Jane Matthews
@janematthews.bsky.social
Author of The Carer's Handbook, Losing a Pet, Have the Best Year of Life. Newly relocated to the Lake District - please send umbrellas.
One of the most important posts I've read: sarahwilson.substack.com/p/can-we-tal...
Can we talk about your silence?
before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)
sarahwilson.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
One of the most important posts I've read: sarahwilson.substack.com/p/can-we-tal...
really eye-opening article
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
really eye-opening article
"Sufficiency" as a way of living a life - both 'a mindset and a policy approach' open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...
"Sufficiency" as a way of living a life
a strategy we can enact NOW to survive/thrive what is ahead
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"Sufficiency" as a way of living a life - both 'a mindset and a policy approach' open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...
We need many more articles like this to get care and carers on MPs’ agenda
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris
Britain’s army of unpaid support has been excluded from the political conversation. I didn’t expect to find hope in a book by a party leader, writes Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We need many more articles like this to get care and carers on MPs’ agenda
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"this isn’t just Netanyahu's genocide
This is the Biden-Harris genocide
The Trump-Vance genocide
The Keir Starmer & David Lammy genocide
It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas genocide
This is the mainstream medias genocide"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is the Biden-Harris genocide
The Trump-Vance genocide
The Keir Starmer & David Lammy genocide
It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas genocide
This is the mainstream medias genocide"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"this isn’t just Netanyahu's genocide
This is the Biden-Harris genocide
The Trump-Vance genocide
The Keir Starmer & David Lammy genocide
It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas genocide
This is the mainstream medias genocide"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is the Biden-Harris genocide
The Trump-Vance genocide
The Keir Starmer & David Lammy genocide
It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas genocide
This is the mainstream medias genocide"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"We are not a strain on this country. We are not a threat. We are not strangers. We are your nurses, carers, neighbours, teachers, business owners, researchers and friends."
"We are not a strain on this country. We are not a threat. We are not strangers."
A moving letter in @eastangliabylines.co.uk by our member Camilla Cucinotta on how the Starmer government's new immigration rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/co...
A moving letter in @eastangliabylines.co.uk by our member Camilla Cucinotta on how the Starmer government's new immigration rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/co...
Letter: We are not strangers
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"We are not a strain on this country. We are not a threat. We are not strangers. We are your nurses, carers, neighbours, teachers, business owners, researchers and friends."
Precious resources we need to support...
I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.
May 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Precious resources we need to support...
I have so many personal reasons to be grateful to the wonderful Romanian women who cared for my mother when I could no longer cope. This is reactionary madness.
May 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I have so many personal reasons to be grateful to the wonderful Romanian women who cared for my mother when I could no longer cope. This is reactionary madness.
Yet another betrayal of voters….and our children. Shameful.
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yet another betrayal of voters….and our children. Shameful.
A race to the bottom: " if we allow American food into Britain that has been produced with banned pesticides, or in unhygienic factory farms, or from pigs in farrowing crates, then we have to let British farmers use those same methods to compete on price.."
April 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A race to the bottom: " if we allow American food into Britain that has been produced with banned pesticides, or in unhygienic factory farms, or from pigs in farrowing crates, then we have to let British farmers use those same methods to compete on price.."
Great new initiative from a couple of do-ers youtu.be/R2khDVcup2c
The Stories of Democracy You’re Not Seeing — Let’s Change That
YouTube video by Baratunde Thurston
youtu.be
April 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Great new initiative from a couple of do-ers youtu.be/R2khDVcup2c
England’s ‘complex’ health and care system harming patients, report says
Carers have been saying this for years, but their experience is undervalued by policy makers
Carers have been saying this for years, but their experience is undervalued by policy makers
April 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
England’s ‘complex’ health and care system harming patients, report says
Carers have been saying this for years, but their experience is undervalued by policy makers
Carers have been saying this for years, but their experience is undervalued by policy makers
Also worth following @alcs.co.uk suggestions and templates for taking back power
We'd really appreciate it if you could share action with your broader networks - including via WhatsApp. Once you've done the process yourself you will be given a whole range of sharing tools. Let's start to defund Zuckerberg!
If you are fed up with Meta's intrusive advertising, if you want to defund Zuckerberg, here's what to do... goodlaw.social/htfc
April 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Also worth following @alcs.co.uk suggestions and templates for taking back power
Take 2 mins to demand that Meta stop targeting you with personalised ads and content! goodlaw.social/gk0i
Meta: this time it’s personal
Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!
goodlaw.social
April 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Take 2 mins to demand that Meta stop targeting you with personalised ads and content! goodlaw.social/gk0i
Reposted by Jane Matthews
More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.
The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.
The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.
The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.
The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.
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I’ve never understood why UK is so obsessed with low tax. If they visited high tax Scandinavia & saw the incredible standard of living for everybody they’d understand that low tax only benefits the rich. When will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social find the bollocks & integrity to be honest about tax?
More taxes? Yes please! Patriotic Millionaires want to do more for the country
“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement
@patmillsuk.bsky.social @joing.bsky.social
“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement
@patmillsuk.bsky.social @joing.bsky.social
More taxes? Yes please! Patriotic Millionaires want to do more for the country
“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’ve never understood why UK is so obsessed with low tax. If they visited high tax Scandinavia & saw the incredible standard of living for everybody they’d understand that low tax only benefits the rich. When will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social find the bollocks & integrity to be honest about tax?
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Guess what, I've been plagiarised too.
Sign me up for the class action
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Sign me up for the class action
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Guess what, I've been plagiarised too.
Sign me up for the class action
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Sign me up for the class action
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Just searched and yep, one of my books has been stolen by Zuckerberg. We need to organise...
Four books and a decade of my work in there, stolen by Zuckerberg and Meta.
How can this be fair, permitted, legal???
How can this be fair, permitted, legal???
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
March 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Just searched and yep, one of my books has been stolen by Zuckerberg. We need to organise...
I've seen literally 100s of newly released birds splattered onto the roads of the North Yorks Moors. Something very wrong here...
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've seen literally 100s of newly released birds splattered onto the roads of the North Yorks Moors. Something very wrong here...
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Thanks goodness for web.archive.org. Sadly I am developing a habit of archiving everything.
SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/federa...
www.wired.com/story/federa...
FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
www.wired.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Thanks goodness for web.archive.org. Sadly I am developing a habit of archiving everything.
Great and timely thread
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and convivialit...
skywriter.blue
March 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Great and timely thread
Reposted by Jane Matthews
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
@jackiethomson.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!
March 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@jackiethomson.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!