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COVID significantly increases risk of death from metastatic cancer, new study shows healthimaging.com/topics/clini... Ladies, we need to take care of ourselves. Keep up-to-date with your vaccinations! Oh, guys, you can get breast cancer, too.
The guy Musk is responding to (and has allowed back on to his platform and boosted to 100k followers) is part of an extreme Neofascist splinter party. Musk is actively trying to cause violent unrest but he’s so rich UK politicians fear to call him out on it
I grew up a few miles from Epping, which has become the flashpoint for this anti-immigrant protest. There was always a local Neofascist element but it was never dominant. Musk needs to piss off with his ‘ everywhere is Epping’ crap and UK politicians should stop pandering to the racist minority.
I'm sure there's a logical explanation, but I've got to say, this is a LOT more fun than when the princess of England posted the fake photo.
RFK has hired another thimerosal conspiracy theorist, David Geier he and his father are known for several discredited studies connecting ethylmercury in thimerosal with autism This link was fabricated for money David & Mark Geier also promoted bogus and dangerous treatments / therapies for autism
Nachama Soloveichik @nachamasol This is insane. Get your dog vaccinated.
You shouldn't ask an LLM what it is. It doesn't have self-awareness (awareness of self), because it has no selfhood. "The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work."
UK school run: kid slightly too late to walk CANADA: kid may get eaten or trampled
My feed isn't full of sludge I have 5x as many followers Experts actually engage in meaningful dialogue And there's no Nazis ........ Sounds like this app is thriving actually
"How are we gonna beat Nigel Farage?" "Lets play endlessly into his favourite topic..."
Reminder that there are multiple vaccines already out there that reduce your kids' chances of multiple types of cancers (and some people want you to believe this is bad!) www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/6-vaccines...
The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.
When word got out that officials from Germany's AfD and CDU were at a far right seminar on "remigration" it triggered protests by millions. Officials from both parties lost their jobs And in the UK?
"Talk of mass deportation is Nazi fucking bullshit. You can pretend otherwise, but that's what it is. In order to even countenance it, you must reach a point of hatred towards a minority group which is reminiscent of the very worst moments of human history".
Ministers need to quote this every time they are asked the question. What happened to the cracked record technique. No-one uses it anymore
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It’ll soon be ready for revving at red lights, wheelspinning and handbrake turning.
Worth noting this story comes from policy exchange, which was founded by Michael Gove. Who compared the Good Friday agreement to condoning the desires of paedophiles I wrote this almost a decade ago www.irishtimes.com/news/world/u...
The vaccine works! Thanks Judith @1789jam.bsky.social for the post.
What are you building??
The flip side to the hate is this local man who was having non of that and stepped up to help them out. * That's* the kind of country most of us believe in.
the claim that this could be done is rooted in the same contempt for Ireland that was one of the motivations for the Brexit campaign
The total number of rabies survivors, ever, is still in single digits. I wouldn't play those odds!
Obligatory reminder: if you wake up in a room with a bat, you need to get rabies shots, because their bites aren’t always detectable! Carry on!
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
it’s hard to overstate: -how beneficial vaccines are -how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism -how impossible it is that RFK will somehow “find the cause” (at all, let alone in his first year) -how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
Local councils pay hotels to house homeless people but they are suing hotels for housing homeless people who happen to be asylum seekers. They are going to sue themselves and have to pay both sets of lawyers
🌫️ Air pollution and asthma A US study (2002–2016) found long-term exposure to pollution mixtures was linked to higher asthma hospitalisations: +11% in children and +8% in adults. 🔗 hsph.harvard.edu/news/metals-... #SciComm #Health 🧪 #AirQuality
Local Developer Sensibly Avoids Horrible Curse
"Dublin Bay Chimneys", a new #painting that sold earlier this month. For many, seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing. Home, that word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them. #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ArtYear
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
Housing crisis? What housing crisis? If anything in #Ireland is driving the rise of the Far Right it's Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's pandering to the propertied class: artificially inflating house prices by deliberately restricting supply. High-level collusion AND corruption. #speirgorm #spéirghorm
How do you interpret a positive test that has 99.98% specificity? With caution if you screen lots of low risk individuals. 49 of 89k military 🩸 donors screened ➕ for T cruzi antibodies. 0 met diagnostic criteria for Chagas’ disease #IDSky academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
🗳️ Countering election misinformation A study in the US and Brazil found that prebunking (warning about false claims in advance) and credible corrections both boosted trust in elections. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #SciComm #Elections 🧪 #Politics
A Nature Outlook article reports on the preliminary evidence that microbiota-based treatments can be beneficial for people with mood disorders, such as depression and anxiety. But how these interventions work is not clear, and human trials are needed. #microbiome #medsky 🧪
But that’s why traffic police were crying. Transference. Not acceptable to cry about the job, but it’s ok to sob if a particular national moment hits close to the bone.
Murray, in my opinion, is actually very very dangerous. He leans heavily on restorative nostalgia - to a past that never existed while airbrusing british colonial history into the equivalent of an Enid Blyton novel. It's a very powerful form of populism. Far more potent than Powells "othering".
The resurgence of the far right is only possible because there are now so few people with personal memories of the horror of 20th-century fascism. Unfortunately, we also seem to have forgotten the mistakes made by those who failed to stop it the first time round.
Dog bites man headline. Since 2020 we have literally added a virus that most people now get once or twice per year. Add in that it also often comes with a post-viral condition. Why is it never mentioned that **of course** people are taking more sick days? Most predictable thing ever.
I see Bridget Phillipson today setting the tone for the new school year by talking tough on attendance. It's an approach that doesn't work and cannot work, as I explained in June... johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/t...
Not only that, but this is the tip of the iceberg imo. Carole Cadwalladr mapped out all the links between Britain's far right and the American far right, its think tanks, dark money etc during the Brexit years. They haven't gone away, they're consolidating and we are now in their sights...
"Addressing the issue" is essential, but that means refuting Farage's framing of the issue. The media makes sure plenty of people live in a post-truth world, so it doesn't matter how much better their life gets any more, they will still be led to believe it's shit and that's all immigrants' fault.
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
Keir Starmer and Labour should be proactive calling this out, but they're so damn scared of losing a Reform vote they were never going to win. What is going on with this strategy of pandering to the far right, and is Morgan McSweeney just there as a Tory plant to wipe them out?
I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.
Imagine constantly banging on about how the UK is a Christian country and then telling Bishops to shut they bitch mouths in the same breath.
It might be causation rather than hypocrisy. Suppose someone perceived being conceived the wrong side of the blanket as the worst possible thing that could’ve ever happened to a child. They’d then see all the other horrors as justified.
Not that surprising to see this. Genuine potential to improve on high level of variability in doctors' sensitivity of hearing and equipment. This device also includes an ECG?! Would be good to see more details and what it's being compared against. #medsky news.sky.com/story/game-c...
Resignations. Cuts. Politicized vaccine policy. The CDC—once the gold standard in global health—is falling deeper into crisis. “Never before has a nation with world-class science been under assault from its own govt… radically unprecedented.” —Harvard’s Allan Brandt #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
Utter bollocks as usual. The only mention of the ECHR was in confirming that it wasn't considered at all by the judges. Deliberate lying to incite hatred and division by the the frog-faced gobshite.
It’s all getting quite fascisty now isn’t it
This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
Just got blocked from BBC Sounds after 800 years of oppression.
Finally!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08...
Covid will probably be doing similar now
I came out in HS in 1994. So late Gen X. And let's just say coming out in 94, AIDS made a giant imprint on the young gays then. You didn't see older gay men. There were so few 30-40 gays in the mid 90s. Everyone was older, or us younger ones.
This. I used to wonder why the 1918-1919 Flu Pandemic left such a negligible mark on culture — where are all the novels and stories and movies about that vast culling of so many people? Now I see how it works.
Also the continual thread of total nuclear annihilation, which I didn’t realize was such a cloud over my youth till I saw another Gen Xer mention it a few years ago.
Was talking with one of my students today, who is 4 years older than me (so, 60 to my 56 y i k e s) and we were discussing that - his line was "i went to a funeral every month for years running" and going thru what years our friends were diagnosed, what years they died, who was still left.
DOGE employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server, the agency’s chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.
The right-wing assaults on the rights of children and all people who have autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other special needs keep growing, and that's especially worrying for all those who know, care, teach and value such people for who they are and what they can do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
"The UK government barred Israeli officials from attending its major London arms fair (DSEI), citing opposition to Israel’s escalating assault on Gaza, a move Israel’s defence ministry condemned as “discrimination.” " open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Worth noting when we hear about the UK government investing in AI. "Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed" www.computerweekly.com/news/3666298...
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.”
Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.
Anti-science-wellness-alternativism is a fascism-adjacent death cult movement. She joined a cult, became a leader, and it cost her daughter’s life.
“Mrs Shemirani, I’m going to have to stop you.” Those words, spoken by the coroner at a court in Kent, have become the soundtrack to my summer…” Interview with @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social observer.co.uk/style/featur...
I remember when UK did this with GCEs and CSEs. Then we decided that merging it all into GCSE would solve the problem. And then we divided it up again with Foundation and Higher to cohort kids into 1-3 and 5-9. Grade 4 is often the equivalent of ‘top marks in CSE, but can’t start A levels, sorry’
‘Mothering’ ‘Mitochondria’ ‘Capitalism’ ‘Witchcraft’ ‘Microbiome’ ‘Possessed’ ‘Neurotransmitters’ ‘Wandering womb’ ‘Imbalance of the humours’
With mitochondria suddenly in the spotlight, seems like a good moment to reshare my 2023 post, “Do all roads lead to mitochondria?”, a review of Chris Palmer’s book Brain Energy www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/do-all-roa...
How much you want to bet there’s some libertarian bro currently designing an online exchange for human organs called OnlyGlands?
📌 for the book rec
The government wants to scrap the work capability assessment (WCA), which will hit 600,000 Disabled people. Why does this government have money for weapons and tax cuts for billionaires but not Disabled people on the breadline? www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
and 15-20 years ago we could refer to all sorts of external agencies.. Albeit they were of mixed success but everything from less over stretched social services, thriving families, YOT, sure start etc etc. Now we are the single point of focus for almost everything around young people.
On reflection, I think a decade ago we had the privilege of deeply worrying about education policy because other areas weren’t so problematic. Now, the overbearing issues are economic and social, and not really within the sector’s control.
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
I don’t see the issue with this. She’s clearly the best candidate Reform could pick.
She was killed defending the Capitol and democracy, right? Right? Nope. She was storming the Hill as part of the coup: an enemy of the state and the people. Full military honours for a fascist traitor. Says everything you need to know about the US.
CDC in crisis: Director Susan Monarez fired after refusing to rubber-stamp Kennedy’s vaccine directives. Top scientists resign in protest. Dr. Daskalakis: “CDC is being used to push policies that don’t reflect science and are designed to hurt, not help public health.” #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
Once I learned urban vs rural conflict has been around since at least Late Antiquity I stopped bothering trying to think of how one might "solve" it
Am in UK. Checked Netflix for climate dystopia movies from the early 2000s #TheDayAfterTomorrow “isn’t currently available in your country” so we may have to wait for the live immersive show.
Bye bye Gulf Stream bsky.app/profile/rahm...
Hey MSM, ask RFK Jr to define 'inflammation'. Ask him to define 'mitochondria'. Ask him how, specifically, that he can tell how children have 'mitochondrial challenges'. Ask him what, specifically, about children's faces and body movement indicates inflammation. He won't know. He's making shit up.
Percentage of Democrats who are happy with America the way it is? 0%.
This is excellent
This is sadly not surprising and should not be separated from the rise of extremism, distrust and misinformation across a range of social media platforms (as well as in some legacy media outlets) since the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is just genuinely insane. Six years ago Public Health was largely non-partisan. Now its very existence is a partisan issue.
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
This has me wondering who funded Andrew Wakefield's original attempt to link the MMR vaccine to autism. Measles is incredibly contagious, sometimes fatal, and hurts one's ability to fight off other pathogens. It only takes a few antivaxers to create an outbreak. If I wanted to weaken a nation.....
Count Mysterioso 
Vague Pariah 