Paulette Arochena ✍🏻Freelance Artist

Where the 🦋’s are… 👀

@organicsi @MissLauraMarcus @H6701 Have you ever tried self employment? You need to save but it’s often used for if you get ill. You don’t earn if you don’t work etc etc

@parochena @MissLauraMarcus @H6701 In this case the boss/job didn't pay well enough if over 50 years they were unable to accrue any savings.

I’m a pensioner. So I benefit from the triple lock. I get the full state pension. Which is £965 every four weeks; so equivalent to £1045 a month. I get the full amount because I have 50 years of working and paying my stamp and income tax. I get no other pension. It’s not luxury!

The little things in Singapore the LGU can adopt to start looking like Singapore.

@Juststopsoil @Matt56404055206 @Artemisfornow I see the point you’re trying to make, however, whatever amount a person gets in benefits is paid almost immediately back into the economy instead of going into a savings account.

@parochena @Matt56404055206 @Artemisfornow I’m clearly referring to income tax. A person earning £32,000 in income is taxed on it. If you get an income of £32,000 in benefits you pay zero income tax on it. That’s my point.

What? … 625,618 households received more in benefits than the average UK worker's salary after tax and 16,000 received over £60,000 in welfare payments … DOUBLE the average annual take home pay for a worker in the UK after tax. This is not a functioning society 🤡

@organicsi @MissLauraMarcus @H6701 Self employment IS a job. You are the boss.

@parochena @MissLauraMarcus @H6701 A job might have paid more.

Isn’t it odd how Elon says we won’t need money in the future but he wants $10t for himself.

@DessieSPolitics I don’t have the photo anymore but I have seen a ‘caution: slippery surface’ on the entrance to an ice pad at a rink.

Meanwhile in the USA. 🤡

@PhilHumber1 @johngounaris Plenty working full time and still needing UC top up and still struggling too.

@johngounaris If a person on min wage is supposed to be what's needed to "live", then you're advocating a family on welfare(for many various reasons) should automatically be in poverty. How's that going to solve anything and not cost more in the long run ? Absolute clowns...

There should be a hard cap on total household income from welfare and it should be less than what a single person can earn on minimum wage.

@functional_rqmt @DNC70 @johngounaris One in ten do not claim to be severely disabled. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@DNC70 @johngounaris That it's not a "minute percentage", you absolute tool. It's a massive number. (also most of it is fraud. one tenth of the population is NOT severely disabled.)

@Juststopsoil @Matt56404055206 @Artemisfornow Everyone is taxed one way or another.

@Matt56404055206 @Artemisfornow How?

@Helen_Whately Unpaid carers do more work than you do, Helen. You get yearly pay rises too. If you cared about a budget, you’d forfeit some of that to people saving the country a whole lot of money.

Thousands of households claim £50,000+ in benefits every year. You have to earn £65k for that income through work. It’s not fair and we can’t afford it. The next step in my plan to grip welfare and get Britain working 👇

@TeamYouTube @vaporama_vision You’ve demonetised people who’ve clearly demonstrated animation skills before GenAI came out too. Please sort out your bots! Training on user content and then calling it inauthentic is pretty gross practice.

@vaporama_vision Hi! We've sent you a DM

YouTube demonetized me for "inauthentic content". This is what I make 👇 It takes at least a week, a render farm, and advanced skills to create a 3D video like this. I work too hard for it to be labeled as low effort. My appeal was rejected. Please @TeamYouTube, review my case

@organicsi @MissLauraMarcus @H6701 She was self employed.

@MissLauraMarcus @H6701 Why didn't you get a job?

@OldJimmyB @MissLauraMarcus @crepycidon Jimmy, she’s barely getting enough to live on even with the triple lock. Calm down.

@MissLauraMarcus @crepycidon So the young have to pay because you decided to choose low paying work? Not a winning argument, but for sure typical of boomer benefit scroungers

@dadaostephen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 For calling her out!

Hi @SuellaBraverman , 48 hours ago I asked you to substantiate or withdraw your claim that “250,000 foreign students took £4bn in UK loans.” That time has now passed. You have provided no evidence, no clarification, and no correction. I have taken the time to examine the data myself. I have reviewed materials from the Student Loans Company, the Department for Education, the House of Commons Library, the UK Statistics Authority, and reporting from Times Higher Education. Across these sources, one thing is clear. Your statement is presented in a way that gives the public a deeply misleading impression. Let’s deal with this carefully. The £4bn figure you reference relates to the total value of student loans issued to non UK nationals. It is not a direct cost to the taxpayer. These are loans. They are repaid over time based on income. Presenting that figure as if it were money handed out or lost is not an accurate reflection of how the system works. Then there is your use of the phrase “foreign students.” This is where the distortion becomes more serious. The fact (which you know quite well) is those eligible for UK student finance are not newly arrived international students. They are people with settled status, indefinite leave to remain, refugee status, or long term lawful residence in the UK. They live here. They work here. They pay into the system. And under the law, they are entitled to access student finance. Standard international students on student visas are generally not eligible for these loans. By leaving out that distinction, you create a very different picture in the minds of the public. One where large numbers of people are arriving from abroad and immediately accessing public funds. That is not what the data shows. You also cited a figure of 250,000 without pointing to a clearly published dataset or transparent methodology. Numbers like this carry weight. They should be used with care, not as loose estimates in politically charged statements. I am not interested in party politics. But I am concerned about what this kind of messaging is doing to the country. When lending is presented as spending, and long term residents are presented as outsiders, it fuels resentment. It deepens division. It creates tension where clarity is needed. And ordinary people end up carrying the consequences of that confusion. Like I was being racially attacked and profiled in my initial response to you in X by supporters of your party who were obviously misled and triggered by your misinformation. I did consider legal action. But the reality is that the law is not designed to deal easily with this kind of broad public misrepresentation. You know that, which is why ignoring a challenge like mine carries little immediate consequence. That does not make it acceptable. I will be submitting a formal complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding your use of misleading statistical claims in public communication. The public deserves accuracy. Not selective framing. Not distortion. And certainly not narratives that risk turning people against each other on the basis of incomplete facts. Stephen Dada.

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This level of wealth hoarding is a mental illness.

ALS is taking my body. It shouldn't also take my money. 5 months ago @binance's Face ID stopped recognizing me because the disease changed my face. Their response: nothing. No accessible alternative for users with disabilities. This is what happens when a platform moving billions treats accessibility as optional. Shame on you, @binance. @_RichardTeng, @cz_binance

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.