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Old, overweight, complex, artistic, musical, kitchen proficient, utterly demented (in a fun way), balding/greying, disabled but not entirely dead from the neck down gay bear, nature lover and glutton. He rocks. He rolls. He falls over…He needs a hug! 😉 🏳️‍🌈🐻🇬🇧

So Trump is going to pay a billion dollars to a company to STOP them building something that would save average Americans many thousands in energy costs. Can somebody please make this make sense? youtube.com/shorts/5S4hk...

What I find intriguing isn’t the actual Lego propaganda video from Iran (it’s very well done), or the fact that it’ll enrage Trump (good!), but that, so far at least, the company Lego hasn’t stepped in to stop Iran using it’s ’intellectual property’. youtu.be/wo7e2OjyEBo?...

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

You really don’t want to know the language I used when I read this. I’m registered disabled myself and the condition is both deteriorating and untreatable. I won’t go into details by the prognosis is horrible. Disabled people have enough on their plate with this kind of crap going on. 😡

Forthcoming rules mean debilitating conditions may not meet strict ‘severe and lifelong’ eligibility criteria, say disabled people’s organisations Hundreds of thousands of severely ill and disabled people making new claims will have their benefits cut if the government assesses that their condition might improve, charities have said. In April, the health element of universal credit – an extra payment for people assessed as too unwell to work or prepare for work – will be reduced to £50 a week and frozen for new claimants unless their condition is found to be terminal or severe and lifelong with no prospect of improvement. Continue reading...