" There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen,1992, Anthem song

“He was just somebody who fell through all the cracks..."

A young man who came to Australia to study computer science died in the bushes near the bustling tunnel entrance to Sydney’s St James station. "Roughly 100,000 people went in or out of St James station during the time ..."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb
#biopolitics #Sydney #education #housing #visas #homelessness #VulnerableHomelessness #precarity #cracks #SystemicFailures

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days

Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

The Guardian

I mean seriously--fine. Not a single one of you has bothered to learn to read fingerspelling in four full years of an ongoing pandemic.

But perhaps you could put an ABC card out that people could point to. Or even a freaking Ouiji board, for gossake!

This is something that the INSTITUTIONS should be addressing, not fobbed off on each individual patient. 😡

2/x

#SystemFailure
#SystemicFailures
#ActuallyDisabled
#abhealth
#yeg

DOJ's #Uvaldereport finds #systemicfailures in school shooting response.
“Garland called out the “failure” of the local police response at Robb Elementary, saying it was a matter of failed “leadership, training, and policies.”
Due to these errors, Garland added, “33 students and three of their teachers — many of whom had been shot — were trapped in a room with an active shooter for over an hour as law enforcement officials remained outside.”

https://apple.news/AogptF7dDT1qEYGJNbh0gyw

DOJ's Uvalde report finds systemic failures in school shooting response — The Hill

A lack of preparation, communication and initiative led Texas law enforcement officers to bungle their response to a brutal 2022 school shooting, a new investigation from the Justice Department has found.

Empowering Change: Join the 'Leave Psiren Alone' March Against Bullying on Laurelin! 🌈✊

We are delighted to extend an invitation to you for Laurelins' First Annual Anti-Bullying Protest, proudly sponsored by the Laurelin Observer, on December 16...

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#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingSystemicFailureNotNews... #NotNearly24... #OftenLess... #FrequentlyFewer...

#IT would seem that #NHSEngland (nee #NHSImprovement, nee #NHSDigital) are #StillStruggling with its #WageTheft and #Assorted #SystemicFailures...

#IT's #NotNews... #StillNotNews; but also #StillTrue™️​... And, #Still in #ThePublicDomain, which is #SoVeryPublic, aye | #LookNoQuestionMark

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A Texas House committee released an exhaustive report of the Uvalde shooter, his planning, his attack and the fumbling response. It details missed warning signs and a school safety plan and active-shooter training that went disregarded.

#Texas #UvaldeShooting #SystemicFailures
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/law-enforcement-failure-uvalde-shooting-investigation/

“Systemic failures” in Uvalde shooting went far beyond local police, Texas House report details

In total, 376 law enforcement officers descended upon the school, according to the most extensive account of the shooting to date. It says that better-equipped departments should have stepped up to fill a leadership void after the Uvalde schools police chief failed to take charge.

The Texas Tribune