Solidarity with all striking workers this week ✊

If you are inconvenienced by industrial action, remember to blame the bosses not the workers. If people had proper pay and working conditions there wouldn’t be a need to strike in the first place.

#strikes #strike #StrikingWorkers #EnoughIsEnough #IndustrialAction #TUC #Drawing #Illustration #TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists

Massive #NEU #UCU #TSSA #HCSA #Strike action in the #UK today. From #BBC:

- Hundreds of thousands of workers across a range of sectors are on strike in disputes over pay
- It is thought to be the biggest day of industrial action since the current wave of unrest began last year
- Teachers in England, university lecturers, civil servants and London Underground drivers are all downing tools
- Junior doctors are into the final day of a 72-hour strike affecting hospitals across England

Today I spoke to about twenty people who work in various jobs in TV, digital media, music production, transport, education, and art & design. Only one of them had heard of #Mastodon and nobody had heard about #ChatGPT.

I sometimes wonder if people only learn about new things when they are chatting over the garden fence. "Ooh, have you 'eard? Mrs B at number six is 'avin that fancy elastic trickery installed. It won't do 'er no good I can tell you. I'll stick with me whale oil lamps."

My bar for friendships from this point forward will be "Jamie Lee Curtis As Michelle Yeoh Wins a Golden Globe" -level ride or die.

#GoldenGlobes #JamieLeeCurtis #MichelleYeoh #Friendship #Women