The tuberculosis prevention charity I founded two years ago, Spiro, has a video up for this year’s #P4A2026 You can vote for one charity this year - please vote for Spiro so we can help save lives from TB! projectforawesome.com/videos/vote-... @tbfighters.org

Palestine demo right now at Downing Street. Stop Starving Gaza

Human made mass starvation in Gaza. People being shot waiting for food. This is utterly unconscionable. I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Trump held up a printed picture of people lifting body bags and said, "These are all white farmers that are being buried.” The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.

I’m a huge Eurovision fan. It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now. Absolutely shocking televote result. Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine

Timelapse of the second half of the Palestine demo yesterday from just after Westminster bridge to Downing St hundreds of thousands came to say #FreePalestine

Some very good boys spotted this weekend. Bark-tivists! #FreePalestine

At the #Palestine demo in London today. I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting. There’s a chant we used to do: Gaza Gaza don’t you cry We will never let you die Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening

In the conversations critiquing how much is spent on humanitarian aid… remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid

#USAID was the largest bilateral donor to the #TB response, contributing 19% of international donor funding in 2022. We estimate that the elimination of #USAID funding may lead to 1,390,900 million additional episodes of symptomatic TB and 420,500 TB deaths over the next 10 years. 2/8

Ending #malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation. On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.

Watched this unreported world report on Sudan www.channel4.com/programmes/u... Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can

@scientificdiscovery.dev writes on the devastating impact of foreign aid cuts from rich nations. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...

There have been devestating aid cuts. The team behind proimpact.tools have been working flat out to triage and identify the programs to save - lives are on the line If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.

On World TB Day "The fight against TB isn’t over — unless we decide to let it be" medium.com/@abeauneu/th...

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

Gutting USAID is awful and illegal. Maybe the most terrible thing Trump / Musk have ever done. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f... "There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."

It’s a real “looking sad, throwing batarang in the vicinity of the UN” time in global health right now

US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

Marie Antoinette, 1792 colourised

Vote for Spiro (my TB charity!) in #Project4Awesome here bit.ly/P4A-Spiro Keen to see if John Green will see our video!

So have we got all the lichen to subscribe yet?

Absolutely morally bankrupt behaviour that will directly lead to more people dying of preventable causes www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Enough is enough

This just in: They still all lead to Rome

This just in: They still all lead to Rome

My boyfriend is rehearsing with his band “Hot Jaw” this weekend. But as I have a dental hygienist appointment it is in fact I who shall have the hotter jaw 😎

Giving What We Can is hiring for an ops assistant www.givingwhatwecan.org/en/get-invol... One of the organisations I'm proudest of being associated with! Check it out :)

I didn't read much EA forum last year but I do like being "beloved" given that is what Habiba actually means!

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

Things my family does that belong in cutsey fiction: Whoever takes down laundry and delivers to people's rooms can't always tell whose clothes are whose. My sisters asynchonously put mis-delivered items on the bannister for the other to claim. They call it (I kid you not) "the sock exchange"

Childhood vaccines have saved around 150 million children over the past 50 years. Estimates from a paper by Shattock and colleagues: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... I wrote about it here: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day — a day to celebrate one of humankind's greatest achievements laneless.substack.com/p/500-millio...

Thirteen years ago today, I donated a kidney to a stranger, starting a chain w/ 6 recipients. It felt like a great deal: with modest risks, I could give someone many more years of healthy life. Looking back, I'm glad I did it, but I understated both the risks and the benefits. 🧵

V cool to see two Palestinian women on the list Elyanna - Singer songwriter star of Coachella and Glastonbury Bisan Owda - Emmy and Peabody award winning Gaza video blogger 🇵🇸 🍉

Hugely significant report from @amnesty.org finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention Overwhelming case for full UK arms sales ban & for UK to fulfil duty to prevent further genocide vimeo.com/1035909869 @amnestyuk.bsky.social

The only two movies I’ve seen in the cinema in the last two years are Wicked and Barbie. It’s funny when you read about how a marketing person has really got your number. And the mark of how far they’ve got me is I’m not even mad? 🙃

My top podcast this year!

It's giving... Tuesday

Not a novel take at all just feels important to say that I think this was a v bad thing for Biden - I was genuinely shocked because I actually though better of him than this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many years ago I used to work with a lot of Scottish local councils. In the last year I’ve started watching NFL. I knew the Pittsburgh Steelers’ logo reminded me of something

Health is a human right. 🌍❤️ On #WorldAIDSDay, let’s ensure HIV prevention, treatment, & care are accessible to ALL—without stigma or discrimination. Everyone deserves quality healthcare, no matter their status, gender, or where they live. #EndAIDS: bit.ly/3Z5Ot5P

I think it’s generally pretty good for some complex issues to have debate and disagreement not along party lines www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Honestly astonishing to think watching the video just how much suffering and grief is being prevented ❤️

Watched the Wicked movie yesterday! 💚 Gorgeous visually and great fun. On splitting into 2 parts - obvs financial not artistic decision with all the expected downsides: - Less satisfying character arcs (esp Elphaba 😈) - Extended scenes 🥱 (Oz dust ballroom) - 2nd half is going to suffer re songs 😒

I heard Y is pescatarian and L is planning on doing veganuary next year