Nice to hear someone say it. We still have the same issues with water and renewables. We pay the highest water charges in UK and yet we provide water to England who pay less for it. Same with electricity, England are still extracting Wales resources and still leaving us poorer.

Since 1284, the wealth of Wales has been used to enrich English oligarchs, leaving Wales in poverty. And you can see the legacy today: six of the ten poorest boroughs in Britain are in South Wales - and all of them are places that generated massive wealth.

Hey, America. Just a clue: the problem is the *damn guns* - because if that teen hadn't been able to buy a gun, dad wouldn't have had to use his. Sort yourselves the hell out.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9h ago

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The man who stopped the Oregon elementary school shooter is the father of 2 daughters at the school, his mother says.

In the fundamentalist Mornin communities, they call this “Keep Sweet” Women are not to criticize, argue, blame, or show any unsolicited need or emotion. Seen and not heard. There to do for the men and the rest of the family. Quietly, and without question.

Medusa’s Wink@medusaswink.bsky.social · 6h ago

Not being allowed to express any unpleasing emotions is HUGE. When i say i did not know my own needs, it’s because i was so required to mask emotions (+Autism) that i couldn’t even distinguish my needs from theirs. I could not tell the difference. Emotional expression deserved physical punishment.

Supporting a friend who's getting grief at work over the toilet thing. Join a union, folks!

To be clear: bar said “now hiring cook” and he applied for it and got it, despite being unable to cook; his argument is “they never asked if I could cook” which I suppose is now a rule they have when screening applicants, all because of him lmao

Ash McGonigal@ashmcgonigal.com · 8h ago

To be fair I never claimed I could cook. They just put me in a kitchen by myself and said "good luck."

The more I consider it, the more I think vaccines are a strong contender for 'the best thing humanity has ever done'. I always feel quite excited and emotional seeing the tiny vulnerable being I've been entrusted with caring for, getting immunity to things with the potential to randomly kill them

“I was concerned about a trans person being there” so we actually have a word for this stance but you’re not going to like it

Are cis people paying attention to what Andy Burnham is doing to trans people or are you still too excited over his message of 'hope'? Like, today. Do you see what has happened *today*?

...the inciting incident, the first incursion of the unknown and the uncanny in the children's lives. But also that of the readers - a child in 1950 would, even if not an evacuee themselves, be extremely familiar with the concept, and with the imaginative space opened up by the thought of being...

...1990s, and how this fundamentally alters the work. I'm willing to reserve judgment on the film, they might make that time-shift work. But I've seen people (again, exclusively Americans) arguing that WW2 isn't a significant part of TLTW&TW because it's "only one sentence", that it's a means to...

I saw a short video on the internet a while back where a lady said AI was actually very useful for her for writing emails, she said whenever she had to write an email and felt blocked she remembered other people use AI to do the same thing and suddenly she could write the email powered by spite.

Economist (and legend) Ann Pettifor wants us to bring back the biblical sin of usury. Listen to her explain, in her talk this year, how interest on debts means Brazil is forced to “strip the rainforest and degrade the land”. Our whole talks archive is free to explore. Listen via our website or app.

Many of us need to own up to the fact that we ✨don't listen✨. I still hear the rare whisper asking when "the pastor" made the decision that we were not going to have a vote. My siblings in Christ, I updated you in painstaking detail at every council meeting for two years.

No one's really upset about it in my context; we're fine. But it is absolutely true in churches that you can put it in the bulletin, say it out loud weekly, hire a sky-writer, and text everybody... and 25+% of the congregation was "never told about it"

With my regulator hat on: - some of those words wouldn't be commonly known to someone under 30, because they've rightfully dropped out of use - meaning they might not spot them as what they are - they do this for sexist terms too (IMO 'slag' and 'slapper' way more offensive than the gen pub say)

Has hopefully renewed their driving licence...

- in which Jesus actually is the Son of God - interact with its emerging caricature in the Roman mind?"

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

If any of you are a member of the National Trust, it's time to vote to keep farage & his cabal of turds from taking over & ruining it for everyone. The link is below. Log in, then select 'Quick Vote' to vote for the recommended candidates. Thanks

Is trying to fathom logic of someone voting 1st preference a priest under oversight of Bishop of Ebbsfleet (no women for "headship" reasons) & 2nd* for a female priest standing for greater inclusion *technically it could have been 3rd but then 2nd would have been a female priest born in Pakistan

I was hoping a damp October would have made digging the allotment easier but it's still rock hard 4 inches down

It's probably better to think of Elon Musk as, first and foremost, a white nationalist billionaire who works to spread racism and elect Republicans and, secondly, as someone who likes to blow up rockets in his spare time.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h ago

This, though, this stuff Elon is fantastic at. He uses his carny scams to fund the GOP which he does better than anyone. Excellent at helping Republicans get elected. So good that he was allowed to do a Sieg Heil at the inauguration and it didn't matter. That is a talent.

The Forstater judgment kind of broke equalities law. What do you mean transgender people have to accept that some of their colleagues might not "believe in" them?

Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 13h ago

Civil servant transgender guidelines leak just dropped:

To recap: if you wear tight clothes you’re a whore; baggy clothes you’re fat and ugly. If you do a class targeted to women it doesn’t count (Pilates, spinning); if you try to use the weight machines you’re taking something from men. If you don’t know how to do something you’re stupid. What else?

What I've gathered from having to unfollow many fitness accounts over the Gillis thing is that men wearing clothes that show muscles they've gained as a result of a lot of hard work is Good and women wearing clothes that show muscles they've gained as a result of a lot of hard work is Bad and Slutty

5 phone calls in a day? What year i this? To be fair 3 of them are the result of an email vanishing into the ether

This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.

We wrote a sketch for Agendum about eight sixes now being officially 54 because “most people thought it was something like that”. This is the same. You’re not monitoring or measuring anything real.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2d ago

With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

On what *which* people find offensive? People in general or people in the target groups for these offensive words? Sometimes it's entirely expected for government to hold itself to a higher standard than the man on the Clapham omnibus.