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@highbrow_nobrow The people who are really desperate will keep phoning. That's how corporate help desks work. It's cheaper to cut 33% of staff and let 66% of calls just drop.

Nearly 30% of callers to the Social Security Administration are now auto-disconnected before reaching an agent, per SSA data reported by BI. After a year of low failure rates, the 2025 spike points to deepening understaffing or systemic breakdown.

@markmanson A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

If you’re not failing, you’re not learning. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing, you’re not living. ㅤ Living without failing is failing to live.

Can you do a program investigating why people still believe something that a corporation wrote on a package it is trying to sell to you? Are people really that thick? Is the education system broken? Convenience = Junk @BBCPanorama

@lotusium_pro If you were using a meat cleaver to open jars, maybe arthritis isn't your problem. What's your day-job, mass murderer?

@BillTJr6 @DrNeilStone Who said carbs are good? When I was at school they taught us to eat a balanced diet, 40 years later it's the best advice I ever had and the only one I followed.

@DrNeilStone 99% of doctors told us fat was bad and carbs were good. They were dead wrong. 99% of doctors went to a med school underwritten by Big Pharma & Big Food. We’ll stick with the 1% that remembers their Hippocratic Oath.

99% of doctors are pro vaccine 90% of Joe Rogan's guests are anti vaccine That's his "balance"

@cryptooverforex @DrNeilStone Scepticism is good. I'm also in favour of pausing vaccines for young people who are not at risk of serious illness. But then we have more carriers in society, there's a trade-off somewhere.

@DrNeilStone I am not anti vaccine but skeptical of mRNA vaccines. Luckily, most vaccines have a non mRNA option. I encourage everyone to do their research. As far as child vaccines, I wish they would spread them out over a longer period of time. That’s just common sense.

@GregOwen70 @DrNeilStone If I was a silly sod with a podcast and my audience depended on being controversial for no reason, I'd say vaccines have teeny tiny robots in them.

@DrNeilStone If I was a doctor and my ability to continue being a doctor relied on my saying I was pro-vaccine, I'd definitely say I was pro-vaccine regardless of my own personal opinion. (I am pro-vaccine, btw. Except for mRNA, which is still too new to say one way or the other.)

@thesovereignceo @DrNeilStone Pfizer evil, vaccines good. Hitler was a Vegetarian. Ghandi was pro domestic violence. A good person can do a bad thing, a bad person can do a good thing.

@DrNeilStone I’m pretty sure this account is just Pfizer and they slapped this guys face on it

"you can't lick a badger twice" is a reference to Norman Lamont's spell as chancellor. He made a few gaffes and was hounded out of office.

@GeoffNorcott If Ed Davey was your idea, it would explain a lot.

‘This was genuinely my idea’

@HumansExplained ...Boris.

Complete the proverb with something about humans: "You can't have your cake and eat it..."

@HumansExplained Do not throw salt in the eyes of ducks and fish.

How would you phrase this sign's hilarity?

@IntroWisdom Introverts don't have casual friendships. There is a high probability that my one deep connection sees me as a casual friendship.

A deep connection means more to an introvert than a hundred casual friendships.

@CountBinface Trump and Neil Kinnock? Playing twister?

After Trump and Putin agree to an… er…. ice hockey match, what next? International Hungry Hungry Hippos? Find out in my brand new newsletter! Out now at the website that’s better than X, BetterThanX.co.uk!

@PrivateEyeNews Farage's wife already dumped him and went back where she came from.

That Cummings / Farage alliance – how it will pan out From the new Private Eye, out now.

Bluesky is the future of social media fastcompany.com/91255918/in-th…

@NoContextBrits This is a metaphor for extracting tax from big businesses who happily use roads, rail, airports and benefit from state educated workers, all funded by taxes.

@Lalcmac @NoContextBrits Probably the most important thing about science is the hundreds of experiments and tests that yield negative results. All the "useless" stuff that finds a use - teflon, mouthwash, post-it note glue (a really weak glue). Maybe cockroach milk for animal feed?

@NoContextBrits 🤢🤮we need to reclaim science and make it science again!!!

Let's End Fossil Fuels! Ecotricity.co.uk

@Provokethoughtz @MelTankardReist There's nothing like this on Bluesky.