Nick Rosenthal
@nickrosenthal.bsky.social
Translator. Crime fiction fan. Cyclist. Ancien du PBP
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The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
I am not sure that "encouraging" people to invest in stock markets if they wish to have tax-free savings is wise.
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am not sure that "encouraging" people to invest in stock markets if they wish to have tax-free savings is wise.
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Most people in the UK do not have the skills to invest successfully in the stock markets. It sounds like a good way to lose money for a lot of people!
Off out into town this evening for a Chinese meal with "the lad". Bit of quality father and son time!
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Off out into town this evening for a Chinese meal with "the lad". Bit of quality father and son time!
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Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
UK's Motability scheme no longer includes premium brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes | Autocar
Announcement comes just weeks after chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to axe luxury models from the programme
www.autocar.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
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Did you know that government levies have driven more than half of the rise in electricity bills in recent years?
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Did you know that government levies have driven more than half of the rise in electricity bills in recent years?
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
Read 'Splitting the bill' to find out how to cut energy bills 👉 buff.ly/sHhw6L1
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I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
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🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
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REMINDER: Our report shall be published on Sunday 23 November. From this date, open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to access the following:
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
Autism Act 2009 Committee - News - Committees - UK Parliament
News for Autism Act 2009 Committee
committees.parliament.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
REMINDER: Our report shall be published on Sunday 23 November. From this date, open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to access the following:
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
- Full report
- Report summary with the list of conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand (shorter summary of our report's key points)
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A failure by successive UK governments to create a public awareness campaign on autism during “misinformed public discourse” about the condition is “both striking and unacceptable”, a report by a House of Lords Select Committee reviewing the 2009 Autism Act has said.
Peers slam ‘unacceptable’ government ‘failure’ to launch autism awareness campaign amid ‘misinformed public discourse’
A failure by successive UK governments to create a public awareness campaign on autism during “misinformed public discourse” about the condition is “both striking and unacceptable”, a report by a House of Lords Select Committee reviewing the 2009 Autism Act has said.
liamodell.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A failure by successive UK governments to create a public awareness campaign on autism during “misinformed public discourse” about the condition is “both striking and unacceptable”, a report by a House of Lords Select Committee reviewing the 2009 Autism Act has said.
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Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
So, if you're organising a conference, we all recognise that having an all-male discussion panel would be wrong. Not reflecting gender mix properly.
And how about the voices quoted in promotional materials? Should there be diversity of gender there, too?
And how about the voices quoted in promotional materials? Should there be diversity of gender there, too?
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, if you're organising a conference, we all recognise that having an all-male discussion panel would be wrong. Not reflecting gender mix properly.
And how about the voices quoted in promotional materials? Should there be diversity of gender there, too?
And how about the voices quoted in promotional materials? Should there be diversity of gender there, too?
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"Quand il fera froid il n'y aura plus aucun cycliste sur les pistes cyclables" bah non ! À Paris, peu importe la météo, le vélo reste une partie inéluctable de la mobilité... tant qu'on a des infrastructures sécurisées 🧐
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Quand il fera froid il n'y aura plus aucun cycliste sur les pistes cyclables" bah non ! À Paris, peu importe la météo, le vélo reste une partie inéluctable de la mobilité... tant qu'on a des infrastructures sécurisées 🧐
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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"CyanLines is the bold plan to link & transform Manchester’s green and blue spaces...The vision is to develop a network of over 100 miles of...routes over ten years, starting with the city centres of Manchester & Salford...& linking to the rest of Greater Manchester’s boroughs"
Link: cyanlines.com
Link: cyanlines.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"CyanLines is the bold plan to link & transform Manchester’s green and blue spaces...The vision is to develop a network of over 100 miles of...routes over ten years, starting with the city centres of Manchester & Salford...& linking to the rest of Greater Manchester’s boroughs"
Link: cyanlines.com
Link: cyanlines.com
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It is infuriating that if you tell GMail that it can't train its plagiarism machine on your stuff that it takes away all the Promotions/Social Media junk-adjacent tabs and throws everything into one huge Inbox.
It's a shitty thing to do because those tabs and mail being sorted existed before the AI
It's a shitty thing to do because those tabs and mail being sorted existed before the AI
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It is infuriating that if you tell GMail that it can't train its plagiarism machine on your stuff that it takes away all the Promotions/Social Media junk-adjacent tabs and throws everything into one huge Inbox.
It's a shitty thing to do because those tabs and mail being sorted existed before the AI
It's a shitty thing to do because those tabs and mail being sorted existed before the AI
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...
One Pound Tickets
£1 tickets for a day visit to the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace will be available to anyone in receipt of named benefits.
www.hrp.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...
I'm delivering training this morning. So time for a 10-minute walk round the block before I settle at my desk!
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I'm delivering training this morning. So time for a 10-minute walk round the block before I settle at my desk!
Looking forward to "the lad" dropping in for tea this evening on his way home from work. Bit of quality family time.
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Looking forward to "the lad" dropping in for tea this evening on his way home from work. Bit of quality family time.
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One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
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![Wikipedia article regarding the legal system in Nazi Germany
section: later antisemitic laws
According to historian Saul Friedländer, the "fateful turning point" was reached in 1938 and 1939[20] with the passage of additional laws which used economic harassment and violence to drive Jews from Germany:[20]
Jewish physicians were de-certified, and were no longer allowed to treat German patients.
Jews were not allowed to own gardens.
All Jewish-named streets in Germany were renamed.
Jews were prohibited from cinemas, the opera, and concerts.
Jewish children were banned from public schools.
Robbing Jews became legal, and Jews were forced to surrender "all jewellery of any value"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pz3yguowsyq3xo4pprnsehjn/bafkreibk4vl26dshypqas2giodb6mas7zaulsk2m3fljeysqu4osxn5d7m@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM