Rebecca Smith
@lennysmith.bsky.social
Inspired watching World Championship gymnatics, I'm going plan a scoring system for transfers from wheelchair to toilet, shower, or bed based on time, style & efficacy. Extra bonus point for shouting 'I am gymnastics!' mid transfer. Points deducted for use of fall alarm or over extravagant swearing
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Inspired watching World Championship gymnatics, I'm going plan a scoring system for transfers from wheelchair to toilet, shower, or bed based on time, style & efficacy. Extra bonus point for shouting 'I am gymnastics!' mid transfer. Points deducted for use of fall alarm or over extravagant swearing
@pickardje.bsky.social saw this, and thought of you
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@pickardje.bsky.social saw this, and thought of you
Can you spot the problem in an accessible hotel bathroom?
October 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Can you spot the problem in an accessible hotel bathroom?
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ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
‘Epic with a capital E’: inside Elmet, a tale of violence and greed on haunted Yorkshire heath
Elmet, a novel that was shortlisted for the Booker, is a lyrical, richly written tale of a woodland family on a collision course with an avaricious landowner. Can it work onstage in Bradford?
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October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
love @jonathanliew.bsky.social football columns, but this is something else - Measured, accurate, ringing a very loud and insistent alarm bell.
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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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September 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
love @jonathanliew.bsky.social football columns, but this is something else - Measured, accurate, ringing a very loud and insistent alarm bell.
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Pride v. energy. Wheelchair quandary pt 37 - getting your frigging shoes on.
Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pride v. energy. Wheelchair quandary pt 37 - getting your frigging shoes on.
Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."
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August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."
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open.substack.com/pub/orwell/p...
Read this yesterday. Very powerful for those of us with long term conditions which won't be on the death certificate, but will leach away life incrementally through UTIs, choke hazards, chest infections, falls. I agree. Thank you Stephen Sedley and @lrb.co.uk
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Stephen Sedley · Not Terminal
Why should a terminal diagnosis matter? It matters because Kim Leadbeater’s bill currently before Parliament will...
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May 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Read this yesterday. Very powerful for those of us with long term conditions which won't be on the death certificate, but will leach away life incrementally through UTIs, choke hazards, chest infections, falls. I agree. Thank you Stephen Sedley and @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Exciting times in a well known chain brasserie in Leeds as firefighters have to break into the accessible toilet to rescue a middle aged woman unable to get off the toilet.
April 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Exciting times in a well known chain brasserie in Leeds as firefighters have to break into the accessible toilet to rescue a middle aged woman unable to get off the toilet.
when I was 13 I was a Spandau Ballet fan, whose main life question briefly was 'Gary or Martin?'.
Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'.
Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest.
Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'.
Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest.
Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
March 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
when I was 13 I was a Spandau Ballet fan, whose main life question briefly was 'Gary or Martin?'.
Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'.
Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest.
Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'.
Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest.
Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
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Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
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January 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
The major downside of bluesky for the perpetually suggestible earworm afflicted (me)...rolling ELO internal soundtrack
February 17, 2024 at 2:13 PM
The major downside of bluesky for the perpetually suggestible earworm afflicted (me)...rolling ELO internal soundtrack
The mighty Rebecca Solnit
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February 16, 2024 at 9:19 PM
The mighty Rebecca Solnit
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lithub.com/rebecca-soln...