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Their resistance to swallowing bull š© is dying
Exactly. I knew since I was 11 years old I would not have what it takes to be a mother. Approaching 50 now & I still know that. Particularly children age 0-3 I just do not have the skills & wasnāt willing to screw up some kidās life forever just because other people said I should have kids.
I look at this way, I pay taxes for education that my non-existent child doesnāt need, contribute to social support my children wont ever need. I pay a childless tax & I am happy to do so. Childless people help support other peopleās children & their futures. I am still doing my part for society
Elon is making a good stab at helping Reform do exactly that! We are on the same slippery slope with āillegal immigrantsā āsex change in schoolsā lies etc. Do we let go of all the checks & balances for algorithm controlled, billionaire-curated, misinformation badged as āfree speechā ?
Absolutely, he decided to make trans venomous hate his brand. Much like Joanne but with (apparently) slightly less coherent legal advice about skirting the edges than she got.
He did post it though. That was his right. Does he have the right to exemption from consequences? Iām not sure given his relentless abuse of his platform to be a vile transphobe. Freedom to spread online hate & provoke offline violence has worked extremely well in destroying the US.
Sadly, inflexible aspects in evidence production/academia have created so many barriers to participation and though co-production, participatory design are growing in popularity, if you arenāt asking the right questions (because your perspective is limited) the bias is baked-in from the outset.
š heās trying to appeal to Reform voters by repeating their racist talking points and flag shagging. Letās agree to disagree here.
increase exercise + social contact benefits + play, which can all help offset some effects on health are lost because they donāt fund & staff accessible facilities like a swimming pool (which children experiencing disabilities can also benefit from) Lived-experience perspectives really matter.
Itās like all the money they throw at studies and interventions on childhoold obesity yet the council pool is closed so often when families show up to swim, they eventually stop coming. Increasing exercise is potentially a lot easier than changing childrenās diets, when they live in poverty.
If you can afford the up-front investment to stock a kitchen with utensils, spices & storage space & cleaning products to then youāre already starting from a different perspective than many experiencing regular poverty. Itās alo harder to manage/stretch budgets with unexpected poverty taxes.
Yes exactly that. The intention or desire to eat healthier gets cancelled out by numerous barriers; barriers which often result in (real world terms) a better cost/time/benefit to just buy Greggs (or fast foods) which is cooked already.
His normal is so batshit anyway it will be a challenge to evaluate. If he has Parkinsonās and they have put in deep brain stimulator we wont know if the hair and hat conseal surgery. The device would mask the tremor at-least long enough to do a presser. I donāt expect to get much health insight.
Two sides of protest with potentially different issues. I am more worried about anti-racism, anti-facism ability to get people out of their apathy. Dems were slow to organise & that gave the impression that MAGA was more mainstream/less real resistance to theit hate
Wheras the rightās protest rely more on communities having an antagonist to mobilise people through anger & not everyone in the community is yet at a point where they would associate with the community nutter/vigilante types
I think itās really hard because actual organisations often have overlapping fundraising activities (understandably) mixed in woth comms invititing ppl to join organised protest, but it can be really off-putting. So lots of people who would like to something, but put off by that, are lost
What a great way to spend $1m per day. Imagine if that was invested in communities and mental health professionals with specialist emergency response training, who can work with law enforcement, instead.
šš I like it. So many ways to interpret. When X dies, when the civil war starts, when the zombie apocalypse beginsā¦
Do you know what the Scottish Index of multiple deprivation is? How many streets in Surrey do you think might be in the most deprived decile? He went to a grammar school. So he had access to education that keeps out those whose behaviour or academic ability might affect his education.
He experienced the lower-end of a middle class existence maybe. I donāt think itās equivalent to living in a big city scheme, in a single income household though. Did his parents own their home?
Try that with a single income household and living in an actually deprived area. Oxted doesnāt exactly scream like itās a town experiencing systemic poverty issues. Communities that do experience that have other gaps in social support (lack of community spaces for example). Overcrowded classrooms
Politicians donāt stoke racism and hatred towards other poor people when they care about fixing things for poor people. Starmer is not red, heās purple.
āMostā Keir went to grammar school and lived in Surrey, did he not? He had a two parent household and his mum not only had a job but was a nurse when she was well? I think maybe we have different parameters of what we mean when we are thinking about lived experience of poverty.
We werenāt even the poorest people in our street & I remember my mum taking 3 small children and managing us and 5 heavy bags of shopping which requires her to have time & busfare the get to the ābig shopā. Provy checks to get school shoes when school went back. So many more poor taxes now.
Thatās why I said most not all. With most not having that and way way too much of the evidence base for public policy not having meaningful, robust, representation from people living it, we have a lack of empathy running through many policies & interventions.
Itās more expensive to shop local & if you live in deprived area they often have less fresh produce offerings. No space in home to store food even if they could accord to bulk buy. May not have a freezer. ā¦.and so on.
Exactly. Accessibility to a kitchen, electricity & equipment are not the only barriers.
So Ā£20 = 5 x Greggs or Ā£20 = Ā£3 electricity and still need to buy ingredients, pay for electricity for fridge, donāt have a baking tray, or sieve, only have 2 pots. So to cook I may need Ā£23, Ā£26ā¦ No money for transport (or delivery min spend at Tesco) & ingredients at convenience store.
So if I want to cook I first need to Ā£20 just to get my oven on. But I need heating as well, internet. So do I want to use my Ā£3 on cooking? If tgeyyqualified for any voucher schemes or been capable of filling in forms or engaging with support on top of that,
Ā£10 or more of the money loaded onto keycard immediately goes to debt + prepay meter has additional āstandingā charges to standard rates. So Ā£20 might only convert to Ā£8 of actual available electricity. My meter is on emergency so also -Ā£5 for that. Ā£20 = Ā£3 of electricity.
You canāy pay electricity for 4 months. Debt circa Ā£400. Eventually Electricity supplier gets warrant to break locks & force entry to home to install pre-pay meter. Prepay has keycard you add Ā£ to at shop then put in meter to activate electricity.
Studies should not be designed without understanding participation needs and should have some flexibility (e.g. to reduce off-putting, overwhelming, wall-of-text jargon-loaded ethical statements on the landing page or before start of interviews). Study design often creates power dynamic.
Absolutely and they repeatedly highlight the sample often lacks participation from people living in lower socioeconomic areas then do hee haw to change that. Studies too often overgeneralised from your WEIRDs to entire populations. I rarely see any Qs with accessibility principles applied.
Looks like a cross symbolising a plague or something š Just sayingā¦.
Thatās a choice and it leads to policy out of touch with the lived reality for way too many.
Then you need money for ingredients and to run the fridge etc. So it is in fact cheaper to have Greggs. Or never had bad credit score & known many āpoor taxā that goes with that. They donāt involve people with lived expertise of poverty regularly either. Treat them like plebs & spongers.
Most of them donāt know what itās like to be poor. Like people who say itās cheaper to eat healthy have never had a forceably installed pre-payment electricity meter that requires Ā£10 on your keycard for debt so you need to put Ā£15 in to be able to use the oven & you donāt own much kitchenalia.
If it was a low dose exposure from an item he contacted after Putin left it isnāt. People were exposed in the days after Skripals.
Heās been novicokād, Rudi run off the roadā¦.boss aināt happy š·šŗ
They have no desire or awareness of a need to learn. Hence their vulnerability to disinformation. Hence my hyperbole point. You are arguing as if I made a realistic and implementable practical suggestion šš Americanās need to add sarcasm to your educational curriculum.
āThe jabā. šµāš« Do these people realise autism existed pre-childhood MMR vaccines, we just didnāt have the name or diagnostic tools then so those people wound up in institutions or as destitute outcasts (or exorcised!), then more recently they were lumped under R-word.
I regularly quote that and sing bleed on your panini. Comedy musical genius. Much better than that snide Tim Minchin.
The other risks are some child predators do collect seemingly benign family photos of children they find attractive (& can use AI to do what they wish with those) but it also gives sextortion scammers & predator details which help win a child/teens trust.
Recognising digital manipulation isnāt about being smart! Tools which are second nature to younger generations raised with digital everything just arenāt in the toolbox of your average 50+ social media user. Many cannot/do not reverse image/video search routinely, as one example.
They really dislike that they donāt have a right wing grifter pulling the levers here, huh?
Your cat looks like they are mocking you š
Also Iām guessing youāre not only old but American. Poor at detecting disinformation and poor at detecting sarcasm and hyperbole š
Iām not far off that age and I already took myself off algorithm driven socials, whatsapp & other channels where I cannot necessarily prevent the algorithm pushing disinformation into my eyeballs, or their sister apps telling them how to reframe disinformation to appeal to me.
Genuinely, Starmerās behaviour can only be rationalised if heās being blackmailed or he fully intends to put a final nail in Labourās coffin.
WTAF was his motive here? Trying to take down Dairy Queen? Trying to drug children with MDMA would not have a sedative affect so what the hellā¦?
Worrying for so many reasons, but so much potential for additional harm if children later request their records which have been influenced by sycophantic AI. They already have to contend with biased & incomplete recording of their experiences & jargon-laden records. AI will gaslight them.
But after 45 we see rapid rise in inability to differentiate disinformation so I went with 50.
Ok so Trump is sick, Rudi has been rammed off the road, Bill is sick. If something happens to Alan Dershowitz next, this is no longer a conspiracy theory about getting rid of Club Epstein members š
Honestly can we just ban people age 50+ from internet access for a year and go back to some normality?
Thatās a Temu body double who forgot the wig
Iāve seen Nicola on the train a few times & sheās absolutely right. With all the flag shaggers frothing at the mouth to throw punches and molotovs, Joanneās venom is just begging to get women hurt. Sheās a paid up cheerleading member of the patriarchy masquerading as a āfeministā. Mandatory meme
At this point I think Yaxley Lennon has Starmer pee tapes and a blackmail hotline.
This makes my joke about š·šŗ mild novichok to Trump and running Rudi off the road seem less of a jokey conspiracy.
So implication that hotels are just filled with dangerous illegals is disgusting from anyone really, but beyond disgusting from Starmer. He is legitimising targeting them. Itās so dangerous.
My mum has a colleague whoās volunteered for 4 years alongside her. Four years of legal process & she + 2 daughters finally have right to stay. Immediately moved from flat & into Glasgow city centre hotel as sheās not technically seeking asylum now. The hotels also house ppl with legal right to stay
We should reserve more taxes in state but not take away completely from red states, if projects would just cause wider societal & economic harm. But red states willing to meaningfully enagage on issues that benefit all states through economic benefits(e.g. improved gun control) can get more.
Cutting state and international funding on infectious disease hurts everyone and poverty (and all the associated long-term societal costs) hurts everyone & the wider economy. But controls on tax cuts, gerrymandering, gun control, electoral college reform etc. could achieve minimal harm.
Yes and offer them a clear pathway back with conditions on gun control, gerrymandering and electoral college reform, if they want it back. Also with an agreement that every state website must prominently display the % of federal tax dollars they receive from predominantly blue states.
Well maybe if they had done this first they wouldnāt have needed stupid LEZ zones and other wasteful attempts to reduce emissions. Making public transport reliable and affordable should have been the absolute number one priority, since it improves accessibility to work for drivers & non-drivers.
RFK Jr actually manages to grate my nerves even more.
Chicken Tikka Masala is Glaswegian though.
I actually liked the Tom Cruise one but that Ice Cube thing was possibly the most robbed of 30 minutes of my life Iāve ever felt.
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Kemi is trying to be a Candace Owens. š“
Illusory Truth Effect. Coupled with Anchoring Effect. cornerstones of successful disinformation campaigns.
I can smell asparagus and brussell sprout pee.
Party of Pedos
Does he like brussell sprouts? So many children seem to hate them but Iāve been a massive fan of them since I was a toddler.
Is it on Netflix? If people got it into the top 10 thatād be funny.
Agree. Just have a low tolerance for nastiness and get blocking. Even if not directed at us, block nasty a-holes. Reducing possibility of engagement deprives them of oxygen. If it looks like brigading, block em all.
I see rebranding of eugenics, by crazy people.
Pity @scotnational.bsky.social were not doing an @theonion.com style article tomorrow instead of the racism one, saying wrinkly swingers are communicating using saltires on lamposts š
That and the firm denial of any possibility it was deliberate are sooooo fishy!
Twice she tried and twice her weight pulled petals off š She was not for giving up though.
Community and unity needs to out-organise, out-symbolise, out-number, these people in a highly visible (and peaceful) way. We canāt wait to be saved by political leadership or legal process. They made these mistakes in the US already. We can learn from their mistakes.
People who donāt want this hideousness to grow need to organise. The main political parties are fighting for the vote of gammons, the media platforms Farage disproportionately to deliberately stoke fear, anger & generate more crime stories. We cannot rely on social media or police to curb it either
The Government will no doubt say this is an Ofcom matter. No itās a DCMS matter and it impacts us all. The petition is a show of feeling right across the UK. This is just the start. We want fair coverage of the parties WE elect with votes. Not dictated by polls petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Havenāt been on youtube much in recent years but accidentally landed on bodycam video of police having extreme emotional reaction to what they found in a suitcase (truly horrific) & ended up on the channel watching true crime docs made almost exclusively from bodycam & interview footage, for hours
This was my favourite bumblebee who was in denial about her weight issues. My soul bee š
Looks awesome! We filled the planter we hate (came with the house) with native wildflowers for the last few year. Pretty & provided entertainment with so many pollinator insect visitors & their antics.
The statement is soooo bizarre. Why is he desperate to rule out any suspicion of deliberate targeting and the good samaritan bit is not believable. Has Trump been novichokād and Rudy run off the road by their boss š·šŗ?
If we were MAGA weād be saying itās a fake Trump in a skinsuit or a body double šš Maybe Putin low-dose novichokād him because heās screwing up his Russian orders.
This may surprise you. Weight lifting in NZ is not high on my priority list š Focusing on the real problems.
Fly rainbow flags next to them, changes the context.
Its a nuanced issue and each professional sporting body is free to decide how they wish to handle. If this is a big concern to you then you have a very privileged life because the rest of us have real worries we want legislators to focus on.
Do you understand that someone born with a vagina, sexed as a F at birth, live their whole life as a female & never had any reason to believe they are anything other than a woman, are not trans?
šš Women used to dress as men to participate in menās sports when they didnāt have access to sports. None of this is new and in the grand scheme of things wrong in the world, a handful of trans athletes who are largely losing to cis women is just hysterical snowflake disinformation nonsense.
One time in 2022ā¦šš Itās a non-issue unless you are a disinformation consumer who believes professional sports should not decide on their own regulations. People who allow their bias hot button to be pushed by disinformation so youāll vote against your own interests will just be worse off
Individual athletic associations and professional sports orgs will make their own rules as they have for a long time. People who already beleive disinformation about this wont be won over & perpetuating the hysteria by repeating it just distracts from actually important, factual, issues.
Or when parents in the 60s burned Beatles albums and claimed long haired hippies would never find a job. Or in the 90s when they blamed goth-loving Marilyn Manson fans of beings destined to become school shooters. Parents & grandparents consuming disinformation & creating drama every generation.
āpeopleā you mean disinformation consumers who imagine something is a real issue when itās not. Of the handful of trans women in sports they are losing to cis women. Trans sports hysteria is like when people in the 40s thought the world would end if women wear trousers. Itāll pass just like that.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Cosplaytriot nonsense. Gammons.
Correct! We either recognise its a disinformation war and act accordingly or we are doomed to go the same route as the US.
If we project the words Palestine Action onto their flags the police might actually do something. Or if they were miners organising effective activism for labour rights theyād have the Met police infiltrating. They are the benefactors not victims of the ātwo tiered justiceā they keep whining about