Drew
@justrollinon86.bsky.social
Interested in disability issues, movies, tv, current events and anything else I talk about. We'll see how it goes. Wheelchair user, Spina Bifida
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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.
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.
May 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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.
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.
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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...
@libbybrooks.bsky.social and I report: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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...
@libbybrooks.bsky.social and I report: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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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.
“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.
May 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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.
“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?
May 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The other site is down... What's happenin over here?
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"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...
We did not know that we would have to keep talking about it, not for ourselves, but for others." 👇
journalofmusic.com/opinion/hist...
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.
journalofmusic.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"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...
We did not know that we would have to keep talking about it, not for ourselves, but for others." 👇
journalofmusic.com/opinion/hist...
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Unrepentant Fenian bastards!!!
Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant
www.thetimes.com/article/4c96...
Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant
www.thetimes.com/article/4c96...
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
www.thetimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Unrepentant Fenian bastards!!!
Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant
www.thetimes.com/article/4c96...
Kneecap at Wide Awake review — controversial Belfast rappers stay defiant
www.thetimes.com/article/4c96...
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Good morning from Belfast, Éire.
May 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good morning from Belfast, Éire.
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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
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
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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
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
Sir Keir Starmer watched a TV show about how schoolkids are being shown pointless educational TV shows instead of getting actual help and he said "Let's show this TV show in schools, that will fix things".
The second episode literally criticises the over-reliance on video materials in schools due to faculty being overstretched, it's such a fucking farce.
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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.
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"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"
It's not a comms problem. The government's strategy for disability is (accidentally):
- We want more people in work.
- We will let them try work.
- We will cut funds to make adjustments that help them work.
- We will make all hiring more expensive, financially, and practically.
- We want more people in work.
- We will let them try work.
- We will cut funds to make adjustments that help them work.
- We will make all hiring more expensive, financially, and practically.
March 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
.... 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"
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“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...
Guardian readers on disability benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“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...
Guardian readers on disability benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Anyone who thinks people on disability are “mooching off the government” is grossly uneducated… and is gross in general.
March 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Anyone who thinks people on disability are “mooching off the government” is grossly uneducated… and is gross in general.
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
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
March 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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
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
Imagine spending an extra $150-300/month just to be able to urinate; and that's on the low end of that cost.
Non-disabled people don’t understand how expensive it is to be disabled. The government doesn’t give us everything for free. Medications could be hundreds of dollars. Mobility aids could be tens of thousands. Medical equipment could be hundreds of thousands. That’s just the necessary stuff.
March 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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 😆
My brain; Put a peanut in your hand and SHOVE IT UP YOUR NOSE! Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, shake your bushy tail 😆
March 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Nobody;
My brain; Put a peanut in your hand and SHOVE IT UP YOUR NOSE! Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, shake your bushy tail 😆
My brain; Put a peanut in your hand and SHOVE IT UP YOUR NOSE! Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, shake your bushy tail 😆
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
March 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
Somebody show that ignorant fucker an iron lung machine.
March 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
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.
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
March 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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
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
March 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🎶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
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?
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?
March 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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?
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
Seems appropriate today. The only difference is disabled people are and will look at what Labour has done in anger, rightfully so #CripsAgainstCuts #WelfareNotWarfare
March 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🎶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
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
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
During Tory austerity I painted this, scared and feeling I was less than deserving of a life including dignity and happiness. It stands today still
#welfarenotwarfare
#welfarenotwarfare
March 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
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
March 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Crips against Cuts" is such a cool name for an organizing group of disabled people. Fair play and Solidarity! ✊#WelfareNotWarfare