althalustyde.bsky.social
Disability and wellbeing support, amateur philosopher and believer in our ability to make whatever world we wish.
What world would you like to create?
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Tbf all war is preventable. As an act in itself - especially in our current world - it's merely a brutalist stop-gap where "leaders" take out their own ideological angst on other powerful and wealthy people before having to resolve it over the table as they always would have to have done.
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...it, of course, and certainly the idea that calling it out is an attack (because narcissists), but in truth it's a reminder only about the necessity for intellectual and ideological humility - a value surely considered a sin within the increasingly neoliberal mindset of many.
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"Merit" turns to ash in that fascist desiccated tortoise's mouth.
"Privilege" is at its simplest merely and purely is the reality that we cannot know those things which we don't experience or can't understand because of that.
The ever enclosing social norms of the wealthy and powerful propagates..
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...success standing their ground on their values. Of course someone must be able to think like their competitors, but in the same way as in a protracted war, they need to have safeguarded against becoming them.
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In attempting to battle for financial survival and relevancy as a media industry against social media, mainstream media has tried to emulate it; possibly the worst mistake they could've made.
For long-standing and previously respected institutes like the BBC, I believe they'd have found greater...
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The inevitably persistent hypocrisy of the hyper-individualism of neoliberalism is fucking tragic.
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The ultimate problem with extending the labour theory of value beyond economics is that you end up with a statement that claims only workers deserve any real value of life.
And previously social governments becoming "The government of working people."
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So I find myself asking how many of us, in this service and finance economy, have such jobs. Is it a privileged assumption by politicians that all "jobs" provide this, especially in our post-austerity post-manufacturing society? It all stinks to high heaven to me, whatever face they present on it.
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The reality is that an "ideal" work environment will - as well as keeping you active - provide real social connection, knowledge that you're supported by your community, and that you are truly valued for what you can give. That your efforts drive real results and you can learn and grow.
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It's like they all only read the summary of that one research paper that lazily concluded "work is good for your mental and physical health" and decided whipping people onto poverty wages and exploitation was an adequately affordable replacement for medicine, social support and therapy.
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It's not dissimilar to just pumping cash into the NHS; it doesn't actually resolve the underlying issue; a lack of adequate local health and social support.
It'll force employers to bear the cost and challenges of that inadequate support, while blaming those individuals for the challenges they face
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What is it with this government thinking "help" is synonymous with "punish"?
This isn't a mitigatory or preventative move, it's a brutalist bodge that removes vital security from those unable to work more than it support those able to into it. All stick and no carrot. It won't even benefit business
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Beautiful for its simultaneous description of the look people will give you if you try to use it in a conversation 🤣
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Seems like a lot of work to compete with Dave.
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The "alpha" closet is likely to remain tightly closed so long as powerful men try to disambiguate their own personal sexual insecurities by so loudly and regularly claiming themselves as the arbiters of straight masculinity.
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"EU review is likely to find bears shit in woods, forest dweller warns"
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She only went and forgot the word "only"! Silly typo.
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If only it weren't so blissfully cathartic to watch...
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"Alpha energy" to me has just come to mean 'performatively angry and reactionary adolescent with severe Dunning-Kruger vibes about sometimes quite astonishing things."
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"National insecurity concerns"
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Definitely someone who shouldn't be allowed near children's services.
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Tbf, I'm pretty sure - even after being pushed out of the BBC - that Gazza would think this guy's a knob too.
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Nobody who hasn't been poor then become an overnight multi-millionaire, turned into a toxic public influence and used their newfound power to oppress and attack others can understand what 'power corrupts' really means.
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"2026 Spring budget statement: Universal Credit to be removed for all disabled people and part time or self-contracted workers."
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The only thing more disconcerting than that perma-sneer must be when she smiles. What a brainlessly hateful being.
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Getting the most unethical shit out of the way first, probably.
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It's pretty shocking. Even the Tories were sweepingly dismissive of disabled people by generalising them amongst the unemployed population. It's rare to see the government so openly and directly attack disabled people quite to this level.
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Well as a long term foreign spy and multinational corporate political agent, he can hardly be expected to be a successful local MP at the same time, surely?
How many billionaire cocks can one dilapidated tortoise take at once, after all?
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I can't help but consider whether there should be an upper age limit to voting too at times 🤦♂️🤣
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Oakeyshit is the true British enema
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How to make the UK look like an emigrant Spanish tourist town.
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God forbid the general public should have to actually become informed grown ups. It'd fuck the entire system 😅🤣🤪
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This kinda reads as "Multinational company boycotts country to punish it for not allowing it to sexually exploit children."
Whatever the complexities underlying potential adult audience loss, the moral high ground is clearly not where this battle's being held.
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I wouldn't mind one or two actually intelligent ones either. Sadly it's all inbred born to wealth power-hungry narcissists as far as the eye can see 🤷♂️🤣
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While people still allow themselves to consider their own worldview and approach as simultaneously "normal" AND - through the inherent insecurity of the human condition - "superior", they'll always suspect equity as an inequality.