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Check out the latest short film from @ScotLDO following on from #ThisIsMe22 & sharing some of the work @UofGlasgow & partners have been doing to continue to tackle inequalities & barriers to inclusion faced by people with #learningdisabilities zurl.co/kPKx
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I simply cannot believe that the time available to MPs to debate a decision that could led to thousands of people receiving state assistance in ending their lives prematurely is… 5 hours.
Nor that an argument currently doing the rounds in parliament to win over uncertain MPs is that we “already have” outstanding palliative care in the UK, so nobody fails to receive the best care. We do not. We are so, so far from it. UK palliative care in 2024 is a desperately under-resourced Cinderella service and this is causing untold avoidable suffering for patients who sometimes long to end their lives because WE failed to fund the care that might make life still worth living.
Fix that first - please - then talk about assisted dying.
Please don’t ignore or disbelieve what those of us who work in palliative care witness daily.
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
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I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.
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Quite.
“How would anyone know if someone had been coerced [into assisted dying]?”
@vicderbyshire presses Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and supporter of the latest assisted dying bill, about the safeguards for the proposed new law.
#Newsnight
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🗞️Midweek read!
🚶♀️The upper end of High Street sees hundreds of thousands pass by every year on their way to Glasgow Cathedral. It should be stuffed with independent shops and cafes.
Instead traders say they've literally been left to rot. But, by who? glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgows-o…
Weird how our associations are built up. Most people associate silent film as just amusing comedy & short films of trains
That is sad af news. Bought ny first jumping beans here
Lol
For once I say 'good on you Apple'
Update: confirmed Apple quietly introduced code that reboots iPhones after not being interacted with after a period of time. That's what is locking out cops 404media.co/apple-quietly-in…
Google took it on by using the worst tactics of the crapware crowd. And now Chrome is everywhere & Google are using that market dominance to take control of your browsing.
I still use Firefox
On November 9, 2004, Mozilla Corporation released a multiplatform web browser, Firefox 1.0.
Firefox gained major popularity among users and exceeded 1 billion downloads between 2004 and 2009.
#WebDesignHistory
ALT Web browser Firefox 1.0 in 2004
I'm not big on 38 Degress but at least someone is trying to do something to protest at the proposed #Edinburgh council cuts to Educational Support (eg ASL) here.
This doesn't just affect the disabled, it affects everyone.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
Correct
Scottish Water has said no. Drowning in profits & with a Chief Exec who makes hundreds of thousands of pounds pa they've DMd me saying restoring beautiful pumps would cost too much.
I think Parliament should compel them. What do you think?
@scottish_water
Maybe don't support genocide, and maybe try making people's lives materially better. Stuff like that.
Maybe don't tell people they're wrong for caring about others
