Madwoman with M.E. Housebound. Gardener. Artist. T-shirt designer. Writer. Blogger. Owned by a Grey parrot, 2 'tiels, a Kakariki & 3 dogs. Will tweet nonsense.
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My latest artwork is, "Winter Pink". A long tailed tit on a winter bare sunflower stem. Hand drawn in Procreate on the iPad from a reference photo I took through my window in my garden.
ALT A small bird with a long black tail. It has blush pink patches of feathers on the tops of its folded wings. Black is the base colour. The face is white and fluffy, with some black peeking through. It's perched on a winter bare plant stem.
My heart has joined The Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
And this does feel like the loss of a friend. My heart goes out to his family, friends and all who loved him.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
BBC Sport approached @number10gov for a response to my letter to @andyburnham . The @DHSCgovuk responded and unfortunately this statement isn’t anything we didn’t already know. There are also fundamental inaccuracies within it.
Please also bear with me; I’ve had an extremely large amount of messages and I’m operating with a very limited capacity. @Ed_Miliband @tessamunt @JoPlattLeigh @KatieFalkingham @BBCSport @BBCNews @UKLabour @ThereForME_UK @YvetteCooperMP
1) Remove or underfund the support that enables disabled people to participate.
2) Observe that some disabled people cannot participate.
3) Classify their non-participation as the social problem.
4) Propose controlling, segregating or impoverishing them as the solution.
#Labour
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
It seems the Tories and the Telegraph are teaming up to try and rid Britain of disability by taking away people’s safety net, whilst blaming them for all Britains problems.
It’s cruelty personified.
It is the very worst of humanity and they should be ashamed of themselves.
The hatred directed at disabled people is Dickensian. I hear echoes of Scrooge: “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” and “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Dickens wrote that in 1843. Why is it still relevant?
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ALT Victorian-style illustration inspired by Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The Ghost of Christmas Present, an imposing bearded figure in a green, fur-trimmed robe and holly crown, sternly rebukes a hunched Ebenezer Scrooge in a candlelit room decorated for Christmas. Below them, an ornate gold frame surrounds parchment bearing the Ghost's words: “Man, if man you be in heart; not adamant; forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is.” A second quotation reads: “Oh God, to hear the Insect on the leaf, pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!” The text is printed in elegant Victorian lettering, with selected words in red. Holly, berries and candles decorate the border. The passage condemns the arrogance of judging other people's lives as expendable. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843.
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
Fecking shit like this is exactly why I get judged for having a disabled child who receives disability benefits.
When you reduce disabled people to statistics and talk about them as though they’re a burden on society, you fuel the stigma, resentment and hostility that disabled
A staggering 1 in 9 UK kids is now categorised as disabled, releasing benefits for parents.
Julie Marriott runs a community centre where young people tell her they fear being “labelled” as anxious, ADHD etc
Latest from Times welfare inquiry
thetimes.com/article/f212df9…
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
… impact on what you can do and the costs you face.
More people live with long term health conditions.
Some face sufficient challenges that they need social security or other support. Most don’t.
Saying 1 in X people is now disabled doesn’t mean 1 in X can get benefits.
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
Something I think is getting lost in the debate about disability prevalence & disability benefits:
Most disabled people do not qualify for benefits.
You don’t get benefits because you have a long term health condition. You get them if a health condition has a serious…
Wild ideas: disabled people deserve dignity, renewable energy is a good thing, evidence matters more than slogans, and cruelty isn't a substitute for policy.
Apparently controversial.
#DisabilityRights #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #UKPolitics
I’d settle for a decade in which reality stops auditioning for the role of satire that got rejected for being too obvious. Humanity is treating "don't look up" and "Idiocracy" as instruction manuals, in the exact same way as Governments have been using 1984.
The Libra Articles No. 3 When Did Disabled People Become Unaffordable?bekijane.substack.com/p/the-…
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
A Fair Deal for Vaping - Sign the Petition! c.org/WNs9pmMyVG via @UKChange
Unpopular opinion. The most annoying radio advert for 2026. The #postcodelottery one with the woman screaming. Like fingernails down a blackboard @greatesthitsuk I'm seriously considering switching back to R2 No, I won't pay for ad free.
My best friend is a 78 year old straight Boomer ex-trucker with long covid that was diagnosed by his GP. Good enough for you?
Britain has made enormous progress on disability in the last fifty years.
I think that is true.
But compared with what?
The Libra Articles #2: Disability Benefits: Compared With What?
bekijane.substack.com/p/the-…
I've rather reluctantly started a Substack, not because I had a burning desire to Become A Substack Writer, but because I seem to have started writing again and the things I'm writing don't have an obvious home. So I've made them one.
substack.com/@bekijane/note/…
Beki Jane 🦜 retweeted
Julie Burchill is entitled to defend Jeremy Vine. Mike O’Brien is entitled to challenge him. But this goes far beyond one broadcaster, one columnist or one campaigner.
What I will not accept is disabled people being divided into the “deserving” and “undeserving”, with wheelchair users held up as somehow more legitimate than people with mental health conditions or less visible disabilities.
My wheelchair does not make my disability more valid than somebody else’s.
Disabled people work. Disabled people pay tax. Some cannot work. Some need support to work. None of that determines our worth.
We cannot allow ourselves to be divided to make welfare cuts and suspicion of disabled people easier to justify.
Because once we accept that there is a line between the “good disabled” and the “bad disabled”, somebody else gets to decide where that line is drawn.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityBenefits #PIP #UnpaidCarers #DisabledPeople