This is shocking. ITV News reporting that even those with extreme disabilities in the unfit to work category are likely to lose money under new government plans. Charities have branded the move catastrophic

Some of today's IWD social media posts should come with a serious IRONY WARNING! 🤣

A great afternoon in #Millisle on the Ards Peninsula today with #StephenBeggs Beat Carnival. It’s looking good ‘Our Siren Song’ with Anne Harper leading all things musical on 17th May on Millisle Beach. Part of ‘Beach of Dreams’ a UK-wide coastal arts festival in May 2025.

My X feed used to be a mixture of things I was interested in, and people I was interested in. Now it's just ABSOLUTELY NUTS.

Marvelling at the level of cognitive dissonance on display from some quarters around issues of language & heritage.

'Our Siren Song' a 'Beach of Dreams' Northern Ireland Commission created by Beat Carnival on the Ards Peninsula will take place on Millisle Beach, 17th May '25. Music Lead : Anne Harper Lead Artist: Stephen Beggs. ArdsandNorthDown Arts Council of Northern Ireland instagram.com/reel/DIReiZdNH…

Just gonna quietly share on this platform (where nobody ever really posts anymore) that tonight I conducted my own piece with a choir, a band, & two soloists, & honestly it was goosebumps arms AND legs. You can hear it tomorrow. As you were.

My child's quality of life is being seriously impacted by long term knee pain & I have repeatedly been unable to get even an emergency GP appointment for them. Our GP no longer even offers ordinary appts. What do you suggest, Mike Nesbitt ?

Beyond parody. I’ve reported being almost knocked down on a pedestrian crossing by a careless driver & a hit & run on my car in recent years. Precisely zero officers were scrambled to either scene.

Delighted to be taking part in this - our artistic and literary heritage deserves to be understood much more widely, so it's great to celebrate it on our own doorstep! I'll be telling some stories, playing & sharing some of my research into the Bardic heritage of Iveagh

News about an upcoming workshop I'll be running in Belfast on 14th June>>> @hardrainse instagram.com/p/DKeHW9iohDo/…

This Saturday! ticketsource.co.uk/rathliteraryfe…

(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip. Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.

After months of abusive/coercive messages, I have reached the conclusion that Duolingo displays all the behaviours of a manipulative narcissist. I think we might have to break up.

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First night in West Scotland & found the kitchen filling up with horny flying ants. I think we have got to the bottom of the problem now, but can I just say WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY?!? #flyingantday

Cheers Royal Mail - sent my new instrument to the wrong 'hub' & then ripped its parcel to shreds. No cares given at all. Shocking.