The only way to do a Saturday evening. Glass of wine. Reading a book. The Masters on in the background.
Dr Beth Jackson
@bethjackson1x.bsky.social
Nottingham Research Fellow looking at decent work and climate change (with mixed methods). She/her. Views my own.
What was going through the minds of those jurors who decided to take part in the Diddy Doc. Embarrassing on all fronts. Fangirling and wilful ignorance of the cycle of domestic abuse. They come off as bad as Combs. Also how were they not sequestered?! Criminal injustice at its finest.
The age old question: is it burnout or am I depressed?
Hope not hate winning out - now for the Greens to do the same in the UK!
Me seeing the words Animal Crossing New Horizon and New Free Update together
sulley from monsters inc is making a face with his hands
ALT: sulley from monsters inc is making a face with his hands
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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NEW PAPER! We assess the forced labour risk of current and recommended US diets www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/the-hum...
News - The human cost of healthy eating – study finds that some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labour - University of Nottingham
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Tufts University in the US have measured the risk of forced labour behind ingredients in recommended US diets, and hope their findings will inform how...
nottingham.ac.uk
The TIP report 2025 has finally been released... right before the shutdown (so it might fly under the radar). To be honest I'm surprised its been released but better late than never I guess. www.state.gov/reports/2025...
2025 Trafficking in Persons Report - United States Department of State
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Government must end scapegoating of migrants, 103 charities warn www.refugee-action.org.uk/government-m...
Government must end scapegoating of migrants, 103 charities warn - Refugee Action
Some of the UK’s biggest charities have written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to express deep concern at the government’s direction on immigration and urged...
refugee-action.org.uk
This is a view shared by people who know no one going through the stress of the immigration system. People who want to make their lives here but are repeatedly being discriminated against by hypocrites with bad data spouting bile. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
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These McLaren pitstops are killing me. Clearly the wheel guns are not working right and the guys can only work with the equipment they're given but slow stops are becoming common and it's impacting on track.
All I see is appeasement and I feel like I am losing my mind.
Glad this has been called out by the IASC. Seems a purposeful lack of understanding of the complexities of the asylum process and the NRM. It also disregards the experiences of survivors. Distrust in the system is already rife, this rhetoric isn't going to help. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK anti-slavery commissioner condemns Shabana Mahmood’s asylum comments
Home secretary’s remarks about ‘vexatious’ claims will have real-life impact on trafficking victims, says Eleanor Lyons
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Me looking at the news this morning and being like someone check Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Seth Meyers have the best lawyers please.
When the task of the day is writing but the words seem to be nowhere...
a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it
ALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it
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The amount of times I've heard the term 'sweater weather' in the last week is insane, and every time I am annoyed they don't say it like these Bronx Beat legends
two women are sitting next to each other on a couch with the words sweata weatha written on the screen .
ALT: two women are sitting next to each other on a couch with the words sweata weatha written on the screen .
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Honestly working analogue most of the day using a pen and paper has been a nice change.
Long thread: There are two main "defences" I see put forward of Labour which crop up: 1) If you don't vote for Labour you'll get Reform 2) It's all the fault of right wing media painting Labour in a bad light. The thing is that neither of these are actually a defence of what Labour is doing. 1/23
‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz novaramedia.com/2025/08/25/i...
‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz | Novara Media
Food delivery couriers are facing increased attacks from the rightwing press, far-right thugs and now, the Labour government. Polly Smythe reports.
novaramedia.com
Not just resisting, but leading the fight: five women who refuse to be ignored
Not just resisting, but leading the fight: five women who refuse to be ignored
Across the world, women at the heart of their communities are leading the struggle to protect their culture, land and way of life
theguardian.com
The current discourse goes to show many folx don't know/understand/want to learn about the realities of our immigration system. Whether that's someone applying for prohibitively expensive visas or the process of how you can claim asylum in this country. Its honestly depressing.
Protests against migrant hotels. Endless uproar about small boat arrivals. Keir Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech. Here’s a reminder from @ZoeJardiniere.bsky.social of why a more humane approach to immigration is needed. #PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UKPolitics #News #NishKumar #Immigration
actually SSRIs prevent people from committing violence against themselves, hope this helps
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
"The Trump administration, as I previously reported, ordered the incineration of nearly 500 tons of food meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
theatlantic.com
That was stressful but stunning!!!!! Let's go Lando!!!
Listening to TMS still - I honestly thought either one of these teams would have won it in the first session and yet it's only just finished (I may have had to change what I was typing as Bashir took that last wicket!!!)