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Please delete Copilot @microsoft.com gizmodo.com/microsoft-st...

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

submitted 14 days ago • 176 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

Lovely opportunity here with Manchester City of Literature to undertake a fully-funded PhD exploring the impact of literature and creative writing within communities. Deadline 28th Feb! www.manchestercityofliterature.com/opportunity/...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The inauguration was a carefully constructed fascist pageant meant to seize control of power and reality, foster an authoritarian environment on behalf of the oligarchs, and pummel us into early submission. It’s time to prepare for the fight. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-repulsiv...

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

It’s been a while but I’ve been prompted to do some #StarterPack admin! If you work in or around UK charities and you’d like to be added, just let me know! #Charity folks Part 1 go.bsky.app/7dPWqWQ #Charities folk Part 2: go.bsky.app/QWpFmRe Charity folks Part 3: go.bsky.app/U9Thoeg

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

submitted 33 days ago • 787 comments

Like every other time the Right has openly performed fascist salutes or used Neo-Nazi rhetoric or behaved as cryptofascists, there is going to be a lot of claiming it wasn't intentional or it's just people being irrational. This is part of the authoritarian playbook. Stay firm in reality.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

"It's not a Nazi salute because he's autistic" is a new one for me, I have to say.

submitted 33 days ago • 110 comments

As the UK establishment works overtime to normalize the ascension or political reincarnation of Trump, it's refreshing to see a rare moment of (accidental) honesty...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

As the UK establishment works overtime to normalize the ascension or political reincarnation of Trump, it's refreshing to see a rare moment of (accidental) honesty...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is me every time someone lazily says charities are predominantly left leaning or full of left wing staff! goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause...

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The Conservative party accuses Keir Starmer of refusing to take child abuse seriously. In other news, here's former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson complaining about £60 million being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse cases

submitted 47 days ago • 73 comments

Lots of us won't have the perfect Xmas, no matter how hard we wish! Like many a proud parent, I don't need much of an invitation to talk about my kids. I've been talking about my brilliant son, Omar, who took his own life last year. Lets help each other find the help we need: tinyurl.com/2tucetss

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you so much Rashid and Farah for sharing your story as part of @thetimes.com Christmas Appeal 💙 Read the full story and donate at the link. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a... #TheTimes #suicide #suicideprevention #christmasappeal

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of us won't have the perfect Xmas, no matter how hard we wish! Like many a proud parent, I don't need much of an invitation to talk about my kids. I've been talking about my brilliant son, Omar, who took his own life last year. Lets help each other find the help we need: tinyurl.com/2tucetss

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

I'm beginning to suspect that he might not actually take his professed philanthropy altogether seriously.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: 157 level 3 qualifications, including some BTECs, have been saved from the chop feweek.co.uk/revealed-lev...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Nikki Giovanni

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submitted 76 days ago • 25 comments

Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage) Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1% All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.

submitted 75 days ago • 114 comments

More challenging news about the challenges facing charities www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/shoc...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

This is very very good

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

How we all feeling about the new, new, definitely new, 'school readiness' target this morning? A. Yes- it's the right focus B. No- it's continuity austerity politics by another name C. Maybe- if there's actual investment in children & families support D. Let's talk about early childhood instead!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I really recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ) In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (cont)

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

You know who doesn't get enough praise? Youth workers. The stuff they do not just to help young people to thrive but to create opportunities for them to participate in decision making - off the scale brilliant. Can't say enough good things about them.

submitted 80 days ago • 4 comments

What part of the Mission can only you do? If you are going to run a mission-based govt, then you really need to know what only govt can do. Only govt can lift the unfair & frankly classist 2-child housing benefit cap, which entrenches inequality & shuts down opportunities for children & families

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

📢 #StarterPack announcement! Blume is collating a pack of all the charity freelancers across the UK! If you want to be included, drop us 👋 in the comments below. @alsteve.bsky.social | @nicolaupton.bsky.social | @barelycivilsociety.bsky.social go.bsky.app/VSrcMiu

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Yep...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

I was recently consumed by Han Kang's Human Acts, which recounts the brutal massacres of Gwangju, in 1980. Today, South Korea declares martial law. I am once again reminded of power's unending capacity for corruption & cruelty.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 83 days ago • 118 comments

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

submitted 84 days ago • 48 comments