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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 02:37:16 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/hag-mocked-in-labour-whatsapp-group-claims-minister-swore-at-her-in-doorstep-row/ar-AA1zmnpt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3703e38fc9fd4255a8145e89b4a104d9&ei=10

   A grandmother who claims she was referred to as a “hag” by Andrew Gwynne said the former minister swore at her during a doorstep row.

   Elaine Cole, 75, alleged on Tuesday that she was at the centre of an argument on the campaign trail described by Mr Gwynne in a leaked WhatsApp chat. Mr Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended as a Labour MP earlier this month over sexist and racist comments in the group chat.

   In an exchange, first revealed by The Telegraph last week, Mr Gwynne told Labour colleagues he was “never allowed to canvas” a road in Greater Manchester again.

   Writing in the Trigger Me Timbers group chat, he said: “It’s where I lost my s--- in the street with some Duki hag.”

   “Duki” is a reference to Dukinfield, a town in the borough of Tameside located in one of Mr Gwynne’s neighbouring constituencies. David Sedgwick, a councillor on Southport council, replied: “Tbf [To be fair] there is nothing more satisfying than losing your rag with the electorate every now and again.”

   Mr Gwynne added: “She made Claire cry, and she said the street was a s---hole, so I told her she f------ well lives there!”

   Mr Sedgwick replied: “These people are so stupid they don’t realise they’re part of the problem!” In response, Mr Gwynne typed: “Her house was one of the s---tiest in the street.”

   Speaking to Manchester Evening News, Ms Cole claimed Mr Gwynne swore at her by sticking his fingers up as he walked up the street.

   She said: “He could have had a nice conversation with me if he hadn’t said: ‘Don’t listen to her, she’s a liar.’

   “I shot down that path… I’m in my 70s. Even my son, who’s 56, daren’t call me a liar. I said: ‘Who do you think you’re calling a liar?’”

   “He said: ‘It’s here.’ I said: ‘You shouldn’t have that... What are you doing with a clipboard with my name and address on saying who I vote for? That vote should be secret.’

   “Then he started giving me a load of abuse... He was effing and jeffing at me as he walked up the street. He was putting fingers up at me and I just said: ‘Swivel on it.’”

   She said that despite wanting to report the incident to Labour at the time, she did not know how to raise it with the party. Ms Cole said she now supports Reform UK.

   In the same group chat, Mr Gwynne also joked about killing a fellow MP with a pickaxe and suggested a prominent member of the community should be bullied.

   Further comments included a mocking response to a constituent who emailed him about bin collections that read: “Dear resident, f--- your bins. I’m re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all-outs [local elections].”

   After his sacking on Feb 7, Mr Gwynne said in a statement: “I deeply regret my badly misjudged comments and apologise for any offence I’ve caused.”

   He said he had served Labour all his life and that it was a “huge honour” to be appointed as a minister by Sir Keir Starmer.

   Mr Gwynne went on to say he could “entirely understand” the decision to suspend him and hold an investigation.

   Oliver Ryan, the MP for Burnley, was also a member of the Trigger Me Timbers group chat and was suspended days after Mr Gwynne’s sacking.

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   CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 05:49:21 JST CelloMom On Cars

   "We measured #methane exchange on hundreds of tree stems in forests along a climate gradient spanning the Amazon and Panama, through to Sweden and the UK.

   In total, our cautious first estimate is that trees take up between about 25 and 50 million tonnes of atmospheric methane each year, with most taken up by tropical forests."

   https://theconversation.com/weve-discovered-the-worlds-trees-absorb-methane-so-forests-are-even-more-important-in-the-climate-fight-than-we-thought-235233

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   Essie 🏳️‍🌈🥄 (essie_is_okay@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 07:05:10 JST Essie 🏳️‍🌈🥄

   If you're considering a professional autism diagnosis, it's worth researching what a diagnosis would do for you.

   Depending on individual circumstances, an autism diagnosis can put people in danger and I can't recommend it.

   A diagnosis doesn't really give you more information on autism, it just confirms you are autistic. It can mean you get accommodations for school or work, and help you get disability pensions and the like. For those things a diagnosis would be required. You don't need a diagnosis to understand the condition, be part of the community, or start making changes to your life.

   So why might a professional diagnosis be bad? It depends on where you live and how marginalised you are as a person.
   During 2020 there were many reports out of the UK of diagnosed autistic people being given involuntary Do Not Rescusitate orders by their doctors, to compensate for COVID hospital overwhelm. Some people did die. Autistic people across the world were also put lower on triage lists and received less care when hospitals rationed healthcare in that time. They were given lower priority for ventilation and other life support. This was the case for multiple countries, not just UK.

   In the UK and some USA states, having an autism diagnosis can prevent you from accessing gender affirming care (trans healthcare), because of rising rhetoric that autistic people cannot do informed consent (which is bullshit). The expectation is this could get a lot worse and expand to more elective surgeries and treatments. So you need to consider how laws might become worse in the future.

   I have heard anecdotal evidence of an autism diagnosis being used as evidence against autistic parents and then having children removed from the family. Sometimes after court the children are returned, but it's an awful process.

   If you are a thin, white, cishet man who is unlikely to be thrown under the bus in a medical setting, you are probably pretty safe. If you have concerns about the other things I spoke of, then I would talk to more people and look at the laws where you live that may impact you. I urge BIPOC folks especially to consult the BIPOC autistic community on this.

   To clarify, a diagnosis of autism in a vacuum is not dangerous. It's not different to a diagnosis of other things. However due to recent politics, there are risks attached and for some people its a considered decision.

   #autistic #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #disability #NEISvoid #disabled