Father of disabled child refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.

The father of a disabled child has been refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex. He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.

RFK Jr once cut penis off ‘road-killed raccoon’ in New York, new book reveals Health secretary in a diary entry said his kids were in the car as he cut off animal’s genitals in 2001 to ‘study them later’

“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy wrote in the journal.

He added: “My kids waited patiently in the car.”

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New German search engine lets people check whether their relatives were Nazis | CNN A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched ear...

This is reminiscent of the 1960s wave of reckoning as well as opening the Stasi archives in the 1990s. Very German form of the right to truth.
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GP banned from treating patients after 'over-egged' request for new laptop The tribunal has been slammed as 'reflecting an oppressive and punitive culture in the NHS driven by top-down targets'

He seems to have had a lot of chances. Remember that GP disciplined for trying to get a work laptop to use for doing her work? www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Both Lib Dems and Greens have a good shot at seats, which is why I’m stuck. My aim is to unseat the incumbent Reform.

The worst outcome is high numbers of votes for both Lib Dem and Green, but a few more for Reform and they get in.

It's fascinating to me how this can be both a genuinely groundbreaking technology with fantastic (and specific) uses but also feels like a house of cards with interested parties demanding public buy-in that they haven't earned and likely can't deliver on due to overhype.

I don't know if it is different in reality, but what *feels* different about the LLM push even compared to the personal computing push, is the idea that discovering use cases is your job, as an individual scrambling for survival and not the people who want to engage in commerce with you.

yeah, i feel the collective derangement around LLMs right now is worse than it was for crypto and the Metaverse simply because LLMs actually do have quite a few genuine use cases - which makes everything even more tense

Excellent thread from the time of the riots in Nov 2023, and points out how much earlier the extremism was all developing.

You could replace 70-80% of Palantir's NHS stuff with an Excel Pivot Table and SharePoint, the rest would probably be fair game for pretty basic PowerBI portal.

The only issue is sheer scale & quantity of data, but absolutely not insurmountable.

I do enjoy that procurement people are so easily tickled be *checks notes* linear regression (see NHS A&E ‘AI’) and basic spreadsheet use. Wait until I show them python plugins!

A map image showing heatmaps over towns in Suffolk with a filter on the right hand side showing all crime types. It is filtered to "possession of weapons" crimes. These data are for February 2026.

A more zoomed in version of the Suffolk town of Lowestoft showing a heatmap of all crimes in February 2026.

Making a brew before a meeting, so decided to have a go while brewing. This took me 5 mins to get Feb 2026 data from the data.police.uk website, stick into PowerBI, and add a filter.

This is all crime reports with weapons in Suffolk with a heatmap filter. 2nd pic is zoomed in a bit and all crimes.

Stick it in a massive Excel spreadsheet, stick that in PowerBI, generate a map with heatmapping. There you go, saved you £15,000,000, with probably <1hr of a competent tech's time.

It'd take probably 15 extra mins of finding it and adding it to add in demographics and all other useful stuff too.

The law urgently needs to catch up on liability for AI. It needs greater minds than mine applied to it, but there must be a clear chain for when AI causes harm and death.

maybe I’m just saying this cause I’m in my 40s now but middle aged liberal women are the highest impact people to organize with hands down

internet communists aren’t going to monopolize the comments section at a city council meeting at 10am on a Wednesday

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

The only answer for a shopping-hater is to spend far too much time turning it into a game on vinted. Replace the too-big clothes with identical items in the correct new sizes, listing the old ones as you find the new ones. One out, one in.

Thomas Duffy: When agents of misinformation sow distrust in farming community, it reaps real danger If we want to keep hard-pressed food producers onside in the fight to save the planet, we need to check our own facts, address legitimate concerns, and maintain balanced media coverage of the issues

Yup, been tracking these groups for a while (or at least back when I read the Business Post)
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You might not like the IFA etc but there are 5 LEGITIMATE farm orgs. None of them endorsed or involved themselves in this.
So lads like this fella put themselves forward of leaders. Lads who are chronically online.
We've been here before, in 2019. It was a Facebook organised event that led nowhere

Right folks as one of the few farmers on here let me explain something really simple.
We're currently in the busiest time of year, calving & lambing is ongoing and crops need tending
The awful weather means contractors are also flat out
So how representative do you think this lad is? #speirgorm

Half of Ireland's fuel supplies blockaded by protestors as Cork refinery closed Protesters urged to stand down before severe shortages hit country

The fuel protestors have blockaded Whitegate Oil refinery in Cork - and are on the brink of causing a massive fuel shortage.

I’m not the only survivor noting this today. 👇🏼

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

The NHS App should focus on inequalities to improve population health - Anthony A Laverty, Claire Reidy, Sukriti KC, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Bernard Gudgin, Azeem Majeed, John Powell, 2026

The government is proposing to make the NHS App the primary gateway to the NHS in England. But without addressing the broader social determinants of digital access, an overreliance on the NHS App may deepen existing health inequalities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘One Saturday, we had a funeral, a wedding, a first communion and then mass. It was too much’: Ireland’s priests are feeling the pressure ‘When my mother died, I had to ring around to try and find a priest to cover for me. I know priests who went back to work the weekend after the death of their mother or father because there was no one...

‘One Saturday, we had a funeral, a wedding, a first communion and then mass. It was too much’: Ireland’s priests are feeling the pressure

www.independent.ie/life/one-sat...

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

I’m thrilled that the Guardian Saturday magazine has excerpted one of my favourite chapters from THE ASSET CLASS this weekend: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Seems crazy that one would need to even model scenarios like this 👇🏾

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available

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The Psychiatric Prisoner Paradox - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland Though this ordeal, the State has inflicted immeasurable harm and suffering on Patrick Sibanyoni. There is the immediacy and acuity of the pain from being in prison with a psychiatric illness. There i...

New blog by @keithadams.bsky.social on the absurdist ordeal of Patrick Sibanyoni and the paradox of the psychiatric prisoner.

"... the State objecting to the release of a person from prison for healthcare which the State has failed to provide."
www.jcfj.ie/2026/03/19/t...