Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

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I heard we’re doing mirror selfies?

Apropos of the BBC front page: The right to free speech means you can (within limits) say what you want to say and the *government* can't stop you. It doesn't mean others can't protest what you're saying, and by that protest make it difficult for you to be heard. That is *also* free speech.

Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language

Me, solemnly looking at the 2ml syringe in my hand, about to induce general anaesthesia for a patient having surgery: “I am become death, destroyer of worlds” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Me showing off my shiny new kitchen and cooking for friends while there are still patches of bare plaster all over the rest of my downstairs

First roast cooked in the new kitchen after renovations. A modest spread but that gravy was fucking A

Only just heard my first Christmas song, which is not bad going I reckon.

It's happening

Very interesting to compare and contrast the responses between here and the app formerly known as Twitter…

You know what. I don’t think that enough surgeons have a playlist.

Okay so a friend said something to me about a “gay little nerd” and I thought shouldn’t it be ‘little gay nerd’? So I had to go check the grammar of order of adjectives which is: Opinion -> Size -> Age -> Shape -> Colour -> Origin -> Material -> Purpose.

Honestly such a hilariously damning photo.

Don’t know about you guys, but I am really pleased to see that Prince Andrew is not managing keep his head down and this stuff keeps going. Absolutely rotten stuff and I hope the press ruin him

The Kruger exhibition at the Guggenheim is characteristically on-the-nose.

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection. This is not who we are nor who we should become. Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

This has brought me joy, now it has brought you joy as well 😂

Something to make you feel small today. TON 618 is one of the largest black holes ever discovered. It is so massive that the accretion disk (the disk of superheated material orbiting a black hole at high speeds emitting light) is over a light year in diameter.

Piece that I wrote for the @rcoanews.bsky.social blog for Pride month has been published. This year, it felt important to talk about the very real threats facing our community and the importance of practicing advocacy and allyship. rcoa.ac.uk/bulletin/sum...

Today marks the point at which we are now closer to the year 2050 then we are the year 2000. Enjoy that little hell fact xoxo

I’ve long espoused the borderline heretical view that the NHS needs more managers, not fewer as is often touted

Honestly could not have happened to a more deserving individual. It is a conflicting set of emotions to be pleased to see colleagues sanctioned and erased from the register, but this is a positive decision for our profession. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Going through the EHRC consultation on guidance following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. They just want to exclude trans people from public life. They aren’t even hiding it. Not for one service because of sex assigned at birth, not for the other because of presentation.

Going through the EHRC consultation on guidance following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. They just want to exclude trans people from public life. They aren’t even hiding it. Not for one service because of sex assigned at birth, not for the other because of presentation.

It will never cease to amaze me how sometimes pregnant women can dump half their circulating volume at delivery and just ✨be okay?✨

‘They make deserts and call it peace’ The treatment of the Palestinian people and our collective silence will be looked back on in the near future in abject horror. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been doing LGBT+ teaching for ~10 years, and it's really sobering/scary how challenged rights that seemed secure a decade ago seem now 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (... still get a wee bitty emotional doing versions of this talk 🤣)

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

Oh fucking PHEW

Who needs dating when you’ve already got the only man you’ll ever need?

This is deep sarcasm btw for those in doubt Gender critical = gender essentialist = a step *back* for women’s rights

Louder for those at the back!!

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

This is so fucking regressive, I’m actually speechless. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

At the @ics-updates.bsky.social we want to acknowledge the distress being experienced by many in the transgender and gender diverse community. Our values haven’t changed 👇🏻 📟 ⚕️🏳️‍⚧️ ics.ac.uk/resource/the...

The Intensive Care Society reaffirms our commitment to inclusive and dignified care for all patients. Read our full statement below👇 bit.ly/inclusivecareforall

First elective cases on GLP-1 agonists (mounjaro/ozempic) since the new AAGBI consensus statement published. Decided to undertake mRSI on both patients out of caution. How are you managing these cases? #anaesthesia

We talk (rightly) a lot about toxic masculinity, but perhaps we should be talking more about ‘positive masculinity’? I like the description in Adolescence: “When I hear the word ‘masculine’ I think they can mend things, they like to make things” What does positive masculinity mean to you?

Some free nightmare juice for you all. Woke up this morning, opened my eyes, still quite groggy and saw about an inch from my face directly in front of me a spindly-legged spider hanging from a web.

Eurovision 2025 UK entry initial thoughts: Pick a genre.

New video from @lewisgoodall.com exploring why we should take Trump’s expansionist rhetoric seriously. youtu.be/YTJOy0miCxw

It’s wonderful to see that the #NHSRainbowBadges project has some hope for the future. I look forward to seeing the new inclusive pride badge in more trusts

Absolutely delighted that for #LGBTHM25 we've launched an updated version of the Rainbow NHS Badge @gstt-nhs.bsky.social! The new design uses the Progress Pride flag, and is intended to better represent LGBT+ patients, families and staff

Saw a video today explaining about how people laugh in particular distinctive ways because it demonstrates being part of an in-group and I’m losing my mind about this seeing it everywhere all day

Started listening to @theresthistory.bsky.social from the start (a mammoth task to say the least) and just got to the episode where @holland-tom.bsky.social narrates the battle of Otto the Great to the backdrop of the soundtrack from the Lord of The Rings and it was so joyous I had to listen twice.

Ahh the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex, or as I like to call it: “Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck where’s the FUCKING ATROPINE????”

Oh the hootenanny

One sad thing I’ve noticed in my time working in obstetric anaesthesia is how common it is for cis-het male partners to be totally unenthusiastic to any kind of support to their labouring wives/girlfriends/partners I get that some will feel overwhelmed or helpless, but so many just don’t give a shit