Morning, I've built a website that plays the Wilhelm scream every time the Tories lose a council seat

matteason.co.uk/scream/

More results due around lunchtime so leave it running in the background for a nice surprise

Lime bikes as street clutter making it tricky for disabled people to navigate 🤢

Lime bikes to delay deportation 🥰

'We keep coming back to this as if it's an unemployment benefit.'

'It isn't, PIP is to help disabled people live with the unavoidable extra costs.'

Dr Shani Dhanda clears up a common misconception about Personal Independence Payments.

Jeremy Vine | #JeremyVine

The PIP consultation has landed, as I have shared before and I have shared here. It has many questions. I will write a detailed response to the consultation (as a disabled person myself, campaigner, activist, advocate, and carer), and share my response when done.…

“Proposing vouchers instead of cash perpetuates the myth that benefits claimants cannot be trusted with taxpayers’ money. This is social policy if it was run by Groupon: use code TORYWIPEOUT24 for 25% off an oxygen cylinder.”

My col. on PIP reforms theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Is any DPO or disabled-led campaign group putting together a template response to the PIP consultation?

I’m happy to share my response once I’ve written it but that won’t be for a while considering the…..length

The irony is that if people have to claim back what they actually spend on being disabled.... the bill for the Government would go up massively.

Because it costs disabled people (on average) a lot more than they give us.

If any engineers would like to weigh in on typical lead times for replacing lifts i would genuinely be interested to know :)

Transphobic, undermining and disgraceful, causing suffering and deaths.
We can vote, die for the country, do everything else in our teens, yet not transition until 25.
Why?!
Horrible.

Uh oh core memory unlocked - during my school photos the photographer made me get out of my wheelchair and sit on a ‘normal’ chair to fit in 🫠

Can you guess the image just by reading the text?

We're giving you a sneak peak into our campaign ahead of #GAAD2024 - Alt Alts.

Our goal is to raise awareness of Alt Text, it's importance, and how to properly use it to give everyone the full picture.

An absolutely badass addition to my hall of fame of disability campaigns from @CoorDown for #WorldDownSyndromeDay .

And the woman in the video is @MadisonTevlin. 🦾💋

update: tiktok is worse!! 🫠

Frances as always puts it far more eloquently than I've been struggling to. In a perfect world we all deserve to die with dignity. But we don't even have a world where disabled people can live in dignity.