Half hour playing jenga with calendar events to figure out how to meet various deadlines over the next fortnight...

Was surprised not to find ''Terrible' instead of doubleplusungood' in the list.

sunak claims that 'people are not three times sicker than they were a decade ago'. but why not? why wouldn't many more people be more ill or disabled following a decade of worsening living conditions, lower wages, and austerity?

If you want to understand why tightening access to benefits or increasing conditionality is unlikely to help disabled people to work, this from Victoria is the best thing I've read to explains it:
wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/what-id-like-t…

This is how reframing mental illness as 'everyday challenges and worries of life' plays out. Who is it really for?
What happened to you?
Dwp and tories who don't recognise mental illness.
twitter.com/Shrink_at_Larg…

My first 'job' was burning and selling CD-Rs - £3 a CD, £2 a CD if ordered 5+, and a few free CDs if lent me something to copy that others wanted.

My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm

Another attack on the rights of disabled people where we see the government draw heavily upon the language of critical psychiatry.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Worth noting, the 'now normal' UK med shortages include ones on the WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines.

That's both my meds affected now. As usual, reporting fails to mention that epilepsy meds affected are also bipolar meds.
theguardian.com/science/2024/a…