Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy

WTF is going on with UK Labour and UK politics in general?

Brexit has shifted the Overton window so far to the right that Labour are now Thatcherites, and the Tories are full blown fascists.

https://www.politico.eu/article/margaret-thatcher-david-lammy-visionary-labour-united-kingdom/

More stress and pressure thrown at exhausted and overworked HE workers

UWE Bristol has announced 100 voluntary redundancies. They’ve also issued a section 188 notice for compulsory redundancies in due course. Nightmare situation.

Already overworked underpaid staff are offered 1.5 wks pay per yr of employment. VC on apprx £370k and recent restructuring has increased £100k+ management notably.

The uncertainty for us, as staff, and our students is unbearable

@ucu

#Bristol #UKHE

Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.

This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.

#ClimateCrisis #CO2 #TheWarOnCars
https://mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil/112138746226813931

Eye #agate a captivating gemstone, is named for its mesmerizing patterns that resemble eyes. These "eyes" are formed by alternating layers of differently colored minerals, such as chalcedony, quartz, and jasper. Read more here:

https://www.geologyin.com/2024/01/eye-agate-properties-uses-formation.html?fbclid=IwAR0VIGP9oq9KVXdeJNk7_OQ7mTL4BZB4CJ_29azpXnvMb6QcD31EuOittAs

By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

Wildly different circumstances, of course, but both Post Office and Afghan war crimes inquiries show how weak ministers are in their own departments.

Post Office ministers were fed false information, Mercer was not given access to information he was asking for.

And as parliamentary accountability requires ministers to be responsible to parliament, there is a huge system failure.

Ministers cannot be meaningfully accountable if they are given false or no information by their departments.

GIGO

#SilentSunday #Skye #Scotland

„It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least nine zettajoules. For comparison’s sake, the world’s annual energy consumption amounts to about 0.6 zettajoules.“

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot