Gearoid
@geariod.bsky.social
Old, patched up but somehow still in working order. Just.
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The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
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I pointed this out in May. When it comes to choosing between growth/public services and reducing (legal) migration, the government chooses the latter.
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I pointed this out in May. When it comes to choosing between growth/public services and reducing (legal) migration, the government chooses the latter.
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
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December 1, 2019 : the first known case of COVID-19.
More than six years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating. Its long-term effects are not “in the past.” They accumulate, quietly and often invisibly.
More than six years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating. Its long-term effects are not “in the past.” They accumulate, quietly and often invisibly.
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
December 1, 2019 : the first known case of COVID-19.
More than six years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating. Its long-term effects are not “in the past.” They accumulate, quietly and often invisibly.
More than six years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating. Its long-term effects are not “in the past.” They accumulate, quietly and often invisibly.
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Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”...
...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”...
...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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"We"?
We, 🇪🇺, have a system of visas. We apply this to third countries.
You, 🇬🇧, rejected Schengen and then rejected citizenship multiple times in Brexit. You became a third country by choice.
So we 🇪🇺 will have the border system that suits our citizens.
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#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
We, 🇪🇺, have a system of visas. We apply this to third countries.
You, 🇬🇧, rejected Schengen and then rejected citizenship multiple times in Brexit. You became a third country by choice.
So we 🇪🇺 will have the border system that suits our citizens.
1
#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"We"?
We, 🇪🇺, have a system of visas. We apply this to third countries.
You, 🇬🇧, rejected Schengen and then rejected citizenship multiple times in Brexit. You became a third country by choice.
So we 🇪🇺 will have the border system that suits our citizens.
1
#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
We, 🇪🇺, have a system of visas. We apply this to third countries.
You, 🇬🇧, rejected Schengen and then rejected citizenship multiple times in Brexit. You became a third country by choice.
So we 🇪🇺 will have the border system that suits our citizens.
1
#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
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To see how Labour stitched the UK up in today's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA, you have to turn to the US readout of what they're getting in return.
It spells out what was as clear as mud in the UK government's own press release: we will pay more for medicines.
ustr.gov/about/policy...
It spells out what was as clear as mud in the UK government's own press release: we will pay more for medicines.
ustr.gov/about/policy...
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
To see how Labour stitched the UK up in today's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA, you have to turn to the US readout of what they're getting in return.
It spells out what was as clear as mud in the UK government's own press release: we will pay more for medicines.
ustr.gov/about/policy...
It spells out what was as clear as mud in the UK government's own press release: we will pay more for medicines.
ustr.gov/about/policy...
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The intent of all of this is increasingly clear - it is to hound not only every trans person out of public life, but force every person who is not explicitly anti-trans either out of employment or into silence.
Sandie Peggie launches further legal action against NHS Fife
Sandie Peggie launches further legal action against NHS Fife
Ms Peggie has now expanded her case to include Carol Potter, the chief executive of NHS Fife, and its director of people and culture, David Miller.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The intent of all of this is increasingly clear - it is to hound not only every trans person out of public life, but force every person who is not explicitly anti-trans either out of employment or into silence.
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
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This hasn't gotten much traction, but late last week, Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan announced plans for
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This hasn't gotten much traction, but late last week, Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan announced plans for
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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from a left-wing party, anything less than an immediate condemnation of transphobia, and a pledge to support trans people, to fight to get back for us the rights we have lost, to fight for our fair representation in the media, and to make the reforms we have needed for decades is fucking sus
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
from a left-wing party, anything less than an immediate condemnation of transphobia, and a pledge to support trans people, to fight to get back for us the rights we have lost, to fight for our fair representation in the media, and to make the reforms we have needed for decades is fucking sus
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You're not cross enough! First and second headlines from The Times.
(Telling how consistently male gaze is the 'feminism' of The Times.)
(Telling how consistently male gaze is the 'feminism' of The Times.)
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
You're not cross enough! First and second headlines from The Times.
(Telling how consistently male gaze is the 'feminism' of The Times.)
(Telling how consistently male gaze is the 'feminism' of The Times.)
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A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
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For those not aware of just how explicitly political Kishwer Falkner's appointment was...
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For those not aware of just how explicitly political Kishwer Falkner's appointment was...
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
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Ignorance and denial as a business strategy. #ClimateCrisis
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ignorance and denial as a business strategy. #ClimateCrisis
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if it seems a bit strange to you that an ostensibly ‘feminist’ organisation should be campaigning against free period products, I’d invite you to consider where said organisation is getting its funding and whose views it’s set up to promote
I guess when you're rich you can't comprehend people having no money, much feminism from Maya as usual. They are willing to see organisations that actually help people shut down if they don't follow their weird little ideology, but yeah, she's a "women's rights campaigner"
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
if it seems a bit strange to you that an ostensibly ‘feminist’ organisation should be campaigning against free period products, I’d invite you to consider where said organisation is getting its funding and whose views it’s set up to promote
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
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Without anything in place to replace it, it does seem spectacularly short termist to be cancelling this scheme and claiming doing so is to help cut energy bills.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cuts to insulation scheme will leave homes cold over winter, experts say
E3G thinktank warns retrofit sector could shed 10,000 skilled jobs as small firms struggle to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Without anything in place to replace it, it does seem spectacularly short termist to be cancelling this scheme and claiming doing so is to help cut energy bills.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set