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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 5d

Today is the first day in 26 weeks of pregnancy that I have enough energy to use my standing desk! What a wild ride

Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 6d

I am absolutely furious with everyone and anyone who had the audacity to have a choice over whether they got up at normal clock time or normal body time. And I have no right to be as I went to bed before my toddler and also got up after him but still.

Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 6d

The irony of a representative of our current government calling out any institution for not listening to people and abdicating responsibility.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 11d

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 12d

Excellent thread. I would add, there is nothing exceptional about private companies providing aspects of the NHS offer, this happens in almost ever conceivable hospital specialty, often to reduce waiting lists or target a specific population who need care

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 18d

I've got slightly better throughout my degrees but now in my third year of my phd I still had a moment recently of 'where did I get this from? why didn't I make it clearer!', so definitely a slow burner. Maybe the next project it'll stick but I can't face the idea of there being a next project atm!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 18d

2 years ago me really should've taken more notice of this

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 18d

I think it has to. Home education is rocketing up. At what percentage of deregistration do we acknowledge that there is a societal obligation to at least try and make sure schools are appealing and workable to a sizeable portion of the population and shift things accordingly?

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 21d

100% the amount of people who 'complimented' me on weight loss in the months after my dad suddenly died in my 20s... read the room much? fatphobia has people in a chokehold

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · 25d

I'm with you. The framing is all wrong too - 'helicopter parent' is a negative term not a parenting philosophy surely. Also I can't see anything in this article that's inconsistent with 'gentle parenting'. Also, this approach is clearly inappropriate for under 3s. Three more objections for you!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 26

I wish people were willing to discuss illegal employers not illegal workers. It's pretty clear any intervention needs to make it harder to hire workers illegally, not harder to accept offers of illegal work.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · Sep 26

NI Numbers don't stop illegal working
Passports don't stop illegal working
Residence cards don't stop illegal working
Driving Licenses don't stop illegal working
Bank statements don't stop illegal working
its almost as if you can't stop illegal working

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 24

but thats a hexagon. invested

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 24

thats a pentagon

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · Sep 21

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

blog.djnavarro.net

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 11

I got caught out by this recently, didn't know it was a relatively recent piece of legislation. HUGE implications for accessibility and vulnerable people being disproportionately impacted.

Kim Turner @kimt-slt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Now, Stephen Colman talking about the Single Justice Procedure. Did you know you could 'go to court' but not? And it is increasingly popular. Risk here of increase in guilty pleas simply to avoid going to court #VACJS25

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 11

Odd that they used a system to find my correct address 10 months after the offence but not earlier? The paperwork was astronomical and I did think - a huge number of people who go to court are fairly low literacy and agency, this cannot be the best system or the fairest

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is so fascinating! I recently got a letter to my current address saying I had a £1100 fine for failing to provide info, failing to attend court, victim impact etc etc. It was a speeding ticket that went to my old address (insurance up to date, licence up to date... logbook not up to date) 1/2

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 11

Counterpoint: South Africa

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Rivendell one is so disappointing looking!

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just so we're clear: wearing a tshirt to support an anti-genocide group is a criminal offence, but directly instructing people to assault a group which is protected under the equality act is 'free speech' which needs to be protected? Cool cool cool www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting

The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fixed it inside 5 minutes, what a rush

Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 3

New PhD milestone: found myself physically banging my head against the wall next to my desk. Mendeley creating a brand new reference list for no reason. IYKYK

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1. Braun V, Clarke V. Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis. Qualitative psychology. 2022;1: 3. Available: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-45248-001.html

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 3

Please donate today if you can, Molly shares lots of accounts and does a huge amount of work to verify they are legitimate. My heart is breaking for families in Gaza

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Darin. Darin was studying business administration and her husband Fesal was studying accounting. Darin gave birth to their little girl Lareen during the war. They’ve lost everything and Lareen was injured by shrapnel recently. They need help ❤️

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Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great post! Very interesting as a parent to a 2 year old. Who proudly asks for his 'bottle with mmm on it' - it has a letter M on, we often joke about his excellent grasp of phonics!

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