Sometimes vaccine efficacy is subtle. Sometimes it isn’t. Graph showing the number of measles cases after the 1st and 2nd MMR vaccines were recommended.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

If anyone knows any LEEDS families, please share this with them. I have one more Easter holidays family comedy show and it’s Tuesday 14th. Ticket sales are currently low 😢 so any help spreading the word will be met with eternal gratitude!

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A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

April fools! We're all fools and it's April. Anyway

They’re making barrel leg jeans trendy to normalise having rickets, wake up sheeple

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS PLATEAU

I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in

Just can’t believe that wanting to financially punish women who miscarry didn’t swing the vote for him.

Stupid woke voters.

Obviously everyone's going to focus on the Green's victory but it's important not to forget that Matt Goodwin is a terrible person who deserves to never be happy

‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised £500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston – and a girls-only one in London

‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs

Congrats Jo! Looks ace

Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule

Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule theonion.com/freelancer-loves-being-a...

We all need to be more vocal in supporting arts in our schools. A-level Music is down 43% since 2010, with under 5k in 2024. Only 16% of schools entered students into GCSE Dance, with entries down 59% to 6,723. A-level Dance just 960!

#ArtsInSchools #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

When you next hear a billionaire screaming at you that trans people are a “danger to women and girls”, just remember who’s in the Epstein files.

Trans people: zero.
Billionaires: all of them.

5PM AND IT'S NOT THAT DARK YET

BOYS WE'RE WINNING THIS

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.

Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

He should be allowed to graduate immediately. There's nothing more for him to learn about art.

"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?"

- Labour +45%

literally the villain in every movie ever

‘Defecting to the reform party’ is a polite euphemism for telling guests at a dinner party that you need to go for a poo.

“I’d love to hear all about your holiday in Sardinia but first I just need to defect to the reform party”

a fluffy kitten sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table Alt: a fluffy kitten sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table

I am on a tight deadline writing the latest youth theatre plays and for some reason constantly checking the doom-laden news in a heightened sense of anxiety is not helping.

If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying As women abandon X because of its use to generate non-consensual sexual imagery, the danger is not just what happens to those who stay, but what happens when abusers are left alone on the platform, sa...

Your occasional reminder that it's not the job of women to stay in toxic spaces in order to civilise men. (This piece is written by a woman, btw.) www.independent.co.uk/voices/grok-...

Cliff tickler?

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

My kids call this “plot armour”. Not sure where they got that from. So a cliff-hanger with plot armour? Cliff-hanger with a soft landing?

[starmer at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook]

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Three dimensional paper artwork created with the pages of a discarded book resembling a deer running amongst pine trees in the moonlight

Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature
#WomensArt 🎄❄️