Thanks for the links. As someone who retired and spent four years looking after parents 100 miles away from my home and who is now getting to that era myself I take a personal interest and do not see anything improving quite the opposite.

New #IOS terms and conditions. Agree or Disagree. But they are in Spanish. Anyone else got the same? Agree or stop using my phone, iPad, laptop. #apple

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Your guest on right now is right. I have seen ads showing nurses masking up but wearing baggy blues which are useless as they give the pretence of protection.

Please read this from the amazing @drshibley.bsky.social

@jmcefalas.bsky.social I think we followed each other in the old reincarnation?

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

“NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm…We’ve set up a simple tool so you can find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software & send an email demanding they say no to Palantir.” notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

142 deaths in England involving COVID-19: w/ending 7 Nov 2025. 🤦Data too limited 🤷COVID-19 has not disappeared, continues to spread, disable, and disrupt lives - while strategies appear to fail to acknowledge its persistence or the need for better infection prevention. @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social

Friendly reminder that Covid is airborne you fuckwits. You know, like smoke. If you want to avoid it, campaign for air filtration in public places and wear a mask thanks very much bye

With some very welcome sunshine here this morning, I thought that a "bright" image might be appropriate. This is "Canvey Island" by Walter Steggles from 1933. This is one of at least four different oils by him with the same title but, to date, it is the only known survivor. #WalterSteggles

3 hours remaining to update 🍏 watch to iOS 26.1. I really hope not. Already been an hour to update my Phone the two updates needed to update my watch. Hello Liquid Glass. #Firstworldproblems.

Forwarded to a couple of people I know who have experience of delirium and found it very frightening.

Shaggy Inkcap taken yesterday at The Hillier Gardens arboretum

A worthwhile read as we dive headlong into AI health and social care it is not what we gain it is what we lose - thank you Eric Reinhart www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪

If I was going to deliver "the largest ever digital inclusion programme ever delivered" I'd start by going and talking to the community organisations all over the country who have almost zero-support from govt in meeting unmet need, and who will have little capacity to engage in a govt consultation

Another week has come & gone & another #SaturdayMorning has arrived! Here's our "usual" start to the day & week-end: "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

I would be bloody surprised if Reform UK's showboating "DOGE" efforts - which Yusuf has been smart enough to dissociate himself from - go after Councils outsourcing child or adult social care provision to private equity backed profiteers. They are in thrall to free markets

An interesting point at the Data and AI CSO Network this week was the distinction between "digital inclusion by getting everyone to adopt digital" and "digital inclusion by providing non-digital alternatives". The first is impossible, the second shows the limits of the digitalness of digital ID.

5.47am “You’re in a queue to book a Tesco delivery”. Booking opens 6am. Wait wait wait. 6.01am. “Your wait time is 36 minutes”. I am booking groceries not Bruce Springsteen tour tickets.

This is a grave threat to democracy, human rights and civil liberties. Everyone should be alarmed and getting organised to fight back. This is urgent.

Anyway, if you're interesting in supporting a more socially progressive view, that puts people and planet first, come and find out what we're doing at the Society for Hopeful Technologists buttondown.com/society-of-h...

I haven't read it yet, but HEPI has a report out on AI and the Future of Universities. Includes a chapter by Vint Cerf (!!!). But also one "by" ChatGPT (who cannot be ascribed authorship). I'll read the former and skip the latter, I think. www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/righ...

🦠Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19🦠 ☝️Significant scientific evidence-based statement which should inform our approach to preventing / controlling the potential transmission of infections. 💯 @carlzimmer.com 📖 'Air-Borne'. bsky.app/profile/drjo...

Anyone help with the name of the musician playing alongside Lang Lang tonight on #strictly? Can’t find a credit anywhere. Wasn’t even introduced.

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social really needs some work. AI has had a very detrimental effect on his earnings this year. ChatGTP doesn’t have bills to pay and doesn’t have to worry constantly. Please repost far and wide because I don’t like to see ‘Sad Matt’

And this is a man the UK government is doing business with. “Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity” - www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

England hospitalisations up significantly. Positive tests and COVID-19 deaths up. Await today's data @ukhsa.bsky.social Why such large increases? Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, low priority at leadership level, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

We still NEED YOUR SUPPORT on this important issue of vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people. 🙏Please write to your MP using our easy template! #KeepCovidBoosters 👇 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

Trump is going to bring @peace to the Middle East and put an end to tens of millions being killed”. So he’s sorting Syria, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon as well as Israel and Gaza. Wow 🤔

Never thought in Thatcher’s day I would reach a point of saying well said Lord Heseltine. #newsnight

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Lost cities at Standing Hat Inclosure, New Forest. Photographs show a multitude of small fungi on a moss covered fallen tree trunk.

Make sure to vote Not sure if you need to provide an email, but if you do use disposable ones from 10minutemail.com

We found a link between SARS-CoV-2 reinfection & #longCOVID, & a post-pandemic rise in thrombotic events across all populations, regardless of vaccination or prior infection. Findings support continued COVID diagnosis in suspected cases & mask use by healthcare workers treating respiratory patients

This animation is designed to inform parents about how data on them and their children is collected, shared and used by local and national government services identify families for intervention Please watch and if you’d like to know more, explore our project website.

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

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Local Healthwatch is under threat 🚨 Replacing independent watchdogs with apps + in-house consultation = weaker scrutiny, less trust, & lost voices. It’s not too late to call for a rethink. @felly500.bsky.social @simonduffy.bsky.social @rozdavies.bsky.social 👉 wp.me/p1zwQG-GgG

Looks like he made the frontline. I hope he listens.

What’s with the Angela Rayner witch-hunt by the media? The world is going to pot and this is a minor unintended tax infringement. Headlines for three days. For goodness sake.

Sparred? Is that ‘BBC impartiality’ I sense? Raskin absolutely destroyed him, and the British media should learn a thing or two from it, particularly the BBC, in general. Here’s the full dialogue — hope #Newsnight be showing some of it.

Before the UK government goes hook line and sinker into #AI can we resolve having to print blood forms in the blood testing clinic in the local #NHS hospital. And then the printer sticks.

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

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