Health insurance giants, including United Healthcare, have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

Delighted with my (provisional) 1st term module results at @uniofgalway.bsky.social - Cloud Web App Development 86% - Algorithmics & Logical Methods 74% - Java Programming 60% - and that’s one’s bloody hard and I thought I’d failed! 😊

Every single day the UK loses £600m because of Brexit. £600m yesterday, £600m today, £600m tomorrow. For what?

Jonathan Pie on the money as usual youtube.com/watch?v=R3XO...

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.

One of France's most prominent newspapers, Le Monde, is abandoning Elon Musk's X “The alliance between Donald Trump & social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Words fail me www.whitehouse.gov

Special Counsel (Jack Smith’s) report confirms Trump went to “unprecedented criminal effort" to retain power in 2020. Only election in 2024 stopped him being convicted. So, when Tories say he represents the “rule of law” - just laugh at their sorry immoral arses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Holy SHIT, Jack Smith gives no more f*cks: “Mr. Trump's letter claims that dismissal of his criminal cases signifies Mr. Trump's "complete exoneration…That is false.” Translation: Trump’s immunity argument is bullshit and he’s GUILTY.

Sounds familiar...

Eastern black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) from Skinninggrove beach taken with my old p900 17th December 2016 #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #twitching #rarebirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #redstart #blackredstart

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

This is going to continue happening, more frequently and more intensely, as long as industries are allowed to expand unchecked. This is the direct result of Republican climate change denial, and putting greed over the value of human lives. abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...

So Donald Trump is now officially a felon. He's also a rapist, an insurrectionist, a compulsive liar, a narcissist, and a scam artist. He politicized the pandemic. He's politicizing the wildfires. He will continue to do these things as long as he is allowed. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

"Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account..."

by Maya Miller, ProPublica, with additional reporting by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum, and David Armstrong, ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/find...

Houston, we have a problem and it's a big one.

@prolibshow.com @beccakittybear.bsky.social 🩷 @zizij.bsky.social 🩷 @suzkd.bsky.social @muellershewrote.bsky.social @markusinseattle.bsky.social🩷 @case011.bsky.social @billrealman.bsky.social @susanpeyton.bsky.social 🩷 @ja2025.bsky.social @conormcl2025.bsky.social @littlemissemmet.bsky.social

@davidbowiereal.bsky.social 1973, by Masayoshi Sukita. #DavidBowie

RFK is an absolute DipShit and NUTS he will reintroduce childhood illnesses that had all been mostly wiped out. Moron parents will bitch when Polio and Smallpox, Rubella, Whopping Cough and god knows what come back due to RFK’s insane policies. How stupid and gullible Americans have become! SAD

Contains a great handy checklist of all Musk’s recent anti-democratic exploits to share with anyone still dithering about whether to bin their Twitter account

I’m just about to close my Xitter account. Musk’s barrage of fascist and anti U.K. government propaganda over the last few days, has done it for me. I have nearly 10,000 #FBPE followers there. Does anyone have any tips on the best way to leave and start afresh in BlueSky? Thanks 🙏🏼

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Just going to reiterate - We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

The economic cost of Brexit to the UK now exceeds what it paid into the EU over its entire 47 years of membership. A colossal, unprecedented act of economic self-harm sold to a nation by grifters and snake oil salesmen.

I had to pause the my UK govt petition until it got "cleared". However, given the increasingly obvious interference in UK politics by Elon Musk, this petition (set up on Change by someone else) is essential action for the Labour government: Mandate UK government bodies to switch from X to BlueSky

We need impartiality and balance in the BBC - as was intended. That starts at the board level. All politicians should be equally and fairly challenged. News output and articles should be balanced too. We won’t see that with the current board and certain presenters for sure!

I wish the metaphor 'thrown under the bus' could actually come true. Farage is currently shitting his undercrackers for the world to see.

Me, whispering to every recipe I have ever made “Well that’s not enough garlic”

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028. 1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care. Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Jenrick’s repulsively racist post and Truss’s post below (both gone viral on X) are where the prejudice of a disastrous Brexit have led us. To a Tory party radicalised by its own failure, thinking hatred and vicious nationalism are the key to power. With Farage mopping up their voters anyway.

Capitalism is dependent on solutions looking for a problem

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.

Oh sweet, sweet Gods of schadenfreude. What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

I’d die on a hill for Oxford commas

Ooohh me too, plus my large purry cat on my lap. And butter with those scones

In my state (MN), we decided to raise the minimum wage and have it tagged to cost of living. Businesses freaked out, they said it wasn’t feasible. A few years later, we have a thriving economy in last few years we have had large surpluses. We have been able to fund roads and education. Weird!

This is what they meant by ‘cutting red tape.’ Worse environmental protections, workers’ rights, food standards, water safety etc etc.