Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

The Avanti West Coast mainline train is overstuffed chaos again (there are ALWAYS issues with this line - I haven't ended up paying full price for any journey I have EVER taken on it thanks to Delay Repay). They are understaffed and worse at managing fractious passengers than even Virgin were.

My Chem 4 of 4 done and the best B stage set list, yet. #MCR 😍😍😍

My Chem 3 of 4 complete. Amazing.

A building on Edinburgh’s most prominent street that housed a series of tax-evading gift shops (London Centric came across it while investigating a connected network of gift shops in London’s Trocadero building) suffered a severe fire last night.

Just learned Amazon Prime in the UK is now showing the 'Pendragon Cycle' fantasy series, so in case anyone stumbles into watching it by mistake, know that it was made by far-right Trumpists at the Daily Wire, explicitly as violent right-wing Christian propaganda (this is a tweet by its creator)

Simple truth is if you’re mad about trans people then someone’s lying to you.

Honestly, seeing some English people get irritated at some Americans talking about them with the same sweeping assumptions and nonsense as they (the English) tend to talk about the Scots is one of the best parts of the sportsball right now. (I have no hope that they'll knock it off, it's cultural)

Celebrated the arrival of July with a lovely evening walk in the pouring rain with a lovely friend (not actually sarcastic, chose our place and clothes well. My new waterproof summer coat is, in fact, waterproof).

All the videos of the English fans being dicks about the Tartan Army, and the bullshit from some of the national TV people and we're still asked why we won't support England? C'mon Congo DR!

As someone with a day job in marketing, can confirm. IT'S ALL AN AD!!!!!!!!

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

Thread (and I second the cooling blankets - magic for getting hot skin comfortable enough to sleep)

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Glasgow and greater city area: Publicly owned bus networks

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

The Monday morning hunt for caffeine. #MondayMotivation

Starmer busy taking credit for policies he actively opposed sums up why he had to go.

i'm getting a bit annoyed with this "starmer didn't do anything" narrative ❌️ sweeping changes to the immigration system ❌️ biggest asylum reforms in 70 years functionally ending refugee status ❌️ moved from a reasonably tolerant regime to the most trans-hostile developed democracy

Right now, we could be living through a hantavirus disaster. The world avoided that, and this is why | Devi Sridhar

Security alert: YouTube added a feature that now puts your username in shared links, so if you share a YouTube link on here, everyone who clicks it will know your YouTube username. To turn it off, go to Settings - Privacy and turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street. Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.

The scenes we saw in Glasgow earlier this week, as racists took to the streets to intimidate and threaten ethnic minority Glaswegians were despicable, and this afternoon we showed a tiny, outnumbered crowd of bigots that we don't want their hatred in our city.

Our anti-racist repertoire for the wee group of anti-immigration guys in #Glasgow: 🎶 No Scotland for Nazis🎵 👏 There are many, many more of us than you 👏 👏 This is what community looks like 👏 👏 Say it loud and say it clear: refugees are welcome here 👏 👏 The people united will never be defeated 👏

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

I absolutely don't sportsball, so any clues about how pleased I should be about getting Croatia and Spain in our sweepstake would be gratefully received ⚽️⚽️

Why is it always the wanker cars that have their indicators on a pay-per-blink subscription?

The stench of misogyny around the recent coverage of Nicola Sturgeon is repulsive.

With who do I lodge my complaint about this humidity? There are insufficient Kirkby grips (Bobby pins) to deal with this bullshit.

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

Very glad not to be down south this week - hope you're all well hydrated and able to find a breeze

A dose of appreciation for large dudes who some people might find intimidating who make an effort to lower their shoulders and make eye contact when they're walking past a woman smoking on the sidewalk and give her the respectful nod of "just heading in this direction, we're cool"

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

And finishing up the day at a reasonable hour, in a reasonable mood.

Memo to messrs Offord and Findlay. Of the 790k people in Scotland who are currently economically inactive: 122k are retired 185k are students 124k are looking after family 267k are long-term sick The idea that '800k inactive people' are choosing not to work to live a life on benefits is ludicrous

Sharing this again, as the first postal votes are dropping through letterboxes. Don't fall for the fashy fake greens - look for the logo and vote for the real @scottishgreens.org to demand better for Scotland!

Tickets ON SALE NOW at paisleyopera.org May 16th, 19th, 21st & 24th. Come & join Paisley Opera as we stage a St Mirren-inspired new translation of Bizet’s Carmen - In this new version of the most popular opera of all time, we swap our setting from a sun-drenched Spain to the streets of 1960s Paisley

In May this year Paisley Opera is putting on a new translation of Carmen - moved from Sunny Spain to Proud Paisley! paisleyopera.org

Just spent a lovely evening at Opera Bohemia's new touring production of Die Fledermaus. It was funny and delightful, with lovely music beautifully performed. Audrey Tsang as Adele was a particular stand out of an excellent cast. Some dates still available www.operabohemia.co.uk/die-flederma...

Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.

The @rspb.bsky.social Monday photographs are always such a delight (with EXCELLENT use of alt text)

If you don’t have 2FA active on Bluesky, turn it on NOW. There’s an ongoing attack taking over accounts and spamming with links, which seems to add an “app password” for access externally. Already had one friend’s account compromised and I’m seeing others.

Out for a wee bit of culture with M.

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Wheee the internet is giving me @angelnetgirl.bsky.social and @blackbirdblade.bsky.social today 😁

Popped into Arkleston farm shop and cafe on the way to rehearsal today... several of the Altos were fuelled by a piece of the lovely brownut (I couldn't resist, but it was also too rich to eat by myself and luckily it cut up easily at tea break!). A lovely reward for our hard work!