fran barton

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

Mum's helmet warning after cyclist son, 11, suffers broken leg in crash with car Charlene Storey said she was relieved son Logan had not been more badly injured after being involved in a crash this week

Maybe he should have strapped the helmet to his leg.

The key here is not helmets, but safer space for kids to cycle and better driving.

(Oh and helmet evangelists and guilt trippers will be blocked)
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just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

wonders will never cease!

zinger!

She's had appalling takes every week for decades now

Yes!

That headline is a hostage to fortune

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Oh my God how are they so bad at this

Going to get sued for libel by the Concert Pianists Union

Well said Rachel ✊🏻

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

Including a wipe-out in Wales

I wonder if this is the article @windyspirals.bsky.social is thinking of - it's one of my favourite pieces themorningnews.org/in-tennis-lo...

(not as well-known as DFW's essay on pro tennis in String Theory)

I'm thoroughly enjoying the threads

"Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles" - style logo that says "Not Immune To Propaganda"

Ok. I have nothing but contempt for her politics but I think Otto said it perfectly in his initial post. I hope (against hope) that the experience opens her eyes.

Sink to her level

You don't have to do this

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

I remember the morning of 5th July 2024 Khan being interviewed on TV, talking about his old friend Starmer and saying how great everything was going to be, he wouldn't hear a word said against him

He's definitely been thinking about her A LOT

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

no seriously, my mood is awful. alt text is too much today

my mood has been so bleak lately, and i resent it when my code makes something pretty

Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny.

My government told me the Green Party keeps eating their statements so I asked how many statements they have and they said they just go and get another statement so I said it sounds like they're just feeding statements to Green Party voters

Since I saw the phrase “Everything is gender” I have become convinced that everything is indeed gender

Just take a second to think how Labour would talk about being beaten by a plumber from a working class background in Bolton if they were a man.