Industrial Relations PhDer. Trade union organiser. Recovered educator. Accidental fossil hunter. Exhausted. R4 bore. Views own & etc. She/Her
Shropshire
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Paging @LucyGoBag with a small bit of pride. The Go Bag has been readily accessible in our house for a few years but I’ve just bought a wind up/solar etc radio and me and Mr O are working through a shared note on iCloud of resilience planning.
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Genuinely curious to ask if how ADHD is merely a social construct how so many on stimulant meds can take significant doses of essentially speed and eg fall asleep?
I actually think #TheGreatADHDMyth was inspirational. How have we allowed Big Pharma, careless GP's, snake oil salesmen with their absurd tests/pacifying drugs to impact tens of thousands of children and adults with a 'neuro developmental' diagnosis/condition/label? I am not an ADHD denier, but 100% believe it's a social construct - and that is where treatment needs to begin
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Did a thing! Delivered a 15min whistle stop history of trade unions, who we are, what we do, and importantly, HOW we organise to a wonderful group of young people last week
@She_raaah well done!
shropshirestar.com/your-worl…
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Obviously I am also hoping for the best outcomes for all those involved in the train derailment on Lewes too
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I had a Cassandra moment this afternoon - I said it is only a matter of days before a huge fire breaks out and spreads to houses. And it turns out it has, just down the road from my in laws
Crews tackling major fires in West Midlands, UK, with homes, buildings and grassland burning - follow live bbc.in/4qgwnLG
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This is absolutely horrific. My heart goes out to everyone. God knows if the fire service will have the water pressure to deal with this, and there’s reports of several other fires across the same service area too
Multiple homes are on fire in Stourbridge in the West Midlands as a fire rages
Updates: news.sky.com/story/uk-heatwa…
Mr O is an absolute sucker and came home with a rooster who was going in the pot. Everyone meet Rocky! Here’s hoping he’s friendlier to his new dad than Dusty our previous pot- rescue boy
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This thread may well be invaluable. I only clocked what had happened yesterday and I’m low on ketotifen which to date I’ve not been able to convince my GP is as necessary as it is
For those who relied on Dr Taylor for prescriptions, this thread will share other options:
1. For LDN the best source is to get it prescribed by Dickson’s Chemist here shop.dicksonchemist.co.uk/th…
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Writing a conference paper on my brand new public sector case study findings. Themes around disruption and central interest work and workers. Beyond the multipliers of austerity and New Public Management feels instinctive to nod to @LucyGoBag on post pandemic trauma
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Taking a break from writing to observe (and anthropomorphize) the local crow family. Dad Russell, and mum Sheryl are hopping around with their teenager Cameron. He’s got big since his first fledgling appearance in the garden in early summer
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More than 800,000 our of work for ill health since 2019. Yet we still can’t wonder out loud what happened from 2020 onwards to impact those numbers bbc.com/news/articles/c7v80n…
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Having tried to negotiate more than a few public sector reasonable adjustments (with the added pub sec Equality Duty) I have thoughts as to how difficult this will be to achieve even if legislation changes to better support employees theguardian.com/money/2025/n…
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And yet our Telford MP has posted himself on SM today in the HoC lauding our local hospital. I wouldn’t trust that place to confirm me dead for a number of separate reasons but to whitewash the decades of abuse of womens’ right to safe care here makes me sick
Shropshire and Leeds hospitals dropped from national maternity review - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620…
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As someone who was a teacher (a lot of years alternative provision), and as a mum of a SEND child I feel waves of despair at this. How to simultaneously fail families AND educators in one fell swoop. Chapeau Phillipson
Teachers, not councils, will take a greater role in assessing children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the Education Secretary has revealed in an interview with The i Paper
➡️ Read more: trib.al/lQ9b8BR
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General Hindsight eh Jo? I think ALL of UCU in FE with a memory will be wondering where you and the union were when we were sent back to the classroom before universities. We were getting our H&S guidance off NEU webinars
Gavin Williamson was at the covid inquiry today
Jo Grady, General Secretary, University & College Union
Shred's Williamson
Then when Therese Coffey speaks
She shred's Coffey as well
Shame on the Conservative party for how they mismanaged the early years of covid causing so much hardship, so much loss and so much suffering
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