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keep punching joe posted:These included posts featuring the debunked viral claim that Humza Yousaf said there are “too many white people in Scotland” and tweets claiming that Scottish Government aid to Gaza was going to Hamas. Proud of our future elected representative, cream of the crop of the nation. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Apr 10, 2024 15:20
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Report from my first Unison conference - actually really interesting and engaging for me as a visitor! Some branches, especially those in Northern Ireland, have achived great things. It makes me want to do a better job in my branch, which I have wanted to do ever since I joined a couple years ago but being mental/disorganised/stressed makes that difficult. What I didn't know until the first day was that Wes Streeting was originally invited to do a speech on the second day. What I also soon found out was that he had pulled out due to a "diary clash". There were a couple of (very brave imo) trans women who went up to give speeches in front of the conference publicly excoriating him for his public statements (and to a lesser extent the Unison service group which invited him). Additionally, multiple speakers emphasised that under no illusions would a Labour government would automatically mean more funding and better conditions for NHS workers (again, the McShitter was named and shamed here), so it's nice to know complacency is not encouraged in that regard. All these positions were very well received by the delegation. It was really nice seeing so many openly gender non-conforming members being present and heard with no issue. The gensec Christine McAnea also explicitly named transphobia as something Unison stood against (though we know talk is cheap, obviously). I attended an event talking about administrators' role in digitalisation - i.e. is someone like me actually going to get a fiddle with a new Hospital Information System before some Band 9000 dickhead decides to sign off on buying it for a hundred million or whatever. Obviously user interfaces are one thing, but I did enquire as to how feasible it would be to have a team of national/regional Unison people who have some technical expertise and could actually sit in on the procurement process. I spoke to multiple people involved with such things, with me asking "I get the feeling it's decided by whoever shows the shiniest powerpoint and picks the nicest restaurant" and them responding "well, it's not SUPPOSED to, but also. yeah. that does happen a lot." You can read some of the research here - it compared the UK and Norway, in health, banking, retail and food/drink processing industries. There are short summaries for full papers. I haven't looked closely yet, myself. https://udig.powi.dmu.ac.uk/ Unison have also launched something called the "Admin Charter" with the intent of getting NHS Trusts to sign, which among other things asks them to commit to giving admin clear career progression (about half surveyed don't have a personal development plan!) and consulting them before implementing new technical changes. Personally, I feel the level of first-line tech support we have to do means we should be given clearer pathways into fields like software engineering or something. There was a guest speech by Richard Pyle from Medical Aid for Palestine. I'll admit I've sort of tried to avoid reading about the specific horrors suffered by people in Gaza - hearing his report about what was happening down there right now, the unbelievable pain and loss and trauma.... you could feel it grip the soul of everyone in the auditorium. Unforgiveable atrocities and cowardice from everyone who's enabled it. There was a specific motion about healthcare workers in Palestine which the Standing Order Committee ruled out of order (for vague reasons) - this did not stop people discussing it in other motions, however. I attended a racial bullying & harassment workshop which was actually run by a couple of Unison members in a neighbouring Trust who I intend to contact about how they run their whole joint (because we really aren't running poo poo right now lol). They'd achieved great things iin terms of accountability processes which was helped by them having the ear of certain directors and HR figures. Unfortunately my Trust does not have a functioning HR department lol. The workshop also featured a very humble gentleman from a Scottish Trust, who opened by saying a couple years ago he would have thought UK racism was primarily an English problem, and that Scotland was more progressive than that, before his experience in the last two years disabused him of this notion. It seems to be a complete loving wild west out there in terms of companies getting license to recruit healthcare workers from abroad, and multiple situations where they arrive in the UK after great personal expense, only to be told that they do not have a job. The precarity that migrant workers are subjected to is oft-spoken of, but to hear the examples of racism, callousness, neglect was stomach-churning. The man look fairly loving drained just by talking about it and I have a great deal of respect for him. He had apparently become The Go-To Guy for migrant workers in his region with issues, despite he himself saying he does not feel he has the expertise to do so, and that he often feels out of his depth, though he forges on regardless. Audience members rightfully asked why aren't Unison building a regional team about this, but I don't recall any clear answers about that. I hope he and everyone he's been supporting do get more resources. Also during the party (which was mid but I had a great time hitting a bar with some gay lads after - made a strong case for me going to the LGBT conference in November) I briefly was introduced to Sara Gorton, the lead negotiator for the recent paydeal, because my branch secretary happened to know her from way back lol. I did not say much (primarily because I was pished). If you're even sort of active in your union branch, and you have the opportunity to go to a conference, I would really recommend it regardless of how you actually feel about your union as a whole. It's very affirming as a leftist to be surrounded by people who are eager to affect change in their workplaces and indeed the country as a whole. I don't consider myself the most social of people, but I felt relatively at ease striking up conversations with random people just by being in the same room as them. Anyway! Sorry if this much-longer-than-intended wall of text has errors or typos in it but I am nursing a mild hangover. I'm sure there's something I forgot to add. Feel free to ask me any questions! but finally, and most importantly: Bagelman in Brighton is so loving good dude. A++++ gluten-free bagel which they prepared in a separate area for me. It made me say "gently caress" in front of children in the shop.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:18
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Nuclear Spoon posted:Report from my first Unison conference - actually really interesting and engaging for me as a visitor! Some branches, especially those in Northern Ireland, have achived great things. It makes me want to do a better job in my branch, which I have wanted to do ever since I joined a couple years ago but being mental/disorganised/stressed makes that difficult. Great report, thanks!
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Apr 10, 2024 18:22
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  lol: just noticed this cutting edge survey has “Reading the map on a road trip” as one of the situations. Something that hasn’t happened for 20 years.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:25
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frytechnician posted:Let's see what David Icke's been up to, said no-one: would have had no idea demons scarper if you just march in and give them a piece of your mind like you're at the local council office reception
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Apr 10, 2024 18:36
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boris johnson has the look of man you could rely on to block a toilet
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Apr 10, 2024 18:36
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think it's been mentioned in the UKMT before, but polling companies have to ask these kinds of stupid "what kind of bird is Keir Starmer" questions because the average person is incredibly inarticulate
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Apr 10, 2024 18:37
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crispix posted:boris johnson has the look of man you could rely on to block a toilet And then order a junior member of staff to clear it
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Apr 10, 2024 18:38
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Lt. Danger posted:think it's been mentioned in the UKMT before, but polling companies have to ask these kinds of stupid "what kind of bird is Keir Starmer" questions because the average person is incredibly inarticulate To my shame I have done many, many voxpops for TV and it is always an incredibly depressing experience.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:39
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We can't all be Necrothatcher
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Apr 10, 2024 18:41
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Lt. Danger posted:think it's been mentioned in the UKMT before, but polling companies have to ask these kinds of stupid "what kind of bird is Keir Starmer" questions because the average person is incredibly inarticulate I would argue that this is still being extremely inarticulate because I am not hiring either of them to do any of those things and I'm not sure what the imagined utility of hearing what the general public thinks about their ability to do things they are never going to have to do, would be.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:44
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Nuclear Spoon posted:Report from my first Unison conference - [...] It made me say "gently caress" [...] Also this was a good read, strange to imagine being in a place where people seem to be working towards something productive.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:46
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our lord could have used davey icke around when he was being tempted by satan in the desert, that time, just tell him off like now look here, "sir", i don't care what your title is in the underworld, it's just not bloody on, what you're doing!!!!!!! leave him alone!!!!!! 
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Apr 10, 2024 18:48
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Isomermaid posted:We can't all be Necrothatcher what a great video game boss that would be
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Apr 10, 2024 18:59
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TACD posted:Interestingly (?) it looks like there are already two Unicode sequences for “Flag for Jerusalem”; IL-JM (🏴) and PS-JEM (🏴) I think it's the same programmer who worked for Microsoft and made sure that Wingdings would contain a secret message calling for murder of New York Jews on 9/11.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:17
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Thank you for reading! Couple of other things: One of the Unison motions involved trying to get all NHS Trusts to implement disability/accessibility passports - i.e. a persistent record of an employee's needs so they don't need to keep explaining everything again should they get a new team/manager. To me this seems like a decent idea in theory - anyone here had any experience with it? I'd definitely like to bring it to my Trust but have little hope they'd implement it well or in good time. You can see all the motions here. They were practically all voted through unanimously, and made me wonder if the "for/against" speaker format with people limited to 3 minutes (eventually reduced to 2 yesterday when we started running behind - we were due to finish at 1pm today, we finished around 11am.) could use some improvement. A lot of them were quite vague (e.g. fight privatisation, fair pay, tackling racism) and I suspect tend to be submitted every year in a similar form. Obviously the conference is an important democratic mechanism, but I much would have preferred to have spent a couple of hours in a setting dedicated to hearing e.g. how a successful campaign to bring a service in-house built itself and won their victory, and how others can learn from that than, than a chain of people feeling rushed to cram as many broad strokes and positions everyone already agrees within into 120 seconds.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:23
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:My wife says that my colourblindness makes me disabled. I laugh in her face. From the toilet, having eaten undercooked meat. I think it would be reasonable if e.g. you were working as an electrician and one day you couldn't anymore because you can't tell the wires apart. But afaik colour blindness is something that we are born with, so we just decide to become something other than sea captains or bomb dismantlers. For the very few that can't tell colours at all though, just a grey scale, I think it's a real disability that affects many simple tasks that most people don't ever think about.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:24
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OwlFancier posted:I would argue that this is still being extremely inarticulate because I am not hiring either of them to do any of those things and I'm not sure what the imagined utility of hearing what the general public thinks about their ability to do things they are never going to have to do, would be. the survey essentially says Sunak is (marginally) perceived to be cleverer and more hard-nosed than Starmer, but Starmer is (to a slightly greater degree) perceived to be more sociable and practical obviously gibberish to any sensible student of dialectical materialism, but most people tend to think of politics and politicians in terms of personal virtues and relationships
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Apr 10, 2024 19:25
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Trade Union conferences are good, can confirm. I'll be going to my second one later this year. Bit disappointing it's Birmingham rather than Bournemouth like the last one, but I suppose canals are nearly as nice to run along as beaches. Everyone should join a union and then if they're up to it play an active part.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:26
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I was in Bournemouth last week for NEU conference, can confirm union conference is good.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:32
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keep punching joe posted:Scotlab never change They miss this on a potential mp but one tweet saying a person voted green once and they are barred from the party for life.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:33
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Nenonen posted:I think it would be reasonable if e.g. you were working as an electrician and one day you couldn't anymore because you can't tell the wires apart. But afaik colour blindness is something that we are born with, so we just decide to become something other than sea captains or bomb dismantlers. Most of the issue I have with mine is that other people insist on using red/green gradients to represent important information. Doesn't generally affect me otherwise though.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:34
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Nenonen posted:I think it would be reasonable if e.g. you were working as an electrician and one day you couldn't anymore because you can't tell the wires apart. But afaik colour blindness is something that we are born with, so we just decide to become something other than sea captains or bomb dismantlers. I know a young lad early 20s heart dead-set on joining the RAF - he seemed absolutely ideal but went for the interview (maybe it was even 2nd interview or a test) and they discovered he had colour blindness so his ambition of years was thwarted. He was quite 'lost' after that. Also, one of my younger nephews has similar ambition so I suggested my brother get him tested for it because if he builds up all his hopes on it, and it's discovered he was colour blind then that could spoil his chances.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:38
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I know a young lad early 20s heart dead-set on joining the RAF - he seemed absolutely ideal but went for the interview (maybe it was even 2nd interview or a test) and they discovered he had colour blindness should have just argued the toss imo *pointing to a red square* that's green "no sorry it's red" nice try santa but I know loving green when I see it are you loving colourblind
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Apr 10, 2024 19:41
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Colour blindness is a load of bollocks. The only thing you can't do is read those numbers they hide in the blobs.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:42
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Could join the other RAF instead, much cooler.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:42
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OwlFancier posted:Could join the other RAF instead, much cooler. What's the other RAF?
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Apr 10, 2024 19:45
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Nuclear Spoon posted:Thank you for reading! Couple of other things: My only concern here would be if it makes it harder to get accommodations *without* such a passport. My ADHD and visual impairment are on paper but my autism is self-diagnosed at the moment because of the long waiting lists, but I currently still feel able to request help at my workplace. In theory though I think it's a decent idea! Would love it if they'd make diagnosis easier though.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:45
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's the other RAF? Rot Army Fraktion, the German leftist terror cell.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:46
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's the other RAF? The ones who kept assassinating and kidnapping german politicians  Which I feel is more honest work than bombing people from an F35.
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Apr 10, 2024 19:47
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Tesseraction posted:Rot Army Fraktion, the German leftist terror cell. I think they also require you to recognise colour, it's in the name even... And yes, it's very unfortunate if someone has slipped through the school system without a nurse or someone at some point doing the test on you, especially for boys as it's rare on girls. The more extreme forms probably show up without being looked for, though. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Apr 10, 2024 19:51
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Tesseraction posted:Rot Army Fraktion, the German leftist terror cell. Rote Armee Fraktion 
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Apr 10, 2024 19:51
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https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1777979565241139327 What's left of the Tory support seems to be slowly shifting to Reform or the LDs.
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Apr 10, 2024 20:01
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HopperUK posted:My only concern here would be if it makes it harder to get accommodations *without* such a passport. My ADHD and visual impairment are on paper but my autism is self-diagnosed at the moment because of the long waiting lists, but I currently still feel able to request help at my workplace. In theory though I think it's a decent idea! Would love it if they'd make diagnosis easier though. A good point! Hopefully it's possible to make provisions for symptoms that aren't officially diagnosed. I've just been sent the forms for my assessment after 3 years of waiting - i spoke to a lass in Brighton today who said she'd been on a waiting list for 5. I hope your time comes soon!
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Apr 10, 2024 20:02
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Nuclear Spoon posted:A good point! Hopefully it's possible to make provisions for symptoms that aren't officially diagnosed. Thanks bud  I'm fairly comfortable with the self-diagnosis since I have access to disability accommodations through my other issues. It's a lot more pressing for other people. Such as my little second cousin, who's been waiting months and months at a crucial age. Grr.
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Apr 10, 2024 20:03
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Tesseraction posted:Rot Army Fraktion, the German leftist terror cell.
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Apr 10, 2024 20:32
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I remember fighting those guys in elden ring.
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Apr 10, 2024 21:06
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Wes Streeting is being an utter howling poo poo about trans people again and I am very very cross about this, in a way that I am not able to adequately express. I want these folks to be put on trial in the Hague.
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Apr 10, 2024 21:29
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Whats he saying?
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Apr 10, 2024 21:40
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