Pat Reynolds

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I'm also @HeritageMonster, where I will now restrict to #opendata #opengenealogy, and have here for #sff and whatever I read last, for #Green issues, access/disability rights issues, traveller's tales (esp #sailing #ukot) #genealogy and #oneplacestudies

Avatar image AltText: head and neck of a Herring Gull.

Header Image AltText: a shot of washing hung out to dry. It is pegged to a line between posts over the choppy water in an estuary as the tide is coming in. Inaccessable.

Show threadPat ReynoldsNov 13, 2023
@CatherineFlick
Personally, I want a future where cars go trrktrrktrrrk - the sound made by a bicycle (a Chopper for preference) fitted with a clicker (a plastic disk in the spokes, given away in a comic - ?Beano).
Electric cars are a menace for people with sight loss.
Our next car will be electric, and I will fit it with a clicker, if I can find one. Or turn the radio up and wind down the windows ...
Pat ReynoldsNov 13, 2023
Undersea Monkey 🇪🇺Nov 13, 2023
Don't let the #reshuffle distract you from the Tories' latest cruel attack on chronically ill and disabled people. #politics #UKPolitics #GTTO
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BBC News - Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67385385
Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers

The changes, affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 2025, would save £4bn in welfare payments.

BBC News
Pat ReynoldsNov 13, 2023
@primonatura
This is traditional knowledge (see eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51043828).
I hope the "newness" of the research was quantification of the effectiveness (in one locale). #IntanginleCulturalHeritage
Australia fires: Aboriginal planners say the bush 'needs to burn'

What would happen if Australia followed the ancient bushfire management practices of Aboriginal people?

BBC News
Show threadPat ReynoldsNov 12, 2023
@evan
Sorry I didn't see the poll.
I realise I had misunderstood the term "staple food" as meaning "a food which is the main source of one of the key elements of a diet (eg vitamin c, carbs, protein, calcium, etc).
But if only carbs are essential? Then for me it is legumes. Like many gluten intolerant people.
Pat ReynoldsNov 12, 2023
@emilygorcenski
Have patience: when you graduate to being a person needing assistance, transiting at Schiphol is wonderful, and I assume landing is similar (if customs are not part of the problem).
Show threadPat ReynoldsNov 12, 2023
@gocu54
Sadly my high school illegal events were not things to make you laugh. They were people capitalising on civil war.
But it was good to be reminded of them.
Pat ReynoldsNov 12, 2023
@david_megginson
Thanks - that makes a lot more sense.
I also realise that while there are private GPs in the UK, I think few people use them (other than for resolving an issue that the NHS has failed to diagnose, or to prescribe treatments for things which the GP cannot, for a variety of reasons.
Private or charitable hospitals on the other hand are used by many more people, to avoid the long NHS waiting lists.
Pat ReynoldsNov 11, 2023

@david_megginson
I don't understand why a private clinic would undertake work for which they provided a premium service* but were only charging the healthcare rates.
*Eg more time from doctor, less waiting time for first appointment, swifter treatment, better patient/nurse ratios, better equipment in physio, better food, complimentary snacks for accompanying persons waiting for someone to come out of day surgery.

Maybe they just get to turn away patients that cost more to treat?

Pat ReynoldsNov 11, 2023
Neia masksNov 10, 2023
I got to pet a cat today! It deserves a home and I would have adopted it on the spot if I could have.
Show threadPat ReynoldsNov 10, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6
Sadly, I can't understand the image (hint of you HAVE to use confusable colours for different lines, use lines broken with dots and / or dashes).
But, assuming your graph shows what you said: efficiency is only one aspect. Another is end user cost. Another is availability of products. Just getting _estimates_ for installation is a hurdle at the moment.