Josie

Photo of the sun setting over Caswell Bay beach

My happy place

How can we make @nickmohammed.bsky.social as the next James Bond?

I don't understand why people are still posting on X. I honestly don't. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Is this what being on acid feels like? #Eurovision2025 #ThisIsSwitzerland

Croatia’s #Eurovision2025 semi-finals song makes me feel so uncomfortable.

Screenshot of a Facebook market place post for three ex fairground ride seats in the form of teletubbies. Price £275

Stunning is not the word I would use personally.

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

google's ai overview going into detail on what thomas edison, alexander graham bell, and benjamin franklin invented, then saying "A famous female inventor." for five women, then back to describing several more men's inventions

love how google ai goes into detail for all the men, and then for the women, it just goes "eh, some broad"

New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care | A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been

This is Oxford Uni sharing the Lancet study showing that giving out NHS contracts to private companies is WORSE for patients.

The only motive is profit. Anything else is BS designed to sneak this through.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02...

A screenshot of a social media post by an account named "zuck" with a verified badge, posted 2 hours ago. The post states: "2/ Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse." The post has 326 likes, 43 comments, 27 shares, and 8 other interactions.

Meta is declaring open season on women, LGBTQ people, and especially trans folks on its platforms the day after they hire a wife beater on their board.

You don't hate Meta enough.

Does #arts and #humanities research have things to say about #health? Yes! AHRC is the main funder of Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities, a £30m research programme - here's how we can help Build an NHS Fit for the Future...

ncch.org.uk/blog/mobilis...

YouTube video by National Centre for Creative Health Creative Health Across the System: ICBs, Hospitals, Public Health, and Combined Authorities

Something powerful to kick-start the new year!
Creative Health Across the System - this short video explainer helps audiences to orientate themselves as to how creative health shows up in four key healthcare contexts! Inspiring leadership & work www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHH...

UCL Master’s in Creative Health alumni student Katherine Liddell launches the Community Diamond Network - cross-sectoral partners working together towards a preventative health agenda. Read more in this blog.
NCCH is a partner for the UCL Master’s in Creative Health
ncch.org.uk/blog/masters...

Between that and the influx of gym and fitness ads? Fuck. Off.

My time day back to the big shops since Christmas and I’m appalled by the takeover of unhealthy post-holiday diet culture on the shelves.

£15 I just paid for a hair cut. Fifteen. One five. Haven’t paid that little since I was a kid.

Group based child sexual exploitation characteristics of offending A paper on the characteristics of group-based child sexual exploitation.

Reporting on grooming gangs tends to focus on minorities, however, as Home Office's own report showed, offenders are far more likely to be white, British. This isn't an immigration issue. Playing to racist tropes means majority of perpetrators are ignored. 1/ #r4today
www.gov.uk/government/p...

I will fight anyone who dislikes Claudia Winkleman
#TraitorsUK

this is my 2025 mantra. #Traitors #TheTraitors

You absolutely smashed it

Watching now and was so happy to see you on there!

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it?

ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

Ending 2024 with a reminder that the richest 1% emit more emissions than the poorest 2/3 of humanity.

Environmental justice is an issue of racial, social & economic justice.

Labour are a huge part of the entire problem. We need to transform the entire system.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024 Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged

The Guardian has named the 80 women murdered this year where a man was charged. One every 3 days.

Terrible. So many husbands, boyfriends, even brothers & sons are killers.
What is behind this?

2024 is the year I realised I truly do not understand men.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis

New video! 👀

GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!

His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!

Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...

The Dead Don’t Die is one of the most enjoyable films I’ve ever seen.

THRIVING Food Futures The THRIVING Food Futures research hub will find policy solutions that reduce the carbon footprint of our diets whilst maximising health co-benefits.

The other Research Associate post is part of the new UKRI THRIVING Food Futures Hub www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/res... and has a particularly strong focus on community engagement and on citizens' juries: strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/... Feb 25-Nov 28. 3/3[End]

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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this account is a safe space for evil and deranged women

Brown haired woman with a grey sweatshirt holding a glass of Prosecco. She has red lipstick on and green eye shadow and is wearing festive antlers.

Nadolig Llawen, friends! Cheers 🥂