Alex M

Meme with medieval cat licking its butt.

I have a question for #medieval #historians / #cat people! A friend sent me this meme from Insta:

International recruitment and the NHS post-Brexit - UK in a changing Europe Vilija Vėlyvytė looks at the use of overseas recruitment in the NHS since Brexit and argues that it should be a key...

❌ Leaving the EU has proved incredibly damaging for our NHS.

The University of Surrey has found that Brexit has caused 1,485 additional deaths per year due to EU nurses leaving the UK.

Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive, and resilient United Kingdom This publication sets out this government’s vision for a fair, tolerant and decent country and the steps we are taking to tackle threats to social cohesion.

Protecting what matters: the government’s social cohesion action plan, published today
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Constant exposure to this level of abuse must be horrific.
I'm surprised we haven't seen any employment tribunals yet where MPs are sued by their support staff for unnecessary exposure to harmful abuse and harassment.

So interesting...

a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.

The cover of Irreparable Parables by Andrew Wasylyk. Artwork of six songbirds in a circular oak tree bower in the style of an engraving.

Really enjoying today’s fresh one from @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social
It expands on the quietly majestic atmosphere with some brilliant collaborations.
The Kathryn Joseph track is epic.
The first press already sold out before release, so snap up the repress whilst you still can. #bandcampfriday

GB News has never made a profit because it doesn’t exist to make a profit. It exists to exert pressure to push broadcast news channels further rightwards. It is about further poisoning the information environment. That’s why it exists.

I've got a lot of respect for evolution; it's really come up with some great ideas.
But it really dropped the ball the day it decided to have a go at creating humans. What a massive let-down they turned out to be.
Time to scrap the whole "people" thing; they're obviously fundamentally broken.

The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

amichai.

Speed doesn't cause crashes, drivers cause crashes.
Specifically, drivers who say "speed doesn't cause crashes" cause crashes.
By speeding.

Any any suggestionsm that non white people can't be British or English should be like saying the sun orbits the Earth and the moon is made of Stilton. It should make you look like a complete fucking looney. Not a candidate for Westminster

Nonsense like this is why labour are losing progressive voters to the Greens rather than LibDems.
Do better.

Portrait of Miguel Anxo, former mayor of Pontevedra, standing outdoors in front of blurred greenery. A large white serif quote appears on the left side of the image reading: “It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.” His name and title appear below the quote.

It is not the government’s job to provide storage space for your private property. Cars are no different.

Roads exist to move people and goods, not to store private vehicles. Governments at all levels need to start calling out and enforcing that reality.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Bollards everywhere. It’s the only way to stop them.

Ah this is a fair point. Myself experience was many years ago, before the vaccine.
Hooray for vaccines!

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

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Apathy gets us nowhere.

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Image of two people in seal skin clothes building the sort of igloo you thought it would be possible to build when you were seven years old and it was snowing in the School playground

Ladybird things I really, really wanted.

To make my own igloo

Artist: BH Robinson
(Homes, 1975)

That being said though, I hope it’s the beginning of shingles, and I hope it hurts like hell.

Same here. Surely he wouldn’t be up and walking about if he had full-on shingles though?
For me the pain was such that I couldn’t even put on a shirt, which I believe is fairly standard from talking to others who’ve had it.

Good work. I’ve still got every copy of Scream in my parents’ loft.
I’m gutted my sister gave away her Oink collection.

This is a great message.
I too often hold back for fear of seaming mawkish or cringey, but I’m learning to be more open with praise, and it’s a much more positive experience than I’d expected; for myself as well as (usually) the other person.

This is an absolute masterclass in deep noticing.
Well worth your time.

That was fascinating. Thanks for sharing

🤢🤢🤢 You’ve just made me remember the shared bucket of cricket boxes.
I dread to imagine how many years’ worth of sweaty hormonal crotches they passed through between washes…

BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime.

Oh wow that’s incredible. 😂
If I could have got a “reward” like that for forgotten kit, I would have pulled that trick for the whole five years.
Instead, forgotten kit meant diving through the foetid dustbin of crispy teenage-boy-stench-clouded lost property.

That’s interesting. For me as a kid it was my parents’ Saab 900.
They gave up trying to coax me into it in the end; by the time they got rid of it, the scent of dettol was intense.
Maybe a combination of the ocean liner like suspension and the feeling of being trapped in the back without doors