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Desperately seeking sunshine 🌞

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m over here recycling toilet paper roll cores, using my own bags, not running the water when I brush my teeth, while billionaires are blowing up rockets and building water-polluting data centers. It’s hard not to be discouraged.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

ChatGPT has launched a new health and wellness feature called ChatGPT Health that allows users to upload their medical records. Do not do this. Do not upload your medical records to an AI chatbot.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Apprentice Rushid Afzali says society should use the term LEETs (Looking for Education, Employment and Training), rather than NEETs (Not in Education, Employment and Training).

He says the word NEET suggests young people do not want to work and instead portrays them as "absent".

It comes after a new report published this week has found that the number of 16 to 24-year-olds in that bracket has now increased to more than a million in the UK.

Channel 4 News led a discussion on the issue with Rushid, 24-year-old graduate Oscar Brown, University of Manchester Vice Chancellor Duncan Ivison and Kate Nicholls, CEO of UKHospitality.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Japanese artist Sakura Hanafusa made an artwork to interact with - her hand carved, high fiving cat sculpture 'High Seven' 2016 modelled on her family cats #womensart #FridayFeeling

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE DOCTOR WHO QUIT WHEN THEY ASKED HIM TO LIE

Dr Greg Wood joined Atos Healthcare in 2010 as a medical assessor, carrying out Work Capability Assessments on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (@DWPgovuk). His job was to decide whether sick and disabled people were fit for work. Simple enough, you'd think. Except it wasn't.

Dr Wood told the BBC he was instructed to change his reports, reducing the number of points awarded to claimants. More points meant more support. Fewer points meant benefits cut. He eventually resigned after his bosses asked him to declare a person he felt was severely ill as fit for work.

He described a culture where, from the moment a file was opened, the working assumption was that the claimant was probably fit for work. Not because the evidence said so. Because that was the preferred outcome.

Atos held a contract worth £100 million a year to carry out these assessments on behalf of the DWP. The government made no secret of wanting the numbers down. And the system delivered exactly that.

Dr Wood said the system was skewed against the claimant. He criticised tests that assumed if someone could walk from the kitchen to the sitting room, they could walk 200 metres, and if a person could dress themselves once in a day, that proved they had enough concentration to hold down a job. He says these rules were never published, just spoken about in training sessions. Atos denied all of it.

The consequences were not abstract. Research from Liverpool and Oxford Universities found the reassessment process between 2010 and 2013 was associated with an extra 590 suicides, 279,000 additional cases of self-reported mental health problems, and 725,000 additional antidepressant prescriptions across England.

In one case, a coroner found that the trigger for Michael O'Sullivan's suicide in September 2013 was his fit-for-work assessment, and wrote to the DWP requesting urgent changes to prevent further deaths.

Dr Greg Wood went on the record. He went to the BBC and the British Medical Journal. He resigned rather than comply.

The system he blew the whistle on ran for years. The contract was eventually cancelled in 2014. Nobody in government or at Atos faced any legal consequence.

Protect whistleblowers. They are the last line of defence when the line of responsibility disappears entirely.

Sources: @BBCNews | @bmj | @DailyMirror | @openDemocracy | @dis_news | @NIHRresearch

[SpiderMom @SpiderMom72]

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@TheMeldrew Can't be doing with him. Far too sanctimonious for his own good.

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@TheGriftReport Heartbreaking. So upsetting to read about what they did to baby Preston. I wish them nothing but a living hell.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Not one MSM commentator is speaking about Andy Burnham’s role in securing Sunak and Truss’s deregulated free zones for Manchester.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

MP's groaning and jeering as Hannah Spencer points out her constituents have to pay the full price for a pint whereas MP's get their alcohol subsidised #PMQs

[Shirley Salisbury @OscarGreta1846]

Many are barely surviving on what income they have so how on earth are they meant to save for their pensions!

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@NiallHarbison He's lovely 💙

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@FROMonMGM I wonder if character names have significant meaning? Donna means 'mistress of the household,' Ethan means 'enduring/long-lived,' Thomas means 'twin/search for truth,' and Boyd means 'yellow.'

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#JamesBond
#Bond

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@Perky_43 Vile, despicable b@$t@rd$.

Poor little angel, RIP baby boy 💙

[SpiderMom @SpiderMom72]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour.

And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour.

It's hard not to see the lie.

RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

[k @alfkkifine]

Women: I want to go for a run.
Society: You can’t go alone. You’ll get raped.

Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage.
Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you’ll get raped.

Women: I want to live alone.
Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too.

Women: What about going to the park?
Society: Dangerous.

Women: Okay, I’ll just go out for a drink then.
Society: Don’t take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times.

Women: I was raped.
Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Oh, the irony

As I watch the celebrations for David Attenborough’s 100th birthday

As the British public celebrate, and acknowledge, his advocacy for our planet

His fight to save us from Global Warming

Save us from ourselves

The UK votes for a fossil-fuel funded Reform toad

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Dear Reform-voting ladies…

Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to:

❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay

❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment

❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape

❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home

I guess the question is…

Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?