Operation ‘shaking off the fleas’ not going quite to plan theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

Guess which side of the political spectrum frames everything through the lens of "western society"? If it steps like a goose...

I wonder if Helen and the Tories would also like to criminalise tax cutting advice that runs every spring in the broadsheets? When the wealthy and healthy do it, it’s information. When the poor and disabled do it, it’s scrounging.

The Monkey Prince Angada delivers Rama’s message to Ravana, by Manaku, 1725, 📸 by Steph Chambers

Bluntly: the Thatcherite Consensus went Kaboom in 2008; our leaders and their sycophants refuse to admit it; they’e spent all the time since trying to force the square shape of their dumb ideology up the round hole of reality. They’ll continue forcing it, until something breaks.

British fascism comprises of fetishising a war in which the fascists lost, learning all the wrong lessons from that war, while complaining that people aren’t commemorating a war in which the fascists lost to a significant enough degree

Israel National News - Arutz Sheva Murderous liars. He was the best of men, the IDF the worst. You are not fit to have his name in your mouth. The whole world sees your crimes and curses you for them.

Dear Wes Streeting, Tofersen is life-saving, and free, yet around 20 people with SOD1 MND are being denied access to it. They do not have time to wait. You’ve got the power. Please use it. #PrescribeLife

ICYMI: Ryan Bishop, 'The Eames Office, the Cold War and the Avant-Garde: Making the Lab of Tomorrow' - bringing together design, technology and experimental multiscreen projections, the Eames Office operated as a humanities/IT/arts lab. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Sharing and helping others makes life more fun.

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

I'm working on a media/ludic archaeology of synthetic voices, in part because of motor neurone disease. Here Sarah's voice has been brought back using 8 seconds of VHS tape...

I know people have been rolling their eyes at this all day, but would love to know more about negotiation between Mussolini and that lamp-post.

‘Motor neurone disease robbed me of my voice – now I can finally speak again thanks to AI and an old videotape’ #MND independent.co.uk/student/studen…

I'm a supporter of flags. I'm an admirer of plug sockets. I'm a lover of whisks. I'm a respecter of doorbells.

"Ogonyok" Soviet toy videophone, 1980s.

They say a photo can speak a thousand words. 📸 For David, a father of two, these photos show the brutal reality of living with #MND. 🧵 (1/6) 📷 Ted Press

Huge thank you to Clare & her amazing group of ladies who hosted a quiz night in memory of their dad – raising an incredible £3,200 for Challenging MND! 🌟 A wonderful tribute & fantastic support for the MND community. #MND #FundraisingHeroes #StrongerTogether