Tympanic & Frisketty

@luckyerica3.bsky.social

Yorkshire based printmaker, tarot nerd, mad person and carer, passionate about disability rights, BSL and mad/crip/MMIND culture. DMs not visible to me.

#Suicide: What if it's #Poverty? #TiffanyTagbo "We tell people to reach out, then they reach out to agencies with closed waiting lists. We tell them help is available, then require seventeen documents to #PROVEtheyDESERVEit. We tell them not to give up, then send them another denial."

What If the Thing Making You Want to Die Is Poverty?

For Suicide Prevention Month, perhaps prevention should mean more than keeping someone alive for another night.

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prepping for top surgery in 6wks is my priority currently! Insurance will not cover it, so I’ll announce a shop opening date once I’ve decided on one & all proceeds from that will go toward my care. ❤️

For 15 years, over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated a law giving patients access to emergency care, with or without insurance. Almost all the facilities faced the same lack of consequences, a ProPublica investigation found. (Published Sept. 2025)

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

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It’s Windrush Day, a day celebrating Caribbean migrants to the UK. I am British-Trinidadian, and my book This is How the World Ends features a British woman seeking asylum in Trinidad during an apocalypse. I wanted to subvert the colonial idea that the UK is superior, when it’s anything but… 📚💙 📚🤎

This is how the world ends by disco Barrington. An eye with tech details, a protest, and bright dystopian design

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD