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A photo of JRF Chief Analyst with a quote about the latest Households Below MIS report. Peter says: When millions of lives continue to be blighted by rising costs and wages that are refusing to catch it's on all political parties to show their commitment to raising living standards. Only by bringing people's costs down and boosting their incomes will people start to feel better off by the end of the decade."

More than two-thirds of households struggling to afford a decent life are in work.

New research from @lborouniversity.bsky.social funded by JRF, sets out the scale of the problem. A 🧵

Unlearning Internalized Ableism: The Lies We Tell Ourselves and How to Break Free Discover the impact of internalized ableism and how it influences our beliefs about ourselves and our abilities.

“That voice telling you to do more, be less of a burden, prove yourself constantly? That’s not your intuition. That’s conditioning. And you’re not #broken for believing it.”: buff.ly/7HtOE7e

by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#ableism #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #disability

I laughed so hard I woke up my partner 😂

Gemini sends a lengthy apology and says it will try again, giving me a more natural look

Gemini makes my head bigger, but more centred.

Gemini sends an even longer apology and then suggests a redo with a "more believable result"

Gemini has my head peeking out from between the cleavage of the person wearing the dress

My attempts to correct it were futile.

I requested ai place my features into a wedding dress. Gemini came back with the exact same image as the dress

I corrected Gemini. Gemini decided to try again, and pasted my face onto the dress itself.

Gemini asks what it can do to make it better. I pointed out it has pasted my face onto the dress

Gemini repeats the mistake. Only making my head bigger.

I thought I'd try out AI, to help me visualise my wedding details. It went about as well as you would expect...

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Manchester! I’m hosting a special night of screenings with the playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Harvey on Saturday night.

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Is Rest the Most Underrated Part of Chronic Illness Management? Gain insights into chronic illness management and find out why rest is the key factor you need to focus on for improvement.

"When you live with a fluctuating condition..your #body is already doing so much behind the scenes. And that means you need #RecoveryTime built into your day, not just #recovery days after a crash.": buff.ly/di8FrDo

#ChronicIllness #pacing
by @thethrivingspoonie.com

The new age verification check guessed my age... But then didn't tell me how old it thinks I am.

I swear, I'm not gonna be upset, I'm just curious 😅

JOINT STATEMENT ON GAZA FROM AFP, AP, BBC NEWS AND REUTERS “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. “Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them. “We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.”

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT:

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.

"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

Side note: never thought I'd ever be attracted to a door but I suppose @benstarr.bsky.social will have that effect on folk

Date Everything is one of the most unhinged games... but I'm absolutely loving running around, flirting with pieces of furniture and abstract concepts, while @bendiskin.bsky.social occasionally pops up to drip feed info as a conspiratorial guide.

Total, blissful madness.

I think the heat is definitely causing flare-ups rn, too much for the body to compensate for!
sorry you got no sleep mate, hopefully a good power nap is on the cards?

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Too hot or too stressed?

Also I'm sure I saw somewhere that does like socks for sticks, so it covers everything up and looks a little more fun (and can be washed easily when it gets mucky)

Get one with a quad base, so you can take your hand off it without it falling over all the time. I have my fancy neo stick for when I want to feel fancy and my basic, foldable quad stick for things like shopping or getting to appts cause then I'm not constantly trying to prop it up against somat

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Oooo try Neo Walk - that's where I got my light-up one!

I gave the big write-up on it over on IG but I should've done an informative thing on tiktok or here. I didn't realise how many people are waiting for their medial branch block til I looked for it myself #ciad
Next time!

Surgery was a big success!! 🙌🏻

Such normative vibes across all the spectrums from nearly all of them and it kills me inside. Especially as someone who was "eh" about weddings in the first place.

And another little gripe of mine, why are no wedding venues indicating whether they're wheelchair/disability friendly?

It's all well and good showing me pictures of the fireplace up close, or the decorations, if I don't know whether I'll even be able to get IN to your venue to appreciate them #ciad

People that provide wedding services (rooms, photography etc etc) I am BEGGING you to just put the price on your website 😫

UK's 'cruel' benefits system is 'ruining lives', Amnesty report finds Amnesty is urging the DWP to stop its plans for benefit cuts – as the social security system is already 'violating human rights'.

Lives are being “ruined” by a “consciously cruel” social security system in the UK.
Amnesty collaborated with more than 700 benefit claimants and advisors for its new report which has found “severe human rights violations” at the heart of the system.
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8.8 million people in the UK experience anxiety or depression each week. Just 361,000 get PIP for it. PIP isn’t for the ‘worried well’—it’s for those with serious, disabling illness. Labour knows this. They’re counting on the public not to. #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityBenefits

10 Outrageous Things People Have Actually Said to Me About MS People with MS and other chronic illnesses hear outrageous comments like these all the time.

“It’s stunning to me how often #strangers feel entitled to know such personal info as someone’s #MedicalHistory. Imagine if you were regularly asked by someone you didn’t know to tell them about one of the worst things you’ve been through": buff.ly/Is0qYv8

via @bezzycommunity.bsky.social
#MS

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