The wait is over. A new shipment of Trabasack Curve arrived yesterday and is now in stock. We're also excited to announce a new partnership with @activehandsco, building on many years of friendship and cooperation between two disability-led businesses. trabasack.com/trabasack-curv…

“Writing from bed is a time-honored disabled way of being an activist and a cultural worker. It’s one the mainstream doesn’t often acknowledge but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair age 98.” - Piepzna-Samarasinha

I have a doctorate degree and I'm tenured at a great college and I use AI to help with my writing, in part because I suffered a stroke and I need AI to stay productive. While I have more than two brain cells, I definitely lost a significant number of brain cells because of my stroke. And yes, that is part of the reason I need AI.

He could have copy and pasted this or added alt text. 😒

NHS MADE A WOMAN PARALYSED FROM THE NECK DOWN WHO COULDN'T SPEAK PAY NEARLY £1 MILLION IN FEES AND LIQUIDATE THE ENTIRETY OF HER ASSETS THEN THEY FORGED THE PAPERWORK TO COVER IT UP. Paul Culliford @RealPLC contacted me directly this week. He sent me a 95-page fraud report, a @PrivateEyeNews article, and documents I have now read in full. I am writing this because what he shared is genuine, evidenced, and needs to be seen by more people. Valerie Culliford had a stroke in 1987 at age 47. She was left paralysed from the neck down with locked-in syndrome. She could communicate only by blinking. Her condition never changed. Not once. Not in 23 years. Under @NHS legislation she was entitled to full Continuing Healthcare funding from the moment she entered a nursing home in 1989. The NHS knew this. They assessed her in 2009, found her eligible, and confirmed in writing that her condition had been unchanged since admission. The family spent £835,000 of their own money on her care. When the estate ran dry and Paul told the local authority he could no longer pay, the NHS suddenly found the money. For the last 14 months of her life. Then Paul started asking questions. What he found was not a bureaucratic failure. It was a coordinated operation. A fully completed 2014 assessment by two qualified nurse assessors found Valerie eligible for the entire period under review. That document was hidden. A deliberately stripped version with the recommendation removed was sent to her solicitors instead. When Paul tracked down the original, the CCG denied its existence. They kept denying it. Even under oath in the Central London County Court in 2018. The assessment documents sent to NHS England for independent review had signatures forged onto them. A consultant who chaired multiple panels and signed key documents had not held a valid health professional registration since 2005. The panel she chaired was therefore invalid. Nobody flagged it. @NHSEngland was told. The @NHSCFA was told. MPs were told. Accountable Officers were told High profile Non Executives were told. The case was reported in Private Eye. An independent review panel finally confirmed in 2022 that Valerie had always been eligible. The @PHSOmbudsman is now sitting on the case. The NHSCFA has confirmed the full file has not provided to them by the ICB or NHS England The fraud report was compiled by former Serious Organised Crime Agency manager Michael Randall of Fedora Investigations. I have read it. It is 95 pages of documented evidence, exhibits, metadata analysis, court transcripts, and emails from NHS officials discussing how to handle a man they knew was telling the truth. This is not one rogue manager. This is institutional fraud sustained across multiple organisations over nearly two decades, with each layer of oversight choosing to look away. Paul is not asking for sympathy. He is asking for full restitution and accountability for the individuals who held public roles and made the decisions that drove this. That fight is ongoing. If you or someone you know has been through a CHC denial, especially one where assessments were reversed by non-clinical administrators, reach out to Paul directly. The NHS rejects 75% of CHC applicants. Not all of those rejections are fraud. But some of them are exactly this. Sources: Private Eye, November 2025 @PrivateEyeNews Fedora Investigations Report, shared directly by Paul Culliford

Fantastic news. This bill was badly drafted and they refused to add safeguards. Many lives have been saved.

Well. This is utterly ridiculous. £1m "accessible" walkway that includes steps both ends and styles. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk0…

This is true.

Tested a robot guide dog on Microsoft campus today. Two wheels, AI navigation, fits in one hand. I've seen a lot of these ideas come and go. People love building gadgets for blind people. Bad ideas get a lot of VC funding, and most of them don't survive contact with a real blind person living their life. This one might. It's not ready yet, but it's the first time something like this has felt like it could actually work. Training the Glide on my light rail route. Bring on the robot vision!

Teenage boy with autism euthanised in the Netherlands. I think this is wrong. 😥 Takeaway point: “Assisted suicide and euthanasia regimes quickly become dangerous for the most vulnerable people in society: the sick, the disabled, and the elderly.” liveaction.org/news/teenage-…

Shorter range, slower speed, longer charging times? These can all point to a failing mobility scooter battery. Here’s what to check before you buy. shop.disabilityhorizons.com/… via @shopDhealth

Christine Gauthier competed for Canada at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. Paraplegic. Decorated veteran. She testified before Parliament that a Veterans Affairs caseworker offered her MAID in writing. She had asked for a wheelchair ramp for her home. "I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID. I was like... I can't believe you will give me an injection to help me die but you will not give me the tools I need to help me live." This week in Edmonton, John Maloney died by MAID. Blind. Diabetic. Thyroid issues. 65 years old. Not terminal. His death certificate will record his blindness. Not the injection.

The incredible, eye-melting original ending to PHASE IV (1974), Saul Bass's cerebral take on the 'When Animals Attack' sub-genre; super-intelligent ants, in this case.

Motability vehicles aren’t a luxury. They’re how disabled people get to hospital, school, and work — and now that access is being monitored. shop.disabilityhorizons.com/… via @DisabilityHorizons

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

I really enjoyed this typically thoughtful piece (with a great headline, from the author) from the great and powerful @jmc_fire thecritic.co.uk/louis-throug…

There’s no bad body day setting on TikTok. As a disabled creator, some days you simply can’t post and the algorithm doesn’t care why. shop.disabilityhorizons.com/… via @DovelyTom

An alternative to the usual pro assisted suicide media bias (yes, I'm referring to tonight's @BBCPanorama), here's a link to Better Off Dead? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z8w… My @RTS_media award winning documentary opposing assisted suicide from a secular, disability rights perspective