Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

And read this 3 page message h/t @EmergencyMedDr on birdsite“Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.

Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.

Despicable and shameful that a series of Tory Governments have allowed things to come to this.

For those who keep saying they don't understand why we are so focused on masks: Mask mandates are the policy that would instantly make a huge difference to the lives of higher risk people. It would mean they could go on public transport, access medical care, & other basic needs.

#COVID #COVID19

Ada Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, was born #OTD in 1815. A mathematician and the first published computer programmer, she offered a prescient vision of what computing would become.
Portrait: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1836)

Finish him!

Is the #nhs the #tories are throttling the same NHS they catapulted to glory with all those financial #brexit benefits?

Changing Prime Minister's without a General Election is NOT Democratic.

Please sign, if you agree.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/621931

#rttg
#GTTO
#fbppa
#ProgressiveAlliance
#ProportionalRepresentation
#TacticalVoting
#fbpe
#FBPPR
#ofoc
#ffs

Is £74bn enough to give nurses a pay rise?

It seems "larger war / WWIII" rhetoric is coming back.

I have a question for those who think that russia will start a larger war.

Exactly what army and weapons will they start this larger war with? With the soldiers from Bakhmut, the guns from North Korea, the drones from Iran?

Elon Musk is growing a social network. Just not the one he expected.

New sign-ups have spiked several times on Twitter alternative Mastodon since Musk bought Twitter in October.

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/twitter-owner-elon-musk-driving-user-growth-mastodon-rcna62832

Help yourself to a dose of festive cheer with my article about Shropshire's Christmas Folklore! There's some absolutely lovely stuff featured- I hope you enjoy it!

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-very-shropshire-christmas.html

#Folklore #Christmas #Folktales #Shropshire #christmasfolklore #FolkloreNerd #folkloreFriday

Amazing isn't it? Millions of people in Texas are without power and all their MAGA hatting governor can think of to do is to trick 100 migrants into taking a 22 hour bus ride to be dropped off outside Kamala Harris's house in freezing weather wearing T-Shirts.

If you think this is smart politics or owning the libs or good in any sort of way, then you are dead inside. I don't want to know you professionally or personally.

Trump has turned the GOP nomination race into a contest in which the candidates all try to show how evil they are.

"If they come"??? 👇

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/109565484194228711
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk - I am unconvinced that quote-posts are desirable here. But if they come - and I see yet more calls for them - perhaps make it a choice on the part of the poster being quoted, such that they can, either by default or on a per-post basis, decide if they want a post to be quote-post-able?

How does the PM think having a financial "midlife MOT" is going to tempt folk back into work?

Threats and scare stories? Is that all they've got.

"We've farked the economy so badly you'll have to work until you drop just to live on bread and scrape." isn't a great look for the natural party of government.

When we first took this case to the High Court in June 2021, Gove was found to have acted unlawfully and with apparent bias in the awarding of this contract.

https://glplive.org/of8