AutisticMumTo3, to random
@AutisticMumTo3@leftist.network avatar
ChrisMayLA6, to disability
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

If you're not sure about the cruelty, inhumanity & injustice in the PIP system of benefits for those impacted by various health & ability issues, then you need to work through my timeline this morning, with posts responding to a post I made about PIP refusals & appeals - my heart goes out to those who have posted, and further emphasises that there are parts of our state apparatus that are cruel, callous & inhumane, just because they can be...

SubtleBlade, to MultipleSclerosis
@SubtleBlade@mastodon.scot avatar
JetlagJen, to disability
@JetlagJen@geekdom.social avatar

Thinking about how ridiculous and harmful it would be to replace with any kind of voucher scheme. I regularly spend money on things to help with managing my that aren't labelled as aids. Car parking because I can't walk far. Chunky boots so I feel more secure. Extra heating and a TV because often I can't leave the house. Phones for my kids so I can check in on them without climbing the stairs. Ready meals because cooking nope. A robot vacuum cleaner.

1/2

junesim63, to disability
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

Contrary to recent Tory spin, the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) is rejecting 40% of all Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims.

Shockingly, these include:

50% with cerebral palsy
25% of amputees
40% with muscular dystrophy
45% with multiple sclerosis

This government continues its war on the disabled and vulnerable, purely to appeal to that portion of the electorate which has been taught to believe disability is a scam.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees?CMP=GTUK_email

blepharon,
@blepharon@mas.to avatar

@junesim63

I wonder what current appeal success rate is at tribunal is? (when they eventually get to tribunal).
In my foodbank days, it was 60-70% success, which was an eloquent comment on uselessness/malice of DWP.


MediaActivist, to disability
@MediaActivist@todon.eu avatar

"Given the past history of how this government hands out contracts to accredited providers, their friends down the boozer can start ordering their super yacht catalogues now — while the rest of us can continue with our suicide watch over friends and family, affected by previous austerity programmes under the guise of welfare reforms which have cost the lives of over a hundred and twenty thousand people. The government has a struggle on its hands (along with the blood) if it expects to enact these changes before it’s ran out of power. That doesn’t mean it can’t. Or that a potential incoming Labour government wouldn’t pick up this particularly poisonous chalice..." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/10/disability-cuts-work-isnt-the-pull-sunak-thinks-it-is/ #disability #PIP #Tories #LabourTorySameOldStory

Wheelerdax, to random
@Wheelerdax@disabled.social avatar

If you think claiming PIP is so easy that even those who aren't actually disabled can get it, prove it.
Fill out the application.
Gather the evidence.
Go through the assessments.
Let's see if you can get even the lowest rate.
Go on, I can wait.
#PIP

junesim63, to UKpolitics
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

"It’s an obvious point to make, but the severity of mental health waiting times only exacerbates conditions such as depression and anxiety, and runs contrary to the fundamental principle of medicine that early intervention reduces long-term complications. Rather than an honest assessment of their own failures, all the Tories can do is blame sufferers. It is a grotesque distortion that callously sacrifices vulnerable people for political gain"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rishi-sunak-welfare-support-depression-anxiety?CMP=GTUK_email

BunnyInAHat, to python
@BunnyInAHat@mastodon.social avatar

TIL about pipx.
It sets up a separate venv for each installed binary, and links them from $HOME/.local/bin. It can also upgrade everything with a single command (although I haven't tested this part yet).

https://github.com/pypa/pipx

junesim63, to Depression
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

"If there is anything more disgusting than the sight of a half-billionaire rolling up his sleeves for a “benefits crackdown” in the middle of a cost of living crisis, the realities of which he wouldn’t be able to imagine even if it occurred to him to try, I can’t think of it"

#PIP #Benefits #Anxiety #Depression #UKPolitics

Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work. Maybe you Tories should stop making us ill | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/prime-minister-signed-off-work-tories-sicknote-government

AutisticMumTo3, to disability
@AutisticMumTo3@leftist.network avatar
fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Another piece of performative cruelty borne out of a desire to appease the fascists, without any idea of how PIP actually works.

#UKPolitics #DisabilityIsNotACrime #PIP

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/28/disabled-people-benefits-clampdown-rishi-sunak/

AutisticMumTo3, to disabled
@AutisticMumTo3@leftist.network avatar
thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

As developers we pay Apple 30% to have a great App Store platform that they keep free of garbage...

...after being told what the garbage is by journalists.

https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/

docRekd,

@thomasfuchs say what you want about or they have far less bullshit in it than those app stores for a fraction of the funding

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar
googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

There's...a lot going on here

#TheMasterTranscendent #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

What?! The James Turner?

#JamesWanderingDad #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

Does a laser machine gun really accomplish anything?

#HumanKnight #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar
junesim63, to disability
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

A single person with a long-term disability that prevents them from working is £2,800 a year worse off when they transfer to universal credit (UC).

All single people with long-term disabilities will suffer this loss of income when the rollout of UC is completed by 2030.

UC is now ill-equipped for a post-pandemic age when many claimants suffer from long-term illnesses and disabilities.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/15/disabled-people-universal-credit-resolution-foundation-report?CMP=firstedition_email

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

You. Must. Pet. The. Dog.

#DogmeatEverLoyal #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

One of these days I'll play New Vegas

#ArcadeGannon #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar
googlyeyesonmagiccards, to mtg
@googlyeyesonmagiccards@mastodon.social avatar

Because one dog ain't enough, and two is too low, it's me, Three Dog!

#ThreeDogGalaxyNewsDj #mtg #MagicTheGathering #PIP

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