Jo Owen
@jobloobird.bsky.social
Retired due to Long Covid but still enjoying life in Malvern. Love books, gardening when I can & Birmingham City #SaveOurRivers
Ukraine doing the good work in two nights! More than Europe combined had the spine to do something about russian interference.. bsky.app/profile/pere...
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 5h agoAnd now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
One of the nice things about Celebrity Traitors is how easily and without fuss absolutely everyone uses Bella Ramsey’s they/them pronouns. See how easy it is not to be an asshole?
Blimey Ross Kemp is very tightly wound up isn't he 😳 #traitors
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"
Latest from me: social care was this big thing at Labour conference. So why did neither Andy Burnham nor Yvette Cooper mention disability? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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The current #COVID strain IS MORE transmissible. Please take steps to reduce risk of infection and transmission. Avoiding COVID is the only way to reduce risk of #LongCovid - which can be a result of any infection, of any level of severity. #Autumn 📷 @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
marque lawyers@marquelawyers.com.au · 2w agoGoogle is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
Commentators reading the Premier League ruling on Manchester City.
"Ofsted found Multiverse failed to meet expected standards in several areas, but praised the instructors as “skilled, effective teachers”. Shouldn't the private company be focusing on its faults, rather than using AI against its teaching staff? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Dozens of arrests at Liverpool outside the Labour Party conference. Elderly 'terrorists' protesting against the genocide were manhandled away by Merseyside Police using Labour legislation proscribing Palestine Action. This is a matter of deep shame for Labour.
I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.
Man City's next game is away at Liverpool and you have to say that's just perfect.
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.
Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.
I like to smuggle a tiny piece of luggage onto the carousel at Yo! Sushi.
I am a writer of the words & sentences (some funny). I’ve done most things: written gags, speeches, scripts, TV ads - if you require such an individual, then I am that person. Website (here) www.mathew-owen.co.uk any RTs (or whatever they’re called on here) gratefully received. Cheers👍👍
Mathew Owen | Speech Writer | Manchester
Bespoke wedding speeches from a professional comedy writer.
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The BPS model and more 'modern' psychosomatic tactics are being used to 'biopsychosocialize' the soaring rates of chronic illness in the West. Why? 'Cause ideologues can't move past their narcissims of 'good intentions' And governments like wellfare cuts. A perversely dangerous collusion.
People really need to stop reposting stuff that's obviously AI. That's an instant block from me
Articles like these are emblematic of the institutional amnesia surrounding Covid-19. A pathogen that emerged less than seven years ago, which can cause fatigue during the acute infection and as a common long-term effect, not even mentioned. Conspicuously absent. www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...
Why are Americans so tired? CDC report highlights who’s feeling it most
Fatigue is one of the most common concerns reported in primary care visits, yet not much attention is given to how often adults in the U.S. are coping with it.
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“Harper Collins ‘knew’ [about David Walliams] - but they did nothing” HT @louiestowell.bsky.social millihill.substack.com/p/glass-wall...
‘Glass-walled offices’ for ‘the mad king of the palace’: how David Walliams was enabled and protected
As Harper Collins drops the author completely, why was this problematic man allowed to reign so long?
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Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
