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Disability benefits here in the UK are less than most people believe.
They're harder to get than most people believe.
Fraud is lower than most people believe.
The evidence you need to get them is more than most people believe.

The Government and media rely on this collective ignorance.

Disabled Kiwis ‘abandoned and betrayed’ a year after funding cuts Many are struggling mentally, financially and physically - unable to get funding for basics like carers or incontinence pads.

#NZPOL
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Outrageously stunning night at the Gala opening of NZ Sculpture OnShore. The art is amazing!

8 - 23 November

It’s New Zealand’s largest sculpture exhibition & an extraordinary celebration of art in our very own Operetu Fort Takapuna, Devonport, Auckland.

Tickets and info: nzsculptureonshore.co.nz

Ukraine war briefing: Russia unleashes attack on energy infrastructure, triggering power cuts Ukrainian minister says Moscow is ‘massively attacking’ grid; Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian troops gathering near north-eastern city. What we know on day 1,354

HOW can this be allowed to happen?! Ukraine needs help before the entire country is demolished by russia.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Awwwww

Five little kitties all lined up side by side on top of a wooden coffe table, posing for the camera. They are all sitting up straight and looking at the camera. The one in the far left, a brown tabby looks a little unimpressed as she sits next to her black, orange and white tortoiseshell sister. Their fluffy brown and white snowshoe brother sits next to them on the right with his head slightly Lily tilted to the side. The youngest of the bunch is a short haired white and grey lynx pointer kitten that’s seated at the corner of the table. Via large brown tabby brother sits to his right with a cheeky look on his face. He winks one eye and has his mouth open as if he’s making a silly face. Behind them the fireplace, a window with sun coming in through the blinds, and plants.

Mom finally got us all to sit still for a family photo, but there’s always that one sibling that can’t keep a straight face. 😼Thanks, Basil!😹
Happy weekend, everypaw! 😸

#Hedgewatch #CatsOfBluesky #CaturdayEve

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is.

Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right?

If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS.

No one should have that much.

Twiggy tells a story of when she was a young Mod, before she was “discovered”, she met a man at a club and he seemed keen but then phoned and explained he couldn’t afford a girlfriend AND a scooter, and he was getting a scooter. 😭😂🛵

I think if you wrote a story where the world’s richest man could push a button and kill somebody on the other side of the world you wouldn’t expect it to end with him on marathon benders where he can’t mash that murder button fast enough.

things that arent the future of civilization

- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people

things that actually are the future of civilization

- free clean energy

The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo | Mona Eltahawy After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to, says author Mona Eltahawy

The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo | Mona Eltahawy

A building with faded yellow walls and pink trim displays three flags on a balcony — the Māori flag on the left, the transgender pride flag in the middle, and the Palestinian flag on the right. Below the balcony is a sign for “Middle Eastern Market” written in English and Arabic, with an image of a coffee pot and spices. The shopfront has glass doors and signage that also reads “Welcome Middle Eastern Market” in both languages.

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One of my dentists said it wouldn’t be much more expensive to use gold than composite, and it’s more durable. I gather it uses different tools etc.

How exciting!

Well it is for outer surfaces that are visible, but for cavities on a biting surface I’ve never been offered anything but amalgam.
Perhaps younger dentists have different views??

Sunrise, Saturday, 8 November, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️.

Large rabbit photoshopped onto the hood of a classic Porsche racecar

insurance refused to cover it

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I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.

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Or "folk horror tinsel" as I prefer to think of it.

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them

The SNAP program costs just under 100 billion a year

It costs the average taxpayer about $36 dollars

It provides food for 42 million people

Tesla approved a $1 trillion for Musk

He could feed everyone. Bezos could feed everyone. The Walton’s could feed everyone

The billionaires are the problem

Starmer will go down in history as the man who destroyed a 100 year old Labour movement by selling it out to the rich for the sake of his own career and advancement. The Tories are dead, Labour is dead, time for a new left based on the Greens, the Celtic indy parties & the old Labour left.

love when i see a small pile of leaves blowing in a circle. sum magical is occurring over there

A tabby kitty in a cat tree, resting in a pouch. He is being lit up from below, making his eyes appear like shadows and overall looking a little spookier than normal. Still cute though!

It may not be spooky season anymore but… he looks a little spooky in this lighting…

#cat #kitty #animals #cute

a nice feeling is when I had seriously considered doing a home repair myself and instead pay a professional to do it and I watch him do the job and become absolutely certain I was not qualified

Yes, I found that one oddly hard to get into. Worth persevering tho!

Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes:
Siena and the Devyce
Milan and the Contraptioun
Orvieto and the Mechanism
Venyce and the Gadget
Gubbio and the Whirligig
Spoleto and the Apparatus

Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers Posts from women seeking like-minded parents to share a home and child-rearing responsibilities are appearing on social media

Chinese women inventing micro-anarchofeminist co-op houses (two families in an apartment), because they know that any bigger and you spend too long in meetings