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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 17h

Plenty of shitty bosses have no faith in entry level. Freelance and contract staff are far cheaper than a new hire who needs fully training. But we’ve lost almost an entire layer of the secrets between jobs which helps you develop the skills you need to avoid every inevitable tech shift

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 17h

I do think a lot about the places I worked when I was 25 (admittedly the BBC and then arts) but an astonishing amount of downtime in between delivery was older members of staff teaching you how you make yourself employable. Workplace downtime is a rare thing now www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says

British Standards Institution study across seven countries found quarter of bosses believe entry-level tasks could be automated to reduce costs

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

It’s vital for hospitality to do what they can. But no one wants their neighbours to hate the. Changing archaic business rates would make a bigger difference. Tackling energy bills. It’s a failure of comms (again) and I’m excited to see them clarify themselves (again).

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

This will go down like a cup of cold sick in communities that have a licensed premises, like a restaurant or bar, on their doorstep. It also wilfully ignores the problem with noise complaints is because developers don’t install proper sound proofing www.gov.uk/government/n...

Cheers to Change: Red Tape Review Could Bring More Food, Music and Fun to Your Local

The Government is launching a fast-track review to tear up outdated licensing rules that have been holding back pubs, bars and local events and we want to hear from the people who know best: landlords...

www.gov.uk

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know why 15 years of Tories made you think they placed any value in the arts

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Laughs in Palestinian

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 2d

A gamechanger

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 2d

This is no surprise

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer calling pro-Palestine protestors "un-British" barely counts as a dogwhistle tbh, it's straight up racism.

I don't remember him calling Just Stop Oil "un-British" no matter how annoyed he got

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 3d

I know people like to say the world is too adult for children now, but a generation of kids grew up with their first glimpse of sex the cover of Riders either in the bathroom or on their mother’s bedside table. Jilly Cooper. What a legend

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

Syed’s column today is also batshit. He badly needs to touch grass

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

I know they think thus makes them look straight AF but this genuinely looks like a performance art piece from RVT that breaks into a Fosse routine

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

There’s hundreds of thousands of us. We’re artists, writers, academics, chefs, business owners, producers, community leaders and family members. We’re at every walk of life in Britain

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

If you're going to doggedly say you have to two side every argument can you at fucking least acknowledge there are British Palestinians. There are people of Palestinian heritage who are British. They have been almost entirely absent from any conversation and you do have to ask why

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

Now I’m going to watch a Tom Cruise film to calm down. Then I’m making ribs and probably daiquiris. The feckers

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

Spent 20 minutes on hold, had to do a survey about our water usage and be spoken to like a child. At no point was it possible they were wrong. I never write the c word on socials but believe me it is what I am saying out loud

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

The fuckers have switched two numbers in our meter reading. OH only spotted it because he checked the meter so we could test for leaks. The utter incompetent bastards. And it’s not like everyone knows where the meter is

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

United Utilities can absolutely do one btw. They think were using twice much water as last year to justify huge price increase. Utter cowboys

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

United Utilities can absolutely do one btw. They think were using twice much water as last year to justify huge price increase. Utter cowboys

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t want to alarm anyone but Sky Sports News is down

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

Must have been. Although you know my mates, far more likely to recognise Kitty than the speaker of the commons

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

A friend of mine saw her have a blazing row in a pub car park with her gf. A glorious grump

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

A legend

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

I say « thats the comprehensive system for you » on a weekly basis

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

Using a terror attack to develop your own brand of hate is fairly reprehensible. No family should ever have to deal with the despair of knowing someone they love will never come home. It's dehumanising to see it any other way

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone enjoys reviewing theatre outside of London (or are from London but you like getting trains) do make yourself known as Im sending out review requests #journorequest

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