Happy Bandcamp Friday

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Happy Bandcamp Friday!!! Also October is ADHD Awareness Month we'll be re-sharing works related to ADHD.

Scared For The Climate (Remix)

By Love, Builder of Worlds

This single is exclusive to Bandcamp and will not be available on streaming platforms.

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Supporting artists on sites like Bandcamp and Jam.Coop means they can be less reliant on evil corporations like Spotify.

October Crip Arts Gathering - Oct 4 2025

Crip Arts Gatherings are monthly virtual events during where the community reconnects or meets for the first time fellow Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, Neurodivergent, mentally ill, and/or mad folks, have the opportunity to make art, and share creations with one another in a relaxed, warm, supportive environment.

October Crip Arts Gathering - Oct 4 2025

Hosted by RestFest Film Festival, an artist-run film and video art festival & online gathering space created by/for Queer, Trans, Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and/or mad community.

ADHD Awareness Month

We wanted to share work that speaks to the symptoms and challenges people with ADHD experience:

Yesterday Thursday Oct 5 was National Poetry Day in the UK, and we would like to remember radical political activist Assata Shakur that passed last Friday September 25 2025.

“Affirmation” by Assata Shakur

I believe in living.

I believe in the spectrum

of Beta days and Gamma people.

I believe in sunshine.

In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs.

And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts.

And sprouts grow into trees.

I believe in the magic of the hands.

And in the wisdom of the eyes.

I believe in rain and tears.

And in the blood of infinity.

I believe in life.

And i have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth,sculpting mud bodies in its path.

I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted.

I have seen the kind become the blind

and the blind become the bind

in one easy lesson.

I have walked on cut glass.

I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference.

I have been locked by the lawless.

Handcuffed by the haters.

Gagged by the greedy.

And, if i know any thing at all, it’s that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all.

It can be broken down.

I believe in living.

I believe in birth.

I believe in the sweat of love

and in the fire of truth.

And I believe that a lost ship,

steered by tired, seasick sailors,

can still be guided home to port.

”Affirmation” is reprinted from Shakur, Assata. (1987/2001). Assata: An Autobiography. (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books), p. 1.

Finally there is a huge COVID wave across the UK, Ireland and USA, please be sure to wear an N95/KN95/FFP2 mask when in public to reduce your exposure to airborn virus contaminated air. Also in the Dublin area there have been reports of measles which is also an airborne virus that spreads easily through coughs and sneezes by infected people.

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