Hoss

Disability rights. Fair society. Likes spreadsheets, FFP3, SmartAir, OctopusEnergy. Reads Hansard. Swears. UBI nerd. Can't type. Nostalgia is a seductive liar

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@0Calamity So few people know this, and even fewer realise the full implications of it.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

It takes a while to realise that the City of London is a bizarre little conclave for tax evaders and money-launderers that appoints its own police force that is completely outwith any other region of the UK.
I remember an Italian journo - specialist in mafia investigations - who declared the Square Mile to be the most corrupt, lawless place in the world.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@angryhacademic I'm currently part of a research project over several months about my experience of the attitude and behaviour of medical services.
Its actually quite traumatic to recall the heartsink doctors and the treatment or lack of at their hands.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

And a fucking eternity of heartsink doctors - who you know are neither listening, thinking, or caring.

Heartsink works both ways.

[Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic]

Five years of heartsink patients in general practice (1988)
https://t.co/0K8l4v3UHP
"While heartsink patients often have serious medical problems, they are a disparate group of individuals whose only common thread seems to be the distress they cause their doctor and the practice"

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

A Reform voter told me today that activists smell. Interesting. I wear a fragrance I invented myself, worn by some of the biggest stars on the planet. It costs more than your monthly salary. Meanwhile I have actually met Nigel Farage and I can tell you from close range that his breath could strip paint off a Spitfire. You worship a man you have never smelled. I have. Choose your insults more carefully.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

Yes, there are guides, but you still need the medical evidence. You can tell the DWP whatever you like, but if you don’t have the evidence to back up your claims, you get fuck all. All the guides do is explain how best to fill in the extremely complicated forms, explaining what information would, and wouldn’t be relevant, because on the forms, they don’t tell you.

[Care Champions Ireland @CareChampions2]

This is 79-year-old Robert Thompson from Bray. Robert is completely blind, but until recently, he has managed to live a highly independent life with the help of his brilliant guide dog, Rhona.

But right now, Wicklow County Council is failing him, and the entire visually impaired community.

For years, the audible signals at pedestrian crossings across Bray have been faulty. Recently, things have gone from bad to worse. The critical audio signals that tell Robert where the crossing pole is (the "wait" sound) and when it is actually safe to cross (the "go" sound) have stopped working entirely on busy routes near his home.

"There’s no way I would cross that road without the sound," Robert says. "It’s just too dangerous."

To make matters worse, recent changes to the local Dublin bus network (replacing the old 145 route with the E1 spine) mean his usual handy bus stops are gone. Because the council has left the nearby pedestrian signals broken, Robert can no longer cross the street safely at his local stop.

Robert is now forced to get off the bus early and walk a massive, grueling 1.5 kilometers EACH WAY along a highly dangerous, busy stretch of road just to find a single working crossing.

Robert has contacted Wicklow County Council repeatedly. They have acknowledged his complaints, but they have met him with absolute silence regarding any actual repairs.

Basic mobility and safety should be a right, not a luxury. By ignoring these broken signals for years, the council is effectively trapping vulnerable residents in their own towns and actively stripping away their independence.

Please SHARE this post! Let’s get the word out and force Wicklow County Council to do their job, fix the audio signals in Bray, and restore safety and freedom to Robert and others who rely on them!

#WicklowCountyCouncil #AccessibilityMatters #Bray #Inclusion #GuideDogsIreland #RobertThompson

https://t.co/2x43RYro4E

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@daniellismore Little story for you.
When IDS created the toxic think tank, the CSJ, one of its founders was married to a man who had one of those franchise churches.
And guess what one of the services they offered was?
Yeah.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@ThatTimWalker @Nigel_Farage Oh Tim, you simpleton - do you actually think that was a bought and paid for promotional video?

Bless you, you thick bastard.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Worrying story this. The cheekily-named University of Greater Manchester is what was the University of Bolton. It's not the University of Manchester or Manchester Metropolitan University.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit.

About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit.

Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

I have had a couple of glasses of wine, exceptionally these days, but as a result the Normal Caveat applies.
I will say, however, that I am sick to the back teeth of far right grifters who think their Right To Know is more important than the sustainability of a criminal investigation.
You are actively jeopardising a proper conviction of the right offender, you complete band of c**ts.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

Sticky handed wankrobot and Sheldon Cooper-a-like Darren Grimes having to edit his standard racism is peak Reform Party

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@helenessex2 Completely forgetting we own a bank, and create our own money.

Also, interesting fact - no one has identified the alleged "growing threat".
Our biggest threat is the dick waving, testosterone yanks, led by the orange shit-gibbon.
How the hell we lowered ourselves to ally to that

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

You literally just said the 16 dead babies of #Dunblane were an annoyance because Daddy lost his guns, have a fucking seat

[Inclusion London @InclusionLondon]

PIP enables many Disabled people to work. Our recent research, based on a survey of people who receive PIP and are in work, agrees. It shows that 92% of Disabled people who are in work and receiving PIP spend at least some of their PIP on work-related accessibility costs. (1/2)

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@helenessex2 Yeah, its all very artificial.
None of it is organic. Its organised and paid for noise, generated by the industrial war machine, mainly from the US, using the usual suspects to convince the poor and angry that making someone else poorer will somehow benefit them.
It wont.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@helenessex2 Exactly.
The DWP cant do simple tasks like cope with a yearly financial uplift that is calculated 6 months previously.
They will never be able to administer voucher payments to the hundreds of thousands of mental and physical health therapists - and the NHS cant help.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

@helenessex2 People are already losing jobs due to A2W cuts.
I think that the Timms review team are fully aware that what is wrong with PIP isnt the growing caseload, but the criteria, the binary nature of the levels, the lack of accuracy in recognising costs and lack of easy solutions.