Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.
Lovely People.
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Let's just hope the unthinkable is averted 🙏
Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' speech feels prescient, and especially relevant as we contrast the wonders of the Artemis II mission with the actions of a madman.
May reason and humanity prevail!
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A mind-breaking muddle of news this morning: Humans going further than ever before in space and a lunatic president openly threatening war crimes at home. The sublime and the degenerate. Hard to keep it all in your head at once.
Wes Streeting has vowed to withdraw promised extra specialty training places unless resident doctors call off their next strike
His comments drew strong rebuke from doctors who said government should not be using much needed extra training places as a bargaining chip
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Has Wes Streeting really just threatened to withdraw training posts over the junior doctor strike?
Absolute scenes
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Graphic titled “Careless Laws Cost Rights” has Ghostbusters-style drawings of people using mobility aids coming through a “prohibited” sign. From top left clockwise, a child using a manual wheelchair with power attachment, a person using a powerchair with a pram attached, a child using a powerchair, a person using a manual wheelchair with e-assist handcycle attachment, two people using a tandem mobility scooter. At the bottom, “new mobility aid laws must provide equal mobility rights for all, hashtag MobilityJustice and the Wheels for Wellbeing logo
Fed up with long documents? Here's a short, referenced briefing covering our key points on the government mobility aids consultation, with case studies highlighting important impacts.
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#MobilityJustice #DisabilityEquality
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad. n.pr/4t3yQtH
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
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Fewer, if really pedantic....
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
Lights out at the junction
Post knocked over
Post uprooted
Looking back at the junction
Seymour Grove junction isn’t even completed and the lights have been knocked over 😒
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
America is such a fucked up rogue state.
You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
Withington Workhouse, Manchester, 1856 (Manchester Libraries).
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
“Two-thirds of 2024 Labour voters would rather Sir Keir Starmer abandon his Brexit red lines and join a customs union with the European Union than raise taxes on working people, new polling has revealed.”
#Brexit disaster.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
Hey Stockport! How's about you do this with your bit of the A6?
Huge shortage of NHS consultants with highest vacancies in Greater London and South East. Paediatrics, psychiatry, surgery and radiology are areas suffering most from lack of consultants. Result of poor NHS workforce planning and overreliance on doctors from overseas
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The UK must pay attention to those suggesting folks with learning disabilities or autism can access assisted dying with “special care”.
There’s no amount of guardrails to make this safe.
Look at Canada. Disabled people have MAiD “suggested” to them in lieu of treatment
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
A social media tiles with a cut out image of a female Blackbird accompanied by the words: Blackbirds are brown half of the time / Or Sexual Dimorphism in birds Daple brown feather down Speckled white throat When they gave me my name I didn’t get a vote
It’s #NationalPoetryDay.
To celebrate we’re sharing poet Jenny Lester’s poem about one of our favourite birds!
Enjoy folks 🤎
Sexual Dimorphism in birds
or Blackbirds are brown half of the time
Dapple brown feather down
Speckled white throat
When they gave me my name
I didn’t get a vote
A recording of the event will be available in the next couple of weeks, but if you would like to like a copy of the Guide, it is now available on our website.
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This makes me very happy
