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2026-05-20 08:45:42 UTC

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was on a ward for a few days waiting for unplanned surgery (which kept getting bumped). Older man in the bed across from me was waiting to be discharged to social care. Someone came to see him, discussed his needs etc. Shortly after, off he went. He was back within a few hours because the placement had neither a bariatric bed nor chair.
Absolute farce. I actually called the Chaplaincy to come and have a chat with him because he was so down about being back. Volunteers, obvi...

2026-05-14 10:26:21 UTC

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if we're going to have a former Health Secretary as PM, I'd rather have Jeremy Hunt, and I've never voted Tory.

2026-04-15 13:31:43 UTC

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As @npub1d62…rhjw well knows, this is already happening to UK users, thanks to the OSA. We've already lost access to simple services like Imgur. Giphy/Tenor can't be far from introducing some sort of checks either.
To be honest, if we MUST have age verification, I'd rather verify once with my OS vendor (likely based on account age) than for every single app/service/API.
It's the timing that baffles me...

2026-03-03 10:53:28 UTC

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when is IT NOT Business Services?

2026-02-07 13:52:06 UTC

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what happened in 2023, then?

2026-01-28 09:55:46 UTC

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we definitely don't have space to lock anyone up on the pretext they might have committed a crime. But I agree with the sentiment.

2026-01-02 11:44:06 UTC

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hi, you definitely made 2025 happier for us, so thank you!

2025-12-04 13:43:10 UTC

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well, like "normal" for them. So, maybe they do need PIP, even though they are "normal for them", because normal for them is below the standard of normal for everyone else... but that's the question at the crux, right? What are "normal feelings"? We could talk about "normal" being centered around a mean but from where is the mean derived?
You're never really "normal" with clinical depression. It's like relapsing-remitting MS, sometimes it's just less bad.

2025-12-04 12:16:11 UTC

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hmm. I have mixed feelings about that. I have ADHD and ASD and it never even crossed my mind to seek any kind of benefits for that reason but maybe I am lucky? However, I do know of someone who claimed PIP when they had a period of severe depression and, despite now being back to "normal", are still taking the benefit. And that's clearly not "right".

2025-11-21 09:37:03 UTC

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what's all this talk about "fears of a bubble", Chris? Surely the "fear" is "we've overvalued the stock"?
Seems to me that the stocks are very obviously overvalued, so now everyone is banking on some sort of Faustian pact of silence.
I feel like the Prisoner Dilemma tells us how that will work out... so the question becomes: who's going to go "first" and, really, just what are they waiting for?

2025-08-20 08:43:28 UTC

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Julio?!

2025-08-18 13:09:24 UTC

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I haven't read this but can I assume that the main takeaway is "violent protest" is tantamount to terrorism?

2025-08-05 10:35:48 UTC

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everytime I see this come up, especially women worried about protecting their children, I point out that, statistically, they and/or their children are far more likely to be murdered by their partner, than by an immigrant, legal or otherwise.

2025-07-29 12:55:49 UTC

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fair. Based on my limited understanding/research, estate agency is a big part of our service industry? Is that right, do you know?

2025-07-29 08:38:58 UTC

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what jobs are there for "unskilled" workers in "services"?!

2025-07-21 09:59:49 UTC

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I'm a hairy dude but, damn, that was one hirsuite motherhumper

2025-04-29 16:43:59 UTC

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yout teepublic link never worked for me... it was weird...

2025-04-24 06:33:06 UTC

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I kind of feel like all he's managed to do is destroy the façade that America IS great at all. It looks a lot like an insular greedy bully when it's not talking about freedom.

2025-04-22 08:19:55 UTC

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we already have the death penalty but it's better known as failing to comply with the instructions of an armed police officer.
I'd rather we had one that used the Courts, to be fair.

2025-04-17 09:22:22 UTC

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This might look like pedantry but bear with me...
GP practices is tautological 😉 It's unfortunate that general practitioners (a type of doctor) is synonymous with general practice (a primary care setting with a variety of professionals providing a range of services). Especially when the NHS messages "Visit your GP".
I think it would help public expectation a lot if they could get past the idea that "GP" = doctor. It hasn't been that way for a decade.

2025-04-08 18:20:01 UTC

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when did he go "full nazi", though? He was boosting great replacement conspiracy tweets and white supremacist bullshit for a while there...

2025-01-31 09:30:57 UTC

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"they just don't trust the current system to listen to or represent their views" is that, do you think, because it demonstrably does not most of the time?

2024-10-29 11:53:40 UTC

_IF_ it is important for news media to be completely unbiased, and Dog knows I have seen enough complaints that it should be, usually aimed at right-wing mouthpieces, then NOT endorsing political candidates seems pretty fundamental.
#bezos #wapo #election

2024-10-02 09:51:49 UTC

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for me, food preference raises wider questions about when children earn the right to say "no".

2024-09-12 11:24:13 UTC

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it all comes back to cost. Governments can't make up their mind what they want. They want the cheapest possible treatment AND better outcomes.
Ensuring that people get the cheapest possible treatment takes time, effort and bureacracy. Sending someone immediately for an expensive but conclusive test, takes no time and effort, and no additional checks and balances.
Basically, I think the NHS could save money in the long term by spending more in the short term.

2024-08-23 11:01:10 UTC

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don't make sense to me. The cap seems to follow inflation rather than the wholesale price...

2024-08-03 15:31:09 UTC

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pisses me off when the media support this narrative by reporting that "X is cutting staff to reduce costs". Yes, it IS going to reduce costs, but only to maintain or increase their profits!