Shady Sparrow
@shadysparrow.bsky.social
#AuDHD #Advocate for #Disabled People & #Carers in Ireland
Co-Founder at The Phoenix Rising Network
Family Rep for #CDNT Family Forums
Nom. Rep at #Wexford's HDSG
(Personal acct, opinions my own)
Co-Founder at The Phoenix Rising Network
Family Rep for #CDNT Family Forums
Nom. Rep at #Wexford's HDSG
(Personal acct, opinions my own)
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Shady Sparrow
@shadysparrow.bsky.social
· Feb 11
What at first appears to be poor design is actually very careful design, created to destabilise an already vulnerable cohort.
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
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"What makes you more worthy of safety?"
April 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"What makes you more worthy of safety?"
No one believed me when I said this was happening. Now it's in the news like it's normal.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/iris...
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/iris...
Irish people travelling to US told to delete comments criticising Trump to avoid detention | BreakingNews.ie
Deleting social media apps completely and leaving phones or other devices at home are other tips being recommended.
www.breakingnews.ie
April 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
No one believed me when I said this was happening. Now it's in the news like it's normal.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/iris...
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/iris...
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Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.
February 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.
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The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Revolution will be AI-icized
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Hiqa report highlights practices that could amount to "institutional abuse" & neglect in Sunbeam House disability care homes. Vulnerable residents left unsafe, with basic needs unmet. This demands accountability and immediate action to protect those in care.
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
Residents in Wicklow disability care homes at risk of ‘institutional abuse’
Health services watchdog report criticises Sunbeam House’s failure to keep residents with intellectual disabilities safe
www.irishtimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hiqa report highlights practices that could amount to "institutional abuse" & neglect in Sunbeam House disability care homes. Vulnerable residents left unsafe, with basic needs unmet. This demands accountability and immediate action to protect those in care.
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
Michael Martin does not care about public opinion. He has gotten into power to serve himself.
www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-wo...
www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-wo...
Taoiseach would 'absolutely' invite Trump to Ireland following Washington visit
People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger said the visit would provoke a ‘huge response in opposition’.
www.thejournal.ie
February 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Michael Martin does not care about public opinion. He has gotten into power to serve himself.
www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-wo...
www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-wo...
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Ann Marie Ryan, a registered psychiatric nurse, Milford, Co Donegal, is also alleged to have ordered two nurses on duty not to write an incident report about the matter.
Ms Ryan said to a colleague: “What is the big deal? It was an accidental death.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
Ms Ryan said to a colleague: “What is the big deal? It was an accidental death.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
Nurse refused to call 999 for female patient with dementia who drank cleaning fluid and later died
A clinical nurse manager repeatedly refused to call an ambulance for a dementia patient who drank cleaning fluid and subsequently died, a fitness-to-practise inquiry has heard.
www.independent.ie
February 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Ann Marie Ryan, a registered psychiatric nurse, Milford, Co Donegal, is also alleged to have ordered two nurses on duty not to write an incident report about the matter.
Ms Ryan said to a colleague: “What is the big deal? It was an accidental death.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
Ms Ryan said to a colleague: “What is the big deal? It was an accidental death.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
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Just reply to the Five Points Email:
- I know what you did last summer
- Where were you on Jan 6?
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Time for a Boston Tesla Party
- Recursive FOIA request on these emails -- FOIA requests all the way down
- I know what you did last summer
- Where were you on Jan 6?
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Time for a Boston Tesla Party
- Recursive FOIA request on these emails -- FOIA requests all the way down
February 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Just reply to the Five Points Email:
- I know what you did last summer
- Where were you on Jan 6?
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Time for a Boston Tesla Party
- Recursive FOIA request on these emails -- FOIA requests all the way down
- I know what you did last summer
- Where were you on Jan 6?
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Time for a Boston Tesla Party
- Recursive FOIA request on these emails -- FOIA requests all the way down
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“I don’t think it’s just a change in rhetoric that has happened here,” she said during a press conference in Dublin.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
Sinn Féin may be boycotting White House for St Patrick’s Day, but Mary Lou McDonald is imploring Taoiseach to attend and confront Trump
Taoiseach Micheál Martin should go to the White House on St Patrick’s Day, Mary Lou McDonald has said, but he should confront US president Donald Trump over his “dangerous” rhetoric on Gaza.
www.independent.ie
February 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“I don’t think it’s just a change in rhetoric that has happened here,” she said during a press conference in Dublin.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
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We are very grateful to MaryLou Mcdonald, David Cullinane & Natasha Drennan, for meeting with us again today. Your consistent commitment to meet with us & support for our key asks for safeguarding legislation & #publicInquiry into Covid is appreciated.
#humanrightsdonotgrowold
#humanrightsdonotgrowold
February 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
We are very grateful to MaryLou Mcdonald, David Cullinane & Natasha Drennan, for meeting with us again today. Your consistent commitment to meet with us & support for our key asks for safeguarding legislation & #publicInquiry into Covid is appreciated.
#humanrightsdonotgrowold
#humanrightsdonotgrowold
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Upwards of 850 NA/Indian doctors, nurses, and medical staff were also fired
Some of the impacts at Department of Interior today.
February 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Upwards of 850 NA/Indian doctors, nurses, and medical staff were also fired
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So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!
3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records
San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices bef...
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!
Let's not forget @news.rte.ie and their choice to do the same.
“"What an odd way to frame ethnic cleansing and clear violations of international law”
~Assal Rad
The National (Scotland)
☕️
~Assal Rad
The National (Scotland)
☕️
February 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Let's not forget @news.rte.ie and their choice to do the same.
What at first appears to be poor design is actually very careful design, created to destabilise an already vulnerable cohort.
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What at first appears to be poor design is actually very careful design, created to destabilise an already vulnerable cohort.
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
"more private investment needed to fix housing": tinyurl.com/v2wwvz6w
"possible end to rent pressure zones": tinyurl.com/ye24v2s9
"No CoL measures":
tinyurl.com/59sad4ku
Seems like Irish govt can't wait to get in on that genocide the way they're throwing out signals to the US. The NFL games, the press release mentioning an invite to Paddy's Day, the flirting with NATO. Our govt is acting like a desperate teenage girl hoping for an ask
to the disco.
to the disco.
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Seems like Irish govt can't wait to get in on that genocide the way they're throwing out signals to the US. The NFL games, the press release mentioning an invite to Paddy's Day, the flirting with NATO. Our govt is acting like a desperate teenage girl hoping for an ask
to the disco.
to the disco.
Disabled children in #Ireland are essentially 2nd class citizens w/ 2nd rate healthcare, 2nd rate education & 2nd rate opportunities. Additional needs put them at greater risk of homelessness & poverty. (1/2) tinyurl.com/bdezj54n
'Locked out' - autistic children without school place
The mother of an autistic child has said she applied to 47 schools but was not able to get a place for him, while another said her daughter is being "locked out of an education" as no school place is ...
www.rte.ie
February 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Disabled children in #Ireland are essentially 2nd class citizens w/ 2nd rate healthcare, 2nd rate education & 2nd rate opportunities. Additional needs put them at greater risk of homelessness & poverty. (1/2) tinyurl.com/bdezj54n
This needs a public inquiry. It needed it years ago. Well done Kieran and all at @carechampions.bsky.social
James 'Jimmy' Brady had been locked in a room for 19 days at least on his own, with no conversation, no view of the third-floor window by the time he died on January 18, 2021.
#CovidInquiry #HelpUsBeHeard #humanrightsdonotgrowold
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
#CovidInquiry #HelpUsBeHeard #humanrightsdonotgrowold
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Covid inquiry: 'The way people died — just lock them in a room and hope for the best — is inhumane'
Some of the bereaved families who lost loved ones during the pandemic have urgent questions
www.irishexaminer.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This needs a public inquiry. It needed it years ago. Well done Kieran and all at @carechampions.bsky.social
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Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations after Trump threats
Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations after Donald Trump’s threats
Arctic island in US president’s sights is due to hold parliamentary elections by April 6
www.ft.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations after Trump threats
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A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
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From the outside looking in, it looks like your government is being dismantled in the space of 2 weeks. An unelected oligarch is in charge of your treasury and raiding data from different departments. Do you really believe there will be free elections in 2 years? History suggests otherwise.
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
From the outside looking in, it looks like your government is being dismantled in the space of 2 weeks. An unelected oligarch is in charge of your treasury and raiding data from different departments. Do you really believe there will be free elections in 2 years? History suggests otherwise.
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“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”
February 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”
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Definitely not politically motivated... 😐
February 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Definitely not politically motivated... 😐
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The HSE has appointed Dr Mark Skehan, a consultant obstetrician, accompanied by a director of midwifery and a senior manager, to oversee maternity services at Portiuncula, following the incident two weeks ago. They will remain in place for the foreseeable future.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Baby’s birth problem led to HSE’s takeover at hospital
An unusually high rate of babies with HIE prompted intervention at Portiuncula University Hospital, as seven babies were born with the condition since 2024
www.thetimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The HSE has appointed Dr Mark Skehan, a consultant obstetrician, accompanied by a director of midwifery and a senior manager, to oversee maternity services at Portiuncula, following the incident two weeks ago. They will remain in place for the foreseeable future.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
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You can't beat a kid into not being neurodivergent
So in looking back for a quote from the Kennedy hearing today, I just realized I missed the part where Sen. Tuberville appears to endorse "butt whipping" via belt over medication for ADHD in children.
January 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
You can't beat a kid into not being neurodivergent