Bethany
@cursoryb.bsky.social
Music, comedy, activism, wellbeing
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Shell is 100% Government funded in the UK.
You pay all their wages, for all their Oil Rigs and all their tankers.
But the fuel belongs to them.
They really are laughing at you.
You pay all their wages, for all their Oil Rigs and all their tankers.
But the fuel belongs to them.
They really are laughing at you.
October 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Shell is 100% Government funded in the UK.
You pay all their wages, for all their Oil Rigs and all their tankers.
But the fuel belongs to them.
They really are laughing at you.
You pay all their wages, for all their Oil Rigs and all their tankers.
But the fuel belongs to them.
They really are laughing at you.
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Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?
South Korea's UBI pilot shows major success 1 year.
Local businesses grew by 2,000 and rural population went up 4.7%. Most of the money was spent, causing "an increase in new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons."
Local businesses grew by 2,000 and rural population went up 4.7%. Most of the money was spent, causing "an increase in new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons."
October 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?
Perfect
It’s what’s on the inside that counts.
I have swallowed an abacus.
I have swallowed an abacus.
October 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Perfect
This was a striking perspective
The food people need is in grocery stores. They just need the permission slips (cash) to access it. Food banks should not exist. They are a symptom of failed policy. They exist because universal basic income doesn't. We need UBI and it's a fight because the people doing this are doing it on purpose:
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand.
Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
September 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM
This was a striking perspective
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Basic human rights should not be conditional on one's ability or willingness to sell their labour. It's fucked up. every single fucking UBI study ever conducted has proven that UBI improves people's lives & lets them contribute to society *more*, not less. Enough with the fucking studies already!
September 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Basic human rights should not be conditional on one's ability or willingness to sell their labour. It's fucked up. every single fucking UBI study ever conducted has proven that UBI improves people's lives & lets them contribute to society *more*, not less. Enough with the fucking studies already!
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Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed.
25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it!
Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it!
Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
September 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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This is also my problem with a job guarantee being seen as an alternative to basic income. What are you doing fighting for more comfy chains instead of freedom from being chained? Why toil for someone else with power over you instead of the right to look them in the eye and telling them to fuck off?
September 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
This is also my problem with a job guarantee being seen as an alternative to basic income. What are you doing fighting for more comfy chains instead of freedom from being chained? Why toil for someone else with power over you instead of the right to look them in the eye and telling them to fuck off?
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September 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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My Intro to Sitcom workshop is back on 21st October! Learn all about how to create character and storylines by studying the greats with me. Tickets are by donation
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-s...
Intro to Sitcom: How to Create Characters and Stories
Award Winning comedian and writer Eleanor Morton heads this 90 minute course on all things sitcom
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September 14, 2026 at 1:27 PM
My Intro to Sitcom workshop is back on 21st October! Learn all about how to create character and storylines by studying the greats with me. Tickets are by donation
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-s...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-s...
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Cash transfers to low income mums may slow biological aging in children
“1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging”
#DOHaD
“1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging”
#DOHaD
Cash transfers to mothers with low income may slow biological aging in children
A study published in Nature Human Behaviour reports that providing cash transfers to mothers with low income during the first four years of their children's lives changed the children's biological agi...
www.mpg.de
September 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Cash transfers to low income mums may slow biological aging in children
“1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging”
#DOHaD
“1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging”
#DOHaD
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See it: a clown to cure your depression
Say it: but doctor, I am Pagliacci
Sorted: (the situation is not sorted)
Say it: but doctor, I am Pagliacci
Sorted: (the situation is not sorted)
June 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
See it: a clown to cure your depression
Say it: but doctor, I am Pagliacci
Sorted: (the situation is not sorted)
Say it: but doctor, I am Pagliacci
Sorted: (the situation is not sorted)
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Paine's key insight: property comes in two kinds. Natural property (the earth, air, water) belongs equally to everyone by birth. Artificial property (what people build and invent) can be owned unequally. Basic income is our fair share of the first kind.
September 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Paine's key insight: property comes in two kinds. Natural property (the earth, air, water) belongs equally to everyone by birth. Artificial property (what people build and invent) can be owned unequally. Basic income is our fair share of the first kind.
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In 1797, Thomas Paine proposed a national fund to pay every person compensation for the natural inheritance lost when land became private property. That's basic income, two centuries before the term existed.
September 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
In 1797, Thomas Paine proposed a national fund to pay every person compensation for the natural inheritance lost when land became private property. That's basic income, two centuries before the term existed.
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The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.
September 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.
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25 years since this thing came out. I’m very fond of it, it’s possibly the most personal thing I’ve made and, if I’m allowed to be proud for a day, I’m rather proud of it. All 8 eps up on Channel 4. #TheArmandoIannucciShows #Ch4 #ABigEgg
The Armando Iannucci Shows
Comedy
Channel 4 (TalkBack)
30 August - 18 October 2001
Each episode focused on specific themes related to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues.
Comedy
Channel 4 (TalkBack)
30 August - 18 October 2001
Each episode focused on specific themes related to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues.
August 31, 2026 at 7:41 AM
25 years since this thing came out. I’m very fond of it, it’s possibly the most personal thing I’ve made and, if I’m allowed to be proud for a day, I’m rather proud of it. All 8 eps up on Channel 4. #TheArmandoIannucciShows #Ch4 #ABigEgg
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Something hard to unsee:
Imagine Earth has 100 people. 20 of them claim all the land. The other 80 have no choice but to work it, pay rent, give their means, just to survive.
That's not an economy. That's a toll booth.
UBI just returns each person their fair share of the commons.
Imagine Earth has 100 people. 20 of them claim all the land. The other 80 have no choice but to work it, pay rent, give their means, just to survive.
That's not an economy. That's a toll booth.
UBI just returns each person their fair share of the commons.
August 31, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Something hard to unsee:
Imagine Earth has 100 people. 20 of them claim all the land. The other 80 have no choice but to work it, pay rent, give their means, just to survive.
That's not an economy. That's a toll booth.
UBI just returns each person their fair share of the commons.
Imagine Earth has 100 people. 20 of them claim all the land. The other 80 have no choice but to work it, pay rent, give their means, just to survive.
That's not an economy. That's a toll booth.
UBI just returns each person their fair share of the commons.
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Resisting automation is probably less fruitful than fighting for UBI
August 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Resisting automation is probably less fruitful than fighting for UBI
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adding nine to five
what a way to make eleven
what a way to make eleven
August 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
adding nine to five
what a way to make eleven
what a way to make eleven
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"It is not charity, but a right. Not bounty but justice that I am pleading for."
Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
August 28, 2026 at 5:32 PM
"It is not charity, but a right. Not bounty but justice that I am pleading for."
Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
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You’d think more people with means would want to do the sorts of things that make you beloved forever.
August 25, 2026 at 6:51 PM
You’d think more people with means would want to do the sorts of things that make you beloved forever.
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Like the time fires raged through Gatlinburg and she just gave the families impacted $1k/month for 5 months and $5k the 6th month. no means testing, no complicated hoops, just "your life is destroyed here's some cash" resulting in another UBI experiment gone right.
www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County
It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…
www.bpr.org
August 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Like the time fires raged through Gatlinburg and she just gave the families impacted $1k/month for 5 months and $5k the 6th month. no means testing, no complicated hoops, just "your life is destroyed here's some cash" resulting in another UBI experiment gone right.
www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
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LRP
you couldn't comprehend the sheer amount of locals i would hear from at my old place of work whose lives & livelihoods were SAVED, just by gettin that free cash from Dolly. and that was 10 YEARS AGO this fall. and they're STILL talking about how much receiving that money meant to them.
UBI NOW
you couldn't comprehend the sheer amount of locals i would hear from at my old place of work whose lives & livelihoods were SAVED, just by gettin that free cash from Dolly. and that was 10 YEARS AGO this fall. and they're STILL talking about how much receiving that money meant to them.
UBI NOW
August 25, 2026 at 7:39 PM
LRP
you couldn't comprehend the sheer amount of locals i would hear from at my old place of work whose lives & livelihoods were SAVED, just by gettin that free cash from Dolly. and that was 10 YEARS AGO this fall. and they're STILL talking about how much receiving that money meant to them.
UBI NOW
you couldn't comprehend the sheer amount of locals i would hear from at my old place of work whose lives & livelihoods were SAVED, just by gettin that free cash from Dolly. and that was 10 YEARS AGO this fall. and they're STILL talking about how much receiving that money meant to them.
UBI NOW
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An autistic man who attempted to try something new has become instantly furious at his apparent lack of professional-level skills in the new activity, it has been reported.
Autistic man furious at own lack of immediate perfection
An autistic man who attempted to try something new has become instantly furious at his apparent lack of professional-level skills in the new activity, it has been reported. Lloyd Didcot, 36, decided…
thedailytism.com
August 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
An autistic man who attempted to try something new has become instantly furious at his apparent lack of professional-level skills in the new activity, it has been reported.