Squeaks

Digital comms & branding professional. Water addict. Retail geek. A bit political sometimes. All views my own.

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

The rest is paw-litics

#dogsinpollingstations #dogsatpollingstations #GE24

[404 Media @404mediaco]

A new research paper from Google says generative AI could “distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,” and in many cases is already doing that:
https://t.co/LuAFmFcIfi

[Jim Reed @jim_reed]

As I write, this is at risk of being MASSIVELY overshadowed by events. But cabinet secretary Simon Case is meant to give evidence to #covidinquiry Thursday. Should have been last year but he was sick and only returned to work in January. Another long 🧵(sorry).

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

When I need to call out a plumber I’m grateful to pay £40/h because I don’t have the first clue how to fix my boiler, or the skills to fix a burst pipe

Doctors are asking for half of that, to fix your kids

In life we get the health services we pay for

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

They’ve broken the NHS, and they’re now attempting to manufacture consent from the public to replace it with an insurance-based system.

We must resist this- there is absolutely no evidence that privatisation helps the NHS, and mounting evidence that it causes harm 🚨

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

This is the anatomy of a militant takeover of your public healthcare system:

- Take the #1 healthcare system on Earth
- Defund it by £320 billion over a decade
- Force doctors and nurses to leave country
- Engineer the longest waitlist in NHS history
- Hold patients hostage to private healthcare
- Get the public sick, angry, out of work
- Call the sick public “generation sicknote”
- Mandate employers pay for private care

This is how they’ll continue to funnel billions more of your public money into the private sector, propping them up at the expense of your NHS, under the guise of “reducing the benefits bill and boosting the economy.” They could have simply funded the NHS and we wouldn’t be such a sick and out of work nation.

And so when we talk about the creation of a two-tier system, this is exactly what we mean: rapid access to a doctor for the wealthy on private healthcare, and years-long waits to see a non-doctor in the NHS.

The @Conservatives goal has always been to turn your NHS into an American privatised nightmare — just like the one I grew up in where healthcare is obtained through the employer at massive cost to both employer and employee — and it’s all happening right under your nose, without your consent.

So please wake up and stop letting them steal your healthcare from you and your family. They are not going to improve your healthcare, they’re simply going to take it away, only to sell it right back to you.

If you value the health of your family, never vote for them ever again.

#SOSNHS

[Peter Smith @Redpeter99]

Young workers. Be VERY wary about the Tories hinting at the abolition of National Insurance.
It means the raising of the retirement age and then the eventual abolition of the State Pension and NHS.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

The Govt has granted farmers emergency approval to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides for 4 years running. That's not an emergency it's a routine - and it's a routine that's killing our bees. Where's the plan to end harmful pesticides @DefraGovUK?
https://t.co/5WW7vaYzb5

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I don't want lower taxes.

I want hospital beds.

Trains that run on time.

Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.

Libraries in every town.

Rivers that don't run with slurry.

Local councils not forced into bankruptcy.

Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

Timely article in Forbes on leaders not understanding the role and value of the (mar)comms function https://t.co/uLkgrGkamQ

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Sunak didn’t just cancel HS2…

He authorised the sale of the land that would form part of the cancelled route

So no other leader could reverse his decision.

This major decision

One he took unilaterally

Without consulting parliament

…without anyone having voted for him.

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

@BladeoftheS I didn't get to eat for three weeks in intensive care because the private company catering hadn't been notified of my dietary requirements in advance and it wasn't in their contract to stock specialist food. Family weren't allowed to bring outside food in.

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

Had a tweet about the Titan op removed after an armchair expert disagreed. Not the first time I've had posts on a topic I'm a bit of a subject matter expert on removed (I get it a lot on behavioural microtargeting) but a reminder of how unbalanced social media discourse can be

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

@pittnuma 'Does' is relative. Hugely skilled & experienced operators need lots of time, expertise + luck to locate the best adaptive ULBs even in less depth, perfect conditions & knowing where the wreck is (I managed comms for subsea brands, talking about operations like this was my job)

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

@philBE2 @pittnuma I used to work in subsea; it was a ballache to find these at >150m depths, that's why they're very careful to say "can be" detectable at up to 200m in normal conditions and deeper in perfect conditions. The reality is it's like finding a needle in an an extremely large haystack.

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

People surprised about the #Titan Logitech controller 'bout to loose their minds when they spot the advanced research robot looking for them is controlled by a plug and play joystick

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

@imperfectstar28 This is why in the commercial space the trend has been towards unmanned / remotely operated vehicles; when it comes to private experimental research vessels there isn't really code - it's very hard to regulate such unique technology & an expectation of inherent risk to users

[Squeaks @LateralDelusion]

@TytianaAzarie Your eyes can't really perceive anything at that depth - the onboard screens would give a far better view