Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
*through gritted teeth* I am once again unfortunately going to have to hand it to the House of Lords
my World Book Day costume this year is ‘person too broke to justify buying a costume that I’ll only wear for one day because the library doesn’t pay me enough’ ✌️
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
I don’t know if it’s a remotely accurate portrayal, but you really got the impression of a person who *could* have been half decent if born and raised under other circumstances maybe
just one daffodil out in the wreck of my garden, but she sure is pretty
do it do it my most millennial over-consumerist trait is the belief in the healing power of homewares
I hear hot honey is coming for us all next
do you ever see a fancast so perfect that you gasp out loud
lads, I touched a stinging nettle this morning while gardening and eight hours later it is STILL all stingy and I am being SO brave about it 🥺😭
I’m just such a sucker for the primroses that grow along my garden walls
me chastising the cat for getting seeds stuck to her fur, then me coming inside like
so far in the war between me and the lavatera, the lavatera is definitively winning 😫
my gardening assistant was no help whatsoever
found some strawberries and a hyacinth and a daff in a pot I’d forgotten about though!
it’s been a rough hour in the garden 😅
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
The Labour Party now think I am a far-left extremist because I support policies that were in the 2017 and 2019 Labour Party manifestos.
Saturday night chillin’ at my sister’s house, the shakshouka a resounding success
yeahhhhhhhh
my sister and I are making shakshouka 😋
well, I can tell someone has been in here while I was strategically out for a walk in the park, so at least this person definitely bothered to show up to the viewing! Fingers crossed I guess
kind of sweet that they turned all the lights off except in the bedroom where the cat is hanging out 😅
classic case this morning of what I have described to my girlfriend as ‘the European experience of waking up to discover What America Has Done Now’
baby I've hoovered corners even the landlord doesn't know about
someone's coming to view my flat tomorrow maybe???
anyone familiar with British politics will know that any news that isn't entirely negative will be closely followed by a sustained bombardment of misery that will make you want to fucking die. but currently it's Friday, it's payday, and the fascists have lost
More like MATT BADLOSE AMIRITE
finally, some good fucking food
If Reform win this by-election Labour are gonna get so much worse. If the Greens win Labour are gonna get so much worse. If Labour win, Labour are gonna get so much worse
