Many prejudices are part based on an #ableist, anti #disability core i.e racist/misogynist ideologies employ ideas of mental/physical inferiority & anti-LGBTQ narratives use ideas of 'illness' to frame wider prejudices that rely upon a pre-existing & enduring permission to devalue 'disabled' lives.

It's like the aim is for #Dublin to become the urban and cultural equivalent of a sitka spruce plantation, making money silently, lifelessly.

Was on a train with my sister, who has DS. She got a few looks from the couple opposite, which often happens to people with an ID, but, it was such a strange scene to witness, as the couple both resumed ever-scrolling tiktok, whilst she translated phrases into French & then German in her notebook.

Many prejudices are part based on an #ableist, anti #disability core i.e racist/misogynist ideologies employ ideas of mental/physical inferiority & anti-LGBTQ narratives use ideas of 'illness' to frame wider prejudices that rely upon a pre-existing & enduring permission to devalue 'disabled' lives.

Always worth saying: If a government has an amount of money it deems to be a poverty threshold, and sets #disability payments deliberately below this figure, it is a kind of enforced poverty and social exclusion, as disabled people often cannot access the same, or any incomes via the labour market.

Not that this is new, but, looking over at the UK, thinking about how the Starmer Labour Party is a project that can accomodate & promote someone like Peter Mandelson, but can't tolerate Faiza Shaheen liking a tweet. What an inversion of seriousness and warping of accountability. No soul at all.

If you can't enjoy music because the lyrics aren't in your language you are a sad and broken human being.

I like that the €325 Basic Income for the Arts has been made permanent. It's a good thing. It's still worth pointing out that carers, who look after other humans, must evidence a significant workload of care & evidence financial hardship, to receive a much lesser amount, also set by the government.

If we essentially know that smartphones are designed to milk you of time & attention, and can impair cognition, reduce rationality & increase emotion, shouldn't there be a greater effort to keep them out of driver's hands? Seeing more and more drivers rolling along, eyes down and it terrifies me.

We made a Bayeux bauble and resisted the urge to make it tapestry themed. Though, we still might do that.

If you've experienced another European country, even Ireland, it's so much harder not to see the reality & discourse around welfare in Britain as absolutely bizarre & Dickensian. Carers Allowance in the UK: £83, means test of £196 In Ireland: €260, means test of €1000* *Starting Jan 2026 (Budget)