reading all the handwringing about “free speech” and “safety” and remembering Anne Applebaum wrote an article in 2002 explicitly calling for the targeted killing of Palestinian journalists for the crime of making Israel look bad

The government say they want to help people with mental health problems get back into work. If so, they need to be serious about investing in chronically underfunded mental health services. And they need to meet with the experts. We await the full details of the consultation. 3/3

Sit up! Get your bejewelled Crocs off the seats! Get some earbuds to go with your fancy phone! Et cetera

Bus is very full and also full of teenagers lounging across double seats like Roman senators and I can feel my Transport Hag hackles rising

This is getting the ridicule it deserves. But it's a long academic tradition. Roy Foster seriously offered, as an explanation for the Land War, the increase of sexually frustrated young men in post-famine Ireland. Respectable history 101
h/t Pádraig Mac Oscair 🇵🇸

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they uncovered a mass grave in Gaza and a protester waved a Palestinian flag too close to someone's face in New Haven and the media has chosen to cover one of these incidents in exhaustive detail

And yet Capita said at yesterday's Education Committee session that 'most' students want online appointments for their assessments, but those students wanting face to face could have it. Apparently the reforms are working well...unless you're a student. Or a disability advisor.

'mental illness used to be the ups and downs of life'

No, mental illness used to be your mum taking to her bed for 20 years with what was euphemistically called 'nerves'.

UN experts condemn callous #Israeli attacks on educational infrastructure, cultural heritage sites and libraries in #Gaza . “The foundations of Palestinian society are being reduced to rubble, their history is being erased.”

ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

On X, Cassie Evans called LinkedIn's Colloborative Articles “an ever-deteriorating ouroboros of ‘thought leadership’ wank and AI word vomit.” fortune.com/2024/04/18/lin…

Journo request! We've been asked by a journo for any disabled people who rely on captioning and have struggled after their companies have switched to relying more on AI transcriptions. Is this you?

'Black Women Radicals and Networks of Transnational Resistance in the Twentieth-Century', via Zoom on Thursday 30th May, 5:30-7:00pm delivered by Tionne Alliyah Parris.

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Tories for a month: BUUUURN ANGELA RAYNER!!!!!

Grant Shapps this morning to Kay Burley: “There’s a process in this country where one is innocent until proven guilty - not guilty simply because an allegation is made.”

Provided “one” is not a working class woman, evidently.

People. Respectfully, please stop with, 'I'll use my teacher voice.' No. Use the mic. Use your accessibility voice. The mic helps everyone. #AERA24