Laurie Barton

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Local Lib Dem newsletter showing a bar graph of May 2025 election results: Lib Dem 2552; Ref 1879; Lab 1455, but the bars portray 1879 as being narrowly behind 2552 whilst way ahead of 1455

I thought it was only the BBC trying to portray Reform as popular, but even the Lib Dems are artificially inflating the fascist support in this area...

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Team With ‘Ready or Not’ Filmmakers for New ‘Mummy’ Movie Radio Silence, the directing team known for the recent 'Scream' hits, will direct the feature for Universal.

Please be true. Release it on Bisexual Awareness Day and give us all free tickets to the screening 😁

People often think the hardest part of late identifying autistic is the diagnosis.

That the report will give clarity.

It’s not.

It’s learning how to stop performing in a world that rewards the mask.

That’s the work.

And it’s worth doing.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Parse the duchy, and he’s left outside.

Encore.

Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

But to whom, is the question...
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I thought they were trying to portray themselves as quietly doing good work and moving in the right direction but just hopeless at Comms.
Doesn't even sound like they're bothered about *what they actually do*, from this, let alone how to publicise it...

He realises he's in office as a Republican, right? I know his narcissism doesn't allow for the concept of anything being bad for him, but that third person is wild..

EDI lunch and learn sessions don’t seem massively… inclusive to me? It’s just fitting some extra work into what’s supposed to be a break because that work isn’t sufficiently valued by the institution to have the sessions at other times...

Grok appears to have started offering this false account about eye-witnesses by generating its view from false rumours on X. It began by saying there wasn't evidence then picked up rumour and misinformation and amplified it
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Poster: one health, a relationship between humans, animals and the environment

You might have seen me using the #OneHealth hashtag often: this is why...

A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day

This is an excellent idea!!!

10 years ago my book Saving Bletchley Park was published: the fastest-ever crowdfunded book at the time. It tells the true story of how a #socialmedia campaign helped save the home of the #WWII codebreakers.

Now it’s finally available to download 💻

stan.store/Blackse

Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children

Poor reading outcomes in 13yos?

Surely the ONLY possible reason for this is that they aren't tested enough, not, say, lack of funding to schools so they can recruit sufficient and sufficiently qualified staff...

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Apart from anything else, the "Lincoln bathroom" wasn't Lincoln's bathroom. It was Lincoln's office and cabinet room.

It wasn't renovated in the 1940s, it was installed in the 1940s.

If I wanted to trap an autistic person in their job and extract the maximum value from them for the minimum pay and supports, I would:
- hire them and tell them how much I need them
- wait for them to learn to love the job, earn people's trust and have an impact
- start taking supports away

Jaywick named most deprived area - again A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England. The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time. Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham. Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025. The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home" , the Tendring District Council website said. MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter Damian Grammaticas > Political correspondent 17 August 2024 Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP. It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
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Listening to music can lower dementia risk by up to 39%, study reveals Actively engaging with music supports memory, emotional response and attention span, according to the search carried out by Monash University

'The Monash research, published this week, backs up previous work in this area. In 2019, researchers at the University of Utah found music was beneficial in tackling Alzheimer's and dementia' ...

Autism charities portray autistic people as helpless and a burden – our research shows why it matters New research finds that the language and imagery used by autism charities often reinforce stigma instead of challenging it.

'We hope our findings encourage autism charities to reflect on how they describe the people they exist to support. Words and imagery should convey the reality of autistic lives rather than leaning on outdated notions of pity or burden' ...

You can still get 900/1 on Sunderland to win the league

The Spice Girls and the caption ‘because tonight is the night when 2 becomes 1’, the numbers represented by clocks.

Your reminder.

Health checks offered at football matches in the North East Gateshead, Sunderland and Darlington fans are offered health checks and vaccinations at home games.

Health checks and jabs offered at football matches. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Not to pick on Per, but I’ve never understood the snark about “self citation”.

If, as an academic, you aren’t creating an inter-related body of work that builds towards some larger understanding of a problem, what even is the point?

graphic showing ada lovelace - describing her life. "Often called the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine — an early design for a general-purpose computer. In 1843, she wrote the first published computer program. She also imagined that computers could one day create music and art — not just calculate numbers. Her visionary ideas about the creative power of machines were a century ahead of her time and her notes inspired Alan Turing’s work on the first modern computers. "

It's #AdaLovelaceDay today, celebrating the life of the worlds first computer programmer.

#womeninstem #stem

Jet Planes Meeting in the Air to Be Refuelled The popular poetry of a school hymn

Was just sent this by @ludictechnologies.bsky.social and feel like I've stepped back about 35 years..
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