Anyone else having issues with NHS 111 dropping calls without connecting to a medic after an automated triage? @shaunlintern.bsky.social

a decade is a long time in politics

I'm not a nambie-pambie woke snowflake but some pieces should come with a graphic content trigger warning

I’ve donated-how about you? Some dickheads threatening to kill an ultra runner have made her pull out of the race making it more difficult to raise money to look after vulnerable women.

Isn’t there a case for unions taking action here? No one should be forced to risk this sort of material for work purposes?

I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.

Folks who still post on X, is this finally a red line for you? If not, then you seem to have no moral objections to using a CSAM site.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Time to deploy Corbyn for the lols?

If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.

Yeah, definitely best brain in Government material… #canigetafuckssake

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

@rugbypass.bsky.social seems to be a problem logging in to watch the England game. Boring as it was the carrot I’d dangled to get the teenager to do their homework.

This is a great book.

This explains quite a lot…

Shit things happening are what I like to call “future anecdotes” while they’re happening. It’s (nearly) all funny when you look back at it. Actually telling the scary big boss the truth gets you further than kissing their arse (and if it doesn’t work-change jobs because they’re a douche).

"I'm sorry to say we haven't got the $100m and you're all fired"

@leicestertigers.bsky.social any chance of a team sheet on Bluesky?

We’ve had similar cold calls. We operate in a space where you could squint at a lot of what we do and claim it’s R&D but if you follow HMRC guidelines it’s clear that we wouldn’t qualify (or on v. shaky ground). Our accountant “I’m 100% sure you’d get the money, 99% sure they’ll ask for it back”