"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Direct quote from Yale University research published in Science: “In conclusion, these data suggest that #COVID-19 infection, through the SARS-CoV-2 Spike 1 protein, leads to #Alzheimer’s disease–related pathology.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #N95 for your BRAIN

Maternal covid infection linked to neurological, motor, and communication delays in children😞 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

//"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino// so fun watching the Official Five Year Empirical Science quoting back to me word for word what I've been saying since 2020 to friends and family who all just stare silently in response

Covid Is Surging, So Remember To Protect That Important Bit Of Your Neck Just Under Your Chin.

Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors. This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.

would actually read a proper piece on conspiratorial thinking around health issues from health professionals, a (thankfully quite distant) relative who's a doctor is now quite convinced the COVID vaccine did more harm than good and.....?????

NHS frontline staff are refusing the flu jab in ever-greater numbers and putting patients at risk. Almost 9 in 10 at one of England’s largest hospital trusts were unvaccinated last winter. Appalling selfishness towards disabled patients that’s sadly not surprising. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

💛 This is an excellent guide on Covid-19. A must read for everyone. Please share. #SARS-CoV-2 "(In)Frequently Asked Questions: Covid-19" By Renee Despres, PhD, MPH, Freelance journalist specializing in medicine, public health, and health policy covidtoolbox.com/wp-content/u...

Please read this harrowing story 👇 A minister telling a disabled women the cuts will help her, and stepping around her collapsed body to leave the room. These are the mental gymnastics needed to justify decimating disability benefits. www.disabilitynewsservice.com

Want to repeat that if folks even wore masks just where it’s easy—in the grocery store, on the subway, sitting at your desk at work—we could likely knock down community transmission substantially, and make life a lot safer in places where mitigation is harder—like nursing homes.

BREAKING: Thailand reports over 53,000 new Covid-19 cases in a week, school shifts to online learning.

Whenever I go to the hospital in my N95, people back away from me They sanitize their hands. Some use their sleeve to open a door I’ve touched Many won’t share the elevator with me They all share two things in common: None are masked They don’t want to get sick Public health has failed.

It's never too late to start wearing a mask again! Wear them in public, in almost any context but especially when you're indoors, when 50%+ others present aren't masking, if you're in close physical proximity with others, and/or if there's scant ventilation (including lack of wind outdoors).

You do not have to accept repeat Covid infections as inevitable. Mitigations work. Layers work best. Get your booster. Clean & ventilate the air. Test and stay home when sick. Perhaps most important of all, wear a well fitted N95. It protects you & those around you. Community care can save us!

What the inside of an ADHD person's brain looks like:

I think we can put to rest the notion that offshore wind turbines spoil views and economies. The fact is that they can make coastal sites far more interesting and boost tourism as people travel to experience them, sometimes even up close. Boat tours to see the turbines are "surprisingly popular."

Much of Europe will probably see a summer wave starting soon, with both XFG and NB.1.8.1 growing at similar rates, and the combination is already probably in the 30% prevalence range.

Go transes And if they class us legally male, then they shouldn't be able to do fuck all about this. "Topless trans protest outside Holyrood a ‘public act of grief, resistance and solidarity’" www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/s...

@guardian You might want to publish an article about the true ‘grit’ of clinically vulnerable children left at risk from covid for 5 years or the tens of thousands suffering with long covid while the government fails them by not rolling out clean air! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children to be taught 'Much-needed grit' in order to tackle school mental health crisis In other news, people who depend on food banks for survival to be taught to photosynthesise

Imagine the government had not only listened to Wakefield but picked him from a pool of 1 to produce his report into vaccines. Imagine they had banned the MMR vaccine on the back of what he 'found'. That's Cass and puberty blockers.

In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital. During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.

The excess deaths are stunning, and ongoing The morbidity isn’t captured here Grateful to everyone who is still working to mitigate transmission ourworldindata.org/g...

Nobody should be facing this.

Finally got around to writing to my mp

And it's reinforced with the other rhetoric: "squalid", "incalculable damage". Starmer made a choice not to go with "balancing" language. Whether he's an actual Powellite or just cosplaying as one, it's unconvincing and unpleasant. The "hygiene" issue for politicians works both ways.

I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

Perhaps more significant, the revolting word here - "squalid" - used in Starmer's speech today seems as provocative and as significant as Thatcher's notorious comment about Britain being "rather swamped" by migrants in 1978. Then, as now, it was a Powellite dog whistle. We are truly in hell.

All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.

You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said. A "queue-jumper", they said. Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say. A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say. I am "pulling the country apart", they say.

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

Professor Deborah Lupton (@dalupton.bsky.social) is the author/co-author of 20 books and editor/co-editor of a further ten book collections, as well as over 240 book chapters and articles. Shared via X -

Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through

The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”

two points on EHRC advice on trans people's use of public toilets: 1) trans people are being required to out themselves when using loo in public 2) how is it enforceable? What about cis people who don't conform to stereotypical appearance? it's shit. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

The Israeli government is literally starving Gaza to death www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Reform is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low tax jurisdictions including Monaco, UAE and Switzerland.’ Britain’s election laws are broken - and, so far, Labour’s mooted fixes are completely insufficient www.ft.com/content/b133...

See also: "Heat pumps don't work in UK homes, we need hydrogen boilers" (pay no attention to them costing many times more to run than heat pumps because they need many times more energy). Back in reality:

Trans people told you we were just the start of a wholesale attack on human rights. We are just the lowest-hanging fruit. They are coming for a much larger group next…

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

Here is Graham Linehan calling for people to physically attack trans women who dare to continue using public facilities You know "Gender Critical" people are never going to stop getting more and more hateful and extreme I'm not going to stop even if he threatens to kill or rape me

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.