Just had a psych review and I think it’s the first time in over a decade that a psychiatrist has specifically asked me about my pain? I’ve had generic “how’s your physical health” qs but they’re normally too vague to answer

I’m 34 and my knees hurt all the time

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

I lived in supported housing for about seven years. It was awful, but it was also the only way I could get out of an extremely difficult home situation that was contributing to constant hospitalisations. Lots of people are just stuck in hospital until they get a space.

This is unhinged

Worth mentioning that the penalty for ticking exempt when you aren't is a £100. I bet they don't take 8 weeks to collect that.

If you are thinking of doing the right thing & paying your dental costs then getting a refund, just know that Low Income Team takes 8 weeks to issue a refund AFTER they hear back from the DWP regarding your universal credit entitlement, it takes the DWP a million years to click a button on a screen.

Labour policy on USA global interventions

Desperately reminding myself that I'm always fucking miserable until spring, which does usually come again even when everything is on fire

he announced that he black bagged the sitting president of a foreign country on the same website where he posted an AI generated image of jb pritzker holding a mcdouble

The Ministry of Justice is still refusing to meet with the lawyers or families of hunger strikers being held on remand. This is a shambolic dereliction of duty. I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.

BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike. There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org

you are never more than six feet away from a lesbian

again: the UK has never once taken action anything like this with regards to any medication at all whatsoever. It is completely unprecedented for emergency powers to have been used to ban a medication for a specific group or for that to have been extended indefinitely pending (unethical) trials.

I can't believe thousands of people need and *don't get* access to legal aid for employment, disability tribunals, family court, housing, social care hearings every single day. They don't get it because bigoted rich people are chucking money at these losers instead.

Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.

Is there a way to customise the “self care goals” on Finch?

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them. And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Oh good. Another austerity-motivated review to shift the blame for consistent lack of investment in support services onto people seeking help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mostly I get some variation of, "And people pay for that, do they...?" And no, not really.

I will probably do some supporting of the greens locally as harm minimisation if I’m scared enough of reform, but I am NEVER letting another electoral leftist tell me anarchists are too chaotic to get anything done

In a decade I'm going to be telling people about how your party is the SWP electoral front aren't I?

Guys I’m outside in daylight. Guys. Sometimes it isn’t dark outside. Guys did you know about this?

Everyone who works in comms is reassuring themselves rn that at least they’ve never fucked up so bad they released the national budget early

“I can no longer post content on this internet platform, filled as it is with malicious far right cranks spreading lunatic misinformation and relentlessly inciting hate and fear” - Me, at the Times website

[at the lib dem constituency meeting] ok, so let me spend an hour telling you about my protected belief in class-struggle anarchism. protected belief! if you complain, i'll forstater you.

Quick question for whoever decided that NVivo for Windows and NVivo for Mac would be entirely separate programmes that can't read each others' files: what the fuck is wrong with you

Ok so we’re going to be mobilising en masse against this right? We’re going to make their political lives impossible unless they change their minds right?

i was able to get this surgery today because of you amazing lot helping me raise the funds - my friend now needs some help and i would love if you were able to donate 💕💸 www.gofundme.com/f/3b4zv-help... #MutualAid #Crowdfund #HelpSky #ShowUpForWishes

At my hospital this is predated on the functions of 100s of admin staff being replaced with the NHS app and electronic patient records. The IT department focused exclusively on EPR for 6 months yet when it launched it broke so many things they turned it off and declared a critical incident.

“Not great”

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

The way we stop UK ICE operating with this level of impunity is to resist them now, before they are empowered by a full scale fascist regime. Join your local anti raids migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r...

Truly dreadful and insane, but I will be back next week #wool #knitting #nonsense #twaddle #drivel #rubbish #utterrubbish #gameofwool

"If you're only going to give us half the time we need, you're only getting half the sleeve you want." #GameOfWool

Their transphobia is contributing to the misery of my friends Their attacks on disability benefits have me living in horror Their failure to fund the nhs puts my life at risk Their continuing marketisation of the university sector means I don’t have a future career

Are any suicide researchers working on this? Feels like it’s worth asking why people turn to ChatGPT for this, what they get from it, what alternatives we can build

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

I recognise both cruel optimism & suicide postponement as states that we wrestle with at Not the Void UK. We do discuss what it will mean when/if a member dies, what responsibility to each other but not for each other actually means. doi.org/10.1177/0038...

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Reading this journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... from @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social et al and I have so many thoughts about the mental health system’s work as “suicide postponement” not “suicide prevention”. I think I love it as a concept

List of local anti raids groups and socials / contacts here: migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r... MRN are hosting it while the anti raids website gets its shit together. Contact your local group. Make some trouble.

Gardner is correct, please locate & support your local deportation resistance orgs now if you haven't because by the time we need them we'll be behind 🙏🙏🙏 they're already doing some good work & have been for years

The fireworks have been going for four and a half hours now. Please. Enough.

Also do none of these people realise they’re in government? They don’t need inspiration and momentum! They already have power! The problem is how they are using it

labours doge

I disagree with this. If universal school based interventions have been found not to help, and to have some negative effects, we should let them die and focus on something else. There are so many research areas that are funding-starved, why flog this dead horse?

Okay so my lukewarm take on #GameOfWool is that the title is stupid and also they’ve really fluffed on what knitters want to see. Give them more time, let them knit a proper fair isle jumper, stop calling crochet knitting.