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Andrew Fisher
@merman1974
Retro gamer, Commodore 64 fan, deeply affected by Crohn's Disease, christened the Retrogaming Oracle by , homebrew writer
Skegnessuk.linkedin.com/in/andrewfishe…Born November 9Joined July 2009

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UK public: food shortages… aren’t good. Brexit: EAT MORE TURNIPS UK’s biggest turnip grower: we stopped growing them. We import most turnips now. Brexit: … UK public: well? Brexit: ALL IS FINE. EAT MORE TASTY SOVEREIGNTY
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I'm seeing an influx of people on my timeline testing positive for COVID-19 for the 1st time. This means that even the most careful among us are getting it. This says a lot about: - current varients - what happens when mitigation efforts are stigmatized by public health leaders
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The whole disabled people shouldn't have kids conversation reminds me of how people say that poor people shouldn't have kids either. It's eugenics. Having money or being able bodied doesn't guarantee you'll be a good parent. It all depends on the individual.
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Any UK journalists travelling with should consider the fate of independent reporters killed and jailed under Kagame before writing their articles, naively falling for regime propaganda and betraying their journalist colleagues in Rwanda (theguardian.com/books/2016/jan)
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Rwanda can take thousands of our migrants, says @SuellaBraverman in a display of utterly grotesque hypocrisy as the Kigali dictatorship's proxy militia stirs up terror and creates huge numbers of refugees in DRC thetimes.co.uk/article/suella
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Attended the aftermath of a badger digging incident on #Wirral this week, the first time in 14 years for me on our peninsula. It will not be tolerated. Badger baiters are cruel thugs who cause immense suffering to wildlife as well as their own dogs
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If you don't think disabled people can be good parents, you are all kinds of wrong. It doesn't matter if you're disabled or not, you're so wrong. How do you not personally know a disabled parent? Do you live alone in a cave? Stop with the awful takes for no reason.
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Brexit for dummies: Blow for UK as experts predict economy will be the second-worst in G20 thanks to mismanagement. It means that UK is only country apart from Russia – which is subject to serious sanctions – to see its economy shrink.
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ATTENTION BRICKED WII U OWNERS! Please RT and share! I've made this very small 9 minute video on how you might possibly unbrick your Wii U with just an $8 Raspberry Pi Pico. This won't unbrick EVERY Wii U with memory corruption, but it's worth a try!
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A Tory donor has admitted that the party is not fit to run the country - saying the UK is now on the path to being the "sick man of Europe". In a scathing assessment of the Tory record in power, Guy Hands warned Britain might need a bailout from the IMF.
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Of course she's brilliant and working with her is the greatest blessing a scruffy music teacher like me could dream of. But Lucy is what happens when you make instrumental tuition available to disadvantaged children. Help us to get this message across to those who decide.
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So disingenuous. Not a penny was put in budget for making it a policing priority, it's just words. The announcement today is from a review started 2 years ago when he wasn't PM and was driven by two bereaved mothers he doesn't bother to mention nor has he met. Top priority bab
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Last month I pledged to make tackling violence against woman and girls a national police priority. That includes the most extreme cases where women are killed in their own home. New laws today mean more violent criminals are brought to justice and spend longer behind bars. twitter.com/DominicRaab/st…
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After 13 years of Conservative rule, one in six hospital patients, or 13,000 in total in England, are fit for discharge, but have nowhere to go or no care package to support them. This is a very long-standing problem which the government has singularly failed to fix . Why not?
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A sad state of affairs, highlighted in the @bmj_latest by @medjourno1. A problem not just affecting England, & multifactorial in nature. Many of these people are in their #Last1000Days. Although described as “medically fit”, it’s a bit of a misnomer as they’re often unstable.
A sixth of patients in England’s hospitals, or more than 13 000 people, are medically
fit to leave, an analysis by the Nuffield Trust shows. The number of people in hospital whose discharge has been delayed by seven to 20 days has remained relatively stable since October 2020. But the number of patients staying in hospital for three weeks or more when they are medically fit to leave rose from an average of 2350 in October 2020 to 6390 in December 2022.
And delays are getting longer. People staying in hospital for more than three weeks were delayed for an extra 21 days on average, nine days more than in December 2021.
The analysis found a complex mix of reasons behind delayed discharge.
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