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Katharine Schopflin@schopflin.bsky.social |
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Information manager, Long Covid, dementia care, choral singing. An atheist of Jewish extraction who really likes Anglican churchgoing. She/ Her.
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Katharine Schopflin
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The opening of this podcast, describing the culture that brought about prohibition, is amazing. No coincidence, I'm sure, but it's eerily familiar. shedunnitshow.com/deathatthesp...
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Katharine Schopflin
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They have to find a way to square the circle of 'you're wrong for rejecting being female because it's wonderful' but also 'you're wrong for embracing being female because you haven't suffered enough'.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Se7en. Opening credits then downhill all the way.
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Joe Vs the Volcano aged badly the year it was released.
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Katharine Schopflin
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This is completely true, but where I live traffic-calming measures are considered by some to be an assault on the working class. Who, if they were local, almost certainly grew up without a car.
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Katharine Schopflin
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It sounds great, but exhausting!
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Katharine Schopflin
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Do Plederhosen exist, I wonder, and should we want them to?
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He even *looks* like a Nazi collaborator in a 60s war film.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I honestly think there's an element of contrarianism against lefty parents and/or social peers.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Shirley Porter?
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Katharine Schopflin
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Oof clothing conservation is *hard*.
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Katharine Schopflin
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You're so young!
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Wasn't that pure Thatcherite social engineering?
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Katharine Schopflin
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Absolutely. This affects social care massively. Which has terrible outcomes for individuals. Social care departments know this but they make the choices pragmatically/ cynically.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Something drastic has to be done about local government funding too though. It all starts with buses. Even in London, Livingstone started with buses before he had control over the tube or any possibility of major investment projects.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I think the combination of elegance and childishness is perfect for his music!
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Ha! They didn't say that at my school. Hobbies were strictly to make your CV look better.
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I was dozing while this was playing. Started awake because I was dreaming that someone called my name. It is actually possible that it was Christopher Plummer.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I'm not Melania!
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Katharine Schopflin
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It's not that different from croquetas / kroketten but then the notion that someone thought to suddenly deep fry white sauce is fairly mind-boggling in itself.
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Do you classify Serbo-Croat as a dead language? Speaking it is listed as one of Melania Trump's skills ..
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Katharine Schopflin
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It was only me, have a follow.
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I once read that the Roma translation of 'Rom' into Hungarian was 'ember'.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I know! It can also be understood as a slur here ... And I have absolutely heard it used as such by people who would describe themselves as anti-racist.
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Gipsy, Roma, Traveller - a phrase many community activists use about themselves. If nothing else because the racism directed towards them does not discriminate.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I'm guessing you know it's genuinely a term used by part of the GRT community - in Hackney, the predominant group describes themselves as Traveller and doesn't claim Roma ancestry.
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Katharine Schopflin
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That's amazing news.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Wouldn't all those weddings have been better with those as favours?
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Katharine Schopflin
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I think what is so incredibly upsetting is that the financial assessment team is entitled to a lot of personal information about me, but when I asked for more clarity and shared my fears I got entirely scripted answers.
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Katharine Schopflin
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And don't forget Foyles is also Waterstones. Confusingly, Daunt's is not although Daunt runs Waterstones.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Honestly there are use cases where getting a huge amount of data to tell you stuff in response to other things very quickly is useful.
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My favourite was the bank of Ireland account that didn't do apostrophes. I assume that's been fixed ...
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I'm not proud of this but every time someone posts in a long Covid group 'It all started with Omicron in 2021' I think 'Ancestral Wuhan virus or nothing!'. The fact that my LC is likely to be worse because of this badge of honour may be related.
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The Sinn Fein MPs presumably weren't?
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Katharine Schopflin
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My dropping my umlaut came slightly later.
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Katharine Schopflin
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In the SE, we may have some dryer weather and sunshine next week!
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Stamford Hill in north east London. And it looks like I'm going to have to sell up soon ...
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Katharine Schopflin
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There used to be a cafe in the underpass that accepted bitcoin.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I know the very place you could move to!
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Katharine Schopflin
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It's also illegal under GDPR and DPA 2018 and the ICO should act.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Never mind the fact that everything below the client contribution will be repaid to the local authority, who will own most of my husband's assets, including half my home, when he dies.
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When the pot is exhausted, there won't be any money to pay her. I exhausted my own savings paying for his care at home above and beyond the direct payment (which was 12.5 hours a week most of the time). I need to work out how long it will last with the increased client contribution.
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Katharine Schopflin
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I'm off sick and should be resting but I've received notification of a financial reassessment for Mr S. His client contribution comes out of his private pension pot, as does payment for extra care visits from his at-home carer. But the latter is just considered a nice to have by his care assessment.
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Katharine Schopflin
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If it's any consolation, the opposite, where you think constantly about food that you erroneously imagine will make you less sad or anxious, isn't any healthier! Hope you get some time out soon and your body is ready to eat.
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Katharine Schopflin
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With you! I had two washes dried and put away in two days as opposed to giving in and putting the electric dryer on because nothing was drying and my cleaner needs to hoover today.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Oh I mean the paper ones you get given even without meaning to.
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Katharine Schopflin
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Also .. so many napkins that are fine for most dirty kitchen roll jobs.
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We didn't start the second half of my concert on Saturday until the penalties were finished. This was for the choir really ...
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Katharine Schopflin
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Agreed. I also think there's a generation of social workers now who know they can't keep the people under their care safe and have learned to live with it.
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Katharine Schopflin
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The fact that I got it in two shows how much Wordle is about luck.
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