This beautiful fella is the well loved ‘Reindpede’ of Seaton Valley. After being damaged in storm Bert last year, it’s not made an appearance this year and honestly the locals residents Facebook group are FURIOUS!

@deanvipond.bsky.social you’ve made me lament the mega sense of hope we had just after the first COVID emergency response. I honestly saw something new & positive emerging, community connections, importance of clean air, parks and local growth. Join national and regional policies/ ways of working.

By 2024-25, pensioners received on average an extra £900 a year compared to 2010-11, while those under 65 receiving benefits have lost an average of £1,500 a year. The key drivers of this? Increasing the state pension via the Triple Lock, while freezing and capping support for working-age families.

Can I have ‘my country back’ from the ‘invading hoards’ of racist bigots please?

Grassroots festival from amazing North Sea surfers and local ambassadors- open for submissions for all fellow north sea enthusiasts! www.northseasurffilmfestival.com

Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

Can someone smarter than me explain why the NHS App allows 13 year olds (GDPR article 8) access to their held data and services- yet I see no plans for GOVUK App to do the same?

Hateful policies that civil servants will eventually have to design services for. Including removing vulnerable peoples rights, benefits- seeing more homelessness, mental health and the charity sector and local authorities carry the weight of the fall out. When does impartiality outweigh integrity?

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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

Poverty is one of the most significant causes of digital exclusion. Systemic approaches to eradicating poverty should be top of a Labour govt's list of priorities, not part of a plan to deliver a pet project, but if drastic reductions to economic exclusion are on the cards, that's to be welcome

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Apparently this isn’t an onion parody. I’m not up on my American papers, but is the NYP like the UKs Sport? Think they did the same here with Jeremy Corbyn, going after his flat cap and allotment jams. I mean I’d vote for higher taxes, free stuff, hating Israel’s genocidal actions and vibes too.

I’m stuck, I can’t articulate my thoughts into meaningful action or what I’m trying to show. Is there such a job role for an ‘idea beater’? Because I really need one.

Dear U.K. THIS.

Britain's wealth gaps means that a typical worker would need to save more than a lifetime’s worth of their earnings to become wealthy It would now take 52 years of typical earnings – £1.3 million in total – to move from the middle to the top of the wealth distribution. ➡️ buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon “a hard man”. 😂😂😂

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

In addition, ask folk which law do they disagree with? ECHR judgments have led to some of the most vital changes in law and policy in the UK including; - stopping children getting smacked by teachers - allowing abused cared for children to claim damages

I’ve hit peak 40 something northern woman today, all by 6:30pm. - dismantled the Halloween decoration with the power tools I got last xmas. - Kids football match in the stotting rain. - Day time clubbing in an old industrial warehouse. - Sunday dinner, with extra gravy.

I'm always tempted to ask people who think the UK's Human Rights act 'needs reform' which one of these you object to some people having. And also, why specifically those people.

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible...Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” –CISI Co-Director @hypervisible.blacksky.app quoted in @theverge.com www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

why, that's a *steal* for the smart piss ball, and I can't wait to find out how much the monthly subscription for the piss-sniffing service costs, and it'll be so useful, and I won't mind the occasional leaking of data on my leaks until the inevitable shutdown day, when my piss ball is sadly bricked

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

🙌 exactly, not the weird ‘digital without exception’ or ‘digital and exception isn’t the teams problem’, that’s it’s weirdly morphed into.

Just want to shout out to @ntcouncilteam.bsky.social who’ve quietly launched the new website- from the confusing mess and collection of PDFs for bin day to this lovely little fella

Dear Thermos, I will let you have 50% share in my idea for a toastie/ left over pizza/ pasty flat food flask. Please make it so.

Whenever we see vulnerable people being used as scapegoats to blame for the demise of public services, this chart should be pulled up. As everyone knows libraries and youth clubs were the cause of the 2008 financial crash.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

I’m aware I’m a geriatric millennial, but what’s the craic with loud speaker videos on public transport?

Chief among the Ring's powers is its ability to deceive.

Check out this new BBC series exploring the social and political determinants of child health in the UK... where 4.5 million children live in poverty in one of the "richest" countries in the world. With the brilliant @drguddisingh.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/tr...

Woke up to scenes of the American right popesplaning the bible to the successor of Peter.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

70 metres drop in at 65 miles per hour. Skateboarding really is getting wild. Kiddo #1 better not get any ideas. www.redbull.com/gb-en/sandro...

Proud of my city. Milkshaking fash since 2019!

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Anyone that’s ever done a wicked problems system map, can tell you, in gov were all doing the same thing. I’m tired folks. Prevent poverty Feed, educate and get kids active Better housing Not Ai, not apps, not think tank bullshit.

Great editorial from great colleagues: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Buy a print of my childhood housing estate- and raise money for (in my opinion) one of most necessary galleries and community trusts in the U.K. Double good juju. shop.amber-online.com/products/kil...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Cool cool, on the day we’re travelling from Newcastle to Glasgow.

Digital ID cards- presumably our advisors have described the un-federated mess our government data is in. And knowing Ai is as only as good as the data model it can derive meaning from, Microsoft will need a cleaner view of the U.K. population to get ROI on its £22bn.