Drew

Capitalism & ableism go hand in hand

They teach us that productivity & economic contributions are all that matters

That rest is weak. That being sick makes you less than. That playing through the pain is the way to success

It’s wrong. We all have inherent value. We need robust systems of support.

Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation Disabled activists say supreme court ruling has left trans community at similar risk of exclusion from public spaces

Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation and exclusion from public spaces.

@libbybrooks.bsky.social and I report: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

The other site is down... What's happenin over here?

History Repeats Itself as British Authorities Get to Decide Who the Terrorists Are A member of Kneecap has been charged with a terrorism offence, but those in power continue to look away from the deeper crisis, writes Toner Quinn.

"Ireland thought it could move on from its painful history, that we had left it behind once a workable peace was achieved.

We did not know that we would have to keep talking about it, not for ourselves, but for others." 👇

journalofmusic.com/opinion/hist...

Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant The gig was seriously good: exciting, funny and anarchic, with a rebellious edge that has not been seen in rock or rap for years

Unrepentant Fenian bastards!!!

Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant

www.thetimes.com/article/4c96...

Good morning from Belfast, Éire.

When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” ask yourself this… healthy for who? When was America healthy?

It’s not about health. It’s about thinning the herd. Culling the weak

It’s about assigning blame to people with chronic illness & pushing health supremacy

It’s straight from the Nazi playbook

To put it another way; and I don't know if folks in the UK had something similar (Grange Hill?) but it seems that just showing young people episodes of Degrassi from the late 80's to address difficult subjects and thinking job done isn't good enough anymore

"Assisted death/dying" is such a twisted euphemism. Call it Assisted Suicide or better yet, Euthanasia. That's what it is.

.... and if disabled people can't work through no fault of their own, we'll cut their income support anyway and if they don't like it there's always euthanasia; oh I'm sorry... "Assisted dying"

Shameless welfare cuts are a betrayal of Labour voters | Letters Letters: Readers express their dismay at Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, with some lifelong party members feeling no longer able to support it

“A year ago, Frances Ryan asked: What’s the point of Starmer’s Labour if it won’t stand up for poor, sick or disabled people? That is just one of the questions that many of us are beginning to ask.”

Guardian readers on disability benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anyone who thinks people on disability are “mooching off the government” is grossly uneducated… and is gross in general.

Also... I'm not sure all the 90's and early 00's teen movies need to be made into musicals if the movie isn't a musical itself.
On the other hand, American Pie The Musical mighty actually be funny with original music

There's a Cruel Intentions musical?
A majority of the songs in it are just 90's music covers?
I really like 90's music, don't get me wrong but there seems to be more of these pop chart musicals out there with no original music. It's just uncreative in that way. I'm annoyed

I'm not Irish, I'm Canadian but appreciate someone making a list of Irish folks to follow on here. Especially if they post both in Béarla agus Gaeilge 😄

Nope, just the catheters. I cath intermittently rather than indwelling.

Imagine spending an extra $150-300/month just to be able to urinate; and that's on the low end of that cost.

Nobody;
My brain; Put a peanut in your hand and SHOVE IT UP YOUR NOSE! Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, shake your bushy tail 😆

I mean.. fair, but I also really liked Alan Cumming's portrayal/iteration of Nightcrawler more so than the other fella that played the role later on.
I'm also willing to give Tatum another shot if he works on the Cajun accent a bit

I got locked out of the other site for a week for sayin somebody should smack this dudes knuckles with a ruler like when he was at school for being so foolish. I still sit by that statement

Not that bad? There are still people living with the life long complications and disabilities as the result of polio
Somebody show that ignorant fucker an iron lung machine.

When an MP or even an average citizen approves of cuts to income assistance for disabled people and children forcing them into deep legislated poverty rather than taxing the ultra wealthy anywhere in the world, then you really have to question whether those people have souls at all.

If you're an MP comparing benefits/income assistance cuts for disabled people to cutting 10 quid from your kid's pocket money then you are so far out of touch with reality that I don't think that you should have the position that you do.

🎶Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution?
If we're so free, tell me why?
Someone tell me why so many people bleed?
Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds 🎶
- Louder than Words - Tick...Tick...Boom!
by Jonathan Larson

I woke up this mornin, looked out the window and it was snowing pretty heavily, then it got sunny and warm and now it looks cloudy like it might rain.
It's the end of March
Not uncommon for Canada this time of year and yet...
What in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Is Mother Nature drunk?

🎶So I start a revolution from my bed 🎶
Seems appropriate today. The only difference is disabled people are and will look at what Labour has done in anger, rightfully so #CripsAgainstCuts #WelfareNotWarfare

This piece of artwork is stunning! Well done.
Disabled people are NOT "wasters" or "scroungers" or any other disparaging label that the UK media and some others wish to paint them/us as. Disabled people deserve to live in dignity, receiving any help that they may need. Period. #WelfareNotWarfare

"Crips against Cuts" is such a cool name for an organizing group of disabled people. Fair play and Solidarity! ✊#WelfareNotWarfare

Power to Disabled People! #WelfareNotWarfare