Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
America seems to use antivirals more than us for some reason. Not sure why.
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America seems to use antivirals more than us for some reason. Not sure why.
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Toe sucking goodness
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad you're feeling better though
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know what Paxlovid is. I'm in UK and we don't do brand names for drugs much.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
*wrt
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Depends on the vaccine. Measles, Smallpox, rabies, polio, they're really magical force fields but yeah wet to flu, COVID you're absolutely right.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60βs, so hereβs a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; itβs 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; itβs 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks!
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
It won't eliminate your risk but it's usually greater than 50%
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I mean I used to work with vaccines and flu vaccine variants change every year so the flu shot needs to be updated to meet that threat each year. Vaccines are tri-vailant or quad valiant. i.e 3 or 4 strains. I had pneumonia from flu twice, now I get vaccine annually
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Rice is nice not overcooked but not big on much else, maybe carrots.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
But latest update show maybe that trend could be reversing. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
There was some evidence that the strains have gotten weaker but no one knows why. Vulnerable people can still be adversely affected, so as ever Kennedy is full of it. Source www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, exactly, they're dicks, and they thrive on attention.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
What an awful but also good list.
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Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Haven't subscribed to Netflix for a while, so have done one month. What should I watch? Any suggestions gratefully received.
Ben Skipper (@benskipper.bsky.social) reposted
Just ask Nottinghamshire Live for confirmation.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a cynical ad campaign based on a terrible pun. You build sales by sustaining interest. Also if they're not "good jeans" that could backfire
Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted
trump has always wanted to be duterte
Osita Nwanevu (@ositanwanevu.com) reposted
Just about every part of this political moment has been worse than even cynics expected, but Bari Weiss running CBS News...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because I think Polanski is not the way forward you're having tantrums. Grow up.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck off, you absolute morons.
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Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Trump will likely be dead by the time the truth about his criminality, his sexual abuse of underage girls, and all the deals he did with Putin and other dictators fully comes to light but I am certain he's guilty of all of the above. #epsteinfiles
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is rejecting the pleas of Epstein's victims, but he did find room in his heart to move Epstein's child rape co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to a nicer prison.
Markfryπ (@markfry.bsky.social) reposted
Itβs not a fucking hoax you gaslighting, Epstein colluding, child molesting, sexstarved, rapey goddamned POS!!!!!!!!ππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππ
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I know what glib means.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
And I quote Farage "on one side you have the people, and the other you have human rights lawyers" This people thinks human rights and the lawyers for them serve a purpose.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I really wish they would drop the clearly false statements and what "the people" believe or don't believe.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Zack Polanski is the Ladbaby of political leadership.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Not rly
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
He's like Ladbaby but a political leader.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
That's interesting, it's also elevated in psoriasis patients. Perhaps this indicates that some ME patients are suffering from sero-negative auto immune diseases
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I knew you'd be on it. Glad you have your IP protected
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly it's so ridiculous. They need to re-enter single market asap.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Also this guy is pretty interesting to watch on this kind of thing. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA?...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Gail you can use adversarial AI to protect your work from being stolen/scraped using specialist software which is free Here is some more information. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
It's absolutely insane that basically Gail can't export goods to Europe or America right now. That's mad. Come Keir Starmer/Rachel Reeves, get your shit together.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Sarah Vine's spurious correlations. A new weekly column.
Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) reposted
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they donβt make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
You're probably mistaking my comment as some sort of massive endorsement. It is what it is. Love him or loathe him, or both, he had political ambition, charisma, and wouldn't trying to be placate the Farages of this world. I can't help that he went full arsehole.
Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) reposted
Leaked βGaza Rivieraβ plan dismissed as βinsaneβ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Ian Betteridge (@ianbetteridge.com) reposted reply parent
Much of what makes the current wave of AI problematic is not what it does, but who owns it, who benefits, and how it once again skews wealth into the hands of owners of capital. Itβs politics, not tech.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Why cover their faces?
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure there's quite a bit online or YouTube from people who know a lot more than me.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah there's a couple of ways they do it either with HF radio or a small balloon that is inflated and filled with hot water. There's a low risk but you need to take some sort of BC after until post menopausal. It's about a twenty minute procedure.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to work in this field in the medical industry. I'm not trying to weird you out.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
What about endometrial ablation? Common in many women at this point in their lives.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
At least Blair had a bit of gusto. They had it in for people in hoodies I suppose. He probably wears a cashmere one after tennis these days...I digress, unproductively
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm no Corbynite Bolshevik but I am so massively disappointed in Labour's lack of aspirations and cowardice. They're letting the news cycle be controlled by others, anything laudable lost in the xenophobia.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
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Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if his father taught him actually.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
That's awful. Thankfully mushroom picking is a bit easier to get right. He was/is a bright guy. That's the thing, you need to have the knowledge, then it's easy. Like so much.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Trump has monogrammed or named everything clothing wise. My (shared with Jeeves) view of anyone thinking monograms are in anyway stylish youtu.be/Gmy-7nIh6Do?...
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
My friend/colleague used to pick mushrooms in the New Forest to eat. He was pretty clever with stuff like that. There was a new supermarket near him and in the car park borders they used mushroom bark and loads of Morrells grew. He picked them and sold them to chef Raymond Blanc. Absolutely true.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Also works on images.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
You have to say no. It's scraping people's hard work to sell back to us (eventually) We need to poison the AI well if they won't pay. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA?...
Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) reposted
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnβt even news.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't do the face. bsky.app/profile/robl...
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) reposted
It me. Again
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is it that going far right ages you massively?
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Fake (bad) AI advert using @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com image and guaranteed return on investments and obviously a scam. Google and YouTube are spending zero time vetting their advertisements. I report them but they appear again. It's a game of whack-a-mole. UK government should fine Google.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a how it was made on DVDs of the film. It's probably been uploaded onto YouTube. Lots of these stories feature and some other stuff.
Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com) reposted
well waddayaknow www.ft.com/content/4a6d...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I think they might be diseased. They're usually horizontal due to gravitropism
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I completely agree, and you're right about what happened, I'm not advocating it, just that's the way global politics seems to work.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Whilst I completely agree, she'll no doubt get away with it because the prevailing feeling after finally rescuing America from fascism will be to pretend it never happened and engage in damage control. Trump only got in trouble re the classified documents because he kept them.
David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) reposted
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Insomnia for some weird reason. On Friday night I was so fatigued I fell asleep at 6pm and apart from two hours slept until 7.30am Saturday.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean also I don't want to be noticed particularly to that degree
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't mind statement but there's a million nicer statement watches than a Nautilus or worse a Hublot or Richard Mille.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Veblen goods.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't get the aesthetic, even in a non like way.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
On the whole watch thing, what do you think about Patel Philippe Nautilus? I think they are gross, I can't see the appeal.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh right. Like anything I guess of the depreciation curve. The vintage Seiko propex divers watch is another one that's gone nuts.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I like grand Seiko but never ever buy a new one. Depreciation is big even if you're not a collector
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
A Vacheron...
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Acheron Constantin Patrimony manual in white gold or a Jaguar Le Couture memovox or if you're feeling a bit flashy IWC portofino. If you own the firm maybe an A Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
If you're taking cardiac medication especially for arrhythmia regardless of interactions grapefruit juice can increase the length of your QT interval which can cause arrhythmia etc so take it easy on how much G juice you consume.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Grapefruit's metabolic pathway cytochrome P450 like Cranberry juice. For many drugs like statins and PPis there are alternatives that use a different pathway and therefore don't interact with grapefruit juice.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll never get over how bad his comb-over is. Must look super weird eau natural.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
There must be a reason
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Well well, Netflix getting something right for a change.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Never own anything.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
This is like every subscription model currently in existence, offer cheap or free, place ads, make ads increasingly more annoying, offer subscription, only subscription, segment products with subscription offering further subscription, put ads on subscription, offer subscription to remove ads.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, how terrible.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
I think of all of the women on TV it was definitely the ones on Buck Rogers who got an eight year old boy very hot under the collar on a Saturday evening.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine the face cramps.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Another casualty of leaving the EU, out shorelines.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
Everytime I see a picture of this guy I feel like I have been contaminated and need to shower with Ajax.
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent
*and speaking
Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)
Walking/texting on phone should be illegal. Sick of having people walk into me because they are so very stupid.
Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) reposted
The first ever successful & impactful cyber-physical attack on European critical infrastructure outside of Ukraine? βRussian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norwayβs intelligence service has said.β