Jakki
@barefootjakki.bsky.social
Human rights, books and parenting/caring in a goldfish bowl. Freegan-ish.
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Sunday Sofa Activism.
WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...
Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice
WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...
Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice
September 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sunday Sofa Activism.
WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...
Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice
WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...
Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice
The last two + years have been an immense struggle for my family, faced with a healthcare system that was not suitable for autistic patients. Today I found out that because of me, the service has changed its approach and is working towards neuro affirming care.
June 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The last two + years have been an immense struggle for my family, faced with a healthcare system that was not suitable for autistic patients. Today I found out that because of me, the service has changed its approach and is working towards neuro affirming care.
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Eating disorders are one of the most life-threatening mental illnesses, yet treatment remains underfunded, misunderstood & neglected.
That’s why I’m supporting the #DumpTheScales march this year. No one with an eating disorder should be dying in 2025.
Join us on June 21st to march for change👇
That’s why I’m supporting the #DumpTheScales march this year. No one with an eating disorder should be dying in 2025.
Join us on June 21st to march for change👇
Select tickets – #DumpTheScales Eating Disorder March – #DumpTheScales Eating Disorder March
On June 21, 2025, we’ll be taking to the streets of London for the third consecutive year to march for those we love, for those...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Eating disorders are one of the most life-threatening mental illnesses, yet treatment remains underfunded, misunderstood & neglected.
That’s why I’m supporting the #DumpTheScales march this year. No one with an eating disorder should be dying in 2025.
Join us on June 21st to march for change👇
That’s why I’m supporting the #DumpTheScales march this year. No one with an eating disorder should be dying in 2025.
Join us on June 21st to march for change👇
So, if Trump has named a genocide in South Africa and the USA are party to the Genocide Convention, what now? Is it bluster or is he planning some kind of action?
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
So, if Trump has named a genocide in South Africa and the USA are party to the Genocide Convention, what now? Is it bluster or is he planning some kind of action?
Bosco by Placebo is such a devastating song
April 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bosco by Placebo is such a devastating song
Ah, so Hungary is just quietly forgetting that it was complicit in the murder of over half a million Jews in WW2 then?
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ah, so Hungary is just quietly forgetting that it was complicit in the murder of over half a million Jews in WW2 then?
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and so we are standing in solidarity with all trans folk across the UK 🏳️⚧️
Trans people are often disproportionately affected by violations of their everyday rights, and we want to build a country where that can't happen ✊
Trans people are often disproportionately affected by violations of their everyday rights, and we want to build a country where that can't happen ✊
March 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and so we are standing in solidarity with all trans folk across the UK 🏳️⚧️
Trans people are often disproportionately affected by violations of their everyday rights, and we want to build a country where that can't happen ✊
Trans people are often disproportionately affected by violations of their everyday rights, and we want to build a country where that can't happen ✊
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Full list of countries issuing US travel warning to transgender people amid ‘detention’ fears
“By [the UK] not issuing an official warning, those who are aware of the dangers and now wish to cancel their holiday bookings cannot obtain refunds.”
metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
“By [the UK] not issuing an official warning, those who are aware of the dangers and now wish to cancel their holiday bookings cannot obtain refunds.”
metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
Full list of countries issuing US travel warning to transgender people
It comes after Donald Trump said the US recognises only two genders.
metro.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Full list of countries issuing US travel warning to transgender people amid ‘detention’ fears
“By [the UK] not issuing an official warning, those who are aware of the dangers and now wish to cancel their holiday bookings cannot obtain refunds.”
metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
“By [the UK] not issuing an official warning, those who are aware of the dangers and now wish to cancel their holiday bookings cannot obtain refunds.”
metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
As a parent with shit in this game, if ypu have kids who are fans of Ariana Grande, know that she is not in a healthy body. She is in a perilously dangerous condition, please tell your kids that when someone is that thin, it’s not about body shaming, it’s about making sure that they don’t die.
March 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
As a parent with shit in this game, if ypu have kids who are fans of Ariana Grande, know that she is not in a healthy body. She is in a perilously dangerous condition, please tell your kids that when someone is that thin, it’s not about body shaming, it’s about making sure that they don’t die.
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“The OfS criticism was directed at the university’s trans and non-binary equality policy statement which required course materials to “positively represent trans people” and said “transphobic propaganda … will not be tolerated”
HOW is not tolerating BIGOTRY a bad thing!!?? 😣
The OFS is 🤯🫠🤬
HOW is not tolerating BIGOTRY a bad thing!!?? 😣
The OFS is 🤯🫠🤬
University of Sussex fined £585,000 for failing to uphold freedom of speech
OfS inquiry concludes into case of Prof Kathleen Stock, who was targeted over views on trans rights and gender issues
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“The OfS criticism was directed at the university’s trans and non-binary equality policy statement which required course materials to “positively represent trans people” and said “transphobic propaganda … will not be tolerated”
HOW is not tolerating BIGOTRY a bad thing!!?? 😣
The OFS is 🤯🫠🤬
HOW is not tolerating BIGOTRY a bad thing!!?? 😣
The OFS is 🤯🫠🤬
Sorry not sorry but fuck the UK. Imagine being able to find money for guns and bombs at the expense of the most vulnerable people. If I could leave today, I would.
March 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sorry not sorry but fuck the UK. Imagine being able to find money for guns and bombs at the expense of the most vulnerable people. If I could leave today, I would.
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Making it harder to qualify for #PIP.
It was never ever easy, it’s always been so hard.
This will also impact on those caring, as is a qualifying benefit for Carers Allowance.
Therefore, more carers and disabled people going without support.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
It was never ever easy, it’s always been so hard.
This will also impact on those caring, as is a qualifying benefit for Carers Allowance.
Therefore, more carers and disabled people going without support.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
www.itv.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Making it harder to qualify for #PIP.
It was never ever easy, it’s always been so hard.
This will also impact on those caring, as is a qualifying benefit for Carers Allowance.
Therefore, more carers and disabled people going without support.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
It was never ever easy, it’s always been so hard.
This will also impact on those caring, as is a qualifying benefit for Carers Allowance.
Therefore, more carers and disabled people going without support.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
The joy I feel coming out of a depression is like a cat basking in the sunshine ☀️
You may catch me smiling for the first time in quite a while.
You may catch me smiling for the first time in quite a while.
March 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The joy I feel coming out of a depression is like a cat basking in the sunshine ☀️
You may catch me smiling for the first time in quite a while.
You may catch me smiling for the first time in quite a while.
Please sign. Our lives have been ruined by a lack of candour. A simple ‘sorry we got this wrong’ as soon as possible means far more than empty words further down the line. Institutions need to change the culture of closing ranks because it ruins lives.
This important research highlights why we urgently need a Statutory Duty of Candour to protect patients and staff when things go wrong👇
bit.ly/3DodzpV
Add your name to help secure it and bring meaningful change in our health service👇
bit.ly/4h9tJRO
bit.ly/3DodzpV
Add your name to help secure it and bring meaningful change in our health service👇
bit.ly/4h9tJRO
March 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Please sign. Our lives have been ruined by a lack of candour. A simple ‘sorry we got this wrong’ as soon as possible means far more than empty words further down the line. Institutions need to change the culture of closing ranks because it ruins lives.
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⚠️Content Warning
This is a horrific account of conversion therapy (disguised as “gender exploratory therapy”) performed by a member of CAMHS (the org now tasked with ‘evaluating’ - aka gatekeeping - trans kids wanting access to the new gender clinics) 😖
👉🏻 www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
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This is a horrific account of conversion therapy (disguised as “gender exploratory therapy”) performed by a member of CAMHS (the org now tasked with ‘evaluating’ - aka gatekeeping - trans kids wanting access to the new gender clinics) 😖
👉🏻 www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
⚠️Content Warning
This is a horrific account of conversion therapy (disguised as “gender exploratory therapy”) performed by a member of CAMHS (the org now tasked with ‘evaluating’ - aka gatekeeping - trans kids wanting access to the new gender clinics) 😖
👉🏻 www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
1/…
This is a horrific account of conversion therapy (disguised as “gender exploratory therapy”) performed by a member of CAMHS (the org now tasked with ‘evaluating’ - aka gatekeeping - trans kids wanting access to the new gender clinics) 😖
👉🏻 www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
1/…
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The right wing think tank, Policy Exchange, has released a big report today recommending young people on PIP “be required to look for work, to volunteer or be engaged in training.” Only one problem: PIP is not an out of work benefit. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
For Whose Benefit? - Policy Exchange
Download Publication Online Reader A major new report – backed by former Labour Work and Pensions Secretary Lord Blunkett – calls for a radical overhaul to the health and disability benefits system...
policyexchange.org.uk
March 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The right wing think tank, Policy Exchange, has released a big report today recommending young people on PIP “be required to look for work, to volunteer or be engaged in training.” Only one problem: PIP is not an out of work benefit. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
Bad Gays is a real eye opener. A real insight into how terminology obscures the existence of 🏳️🌈 people, right in front of everyone. And in some times and spaces, men sleeping with men was pretty normal. Ofc, none of this could even have been alluded to in history class #Section28 #BookSky
March 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Bad Gays is a real eye opener. A real insight into how terminology obscures the existence of 🏳️🌈 people, right in front of everyone. And in some times and spaces, men sleeping with men was pretty normal. Ofc, none of this could even have been alluded to in history class #Section28 #BookSky
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Thirty states & DC still have laws on the books that allow forced sterilization. Some of the laws aren’t even that old—in 2019, Iowa and Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws for people under guardianship. Both passed unanimously. via @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com/politics/202...
Forced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the past
In most states, eugenics laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.
motherjones.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thirty states & DC still have laws on the books that allow forced sterilization. Some of the laws aren’t even that old—in 2019, Iowa and Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws for people under guardianship. Both passed unanimously. via @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
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A teenager with complex needs is repeatedly imprisoned because Northern Ireland lacks alternatives. CLC states, "A healthcare issue shouldn't receive a justice response." This highlights a systemic failure. Read more via BBC News: [https://buff.ly/4i1GwX8]
Teenager with special needs in Hydebank jail instead of care home
Jennifer Rodgers says her daughter has been placed in Hydebank Prison due to behavioural issues and a lack of suitable accommodation.
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A teenager with complex needs is repeatedly imprisoned because Northern Ireland lacks alternatives. CLC states, "A healthcare issue shouldn't receive a justice response." This highlights a systemic failure. Read more via BBC News: [https://buff.ly/4i1GwX8]
I‘d like Mr Starmer to know that I have been assessed as limited capacity for work but I am still working. I didn’t ask to be given this status, I had to be assessed and that was the outcome.
The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.
Prime minister ‘should be ashamed’ after he fails to provide evidence for latest ‘fit for work’ attack
The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit…
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I‘d like Mr Starmer to know that I have been assessed as limited capacity for work but I am still working. I didn’t ask to be given this status, I had to be assessed and that was the outcome.
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What a speech from Lola Petticrew at the IFTA Awards, winning Best Actress in a Drama for SAY NOTHING. 👏🏻✊🏻
February 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What a speech from Lola Petticrew at the IFTA Awards, winning Best Actress in a Drama for SAY NOTHING. 👏🏻✊🏻