Loooove the names!!! Such handsome boys!!

Why don't people understand the damage that is done merely by normalizing terrible ideas and policies?

Stop rationalizing everything. Try to see the bigger picture and the longer term consequences. Think about what happens when someone worse gets into power if things have been normalized for them.

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

BU School of Public Health showed the CDC data in this Economic Times article is "vastly undercounted."

CDC revised "Covid-associated" death classification in Nov. 2022 lowering counts 10-20%: preparedness.cste.org/wp-content/u...

2024 studies found more undercounting: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

While Johnson dithers, wondering not what he could do for his country but what his country might do for him, the Tories must decide how to react; they would be culpable fools to fall for this hollow man a second time. The idea that Johnson is the route to Tory recovery is preposterous. He's the root cause of their current collapse. He broke their brand. He promised to cut immigration only to drive it up by millions. He promised post-Brexit prosperity but made the country poorer. He promised levelling up but couldn't be bothered, so delivered levelling down. He wrecked his party, expelling so many decent principled Tories that his successor was the catastrophic Truss. He pioneered the recklessness she tried to imitate. He modelled deception, charm and carelessness as a route to highest office. His betrayals have deepened the despairing political cynicism that pervades Britain now. The country has been damaged in every way by his legacy.

“Tories would be fools to fall for Boris Johnson again”

Well they are, so they might…

But for the rest of us, it would be like being offered a stinking piece of rubbish that we’d watched them get out of the bin, dust off and put back on the plate.

Forget it.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This is so disappointing. I was the interim CEO of the Runnymede Trust during the global Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. At the same time BME groups were disproportinately dying, and at risk from covid-19 virus. So many reports and evidence re: racial inequities yet we have barely made a dent.

I’ll leave a screenshot here of her most recent post where she answers herself. Now I suspect you’ll “wheesht” me instead for pointing out how wrong you are but at least hopefully you’ll learn to actually research your claims.

Gregg Wallace being an appalling shit.

Keep digging, Greggggg. At this rate, by this time tomorrow you should be reaching the Earth’s core.

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🌏Vivid, visual reminder that we are still in a pandemic
Over 25 million deaths
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Remember the Tory election betting scam on the date of the election.

Sky news reporting as many as five people may be charged!

Jeez

Mazón (populist RW Gov) took four months to get rid of the Valencian Emergency Unit

But it is not the only organisation related to catastrophes that Mazón plans to liquidate.

By 2025 wants to eliminate the Valencian agency of climate change

Warning to 🇺🇸: a foretaste of Trump

RFK Jr: Fact-checking his views on health policy Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated to be the next US health secretary, but some of his views are not backed by science.

"Vaccination has probably saved more lives and is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back and be responsible for the death and disability of myriads of people, particularly children”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS

Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Left: Laura Kuenssberg suggests that Dominic Raab left parliament of his own volition

Right: Dominic Raab was forced to resign after being found guilty of bullying

Why is an MP who resigned because he was found guilty of bullying, on a flagship Sunday morning news chat show?

Putting RFK Jn. in charge of Health is like entrusting NASA to a flat earther…🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

🚨NOVAVAX has been approved🚨

Contact pharmadoctor or doctorcall for more information about private vaccinations. No mention on their websites yet.

Approve for 12+ so 🤞

Twitter is dead. Long live Blue Sky. The exodus is real.

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

Here's a starter pack of people on here who I've found and who I know are excellent Science Communicators.
Give them a follow:
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Putin, end this attack now before the point of no return YouTube video by Tulsi Gabbard

For the Brits: Trump has announced this woman, Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence. Here she is spouting Putin’s best lines. To remind you: the UK & US share intelligence.

youtube.com/shorts/xI7PJ...

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

Advice on vaccination in autumn 2025 and spring 2026 Using the standard cost-effectiveness assessment, with an example price of £25 for the combined cost of vaccine and delivery, JCVI advises that vaccination should be offered to the following groups in autumn 2025 and spring 2026: • adults aged 75 years and over (see adult eligibility section below) residents in a care home for older adults individuals aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed (as defined in the immunosuppression' sections of tables 3 or 4 in the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book)

🚨ATTENTION Clinically Vulnerable🚨

The JCVI’s new Covid vaccine guidance for 2025 restricts vaccines to:

75+
care home residents
and immunosuppressed people

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So if it's a trade choice between:

a) chlorinated chicken, plastic cheese, nasty chocolate and

b) European food, beer & wine...

...I confess, I have a strong preference for the latter.

I deactivated my threads account already but it turns out you can’t delete your threads account *without also deleting your Instagram account* so maybe just don’t sign up!

Kalimera!!

You can only read 600 posts per day on Bluesky because that’s how many there are