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gavfromromford.bsky.social
Moved to Scotland, walked the UK and Ireland, dropped outta teaching, did a Masters and now embracing the collapse era
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AI slop from the police in Essex. Giant owl and nonsense text.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

There is nothing as fun as the MyJobScotland lottery. Will I get a rejection email, will I interview, hear nothing for 2 months with my application 'pending' and then suddenly changed to unsuccessful without any feedback, or will I get a phone call off a number I don't know I can't answer?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like it’s being overlooked that a policy based on the idea that kids are autistic, not trans, is essentially saying that autistic kids don’t know themselves enough to consent to healthcare. This is making a loophole that will make autistic kids exempt from Gillick competence. It’s dystopian.

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

On the pitch, you need that hunger…

submitted 57 days ago • 42 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 57 days ago • 428 comments

FWIW, from a neuropsychological perspective, if you wanted to make teens actively avoid or resent talking about a certain subject, a really good tactic would forcing them to watch a 4 hour drama about it, one that teachers/politicians/adult authority figures insist is "really important"

submitted 58 days ago • 17 comments

If I get to the end of tomorrow I will have done well this week. It's always cool when the worst and most stressful things about your job are the people above you and the things they say and do.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?

submitted 72 days ago • 46 comments

1. CONFIRM YOUR SOLIDARITY NETWORKS 2. CONCENTRATE ON THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE FIRST. 3. FIGHT WHERE YOU CAN/WITHIN YOUR CAPACITY.

submitted 72 days ago • 15 comments

My expectations for a what the Starmer project would deliver were in a bin and on fire. It is meeting those expectations.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

It's genuinely worrying to look at the vulnerable people I work with who barely keep their head above water in this current climate and know that the government of the day plans to make decisions to punitively punish them further. And in the name of what?

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Weird to feel a sense of loss about a podcast ending but FMIAM has been with me thru walking the whole length of the UK, lockdown, a career change and finally buying a house. All that unpredictability counterbalanced by the regular reassurance that Fox Mulder is a maniac. Thank you Tom and Dave.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Wes Streeting is an obsequious little cunt. I believed this in 2006 when he was being a fucken shill for tuition fees rises when he was NUS president and I believe it now when he's arguing that people are at it in regards to mental health and thinks work makes you free.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

"Maybe the reason I didn’t want any childhood photos is because I didn’t want to understand what my childhood meant." Brilliant guest post from @matt-taylor.bsky.social, on how growing up in care means growing up without photographic evidence of your own childhood

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

Early sunrises mean I wake up earlier and then go to work earlier coz what else would I do?

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I have been reading the plans for benefits cuts and looking at the mad dash of the Leadbetter Bill and while I dom't think there is a joint up specific plan connecting the two I think it does show you how detatched the party is from everyday reality and how much they just don't give a fuck.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

submitted 80 days ago • 95 comments

Well, here we go. What will I be returning to?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

'Hey, remember an experience you had as a child? It could be anything from falling over to being battered by a parent... well, continue to follow me and use the #reallife to pay me money to grift off our shared trauma or, at the very least, see me post about when it made me sad.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Is Palentines Day a thing? Or would you call it Guylentines Day? And how long before the concept of blokes doing fun things with their friends on 14th February drew the ire of internet incels and right-wing culture warriors? These... these are the questions.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

This was an extremely difficult watch last night. The level of failure, the development of the culture at Skye House and ultimately the failure for this to be addressed and the flat rehearsed political answers from the head guy spoken to. Some things I took from it... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments