Beth Granter

It is really important to check trusted sources if you use AI to find out about your housing rights.

AI doesn't always give the right information or tell you everything that you need to know.💡

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Yes, that and cars. It doesn't say it but I assume technology, computers and TVs etc.

I had to read the article to understand what "physical wealth" meant because despite having a decent income and nice house I own barely any *things* worth any money. Just my laptop and phone, worth a few hundred.

Median value of household wealth for the top 1%: Property: £1.4mn Private pension: £1.4mn Finl portfolio: £640k Physical wealth: £206k Total: £3.66mn

Nice dataviz from the ONS showing median wealth split by category at different points of the distribution: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

Just stop billionaires written in white on red.

#TheBudget Just Stop Billionaires.

I have upgraded my phone to one with a better camera mainly for the purposes of zooming in on specks pulled from my child's hair to see if they are dirt or head lice. Also for macro photography of flowers and insects. #MumsInTech

It would be great if it was possible to input more than one type of income into this at once. Very useful as it is though thank you.

Our tax calculator is now updated for the Budget: taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/a...

You'll see no change in the tax you pay in 2026/27 unless you're a landlord or receive interest/dividend income.

It is simply because the Mail thinks disabled people shouldn’t be seen in “nice” cars there is no economic justification for it

Watching Iron Maiden videos with the family tonight. My 5yr old son goes, "why is his body so hairy?" 😂

When you spot someone sleeping rough, you can share the details with the local outreach team at www.thestreetlink.org.uk. It helps workers offer guidance and routes into safer accommodation. #BeTheLink

Photograph of snow on hills, above red roofs.

Snow on hills south of Corstorphine, #Edinburgh

In my next agency job in 2008, with 3 years of experience, I was charged out to clients at £600-800 a day as a digital consultant. I've seen agencies with similar day rates recently.

How can this be fixed?

With inflation, this effectively means personal income has flatlined even if you've been climbing the ladder.

I don't think day rates have gone up that much either, so agencies can't be just making loads more profit.

The only place I've seen lately offering that kind of money for junior digital roles is the @tuc.org.uk

Junior jobs in digital these days are only paying £25-30k.

And senior digital jobs for people with my level of experience (20 years) often only pay around £50k.

Screenshot saying your results £56,917.78. What cost £32k in 2005 would cost £56,917.78 in September 2025. Change in value: 77.9%> Average annual inflation: 2.83%

Salaries in digital should be up 78% vs 2005 to match inflation but they're stagnant instead.

In 2005 I had one year's experience and accepted a Digital Project Manager role at GOOD Agency paying £32,000. In today's money that's £56,918.

Great to meet you!

I'm having breakfast at Grand Central Kitchen before #UkCharityCamp and pleased to see people are actually posting here on the hashtag already!

Too much variation in the script for my liking. I could just about cope with the ones that go, "why did the thing happen?" And I get to say, "I don't know" then they answer.

Tried to do the #Halloween thing but in Scotland the kids tell jokes and I immediately forgot the format of basic jokes so I kept causing them to go wrong.

"knock knock"
... "I don't know... Erm, what?"

Or "trick or treat?"...
"...erm, joke?"

Headshot of Beth, text on image: period Symptom Checker, CharityComms inspiring communicator awards 2025. Period Symptom Checker, Wellbeing of Women & Beth Granter (freelance), Wellbeing of women logo, "we're shortlisted"

Woohoo! I've been shortlisted (for the second time!) for a @charitycomms.bsky.social #InspiringCommunicator award alongside my client Wellbeing of Women! Category: Best charity and freelancer collaboration, this time it's for my work on the Period Symptom Checker. Fingers crossed!

W/ @megabeth.bsky.social at #TalkUX being like remember when people used to chat on the socials while at a conf and post pics like...

I am at #TalkUX, my first in-person conference since Twitter went terrible... And I'm missing the conference chat that used to happen there!

I only know web developers that would work on big projects alongside designers, rather than people who do personal websites I'm afraid.

Of course, this was one year after they kettled my Queers Against Cuts group on the official Pride parade for absolutely no reason other than to intimidate activists.
If I wasn't radicalised before, I certainly was after all that nonsense.

...and one of their pieces of "evidence" that I was up to no good was the fact I'd been invited to a Riots Not Diets gig? How weird was that? 🤣

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Remembering when Sussex police sent a uniformed officer to my workplace to tell me to stop organising an alternative pride BBQ on the beach (which had already happened a week before, organised by someone else)...