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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · Jun 6

Back in 2020, many social landlords in the UK made anti-racist pledges in response to Black Lives Matter. I've gone back to find out what, five years later, has changed:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/blac...

Black Lives Matter and housing – five years on

It’s been five years since social landlords made pledges for change in response to Black Lives Matter. Has there been a shift in the sector? Jess McCabe reports.

www.insidehousing.co.uk

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone is doing this it’s Americans IMO

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this earlier and can’t get it out of my head. Have I been saying primer wrong all these years? Sounds primmer than thou

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

We've got a fantastic interactive map today showing how many (and what percentage) of council houses in Britain have solar panels

But does it bear any resemblance to the parts of the country with most sunny days?

www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/mapp...

Mapping the council houses with solar panels

New data shared has revealed the number of solar panels on council houses across the UK. Where has the most – and the fewest? Zainab Hussain reports

www.insidehousing.co.uk

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

yep, I totally see why it's annoying!
Teams is also a platform that makes every interaction worse somehow

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

oh no, that's me

a duck is sitting in a swing with the words `` good morning you '' written below it .

ALT: a duck is sitting in a swing with the words `` good morning you '' written below it .

media.tenor.com

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

If there's one thing that's great about LinkedIn, it's getting passive aggressive messages from people because you've not responded to their messages trying to sell you something.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

The bible

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

In this version of the garden of Eden, on the sixth day god created the basset hound

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed!

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

Paid with by welfare cuts sounds completely bazonkers

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

We made a move 2 years ago and tbh we somewhat got it wrong but the stamp duty costs are so high it’s hard to swallow moving again so soon. I assume they would need to replace it with something else though

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

A long day “off” correcting the EHCP annual review. It’s so slap dash. Even the school is wrong

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 4d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

Ai is good because instead of just reproducing the book jacket info you can get AI to randomly speculate what it might be about

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 4d

The buddy movie we didn’t know we needed

Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 5d

"Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Edgar Allan Poe?"

@goodplacejames.bsky.social

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 4d

A signed Steve Reed “build baby build” hat has found its way to @insidehousing.bsky.social towers from Labour Party conference

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘It’s a big question’: kibbutz residents ponder return home after Hamas attack

Two years on, Israel has said the Holit community can go back – but memories of the horrific events are still raw

www.theguardian.com

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 5d

Jenrick’s decline from bad to worse continues then, wow

Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 5d

About to defect to Reform, are we? Or straight to Robinson’s lot? Mind-boggling to see what is becoming of the Conservative Party which put Mosley in his place and threw Powell out after the “Rivers of Blood” speech…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 5d

I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 5d

Having had to pull out of buying a property because of what the survey revealed, this is just a really good idea
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

UK ministers aim to speed up homebuying by four weeks

Proposed government overhaul of house purchase process looks at shifting some costs from buyers to sellers

www.theguardian.com

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe we should normalise being this snotty about other things
Music is about to expire because most people can’t really understand Mahler
Crisis: film students raised on K Pop Demon Hunters have a hard time sitting through Rashomon
The average Brit has not read Rabelais in French!

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 6d

My personal bechdel test for Substacks and podcasts on literature:
Only or almost exclusively references white male writers
Quotes Harold Bloom, skips most 20th century ideas about books
References the straw man (or woman probably) who exclusively rereads the Harry Potter again and again

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 6d

I suppose this is a red flag list really, it’s been a long weekend

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 6d

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