigation on ...
cpj.org
July 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
To help form a new socialist party
please follow

@transformpolitics.bsky.social
@majorityuk.bsky.social
@wedeservebetteruk.bsky.social
@wearecollective.bsky.social
@zarahsultana.bsky.social
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social

and register at
actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

this #SocialistSunday
Join Team Zarah
Join our team to fight for a brighter future.
actionnetwork.org
July 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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philfree.bsky.social
“We should be investing in people’s independence, not leaving them on the sidelines or pushing them into poverty.”

Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, & UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill - @johnpring.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-i...
Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill wi…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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davejcksn.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/urgent-lette...
Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights
A UN committee of disabled experts has told the government that its new benefit cuts bill appears to be a fresh attack on disabled people’s rights, a year after it issued a similar warning to the C…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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philfree.bsky.social
“The government must stop playing games with our lives.

Rights are not optional.”

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE - @johnpring.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/complete-shi...
‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE
Inclusive education campaigners have called for a “complete shift in thinking” on how disabled children and young people are educated, just as the government faces public uproar over reforms to the…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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drlizherrieven.bsky.social
This is a long-ish read, but well worth it. The coroner has done a really good job of highlighting how Myles’ learning disability led to his death. Issues raised for both primary care and acute trusts.

#LearningDisability #HealthInequalities

www.georgejulian.co.uk/2025/07/11/m...
georgejulian.co.uk » Myles’s Inquest: Coroner’s conclusion
[I was in court in Bradford today for the coroner’s conclusion of Myles’s inquest. I have reproduced in full his summing up and conclusion, which was that Myles died from a natural death to which neglect contributed. The coroner is issuing two Prevention of Future Death reports, one to the Dalton Surgery (GPs) and one to […]
www.georgejulian.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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geminianeyes.bsky.social
I see this and am reminded that wearing glasses is a disability accommodated. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far
Start-up firms and researchers are working on lenses that can change their focus.
www.bbc.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM