@philipjcowley.bsky.social finding the head of the nail
so @theonion.com actually predicted this in its print issue last month
fio asks if you have any terrariums?
Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
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This is an excellent piece of work by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the DfS gang
Agree with every word of this
We've gone from 9% of social care staff coming from outside the UK and EEA in 2021/22 to almost 25% in 2024/25
The govt has no near-term replacement
It means either:
1) staffing shortages or
2) councils spending far more to attract staff, with no extra funding
fio says ~15 - 20 hours
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No words.
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
i constantly think about this post
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"
Well said
There’s a great exchange in The Grapes Of Wrath where a farmer who’s been kicked off his land by a bank meets the guy getting paid peanuts to take it over. The guy is mewling like “well somebody was gonna do it if I didn’t!” and Steinbeck has such a beautiful, visceral, disdain for the character
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For those who don’t remember, this is the little girl who brought global awareness onto Flint, MI’s water issues.
Understand that we got babies out here doing work just to help us all get by and that in and of itself is a damning failure of our systems
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
The Prime Minister's X feed currently looks like an advertising platform for Reform's messaging. Distinctly aggressive dog whistles with highly racialised imagery designed to dehumanise and demonise people, and ignores protections guaranteed under international law into the bargain.
Read Chapter 33 of I've Heard of It
iveheardofit.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/3...
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i often wonder about the question, what does writing mean to hsy? and what do stories mean to her? its interesting to compare her starting point to yjh in this regard i think. while yjh has no knowledge of and no interest in stories, hsy knows stories only too well and has become cynical about them
Read Chapter 32 of I've Heard of It
iveheardofit.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/3...
i hope that you have fun and that it’s a good con experience for you :3c!
AHHH THE OCTOBER MCM? i’ve got to make it out! it’s rare that an artist i follow seems to be there, if you’re in london for a few days it might be worth getting a temporary oyster for the underground
Read Chapter 31 of I've Heard of It
iveheardofit.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/3...
Just beneath the surface of Liverpool Street in Manchester's city center, archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman road near the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established around A.D. 78.
archaeology.org/news/2025/07/16/well-preserved-roman-road-found-beneath-english-city-center/
This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography
AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.
I've been meaning to write about this for ages, but the excellent @samfr.bsky.social has got there first.
We're talking ourselves into a democratic recession.
And the people who will benefit from that are the populists who want to burn liberal democracy to the ground.
