Meg seanchaibeag
@seanchaibeag.bsky.social
Writer. Disabled (CP, RA, Long Covid and more). Lifelong political nerd (US/UK/RoI/RU/UKR/etc). Owned by cats. Yes, that's Paul McCartney in the profile pic- and me, left.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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As a physician who masks in public spaces to avoid getting and transmitting COVID, it has nothing to do with anxiety & everything to do with science: not acutely killing the elderly I love & those I serve, not transmitting serious chronic autoimmune and vascular disease to 10% of those infected 1/2
I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding Covid and only breathing ‘clean’ air
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
‘Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder.’
For @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As a physician who masks in public spaces to avoid getting and transmitting COVID, it has nothing to do with anxiety & everything to do with science: not acutely killing the elderly I love & those I serve, not transmitting serious chronic autoimmune and vascular disease to 10% of those infected 1/2
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As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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Any tech people know how to help the brilliant Beatles Bible appeal against the FB ban? An incredible long term resource, removed for ridiculous (and incorrect) reasons. If there’s a way where the Beatles community can get together to appeal please help!
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Any tech people know how to help the brilliant Beatles Bible appeal against the FB ban? An incredible long term resource, removed for ridiculous (and incorrect) reasons. If there’s a way where the Beatles community can get together to appeal please help!
I'm baffled that more people don't know about "Happy Holiday" (the song), considering it, like many Irving Berlin tunes, has been covered *extensively*, including by The Muppets. Given that, I refuse to believe any outrage isn't purely performative.
The phrase "Happy Holidays" appeared as early as 1863 and was common in advertising by the 1930s, including tobacco ads and the classic song "Happy Holiday" from 1942. It was a way to embrace the entire season, covering Christmas, New Year's, and other winter festivals, acknowledging a diverse.
December 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I'm baffled that more people don't know about "Happy Holiday" (the song), considering it, like many Irving Berlin tunes, has been covered *extensively*, including by The Muppets. Given that, I refuse to believe any outrage isn't purely performative.
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“Why is every virus surging with a revenge right now?” 👇
Covid causes immunosuppression, which makes you a more hospitable host to other pathogens: easier to get, for longer.
Viruses mutate inside infected people, that is because that is where they reproduce.
Covid has given *every other virus* ample reservoirs of people to evolve new strains inside of.
Viruses mutate inside infected people, that is because that is where they reproduce.
Covid has given *every other virus* ample reservoirs of people to evolve new strains inside of.
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Why is every virus surging with a revenge right now?” 👇
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SAD NEWS 😢
My friend's sister is in hospital for a kidney transplant
Her husband is the donor
There is no mask mandate at the hospital
He acquired pneumonia & is in serious condition
10% chance he will lose his life saving his wife
BECAUSE HOSPITALS WON'T MASK THE F*CK UP
My friend's sister is in hospital for a kidney transplant
Her husband is the donor
There is no mask mandate at the hospital
He acquired pneumonia & is in serious condition
10% chance he will lose his life saving his wife
BECAUSE HOSPITALS WON'T MASK THE F*CK UP
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
SAD NEWS 😢
My friend's sister is in hospital for a kidney transplant
Her husband is the donor
There is no mask mandate at the hospital
He acquired pneumonia & is in serious condition
10% chance he will lose his life saving his wife
BECAUSE HOSPITALS WON'T MASK THE F*CK UP
My friend's sister is in hospital for a kidney transplant
Her husband is the donor
There is no mask mandate at the hospital
He acquired pneumonia & is in serious condition
10% chance he will lose his life saving his wife
BECAUSE HOSPITALS WON'T MASK THE F*CK UP
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“people find discussions about Disabled people's realities threatening” - this is so true.
Our culture is terrible at facing the frailty of human experience and presume anybody facing it is just doing Life Wrong.
Our culture is terrible at facing the frailty of human experience and presume anybody facing it is just doing Life Wrong.
Oh yeah no this is a whole thing I have come to understand. You can be as careful as you want to say exactly what you mean but I think people find discussions about Disabled people's realities threatening, so they want to make them seem as absurd and easy to dismiss as possible.
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“people find discussions about Disabled people's realities threatening” - this is so true.
Our culture is terrible at facing the frailty of human experience and presume anybody facing it is just doing Life Wrong.
Our culture is terrible at facing the frailty of human experience and presume anybody facing it is just doing Life Wrong.
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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Can we skip to the part where everyone realizes we’ve all been lorded over by child rapists for decades and we all demand in unison they go to prison?
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Can we skip to the part where everyone realizes we’ve all been lorded over by child rapists for decades and we all demand in unison they go to prison?
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
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Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!
From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!
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Reading about US politics online is like trying to follow a drama where the writers are crap at continuity:
Wasn’t he in prison?
She was suing him and now she’s marrying him?
He had a different job yesterday!
Which blonde is this?
Last week God told him to do it and now it’s a sin?
Didn’t she die?
Wasn’t he in prison?
She was suing him and now she’s marrying him?
He had a different job yesterday!
Which blonde is this?
Last week God told him to do it and now it’s a sin?
Didn’t she die?
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reading about US politics online is like trying to follow a drama where the writers are crap at continuity:
Wasn’t he in prison?
She was suing him and now she’s marrying him?
He had a different job yesterday!
Which blonde is this?
Last week God told him to do it and now it’s a sin?
Didn’t she die?
Wasn’t he in prison?
She was suing him and now she’s marrying him?
He had a different job yesterday!
Which blonde is this?
Last week God told him to do it and now it’s a sin?
Didn’t she die?
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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And all of this tragic moment?
Inconceivable.
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Inconceivable.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
And all of this tragic moment?
Inconceivable.
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Inconceivable.
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Crushing. Rob gave us so much laughter & joy. From the Smothers Brothers to "All in the Family" to wonderful movies ("Princess Bride, "Spinal Tap"). And he was a passionate progressive advocate—and a great guy, full of stories and enthusiasm, to spend time with. A horrific end to a horrific weekend.
“Our sources say the two suffered lacerations consistent with a knife. The LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division is still investigating.”
Rob Reiner, Wife Michele Found Dead in Their L.A. Home with Knife Wounds
Rob Reiner -- the legendary director -- and his wife Michele Singer Reiner have died ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Crushing. Rob gave us so much laughter & joy. From the Smothers Brothers to "All in the Family" to wonderful movies ("Princess Bride, "Spinal Tap"). And he was a passionate progressive advocate—and a great guy, full of stories and enthusiasm, to spend time with. A horrific end to a horrific weekend.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
And "accommodation/accessible" does not mean "make the thing easier" and it definitely doesn't mean "make the thing so easy it's meaningless." It means "meet the student's access needs so that they can engage with the material in the same way as their peers, as far as is practicably possible."
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And "accommodation/accessible" does not mean "make the thing easier" and it definitely doesn't mean "make the thing so easy it's meaningless." It means "meet the student's access needs so that they can engage with the material in the same way as their peers, as far as is practicably possible."
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
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Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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A powerful thread (and it’s not that long):
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A powerful thread (and it’s not that long):
Excellent thread as always. As many have been saying for years now, we were *all* failed - kids, disabled people, everyone. Our leaders and govts failed us, and they've been trying to make it our fault ever since. That's part of (not all of) why everything Feels Bad. Denial just makes it worse.
Love, an immunocompromised person who did get long COVID and has yet to see a hint of space for my trauma because I am constantly dealing with theirs
(Also the product of generational trauma, so yeah, I kind of know what it looks like on a personal level when the whole world has it
(Also the product of generational trauma, so yeah, I kind of know what it looks like on a personal level when the whole world has it
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Excellent thread as always. As many have been saying for years now, we were *all* failed - kids, disabled people, everyone. Our leaders and govts failed us, and they've been trying to make it our fault ever since. That's part of (not all of) why everything Feels Bad. Denial just makes it worse.
THIS, I've been screaming about it for years and got nothing for it but more shrugs, so I'm done giving my take. I'm so, so, SO fucking tired. Of being sick, of having no way to move forward, and of everyone going "huh, wow, sucks to be you!" while they clearly struggle in the same ways.
Everybody seems to be at the "what's the point?" Stage of a shared psycho-spiritual/existential crisis. The "death" side of a rebirth cycle, usually. But you only get to the rebirth side by putting the work in and we aren't even at the stage where enough people understand what's going on to do that.
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
THIS, I've been screaming about it for years and got nothing for it but more shrugs, so I'm done giving my take. I'm so, so, SO fucking tired. Of being sick, of having no way to move forward, and of everyone going "huh, wow, sucks to be you!" while they clearly struggle in the same ways.