artist, scotland, he/him, 30s, white cis guy, leftist.
Public Key
npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u Profile Code
nprofile1qqsvyan3sqmswxtu24fyjsvguyldkkps42c7n7887m0h9mdtdqx3yxspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsc39njs
Show more details
Published at
2026-07-27T10:50:43Z Event JSON
{
"id": "1e8043805c0e497023701051f27c9adb63770625a8f30dcf3cd49ed73a873e31" ,
"pubkey": "c27671803707197c5552494188e13edb5830aab1e9f8e7f6df72edab680d121a" ,
"created_at": 1785149443 ,
"kind": 0 ,
"tags": [
[
"emoji",
"disabled_knife",
"https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/custom_emojis/images/000/226/039/original/01610a6d8bdbb521.png"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://godforsaken.website/users/alex",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub"
]
],
"content": "{\"name\":\"alex :disabled_knife:\",\"about\":\"artist, scotland, he/him, 30s, white cis guy, leftist.\\ndisabled with #mecfs, disabled comrades hmu!\\ni mute/block a lot of people onhere, it's not a big deal.\",\"picture\":\"https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/accounts/avatars/000/050/792/original/8fc025489dd058f2.png\",\"banner\":\"https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/accounts/headers/000/050/792/original/237fbb6aa05961c1.jpeg\",\"nip05\":\"[email protected] \",\"fields\":[]}" ,
"sig": "baed2d0d401118d114dfae21b9275d34869c76e06c42eb8cad635c1e303d25ebabd4b7caff7ca7b11ae5c2d934d9257d6d4cf0bf1458187a48fd313d63656a54"
}
Last Notes npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: what on earth https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c203n6qx3ego npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: re: last boost (https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-covid-inquiry-has-laid-bare) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: what did they think was going to happen when they signed up for the leftism. did they not want to do any of it. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: (yeah i looked at twitter again) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: Timms review on PIP has opened its call for evidence until 28th of May. they are going to be absolutely gunning for cuts to PIP after their massive cuts to Universal Credit. if you can complete the online response, please do. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: ! important cask of amontillado news ! npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "starmer vows not to quit" great to hear that starmer has full confidence in starmer npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: i don't expect there's a top-down bbc policy of not platforming greens, but its internal culture of conservativism has trained all of its journalists to instinctively feel that it would be kind of weird to do so, sort of like interviewing a dog npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: bbc: henry zeffman: "green victory shows insurgent parties are here to stay". not really though, does it? it shows the greens are popular and "here to stay". labour support dropped enough to fall below reform's relatively low result - reform didn't surge. even when the greens win, bbc wants reform to win too. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: like all this expensive (energy-expensive) tech superstructure to support being able to produce a little diagram guy in several situations; or else that fake pencil-drawing semi-realistic style of people taking turns mocking each other and crying in humiliation - that's really your options. it can't be used to make much more than that. if you want it to write text, it can kind of write an entry-level marketing infomercial essay with the same structure each time. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: 80s nostalgia is heavily uncle-coded now imo. zoomers aren't going to watch that. stranger things just barely scraped through the extreme tail end of that trend. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…l7em i saw this a little while ago - it also had a sword in the logo then (a crossed spear and sword, with the circle representing a shield). i wonder if there's some electoral commission prohibition on swords appearing in party logos. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: they would still present this same danger to the community (reckless, galloping horde) no matter what dummy you substituted for the fox. it's a ritual that produces their class relation and asserts their position as landowners. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: as a "rural person", my experience of the boxing day fox hunt is that a bunch of very very rich people nobody knows from outside the local area all park their expensive cars down at the farm then spend all day dangerously galloping around the surrounding area like Genghis Khan's Horde. you don't see them, but their loud noise circles around from different directions all day. everyone local knows not to go out in the hills all day due to the sheer danger. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: honestly thrilled by "i can walk, Martha - it just hurts". perfectly executed. explains ambulatory wheelchair use in one line, puts the audience on the side of the disabled person who gets a cool funny line, ableist looks like a prat, we all go "hell yeah". that one line is the best disability rep i've seen in a movie in ages. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: ring-a-ding-a-dong / npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: i selected both cymbals and the banana and the captcha accepted it as correct. hopeing to have poisoned AI to believe that bananas are musical instruments npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: imp 1 (from Doom): who left all of these medipacks that give +10HP to our mortal enemy, Doom Guy, lying around all over the place? npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: :solidsalute: : agent Magnetic Mouse, your mission is to infiltrate the facility. now be careful because there's going to be lots of magnetically receptive surfaces in there, and you are very small. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…czr6 it would be such a good bit if you got it to work though! npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…czr6 yes i think a modern plastic barrel would be uncomfortable worn against the skin. A wooden barrel might feel pretty good! npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: guy wearing only a barrel held up with suspenders because his one outfit is in the wash. not something you see so often nowadays. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…9027 @nprofile…9r8e Yeah, like if they have to conjure up a falsified picture of their product, I will assume they don't have a product. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…9r8e yeah it basically advertises that they can't or won't hire a graphic designer or manage to take product photos themselves. literally worse than using stock images or clip art. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: oh you're in the infantry? haha the baby department?? *i'm* in the (lying) (making it up) the adultery npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: if there is so much as a single AI-generated image, text, sound, video, logo, whatever, anywhere in a business's online presence, i will naturally assume that literally every level of the business is a heap of bullshit. it renders their business completely, irrevocably untrustworthy to me. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: hissing like a snake at etsy listings with AI images of the item npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: ! Get Mario To Do It npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "The number of people with a Motability car has increased sharply in recent years, to 860,000." that figure is meaningless in itself! what has it increased from? how many years are "recent"? contextualise that number please! this is half-assed tripe. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: graphs showing that the top 1% are paying an increasingly large share of total uk tax demonstrate only that the top 1% have gigantically increased their wealth over time (their wealth is a much, much larger share of total uk wealth). npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: commenters like "i know a neighbour who claims disability and does this and that and [whingey whingey whinge]". i'm imagining OP stood at their window looking out with a little notepad. get a life reginald. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: doing the corny "sample of a voicemail someone left me" in every song on an album but the voicemail is someone being like "alex if you're still out can you pick up five eggs at the shop, thanks", and the followup voicemails on each song become successively more urgent "looking more like six eggs now" "please text re: eggs" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the same great duo that teamed up to bring you "escalators" and "escalator handrails" have returned with "picture frames" and "pictures you want to put in the picture frame" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…czr6 the cast of rentaghost appeared. ⭐ (one star) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: any time an item has only a single 1 star rating in an online shop, the review is something like: i had a ghostly experience on the day that i got this. not the fault of the seller but it ruined my buying experience. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: started reading what looked like a rare good mainstream article about disability and work, and in paragraph one it says "The Government desperately needs to bring down the bill for health and disability benefits – projected to reach £72.3bn by 2030" and, let me stop you right there article. no it doesn't. the government doesn't need to do that at all. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: would i rather have an income of £14k or an income of £71k. hmm. well if i had to chose between those two options, i would have to say i would rather have the income of £71k. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: imagine making the top 5% tier of uk earnings and somehow believing yourself to have a worse quality of life than a guy who has to be lying down for 22 hours a day for medical reasons. that's the sheer level of anti-joie-de-vivre it takes to write for the telegraph. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: big section of the uk press currently trying to persuade you that a person with an income of <£14k is better off than a person with an income of >£70k 🤷 npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: going to the "tell us the flavour" form and submitting only the word "pish" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: kind of an artificial citrus flavour, which is not what i'd expect from some sort of excretion harvested from nessie herself. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: chippy van only had a single van of irn bru - this mysterious "nessie nectar" flavour, which i have never seen before in my life. even barrs themselves don't seem to know what flavour it is (requesting the drinker contact them to tell them) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: like it's just bitterly funny imo that the government thinks the pandemic npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: november november the first of november npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: Wooden egg cabinet npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the nichts are fair dra'in in npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: liz kendall called digital ID the "digital key that unlocks better, more joined-up and effective public services". wow it's so cool that uk public services are now locked up like a £6 block of cheese at the supermarket. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "Labour is launching a review to decide whether some mental health and neurodivergence issues are being overdiagnosed." npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "Exercise could boost the immune system after Covid, research finds" (The Independent) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: You have been visited by upside down Napolina tomatoes with rusted ring-pull. RT for good luck in tomato matters npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: UK people: remember that emergency alert phone test is at 3pm today npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…r5de there he is. little guy. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the nichts are fair dra'in in npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: i fully think that even the most basic attempt at artistic expression by a human is more valuable than the most refined "AI art". there are simple handprints on cave walls made a hundred thousand years ago, and so we know kinship with the people who did that. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: if someone consistently produces and posts a new piece of complex, full-colour art *daily*, with no WIPs, exercise scepticism. if they also use identifiably AI art in other parts of their practice, it's more likely their other work is also AI. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: And It Would Have To Be A Cow I Trust npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: I Wouldn't Believe Even Normal Butter Is Butter Until I See It Coming Out Of The Cow As Milk And Then Getting Churned Into Butter By A Milkmaid (Preferably Alpine) With My Own Eyes (No Blinking) npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "'skull room' highlights uni's complicated history with racist science" ma'am they have a room called "the skull room" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "complicated" is lib speak for "straightforward but uncomfortable to talk about" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: going down to the town hall to sign a lengthy, handwritten affadavit co-signed by my missus that lets me watch the "carry on" films so long as i close my eyes at the bit when barbara windsor's bra goes flying off npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: first i had to verify i'm human to go online, now i have to verify i'm old. will the indignities never end. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: an ME/CFS comrade is facing mistreatment in hospital and is in a bad way, this petition to help her is directed at the NHS trust: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: Disability impoverishment bill is going to the house of lords this tuesday (two days from now). Please email this template letter by Dr Jay Watts to the lords: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: (cartesian john wick) yeah i'm thinking i'm npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "Forget ambitions to hire more disabled talent in senior roles or to improve access to social and sporting venues – Britain prefers to discuss whether disabled people should be allowed to eat and go to the toilet." npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: very good from frances ryan on uk's climate of ableism: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: we're at the bit of the pandemic where the state and state media is going "damn, disabled people are getting expensive" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…r5de yes i get this too. annoying. seems like they got rid of the alt text duplicated into the HTML "title" attribute (this is what shows up when you hover), leaving it only in the (technically correct) "alt" attribute. except that the expanded lightbox image still has alt text in both "alt" and "title" 🤷 npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: via Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the UN's letter makes mention of two recent UN investigations into the UK's treatment of disabled people which found "grave and systemic violations" of disabled people's human rights, and set actionable requirements for the UK government to meet its commitments under international human rights law. it notes that the UK government has not taken these actions, and has gotten worse in its treatment of disabled people. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: A group of Disabled Peoples' Organisations recently wrote to the UN Human Rights Commission asking for intervention in the UK's current regime of anti-disabled legislation and climate of hate. The UN representative has responded by addressing a letter to the UK government representative, with the following letter npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the "we promise to change it after the bill's gone through" changes, agreed on last week at the bill's second reading, apply only to PIP and not Universal Credit. the bill is still on course to massively impoverish disabled Universal Credit claimants. the entire bill needs to be defeated. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: hello, if you have a Labour MP, please write to them instructing them to vote against the UC & PIP bill tomorrow. you can use this tool from Taking The PIP npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: M2GAN 3.0 npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: @nprofile…7m7s yeah! nobody really knows what their neighbours are doing! i like my neighbours but i have no clue what they do with their time. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: my favourite snitch reply i saw to a tweet about disability benefits was "my neighbours claim disability benefit and all day they play playstation and smoke weed". like, first of all, snitchy snitchy curtain twitchy :blobshh: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: fucking hell somebody stop her! can't believe she treats british troops like this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/27/welfare-bill-cuts-labour-conservatives-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest-news-updates#img-5 npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: also regarding migration from legacy benefits: the newer benefits are generally worth less money to the claimant. it is illegal to reduce benefits that people are already on, so the whole point of the new benefits was to migrate people onto a new, lower value one. so a large part of that "1000 people per day" actually represents the government significantly recouping costs by migrating people from older, more valuable benefits to newer, cheaper ones. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: keir starmer's intern: i brought you your favourite lunch, sir; three sheets of blank paper npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: oh yeah also people migrating from legacy benefits to UC and PIP, resulting in no net change in benefits claims overall, but ministers can then say things like "that's +1 PIP claimant" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: (really it's that most disabled UK citizens don't already claim benefits, so there is at all times a large pool of eligible people who might, for example, decide that current economic conditions might require them to newly start claiming for a benefit they're already eligible for). npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "1000 new people claim PIP every day". wow, if that is a large number (i would dispute that), then it should be concerning that the UK is disabling its own citizens at such a rate. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: Saw film? Yes i did. Saw 2? In fact i saw several npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: amendment introduced to put the bill on hold: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: gonna predict that in 2030 there are going to be people that the uk government categorises as simultaneously ill enough to be euthanised and not ill enough to claim disability benefits npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: like, if we accept that kendall genuinely believes what she is saying, there is an unbridgeable chasm between what she's doing and what she believes the effect of that will be. it is a complete disconnect of the chain of cause and effect. her legislation is not even the most straightforward way to achieve the desired effect - it's not the first solution anyone would reach for. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: dwp: we are going to offer you so many opportunities. we are going to take the road of compassion, opportunity and dignity. this is a new social contract. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: when Liz Kendall says things like “social security system is at a crossroads [...] Unless we reform it, more people will be denied opportunities, and it may not be there for those who need it [...] This legislation represents a new social contract and marks the moment we take the road of compassion, opportunity and dignity.”, i feel like i am losing my mind. none of her legislation achieves this, it's just cuts. what opportunities do cuts grant? npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: should also point out (the Sky article doesn't, because it wants you to think that disabled people are getting too much) that the largest part of the social security expenditure is always on pensions. providing for our elders is also a good use of public money imo! npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "society is spending even more on making sure citizens who can't work are having their needs met than it is on exploding foreigners with bombs. this is unsustainable! the latter should be the larger expenditure" npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: "A report released by a House of Lords committee earlier this year ... found that the government spends more (£65bn as of January) on incapacity and disability benefits than on defence." OK that's a sign of a benevolent and healthy society though, right npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: i'm picking up good vibrations / npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: beach boys: old sounds npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: Toolkits on covering UK disability and benefits (aimed at press and politicians) from advocacy group Turn 2 Us: npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: dreamt that i got sheep insurance for a sheep that i presumably owned in the dream. received a sheep insurance card (like a credit card) printed with an artful double exposure of my sheep's face in profile in white ink over my face in portrait in blank ink, on red plastic. it was A4 in size. that's nice, but inconveniently sized, i thought. npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/27/disabled-celebrities-urge-keir-starmer-scrap-inhumane-benefit-cuts npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: itinerant mountebank: you! what news of cryptocurrency!? npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: the postie van should play a little tune when it's going around. smash that like button if you agree npub1cfm8rqphquvhc42jf9qc3cf7mdvrp243a8uw0aklwtk6k6qdzgdqwha34u alex :disabled_knife: work & pensions committee is launching an inquiry into the government's proposals to further impoverish benefits claimants. i'm too cynical to believe this will do much good, but it's one possible route of undoing the cuts before they happen.
