clunkybones
banner
clunkybones.bsky.social
clunkybones
@clunkybones.bsky.social
Disabled fiction writer and PhD student, studying disability & digital psychogeography.
he/him
Reposted by clunkybones
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
Free Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark
August 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
Saying that the kids in Gaza who died of starvation had “pre existing conditions” is eugenics.

It’s a way to make people not care that kids are being starved to death.

It’s ableism.

It’s labelling them as expendable because they were sick.

No child is expendable.
August 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
Keir Starmer.
August 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)
August 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work

Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.

So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall believes people on benefits are incentivised not to work - yet a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants
www.thecanary.co
July 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
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 Conservative government.
#DropUCBill
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 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
Please don’t ignore this the next time you’re told “it’s either these guys or Reform” coz this is also what Reform would do and you should rail against it no matter what colour the tie is.
Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.
July 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
🚨This isn’t history. It’s a plan for our future.

Amnesty UK has exposed powerful & well-funded groups that are working to stop women, LGBTI+ people & children making decisions over our bodies, health & futures.

This matters to all of us as everyone’s rights are at risk.

Join us in exposing them.
July 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
Absolutely horrific. We are watching ethnic cleansing and genocide happening in broad daylight, in real time. Our govt has a duty to prevent genocide - and yet is still selling arms to Israel. The UK's complicity must end.
July 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
Israel supporters caught telling disabled people to 'f*ck off and die' at DWP protest

At a DWP cuts demo in Westminster, Israel supporters screamed and hurled abuse at disabled people - including calling them 'lazy scum'
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Israel supporters caught telling disabled people to 'f*ck off and die' at DWP protest
At a DWP cuts demo in Westminster, Israel supporters screamed and hurled abuse at disabled people - including calling them 'lazy scum'
www.thecanary.co
July 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
NEW FROM ME -

Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.

Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.

We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.

tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow?
The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.
tinyurl.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
“Transphobia is not f**cking feminist”

Kate Nash's powerful speech during her performance at Glastonbury.
June 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
The PIP cuts are horrifying. The presupposition that there are jobs for people who can't put on trousers or use the toilet is obscene. The only job that would allow one to go around half naked, while shitting themselves in public, is being a UK politician.
June 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by clunkybones
THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
The government's welfare Bill is a cruel and disgusting attack on disabled people and their right to live in dignity.

MPs should ask themselves: did you become an MP so you could push thousands of disabled people into poverty?
June 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
The determination of Labour to enact policies it knows will cause significant harm to marginalised communities, shows the issue with setting policy by "focus group vibes" rather than genuine need, or even genuine public opinion. It also has the secondary impact of free advertising for Reform. 1/
June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
Deep breath, lads.

In response to the proposed government disability cuts, I wrote a piece about my life before The Daily Tism (it includes a PIP assessment, a mental health crisis and iced Madeira cake). We’ll fight this with everything we’ve got.

#TakingThePip
I’m an autistic writer who is finally working. Without PIP, I wouldn’t have had a chance
How do you explain a PIP assessment to somebody who’s never had one?
medium.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
May 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reposted by clunkybones
Fourteen Thousand.

The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM