
Jess Plant
@IAmJessPlant
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(They/She). 5w4, Autistic & Neurodivergent, Carer, ✝️, ♿, Fat, INFP, 🏳️🌈, Left-liberal progressive socialist, Mentally ill. See pinned thread for more.
Canvey Island, Essex, UK
Joined May 2017
THREAD This is my general personal account. It will contain tweets on a wide variety of topics. (May be expended on in this thread, later). ⚠️ This account may discuss serious subjects, and this may include triggering content. (There will also be more lighthearted content 😂).
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Antipsychotics are helpful in low doses too for things other than psychosis. They can give autistic people a break from self harm and suicidal thoughts. Which can be life saving too. It’s ableism to deny antipsychotics can be helpful.
Antipsychotics are literally life-saving when patients are acutely manic and psychotic. They stop patients from banging their head, cutting their fingers off, and pulling out their eyes. I’ve seen it all. Those who deny their efficacy just can’t imagine what they have never
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The idea that antipsychotics do not provide clinically meaningful benefits in acute treatment of psychosis is so disconnected from scientific & clinical evidence that I consider contorted arguments for it as a proxy for one’s ability to engage in supercharged confirmation bias.
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It’s okay to say ‘No’ at certain times and in certain situations if you’re not up for it or if you need to rest.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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Put GPs into GP surgeries not job coaches for non-existent jobs or as a therapy replacement
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled
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This site is full of people lying about crime in London - point them towards this excellent piece from Fraser that shows the murder rate is at an all time low, with knife crime dropping too.
London murders have fallen to the lowest on record. Knife crime, too, is falling fast. What's going on? My look at what the data does (and doesn't) say.
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“Jesus makes it clear that there are no boundaries to love: everyone is my neighbor, not as a matter of opinion but as a divine command.” — Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J.M. Nouwen
I call this Jonah's dilemma because he wants love but doesn't want everybody to have love too. It's an ancient story with contemporary applications.
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After struggling with my newly installed wetroom, I'm struck by how important purposes built accessible homes really are. Retrofit rarely works well. In the @MetroUK Finding people like me a home could take 47 years | Metro News
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Disabled people cannot afford that wait – they need stability, independence, and dignity to live their lives.
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There is often an assumption that shifting care from hospitals to the community automatically saves money. In reality, effective community-based healthcare requires proper investment in staff, infrastructure and support systems to deliver high-quality services.
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I am in a fortunate position that I am housed. The home that I am in is a 2 bed flat that could in theory probably house a couple with 1 to 2 children. I also think that there is an issue with some adapted properties being 55+ only.
I have been on the council housing waiting list for a 1-bed property for around a year. I am in the top priority group as I am downsizing (after my Mum died). The issue is that in my council area, there aren't any wheelchair accessible properties available.
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PSA screening media coverage is currently very poor. Various charities are not helping but instead adding to the confusion and hype. The Times today carries another high profile individual story of how they were "absolutely" saved by screening with PSA testing.
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1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker 2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth. Obscene inequality has been normalised
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London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.
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100% this. Moving care from hospitals to primary care needs to be accompanied with a shift in funding and/or more funding being given to both primary healthcare AND social care.
One of the challenges in trying to move care from hospitals to the community is that this rarely releases funding for use to support primary care services. Invariably, hospitals will use any capacity released from moving services into the community for other work in instead.
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Why do we say 'slept like a baby'? Babies wake up every two hours crying. I want to sleep like my cat. 14 hours, no responsibilities, zero regrets.
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1 John 4:8 (ESV) “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
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Adults can't hit other adults to punish bad behaviour but when it comes to children, astoundingly the law in England and Northern Ireland allows for 'reasonable punishment' - so children are less protected than adults! There is no justification for physically punishing
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Basic requirements of a screening test , it’s not “being awkward” or difficult to apply them . Evidence based and reminds us nothing is zero risk , including life .
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Clean, cellular energy without the spikes and crashes. Rebuild your NAD+ stores for natural, all-day energy - no cortisol or caffeine needed. Reclaim your energy from the inside out.
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I have been on the council housing waiting list for a 1-bed property for around a year. I am in the top priority group as I am downsizing (after my Mum died). The issue is that in my council area, there aren't any wheelchair accessible properties available.
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As a disabled person I am not “insulted” by the tiny number of folk circumventing the system… I’m insulted by disability benefits being less than a liveable amount. By the process being inaccessible and harming vulnerable people. By ableists making ableist assumptions.
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