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Posts by Vicki Peacey

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"This feels, to me, almost more Orwellian than any other piece of Newspeak the US regime has yet come up with. And that is saying something.

Can you just go about redefining how you calculate percentages? Only in a world where Ignorance is Strength."

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Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

"A vaccine during pregnancy which protects new-borns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say."

Vaccines are miraculous. #VaccinesWork 💉

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I am not an AI hater/doomster but my GOD I am getting so sick of seeing the "It's not <this> - it's <that>" construction everywhere. If you're using AI to draft (I am fine with that!) you MUST go over the draft carefully: treat it as a series of notes and make sure you give it your own voice

1 week ago 27 3 2 1
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Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵
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3 weeks ago 721 285 27 71
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A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x
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Woman pulled out of UK ultramarathon after death threats over Afghanistan fundraising Sarah Porter was running 108-mile Montane Winter Spine Challenger South race when security team had to disable tracking device

She was running the #spinerace for Afghan women and girls. She was pulled out because of death threats. I’ll put her fundraiser page in the next post. Let’s support if we can.

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3 months ago 111 66 7 1
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One of the best books ever written, in any genre.

11 months ago 777 83 54 15

Amazing, thank you

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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Thank you - will it be possible to rewatch as I could not join until about 30 min in?

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PEPFAR alone:

There are ~220,000 people picking up new supplies of ARVs every single day and will lose access to treatment for every
day of the stop work order, according to amFAR.

They also estimate a 90 day freeze would mean ~130,000 babies acquiring HIV.
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1 year ago 32 14 0 1

Hello world. Is it nicer here? I've come over from TwiX where I was twitvick.

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