athena☯

Greek Cypriot/English. She/Her. Critical Care Outreach Sister interested in pre-hospital care, trauma, resuscitation, critical care, and anaesthetics.

[athena☯ @athenab05]

Your gal has graduated ✌🏼

[Georgina Hollifield 💚 @sp4rkl3jumpr0p3]

We need a shorter work week so people have more time to take care of themselves

I honestly think this is quite patronising and doesn't really address the real reasons people are not moving their bodies regularly

[Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸🎒 @earthygirl011]

The system in question

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

One of the many sick jokes about living in the UK is that we have an incredible amount of regulatory bodies, but almost none of them actually do any regulating.

[FourthDrawerDown #MDANT 🏅 @itaintwhywhywhy]

Might be the worse one yet?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

What really bugs me these days is that we can't own anything anymore. Everything is a subscription. Adobe, Notion, Spotify. You don't just buy things once, you keep paying every month. You literally have to pay for everything forever. Isn't anyone else bothered by this ??

[Cristo @cristo_radio]

Work? Taxed to oblivion
Sell? Taxed to oblivion
Buy? Taxed to oblivion
Die? Taxed to oblivion

And now… save? Taxed to oblivion

There is no point doing the right thing any more in the UK.

[zac 🇧🇷 @ModernWrighty]

bank holiday every time a PM resigns

[soph @sphwbb]

won't be taking any prime minister seriously until they lay out a plan to make england better for people born post-1990. it's tiresome being expected to foot the bill for literally everyone else and getting increasingly little back for it

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The year is 2029, fuel is £8 a litre, a 1 bedroom flat is £3000 a month rent, the retirement age is none existent, tax is now 60%, you need digital ID just to leave the house, car insurance costs more than your car, a full time job is now 70 hours a week, freddos are £12, England still haven't won a world cup, the DFS sale is still on and they're still doing roadworks on the fucking motorway

[liam :) @aquablvd]

possible ban on VPNs in the UK when many companies require them for secure remote working get me out of this country

[Edwin Shadowchaser @ShadowchaserFox]

Wait, so the MPs largely voted against it and yet its still being implemented?

The fuck is the point in voting at this point

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK has somehow convinced people that working full time and still being broke is completely normal.

[Kyle @kylofone]

so much sympathy for today's kids. every aspect of their lives has been impoverished, there are no spaces for them, everything is prohibitively expensive, the planet is dying, they're being repeatedly infected, and the solution is apparently to further isolate them digitally.

[𝕱𝖎𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖆.* 𝚆𝙽𝙲 @uncletypewriter]

They’re doing everything in their power to try and distract us from the fact that they’ve run the country into the ground and don’t have the backbone to actually take measures to improve it. They don’t want us to have the means to speak about it either

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

I am begging the internet to stop showing me "5-to-9 morning routines" where someone drinks structured water, journals for an hour, and ice plunges before sunrise.

My morning routine is hitting snooze until the fear of homelessness physically drags me out of bed. That’s it. That’s the routine.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[Joe @andjustliketwat]

Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy because the UK government is focused on every other issue except the fact PEOPLE CAN’T AFFORD TO FILL THEIR FRIDGE???

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The minimum wage should be set at a level that, if you work 40 hours per week, you can afford housing, healthcare, and groceries, no matter the job you are doing. And that is not a radical belief.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Being single isn't the issue, the cost of existing alone is.

One income, full rent, full bills, full responsibility, no backup.

Then you get told to "budget better" by the people who have never had to carry 100% of the load on their own.

The system didn't break, it just stopped accounting for anyone doing it solo.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK minimum wage for someone working 37.5 hours a week works out to roughly £1,800 a month after tax, National Insurance, and pension contributions.

Out of that £1,800, you still need to pay rent, council tax, gas, electricity, water, internet, food, transport, insurance, and every other bill that comes with being an adult.

Yet people will still tell you that anyone struggling financially must be wasting money somewhere.

The real question isn't how people are surviving on £1,800 a month

It's how anyone thinks that's supposed to be enough in 2026.