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A black and white wood cut drawing of Stephen Farffle in a handcycle.

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities we're celebrating the ever-increasing range of brilliant mobility aids available.

What?? This is very bad news for people (at least in inner-ish London) who want to live without a car. I'm more of a Zip van user myself and they can be very, very useful.

Headline: How can Sadiq Khan eliminate all deaths and serious casualties outright on London's roads? Photo of London Mayor, Sadiq Khan wearing a dark suit and white shirt standing in front of a pale green bus gesturing with his hands.

Southwark News has picked up on the desperate need to reduce the numbers of people killed and injured on our roads.

Bereaved families and Londoners with life changing injuries are paying the unacceptable price of systemic danger on our roads.

Link at end of 🧵

Precisely. We have an ageing society, a productivity problem & a crisis in local govt. The costs of defence & climate change are all growing, & we have a US president addicted to tariffs, who may be about to start a war in Venezuela.

The budget was *not pessimistic enough* about the public finances

Spirit of 2012 | PBE Spirit of 2012 is the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy funder, established by the National Lottery Community Fund. Since 2013, it funded projects and commissioned research that harnesse...

Spirit of 2012 needed robust evidence of the wellbeing impact of its funded programmes. That’s where we came in.

We analysed evaluation data from projects like City to Sea, applying government-approved wellbeing valuation techniques.

The result? Clear, credible evidence of impact.

Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant' Dozens say they fell victim to companies using images of people who do not exist and false back stories.

This is only going to get worse, a lot worse

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After revisiting Forth, I've really enjoying playing with RPN again, gone through a host of HP emulators, the new guys on the block, R47 and DB48x, and Hypatia on the command line, now to install Factor.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

A card showing a photo of a young person with learning disabilities dancing with pom poms. It reads "Do you work with people with learning disabilities?"

⌛ Accepting submissions until 28 November

We want to hear from charities, funders, service providers, researchers & practitioners working with, or studying wellbeing for, people with learning disabilities.

Submit your evidence to shape future research, policy & guidance:
pbe.co.uk/get-involved...

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Bro boost: women find LinkedIn traffic ‘drives’ if they pretend to be men Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men Do your LinkedIn followers consider you a “thought leader”? Do hordes of commenters applaud your tips on how to “scale” your startup? Do recruiters slide into your DMs to “explore potential synergies”? If not, it could be because you’re not a man. Continue reading...

Bro boost: women find LinkedIn traffic ‘drives’ if they pretend to be men

Screening for impact: A collaborative success - Haemochromatosis UK | PBE Haemochromatosis UK (HUK) is a national charity that supports people affected by genetic haemochromatosis (GH). GH causes iron overload, which can lead to serious health problems. The charity works to...

🔔 New case study

Haemochromatosis UK and volunteers from FTI Consulting made the economic case for introducing early screening for haemochromatosis in Northern Ireland.

It highlights something we see every day: skilled volunteers create real, measurable impact for small charities.

Cloudflare ia having some issues, taking down lots of websites and services, including X (yay) and Bellingcat (boo).

So survivor bias?

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Campaigning for inclusive cycling, Wheels for Wellbeing Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling.

Whether you just want to nip to the park or are planning an ambitious holiday, come along to a Wheels for Wellbeing session and see if a recumbent could work for you.

wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/cycling-sess...

Obsidian 1.10 is now available! The mobile app now launches A LOT faster.

We've also made many improvements to Bases with new list views, map views, groups, summaries, and APIs to create your own views.

You can tell that AI companies are *desperate* to keep people paying that all-important $20 a month from the offers you get if you unsubscribe. Perplexity, for example, will offer two month at a dollar a month to get you back. At which point, of course, you cancel.

Which one is more English?

Cambridge 'swimming cap' brings hope for brain-injured babies Researchers are trialling a new technique to monitor brain function in newborns.

18 years ago we might have benefited from this but delighted to see it now

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights. It protects fairness, liberty and the rule of law. Those attacking it now are not defending Britain. They are trying to free government from accountability. We must defend it.

Local charity Share (who have a Garden Centre in #Tooting) supports & empowers adults with a learning disability & autistic adults to live healthier, happier & more independent lives.
More info in images and via www.sharecommunity.org.uk

#Wandsworth #Balham

Evaluating the impact of mental health therapy on the wellbeing of veterans | PBE There are around 2.4 million veterans in the UK and 1.7 million households in England and Wales include at least one veteran. While most veterans adjust to civilian life relatively smoothly, some face...

Our new analysis suggests that veteran-specific therapy from PTSD Resolution helps UK veterans recover from anxiety, depression + psychological distress.

It could deliver up to 3x the benefits to society for every £1 spent in just one year after the completion of treatment.

Great to see our new analysis on trustee demographics in grant making trusts and foundations, commissioned by the Association of Charitable Foundations, in @civilsociety.bsky.social today.

Read the full report here: pbe.co.uk/publications...

Unlocking creativity: The economic impact of engagement with arts and culture among young people  | PBE Children and young people in the UK are enduring a wellbeing crisis. Our teenagers record the lowest levels of life satisfaction in Europe, and one-in-four of our 19-year-olds has a probable mental di...

The UK’s young people have the lowest wellbeing in Europe. This comes at a huge cost, with too many children feeling persistently unhappy.

Hear from economists, educators, academics & young people on the difference arts programmes make to wellbeing, & how we measure it ⬇️

📆20 November, 4 pm online

So, as long as they may stand and show themselves as they would wish, they dazzle and deceive; when something happens to disrupt and uncover them, then all may see what depth of true ugliness their borrowed splendour concealed. Seneca

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.

Higher taxes on gambling probably would cost some jobs. But employment has to be weighed against other social costs.

That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And just for completeness, if I VPN to Brazil I get the Portuguese version.

Yes, that works for me in the UK, I see the English version