One shift on Monday, none until Friday – then a Thursday-night cancellation. That’s how zero-hours rotas can grind people into exhaustion and insecurity. Respond to this consultation and you just might help improve things ⤵️

Your response is needed: do zero-hours contracts exploit workers?

A consultation closing this Wednesday aims to end "exploitative" zero-hours contracts. But are such contracts exploitative? By design?

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I just saved you a $2,574 doctor’s visit.

EXCLUSIVE: Fauci's lawyers set up legal defense fund as US probes multiply reut.rs/3UrUjjd

EXCLUSIVE: Fauci's lawyers set up legal defense fund as US probes multiply

Lawyers for Anthony Fauci have launched a legal defense fund for the former top U.S. infectious disease ​expert, saying that the need to respond to a growing number of state and federal investigations related to his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic will require ‌substantial resources.

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This is true but I’m trying to stay positive. I’ll keep on keeping on.

Matt Owen@mjowen174.bsky.social · 4d ago

My far, far better half @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having an incredibly tough month business-wise. Her website is full of amazing, stylish designs and it’d be great if you could visit her website and who knows, maybe even purchase something www.gailmyerscough.co.uk - if you could plse share this 👍👍

More #buyastrangerabook day magic. @whyalice24.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of any novel by Evelyn Waugh. I've added a picture of a few choices, so if there's one you'd like, get in touch! UK only

WhyAlice24@whyalice24.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi Simon, I would like to #buyastrangerabook Today's choice will be any Evelyn Waugh book. Can you do your usual and put a few up for selection. My favourite is Scoop but happy to get any other book by Waugh for someone

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Pauline Cumming, Scottish creator of quirky ceramics with feminist themes and humour #womensart

We have stalled a little on £818 and I'd very much love to get to £1000, or more even if we can manage it. If you have a couple of quid to chuck in it honestly all makes a difference, please don't feel bad about smaller donations! #Dementia #LBD #Fundraising

Marie's fundraiser for The Lewy Body Society

Help Marie Gardiner raise money to support The Lewy Body Society

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Specialised subject: the patterns on London Transport seats. Utterly magnificent. #mastermind

Meisen kimono designs from the mid-20th century Japan, from the collection of uchinopotemayo

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Please repost and spread widely. If you know any musicians, tell them about it.

David Benedict@eggsbened.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

A fairer headline would be 'Reform UK proposes letting disabled people die'.

I’m really struggling to sell anything at the moment .. any useful suggestions? craftysharp.etsy.com #catsofbluesky

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

If you consider England, the inequality between a low income household struggling to pay the water bill & water company shareholders raking in dividends, this inequality seems particularly stark. share.google/O1FZL2mIrLKg...

United Utilities set to pay shareholders a bumper dividend

The move puts the monopoly supplier to seven million households in north-west England on a collision course with the former Manchester mayor.

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If you were as shocked and saddened by the devastating fire at the RSPB's Minsmere reserve you might like to donate to its emergency appeal. It's going to take a long time to recover, that's if it can, as more hot dry summers are likely.

Good evening, Annie @thunderoad75.bsky.social & thank you, very belatedly on my part, I'm afraid. I'd thought for a very long time that I first started showing "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne on Sunday mornings in May 2014 but, in fact, it turns out it was Sunday, 1st June 2014!

Annie Walker@thunderoad75.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alan now thinks it was June but it really doesnt matter. He has brought these works by a group of working class people in the East End back into the public view and we can celebrate them and their lives and enjoy these beautiful paintings.

thank you @monkemma.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 having been homeless and worked in homelessness, this made me rage... at the media. could you pls promote petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...? it's not even reached 25k sigs and closes next month. we need the violence-inciting parasite-media onslaught to end.

Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

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Why not. No bugger will read it anyway #TOTP theafterword.co.uk/the-day-befo...

I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

The exhibition ‘The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design’ is on at Compton Verney thru Jan 3, 2027, www.comptonverney.org.uk/whats-on/eni... #artherstory #womenartists

Enid Marx – Modern British Textile Design at Compton Verney

Explore the bold patterns of Enid Marx and her creative community in this major exhibition of modern British design at Compton Verney.

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My daughter is STILL spending all her money on World Cup stickers. If anyone has Cristiano Ronaldo can you PLEASE send it to us and end this madness…

Sick of this ideologically-illiterate, ahistorical codswallop. Feminist histories are not 'far right'. Women's struggle in trade unions is not 'far right'. Marxist, socialist, materialist feminist thinking is not 'far right'. The right exploiting stupidity of trans activism is not women's fault.

EdinburghEye@edinburgheye.bsky.social · 3w ago

You were uninterested in what I had to say, but in all seriousness: the obvious connection is that anti-trans hate groups like FWS are saying the same things & supporting the same policies as anti-trans on the Christian Right. I see the Scottish Family Party at anti-trans rallies organised by FWS.

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org