Anyone else not able to log into the @duolingo website?

I have moved over to Blue Sky (find me la.collier.bsky.social ) but if you’re there too - let me know as putting together feeds for charity professionals, library lovers, gymnastics, spooners & Girlguiding!

🧵Today @AberdeenCC planning committee, with two exceptions voted to approve the planning permission in principle to destroy and industrialise St Fittick’s Park. They did so despite clear evidence ETZ Ltd proposals will be bad for people’s health, nature & increase flood risk..

Before we rush to condemn this, let us first consider the benefits of....NOPE. Just NO. Words are not mere code. Translators are not machines - their work is deeply human. Readers and writers and translators deserve better.

Concerns over proposed library closures in North Ayrshire raised by CILIPS largsandmillportnews.com/new…

Customer service at @DeLonghiUK has been a trip. From not having a record of our warranty, to sending a delivery service to collect a broken dehumidifier with no details, to then getting my name, address AND phone number totally wrong when sending it back… 🙃

HELLO! If you like your books written by actual authors and your book chat enriched by actual readers, then you'll probably enjoy the Big Scottish Book Club with guests inc Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay and Nikesh Shukla. Happy reading! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bc3…

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated corporate nightmare we enjoy today. The conflict of interest argument is absurd in a for profit healthcare system. Hospitals force their employed physicians to refer to other specialists within their own hospital system. Physicians recommend surgery then do the surgery themselves collecting both a clinic fee and a surgery fee. Optum forces patients to see their doctors, use their pharmacies, and be admitted to their own hospitals. If there is profit to be made in patient care, there will be a conflict of interest among the entities/people collecting that profit. The closest thing to a conflict of interest free system is one that is devoid of profit. Call me cynical, but that will not happen in the US. So we can wring our hands about the potential corruption and malfeasance evil greedy doctors will inflict upon our great country if physicians owned hospitals, while ignoring the actual corruption and malfeasance already displayed by hospital corporations. We can ignore data that shows POHs as a whole (~250 in the US, holdovers from pre-ACA times) have better outcomes at lower costs. Or we can introduce some actual competition in the healthcare marketplace to give patients a chance for better care from people who actually got into this business to treat patients, care that is not dictated by a private equity company or insurance company. Just give physicians a chance to show that we can do a better job. That’s all we’re asking. If we suck at it, we won’t get very far, right? Isn’t that what the free market is for? Repeal the ban on physician owned hospital.

It’s also completely blocking the pavement, making it dangerous for children, visually impaired, wheelchair, mobility aids & prams @AberdeenCC @PSOSAberdeen

This is utterly appalling from @LNER. It’s why any job that requires me to visit London is out of the question - public transport as a disabled person is unreliable & I’m terrified of getting stuck alone like Tanni was tonight.

What the actual ding dong heck? So much for @scotgov promising to support artists, writers etc...

Reminder as @nrarmour so effectively put it: the athletes did absolutely nothing to create this chaos. Nothing. Maybe just leave their name out of it.

Roads flooding everywhere as the drains get filled with debris & litter. Stay safe Aberdonians!

Doctors treating first UK workers with silicosis from kitchen stone call for ban - The i paper apple.news/AUBgam_HsSh2Dkrn-…

RT @BritGymnastics: Are we all ready? 🤩 The men’s Olympic floor final is first up with debutantes Jake Jarman up 6th and Luke Whitehouse 8t…

Ok. I had to collect a Sainsburys order and didn’t realise the pick up time was right at the men’s all around final 😭

Just a note as BBC discuss Alice Kinsella’s routine, she scored higher tonight than in qualifications. She gave it everything.