Ellie
@madknittrsteaparty.bsky.social
Love crafts, history, stories, natural world & spending time with husband, children, family & friends. When M.E /CFS & POTS doesn't stop me - which is most of the time right now. Usually found in a dressing gown. Devon, UK ♿🌿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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Ellie
@madknittrsteaparty.bsky.social
· Jul 23
To my followers- I am sorry I can't donate to Gaza accounts at this time. I am disabled, unable to work, & spend much of my life in bed.
Please continue to follow me.
To UK government- we're watching a genocide in real time & you do nothing. This is unbearable. I'm ashamed of my government.
Please continue to follow me.
To UK government- we're watching a genocide in real time & you do nothing. This is unbearable. I'm ashamed of my government.
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A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
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Today is International Day Of Persons With Disabilities, and we are also in the 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, so here is my article on violence against disabled women.
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/04/10/s...
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/04/10/s...
Surviving in plain sight: Disabled women and domestic abuse
Bella Takeover 10-12 April, with Guest Editor Caitlin Logan Engender have published an in-depth, much-needed report on disabled women’s reproductive rights: ‘Our Bodies, Our Rights’. There are so m…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Today is International Day Of Persons With Disabilities, and we are also in the 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, so here is my article on violence against disabled women.
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/04/10/s...
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/04/10/s...
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"24,000 households.. in Kent are waking up to a 5th day without water"
One affected resident says, of the private water company, "these guys should be in jail"
Labour could have taken our water back into public ownership. Instead they chose to side with the water companies.
One affected resident says, of the private water company, "these guys should be in jail"
Labour could have taken our water back into public ownership. Instead they chose to side with the water companies.
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"24,000 households.. in Kent are waking up to a 5th day without water"
One affected resident says, of the private water company, "these guys should be in jail"
Labour could have taken our water back into public ownership. Instead they chose to side with the water companies.
One affected resident says, of the private water company, "these guys should be in jail"
Labour could have taken our water back into public ownership. Instead they chose to side with the water companies.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Swear that some abled folk think we just go to the GP and leave with disability benefits…
Couldn’t be further from the reality.
Couldn’t be further from the reality.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Swear that some abled folk think we just go to the GP and leave with disability benefits…
Couldn’t be further from the reality.
Couldn’t be further from the reality.
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Since I'm already diagnosed and trying all the medication I can, my interactions with healthcare professionals have actually been quite limited recently because there's nothing more they can really do for me. The healthcare I receive is disproportionately low for how unwell I am continuously.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Since I'm already diagnosed and trying all the medication I can, my interactions with healthcare professionals have actually been quite limited recently because there's nothing more they can really do for me. The healthcare I receive is disproportionately low for how unwell I am continuously.
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I finished my PIP review form today (only took 3 months...) And its striking me how hard it is to gather sufficient medical evidence. Let alone that the form itself is barely scratching the surface when it comes to expressing how disabled I am.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I finished my PIP review form today (only took 3 months...) And its striking me how hard it is to gather sufficient medical evidence. Let alone that the form itself is barely scratching the surface when it comes to expressing how disabled I am.
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While obviously Lammy's proposal of scrapping many jury trials is getting the headlines, it seems odd how little attention his proposal to scrap the automatic right to appeal is getting. That seems like quite a big thing to be honest, especially for poorer and more marginalised defendants. #r4today
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
While obviously Lammy's proposal of scrapping many jury trials is getting the headlines, it seems odd how little attention his proposal to scrap the automatic right to appeal is getting. That seems like quite a big thing to be honest, especially for poorer and more marginalised defendants. #r4today
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Utterly heartbreaking to hear that 20yr old #pwME Ella Copley has died
Deepest condolences to her incredible Mother Jo who couldnt have fought harder for her
@tessamunt.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social unless measures are taken urgently this will continue to happen 2 pwME
Deepest condolences to her incredible Mother Jo who couldnt have fought harder for her
@tessamunt.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social unless measures are taken urgently this will continue to happen 2 pwME
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Utterly heartbreaking to hear that 20yr old #pwME Ella Copley has died
Deepest condolences to her incredible Mother Jo who couldnt have fought harder for her
@tessamunt.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social unless measures are taken urgently this will continue to happen 2 pwME
Deepest condolences to her incredible Mother Jo who couldnt have fought harder for her
@tessamunt.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social unless measures are taken urgently this will continue to happen 2 pwME
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So incredibly sad 💔😢
But yet another one of those ‘never events’ that I believe @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social committed to ensuring would never happen again 😢
Multiple “Prevention of Future Deaths Reports” just aren’t working. It must be time to take a look into the details and find out why?
#pwME
But yet another one of those ‘never events’ that I believe @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social committed to ensuring would never happen again 😢
Multiple “Prevention of Future Deaths Reports” just aren’t working. It must be time to take a look into the details and find out why?
#pwME
Thinking of Jo and everything she tried to prevent this death.
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So incredibly sad 💔😢
But yet another one of those ‘never events’ that I believe @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social committed to ensuring would never happen again 😢
Multiple “Prevention of Future Deaths Reports” just aren’t working. It must be time to take a look into the details and find out why?
#pwME
But yet another one of those ‘never events’ that I believe @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social committed to ensuring would never happen again 😢
Multiple “Prevention of Future Deaths Reports” just aren’t working. It must be time to take a look into the details and find out why?
#pwME
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Thinking of Jo and everything she tried to prevent this death.
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Your #FoxOfTheDay today is from @matthewjames86.bsky.social on BlueSky , thank you Matthew !
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Your #FoxOfTheDay today is from @matthewjames86.bsky.social on BlueSky , thank you Matthew !
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Thank you @thereforme.bsky.social and @hopefullizzy.bsky.social for recognising the wonderful Mel! 🧡 🙌
December 2nd. Thank you for being #ThereForME, Melanie Di Luca @actionforme.bsky.social!
Nominated by @hopefullizzy.bsky.social ✨
Nominated by @hopefullizzy.bsky.social ✨
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you @thereforme.bsky.social and @hopefullizzy.bsky.social for recognising the wonderful Mel! 🧡 🙌
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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🔆 If you feel comforted by continuity like here at Beverley Minster you might like my camper-van-camino through the British Isles. Each Friday I post out a digest recording the ✨wondrous ✨in my time-travelling camper van. Subscribe for free here: 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🔆 If you feel comforted by continuity like here at Beverley Minster you might like my camper-van-camino through the British Isles. Each Friday I post out a digest recording the ✨wondrous ✨in my time-travelling camper van. Subscribe for free here: 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co
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✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
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Clear-headed analysis by a new wheelchair user of the sad (infuriating!) state of privatised ‚NHS‘ wheelchair services
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Clear-headed analysis by a new wheelchair user of the sad (infuriating!) state of privatised ‚NHS‘ wheelchair services
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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won't you celebrate with me.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
won't you celebrate with me.
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Big thanks to Alexis for being such a fantastic advocate for the community! 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Big thanks to Alexis for being such a fantastic advocate for the community! 🙏
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December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We were attacked by fascists on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
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On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We were attacked by fascists on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
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On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
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Please read! 🔥 🔥 🔥
This sums up all that’s wrong with the country right now.
#labour #privatisation #disability #medsky #health #nhs
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This sums up all that’s wrong with the country right now.
#labour #privatisation #disability #medsky #health #nhs
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
The long read: After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical and incompetent many wheelchair providers can be
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Please read! 🔥 🔥 🔥
This sums up all that’s wrong with the country right now.
#labour #privatisation #disability #medsky #health #nhs
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This sums up all that’s wrong with the country right now.
#labour #privatisation #disability #medsky #health #nhs
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Winter Song Thrush and berries. 😍
Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Winter Song Thrush and berries. 😍
Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
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I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p>
<p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p>
<p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p>
<p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?
"When people asked, Why do you think it hit you so hard? it seemed to carry a tinge of suspicion. I must have done something wrong to bring Long COVID upon myself, as opposed to it being the cosmic car accident that illness so often is."
All too familiar re Long Covid & M.E!
An excellentpiece.
All too familiar re Long Covid & M.E!
An excellentpiece.
New piece I wrote for @thesicktimes.org on the need to ask people with Long COVID what they are going through.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"When people asked, Why do you think it hit you so hard? it seemed to carry a tinge of suspicion. I must have done something wrong to bring Long COVID upon myself, as opposed to it being the cosmic car accident that illness so often is."
All too familiar re Long Covid & M.E!
An excellentpiece.
All too familiar re Long Covid & M.E!
An excellentpiece.