Helen

Helen

@socialsoup.bsky.social

Service Designer in UK Gov. Anti-fascist.

409 Followers 448 Following 423 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Sign the Petition Add skateboarding to approved sports list for GCSE PE in England

Help align kids to Wales and Northern Ireland by allowing the PE GCSE to include skateboarding

c.org/k92mCZhchS

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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Yearly performance review coming up, really think I need to ask for either L&D budget for face pulling management training or a filter that just makes me look a little less ‘eh? What T F are you on about?’

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Parliamentlive.tv House of Commons

Regardless of politcal position, this is a beautiful maiden speech- speaking to the heart of working class communities- we’re not monolithic, we’re diverse, but regardless of our differences we always stick together. That’s what communities do.
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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Love them showing not telling! And I totally get the single identifier & its necessity to unify/ ability to create ontological models of citizens to get Gov as a platform.
But I simply don’t trust palantir (other unethical companies available) or any successive right wing governments as custodians.

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But we’re still talking about whether the minimum wage might be too much…

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BBC news head line that read ‘boss repeatedly shouted “potato” at Irish employee’

The English are at it again.

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3 days ago

Same, although I recently discovered the Acer eRosery lately, and I’ve been scouring the Internet for a second hand one ever since. It’s so hideous it’s full circle to brilliant.

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5 days ago

Poverty too, the witchfinder got 20 shillings for each witch he found and would share a % of this with folk who grass up bolshie women as creditable suspects.
Winners all round: nagging sister-in-law gone with a few shillings in your pocket to boot!
P.s the Newcastle witchfinder was Scottish.

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Elizabeth Anderson
Jane Hunter
Mary Potts
Alice Hume
Margaret Muffit
Margaret Maddison
Elizabeth Brown
Margaret Brown
Jane Copeland
Ann Watson
Elianor Henderson
Elizabeth Dobson
Katherine Coultor
Elianor Rogerson
Jane Martin
Margaret White

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A pencil drawing depicting the 1650 Newcastle witch trials, where 15 women were hanged. 4 have already met their fate on the gallows, while another 3 are bound waiting in line to be next. 3 more women look out of the tower window in horror.
Men exchange money in the background while horseman, bell ringers and armed men surround the scene. Drawn by Ralph Gardiner in 1655.

On International Woman’s day i’d like to celebrate the 16 Newcastle witches* killed in one day 375 years ago.

* women who were strong willed, single, queer or catholic.

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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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I mean that’s sounds like me sorted! Please suggest away

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Yes please and thank you I really appreciate any ideas

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I’m just planning it all now so open to all and every suggestion- we’re all pretty out doorsy and happy camping. Big kiddo likes dare devil stuff, little kiddo loves getting muddy/ wet and I’m just happy with peace and quiet 😂

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Any recommendations for North wales with the family? Big kiddo wants to do zipworld, but would love some other suggestions.

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never been to Wales other than through it for ferrys to Ireland.

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6 days ago

This is the 4th person in the past 2 years my autistic 7 year old has lost.
We’re not an island of strangers; this was his trusted barber, 2 classmates and his judo teammate.

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6 days ago

I don’t think people talk enough about how deportations not only impact the family made to leave but also the community they leave behind.
My whole son’s class is devastated & can’t understand why their friend they’ve known since nursery is suddenly not here or why they were unable to say goodbye.

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1 week ago
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Children's services overspend cut by over a million through early intervention Bolton Council has celebrated new early intervention schemes for reducing the budget spend in children’s services by over a million.

Bolton Council says new early intervention schemes have reduced spending in children’s services by over £1 million

www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2590406...

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As a delegate from the hard north, can we swap Harrogate for Toxteth please?

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1 week ago

*Speaking in a Geordie accent* Can we now all agree there’s ‘plastic northerners’ and then there’s ’true northerners’?

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Oooh boy.

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1 week ago

Hard agree. I think, in the not so distant future, we’ll see wealthy people paying to have human tutors for their kids, ‘real’ artwork in their homes and ‘real’ photography as prize trophies and indicators of taste. (Bit like the arts and craft movement against industrialisation in early 1900’s)

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PLEASE Sign me up for being left behind in the joy of my craft.

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I’m glad your dad could advocate for you, sorry that happened. I suppose I’ve been delightfully ignorant/ fortunate enough for my previous schools to be cool with pants (I left high-school in 2000)
I know my 12yo would be really upset if they took their choice away.

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I can’t even comprehend this. I wore pants to school, I wore pants to my graduation(s), I wear pants to work, I even wear PJ bottoms for bed…

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I thought the debate whether women and girls were allowed to wear trousers was sorted in the 1890’s?

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1 week ago

How DARE people conflate being working class with being racist.
Ive not seen one rebuttal of this narrative.

White working class people stand shoulder to shoulder with our neighbours. Go read some books on where blackshirts were ran out, trade unionism or quite frankly any working class history.

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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago

Whaaaaaat?! I’ve seen this responsibility blend so much recently and constantly having to battle to say SD’ers aren’t ‘UCD squad leads’, as there shouldn’t be separate design and development teams.

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