Ann Kempster
@annkempster.com
Public sector agitator for good.
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Who wants some stir fried vag tonight?
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Who wants some stir fried vag tonight?
Let’s not discuss that
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Let’s not discuss that
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Example 99 for why I didn’t use the Welsh language option of a service.
A new one: m&s Shrewsbury till froze and crashed when I selected Welsh.
Moved to another till, and selected English.. in case it happened again. Had a train to catch… in a rush.
A new one: m&s Shrewsbury till froze and crashed when I selected Welsh.
Moved to another till, and selected English.. in case it happened again. Had a train to catch… in a rush.
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Example 99 for why I didn’t use the Welsh language option of a service.
A new one: m&s Shrewsbury till froze and crashed when I selected Welsh.
Moved to another till, and selected English.. in case it happened again. Had a train to catch… in a rush.
A new one: m&s Shrewsbury till froze and crashed when I selected Welsh.
Moved to another till, and selected English.. in case it happened again. Had a train to catch… in a rush.
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Wales’ public health approach received international recognition at a major World Health Organisation meeting this week
Wales showcases health leadership on global stage
Wales’ public health approach received international recognition at a major World Health Organisation meeting this week. The Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Sarah Murphy spoke at the WHO Reg...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
The RAAC analogy is so so so apt for this.
The roof is going to fall in.
The roof is going to fall in.
In which @richardpope.org shares a very personal example of the problems GDS Local could help local council's to solve. richardpope.org/2025/11/26/a...
Aerated concrete and EHCPs
I was up until midnight last night trying to battle a local …
richardpope.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The RAAC analogy is so so so apt for this.
The roof is going to fall in.
The roof is going to fall in.
the very thing I was looking for! A Wales specific view of the budget.
A very important, very nerdy thing that they picked out...
A very important, very nerdy thing that they picked out...
🚨 NEW: 'FROZEN 2': 🧊 Here's the Wales Fiscal Analysis team's first breakdown on what the 2025 Autumn Budget means for Wales
🚨NEWYDD: Beth mae Cyllideb y Hydref 2025 yn ei olygu i Gymru? Dyma ddadansoddiad cyntaf o'r newidiadau sydd ar y ffordd
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...
🚨NEWYDD: Beth mae Cyllideb y Hydref 2025 yn ei olygu i Gymru? Dyma ddadansoddiad cyntaf o'r newidiadau sydd ar y ffordd
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...
Frozen 2: Tax Freezes, the 2-Child Limit (and what the 2025 Autumn Budget means for Wales)
Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
the very thing I was looking for! A Wales specific view of the budget.
A very important, very nerdy thing that they picked out...
A very important, very nerdy thing that they picked out...
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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My vote goes to whoever tells the truth to the public on how bad this is. If you want better public services, more and better jobs, you need immigration. The robots ain't gonna help you.
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My vote goes to whoever tells the truth to the public on how bad this is. If you want better public services, more and better jobs, you need immigration. The robots ain't gonna help you.
Spent a day under fluorescent lighting, I forgot how incredibly overstimulating they are.
a close up of a man 's face with a yellow glow
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a yellow glow
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Spent a day under fluorescent lighting, I forgot how incredibly overstimulating they are.
Hey banana, stop threatening to beautify my slides.
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hey banana, stop threatening to beautify my slides.
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And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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Say it with me now: un-funded-spen-ding-cuts
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Say it with me now: un-funded-spen-ding-cuts
Acting all start-uppy today at a co-working space in Cardiff.
[how are there no Nathan Barley gifs on this platform]
[how are there no Nathan Barley gifs on this platform]
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Acting all start-uppy today at a co-working space in Cardiff.
[how are there no Nathan Barley gifs on this platform]
[how are there no Nathan Barley gifs on this platform]
I love long-tailed tits so much. We've got a volery that comes and flies in and out of the willow outside our offices.
Little balls of fluff.
Little balls of fluff.
When you get the chance to get photos of Long-tailed Tits at eye level and close range it's impossible to ignore them. This cutie a couple of days ago around Cardiff Bay #UKbirding #birdingWales #birds
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I love long-tailed tits so much. We've got a volery that comes and flies in and out of the willow outside our offices.
Little balls of fluff.
Little balls of fluff.
He/this org was also at the Monmouth floods. He then spent all weekend shitting on local residents and emergency services on Facebook and claiming autism as an excuse for being unpleasant.
Residents in west Wales have raised concerns about a self-appointed ‘community helper’ who has been ‘assisting’ with emergency incidents without authority to do so ✍️Emily Price
Residents raise concerns over self appointed 'community helper'
Emily Price Residents in west Wales have raised concerns about a self appointed “community helper” who has been “assisting” with emergency incidents without authority to do so. Ajay Owen launched Sup...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
He/this org was also at the Monmouth floods. He then spent all weekend shitting on local residents and emergency services on Facebook and claiming autism as an excuse for being unpleasant.
Living between 2 houses, stuff in boxes, stuff in a storage unit is FRUSTRATING.
I cannot find a single pair of headphones (other than my Bose which are on their death bed).
I'm just going to have to fork out for new Bose aren't I? ARG
I cannot find a single pair of headphones (other than my Bose which are on their death bed).
I'm just going to have to fork out for new Bose aren't I? ARG
a man is holding a dollar bill in his hand and says `` thats all i got '' .
ALT: a man is holding a dollar bill in his hand and says `` thats all i got '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Living between 2 houses, stuff in boxes, stuff in a storage unit is FRUSTRATING.
I cannot find a single pair of headphones (other than my Bose which are on their death bed).
I'm just going to have to fork out for new Bose aren't I? ARG
I cannot find a single pair of headphones (other than my Bose which are on their death bed).
I'm just going to have to fork out for new Bose aren't I? ARG
The recent Stratford-upon-Avon Grand Designs is an absolute monstrosity. Just awful in all ways. Willing things to go wrong for them throughout.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The recent Stratford-upon-Avon Grand Designs is an absolute monstrosity. Just awful in all ways. Willing things to go wrong for them throughout.
Dinner visited my front garden over night.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Dinner visited my front garden over night.
I mean you weren't hit with a bill. The estate pays it. It was free money. Shut up.
how is this remotely unfair? or cruel?
how is this remotely unfair? or cruel?
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I mean you weren't hit with a bill. The estate pays it. It was free money. Shut up.
how is this remotely unfair? or cruel?
how is this remotely unfair? or cruel?
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Bread from crisps because of an internet dare.
Dan wins the internet today.
Dan wins the internet today.
Buckle up friend it’s time for bread made out of crisps 🍞 🥔
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bread from crisps because of an internet dare.
Dan wins the internet today.
Dan wins the internet today.
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P-p-p-poper face, p-p-poper face
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
P-p-p-poper face, p-p-poper face