Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) @allfieuk.bsky.social Led by Disabled people the Alliance for Inclusive Education campaigns for the right of all Disabled people to access & be supported in mainstream education
@anitabellows.bsky.social @anitabellows.bsky.social
Access Social Care @accesssocialcare.bsky.social Access Social Care provides free legal advice to people with social care needs, helping to achieve a better quality of life.
Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social Advocacy & Comms at Just Fair / economic, social and cultural rights / build more homes.
Work on the UK, based in Mexico City.
www.justfair.org.uk
Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social Only the people united by class solidarity taking direct action can stop fascism from tightening its grip further.
Reshares and likes are not endorsements.
catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social one moment at a time
Manchester Disabled People’s Project @mdpp-gmcdp.bsky.social The Manchester Disabled People’s Project is run by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) to promote the full inclusion of disabled people in Manchester.
David Evans @geekonomicon.bsky.social Blogger, writer, geek, gamer, wit, and scholar.
https://geekonomicon.wordpress.com
Suzi Sapiets 🦔 @suzisapiets.bsky.social
@bril-bristol.bsky.social @bril-bristol.bsky.social Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living.
Grassroots Disabled people's organisation.
@jochimes.bsky.social @jochimes.bsky.social
Esmé Dobson @esmedobson.bsky.social Family carer for my husband who has late stage young onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Labour Councillor for Rye Lane ward in Peckham, London.
DPAC Cymru - Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru @dpac-cymru.bsky.social Grassroots group campaigning for our rights as disabled people.
Hawliau, nid Cardod 🏴
https://dpac.cymru | dpac.cymru@gmail.com | @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
@survivingwork.bsky.social @survivingwork.bsky.social
Rhian Davies @dwrhian.bsky.social Chief Executive: Disability Wales www.disabilitywales.org
Trustee: Wales Council for Voluntary Action
Member: Disability Rights Taskforce
Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures
Kate Belgrave @katebelgrave.bsky.social Journalist. Problem with authority that I'm too old to have. Blogger, housing and benefits activist. Interview-based podcast with people with housing and benefits problems. Non tribal politically. Dislike them all. https://whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/
Amie M Marie @amiemmm.bsky.social Arriving from Twitter (previously @amiemariamarie)
Disabled Playwright | The Play About Theresa May (2021) | Scrounge (2022) | https://www.waterstones.com/author/amie-m-marie/4998522
Supported Loving @supportedloving.bsky.social A national network promoting best practice surrounding sex and relationships- passionate about love, sex and relationships (and education)
Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social A University of Manchester research platform, developing and championing interdisciplinary research in Creativity and Creative practices.
https://linktr.ee/uomcreativemcr
For general enquiries please email creative@manchester.ac.uk.
Advicenow @advicenow.bsky.social Helping you with life's legal problems.
Formerly known as Law For Life, Advicenow.
BCS NeurodiverseIT Specialist Group @bcsneurodiverseit.bsky.social BCS NeurodiverseIT Specialist Group on Bluesky!
Vanessa Smith @normalsystems.bsky.social Systems strategist for chronically ill/neurodivergent/disabled business owners. Lived experience consultant for corporates.
Stef Benstead @stefbenstead.bsky.social Christian interested in socio-economic justice.
Chronically ill with hEDS, PoTS, fibro/Small Fibre Neuropathy.
Independent (unpaid) researcher in chronic illness and social policy.
Books: Second Class Citizens; Just Worship.
Together Trust charity @togethertrust.bsky.social UK charity supporting children in care and people with disabilities, autism and complex needs in the North West
Tina Hodgkinson @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social Reads, gives talks & writes about Agatha Christie
Loves London, history, gothic, great disabled access
Works at The London Archives https://tinahodgkinson.com/
John Cowan @johncowan.bsky.social Company Director and Photographer
Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social Activist, artist, PhD student. Interested in experiences of the menstrual cycle, disability and trauma. Mad, queer, autistic 🦈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#StopOxevision
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social 💙UK Registered Charity: 1205685
💙Long COVID doesn’t stop the care - neither do we.
💙Join our Campaign: #SafeAir4All
The Mental Elves @thementalelves.bsky.social I live with mental distress. Interested in alternative approaches outside the system and creating lived experience and peer support spaces. Harmed by critical psychiatry, mad survivor, forced to avoid services to prevent further harm.
@apriciajovialis.bsky.social @apriciajovialis.bsky.social Ugh. There are a million things more interesting and enjoyable than writing a personal introduction.
If you believe that every life is irreplaceable and deserves dignity and respect, then we're probably cool.
Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social We aim to improve #MentalHealth by championing expertise by experience involvement in all stages of research. RT ≠ endorsement. #MentalHealthResearchMatters
Visit our LinkTree to access our website, other socials, news and more. https://linktr.ee/mcpin_fo
Mandy Crandale @mandycrandale.bsky.social works at NSUN - National Survivor User Network - all views shared are my own
Koala 🐨 @forgets.bsky.social Mad person loves guinea pigs, crafts and books. Hedgehog slave.
THE ANOINTED ATHEIST @theanointedatheist.bsky.social Atheist. Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Books. Dog rescuer. Advocate. Fan of critical thinking.
I write about religion with a dose of humor.
If my posts offend you, turn the other cheek.
Shared Lives Plus @sharedlivesplus.bsky.social The UK charity for supportive shared living - #SharedLives and
#Homeshare
We're no longer active here. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
@timhollins.bsky.social @timhollins.bsky.social
Fiona Malpass @fionamalpass.bsky.social Work for Mind in Camden and other places too, like the NSPA and Discovering Liveability. Freelance trainer and speaker as well, with personal experience at the heart of everything I do. Sporadic social media user. Mainly dog tweets and sharing posts!
Together! 2012 CIC @together2012cic.bsky.social Together! 2012 CIC delivers a free year-round online programme of arts events and activities, led by Disabled artists with the support of the Lottery and Arts Council England.
Survivor Researcher Network @survivorresnet.bsky.social Survivor Researcher Network C.I.C. Mental health knowledge built by service users and survivors.
Flutterbygirl @flutterbygirl.bsky.social Fluttering between crafts
North Paddington Foodbank @npfoodbank.bsky.social 💷Westminster’s largest food aid charity and UK’s first #CashFirst food bank
Fighting food insecurity through aid, advocacy & community
👇Support us
🔗 https://linktr.ee/northpaddingtonfoodbank?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaawcubA1ymwokfBSXWd5
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, curator. Latest publication: Sore Loser...on queer disabled grief. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
Survivors against PD #StopSIM @survivorsnotpd.bsky.social Trauma survivors & allies against the label 'personality disorder'| Against pathologising survival | Blaming us for our own distress| #traumanotpd 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Annet Kirabo D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.A.H.A. @annetkiraboc1.bsky.social Professor @VanderbiltHealth #Hypertension, #kidney, #immunology #HostMicrobiotaInteraction. Mother of 2, wife. Associate Editor @CircRes
Jacqueline Roy @jacquelineroy.bsky.social Author of fiction for adults and children. Academic. Agent: Milly Reilly at Colwill & Peddle.
Adam Hill 🚇🚏🚶♂️🚃🛴🚙🚲 @itseditoradam.bsky.social Urbanism | Cities | Active Travel I Mass Transit | Micromobility | Traffic Management | ITS 💚 & Luna’s human representative 🐈
www.itsinternational.com
#trafficnerds t-shirts: bennymeadows.teemill.com 💛👕
Get 🆓 #trafficnerds badges from me when you see me
Cat Papastavrou Brooks @thebeetlebox.bsky.social Retired from sad, new career in mental health research. Gay. Often depressed. Wittgenstein stan. S/her
Support Finder @supportfinder.bsky.social Discover rewarding care jobs with Support Finder. Make a difference in someone's life. Sign up for free as a PA: www.supportfinder.org.uk
#SupportFinder #Surrey #SurreyUK #SurreyJobs
Silvia Galandini @silviagalandini.bsky.social
The Centre for Progressive Change @progressivechange.bsky.social We build national campaigns for a more progressive society.
#SafeSickPay - we need to raise the rate of Statutory Sick Pay so everyone can afford to get well soon.
Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social recoveryinthebin.org
A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social Creating a lived experience-led mental health justice movement to fight harmful systems and build better alternatives. Become a member via our website: https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
Subscribe and tell your friends!
Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC ✨
AccessibleHigherEd.com
DisabilityDaily.podbean.com
https://ko-fi.com/disabilitydaily
Celine @healingfromlc.bsky.social
JanJengba 🦋 @janjengba.bsky.social JENGbA Co Founder fighting against the injustice of #jointenterprise #socialist (UK) @jengba.bsky.social www.jengba.com
No DM’s please …I don’t like being pestered by strangers 🤬
JENGbA 🦋 @jengba.bsky.social Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association. Common Law used against common people that makes no common sense. Official website www.jengba.co.uk
@stjohnscentreot.bsky.social @stjohnscentreot.bsky.social
MS Sucks 🎗 @itreallydoes.com Web Developer #Joomla | Beekeeper | Widow
Disabled USMC Vet | Living with #DDD & #MS
📓 MS Sucks: a snarky journal for tracking your MS bullshit → mssucks.co/links
☕️ Buy me a coffee ➜ https://buymeacoffee.com/mssucks
Alive And Able @aliveandable.com Disabilities and Accessibility Advocacy
Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social GRIPP is working together to end poverty across the nations and regions of the UK. We centre our #livedexperience as we come together as #humanrights activists to grow our #power to make #change
www.gripp.org.uk
The Arc of Pennsylvania @thearcofpa.bsky.social Our Mission:
The Arc of PA’s mission is to advocate with and for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to promote and secure their rights
York CVS @yorkcvs.bsky.social We are a independent charity supporting and championing York's Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector with training, events, funding, development and representation.
Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social Social security law and its neighbours. Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/tom-royston/
The Meteor 🍉 @mcrmeteor.bsky.social Greater Manchester's not-for-profit, independent media co-operative. Telling stories that matter to local people.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Antonio Dias @antonioamdias.bsky.social artist, designer, writer,… musician
Follow my Substack:
https://antoniodias.substack.com/
If you "like" a post please repost. It's the only way it will gain traction.
No DMs or "Chats" please.
David Marshall @davenextthesea.bsky.social Retired transport planner MRTPI and Dad to Chloe. Trying to stay creative in planning and transport. School governor. Unfinished PhD, P/T student @aber.ac Rock music, real ale and SAFC.
Candice Black @candicecreative.bsky.social Weird Art
Weird Girl
Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sweetmortal
Website: https://candiceblackcreative.co.uk/
Spinal Injuries Association @spinalinjuries.bsky.social We are the expert, guiding voice for life after spinal cord injury, supporting 105,000 people with SCI and their families to live a fulfilled life in the UK https://linktr.ee/spinalinjuriesassociation- J Jenny Ceolta-Smith #FBLC @jceoltasmith.bsky.social Background #RetiredOccupationalTherapist due to #LongCovid background in vocational rehabilitation & PhD research includes #DWP policy, provision & front line practice. Not fully active here yet.
Inclusion Barnet @inclusionbarnet.bsky.social Peer-Led, Deaf and Disabled People's Organisation based in Barnet. We believe in the power of lived experience.
Visit our website: www.inclusionbarnet.org.uk
Stay Safe East @staysafeeast.bsky.social Tackling hate crime, domestic and sexual abuse against Deaf and disabled people.
GM Systems Changers @gmsystemschangers.bsky.social We are a network of organisations, activists and artists based in Greater Manchester.
https://linktr.ee/gmsystemschangers
Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social #DisabledByTheRailway
Powerchair user exposing inaccessibility & encouraging others to do the same! Love live music, hate steps.
www.DisabledByTheRailway.com
Jonathan Paul Mitchell @jonathanmitchell.me Disabled philosopher of disability.
Accessibility person at University of Atypical. All views are my own.
Autumn goth. Music liker. Guitar player.
Ranto @rantogethernow.bsky.social #ND, parent of NDs. #EDS #MCAS #POTs, #Dysautonomia etc. Arts nature animals politics news. I'd be delighted if you use AltText (and more likely to repost...). Probably the wrong temperature.
Lorraine Leeson @leesonl.bsky.social Linguist, interpreter, swimmer, lover of the sea & stained glass windows. First gen university student/academic. Associate Vice Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Trinity College Dublin.
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
P.E II @paul-ekwereii.bsky.social AvGeek🛩️👨🏽✈️ | Data Scientist | Speaker | AI/ML | Board Member | Aspiring Astronaut 👨🏽🚀
https://www.medium.com/@paul.ekwere
WISH @wishcharity.bsky.social WISH is now closed. This is a legacy account to celebrate. User-led mental health charity supporting women & non binary people in the community, hospitals & prisons. counselling https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/charity-closes---help-give-women-a-safe-ending
Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social She/Her French scouser - Born @339ppm
@unitetheunion Branch Secretary
#ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #FossilFree #Decolonisation #Disability #Solidarity
John Chadfield @joxn.bsky.social Unionising tech workers in the UK. National Officer for Tech at Communication Workers Union.
Co-founder of @utaw.tech
Join a union. Get organised.
Jocelynn 💙 @spongebob104.bsky.social Business inquiries: mclaughlinjocelynn3@gmail.com
My TikTok page link:
https://www.tiktok.com/@jocelynn.mclaughl?_t=ZT-90ghHOkOWmt&_r=1
My instagram link:
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Carmel🫐 @plemrac.bsky.social Retired, living a quiet life in rural Newfoundland, animal lover, Grammy to one cute little boy in the South of France.
Sue Poncin @sueponcin.com After Jan 2021: #Disabled by Long COVID & #BookSky author #LongCOVID memoir
Before Jan 2021: overachiever, #MathSky Calculus teacher, Mom Uber driver
www.sueponcin.com
In The Space Between: https://a.co/d/0fkSZMd
Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.
bit.ly/LULGWebsite
Liza (LIE-za) @neurodivengeance.bsky.social Batshit leatherdyke cripple orientating towards liberation. Esp focused on disability justice; very into reading & Hellenistic astrology when I have capacity. Housebound, usually in many fights about access. Made possible by community care. They/them.
Jessica Benton @jessbenton.bsky.social 27 🇬🇧 - she/her - first year PhD International Criminal Law and justice for disabled persons, Leeds Beckett. Former local gov officer and disability support worker.
Artcast4D @artcast4d.bsky.social Artcast4D: Unleashing creativity! Aims to design, develop, and test immersive technologies to boost Cultural Creative Industries in Europe
Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk The disabled-led group breaking down barriers and transforming the transport system so disabled people can travel with freedom, dignity, ease and confidence.
Join our community for transport justice: https://www.transportforall.org.uk
Emma Vogelmann @emma-vogelmann.bsky.social 🎙 Host of The Wheelchair Activist podcast | Disabled rights campaigner | Head of Policy at Transport for All | Passionate about authentic disabled representation | 🐾 Dog mom
Views my own. www.thewheelchairactivist.com/
GoFundMe https://gofund.me/4426dc94
Will Reid @willreid.bsky.social Personal account. Was @WillReidWeb on Twitter/X.
Christiane Link @christiane.link I make 🚆 ✈️ 🏘️ more accessible, still a journalist at heart, German Londoner with British passport 🇩🇪🇬🇧♿️ social model of disability 👍 accessiblelink.substack.com