***POLL*** Context: I have seen both opinions expressed on Bluesky by at least 2 people. Who is crazier? People who believe that: 1) Keir Starmer is a good politician. 2) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is a good film. Respond with "Starmerstans" or "Jar Jar Apologists".

Just to let you all know, with their third album, a compilation album entitled Greatest Hits, Blazin' Squad did not chart.

Really important article - I’d argue that the switch to opt-out hasn’t failed but hasn’t worked as hoped either. It does however reinforce that even with opt-out in place it’s important to consider your wishes, register a decision & tell your loved ones - #LeaveThemCertain #YesIDoNate #OrganDonation

Thank all for your support. It's been so touching for you all to suggest it to me and I'll be honest, I also thought about it. So I can confirm that, yes, I will be applying to be the next Director-General of the BBC.

Took some photos for an event this morning. My phone decided to take "motion photos". Consider the basic camera app of your phone enshittified. (Yes, they are just very short, soundless videos thus rendering them useless as stills or videos.)

Finished watching Riot Women. The W Yorks setting made a lot more sense when I remembered that Sally Wainwright is not Sally Rooney. It's brilliant, thoroughly recommend, but (as some of the trailers imply) it is not for the light-hearted with suicide, SA and DV all themes.

If you ever decide you want to try being against the artist and for big business, Megalopolis is your argument. I came out of that film hoping nobody made any more original films and we just had sequels from now on. It is worse than you're imagining.

Guys, "Dozy Don" is right there

Can't wait for Star Wars Yes, Minister

A bad man who did one good thing. History is full of them. Churchill, Gandhi, Washington.

Honoured to be asked to talk on #HealthcareAI at the Intensive Care Society of Ireland autumn meeting, along with @andymoz78.bsky.social Made the mistake of asking my brother in law for a Gaelic greeting and now have a 30-second voice note with what appears to be some kind of toast...

Rosalind Franklin died first, though

A full house at today's Joint Association/ @rcoanews.bsky.social Wellbeing Leads Seminar 🌟 Covering working conditions, resident doctor wellbeing, lessons from organisational psychology, and more! We look forward to hearing different perspectives at this afternoon's group discussions.

The other issue is a consistent failure to put the IM&T resource in to maintain and optimise systems once they‘re in - often feels like it’s buy-and-ignore with resulting performance/usability issues and failure to realise potential.

To be honest, this was just an enraging. Hearing people say that implementing a large-scale is EPR is always difficult. So difficult that nobody has though, hey maybe we shouldn't do elective work for a couple of weeks? Maybe? No it'll be fine like it literally never has been.

This is my new favourite way to describe Watson and Crick.

There's been a tendency to argue that Crick and the late racist Watson's contribution to discovering the DNA's structure was just copying Franklin's ideas which this article clearly highlights as erroneous. Though she does deserve equal credit, it doesn't mean the racist and his friend did nothing.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dominic West's British accent

Maugham ‘28: why just *shoot* Reform’s fox?

Amazing

Seeing this story shared a lot by non-Sheffielders. It's great to a local journalism outfit getting so much credit. It's a fantastic story that affects lots folks in our local area (but luckily not me).

On the off-chance I save an ED doctor on admission, no it's not, it's about body temperature, please don't try to boil and egg in your arse.

Where’s your fuckin’ poppy?

Beautiful new carpet covered in plastic too, I bet

What a victory for disabled potential candidates in Scottish Labour.

Does anybody receive #NHS comms emails from their trust email that are completely unreadable? YOU'RE THE COMMS PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOBILE PHONES BY NOW

New video premiering on YouTube in ten minutes!

Lads, I'm pretty sure a quick entry into your favourite search engine will find you all the stocks and flogging you could possibly desire.

This feels like a subtweet with he boss being Morgan McSweeney

Yeah, K-Pop Demon Hunters was great fun

For a long time at school, I found history pretty dull. It was only studying modern world history that made it interesting and I still find the stories of Berlin fascinating. The Checkpoint Charlie Museum remains my favourite museum trip ever (albeit 15 years ago). Great little article.

Not so much a criticism of the study but the issue is that because there is no mention of time, the practical implications are limited. The rate of failure and particularly infection are only useful if we know when they occur. Definitely a "more research please" area.

Plus ça change. NHS trusts do seem woefully underprepared for EPR implementations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Prompted by this post from James I went and had a look at the Green Party members code of conduct. ... yeah. My party is not perfect, but at least I can actually SAY it's not perfect without being sanctioned, and I'm not mandated to thank or praise anybody just for being a member.

Kind of my point www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Just requested ax “Xray penis” rather than “Xray pelvis” and don’t know whether to blame my varifocals, the screen size, or the multiple interruptions I had whilst trying to place the blasted order 🤦🏼‍♀️😳 #humanfactors

Lol.

Cracking bit of data journalism with some gorgeous visualisation it emphasise their point. (Also, if Ed Davey is so vociferously opposed to Twitter...he could just leave it?)

Whilst I certainly don't think it's sufficient, I think the most significant barriers to a Reform victory in 2029 are their managerial incompetence both at a local authority level and in terms of managing a ground game for campaigning.

Lots of interesting conversations based on this but the government seems allergic to the notion that it should make an argument for something.

"We can replace this with AI!" You can't.

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I rarely interact with screening since in many sense both ICU and anaesthetics are tertiary specialties but the notion of "less is more" is one sometimes people struggle with but is frequently the right choice. Great vid from Rohin.

Trying to bring a bit of old fashioned classic twitter-era medical discussion to Bluesky! Made a short video about the huge Prostate Cancer Screening study just published in @nejm.org. Regular media and social media docs have, predictably, made a hash of the results #medsky youtu.be/OQ7g1lQ26s0?...