Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky)

she/her 🏳️‍🌈 ✍️ 🐨🥶🎗#Spoonie . Edinburgh born & raised. Aberdeen exiled. tweets my own. views continually evolving as I learn more.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

Anyone else not able to log into the @duolingo website?

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

I have moved over to Blue Sky (find me https://t.co/ONILrPK3dq ) but if you’re there too - let me know as putting together feeds for charity professionals, library lovers, gymnastics, spooners & Girlguiding!

[Friends of St Fittick's Park @fittick]

🧵Today @AberdeenCC planning committee, with two exceptions voted to approve the planning permission in principle to destroy and industrialise St Fittick’s Park. They did so despite clear evidence ETZ Ltd proposals will be bad for people’s health, nature & increase flood risk..

[Damian Barr @Damian_Barr]

Before we rush to condemn this, let us first consider the benefits of....NOPE.

Just NO.

Words are not mere code.

Translators are not machines - their work is deeply human.

Readers and writers and translators deserve better.

[Sean McNamara @SeanJMcNamara1]

Concerns over proposed library closures in North Ayrshire raised by CILIPS https://t.co/U53rwao3Kx

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

Customer service at @DeLonghiUK has been a trip.
From not having a record of our warranty, to sending a delivery service to collect a broken dehumidifier with no details, to then getting my name, address AND phone number totally wrong when sending it back… 🙃

[Damian Barr @Damian_Barr]

HELLO! If you like your books written by actual authors and your book chat enriched by actual readers, then you'll probably enjoy the Big Scottish Book Club with guests inc Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay and Nikesh Shukla. Happy reading! https://t.co/Vh8uKV9UID

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

@JacobMCampbell @RVC1917 would you recommend yours?

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated corporate nightmare we enjoy today.

The conflict of interest argument is absurd in a for profit healthcare system. Hospitals force their employed physicians to refer to other specialists within their own hospital system. Physicians recommend surgery then do the surgery themselves collecting both a clinic fee and a surgery fee. Optum forces patients to see their doctors, use their pharmacies, and be admitted to their own hospitals. If there is profit to be made in patient care, there will be a conflict of interest among the entities/people collecting that profit. The closest thing to a conflict of interest free system is one that is devoid of profit. Call me cynical, but that will not happen in the US.

So we can wring our hands about the potential corruption and malfeasance evil greedy doctors will inflict upon our great country if physicians owned hospitals, while ignoring the actual corruption and malfeasance already displayed by hospital corporations.

We can ignore data that shows POHs as a whole (~250 in the US, holdovers from pre-ACA times) have better outcomes at lower costs.

Or we can introduce some actual competition in the healthcare marketplace to give patients a chance for better care from people who actually got into this business to treat patients, care that is not dictated by a private equity company or insurance company.

Just give physicians a chance to show that we can do a better job. That’s all we’re asking. If we suck at it, we won’t get very far, right? Isn’t that what the free market is for?

Repeal the ban on physician owned hospital.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

Hi @AberdeenCC, @PSOSNorthEast & @KevinStewartSNP this car is STILL on Foresterhill. the windscreen has now been smashed, tyre is flat and it’s a hazard. We have visually impaired, parents with young children who are having to walk on road to get round it.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

On any road this would be bad, but this junction often sees accidents without extra hazards not to mention being near the hospital, lots of sheltered housing and not far from a primary school. Please can you see it’s removed?

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

It’s also completely blocking the pavement, making it dangerous for children, visually impaired, wheelchair, mobility aids & prams @AberdeenCC @PSOSAberdeen

[आचार्यश्री @mregmim]

This car is on pavement as a hazzard from the last ?two weeks in junction of Ashgrove Road West and Forester hill Road. Not sure why it's not been taken away. @AberdeenCC @PSOSNorthEast @PSOSAberdeen

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

@joshpizpom I mean they were THE band of most millennials formative years.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

This is utterly appalling from @LNER. It’s why any job that requires me to visit London is out of the question - public transport as a disabled person is unreliable & I’m terrified of getting stuck alone like Tanni was tonight.

[Tanni Grey-Thompson @Tanni_GT]

At 22.17 (train got in at 22.02) I decided to crawl off. Had to move all my stuff onto the platform. Member of cleaning staff offered to help. They’re not insured.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

What the actual ding dong heck? So much for @scotgov promising to support artists, writers etc...

[Culture Counts @culturecounts]

The closure of @CreativeScots Open Fund for Individuals is yet another blow for Scotland's culture sector, this time cutting right at its heart with many artists, writers and producers unable to access the support they need need to sustain their practice
https://t.co/WdVy9zHpcU

[Will Graves @WillGravesAP]

Reminder as @nrarmour so effectively put it: the athletes did absolutely nothing to create this chaos.
Nothing.
Maybe just leave their name out of it.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

Roads flooding everywhere as the drains get filled with debris & litter. Stay safe Aberdonians!

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

@freganmitts Ikea.

[Laurie (la.collier on BlueSky) @KoalaInScotland]

Doctors treating first UK workers with silicosis from kitchen stone call for ban - The i paper https://t.co/reSzZUD48i