Vertandor
@vertandor.bsky.social
Alto (on hiatus), Packers fan, gamer and sometimes geologist. She/her. Partial to tea, sci-fi, and chocolate. Lives in the Castle beyond the Goblin City. Typos - model's own.
The announcement that Reform would cut Personal Independence Payment for Disabled people is not just a threat to remove a lifeline but a signal that they don’t consider us to be equal citizens. Our response: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
Disability Rights UK Statement on Reforms attack on Disabled people
disabilityrightsuk.org
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
Spell check has been degrading for a while, but we are reaching clown car levels of a tool that is older than I am.
This too. It is absolutely WILD to me that apparently NOWHERE in the "push GIANT KLAXON TEXT to every phone in the UK" flow chart is there a step that says "simplify this language to the maximum extent possible".
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3d agoAlso this!! THIS is what the alert should look like. short, clear, to the point. bsky.app/profile/that...
It's such a cool ux to have the government wildfire alert make the nastiest fucking sound human ears can hear at full volume and to make it so you hit ok and the message is gone forever and you can't read it. Fuck off
Fuuuuck! Nearly jumped out of my skin with the emergency alert about the fire risk
Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019.
Twitch creators appear to be adding 'aioptedout' to their content tags to help indicate to audiences that they have toggled it off. Twitch CPO Mikey Minty was asked about an "opted in/out indicator" yesterday and said they had no plans to implement one for viewers.
LRP: the eternal flexibility of the geology students brain - in depth study of immense eons of time, switching to "come on, its 15 minutes until lunch - just how *long* is this lecture going to take?"
“What do you mean the Appalachians are older than the Atlantic Ocean and divided by it?” welcome, welcome, yes, congrats on being one of today’s lucky 10,000
An utter disgrace - regardless of what you think of the decision (and I have probably predictable Views), the contempt that shows for staff, who have set aside everything else they have to do for Clearing, is abhorrent (and, inter alia, marks said staff for redundancy).
Dr Susan Greaney@suegreaney.bsky.social · 4d agoMy uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
The idea of denying a hundred disabled people help because one nondisabled person “might” “take advantage” is unconscionable to me, and I do not understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
independent.co.uk
We could, and just hear me out, not give a fuck about able bodied persons receiving the benefits of accommodations. This is actually what we should do about it: nothing. Not a fucking thing. supposed "grift" is only a problem in a world looking for an excuse to deny accommodations.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 9mo agoBalancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
‘Gather as many colanders as possible and observe an incredibly rare natural phenomenon’ sounds like a Taskmaster task
Oh this is cool, now make him do chemotherapy for a cancer he doesn't have and see how that goes. This could be an amazing learning experience for him.
Matt@itsmattagain.bsky.social · 5d agoMan without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
This is a railway access point. There are more than 35,000 of them in Britain, each one enabling inspection, maintenance, repair and, sometimes, emergency response. Since 2020 though, a potentially fatal flaw has been creeping across the network, and it needs to be reversed.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
there’s only one possible solution to this problem that’s right: cheese heist
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 7d agoYou can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Oh, to be able to greet the day with the daft bonhomie of the neighbour’s giant ginger cat, who has spent the night asleep in the colour clash of my garden chair.
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶
I am not asking people to feel sorry for tech employees whose microkitchens no longer have diet snapple, but the shift from "we have to keep our employees happy" to "fuck off you ungrateful cretins" has happened at the same time as the tech oligarchs going full mask-off fash it's not a coincidence
Lies. It's 200 times when solar panels are "mentioned" in the fire report. e.g. “the fire did not reach the solar panel”
Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
people with chronic pain warned us at the time but the criminalization of women and minority people’s pain after the opioid crisis is a public health disaster. I’ve had friends denied pain management after hysterectomies, dental extractions and broken bones.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter my c-section, I asked my ObGYN what care at home would look like and what sort of painkiller I'd be prescribed (so my husband could pick it up) and he said OTC Tylenol because by asking, I was "exhibiting drug seeking behavior."
