Heads up latest firmware update to my Canon printer blocked the use of third party cartridges of which I have £100’s worth. If anyone has an unupdated TS8750 let me know Cartridge seller seems up have gone to ground after trading very successfully for years. Where are you @Stinkyink.

So the Clacton by-election is going to be a run-off between a clown solely interested in media attention via cheap stunts who plays a cartoon villain for social media idiots without the slightest interest in representing Clacton or doing the work of a parliamentarian... and Count Binface?

When you wake up and your watch says you have 6% of life remaining but your eyes don’t see the word “battery”.

Is it the Burnham or Barnham circus? Roll up roll up. Will the media now destroy Burnham the same way they have been destroying Starmer.

Revisiting NICE's rejection discussion of Evusheld: "the committee considered that, as shielding reduces, the risk of infection and severe outcomes will increase" So: we can't give vulnerable people this drug, b/c they'll stop shielding & have a life, then might get Covid. I find this maddening.

Approved for use in Japan - www.nature.com/articles/d41... - when will NICE give it the go ahead for the UK www.nice.org.uk/guidance/awa...

Probably a good time for a few general caveats for those watching the developing story of the #hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius - especially the more anxious ones among you. (Long-time followers will know most of this by heart at this point): 🧪

Hantavirus: No vaccine any time soon.

📽️ Find out more about the Sleep Buddy study in this video - youtu.be/x4PbgQ6fUC8

📢 Milestone klaxon! 📢 Recruitment to the Sleep Buddy study has reached halfway, with 169 families now taking part 🎉 The study is evaluating a digital tool to help children with #ADHD who are experiencing #SleepProblems. Register your interest here - www.trial-deck.com/trial/sleepb...

I think this is a cause worth following. Husband shouting at BBC1 is not a good start to the day

Well this is quite something. Over on X @harryeccles.bsky.social, a Green candidate on the Isle of Wight, rewrites the famous poem by Martin Niemoller about Nazi erasure. But does so to leave out the Jews.

At least in Asia they're willing to accept reality about aerosols and disease transmission, unlike the sociopathic failures killing so many people over here.

UK government starts public consultation about digital identification #DigitalID #UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

How come I am getting personally addressed invitations to local meetings of **Form prior to the May elections? Who gave them the right to hold my data?

Today would have been Harold Steggles' 115th birthday as he was born on 8th February 1911. Very sadly, he died, tragically young, of leukaemia, aged just 60 on 13th October 1971. I have attached a few examples of his work along with a lovely photo of him. #HaroldSteggles #botd #EastLondonGroup

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This ⬇️

I am a patient representative on the Steering Committee of #TOURIST which oversees the #PRINCE and #QUARTZ Lung trials. Please do follow upon the link below if interested further.

🌀 CO₂ thresholds matter... In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'. 💯 Lidia Morawska et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Relevant to current topic

Remembering Titanic lookout Frederick Fleet who, sadly, took his own life on this day in 1965 in the garden of 8 Norman Road, Southampton. His wife had recently passed away and he was in the process of being evicted from his lodgings. 1/4

Reposting as I am not an android user

An analogy for a lot of us now.

Titanic crew lived in my road too.

Not sure they make women like this any more. Hilarious obit. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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...