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Veggie, Londoner, theatre/film/sci-fi geek, bookworm and animal lover. 'A tiny bit disabled'/limpy. Pansexual + LGBTQIA ally. She/her. Servant to cats. Hi! :)

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

2022: Call my doctors office, tell receptionist I am running five minutes late, apologize, hang up

2026: Call doctors office, get routed to a new company-wide "AI assistant," navigate phone tree, get put on hold to wait for a human at a call center, wait 6 minutes, explain to human agent what is going on, get put on hold while human agent calls my physical doctors office to tell them for me

This is not better

[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

So yesterday PCOS was renamed to PMOS. After 11 years and about 22,000 people fighting for it.
If you’re one of the women who was told to just lose weight or come back when you want children, the reason it was renamed is going to make a lot of things make sense.

Keep reading🧵🩷

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.

Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.

Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.

The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

I did indeed persuade the eminent Martin Forde KC to come on air to discuss his findings about the “hierarchy of racism” and bigotry in the Labour Party. He granted me an exclusive. He also agreed to take calls from listeners (who’d repeatedly asked me to examine the issue of prejudice in the LP - which I did). I can confirm that the timeline of events was such that I was dismissed without warning by LBC soon after.

[cez @cezthesocialist]

??? She was a victim. She was used as a drug mule and helped put the man who exploited her in prison. She now runs a charity where she has helped hundreds of people in similar situations turn their lives around.

Labour is so repulsive. I can’t put into words bow much I hate them

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ECCO+: POST OFFICE SCANDAL THEY HOPED YOU'D NEVER HEAR ABOUT

Janette Armour ran a Post Office branch in East Kilbride. From day one, the ECCO+ software didn't work. Every week, money was disappearing. She wrote letters to @PostOffice begging for help. She kept losing hundreds of pounds a week. She and her husband covered at least £16,000 in shortfalls every year for two and a half years. They sold one branch. Then the other. Their livelihood, gone.

That was the early 1990s.

Last week, more than 30 years later, the Post Office sat down with Janette Armour and NFSP @NFSP_UK CEO Calum Greenhow and revealed something remarkable. They still have copies of her letters. The ones where she asked for help. The ones nobody acted on.

She said: "I knew I wasn't making a mistake. I knew there was something wrong."

She was right. ECCO+ was used across hundreds of Crown and sub-Post Office branches through the 1990s. Rupert Lloyd Thomas, a Post Office insider who spent 27 years in the organisation, described the software as "chronically unreliable" and "cheap and nasty." He says he spent years trying to get it fixed. Nobody in charge wanted to hear it.

This is now the third Post Office IT scandal. After Horizon. After Capture. ECCO+.

The Department for Business and Trade is asking affected former subpostmasters to come forward. Most of the users were Crown branch employees between 1992 and 1999. They are not members of the NFSP. Nobody has been systematically looking for them.

The Post Office has the letters. They have had them for three decades. A woman lost her business while they sat in a filing cabinet.

Sources: @computerweekly | @Karlfl | 5 May 2026

[Waterways Protection 💙 #EndSewagePollution @WaterWaysProtct]

Morocco, just across the Strait, has spent years expanding wastewater treatment so sewage is treated before it reaches the sea.

Gibraltar has never had a sewage treatment plant.

That is not a regional inevitability - it is political and infrastructure failure.

Frankly, an utter disgrace in every possible permutation of the phrase.

[BENEFITS NEWS @BENEFITS_NEWS]

In case you missed it, the Tony Blair Institute @InstituteGC is judging that people with certain conditions, especially some mental health conditions aren't prevented from working, should lose or not have disability benefits, should get medication or talking therapy AND WORK! 🤬

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Horrifying.

Israel dropped bombs on civilians at a cemetery in Zebdine, South Lebanon, killing 7.

This is a massacre.

They turned a place of mourning into a scene of slaughter.

Pure barbarity.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Daisy Cooper, "Please do not take a gamble on reform, because the donation that we were talking about a minute ago shows that Nigel Farage is playing by the Trump playbook"

"And there is a really big risk that, Donald Trump's America will become Nigel Farage's Britain"

"We do not want our British politics funded by foreign bitcoin billionaires"

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

The anti-Semitic attacks over the last month are evil and inexcusable. My thoughts are with the victims of yesterday’s stabbing.

Equally, for political figures to use them as an excuse to crackdown on lawful protest against Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza - without concrete evidence of a direct link - is opportunistic and irresponsible.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Yesterday, when it was news, BBC News at 6 didn't report the Farage donation. They will no doubt, wrongly, defend it by saying a Reform Party Election Broadcast followed. Today, they report it without saying why he ('might') have breached the rules. We pay for Reform propaganda.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.

Just thought y’all should know.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

@supergutman 3,200 attacks against Muslims and 22 Mosque attacks, including arson, in 2025. No 'national security emergency'. How stupid do you think we are?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel has no right to “detain” civilians in international waters. The word you’re looking for is kidnaps.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

So let's get this straight... two sitting black councillors are deselected in Croydon. The Party's bureaucrats enforce a mandatory shortlist... and the result is KEIR STARMER'S MID-20s NIECE gets picked to stand for the 2nd safest ward?

She might be very smart and capable, and might eventually be a credit to the role, but this sort of mad top-down management invites scepticism. If I was a local resident, I'd be pretty miffed.

https://t.co/mbyoJDji11

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The BBC has avoided using the term "Israel lobby" over the past two years, new research by Declassified UK shows, even though:

- BBC execs regularly meet with the lobby

- A quarter of all MPs are funded by the lobby

- Half of Starmer's cabinet depend on lobby money

- The lobby has taken credit for getting Palestine Action outlawed as a terrorist group.

More here: https://t.co/m1ykFCVxXW

[ThaKangska @ThaKangska]

Did you know UK rules let companies get away with slave labour, illegal deforestation and more? A new law could end this - please join me and sign the petition to stop corporate abuses now👇 https://t.co/R7LyplbSNt via @38degrees

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Nigel Farage secretly accepting a FIVE MILLION POUNDS gift from a Thai-based crypto tycoon is one of the biggest political financial scandals of this or any era.

Farage, for himself not the many.

https://t.co/fFvC77xqYt

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

People don't realize how absurd this view actually is.

A camera. On a robot. On Mars.

Built by humans on a planet 140 million miles away, launched on a rocket, landed using a sky crane, and now driving across an alien desert taking pictures so detailed you can count the rocks.

100 years ago, your great-grandparents thought airplanes were a miracle.

You are scrolling past Mars on your phone.