I am not a tech person but grew up with dual-boot Linux & Windows set ups and I wonder if that might provide a route for people with very specific software needs to minimise their exposure to the AI bullshit
This was wildly good folks - if epistemic injustice is even tangentially relevant to your research this is well worth watching (hopefully will share some more thought out thoughts later)
The reason I learnt to read my loved ones blood results, and why I have multiple trans health related guidelines saved close to hand is because of doctors not DIY networks.
The last time I saw an interpretation error by an NHS doctor was about three weeks ago.
I spend my life being told and reading about people being given wrong treatments, inappropriate doses, having blood tests wildly misinterpreted both in trans health and out.
I think many people (and policy makers) are under some sort of weird illusion that a medication being prescribed or a blood test being monitored by a healthcare professional magically protects patients from harm or inappropriate advice and it's just not true.
Echoing others saying reschedule and would also suggest two weeks out instead of one (for you to be well rid of the crud, and also for folk who need to plan/pace/arrange childcare at least a week out)
We've been repeatedly promised a full ban on conversion practices in the UK by successive governments and yet we've seen more momentum behind banning youth from social media, a thing that conversion therapists have been actively advocating for.
I see it so often I feel like I say "that's not what normalisation means" almost as often as "performativity is not the same as performance"
This feels so understandable to me, especially if you go back to early disability studies texts, and yet the notion that 'treatment=normalisation' persists among some even in the highest level of our discipline
*while acknowledging that these things are also influenced by social structures
Normalisation is about prioritising the achieving or approximating a species-typical norm over allowing people to freedom to choose treatment based on their own desires, values and wellbeing*.
Once again begging people doing disability studies to go back and engage with normalisation as the concept was first intended.
Not all medical interventions are normalising! Even medical interventions that move someone's bodymind towards a norm aren't necessarily used as normalisation!
Transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny...
In an exclusive for the Daily Mail, we can reveal that the Code of Practice for Service Providers applies specifically to the provision of services.
Making that Wikipedia page and those fois sounds extremely reasonable for someone interested in resistance studies
sorry what the fuck
Right, let's go and do it all again!
I leave the year knowing I did good work this year and profoundly grateful to the many, many people who supported me, gave me (sometimes repeated) chances, I got to meet and work alongside, and got me through the year. There are too many to name here but each one of you are incredible and thank you.
2025 has been a hell of a lot and at many points incredibly tough, for many reasons. Its also been a year full of awesome people and incredible experiences.
I am more exhausted than I think I've ever been but also immensely proud of how so many people have responded to happenings
I'm not writing a 2025 of achievements (at least not today) because while I've had some awesome achievements this year, and some more in the pipeline, it really wouldn't give a full picture of what I've been up to this year, much of which isn't suitable for sharing on social media.
Ok looks like this is actually very bad data analysis too...
No break down available for both diagnosis and 'A&E' catagory, so not possible to even guess at how appropriate use is
Only have time for a quick glance right now but data seems to be from the 2024-25 ECDS National Report tables (from here digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...) which do indeed include UTCs, MIUs and Walk-In Centres (Cat 3 A&Es) as well as 'traditional' (Cat 1) and single-speciality (Cat 2) A&Es
So... potentially including things that are not actually A&Es. Where do they expect you to take your toddler with tonsilitis at 5pm on a Sunday except the walk in centre?
100% It's imo very intentionally perpetuated (if not implemented in the first place) to depoliticise disabled children's lives. It makes it easier to soften human rights violations into 'lack of provision' and limits disabled young people from understanding their social position.
Many of these issues have times when seeking care urgently may be needed, even if it's not 99% of cases. And for people with some long-term conditions things can go downhill pretty quickly and we need to make space for that in our communications.
The trends are deeply worrying, but whenever I see these sorts of things in the media I worry about the peoppe who may choose not to seek care for a sore throat or a headache on the basis of these headlines that turns out to be something serious.
That appointment ended in a blue light ambulance ride, a brief stop in resus because my heart was being very silly, and several days in hospital with a severe case of tonsilitis.
I had another A&E visit too associated with that bout of tonsilitis a couple of weeks later. Again I needed to be there
Glad to see this article focused primarily on systemic issues and not patient shaming.
However, it does strike me that last year I held out for a GP surgery appointment where my complaint was 'sore throat', (arguably I should have been at a pharmacy)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
