Rich Speight

If Sunlun get out of this with a point I will be a happy man #SAFC

We don’t like workers being exploited either.

Image of someone putting vote in ballot box. “The Greens won because Labour under Starmer has abandoned progressive values, imitating the far-right instead of taking the fight to them.  UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan

UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan: “The Greens won because Labour under Starmer has abandoned progressive values, imitating the far-right instead of taking the fight to them. 

If the government wants to survive, it urgently needs to stand up for workers and defend our fundamental values.”

Matt Goodwin is such a loser.

Light blue image with etching of flowers and motto “Seek Help Now for eating disorders” in the middle

Ceisio Cymorth Nawr at Gyfer Anhwydrae Bwta

This week is Eating Disorder awareness week. My amazing wife @tamsinspeight.bsky.social has worked hard on producing this fantastic resource for NHS Wales to promote help-seeking.

Please share widely in Cymru and beyond

www.nhs.wales/sa/eating-di...

Some care workers in Wales are still waiting for the real living wage!

Emma is a support worker in Neath and Port Talbot. She has done this job for 14 years. She loves it but she is still being paid minimum wage.

The Welsh Government promised care workers the real living wage.

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

The cultural rejection of AI and data centers has real impacts in people's hearts and minds, and i'm seeing it influence how they think about their life's labor and the legacy they're leaving for their descendants and our future generations.

New Behind the Bastards 📄📄📄

Robert explains how Jeffrey Epstein became increasingly pilled on right-wing media and even started funding race science to further his eugenics-laced views.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @andrewti.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

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I'm facilitating a small group conversation at this event next week - on anticipating the consequences of technology adoption and development. Lots of other great contributors, hope to see you there!

#OtD 23 Feb 1864 300 female collar laundry workers at 14 firms went on strike in Troy, NY demanding pay increases of 20-25%, and better health and safety. After less than a week, they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9555...

#OtD 22 Feb 1860 the biggest strike in the pre-civil war USA began. New England shoemakers walked out and within days 20000 were on strike across 25 towns. On 10 April, 30 employers agreed to increase wages by 10% and workers began to return to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9463...

Ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr named permanent chair of UK's antitrust regulator Britain's business minister Peter Kyle has named former Amazon executive Doug Gurr as his choice of candidate to continue as chair of the country's antitrust regulator, a government statement said on ...

UK Govt continuing with its highly successful fox-led henhouse strategy: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NHS pay: 3.3% isn’t enough | Article, News | News | UNISON Cymru On 12 February 2026, Welsh Government announced it had accepted the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation from 1 April 2026. You can read the

NHS pay: 3.3% isn’t enough 📉

Welsh Government has accepted a 3.3% pay award for NHS staff from 1 April 2026.

Ministers say this is above CPI inflation at 3%. But CPI does not include housing costs, rail fares or mobile contracts. When those essentials are included, inflation is 3.8%.

How much did Charlie know?

How much did Liz know?

“A white UK-born man of mixed Greek and German heritage” surely

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

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Wow.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

Speed skating relay is hypnotic chaos

this Olympics is SO FUCKING MESSY

I LOVE IT

NHS staff in Wales face real terms pay cut under 3.3% award, says UNISON | News | News | UNISON Cymru NHS staff across Wales are likely to be angry with another below inflation pay award, says UNISON Cymru today (Thursday). With inflation at 4.2%, the

NHS staff in Wales are facing another real terms pay cut.

The 3.3% pay award announced yesterday is below inflation and will leave nurses, healthcare assistants, porters and catering staff worse off.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Feels like the Economist has been running this same article periodically for the last couple of decades

Watching the Granit Xhaka interview on the BBC - what an absolutely wonderful bloke. From a refugee family to the top of the game. Superb mentality. I still pinch myself to think he’s a Sunderland player.

Strike day one is live and kicking! We’re calling for better pay in HE after an insulting pay offer of just 1.4% was imposed on hard working staff.

@unison.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social

Yer. Definitely. I am also aware that the VAR decision in the playoffs was massive for us. But for the good of the game, it has to go