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Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Photo of the painted page of a sjetch book with colourful shapes and hand created text 'there is enough for everyone'

By contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Painting of two young women wearing dresses as if playing or dancing, in movement created by dashes and dots of pink yellow and red paint

Betty Acquah is a contemporary Ghanaian painter who uses the technique of pointillism for her work in oil painting and acrylic #WomensArt

Photo featuring a standing woman wearing a cloak with significant symbols and motifs in black yellow and blue

Anna Brown Ehlers, master weaver of the Tlingit tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #UnravellingWomensArt

Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of Italian Baroque painters #womensart

Garden with large bronze geometric scultures amongst trees and flowering plants

UK sculptor Barbara Hepworth's garden, St.Ives, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt

Guidance and methodology: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables

UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP.

Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average.

UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD.

No questions asked about billions given away in corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich.

A brightly coloured abstract painting with broad brushstrokes and dripping pigments

This week I was intrigued to discover that British abstract artist Gillian Ayres created a canvas in 1979 entitled 'Mons Graupius', after the famous battle between the Romans and Britons that took place c. 83 CE somewhere in the north. #RomanSiteSaturday. More details here: artuk.org/discover/art...

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman, upper half facing forwards, with chest and shoulders partly bare to reveal many tattoos, her arms are slightly folded, she wears a pearl necklace and has a flower in her dark hair

Maud Wagner in 1907, first known professional female tattoo artist in the United States #womensart

The Tories keep banging on about "disability benefit fraud" like 2000s TV presenters. The fraud rate for PIP is non-existent: 0.2%.

YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)

watching videos about america for the 4th

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

Photo of a long dress with pink top and flowing transparent skirt with thousands of pills sewn into it

Susie Freeman, Jubilee, 2000, wedding dress with (a lifetime average) 6,279 contraceptive pills, from a women’s health exhibition #womensart

Photo featuring the head and shoulders of a woman facing right wearind a white ruff like creation around her neck

Artist Nora Fok combines jewelry design with textile art in her science and maths inspired wearable artworks, created by weaving, knitting, braiding, and knotting. #WomensArt

Welfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says senior minister Pat McFadden says U-turn will change calculations, as IFS says tax rises in autumn look increasingly likely

Welfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says UK minister.

Another tactic for driving down people's aspirations.

UK can bail out banks, subsidise corporations, fund wars but somehow thecan't tackle poverty.

Last yr HMRC didn't collect £46.8bn of taxes; over £500bn since 2020.

Remembering artist Khadija-Saye, rising star, and all her neighbours- never forgotten #Grenfell
#womensart

Painting with symbolic stylised different coloured leaves or plant shapes which swirl into a circular pattern

'Watiya Tjuta' by Indigenous Australian artist Mitjili Napurrula from Pintubi country #WomensArt

Starmer offers ‘massive concessions’ on welfare bill to Labour rebels Exclusive: Leading rebels say they have been promised significant changes to planned cuts which could help bill avoid defeat

Starmer offers ‘massive concessions’ on welfare bill to Labour rebels.

Not so massive.
Disability benefits will still be cut.
New claimants will be hit hard. Consultation after the Bill is passed - So why not delay the bill.

Shambolic. Tell your MP to vote against.

Iranian women truly feel liberated after being bombed by American female B2 pilot This is what progress looks like...

This is what progress looks like x

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/iranian-wo...

Have just seen this on FB, and made me love Tim Curry even more.

From an interview he gave about an ill-fated on-set affair while filming Muppet Treasure Island.

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

Government whip Vicky Foxcroft quits over disability benefit cuts The Labour MP says she could not vote for the welfare bill published by the government earlier this week.

UK Govt whip quits over disability benefit cuts.

Why pursue this cruel cut? Govt backtracked on Winter Fuel Payment.

Rebellion will grow, people will be alienated.

Govt finds money for wars, corporate welfare/bailouts; tax concessions to non-doms and private equity. But not for poor, disabled.

UK benefits system could collapse if payments are not cut, Liz Kendall says Work and pensions secretary publishes her welfare reform bill, but concessions do little to placate angry Labour MPs

UK benefits system could collapse if disability benefits not cut, Liz Kendall says.

Rubbish. In Sept 2024, a Minister said economy would crash if winter fuel payment not cut ... now!

Inflicting cruelty/poverty won't rebuild society.

Govts find money for wars, corporate welfare.

Tax the rich.

BREAKING: The country that has bombed every hospital in Gaza multiple times has released a statement saying bombing hospitals is "totally unacceptable" x

70,000 more people to lose benefits due to Labour's cuts than originally expected The government has admitted it expects 70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under its planned cuts than previously disclosed.

70,000 more Britons to lose disability benefits than originally expected.

Estimates up from 370,000 to 440,000, could lose £4,500 a year each. How many die?

Govt averse to taxing corporations and the rich.

Tell your MP to oppose cuts.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

For Love, And for Country, 2022 by US painter Amy Sherald depicts two Black men in sailor uniforms kissing, mirroring/subverting the iconic 1945 "V-J Day in Times Square" photograph #WomensArt #Monday