Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

With Covid cases soaring and the NHS in trouble, here’s how to end the culture war on face masks

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/05/covid-cases-nhs-culture-war-face-masks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It's wild how computer programming went from exclusively women's work to "we're not sexist we just don't think women are interested in it" in like 40 years

"This is going to have to be resisted on the streets, through campaigns and through industrial action. We can’t do that alone. We need everyone with us."

RMT unions Mick Lynch on why we must defend the right to strike

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-lynch-anti-union-laws-enough-is-enough

The Government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan gives water companies until 2050 to clean up their act. That’s simply not good enough.

Join our campaign to stop sewage dumping here 👇
https://glplive.org/clean-waters-t-261222

OLD THREAD REPOST

Since #OurFlagMeansDeath has come to the UK, who wants to hear about gay marriage in the golden age of piracy? #ofmd

RT @AdamBienkov
A reminder that last year Rishi Sunak's Government actually *reduced* its target for training new maths teachers by 27%.

Meanwhile, the latest stats suggest nearly half of all schools are forced to use non-specialists to teach kids because of a shortage of maths teachers.

Look. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Harry has a problem with his family then he needs to persuade the French to fund him, raise an army, invade and seize the crown.

What else was Brexit for, if not to restore traditional British approaches and values?

Jumbo, the #Dutch supermarket chain, introduced slow checkouts when it discovered some people enjoy chatting while paying for their goods.

 The added personal touch is helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.

"People can grasp that a million is a lot but they don’t grasp how much bigger a billion is. So the 37bn wasted on track and trace is just dismissed, but expressed as 100m every day for a year it could be seen to have made a massive difference to the NHS." A good general mathematical point Sunak would do well to to contemplate.

To create a new world there must be a rupture with the old one. And those who live during times of great change can sometimes notice little fissures within themselves. That was her theory anyway. Even when the old world was harmful, it was still her first world.

There were moments, on these walkable streets, bursting forth as they were today with gardens and new spring life, that she felt just a little lost, a traveler from a time of honking, rushing, smog, and speed.

#MastoPrompt #rupture

A puddle full of shed Autumn leaves and a tree reflection. #puddleart #trees

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.

This was a clue and we just didn't listen.

@financialtimes poses the Q.: 'Why is the #NHS in its worst ever crisis?'

and provides a clear multifaceted answer:

Waves of winter #infections with a Govt. adopting a laissez-fair attitude to infection control;

Too few hospital beds (we have around 30% of beds per capita that they have in Germany);

Inadequate staff levels (& those in post are exhausted & demoralised) due a lack of good workforce planning;

Long-term underfunding (driven by the mindset of #austerity).

A #tory made crisis!

Opening my work laptop like a sealed sarcophagus filled with an ancient evil.

This will see me happily get me through 2023 😂

Looking for people who know something about early computing, especially in the Netherlands. Please boost and help me solve the mystery of this custom made plate that used to belong to my grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, one of the pioneers of Dutch computing. What do the pictures mean? #computing #history

#Comics #TeenTitans #Starfire #Dick

you know what I've enjoyed seeing? the completely upturned reaction to the Royal Mail strikes compared to what it would've been a few years ago.

the RM bosses are still acting like they'll eventually get public pressure on their side from delayed parcels, but instead the tide has turned towards "just give them decent working conditions and this'll all be over!"

The continued lack of interest by this Govt. in entering serious/meaningful negotiations on the key issue of pay clearly shows the #Tories are playing a long game of politics in the #NursesStrike; they are expecting two outcomes:

firstly this year more patients driven into the hands of private #healthcare (their long term policy in any case);

secondly, that continued disruption will prompt support fatigue across the country, leaving #nurses isolated.

So we mustn't waver!
#SupportOurNurses