Wow, what a nasty person

George Orwell's 1984 is a masterpiece of literature that shines the light on totalitarianism.

It often appears that those who seek power and riches the most are the most corruptible. Once the taste of absolute power is experienced it will not be easily relinquished hence a dictator is born.

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“This is austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them”

@francesryan.bsky.social on Labour’s sweeping disability cuts
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Labour just voted to kneecap the heath and care sectors.

Been a very bad week so far, and it's only Wednesday!
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Most cost effective & quickest way to get dental care back on track:

Build a dozen dental training hospitals around the country. Train dental students for free. They must then sign a fixed term contract to the NHS for 10yrs before going private. Then they can work treating the backlog

Most cost effective & quickest way to get dental care back on track:

Build a dozen dental training hospitals around the country. Train dental students for free. They must then sign a fixed term contract to the NHS for 10yrs before going private. Then they treat the backlogs in the dental hospitals.

Wise man in a sweater in his home library 📚 contemplating: I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it. ~Noam Chomsky

Wise man…

Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

It happened so fast, I didn’t realize until just now that Bluesky has blown past 31 MILLION active users!! 💨 🦋
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Nasty comment

Cartoon of Trump urinatiny towards a fan (marked with a maple leaf). The blow of the fan means the stream is hitting Trump in the face.

Oh Canada!
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

We all know prayers are useless, but don't overlook the fact that thoughts are also useless.

“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”

There going to be busy dismantling our democracy while we are distracted by misinformation

Finland are teaching their school children how to to identify fake news as part of developing critical thinking skills

We need to be more like Finland

#DumpX #DumpTrump #DumpMusk #DumpFacebook

Rather than deranged libellous rants @BBCNews are reporting Musk's unfounded accusations as "scathing criticism" ... which rather implies there's some merit to these unhinged allegations.

The BBC are now actively helping Musk to undermine UK democracy.

“1984” thrives at Twitter; this is the directive from Mr Absolute Free Speech:

Wow for the life of me I have NO clue who this meme is referring to. Joke we all know who it is🍊🤡 and the world laughs at us. Let’s do everything in our power to weaken him when he takes office, roll your sleeves up and be prepared to #Resist We are the opposition!!

I cannot imagine life without a dog in it.

Thing is you have to go so that you continue to have an NHS dentist…

UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees Exclusive: warning that lack of NHS dentists and soaring cost of private work puts essential care out of reach for many

Privatisation of healthcare.

UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees.

£775 for root canal work, £435 for tooth extraction, £325 for a white filling.

People pull their own teeth, face health hazards, companies profit.
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Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

“James Dyson owns 36,000 acres of agricultural land, estimated to be worth in excess of £550mn…Prior to Reeves’ new tax regulations there would have been no tax to pay if he had died and passed the land on to his successors”
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Nearly 1m UK pensioners living in deprivation, official figures show Separate report suggests number of people living in poverty aged between 60 and pension age has tripled under Tories

Scrapping winter fuel payment is wrong, but REAL SCANDAL is that UK state pension is one of WORST in Europe!! MINIMUM wage is £22k but pension is ONLY HALF THAT at £11.5k! 1m elderly living in poverty! Judge a country by how it treats it's vulnerable!
#GMB
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. Would we really want to take that path?

Some things not to comment on this Christmas:

- someone’s weight
- someone’s size
- how much they are eating
- how little they are eating
- the speed they are eating
- the type of foods they are eating
- the times they are eating
- your post Christmas diet
- how fat you feel

My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️

Accurate.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and someone did, and here we are.

It's sickening

Australia passes social media ban for under 16s The law will make social media platforms liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (£25m) if they don't systemically stop children younger than 16 from holding accounts.

BREAKING: Australian senators have passed a world-first law that bans under 16s from having social media accounts

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