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my favourite thing in the world is when you get a letter from the government accusing you of essentially being fraudulent when youre not, so you send an email to the email listed on the letter that explains how it isnt fraud and you attach documents to prove it, and then months later they send another letter saying you did not reply to the last letters (they only sent the one) and as such you are subject to a penalty of £125 and oops if you dont pay today, it goes up by £50, and thats just not an amount of money most people have handy to pay off false fraudulent claims. so this time, you email them again and you then go through their website to send another email, and then you call them and explain it, and their workers tell you that its all sorted and youre no longer subject to the penalty.
and then, a month later you get another letter saying that youve been picked up on the false fraudulent thing again and warm you about the penalty you have to pay. because apparently the worker on the phone removed the penalty but didnt change the incorrect information on the system like they were meant to.
so then you have to email them again, explaining everything again, attaching all the evidence again, and also call them again just in case and explain everything again, and this time she does change it on the system and says shell have a corrected certificate sent to your email within the hour.
and then two hours later, you get an email saying youll be emailed the corrected certificate within 24 hours.
#personal#uk government#uk government systems#the way they work is so fucking stupid#this is about specifically the nhs prepayment prescription service#which mate i paid over £100 for this dont accuse me of fraud#but also me mom works in the dwp#specifically job centre#and ive seen the computer system they use#it does not look like its been updated since 1992#my mom has also been cced into email about a claimant who was apparently dead#whom the worker was trying to organise a face to face interview with#and if thats not bonkers enough on its own#my mom checked the system for that guy and hes not even dead#hes alive#but they believed he was falsely claiming uc from beyond the grave#also other snippets of awful uk infrastructure systems and shit#if you go to a&e no record of you will be kept unless you are put on a ward#also if you get an all clear often hospitals will delete stuff like fmri scans after five years#which we learned when i applied for my learners permit and could not be granted one as id had brain surgery#so i had to see a doctor about it#and the gp didnt really have anything to assess me on because he couldnt access the brain scans#and like fmri scans are very expensive so he wouldnt have requested one related to that#also fun fact about the hospital i was in for the brain injury#when i had the cranioplasty which is basically they took some bone from a different bit of my skull#and used it to cover the hole in my head#they put metal pins it to keep it in places and my mom was not told about that#(i was 8 at the time)#yeah i learned that when i was 18 and had an fmri for tinnitus and they had to do a skull x ray because we didnt know if there was metal
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usamericans please stop putting your "congrats uk!! hope this happens to us in november!!" posts in the uk politics tag please please you have no idea
#uk politics#''you kicked out the tories'' the right wing vote got split between them and a far right group. average voter turnout was#like 60%. said far right group has 5 seats now. woohoo. i know 'got rid of right wing group for centrist group' is an improvement#on the surface but it is not that simple. this isnt the country finally seeing sense and voting left wing. this is half the right wing#voters deciding that the solution to all our problems is more xenophobia and splitting the vote. our political system works#differently im begging you please stop congratulating us we're all very worried about life under this government not to mention#whats going to happen next election. for the love of god.
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Palestine Action shuts down supplier of Israel's largest arms firm
Palestine Action group occupied Grid Defence Systems, physically destroying part of the supply chain for weapons that supply the Israeli military’s campaign in Gaza.
The targeting of Grid Defence Systems, was cracked down upon by riot police. The company is a military hardware suppliers for several arms companies including Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems. While the U.K. government continue to arm Israel’s ongoing war crimes, Palestine Action escalates its attempts to prevent such weapons being creating in Britain to begin with.
#palestine activism#free palestine#palestine action#161#1312#freepalastine🇵🇸#palestine#griddefencesystems#israel#israhell#gazaunderattack#gaza strip#gaza genocide#free gaza#gaza#elbit systems#shut elbit down#u.k. politics#u.k.#uk government#uk govt#ukgov#ukpol#uk politics#war crimes#war criminals#britain#ausgov#politas#auspol
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I always forget that monarchists exist and then I see someone with the username duchessofmyheartforever or williamisababe posting about how it's mean to giggle at an ultrarich economic leech experiencing just a fraction of struggle and inconvenience (because lets be honest, he probably wont kick the bucket—his doctors are paid to keep his corpse animated long after it ceases to be humane)
#iv.txt#uk politics#ntm crying to tumblr staff about it like bestie they do not fucking care#blah blah 'its not funny to joke about cancer what if it was your family member'#like literally everyone is affected by cancer either their own or a loved ones#i dont have to imagine ive already lost two family members#i promise you. we are not joking about cancer. we are joking about the parasite in chief using our tax money#to pay for private top class healthcare while his subjects#the taxpayers that fund his lifestyle#die of the same thing due to nhs strikes because instead of paying doctors humane wages their money goes to maintaining an archaic#and outdated#system that only serves to uphold a status quo long outgrown#but sure. complain to tumblr staff#its not a laughter of glee its a cold and mirthless 'ha'#see how at the end of the day even you are mortal. how does it feel to fear for your life? how does it feel to know hundreds of thousands#of your citizens live fearing for their lives every day because of the economic crisis you and your government have created
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imagine if we put the kings coronation money towards fixing food poverty in the UK, the cost of the queens funeral + the coronation is enough to solve the child food poverty crisis in the UK but instead tax payers money was wasted on a dead woman and a dying princess in a golden fucking cart. the potholes in the road were temporarily filled with sand because they "didnt have the funds" because apparently £100 MILLION POUNDS of TAXPAYERS MONEY is better spent on a cunt in a cart than itd be if it was spent on fixing our roads for our safety or saving children in poverty from dying due to malnutrition, they wont get a fucking gold cart, they wont even get their gcses because the government DONT CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT THE PROFIT.
THEY DO NOT CARE IF WE DIE AS LONG AS THEY ARE LIVING IN LUXURY
#kings coronation#fuck the king#king charles the third#not my king#government#uk politics#uk government#uk govt#capitalist realism#capitalist system#capitalist dystopia#capitalist hell#anti capitalist#capitalist propaganda#capitalist society#capitalism#capitalist media#capitalist bullshit#capitalist pig#capitalist greed#venture capitalist#poverty#communism#communist#communist revolution#social issues#economy#socialist#socialism#sociology
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Omfg UK and US 18-25s I'm begging you to vote in the general/presidential election 😭😭😭 young people already don't vote and then to actively abstain (I get it, all your options suck) but then politicians will have zero reason to appeal to you ever! You're entirely excluding yourselves from the conversation! Vote strategically to vote OUT the worst dude but just vote fr
I know they're all doing genocide and it's fucked but like you literally are not preventing genocide by not voting you're just sitting on your hands
#politics#voting#general election#presidential election#potus#uk#usa#tories#labour#lib dems#republicans#democrats#i know i hate keir starmer and rishi sunak too#trump and biden should be in a retirement facility#but trump is a full on nationalist and biden is at least not a complete nazi like thats a low bar and hes still doing genocide#but so is trump like genocide is unfortunately a given for both elections like none of your options are anti genocide#yes this is hell but like you have to show out in large numbers to prove youre even around and caring about this stuff#or like neo liberals and conservatives will run your countries into the ground even more#like the uk housing and healthcare systems rn are about to collapse entirely#trump is going to manipulate the functioning of government to creep into authoritarianism#its like not a secret this is their platform#serious you have to vote#protest vote#strategic vote
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if u r not pro palestine u r pro genocide and pro war crimes xx
#sitting on the fence is not an option when a government that is funded by us and uk tax payers is actively bombing civillians#and commiting war crimes en masse as a system#resulting in the deaths of over 400 palestinian children in the last week alone#in both gaza and the west bank#which far exceeds anything hamas has done#collective punishment is a war crime#free palestine
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hey so after reading through your entire ao3 account i just have to tell you that you’re hands down one of the most moving writers i’ve read in a long long time?? i guess i was just wondering what kinds of things influence your writing style and if you have any favorite books you’d recommend!! basically your prose is incredible and i would absolutely eat up more of it/anything like it
💛💛💛💛💛💛 this is such a sweet message and i can't tell you how happy it made me!! that means a great deal to me that you like my stuff enough to want to read more things like it
i don't necessarily know that there are writers who i feel like i'm emulating with my prose/writing style, or who i feel are similar to me. it's kind of hard to see that stuff with your own work, maybe? BUT i will absolutely ramble about some of my fave authors/books that i think everyone should read
i do think my stuff is influenced by the fact that i have read a lot of children's fiction - i studied children's lit a fair bit at uni and it's what i wrote my undergrad dissertation about. and while i know adults read/enjoy my work as well as teens, i think i take a fair bit from the children's/YA world in terms of writing about big/intense topics but gently
one of my fave children's authors and authors in general is frances hardinge. she is just...christ. her imagination, her world-building, her characters. one of the best things a book can do imo is take you to a really dark place and then back out of it with equal conviction, and the lie tree is one of the best examples i've seen of that. and i think about a face like glass and its worldbuilding constantly, and a skinful of shadows has the sickest premise on earth and absolutely delivers on it
i do also read a lot of short stories! they are underrated imo and very much their own artform. in the fic world if you lean towards oneshots/shorter works like mine then i'd recommend trying them out! i will say my taste in short stories tends to lean towards the weird and unsettling...like mouthful of birds by samanta schweblin, how to gut a fish by sheila armstrong, salt slow by julia armfield, eyes guts throat bones by moira fowley-doyle
hmmm people have previously commented on my writing being quite introspective and grounded, more about people feeling things than about plot, and my favourite book along those lines is very cold people by sarah manguso. it's so vivid and emotive and well-told. i have recced it to several people by being like listen nothing happens in this book and also it slaps.
i try to infuse my writing with a sense of compassion, and authors who do this really well imo are becky chambers, a long way to a small angry planet especially, and martha wells with murderbot, too.
uhhh these next ones i don't think i can draw even a tenuous connection with my own writing, but i think they're so good and everyone should read them. the mercies and the dance tree by kiran millwood hargrave are gorgeous and devastating. so is idaho by emily ruskovich, one of those books that's too good for me to even really talk about it coherently. piranesi by susanna clarke also - too good, can't say anything about it. courtney summers writes with uncomprising vivid rage, and i come back to her work often because of it: the project and sadie are my biggest recs, though maybe look up content warnings for sadie first because it's...a lot. actually lots of the ones in this paragraph have some very heavy subject matter so read with caution/possibly look up warnings first
i don't know that i answered the question you asked exactly but thank you very much for asking it, and happy reading!
#asks#sorry this got so long#i currently owe the UK government upwards of £80000 because of how much i like reading and talking about books#(and it's only going up bc interest and also i don't make enough money to have to pay any of it back yet. thanks uk student loan system)#and also i work in libraries so. this question Activated me
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I saw this post on facebook from an organisation that helps people with their PIP applications last night
I have my PIP reassessment tomorrow, they know I have anxiety and today I have received 3 phone calls, every 2 hours from a withheld number… I haven’t answered. I fully suspect its the DWP trying this tactic and even despite my thinking that, its still succeeding in triggering my anxiety
Update: Turns out it was PIP phoning, it was one of the first things they said to me on my phone assessment. Supposedly the 4 phone calls (another happened after I made this post) from a withheld number were to remind me for my appointment today but they sent me a text during the day inbetween 2 of the calls and you’d think they’d leave a voicemail so yeah its crafty and the worst part is it worked, today its not only triggered my anxiety but its also made my fibro & ME flare up today with increased pain and fatigue (not helped by me not getting any sleep last night), its flared my ibs and gave me a migraine after the call ended
#anxiety#dwp#pip#personal independence payment#department of work and pensions#uk disability benefits#disability benefits#uk government#uk govt#uk politics#disability issues#ableism#uk benefits#uk benefits system#disability benefits uk#anxiety problems#anxiety issues#mental health#disability#ibs#migraine#fibromyalgia#me/cfs#myalgic encephalomyelitis
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My GP: This woman is physically ill. She can barely stand without the assistance of a cane and we're still figuring out why. The teeniest movement throws a disc out in her back. That's why I'm happy to sign off on a fit note and say she can't work right now.
Universal Credit office: m'kay but are you like sure sure tho
#my doctor said I should not be going anywhere while I recover from an extremely bad episode & the UC team sent me paperwork to say prove it#literally sent me out a multipage questionairre#to say hey why haven't you found a job yet ya cripple#prove that you're sick prove prove even though we have evidence from a medical professional prove#this is why I can't really be angry at people who ''cheat the system'' tbh#it's hard enough to get around it the legit way#it must take some real string pulling to manage it as a hustle#I gotta respect it#fuck the government system#fuck universal credit#and fuck the tories right to hell#disability#uk living
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it was the POOR PEOPLE who did not get the emergency alert
people with sim cards that use the "three" network such as three or smarty (like i use), did NOT receive the emergency alert test today. these networks are known for being a lot cheaper than other networks such as O2. the government is once again prioritising those who can afford more expensive mobile data as these are the people that vote for them. this is essentially the government saying that the working classes are second rate citizens that do not deserve to be warned of fires, floods, or terrorist threats near them. do NOT vote conservative if you wish to be allowed to know if your life is in danger.
this system is meant to warn you of fires, floods, terrorist threats, and other danger. this is not a privilege it is a right.
vote for a party that does not discriminate (hard to find these days i know).
take the tories out of power.
public safety is a right not a privilege.
I hate asking for reblogs but we NEED people to know that the government does not care about them. people NEED to know that the government will leave you to die.
#uk#united kingdom#united (for now) kingdom#england#wales#scotland#northern ireland#britain#british government#uk government#united kingdom government#uk parliament#british parliament#conservative#labour#green party#emergency alert system#eas#eas test#emergency alert system test#emergency alert test#eas test uk#emergency alert system test uk#emergency alert test uk#serious#human rights#working class rights#tory#tories#tory party
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Having some feelings today.
#im just#so tired.#of this sanctimonious purity bullshit#do i like where labour are right now as a party?#no#no i dont#but im sick and tired of people acting like the majority of england (at least) is functionally a two party system#id love to vote for the green party but i cant because the only people challenging the tories here are labour#and i have suffered under 14 years of this shit#im not doing it again#they are not the same party#theyre not perfect#theyre not ideal#but theyre the best option#i dont like kier starmer but you know what ill give him credit for?#calling rishi sunak out on a transphobic joke he made in the house of commons the day that brianna gheys mother was observing#and asking him to apologise#which rishi sunak did not by the way#as someone who is trans and is disabled#im so tired of all your sanctimonious dickheads refusing to engage with reality and throwing your votes away in my name apparently#because apparently you care about us#while you get the tories reelected#and the government keep cutting benefits for us disabled folks and cutting it off entirely for some of the community#and we lose more rights#and as us trans folk you care about so much lose more and more of our rights and more trans kids kill themselves because of how#uninhabitable the uk will become for us.#but you care about us right?#so much that youre willing to sacrifice us in the name of voting for who you think deserve the vote#and not tactically voting and voting the fucking tories out
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AM I HAVING A FUCKING STROKE?!
or did Rishi Sunak really basically just admit IN FRONT OF THE WORLD that taking the UK out of the EU was a terrible decision? Also what I heard: "This country we took but dont acknowledge until it benefits us is in the best position in the world in terms of access to the market"
#Rishi Sunak#Ah lads looks like the Uk remembers we exist again for the benefits of exploitation#Cause mark my words thats whats gonna happen. We now benefit the Uk to exist in the Uk#I mean dont get me wrong our political system is an absolute SHAMBLES too but JFC talk about shooting yourself and your party in the foot#british politics#Brexit#Northern Ireland#I might... just move back to Northern Ireland lads#Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán fhéin#HEY MA! IM COMING HOME MA!#If you cant tell... im conflicted.#I'm happy Northern Ireland is apparently in a good position well see how long that lasts now England is acknowledging us again#but I'm also hella salty over BOTH countries politics#We only ever get mentioned by the british government when it suits them and I refuse to be 'something good' a torry did after all the years#of pure bullshittery#cant even spend UK STERLING in England without being treated like a criminal#Not to mentiion the sheer bullshittery of 'we only post to the uk' and then being told Northern Ireland isnt part of the UK WHEN IT CLEARLY#FUCKING IS CAUSE I FUCKING GREW UP IN THE TAIL END OF WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS!#AND THATS JUST SURFACE LEVEL PETTY SHIT THATS HAPPENED!#Good Friday agreement at risk anyone?#northern ireland protocol#No one remember?#Northern Ireland has so much potential and the tories will do their best to bleed us dry#we havent much more to give you sir#just fuck off and sort out the cost of living crisis please#Stay in your own fucking lane and sort THAT shit out#I had so many rant tags I've just discovered Tumblr has a limit given over half of them were deleted from the post XD#Long story short YAY Northern Ireland now please leave us alone Rishi#Just to be clear... I love England. Its the Tories and the government that are grinding my fucking gears right now
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[Glascoed, Cymru]
Early this morning on January 3rd, over 60 activists from the Cymru Peace Coalition have shut down BAE Systems PLC Glascoed site, one of the UK's largest munitions factories.
#glascoed#cymru#january 3#2024#Cymru Peace Coalition#bae systems#plc#uk govt#uk government#ukpol#uk politics#uk#munitions#factory#anti war#anti capitalism#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#antinazi#antiauthoritarian
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It's an odd feeling to be a fan of an actor but instead of wanting to talk about characters/business, want to get their view on political terms. Can't just slide into their DMs with that and also not something for cons where time restrictions could cut it short (and talking politics in line doesn't seem to be the best idea anyway). Also something that would probably be flagged and not allowed for cons anyway.
#i don't think i've ever had anything specific to talk about for any actor#to the point all the 'win a dinner with [actor]' things seemed like it would be very awkward 'cause i wouldn't have anything to say#yet here i am finally feeling that and it's about politics#not even basic human rights politics#but to talk about terms and how closely related the uk and canadian systems of governance are#like it's so mundane and trivial in the scheme of things but it's going to forever eat at me
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"Nooo the teachers can't go on strike, what about the teenagers that need to study for their exams?"
Teenager studying for exams here. If the government can't give a single flying fuck about our teachers, why should I give a single flying fuck about my grades?
#vent#fuck the government istg#uk#united kingdom#england#Britain#workers rights#teachers strike#education system
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