My tweets

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• Fri, 12:32: RT @Colin_TBTAMC: How could these traumatised children possibly have given informed consent to this? What does it matter how "tender" the d…
• Fri, 12:41: RT @DMReporter: BLOODY WOMEN: What the bloody hell is wrong with bloody women? Why can’t bloody women ever do anything bloody right? https:…
• Fri, 12:54: RT @jackseale: THREAD OF THE WEEK THREAD OF THE WEEK THREAD OF THE WEEK THREAD OF THE WEEK THREAD OF THE WEEK THREAD OF THE WEEK https://t.…
• Fri, 13:02: RT @Mum_Reader: Year 6 Daughter: Aggghhhh! What's a determiner?! Year 8 Daughter: Why does it matter? I haven't used that since primary.…
• Fri, 13:06: RT @kevstanley66: "In practice, money isn't the real point," says woman who has never had to manage on less than minimum wage. https://t.co…
• Fri, 13:06: RT @kevstanley66: Can we just get rich people to stfu about money issues.
• Fri, 13:06: RT @kevstanley66: And that's before you even think about the issue of a parent deciding that her daughter, among others, is worth less than…
• Fri, 14:10: RT @anerdabags: Why isn't #Tuam being treated as a crime scene? Are we gonna use the 'oh but they were different times' rhetoric some more?…
• Fri, 14:11: RT @XplodingUnicorn: Me: Put away your toy phone. 6-year-old: I can't. This is my job. Me: Are you making fun of me? 6: Hold on. I have…
• Fri, 14:11: RT @Donal_OKeeffe: It was all true. Every word. 796 babies dumped in a septic tank in Tuam. Dolan Brothers' sister and Catherine Corless vi…

• Fri, 14:14: RT @Ciaraioch: The Church responsible for #tuambabies is still being invited to advise on governance over women's bodies at the CA. This is…
• Fri, 14:15: RT @ococonuts: Vaccine files altered in 2002...this only gets bigger https://t.co/9B8UgiWpV2
• Fri, 14:18: RT @FirstMothers: Irish First Mothers are traumatised, we always knew, we lived the experiences, although not as horrific as the mothers up…
• Fri, 14:31: RT @aideenblackwood: In the 50s, my granny had stillborn twins. The Church wouldn't let them be buried in the local graveyard because they…
• Fri, 14:31: RT @aideenblackwood: So my granddad broke into the graveyard in the middle of the night and buried them himself.
• Fri, 14:31: RT @aideenblackwood: I never met him, but it's my favourite story about him and I can't help but think of it today.
• Fri, 14:35: How do you manage socks? We have three people using the same sizes, and the other two close enough to be confusing.
• Fri, 14:36: RT @mutablejoe: 1980: War On Drugs 2001: War On Terror 2017: War On Objective Reality
• Fri, 14:36: RT @forbairt: Well that’s pretty big https://t.co/UfMLiDofCj
• Fri, 15:06: RT @funnymonkey: This article from @teenvogue on keeping messages secure is both accessible and accurate - really, really hard to do: https…

• Fri, 15:22: This thread seems important https://t.co/bz5xNqCJ2F
• Fri, 15:33: BBC6Music news is mentioning #tuambabies -- it's been in the back of my head so long I'm shocked to find it gone mainstream.
• Fri, 15:34: RT @AltNatParkSer: He was warned He was given an explanation Nevertheless, he perjured. #Sessions
• Fri, 16:10: RT @amyohconnor: Few questions about this new Ed Sheeran monstrosity: what bar on Grafton Street were they standing outside? https://t.co/H…
• Fri, 16:12: RT @MarshallProj: In many states, parents are billed for their children's incarceration — even if a child is later proved innocent. https:/…
• Fri, 16:18: RT @NyleDiMarco: So cute. A short film about a deaf black girl who dreams of being a dancer. The girl told her mom in ASL, "I love you to…
• Fri, 16:43: RT @Blackhall99: Equally, while no one wants to be proved right about the #tuambabies, let the persistence of Catherine Corless & @IzzyKam…
• Fri, 16:43: RT @BiddyEarly: Not an orphanage. Mothers (and presumably, most of the fathers) alive. NOT why they ended up here and is central to reporti…
• Fri, 16:52: RT @SKZCartoons: @faisalislam there's probably a reason that this is still one of my best-performing cartoons https://t.co/BYbIWnnRo9
• Fri, 16:57: RT @amomcnally: My Nana had to 'escape' from a mother & baby home with my Mam. The horror of today is not one from a bygone era, its all to…

• Fri, 17:09: RT @shinydh: @fodderfigure I've seen it argued that often an ED is actually how autism presents itself in autistic women. A friend fit tha…
• Fri, 17:23: RT @TVP_Reading: We are is appealing for witnesses or information following a robbery in Reading last Friday: https://t.co/HAwf8qLthq
• Fri, 17:24: RT @ThamesVP: We are is appealing for witnesses or information following a robbery in Reading last Friday: https://t.co/KY6b7Uc8bE
• Fri, 17:33: Adapting to disability is live enhancing https://t.co/GuQQ3udSeA
• Fri, 17:43: Glasses to help me see. Insoles and a stick to help me walk. Scooter to help me leave the house. These are things o… https://t.co/CqdscTpEQh
• Fri, 17:46: This whole thread. Look at every image. I'm ok with hets but they do shove it in your face. https://t.co/Af4Nb7g7tD
• Fri, 18:17: Contains the glorious phrase "Manic Paddy Dream Girl." https://t.co/0qVpzhCMwj
• Fri, 18:21: RT @Losingthemask: ....and this is the biggest barrier to autism acceptance. https://t.co/2mYA8hH99K
• Fri, 18:24: Oh hospital and weight - they weighed and measured me at pre-op and didn't tell me the numbers or remark on it at all. I liked that.
• Fri, 18:27: RT @MaryMcAuliffe4: The Sean McDermott St Magdalen Laundry should be use by the State as a museum of Irish institutionalisation #tuambabies…

• Fri, 18:27: RT @1GaryGannon: Our country was built on the labour of enslaved women, the bodies of their babies, and the lies we tell ourselves to prete…
• Fri, 18:27: RT @1GaryGannon: And while you're at it, give survivors an independent investigation is needed into practice of symphysiotomy #tuambabies
• Fri, 19:18: RT @thamesbestiary: TOAD Feel my warty bumps. My swollen ego. The air beneath my earthy skin. #amphibians #Thames
• Fri, 19:52: RT @sharonf: This thread. I've no words- just read it and weep for the lives destroyed in pursuit of profit by a heartless state. https://t…
• Fri, 19:53: RT @EXECUTIVESTEVE: So next time you see an Irish minister announcing the outsourcing of another key function of the state to the private s…
• Fri, 19:53: RT @EXECUTIVESTEVE: The order of nuns which ran Tuam is now a private healthcare conglomerate operating in Ireland's two-tier system. https…
• Fri, 19:54: RT @Cheapshirt: Why does Ed Sheehan look like he's queuing up to meet Ed Sheeran? https://t.co/q9hq4ohPH4
• Fri, 19:59: RT @SonofBaldwin: "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou https://t.co/bYdTfKxQkY
• Fri, 20:04: All my RTs about Tuam etc -- who runs children's homes where you are? Charities? Profit making companies? It's not just churches.
• Fri, 20:40: RT @70s_party: Hell darkness my old friend https://t.co/4IQnBfEDNh

• Fri, 20:42: Hello rain!
• Fri, 20:50: RT @ImJustCeej: Remember that time Sally Yates got fired within 6 hours for enforcing the constitution? Related: Sessions perjured himself…
• Fri, 20:52: RT @nostromodamus: It is exhausting when most people who care about fighting for autistic people are autistic themselves
• Fri, 20:52: RT @nostromodamus: And it's autistic women doing a lot of the fighting in the face of autistic men being misogynistic as hell to us
• Fri, 20:53: RT @nostromodamus: And it's autistic POC speaking the truth about how racism intersects and it's radio silence from white autism activists
• Fri, 21:13: RT @kevstanley66: Deaf woman 'quizzed on nationality' at Grantham hospital. This is where we're heading, fast. https://t.co/fgo02mD3hC
• Fri, 21:14: RT @ococonuts: Bessborough death register contains 470 infant names, 10 women between 1934-53. Over 50% die in a 6 yr period. HSE/Tusla hav…
• Fri, 21:18: RT @feelssick: can we even hack dead GIRLS phones anymore? or do we have to hack dead PERSONS phones? https://t.co/ew4CrqmJDz
• Fri, 21:24: RT @JanetOS_: Martyn Turner Feb 2013 @IrishTimes https://t.co/h0JCJ4YP05 https://t.co/vUpIzrg9og
• Fri, 21:31: RT @lorismentality: vile https://t.co/AkmVeBOLil

• Fri, 21:45: RT @Russian_Starr: https://t.co/oRY15W0zI0
• Fri, 21:46: RT @getreading: Can you help @BTP find these people? The want to talk to them in connection with an assault #rdguk https://t.co/rpfcGL1bOh
• Fri, 22:11: RT @bengoldacre: £80 fine for opening car door and killing a cyclist. This is why cyclists must ride in the middle of the road always https…
• Fri, 22:21: RT @mum2aspergirl: 'They were not taught how to overcome challenges, but to endure them.' And what are they taught and what do they learn?…
• Fri, 22:21: RT @Chris_A_W: It's worth remembering how predictable the current unpleasantness was, especially to the wise. https://t.co/g8viCN2IDG
• Fri, 22:24: RT @DoireannNiG: My next event is next week in Paris with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Bígí linn! https://t.co/HRteko2J1…
• Fri, 22:56: RT @mmegannnolan: Highly relatable content https://t.co/dKWIyUk5Us
• Fri, 23:05: Oh but we can and we do https://t.co/5a0AssHFCw
• Fri, 23:27: RT @AnneVosser: RT! Someone must know these horrors!! Police hunt men over horrific homophobic attack on London-bound train https://t.co/GI…
• Fri, 23:36: RT @AnonymouslyAnna: We NEED more awareness. Not for the "normal people" but for the undiagnosed Aspies who are confused at why life is so…

• Fri, 23:37: RT @salome_debbie: Man who saved two children from Manchester fire to be deported https://t.co/ZolibSotgt
• Fri, 23:39: RT @DrPetra: This is wicked and shameful. Yet joins so many other cuts aimed at hurting the most vulnerable in society. https://t.co/o4swjU…
• Sat, 00:02: RT @Tupp_Ed: I do not understand how, even now, this is seen as a marginal story. It is core to the nation’s narrative since independence.…
• Sat, 00:26: RT @zaranosaur: Moratorium on white/white-ish disability activists arguing against disablism by ref to what wld be unacceptable for other m…
• Sat, 00:27: RT @bitchyologist: Yes. https://t.co/JgWw6hVkVI
• Sat, 00:54: RT @Sinabhfuil: Why have the Gardaí not sealed off the Tuam site as a scene for investigation as is normal when unexplained human remains a…
• Sat, 00:54: RT @JMaguireCritic: Catherine Corless is an Irish hero. We should give her a medal, although I'd imagine she'd be happy with her good name…
• Sat, 01:39: RT @SmiiffyArtist: PTSD: it's not the person refusing to let go of the past, but the past refusing to let go of the person.
• Sat, 04:24: RT @TomthunkitsMind: Overheard at Union Square, NYC Guy: "Is this the Anti-Trump protest?" Lady: "Yeah." Guy: "How long does it last?"…