Tom Claybourn

Doubt serves life

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National geographic made a map- Central Europe and the Mediterranean, 1st September 1939.

[Delilah Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

I own a globe that could have only existed for 6 months in 1939

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@rorysutherland Indeed- this reminds me of the seating arrangement outside Uppsala station in Sweden

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I took 6 months off on (nearly) full pay, funded by the state, not employers, in Sweden.

Not a chance in a blue moon this would ever happen in the uk, but something has to shift

UK legislation is out of date (lots to say on this), the system needs reworking entirely

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I’m very keen on improved paternity conditions, having experienced Australian, Swedish and the UK systems. Not in hospitals though- that’s mums’ domain

One place you really need to ignore your needs and toughen up

Lowe frames his point as having a tantrum, unfortunately

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Giving birth is obviously an incredibly challenging experience for the mother - trust me, nobody is denying that. I do think though, that fathers should be shown more respect by the NHS during the whole process.

No food provided, no basic bedding, nothing.

The father is having a child too - potentially staying multiple nights, sleeping on the floor or a chair?

If the NHS can find hundreds of millions for translation/interpretation and the rest of the diversity bullshit, then surely a few campbeds in each ward isn't such an impossible investment? A bowl of pasta for the dad, who does actually pay for that meal through his own taxes?

I've asked the Department of Health to reconsider their approach.

It would be nice if fathers weren't treated as some awkward afterthought, during the process and so often across wider society.

Let's give dads the respect they deserve.

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2 weeks takes the p*ss frankly- my wife was still struggling to move around without pain after 14 days of our last child earlier this year

I was working but barely functioned due to the sleep deprivation- this benefitted no one

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Just takes one extra prompt to turn this from a picture of a dog designed to get a response from the elderly

To a picture of a dog with fake responses from the elderly to get a response out of the young

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@ishirubi @maintcraft I was on Saaremaa for a couple of days, very beautiful.

Collected some rock samples that are probably still collecting dust in an office

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@GoujianofYue It is probably the best on Pyrrhonian skepticism out there for a general audience

I say this with confidence as I think it’s the only one 😆

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@GoujianofYue Of course David Hume might have some culpability in Sextus remaining unappreciated. I have been told Hume read a faulty translation though

https://t.co/lvTxfZJsgR

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@GoujianofYue There is a link, somewhere, somehow, from Montaigne’s work of Pyrrhonian skepticism through the ‘nouveaux pyrrhoniens’ of C16th-17th to Descartes’s radical skepticism.

I want to understand how much of this influence was still early Enlightenment. Need to learn French first!

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“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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@BreizhLondon Fair enough considering how small they are-https://t.co/Y5QUHP3Bf3

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Flaccid from the PM, while British arms still exported to Israel

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is wrong, and we urge it to reconsider immediately.

Every day the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens and hostages taken by Hamas are being held in appalling and inhuman conditions.

We need a ceasefire now.

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@NachoOliveras Although possibly not as Orwell later noted:

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Good time to note the difference between proven, economic, probable mineral reserves, etc.

Plenty of rare earths (if the headlines are to be believed) around the world but China has the market

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Probably, it’s nothing.

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“No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. Until they learn from the cat I cannot respect them.”
-Andres, guerrilla, on the Anarcho-Syndicalists, in For Whom the Bell Tolls

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@Decafquest I read this as past-tense

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@Decafquest @MatiosTV Book summary apps?

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This was a post about breast cancer rates in Gaza on the increase

Online Safety Act in action