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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

Do we think he actually believes this? Is he that disconnected from reality? Or is this just bad faith lying? Or does he even know the difference?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you. That's kind. Things have settled down for now.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 18h

It's bright, noisy, there is no privacy, not even a curtain but the staff carry on doing their best to keep things going. And this isn't a busy night. It's normal. And it's not winter yet. If we send all those home who came from elsewhere the NHS would fall apart

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 18h

In our local A&E, as well as cubicles for triage, assessment bays, recus etc ther are 10 *labelled* "corridor" places where patients on trolleys who are waiting for a bed or further treatment are parked until a place can be found.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 18h

The last few days I have seen first hand the NHS struggling to meet needs.
Staff of all kinds of nationalities & skin tones at GPs, hospitals & ancillary services working hard and remaining cheerful in the face of overwhelming demand and awkward, sometimes rude patients

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 18h

Why would anybody think taking away workers rights will win votes from anybody other than exploitative employers?
Or do workers not want rights?
Make it make sense

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18h

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 22h

Good morning Bluesky

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

Well yes but everything is monetised now

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand the idea that there is no such thing as transferrable skills. There are. I've taught them.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

At a guess because it would be almost impossible to enforce

Freddie Whittaker @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

She makes the point that we ban other things that are harmful for children, like alcohol. Why don’t we do it for social media?

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 1d

Keith losing his own employer is so on brand

Matt Kennard @kennardmatt
X.com
NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action.
Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real terrorist threat - and should never have happened.
The source has been verified.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

Pardon my ignorance but if you cite a source aren't you generally supposed to have read the piece? Or has the whole article been generated by AI?

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Mike Cameron @mikercameron.bsky.social · 1d

<<Narrator>> No standards went through the roof.

Freddie Whittaker @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

'We reformed schools. And guess what? Standards they went through the roof. Those schools have improved, not through words but through strong accountability, academic rigour, rigorous inspection and freedoms'

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahaha
🤣😂🤣😂

Freddie Whittaker @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

'We reformed schools. And guess what? Standards they went through the roof. Those schools have improved, not through words but through strong accountability, academic rigour, rigorous inspection and freedoms'

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think if they've changed the criteria they'd have changed the message list. IT failure (or data failure)

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

They're oddly insistent on "the right order" which I can see for things like maths & science but I'm not convinced it applies to say art or humanities

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

His voice is quite pleasant though, especially when compared to Starmer & Reeves which kind of irritates me

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

It's not the usual way. Is it Scottish?

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

They don't look all that different to the people on the Palestine Action protests

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Not quite. I've had all the boosters recently, I think because I have Crohn's but they've reduced eligibility this time. I don't know if getting an invitation means I'm eligible or not

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