your house is cold both parents work by still can’t afford to feed you you’re expected to do well at school and homework and exams you know what will help???? giving free labour to a supermarket worth billions YOU’RE WELCOME
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profile pic: the vampire armand kissing his fledgling daniel on his bald spot, by loveisalie_lie on ig banner description: roman mosaic of romulus and remus with their wolf mom.
not just unemployed people - CHILDREN. specifically children already living in poverty. “New programme launching from October will target schools with higher levels of free school meal uptake” www.gov.uk/government/n...
10,000 work experience opportunities for young people as Sainsbury's joins national drive to tackle youth unemployment
Thousands of young people across the UK will get the chance to gain work experience, build confidence and develop skills to help them get ready for work as Sainsbury's launches a major new “Modern Wor...
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Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 8h agoSo Lord Sainsbury donated nearly £165,000 to Andy Burnham's campaign to become an MP and now the government have announced a partnership with Sainsbury's to force 10,000 unemployed people to work there for free.
Burnham keeps throwing crumbs like nicer train seats (!) but there will be no meaningful change and voters will soon see right through it as energy bills go up again
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10h agoBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
Black people are less intelligent has been discredited so many fucking times. Why is such a hack with discredited ideas being given airtime and “free speech” articles. He’s an open “race realist”. Also fuck you
JJohn K. Wilson@johnkwilson.bsky.social · 2d ago
I argue in my @insidehighered.com column for protecting the academic freedom of @nathancofnas.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
I feel so bad for kids these days who grow up with not a moment’s privacy in their whole lives.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoParents who want to keep tabs on their kids taking an Uber ride can now view a live feed of the trip through the driver’s selfie camera. www.theverge.com/transportati...
Me and my lad use AI to bond by one of us going 'AI sucks' and the other one responding with something like 'yeah, its for dickhead losers'.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d agoA consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Hopeful update from the Sameer Project: “Our community has already brought us to 18% of our monthly operating expenses covered by recurring donations. That means predictable funding we can count on every month! … At 25%, we can begin gradually reopening programs, even at the bare minimum.”
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 2w ago“We desperately need you to understand the urgency of this moment.” chuffed.org/project/help...
god they really hate us. it's masks off now. they are so proud of driving us out of public life, driving us to our deaths
Brigitte Empire@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 4d agoCompletely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights
Tbf i can see why someone writing for the observer would want to redefine gatekeeping as "having any discernible talent for the thing you're doing'.
Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4d agoThe idea that people are gatekeeping ‘creativity‘ is horseshit, certainly in terms of writing or art. Pick up a pen or pencil. Type something on whatever device you can use. THAT’S creativity. The ‘gatekeeping’ is around opportunities to work in it and make money, and genAI is destroying that.
I don't even go there (academia I mean) but even the names recognizable to the naked eye, the race science petitioners are precisely who you'd expect—Peter Singer! Steven Pinker! Frank Furedi! Alan Sokal! Various terves, tescrealists, and a Quillette editor!
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 5d agoThere’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
transphobia and white supremacism go hand in hand
GeekOnALeash 🏳️⚧️@geekonaleash.co.uk · 5d agoMaya Forstater has joined the bandwagon of bigots showing their support for the racist Nathan Cofnas...the bigots that support her have called her out on this...bigotry runs deep in these 'big players' of the gender critical ideological movement.
it isn't a miracle, it is the result of extremely hard and dedicated work by many people, but it FEELS like a miracle, you know?
Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 5d agoAccording to new data from @glaad.bsky.social 44% of Americans ‘disagree’ with the scientifically established fact that effective HIV treatment means there is ZERO risk of sexual transmission. Yes, that’s right - with or without condoms, when we are Undetectable the virus is Untransmittable. U=U.
I haven't yet seen anyone make what seems to me to be the most important reason to get rid of Cofnas: because of the people who are unlucky enough to become his students. It's clear how he feels about Black academics. How do you think he feels about & treats his Black students?
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 5d agoThere’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
might move to surrrey or mønthiste
cole@cole1.bsky.social · 5d agosomeone posted this seriously on linkedin
I mean they could have gone with: RACIST LYCHING BY MEDIA WHITE SUPREMACY AT CAMBRIDGE A TRIBUTE TO JASON ARDAY But it’s the BBC
Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 5d agowtf is this
A thread on Jason Arday’s marathon claim which turned out to be true.
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 5d agoOne of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once
hahahahahahaha oh my god i hate it here
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 7d agoThis is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
You might not like it, gentlemen, but this is what peak performance looks like:
Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d agoBy the way, this is how wealthy aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget enjoyed dressing
i've got asthma. it's mild. i take an inhaler twice a day and i'm grand. dylan's got asthma. they need to take a daily pill and inhalers (plural) and have been on heavy steroidal meds in the past. how could it be the same condition? a split in the spectrum?!?!?
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)@autisticrealms.bsky.social · 6d agoA split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism 'What if some people with a diagnosis aren't actually autistic?' *SIGH* Thank you @drmbothapsych.bsky.social & Dr Rachel Moseley for sharing the harm of all this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I want to know how he got a job at Cambridge in the first place, a position which got him the job at Ghent
Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 6d agoObviously good for this guy to get told to fuck off. But we have to look at why a white supremacist with a grudge was able to just wave some bullshit at the British press and provoke a pile-on so serious that the most astute of them are already having to rapidly rewrite the official narrative.
Sonia Sodha in 2018. This is radicalisation and the Overton window shifting so far right that people who call themselves liberal are now spouting bigotry and fascism like it’s all normal
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 3mo agoShe used to work for Ed Miliband. This is her in 2018 talking about including trans women on all women shortlists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Quakers have always been real. They protested against slavery in 1688.
Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 6d agoUK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."