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I don’t understand why a Church that would surely want to make all its believers feel included, who makes up the rules as it goes along, would want to wilfully exclude and even insult those who don’t drink alcohol by referring to them as alcoholics and not accommodate those who can’t gluten because it makes them physically ill.
59% of Gen Z over age of 18 don’t drink.
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The rolling news of #Trump’s fascist takeover of the US and intent to seize land around the world by stealth has been both shocking and numbing.
With each new day we see another horrific previously unthought of executive order. And so we forget the previous day’s equally inhumane action.
Will we recall Bernie Sanders’ defiant stand in a week, month or year’s time? Probably not, but we should.
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Asked by a reporter if he was seriously asserting that the crash had happened because of DEI, [Trump]replied, “It just could have been. We have a high standard, a much higher standard than anybody else, and there are things where you have to go by brainpower, you have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it.”
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This evidence free, un-hinged scapegoating on a day of national disaster, is not limited to #Trump sadly:
‘In a press conference on Thursday morning where Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy all suggested that the Federal Aviation Administration had hired unqualified and incompetent air traffic controllers due to diversity hiring practices’
The doubts about the suitability of his entire administration come home to roost.
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I miss Caroline Lucas…who else in Parliament is picking up the baton to constructively engage with the media and public about protecting our democratic rights of non-violent protest?
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Come on #Starmer, this is the kind of endorsement you’ve been working towards for months now and you really pushed for it this past week…you should feel so proud that all your hard work to cozy up to a fascist hellbent on destroying democracy, expanding their territory, defunding sciences, trashing the environment and only interested in furthering the rights of white, straight, male tech bros has paid off.
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My boss has grown up kids…she had them in the 90’s, but had extended family nearby to help. I only have elderly frail in-laws who live half an hour away.
When I work late it’s from home, but I’ve already been into the office and back 20 miles away.
Working freelance would mean consultancy and that’s not really my bag.
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Are there any mothers out there who have cracked having a mentally stimulating job that pays a living wage, but is genuinely part time - no expectation of completing tasks in your own time to meet deadlines - therefore allowing you to be present for your kids?
I feel that I am in a downward spiral at the moment. I worked until 8.30pm tonight - I’m only paid until 2.30pm.
If you have cracked it, what industry do you work in?
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I literally begged to come off a work call to feed my kids their dinner tonight. Then I went straight back to work and only stopped returning messages to my boss when I pointed out I needed to put the kids to bed.
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My partner came home while I was cooking dinner, he then looked after the kids until bedtime. I am lucky to have a partner and yes, he’s my kid’s dad so it is part of his role to look after them…but I still feel like I’ve been a $hit parent while simultaneously being exploited. This doesn’t happen to this extent every night, but it does happen until 5pm regularly.
Quitting with no realistic prospect of finding a role in the field I love on part time hours seems a bad move.
What do I do?
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Dame Kate Bingham is spot on about the #Tory government’s view of the immunocompromised during #Pandemic, but she’s also spot on about #BEIS which turned into #DESNZ.
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“I felt very strongly that we were conducting a strategy that was not following the prime minister’s goals.
So the government was following a very clear two-tier strategy where the clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised patients were being deprioritised in favour of those who were able to receive vaccines.
And I felt that was manifestly wrong, both ethically and morally, but also did not follow the goals that we’d been set, which was to protect the entire population.”
Dame Kate Bingham
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Keeping the back of the head is especially important I remember reading a few years back.
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As the UK gears up for a ‘Cold Spell’, what would those who live with these chilly times more often give as their best piece of advice?
The kind of thing most people forget, ignore or don’t know!
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No longer relying on Russia for gas is not a bad thing politically for Europe…but shipping it from US, Qatar and Norway is no better environmentally.
Finding alternative providers doesn’t solve the energy crisis. Sustainable solutions such as tidal, hydro and geothermal that work when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow need to also be a part of renewables.
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I visited #Copenhagen 15 years ago, in part because it was gaining a reputation for being a ‘green city’ and I wanted to experience that.
I lived near Cambridge at the time, so perhaps my expectations were somewhat higher than if I had lived in another UK city.
I liked the public transport and cycle lanes but the buildings not so much. I always assumed I was missing something until I read:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/dont-be-fooled-copenhagen-is-not-that-green
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I put in what I considered the minimum effort…I did wear braces (my mum made me) and I did straighten my hair (badly) in my 20’s.
But make up and hair removal was always a when I could be bothered thing, not a survival ritual.
My mum never dieted, so I never thought about it either…I’ve never tried. I try to incorporate exercise (walking) into my day, but last time I went to the gym was at school in 1997.
I’ve got a lot of grey hair currently self-dyed light purple for my own amusement.
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If I made more of an effort on the beauty front I’d have less time for my kids and for reading…I’d also be much poorer.
Would I get a better paid job though?
Doubtful in my mid 40’s.
Will I feel the same in my mid 50’s when trying to hold on to employment for that vital final decade towards retirement?
I can’t imagine I’ll change…it will be hard after a lifetime of not caring!
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I have never been ‘That Girl’…I knew it from the earliest possible age and it didn’t really bother me.
Yes, I could see as I grew up there was a privilege that beautiful people had. Life was much easier for them, doors opened both romantically and work wise.
But when you always consider yourself ‘other’ due to hearing loss, being an introvert, having curly hair and buck teeth…the beauty effort doesn’t add up
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/27/cost-of-beauty-culture-benefits
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‘Zeldin, 44, is considered a close Trump ally and ran in a surprisingly close race for New York governor in 2022, before being pipped by Kathy Hochul, a Democrat. During the campaign, Zeldin attacked Hochul’s “far-left climate agenda” and assailed Democrats for allegedly forcing people to drive electric cars.’
Are his credentials literally just bashing climate science then?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/trump-appoint-lee-zeldin-epa-chief
Late Gen X. Adopted city Norwich, started out life in Dorset. Juggling twins, hearing aids, politics and climate concerns. Partial to dramatic landscapes, Wes Andersonesque architecture, unsung historical figures and Peanuts cartoons. Do we all get better at juggling or do we acknowledge some balls are just too precious to drop?
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