My dad put my mum's glasses on the dog

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

(things said by people who have not undertaken a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021) I wish liberal covid deniers would actually engage with the piles of evidence on the continued danger of covid, rather than deeming everyone who has insane.

Repeat Covid infections increase your risk of Long Covid. We are in a mass disabling event that too many people are choosing to ignore. Every infection is a dice roll with disability, and many (children included) are being infected once a year or more. Mask up, clean the air, get boosted!

Thousands of New Yorkers — including ‘Orange is the New Black’ actor Matt McGorry — suffer from ‘Long COVID’ An estimated 500,000 New Yorkers had lingering COVID symptoms in 2023, affecting daily life and work. McGorry, 39, said long COVID fatigue severely impacted his career. archive.md/I1A27

Yes. We would have zero COVID in most countries by now.

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

no matter how dark the day, there's always a bright spot.

dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

CN: abuse, harassment and ableism. This article covers some of the many ways that disabled people in Scotland are suffering, and being let down and abandoned by the services that should be there to support them. archive.ph/2025.02.16-0...

I respect a book that has me stopping to re-read a perfectly and beautifully constructed sentence. #BookSky

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

"May his name be erased."

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

Terry Pratchett said it best: No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away [...] until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence. GNU, DAVID LYNCH.

Nada como citar a Pratchett.

Dirty air, dementia, and other adverse brain effects www.nature.com/articles/d41... new Feature @nature.com open-access

The White House gave Israel the coordinates of an American family in Gaza, ostensibly to protect them. Israel used those coordinates to bomb them. theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...

I am able to share the tragic news I mentioned this week on behalf of the family: my dear friend Jessy Roos lost her beautiful 10mo old JJ suddenly on December 23. Her wonderful family needs our support to help them through the coming days and beyond. www.gofundme.com/f/honouring-...

“Based on current medical trends and expected advancements, we conclude that COVID-19 is still driving excess mortality both directly and indirectly.” www.swissre.com/institute/re...

I have a dentist appointment in a couple of days, is there anything I can do/take apart from nasal spray to reduce the risk of catching covid or anything there?

Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte

That smile

Washing your hands is important. But COVID gathers in under ventilated spaces like smoke. It's high time we in public health were honest with the public and admit we got it wrong. There was far too much emphasis placed on handwashing for Covid. Many died because of this incorrect guidance.

I fully agree with Prof. Chris Whitty and Dr. Hans Kluge of the WHO. The great lesson of the pandemic has been the importance of Indoor Air Quality. Improved IAQ would also reduce RSV, flu etc, and prepare us for the next pandemic. Ireland had the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world in 2019.

I know more than 4 people who contracted covid in oncology units and cancer centers- and the infection indefinitely paused, halted, or utterly undermined their cancer treatment and caused their death in doing so. Masking was all done in my cancer center a year and a half or two years ago.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

"There are an estimated 2.9m people in England with malnutrition. Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."

💙📚 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Righto, gonna recreate some of my most viral twitter threads here for posterity. First up: For a few decades in the first century CE, the Roman Empire was absolutely flooded with weird sex-coins and we're still not 100% why.

"How can I best counter accusations that I'm a smug misogynist who thinks women's only purpose is to be sexually appealing to me? Ah, got it."

Elon Musk tipped to give $100m to Nigel Farage in move to shake up British politics The ReformParty the new Party of elites and billionaires The Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) boss is said to be considering backing the far-right Reform UK party www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/elon...

Every donation @longcovidkids.bsky.social receives between the 3-10th Dec will be doubled 😃, helping continue the mission to improve outcomes for children & young people 🌎 with #LongCovid. It’s a small charity with a big ❤️, grateful for donations big & small 🙏 #LongCovidKids #LongCovidKids

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

I always think it’s important to point out (since it usually is little discussed these days) that Rosa Parks was fired from her seamstress job in Montgomery and was basically blacklisted from being employed in the city. She had to move to Detroit because of discrimination after this.

A disabled child with diabetes went partially blind because the family had no fridge to store the insulin needed to treat his condition. In 21st century Britain. Why can't we have decent public housing again? www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Happy Caturday! mygrandfatherscat.ca finds second forever homes for cats whose humans have died, are terminally ill, or are moving into long term care. Odo and Q-Tip are in Hamilton, Ontario and need a new home soon. Please get in touch with the organization to start the adoption process.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. A remarkable achievement. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

This is Jake's story. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

2. Labour will win in 2029 only if it has made a discernible difference to people’s lives, on crucial fronts such as housing and the NHS. That means, for example, major new provision of social housing alongside effective rent controls, and huge new public capital investment in the NHS, schools etc.

MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr

🔴The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods

Nowhere else on Earth are so many children fleeing war - BBC News apple.news/AsBF1hKntRLO...