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Tony Roberts @FosterChangeUK

Foster care trainer. Public health specialist and former MH nurse. Occasionally sweary. Intolerant of intolerance. Wear a mask #StopSIM @darkbob@mas.to

Joined January 2018
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Tony Roberts@FosterChangeUK
26 Aug 2021
Can we finally dispense with: “if you were actually suicidal, you wouldn’t be asking for help. Therefore, you are not suicidal. So therefore we’re not going to help”. This shit kills people.
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Thank you for all your kind words, thoughts, messages and love. I have read every single one. Tony would have been so touched. Rachel Xxx
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And he never really quite understood just how awesome he was x
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Can we finally dispense with: “if you were actually suicidal, you wouldn’t be asking for help. Therefore, you are not suicidal. So therefore we’re not going to help”. This shit kills people.
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Hello, I am Rachel, Tony’s wife, just to let you all know that Tony passed away from cancer on 21st August, an illness he did not share readily but dealt with with such tenacity as he still had so much more he wanted to give. X
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Great quick-read resource from @AlysColeKing about supporting people in the aftermath of a distressing event #NottinghamTogether
Dr Alys Cole-King@AlysColeKing
15 Jun 2023
NEW advice on supporting young people after a distressing event. Please read and share our evidence-informed ‘quick read’ guide. Thanks @Walrathis @drdomthompson @MikeArmiger for expertise. We sincerely hope this will help support #NottinghamTogether
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It’s tough, living in Italy. Especially with all these mountains blocking the view. But I manage.
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So this is who Twitter recommends for me now? Absolutely not a platform for hate and misogyny… What a fucking shitshow of an app.
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Ex-richest dude on earth finds a 10 year old meme.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
7 Feb 2023
Actual base level of Maslow’s hierarchy is lack of wifi
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Elon “free speech absolutist” Musk, ladies and gentlemen.
Lisa Bloom@LisaBloom
9 Jan 2023
Twitter workers, many of whom I represent, were FINALLY given their "severance agreements" on Saturday. They are really settlement agreements which SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE and and require them to give up important legal rights. Let's discuss. 1/
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Is it practical for the PM to use the same services (he is responsible for underfunding) as everyone else? Well, fucking yes, actually.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
9 Jan 2023
Richard Madeley: Is it practical for Rishi Sunak wait for hours on end to use chronically underfunded NHS services like everyone else? He's got a country to run. Chronically underfunded, Madeley screws up live on tv. You’re not supposed to say that part out loud.
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Don’t be angry with the strikers. Be angry with the government and employers. Everyone deserves a decent salary, decent terms and decent working conditions.
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Marcus@mark395625
22 Dec 2022
So for all those going on about rail fares, lets break this down... Fares up by 2.7% in 2020 2.5% in 2021 3.8% in 2022 5.9% in 2023 At the same time rail staff wage increases were 0.0% in 2020 0.0% in 2021 0.0% in 2022 0.0% in 2023
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🧵ON PERIODS: At @cosmicshambles #NineCarols on Sat, I talked about how we are neglecting women's pain & bleeding. The continuing stigma and silence around periods is pathetic, wrong, devastating for women and economically nonsensical. Some facts. 1/23 theguardian.com/society/2022…

Tories ‘failing women’ as gynaecology waiting times treble in a decade

Exclusive: Thousands living in extreme pain as average waiting time for treatment in England rises from 4.8 to 15.6 weeks

theguardian.com
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Tony Roberts retweeted
JustAnotherWoman@Babydryyoureyes
19 Dec 2022
Ciaran must be busy.
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Got dragged along to see Avatar 2 last night. It was, by a country mile, the worst film I have ever seen in my life. 3h 12m of utter CGI enhanced tedium.
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Seriously, @ITVX should be barred from broadcasting live sports. The app doesn’t support picture-in-picture, casting, or screen-mirroring. Website is no better, giving black screen on UK SIM hotspot. @BBCSport manages all of this with no sweat. ITVX is an absolute fucking joke.
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Constant buffering, frozen picture. You’re an embarrassment @ITVX
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An “orchestrated coup” they say…
Screenshot of four identical tweets, posted from four different twitter accounts. Text of tweet reads “Cards on the table, I'm a train driver, I'm on 75k a year plus overtime, I left MT in the summer. This is an orchestrated coup by militant unions and the left wing media to bring down a democratically elected government. For the record, I was awarded an 8.5% pay rise in May.”

ALT Screenshot of four identical tweets, posted from four different twitter accounts. Text of tweet reads “Cards on the table, I'm a train driver, I'm on 75k a year plus overtime, I left MT in the summer. This is an orchestrated coup by militant unions and the left wing media to bring down a democratically elected government. For the record, I was awarded an 8.5% pay rise in May.”
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What is the point of @itvx? The world cup streaming is… well
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The @itvx app is awful. No picture in picture. No casting. And the web/browser just doesn’t work. At all. I mean, what is the point of existing if you can’t do the same basic stuff that everyone else has been doing for years?
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