LearnTribe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @LearnTribe@mastodon.scot

The prick in a suit Grant Shapps just backed himself into a Capitalist black hole.
Yet again misrepresenting how much railway workers are paid he was then pushed on whether he thinks they are overpaid, and tried to suggest that it wasn't fair to pay them more than nurses and to allow Unions to hold everyone to ransom.
Charlie Stait then pounced, saying "then pay nurses more". (waffle response)

Railworkers have better pay & conditions as they have a strong Union who will act.

🎵 A hot and windy August afternoon has the trees in constant motion. #Rush
The album (Signals) and song that was the soundtrack of my youth. Analog Kid is one of those songs that evokes memories, and I play it every August. I still dream of the faun eyed girl I fell for all those years ago, but this year just feel sad, perhaps knowing the Triumvirate is no more, or perhaps just feeling the possibilities of life that have slipped through my fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KdQKwxWyk

Interesting freshly published research on the experiences arising from Covid of autistic STAFF in schools - highlighting that there are strong positive as well as negative aspects of working from home, not least the reduced sensory and social overload that many find exhausting on a daily basis.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131911.2022.2103521

So the official inflation figure is now 10.1%, which means for the poorest the actual squeeze on their limited resources will be more like 25%.
At what point will people in general accept this is driven by government policies, not least Brexit & Capitalism, rather than something unfortunate beyond our ability to address?
The government must be removed, not just their current leader whose departure has enabled them to sit back and play with their share portfolios.

As much as I'm enjoying being able to play a roleplaying game whenever I want, I wish Pathfinder Kingmaker would stop sending me off on missions to kill things and let me get on with building my Barony.

Harvested first strawberry from garden.
A little tart, but the rest will be ripe in the next week, so it's a gamble to leave them a bit longer or pick them before the birds & slugs get them.

Just had an email from energy supplier "helpfully" giving me context for the impending price cap rise.

They're making it sound like the regulator is forcing them to put prices up to the limit of the cap (about double price last year), instead of being honest that are ripping the shit out of the perceived situation with opportunistic profiteering.

Don't burn gas, burn gas company executives. Then see how cheap fuel gets.

I really need to attract a hedgehog into my garden as a permanent resident.
The slugs are winning the me vs aberrations fight.

Great.
Bought a new shower isolator pull cord, and with much swearing fitted it.
In the process of screwing the plate back onto the ceiling the nut/hole one of the screws attaches to snapped off, leaving it lopsided, so need to replace the base mount pullcord attaches to.
Not that it matters, it still doesn't fucking work when I trip the switch to power on.

I'm done, fed up with family expecting me to be able to fix electrics, plumbing, cars, etc. I have zero aptitude for this stuff.