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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 15h

lol

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 5h

I spoke to a guy whose brother (with dementia) had seven phone contracts running concurrently and had been caught up in multiple scams from cold callers.

These folk experience life as predatory - seeing daytime calls and an internet browser as opportunities for people to trick them.

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · Nov 22

One thing I learned while researching at the Office of the Public Guardian: the extent of the scamming industry preying on vulnerable people.

We spoke to people whose family members (often with dementia) had lost £10k+. Sometimes finding the scam was the confirmation they were struggling.

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · Nov 22

As will be unsurprising, this was my experience when interviewing people about their interactions with banks around Lasting Powers of Attorney. They were excluded for not feeling confident using digital and remote services.

Really doesn't help a group already worried, understandably, about scams.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18h

I would start particularly with the financial services industry where the line between "wealth management" and "elder abuse" has always been blurred. (I started, but was not brave enough to finish, an article about US wirehouse brokers vs. their parents, a distressingly common court case)

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18h

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent suggestion, thank you!

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 14h

Is there a historic instruments community I can enquire with?

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 16h

Niche request: has anybody ever wrapped a hammered dulcimer for transport by courier?

Any advice for packaging it?

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 16h

Niche request: has anybody ever wrapped a hammered dulcimer for transport by courier?

Any advice for packaging it?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 1d

Capron House - 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104320

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

A wonderful friend is starting a queer running club in Cambridge 💙

www.instagram.com/threesquared...

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

Exquisite

Dazzling supermoon illuminates skylines around the world

From Paris to Taipei, this week's supermoon, also known as the Harvest and Hunter's moons, was captured in photos.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

In this house when we say "emerging literature" we mean two papers and one blog post

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

ffs, i meant AAs

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

AAAs found beside the candles, fwiw

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

does anyone know where I left the AA batteries? I have found the AAA pack but obviously I didn't keep them together

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Toulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social · 2d

La Loge au Mascaron Dore

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

A beautiful London evening

Train platform with long shadows and blue sky

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Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Swydd ddwyieithog gyda tîm gwych!

A bilingual role with a great team!

#ContentDesign

Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social · 3d

We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) :National

www.jobtrain.co.uk

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Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social · 3d

We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) :National

www.jobtrain.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

I see the LadySafety Carer Abouter is promoting Nick Cohen, who had to leave the Observer after a years-long series of harassment and gro-*all the editors of the entire British press run in and slam a big red button, releasing the trapdoor and dropping me into an oubliette*

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

who thought a list of celebrities would be vote-changing?