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Hello again!
Hello my little Happy Campers! It’s been a minute since I’ve updated this but I’ve decided to step away from Twitter, given the shit show that is currently underway with the Poundland Tony Stark’s acquirement of the platform and his insinstance on running it into the ground. So some of you may know that in…
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COVID Isn’t The Flu
I finally contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of the second week of January, just a few weeks ago. I had managed to avoid the virus for nearly two years despite being a frontline health and social care worker, working with a transient and mostly unvaccinated population of service users in close proximity. I wear my…
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To All The Stephens I’ve Loved Before
This is going to hurt a bit, but I need to get it off my chest. I’ve been all different people all throughout my thirty-three years on this Earth. I’ve been a youth worker, a customer service rep, a politician, a guitarist, a photographer, a son, writer etc. I loved all the people that I…
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Uppity
There has been a lot of heat, and rather little light, around the decision of the President of Ireland declining to attend an event commemorating the partition of Ireland, alongside his British counterpart, Queen Elizabeth II. Naturally, despite the measured and calm tone that has been so characteristically exuded from Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D…
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Block them – don’t engage
If you follow me then you’ll know I like to run my mouth, and as a result I have both a decent sized following as well as a decent sized group of people who would like to see me disappear completely. I have literally hundreds of thousands of accounts blocked on my Twitter – I…
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HIV, COVID-19 and the Blameless Pandemics
A couple of days ago Martin Kulldorf MD, PhD – Professor of Medicine at Harvard University – Tweeted the following: For thousands of years, disease pathogens have spread from person to person. Never before have carriers been blamed for infecting the next sick person. That is a very dangerous ideology. Now, it appears that Dr.…
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All The Times The DUP Stood Up For The Gays
The DUP’s Paul Givan claimed on the Nolan Show last week that the DUP aren’t against gay people. Let’s take a look back at all the times the DUP has stood up for the rights of LGBT people in Northern Ireland. 1977 – MP Rev Ian Paisley launches the ‘Save Ulster from Sodomy’ campaign in…