“I asked ChatGPT, I asked Grok” Yeah well I asked a Halo 3 lobby and they all said you’re a dumb bitch
Gerry Hart
@poorconrad.bsky.social
Co-editor at Red Pepper magazine. Socialism, black metal and sad vibes.
The petty authoritarians and intellectual lightweights that make up Britain's reactionary columnist class still somehow manage to astound me tbh. Like it's their right to sit atop the country's cultural ecosystem like algae on a stagnant pond, choking everything else beneath them.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 17h agoWhat’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant
When I say being under the age of 40 in the UK feels like being trapped in a snow globe on your grandparents’ mantle, I mean stuff like an FT columnist asking “Did you get that Monty Python joke?” when I know a single Conor O’Malley video would send him into a sputtering reactionary frenzy.
Andy Ledger@lowfeller.bsky.social · 7d agoNot sure if I agree with Janan Ganesh. Surely the Your Party debacle, along with Green Party travails, shows the factions left is alive & well & living in Islington
Good news folks, we can burn the library of Alexandria and construct Borges' library of Babel at the same time! Not even the dead will be safe? Not even the *fictional* will be safe from a capitalist class accustomed to impunity and playing with house money.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
The people at the DWP are not trained to deal with depression or anxiety disorders, and if you are honest with them about your experiences they will be forced to deflect, minimise or purposefully misrepresent your MH issues in pursuit of the one goal of “getting you into work”
It's an important observation that the rising rates of disability claims are correlated with hikes in the age of retirement. That the government can't just policy hack its way out of people's bodies getting old and needing care at some point.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits, vows to ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare bill. Silence on corporate welfare. 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Due to hikes in retirement age, many seniors can't work, claim benefits. Women will be hardest hit.
This ex-Labour MP quit, avoiding a sexual harassment investigation; set up an opaquely funded “anti-extremism” campaign that was all over TV and radio in a general election urging the public to vote Tory; was then given a peerage (a non-job for life in the legislature) by Tory leader Boris Johnson…
PIP is something you receive on top of work, not instead of it. Its purpose is to cover the many extra costs associated with being disabled. Those teenagers can work part time jobs on top of getting PIP.
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last wk.🚨 NEW: Teenagers claiming PIP for anxiety are receiving £100 more a week than those working the maximum hours in a minimum wage part-time job
I know I shouldn't be too surprised given the horrendous state of UK academia, but it's still staggering how little there is in terms of grants or scholarships specifically aimed at disabled students.
Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".
Having won the war against trans people, the Spectator moves on to its next vulnerable target
Reminds me of the time a giggling Matt Chorley and colleague asked another Times Radio employee what her favourite Boris The Legend moment was, and she said she didn’t have one, because her mother and everyone on her mother’s floor of her care home were killed by Covid 19 within about three weeks.
Fun to see Boris Johnson back amusing the Sunday news lads as if he was a fun cheeky scamp once more, and not as a disastrously idiotic and corrupt liar who appears to have resisted public health measures during a deadly global pandemic, to protect the Telegraph owners’ property empire.
Today's Teesside Lead looks at the Timms Review into PIP. “Disabled people lost trust in the new government when the welfare reforms came out of nowhere"
‘Humiliated’, ‘anxious’ and ‘disbelieved’: PIP review confirms what disabled people told Teesside charity
Charlotte Hall, policy manager at Difference North East, speaks to The Teesside Lead
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Even at the highest rate, PIP doesn't always cover all disability-related costs. Reductions are cruel and unjustifiable. It frustrates and worries me that there are people who not only don't understand this, but don't much care.
Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 3w agoDisability minister leading PIP review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending #TimmsReview #PIP #PIPreview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...
No matter my feelings about the studio's upper management, this is still a tragedy. The amount of talent bleeding out across the industry is catastrophic. Many of them will find footing at other studios, or start fresh as independent outfits. Many more will struggle to find work and feed families.
ZA/UM Studio@zaumstudio.bsky.social · 3w ago
Any time the whole 'people with ADHD have it too good!' thing comes up my autistic special interest becomes telling people that there was exactly one ADHD specialist in Greater Manchester's NHS system when I was treated and getting diagnosed can take multiple years.
Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w agoRemember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
"The decimation of the humanities and social sciences is an affront to educational common-sense, any idea of social cohesion, needs these subject areas to be at the heart of education and everyday life." -Angela McRobbie for Verso on the cuts at Goldsmiths, 2024 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
A Goldsmiths Diary
These are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and socia...
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The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
just thinking about doom, doom eternal, and wolfenstein new colossus and how much better they FEEL than any other first person shooter ever made: engine tech that could be a source of tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. xbox leadership either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care
Sami(14 days til 🎂)@samitron.bsky.social · 4w agoTHIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU
