After three brilliant years, @beckierutherford.bsky.social's fellowship is coming to an end. A historian of health, gender, and activism in modern Britain, Beckie has edited a selection of incredible articles focused on the experiences and ideas of disabled people.

Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

historyworkshop.org.uk

Progress doesn’t just happen. People make it happen. We’ve fought for decades to boldly go where everyone else has gone before. And we’re not done yet! Explore Disabled people's history on the Accessible Transport Archive: https://bit.ly/4h8NHOe #ThrowbackThursday

Gals, is it social contagion to decide you're not interested in something that society expects of you and is none of their fucking business?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d ago

Why people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N

On International Safe Abortion Day, Dr Ruth Fletcher of QMUL blogged about her SLSA-funded legal witnessing impact project. Read it here: dflw.ie/witnessing-l...

Witnessing legal implementation after #repealedthe8th: Soft law and the curious case of discontinuous care after a failed early medical abortion - Doing Feminist Legal Work

“It was like an epiphany. We just felt a weight lifted off us to know that there was even an option. They told me someone local to me where I could go and

dflw.ie

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

Getting blocked by the mens wear guy because you keep sending him this picture and asking “thoughts?”

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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I’m sorry to say that if you’re walking around Holborn at 8:30am on a weekday morning without ever looking up from your phone then I am legally entitled to crush every one of your toes

Guys the new autumn/winter 2026 fashion catalogue just dropped

My book launch is coming up, at Lighthouse Books, on 13 October. For those in the vicinity, please join us as I discuss with my colleague and Chair of Queer Law at the UoE, Sharon Cowan, the anti-trans movement, but also transfeminism, trans culture, and the value of struggle for a better future.

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop@lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5d ago

Join us for an evening celebrating trans activism and trans joy amid adversity with the launch of @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social's new book: J.K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic. Tuesday 13th October at 6.30pm for scintillating discussion followed by a Lighthouse Social. See you there!

The magical combination of email notifications on my phone and the outlook email recall feature has now led to me for the second time emailing someone by starting with the sentence 'sorry did I imagine this or have you send me an email'? Love modern technology!

Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Check out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire

rightmove.co.uk

Lovely to see #Qmul #EastEnd material legal history reproduced in research centre comms The Match Girls expanded their socio-legal power and won material improvements in working conditions through a combo of strike and parliamentary action Read the story as told by a striker’s great grandaugter!

Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)@cclas2025.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new centre logo pays homage to its East London environs and the Match Girls' Strike of 1888 in Bow. phm.org.uk/blogposts/th...

I really need to start drinking earlier in the day

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d ago

A rich text. Robert Jenrick, who this time last year Kemi was defending and wanted to run the justice system, depicted frequently as an unperson. The multiracial crowd celebrating Kemi, the monoracial one on the boats (are Albanians, Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians black now?)

This is just missing a CK3 “your attempt so sway Pope Leo failed” pop up

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane.

José Mourinho, your Department Chair

Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shock and concern among disabled people’s organisations. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/free-social-...

Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech

Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shoc…

disabilitynewsservice.com

Nature is healing

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.

🐋 ⛵ ⚠️ Crew rescued after sperm whale collision sinks yacht in South Pacific At 1 pm New Zealand time on 26 September the four crew activated an emergency beacon and were later rescued by a container ship, roughly 18 hours after the whale encounter

NGL, I think I still have mild PTSD from the corporate video years.

I had no idea this was an option.

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · last wk.

Who amongst us hasn't been tempted...

I would just love to understand the thought process of everyone who cheerfully left their ebike on the pedestrian crossing thereby blocking the entirety of the tactile pavement and the dropped kerb. I literally couldn’t cross the road here because it’s entirely blocked to wheelchair users

Do you know of any veterans or service personnel in Central Devon being chased by the DWP or MOD to repay supposedly overpaid benefits? If so, could you ask them to contact MP, Mel Stride, as he wants to hear from them. #DWP #MOD #overpayments #WPS #AFCS #CentralDevon #MP #MelStride

Teaching term meal prep but it’s me making sure I freeze enough cake so I have a little treat ready to take to work with me every teaching day.

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

Just a delightful stall to have on campus in the middle of Welcome Week

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

My latest for @lbc.co.uk: If politicians want to reduce the PIP and wider benefits bill, they should make basic investments in accessible infrastructure and services ⬇️

Ah yes - Live Love List Sideways