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Cutting benefits in a stroppy way like a parent cancelling your Xbox or Netflix subscription because it costs too much. That’s Labours way to ‘welfare reforms’.

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Anyway, fuck Wes Streeting. Here’s some practical help if you need to access mental health services. Your mental health issue is just as important & deserving of treatment as others’ physical ones. Don’t forget that. www.nhs.uk/mental-healt...

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That Headmistress from that school was on radio this morning: "what you do with SEN children is sort out their behaviour" and that one comment alone should disqualify her from having anything to do with children.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Britpop

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I’m working on a research project that involves some degree of health equity, I’m starting to think in this current climate I am wasting my time. The Trump anti equality is coming to the UK isn’t it? #research

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Alright guvnor? Looking for some free speech?

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This was so much fun! 🤩 x

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Christ on a bike… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Whataboutism has completely ruined political discourse in this country. It's impossible to have a sensible debate with anyone about anything now.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Twiglets should sell a breakfast cereal with that great yeasty flavour.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

We all go a little mad sometimes… youtu.be/aBIgkxWvItw?...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

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submitted 54 days ago • 109 comments

#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

submitted 54 days ago • 228 comments

Remember this? Would be called a woke mind virus nowadays. Societal breakdown because of a clock.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

No not really mate

submitted 62 days ago • 26 comments

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

submitted 121 days ago • 96 comments

Would read a novel about a writer who gets included in a Starter Pack with a load of other writers he considers inferior.

submitted 124 days ago • 74 comments

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

submitted 125 days ago • 1600 comments

I was, thanks!

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Powell & Pressburger's THE LIFE & DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (screening 13.30 tomorrow on BBC2) is a wartime film that invoked Churchill's ire. P&P's run of propaganda features are all quite brilliant, this is the apotheosis. This speech should have earned Walbrook an Oscar. youtu.be/hcZ6fnRLDLU?...

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

A map of where I think #snow will fall next week, as the cold arctic air sets in, though not necessarily settle. Also where disruption from settling snow most likely to occur. 🟣 Purple more organised frontal snow Mon-Tues on N flank of low moving SE 🟦 snow showers Sun-Fri *subject to change

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