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seb321

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Never quite know what will grab my attention. I’ve moved on from just agreeing that climate change will drastically affect the next generations and am actively looking at ways to build resilience and support each other. My generation has to hold its hands up and admit we failed to prevent this. Sorry kids. Going to spend my remaining time enjoying the best of humanity not the worst - art, cooperatives, writing, music, history, film (I should have just said arts), random stuff, etc. He/him

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RolloTreadway , to random
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Morning all. Bit pissed off, because of something I read yesterday - that some stupid percentage of people apparently want fewer non-clinical staff in the NHS, in relation to the usual election bullshit about 'efficiency savings'.

I work for an ambulance service. Our ambulances see all kind of unpleasant things, so it's essential that they're kept clean.

But without non-clinical staff, we have nobody working in Cleaning, so infections spread.

And we can't have a plan to bring these infections under control, as we now have no Infection Control staff. What, you thought Infection Control was a clinical job? You probably thought everything was a clinical job, right? Guess what? Just because a role is in some way connected to medical things, doesn't mean it is classified as 'clinical'.

Also, we don't have anything with which to clean and stop infections, because no non-clinical staff means no Procurement staff out there buying what's needed.

Even if we could procure what we needed, how could we pay for it? We'll have nobody in Finance.

Perhaps, okay, we can have Finance staff, but who's going to do that job if we can't pay them? Because we can't pay anyone, if we have no Payroll staff.

And if we have someone doing Payroll, presumably they'll be using payroll software on the computer. Except, they can't do that, as we won't have any IT staff.

This is a bad idea, right? Let's bring back Cleaning, bring Infection Control, bring back Procurement, bring back Finance, bring back Payroll, bring back, IT. Except... actually we can't do that either, because no non-clinical staff means no Recruitment team.

Non-clinical support staff matter as much in the NHS as any other organisation. Without non-clinical support, there is no NHS.

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of Support Staff Who Are Already Overworked And Underpaid As It Is, And We're Really Fucking Tired.

#NHS #UKPol #politics

seb321 ,
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@RolloTreadway What have the non-clinical NHS staff ever done for us?

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Wow, that's crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

seb321 ,
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@lowqualityfacts I just don’t understand

breadandcircuses , to random
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I’ve mentioned this before, but I gotta say once again — it’s crazy how comically bad I am at guessing how my posts will be received.

I mean, on occasion I’ll drop something random in my timeline, figuring it’s just a throwaway, and then BOOM — tons of comments and boosts. Why? I have no idea.

Then, conversely, I’ll labor away on a particular item, believing this one really matters and people need to see it. But after it’s posted…… crickets.

It’s hilarious how bad I am at this. Good thing I’m not getting paid on my results!

#Mastodon

seb321 ,
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@breadandcircuses It may be chaotic

futurebird , to random
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Entropy distinguishes future from past. Entropy is defined as decreasing order.

Order is defined in multiple ways, at multiple scales. Matter with more lines of symmetry has greater order; periodic repetition is more orderly.

Consider an ant: The body of the ant consists of repeated patterns. Molecules of DNA & RNA, clusters of similar cells form organs.

Consider a deconstructed ant; a symmetrical array of perfectly sorted plies of elements.

Which one is more ordered?

seb321 ,
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@futurebird If you leave an ant in a vacuum it will decay into a higher entropic state. The pile of elements won’t change that much. Living things maintain their order by increasing disorder in their environment - waste material and heat being two obvious examples.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Elon is the worst.

seb321 ,
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@lowqualityfacts The vacuum was based on what is in his head.

futurebird , to random
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Still thinking about the concept of studying ant communication by getting down to ant level. Make a tiny robot (we don't know how to make walking robots that small, so wheels it is) the robot would have a camera, little pads to collect pheromones (which could be dropped off to be analyzed) antennae IR sensors and maybe a way to stridulate?

Then one could really find out what's going on in there.

Worst case you have made an immersive ant VR experience!

seb321 ,
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@futurebird @drexer They’d be formidable opponents

Sherifazuhur , to palestine group
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Howard Beckett: There are EU nations refusing to partner with Israel’s genocide and vow to continue funding UNRWA:

Ireland 🇮🇪
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Norway 🇳🇴
Slovenia 🇸🇮 doubled funding
Portugal 🇵🇹 donating an extra €1ml
Spain 🇪🇸 trebled funding to €50ml.

Celebrate them
@palestine

seb321 ,
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@Sherifazuhur @palestine Scotland stubbornly sticking to the right side of history.

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