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The Covid Car Crash, and how the Government is Actively trying to kill us

The Covid Car Crash, and how the Government is Actively trying to kill us - New Blog Post

Photo: Author: Alexas_Fotos / pixabay.com. Source Over the last year I’ve heard a lot of arguments over mandates for vaccines or mask wearing. One of the most popular and often used uses car safety as an example. And it’s a great analogy, the rules, guidelines and laws around driving are in place to keep drivers, passengers, other road users and pedestrians safe. Sure, they can be a little…

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This Has Been Bugging Me For Weeks

New Blog Post on Proud Ankylosaur: This Has Been Bugging Me For Weeks

I’ve tried to write this post a few times. As a Twitter post, a Facebook update and as a blog post a few times, but I couldn’t think how to start it. Well, a couple of months ago I succumbed to something I’ve been resisting for years and I think it’s a good place to start. For those of you without a chronic illness this will probably be a “so what?” moment, and for those of you with chronic…

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Disowned

Disowned - Happy Pride History Month!

Happy Pride History Month! (Yes, I know that it’s Black History Month over the other side of the Atlantic, but here in the UK it’s the queers’ turn. Black History Month here is October.) Anyway, I heard a report that a Republican congressman has been disowned by his family for voting to impeach former White House resident and professional Scam Artist John Barron, sorry, David Dennison. And it…

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Stigma #ItsASin

I wrote a new post about HIV Stigma (Another post inspired by #ItsASin)

CONTENT WARNING – This post covers sexual assault/rape and thoughts of suicide. I’ll put a further warning in the text when the challenging content is coming up, so people can read the background if they want. I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a true story. But first, let me explain why I’m telling it. I recently found someone on twitter who was writing some great, uplifting, and supportive…

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#ItsASin

#ItsASin Kind of a review, some thoughts, and the inspiration for a new series of blog posts for me!

I was in two minds over whether to watch It’s A Sin last night. Not because I thought it was going to be a bad show, Russell T Davis has proven himself time and time again. I mean, can you believe that it’s been 21 years since Queer as Folk came out? That’s enough time for Charlie Hunnam to glow up into the sort of guy that would throw Nathan around like a ragdoll, and for Aiden Gillen to plot…

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Freedumb of Speech

New Blog Post: Freedumb of Speech (Or why it's definitely a good thing that the far right get deplatformed)

So it’s finally happened. The most dangerous man in the US has finally received the very minimum of consequences to his actions. He’s been suspended, blocked and/or banned from a number of high profile social sites. Including his precious twitter account. I’m not going to thank them or congratulate them on this action. Just as his sycophants and enablers are jumping ship “early” (2 weeks before…

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The "Rule of Six"

The “Rule of Six”

You’ll have to excuse me for this one, I’m writing it on my phone so it won’t have pretty pictures. It’s also going to be very plain speaking – there will probably be rude words and I’m not intending to edit it. I want to get the raw emotion across.

I’m sat watching de Pfeffel Johnson waffle and bluster through the new safety rules coming into effect. The new rules will be based on the “Rule…

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Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. - New Blog Post on ProudAnkylosaur

TRIGGER WARNING: Mention of suicidal tendencies in the context of counselling/psychotherapy self assessment.

DISCLAIMER: As always, this post is entirely my own opinion and doesn’t represent the views of “The Disabled Community” as a whole. In fact, as I haven’t talked to anyone about this at all, I can’t even be sure if it reflects the views of anyone with a disability (apart from myself).

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Actions vs Words

I’ve been a bit quiet again recently. It’s because I’m standing on the limit of my mental health peninsula. Life is currently a balancing act between coping with my cPTSD, social anxieties, physical health and financial difficulties after being made redundant nearly a year ago and not being eligible for assistance from the government.

My GP has been amazing over the last couple of years (we’re…

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It's not war, it's healthcare

It’s not war, it’s healthcare

There’s been something niggling at me around the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. I’ve been struggling to put my finger on it but it’s finally dawned on me. (Yes, I know, you all knew this weeks ago. What can I say, when I was made I saw the queues for brains or looks and dived down the rubbish chute! 😁)

Politicians – especially the right wing ones, and particularly President Trump…

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Don't Panic - Your New Normal

Don’t Panic – Your New Normal

Hi again! So this was the first post I wrote during the lockdown period and I think that it could make a useful little series. The first post was to explain how the feelings that you might be experiencing are completely “normal”. Today’s post is going to build on that sense of building normality out of a situation that isn’t normal.

For people who are used to going to work there are a few…

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Don't Panic

Don't Panic! I'm starting to write a short series of posts around mental health and some ideas to cope. Here's the first one...

“It is said that despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper, and because it has the words ‘DON’T PANIC’ in large, friendly letters on the cover.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The world is scary at the moment. For some people it could…

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Why I stand with the trans members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

I’m writing this to sort things out in my own head, as well as to (maybe) help some people to look at their own transphobia from a different perspective. Yes, I know, no one will read this (probably), and if they do they’ll probably already know me and share similar views. But in an infinite universe, all things are possible so I’m going to at least try.

I don’t follow any Radical Feminists…

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When Your Government Exacerbates Your Anxiety.

It’s 4am in the UK on the night that the bumbling oaf who’s currently playing at Prime Minister (badly) announced that the government will be enacting “shielding” for the people at “extreme risk” from Covid-19. Now, I know that I’m at increased/high risk, but I don’t know if I’m one of the 1.5 million extreme risk people.

So I went to the government website to check, and found only vague…

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Roaring into the Twenties

New Blog Post: Roaring into the Twenties. Please note this is a blog post with a content warning and isn't the happiest of starts to a New Year!

***CONTENT WARNING – Discussion of Mental Health (depression and thoughts of suicide). Please don’t read this post if this might affect you.***

2019 was a challenging year for so many people, and I count myself among them. I’ve tried to be as open as I’ve been able about my mental health issues in the hope that, maybe, it could help someone see in themselves some of the experiences I’ve had.

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Zoomorphism and Metaphors. Explaining Mental Health.

Zoomorphism and Metaphors. Explaining Mental Health. (In which I make a suggestion for an animal to represent my anxiety.)

Everyone’s experience of mental health issues is different. The physical, emotional and mental challenges – even for people with the same diagnosis – differs wildly. And explaining in a way that others will understand is difficult.

That’s one of the big problems, we all know that talking helps people living with mental health issues. But we don’t have a common language to use. And when we do get…

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MRM PSA

***CONTENT WARNING – Child Prostitution, Pedophilia, cPTSD***

This image (below) appeared on my Twitter feed on Monday night and completely threw me. To see someone blaming the child as they are complicit and could give informed consent actually made me physically sick. I’ve also been unable to sleep for the last 48 hours.

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***CONTENT WARNING – Child Prostitution, Pedophilia, cPTSD***

This…

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