Barold
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@fletchjack.bsky.social from the BMA explains they've been trying to get round the table with Wes Streeting for several months but Streeting didn't even bother replying to their letter
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
@fletchjack.bsky.social from the BMA explains they've been trying to get round the table with Wes Streeting for several months but Streeting didn't even bother replying to their letter
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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We'll stop by the drive through on the way. You look like you need to eat something
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We'll stop by the drive through on the way. You look like you need to eat something
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It's very clear that the goal is to capture people by getting them addicted to AI so that they can then charge us to use it or sell us as products to advertisers.
That's why it's so bad for higher ed to be pushing this shit.
That's why it's so bad for higher ed to be pushing this shit.
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's very clear that the goal is to capture people by getting them addicted to AI so that they can then charge us to use it or sell us as products to advertisers.
That's why it's so bad for higher ed to be pushing this shit.
That's why it's so bad for higher ed to be pushing this shit.
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Looking forward to what other regional employment tribunals the media will be reporting on en masse today! Race discrimination in Scunthorpe? Sex discrimination in Yeovil? Homophobia in Wrexham? Or is it only GCs who lost their case that get this treatment
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Looking forward to what other regional employment tribunals the media will be reporting on en masse today! Race discrimination in Scunthorpe? Sex discrimination in Yeovil? Homophobia in Wrexham? Or is it only GCs who lost their case that get this treatment
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What “virus” do we think this MP is talking about here
I am every bit as worried about this as I am about e.g. the terrifying allegation that the police unlawfully discriminated against fascist football hooligans by banning them from a match, and indeed any other absolutely insane shit that our crackpot MPs keep telling our abysmal media outlets.
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What “virus” do we think this MP is talking about here
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I buy train tickets from the station and enter my overdraft. I'm freezing because I can't afford heating overnight. The train is late. I run into work and just catch a meeting on potential redundancies from my profit making company. Landlord texts me that he's upping rent because of 'Market Demands'
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I buy train tickets from the station and enter my overdraft. I'm freezing because I can't afford heating overnight. The train is late. I run into work and just catch a meeting on potential redundancies from my profit making company. Landlord texts me that he's upping rent because of 'Market Demands'
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my one very sincere piece of business advice to universities:
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
my one very sincere piece of business advice to universities:
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
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labour are creating a black market of human suffering.
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
labour are creating a black market of human suffering.
Jacqui Smith saying the same things that politicians have been saying for 40 years, whether AI was a factor or not.
Truly we have some superstars in this government.
Truly we have some superstars in this government.
Skills minister Jacqui Smith is asked about how AI will impact on jobs in the future (She's also asked about Universal Basic Income & dismisses it as not Labour policy)
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Jacqui Smith saying the same things that politicians have been saying for 40 years, whether AI was a factor or not.
Truly we have some superstars in this government.
Truly we have some superstars in this government.
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Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
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The "national IQ" database really is a case study of how academia allowed itself to be manipulated for political purposes, and should be studied carefully by those who'd rather science wasn't so easy to misuse
The scientific community failed when it allowed Lynn and others to promulgate obviously shoddy national-IQ “science” without substantial backlash. Lynn was biased by his admitted racist aspirations. His errors and lies are now malignant with our culture, and being weaponized by the right.
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The "national IQ" database really is a case study of how academia allowed itself to be manipulated for political purposes, and should be studied carefully by those who'd rather science wasn't so easy to misuse
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By the way this is why I know they’re lying when they say they knew who was on the boats and they’re all on a military list. The US military had somehow built a dossier on Robert Sanchez, the boat pilot living in a cinderblock house and earning $100 a month? He was next on the kill list after Osama?
Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
By the way this is why I know they’re lying when they say they knew who was on the boats and they’re all on a military list. The US military had somehow built a dossier on Robert Sanchez, the boat pilot living in a cinderblock house and earning $100 a month? He was next on the kill list after Osama?
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here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
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How to get grain even in digital photography
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
How to get grain even in digital photography
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
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Rosa Parks' courage was precisely NOT a single act but perseverance. What made it so courageous was she had made stands before, others had, there was NOTHING to suggest that taking a stand this day would do something. But still, if "I got up I would approve of this treatment and I did NOT approve."
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Rosa Parks' courage was precisely NOT a single act but perseverance. What made it so courageous was she had made stands before, others had, there was NOTHING to suggest that taking a stand this day would do something. But still, if "I got up I would approve of this treatment and I did NOT approve."
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A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
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Ian Austin was a Labour MP who spent the years 2015-19 furiously campaigning against his own party's leader because of alleged concerns about antisemitism. When his party lost the election, Boris Johnson made him a Lord. These are all plain facts and it's up to you what you do with them.
Absolutely insane here, like lecturing people for not recognising the decency and liberalism of Milosevic’s Serbia, yet somehow much, much worse, dumber and more insulting. You cannot big up a record of inclusion if you are destroying your subject underclass of people who have no rights.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ian Austin was a Labour MP who spent the years 2015-19 furiously campaigning against his own party's leader because of alleged concerns about antisemitism. When his party lost the election, Boris Johnson made him a Lord. These are all plain facts and it's up to you what you do with them.
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Sadly there's no contradiction between Labour both claiming mental illness is overdiagnosed and declaring all their opponents as mentally ill.
They believe there's lots of mentall illness about but that it is a personal failing and those afflicted should suffer, not be helped.
They believe there's lots of mentall illness about but that it is a personal failing and those afflicted should suffer, not be helped.
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Sadly there's no contradiction between Labour both claiming mental illness is overdiagnosed and declaring all their opponents as mentally ill.
They believe there's lots of mentall illness about but that it is a personal failing and those afflicted should suffer, not be helped.
They believe there's lots of mentall illness about but that it is a personal failing and those afflicted should suffer, not be helped.
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I was on a waiting list for 8 months for therapy. When I finally got it, they cancelled the course early because the only slots available were in the middle of the day and I had to miss 2 sessions because of work commitments. This is despite that being discussed and agreed beforehand.
Actually quite pissed off about that headline - especially as you don't actually get any help for mental health issues in this country on the NHS. 6wks of dogshit CBT is not going to cut it for most people. And lol have you seen the waiting lists for ADHD assessments??
December 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I was on a waiting list for 8 months for therapy. When I finally got it, they cancelled the course early because the only slots available were in the middle of the day and I had to miss 2 sessions because of work commitments. This is despite that being discussed and agreed beforehand.
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me