Reading stats for 2025. My aim for next year is to increase the number of pages read!

Can recommend libro.fm for an audible alternative. Use the code SWITCH to get two books when signing up!

3rd time lucky

What a wonderful year of exams it's been....

The Supreme Court only ruled on whether people with a GRC count as women under the Equality Act. You have to be 18 to get a GRC. But the Guides say they’re kicking out trans girls – under 18s – as a result. It doesn’t track. So why are they doing it? https://goodlaw.social/cpfx

Time for another re-read of Project Hail Mary. An excellent comfort book. Currently reading "Cursed under London", which is excellent so far!

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

My toddler absolutely loves George Ezra (very sensible child), so it's no surprise that all of my top streamed songs are his!

Back to the hated place

My watch keeps telling me my stress levels are high. Ain't nothing I can do about that until after the exam buddy!

Labour can piss off with the 3p per mile EV tax. Way to reduce the incentive to switch to electric. This will cost me an extra £660 a year. On top of now paying tax, this effectively eliminates the cost savings on EV. Great work Labour.

But why?

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

But who is giving a ketamine infusion for 48 hours post op?!? www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000...

One of the many things that annoy me in the NHS is that I'm trusted to give paralysing drugs and strong opioids, but I'm not trusted to adjust the clock on the anaesthetic machine to the correct time!

Bigger cars makes collisions more lethal, especially for pedestrians. Very few people have a good reason to drive a tank, especially in urban/suburban areas. Time to get these off the road.

Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The sad moment 5 minutes after the train leaves that station, and you've eaten all of your trip snacks already

We need to talk very, very seriously about doctor workforce planning in the U.K. Or the lack of it… medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-trai...

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Insane moments in British politics:

WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THIS LOGO AND THEN SPELL IT BAIR?!?!?

The thing is, though, there *are* plenty of conditions where patients who can make their own way to ED, be it via private car, or taxi, can - and should. It is also true that the ambulance crisis is directly related to overflowing hospitals and crowded EDs. But there are two issues here.

How has the UK become so ignorant?

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash." www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

Caught up with the #Battlefield trailer, and it actually looks decent? Hesitantly excited!

The UK "condemns" Israel. Maybe the government could try suspending their arms export licence? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

I miss the days when The Onion couldn’t be mistaken for real headlines

"2. Appeals will not be accepted on any other grounds, for example, that a candidate: Seeks to question the professional or academic judgement of the examiners" Explains why some of the examiners behave the way they do. Literally cannot be challenged on how they behave in the exam.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social It would be a start if the government foot the bill for all the additional (compulsory) costs that come with being a resident doctor… £600-£1k to sit exams, £500+ to be GMC registered, fees to pay for College membership and ~£1k for the defence union (which is not the BMA).

I'm loving series 1 of murderbot, glad to see it continued!

Read today that the London air ambulance was able to deploy 28 teams on 7/7. Assuming that most of them came in from off days/other commitments, that's an insane amount of kit they have ready to deploy!

The UK really has the wrong priorities.

One of the patients having a LSCS today put jazz on in theatre. But not relaxing jazz. Fast tempo, discordant jazz. Honestly never felt more stressed in theatre.

Off to London today for round two of the Big College Quiz. This time at the home of our sworn enemies, the surgeons.

"Metal music fans heading to the mosh pits of Download Festival this weekend are being urged to put their wearable tech into airplane mode to avoid making accidental 999 calls." Modern problems!

ATLS is absolutely rubbish isn't it?

One thing that always baffled me about cardiac surgery was how comfortable the patients were afterwards.

The ortho team are playing some kind of drum and base, and I think I'm going to go insane today.

Candy-coated lies…enticing new users & keeping existing ones hooked. The tobacco & nicotine industries target people of all ages with products & designs tailored to different groups while deliberately preying on youth. Ahead of #WorldNoTobaccoDay 🚭, let's unmask the appeal 👉 bit.ly/NoTobacco2025

I fail to see how the public's opinion matters in a dispute between an employer and employees. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Elon Musk gets trolled while attempting to live stream Path of Exile 2 from his private jet.

Just remembered this adorable old video, this kid has such good comic timing I hope you’re thriving out their queen

All this talk of smartphone and social media bans for kids, without any concrete plan for teaching or parenting actions to go alongside it is feeling a lot like kicking the can down the road. When these kids get to 16, 18, whatever, they still need to know how to navigate the online world safely.

The flight radar April's fools got me for a few minutes this morning

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.