#old age.

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About The UK Tory Government

Thing 94

According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, there were around 13.4 million people living in poverty in the UK between 2020 and 2021. Since then, energy price increases and inflation have driven  more families below the bread line.

One of the lesser-known consequences of this is the fact that many of the poor can no longer afford to pay for the medicine they need.

“One in two pharmacists had ... seen a rise in people not collecting their prescription, while two in three pharmacists reported seeing an increase in requests for cheaper, over-the-counter substitutes for the medicine they had been prescribed.” (MailOnline: 13/02/23)

England is the only country within the UK to levy prescription charges. Being too poor to be able to afford essential medicines will only cost the NHS more in the long run, with more people ending up in hospital than might otherwise have been the case. The government charges £9.35 per prescription item. 

Rather than scrap the prescription charge altogether, in 2021 the government announced plans to charge the over 60’s who up until now have been exempt from paying.

The government justifies these changes thus:

“Prescription charges generate approximately £600 million in revenue for the English NHS each year. An increase to the upper age exemption could generate additional revenue for NHS frontline services.”  (Gov.UK 01/07/21)

Is it possible for this Tory government to become any more mean-spirited?

[doccywhomst]

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

[shcherbatskya]

starting a collection. pierre talking to natasha in war and peace

[chiekodivine]

girlhood never stops we just evolve…

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[bioshzrd]

this random ass guy who’s entire bit is that he can move like this is the only good wesker fan ever

[manicpixieangel444]

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

[noodles-and-tea]

Returning home

[fleshdyke]

art tips that actually help. tracing pictures is fine. try not to shade with black. draw as much as you can all the time and make it shitty im so serious. dont buy expensive materials its not worth it. never post your art to tiktok. raise your commission prices. sparkle on be yourself

[ggwweenn1]

Other polls have found Tumblr users to be mostly 18-45 so here's a poll to get into the grit of that range.

[angelwebs]

[bumbleboa]

color sketches from yesterday's livestream (vod is over here for a couple of weeks)! I was in the mood to play around with some light scenarios

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

OK TUMBLR LET'S SETTLE THIS

NO SEE RESULTS OPTIONS, COWARDS! PICK ONE!

[idlesuperstar]

this speaks to me on a molecular level