‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

4. ... patients even more sick. Co-infection with influenza and Covid-19 is bad enough; with potentially no vaccination coverage for either disease it carries a significant risk of fatality. Simply put: the eligibility criteria for Covid-19 vaccination will lead to deaths. /end

1. Rather than, 'Two of the worst winter flu seasons of the past decade have been seen in the last three years, something partly attributed to the *bounce-back of the virus after Covid restrictions were lifted combined with immunity being low*'... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

Exactly right - we desperately need concrete and effective actions to fight climate change. 🌏 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/06/brazil-cop-30-truth-world-leaders-climate-crisis-president-lula

maybe it's a bad idea to make a bunch of old dudes stand around on camera for an hour while everyone takes turns kissing Trump's ass

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. setting his shoes on fire running out of the room so quickly when there is a medical emergency is the most perfect Trump thing ever.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

'COVID-19 surveillance is happening but at a much lower level than before. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of variants that are out there. There’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19', says @mvankerkhove.bsky.social who.int www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism. Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

for you, friends 🤍

"After just a few years, the decline is visible. A few more [years], and large parts of the population may be too impaired to function effectively, leaving us without the collective ability to respond." #longCOVID via @storiedselves.bsky.social in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"The Inquiry, in its final module, must be able to look the bereaved in the eyes...to ask the most searching questions." In the last module examining the impact of Covid on people, the Inquiry plans to call only ONE bereaved witness. Bereaved families have been sidelined again.

This account smells like a beautiful nasturtium opening in the winter sun. I’m joking of course. It smells of despair and wet socks drying on a radiator.

for all the healers

🇬🇧 "The people of Great Britain will choose the next government. Not some billionaire foreigner." 📚 "So I would suggest that he buys a book on the British constitution out of his money. He reads it, he understands how we work and he minds his own business."

To think of this man In his hospital bed, Watching the hate-filled racism oozing across the media, Talk of 'Britishness', and panning 'immigrants', demanding the race of the attacker be revealed, Never once demanding the ethnicity of the brave man who saved dozens of lives #SamirZitouni

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

This is an excellent idea!!!

If you blame the crimes of British UK-born ethnic minorities on immigration, you're racist. British Nationals aren't immigrants. You can ONLY mean their ethnic origin. The Huntingdon victims are still fighting for their lives in hospital & Matt Goodwin is using them for racism.

'Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths arising from COVID-19.' according to @ukhsa.bsky.social, source: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w... COVID-19 vaccine surely should be available for all, free of charge, based on their individual health needs.

Second class England No free bus passes for under 22s in England Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate. Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67. No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.

Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.

Two sleeps.

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

ICE GOONS opened fire on a car full of children, their mother screaming for their lives. This is absolutely insane 🤬

Clearly someone’s never met Irish or Italian Americans.

COVID-19 vaccine access in the UK is no longer universal. That’s bad policy! Sign the petition to restore free access for all. #VaccinesForAll #LongCovid #PublicHealth Please share widely in your own networks: WhatsApp, Nextdoor, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, et al. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

The man who invented auto correct has sadly pissed away. His funfair will be next monkey.

Happy Halloween 👻

Dr. James C. Jackson of Vanderbilt University takeaway from today’s IACC Expert Panel on Long Covid and other chronic conditions: Brain fog is not an accurate term. It needs to be referred to as brain damage. Yup.

Farage: epic grifter

Free access to COVID-19 vaccines is a moral and public health imperative. When governments restrict access based on income, they violate the right to health and expose entire populations to preventable harm. Support the petition to demand universal vaccine access. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available in the UK, free of charge. Please sign this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its negligent, penny-pinching policy, restricting eligibility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine free. Share on Facebook and Twitter. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available in the UK, free of charge. Please sign this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its negligent, penny-pinching policy, restricting eligibility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine free. Share on Facebook and Twitter. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

This is just straightforwardly false from Badenoch. If the Lam amendment had been passed, it would have removed ILR (and made liable to deportation) from someone who arrived here on a work permit in 1971, got ILR in mid-70s, and claimed her pension in 2000.

The Lord of the Rings ys about how the worlde kan be saved by learninge, compassioun, understandinge manye languages, buildinge friendeshippes across cultural divides, and gardeninge.

Around 2m people in UK suffer from LongCovid. Of these, over 100k are kids. (Remember when Jenny Harris, head of UKHSA, said kids were more likely to get run over by a bus than catch Covid?) Vaccination reduces the risk of LongCovid. Please sign petition for universal vaccination in link below👇

Allowing unchecked spread of #SARSCoV2 is a serious risk to the health and wellbeing of our country - including the profound disability caused by Long COVID and its impact on individuals, on the NHS, on businesses, on the education system, and on the economy - a mass disabling event still unfolding!

In the UK, restricting free access to proven vaccines ignores the evidence and is a public health failure. Please sign this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its shortsighted policy - and make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...

“Poor ventilation leaves hospitals ‘not ready’ for another covid Just four years after the peak of the pandemic, four in five (UK) NHS acute trusts are concerned their ventilation systems may be inadequate, according to an investigation by Health Services Journal” www.hsj.co.uk

WTF 🤬 A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

Covid Bereaved Families: "Our family members' deaths were entirely avoidable...Now, Farage wants to silence the bereaved, 'wind up' our only opportunity for justice and get his mates in the establishment off the hook. This inquiry has so far cost 0.01% of the government's annual expenditure."

Covid Bereaved Families: "We know exactly why Nigel Farage, IDS and other establishment figures have questioned this inquiry...[It is] an opportunity for ordinary people like us to hold powerful people like them to account...[We] will continue to campaign for justice for as long as it takes."