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‘Most people in the NHS, they are sad’
“NHS staff have run off adrenalin for the past year and that adrenalin is running out. We’re all coming to the point where we’re all just crashing and burning out.” Emily Moorhouse is one of thousands of NHS staff who… Read More ›
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Wear OS now in striking distance of Apple
Apple is still in first place with the Apple Watch, but Counterpoint says Apple’s smartwatch market share is down 10 percent year over year in Q3, to 21.8 percent thanks to the delay of the Series 7 watch into Q4…. Read More ›
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A recovering smartwatch owner…
Since I dropped the Apple Watch back onto its shelf I have been wearing a Garmin fenix and overall I have been enjoying the experience. The sense of freedom compared to the Apple Watch was acute and alongside the decent… Read More ›
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Twist your hand around
A few years back I ended up having some injections in my elbow and multiple appointments because I was really struggling with continual pain. The decision was made to operate, even though this was by no means a certain cure,… Read More ›
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Ditch the small talk
The same held true with subsequent experiments. While participants predicted that answering a question from a stranger like, “What is one of the more embarrassing moments in your life?” would make them feel extremely awkward and uncomfortable, the opposite turned… Read More ›
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Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years
“Progressively, I hit the point where I knew more could be automated, but I didn’t possed the skill to do it at the time, so I contacted a developer, told him what I needed to have done. The whole process… Read More ›
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The rot set in…
As the clamour of voices warning that our democracy is under threat grows louder and louder, it’s become something of a truism to say that it all began with Boris Johnson’s arrival in Downing Street., writes Richard Haviland. It’s a… Read More ›
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McGST Podcast Episode 83 (mandatory vaccines, Kyle Rittenhouse, immigration and misinformation)
Quite a long chat between myself and Tom on some tricky subjects, all of which are impossible to answer in a way that could ever be described as correct by the majority. To quote George Orwell- “If liberty means anything… Read More ›
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The COSMO E-Guitar
Cosmos core feature is its freely movable and easily exchangeable pickup system. Sounds complex, but it’s wonderfully simple: The magnetic pickups stay on the sheet metal surface by themselves. Find almost infinite sound colors by moving the pickups! Without making… Read More ›
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March with midwives
In the last month thousands of midwives have come together to organise a grassroots day of action over the crisis in maternity services. Midwives are taking action over the devastating under-staffing and under-resourcing that have stretched workers to breaking point… Read More ›
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The SEA-GULL 1963 International Edition (in pictures)
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