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Monzcarro

@ Monzcarro @feddit.uk

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  • Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn

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  • Even if he had been able to return the forms, there's a chance he wouldn't have got it.

    I used to do a load of reconsideration and appeals for work and the ignorance of the decision makers is staggering.

    One claim was denied, among other reasons, because my client could play a guitar. Another client, with epilepsy, was told that he didn't need supervision when showering, as he should just sit down in the shower to mitigate injury from seizures.

    I found they ignored what we put in the form so frequently that it wasn't worth doing more than the bare minimum and instead putting the work into the reconsideration.

    This poor man had nobody to fight for him, but the system should not be set up so that so many people have to fight. I don't believe anyone with any cognitive or learning impairment, or mental health condition, would be able to go through the application process without support; it's that difficult.

    And I would put money on them reinstating it after hearing of his death. The shit I have seen them pull, I think it's likely.

  • Charlie was a brave boy

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  • These stories are about big black male cat and a white and tabby female.

    We only had the girl a couple of months before the boy died. She had been mostly hiding out in the spare room; he wasn't hostile to her, she was just so nervous. However, when she heard me crying, she came into my bedroom and stayed with me. She still comforts me, and likes to act as a weighted blanket by lying on me while I sleep.

    When the first baby was born, the boy, who hadn't shown hunting behaviours since he was much younger, somehow managed to find a mouse to leave as a tribute by the baby's cot. He was the only cat we had then. When the second one was born, we only had the girl cat. She also found a mouse and left it right next to the gift bag of baby stuff. Apart from that, I've never seen her hunt even a spider. I'm sure they would both see that as a kindness!

  • Do not resist

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  • Also paranasal sinuses.

  • Do not resist

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  • Thanks for the reminder to take my allergy meds!

  • rulebreaking

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  • I'm from the UK but I have my own version of this.

    I went to a Church of England school. When I was about 8, we had this super religious teacher start. She was Methodist so made us change the words of the lord's prayer to her version. I loudly and defiantly said the old one every time.

    It wasn't long after, that I stopped saying prayers altogether, making sure to stare ahead with lips tight and hands unclasped, so nobody could mistake me as being pious!

    I probably would have been that annoying kid had just been schooled in the USA.

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    🙄 Rule

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  • I wrote my own comment before seeing yours. I see what you are getting at, but this is all theatre. Straight white Christians still hold the power and the wealth, it just suits the oligarchy to pretend they don't.

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    🙄 Rule

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  • American conservatives have been frighteningly effective at pushing this narrative that they are the outsiders, that they're fighting against the status quo, so it doesn't surprise me that they would steal punk.

    They consider it a radical act to be straight, white, and Christian, when in fact that always has been, and still is the majority, as well as those who hold the money and the power.

    From my perspective, this has been one of their most successful moves and it's been brewing for decades - look at the tea party. There has never been a leftist or even liberal machine to rage against, but pretending that there is gets all the normies to feel special and oppressed at the same time, culminating in this fucking shitshow you have over there.

    Fuck these Nazis

  • Po-tay-toes

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  • I would really love to try the Quebec type. Hopefully one day I will fetch to Canada to have the real stuff.

  • Po-tay-toes

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  • Fantastic advice, thank you!

  • MAGA influencer and Fox News guest indicted on child sex abuse charges

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  • Once again, it's a right winger doing this heinous shit.

    I relistened to a podcast episode about Sound Of Freedom movie the other day, and they were saying it suits the right wing narrative to believe child abuse is shady organisations using shipping containers. That way, it distracts them from the fact that most children are suffering because of a member of their family or someone in a position of authority (e.g. church leader). They get to feel righteous without having to look at the real causes or challenge the conservative ideals of the traditional family and religion.

  • Po-tay-toes

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  • Are cheese curds easy to make? I would really like to make pouting but I won't be able to get the curds round here. Or is there a good substitute that's easier to acquire?

  • Removed from Reddit because?

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  • I love all these. But what I particularly love is that there are three really clever ones and the fourth is like, fuck it, let's just call him a bellend.

  • Spain turning Non EU products upside down on shelves in shops as a form of boycott

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  • Hear hear!

  • Spain turning Non EU products upside down on shelves in shops as a form of boycott

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  • I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.

    If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.

  • TIL RFK Jr. is married to Cheryl Hines who plays Larry David's wife in Curb Your Enthusiasm

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  • All of the above

  • Introverted

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  • It's so exhausting!

  • Cod liver oil embraced amid Texas measles outbreak; doctors fight misinfo

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  • So this is fun: actual snake oil (the type made by Chinese railway workers) probably had some medicinal benefits. However, white "doctors" co-opted this for their medicine shows; it contained no snake and was just mineral oil, so this is where the term has its origins.

    Maintenance Phase podcast did a great episode on medicine shows.

  • Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.

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  • And when I do peak, you’ll know. Because I’m gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia’s gonna feel it.

  • I don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing when I'm alone in the basement.

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  • This was me for years. I probably have undiagnosed autism. But I've learnt the rules for most interactions now and know how to appear normal, how much eye contact is ok, what to make my face do, etc.

    I do slip up sometimes, and I do wish I could be me around people more.