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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Can we give someone other than the usual IPC and public health failures an opportunity to actually do something about preventing COVID infections? The apathy of the medical leaders who allowed COVID to become endemic so they can pretend it's not their fault is really starting to get old.

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COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital

“We're seeing hallways full of stretchers and ambulance patients being offloaded into hallways."

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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hampshire children are testing positive for COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through respiratory particles in air ✅ Keep unwell children away from school ✅ Ventilate. Monitor CO₂ to know ventilation is good. Below 800ppm is good ✅ Use HEPA filtration where needed 1/3

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 07/10/2026

£50m a year to end that, the perceived and the real influence - to clean up politics completely and forever - is the best value for money I can imagine.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is good news. @greenparty.org.uk health policy is unlike the others, not the least that it is the only party with policy that addresses the findings of the #covidinquiry

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll die on this hill, but it's cruel to accuse people who wear masks of having anxiety disorders. We don't do this to people who wear hard hats, condoms, medical gloves, sunglasses, life jackets, parachutes - the list is long!

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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On the road to Amsterdam to present some of my team's latest research about #LongCOVID at @ISLCPAIS. Very excited to connect with colleagues and share ideas. I've been busy and not on here much, but I see that there has been controversy regarding the use of the phrase 1/

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Bowling Shane @bowlingshane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sewage in the rivers. Companies drowning in debt. Billions siphoned in profits. Private water is working exactly as designed. Just not for us. Tell your MP to back public ownership: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

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Ask your MP to support public ownership of water!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Yesterday, on the hottest day of the year so far, we saw homes set ablaze and people hospitalised. Wildfires are raging across the UK, almost 3/4's of England is now in drought, and nurses are collapsing on duty as a result the extreme heat. Burnham must start tackling the climate crisis now.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I went to Paris to speak to Thomas Piketty - one of the world’s leading thinkers on inequality. We talk about why wealth keeps concentrating at the top, the case for public investment, and what it would take to build a fairer economy. A fascinating conversation. youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?...

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How We Build An Economic Future For All | Thomas Piketty

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Heat & drought records keep falling. Reform promote denial. The Tories want to ditch our targets. The new PM still hasn't said a word. Such a relief to hear a politician actually name it. Should be ordinary. End the #climate hushing! Thanks for your #ClimateLeadership @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules. Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment Govt appeasing corporations whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.

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Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Gatwick is set to go ahead with a second runway - but doing so is unlikely to improve the lives of people across the country. There are much better ways to boost our economy that don't threaten our climate targets...

Quote from Hannah Peaker, deputy chief executive: Andy Burnham has been clear that he wants to see living standards rising in every part of the country. But people living outside London and the south-east will not thank the government for persisting with this plan. Expanding airports like Gatwick doesn’t create new jobs - it displaces them from the wider regions, particularly from the domestic tourism industry which is a key beneficiary of spending outside London and the south-east.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So if the suggestion is, as a compromise, to have some controls but not quite enough to get R below 1, this is just equivalent to "out of control". Same massive toll as doing nothing, just slower. And maybe those suggesting it don't see it that way and just imagine only two or three times the level

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Remember they said ‘ you are more likely to get knocked down by a bus than catch covid’. In truth they do not know what the long term impacts are of allowing a virus that causes neurological damage to circulate population wide. It’s irresponsible.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only the most reckless (and unacceptable, in the case of professional journalists) kind of ignorance, with all the evidence available in 2026, can ground the belief that 'covid is not so bad for kids', 'long covid is disputed', and therefore questioning whether we should have kept schools open. /1

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hey @lewisgoodall.com here is our Lancet article on Long COVID. Happy to chat. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

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Bowling Shane @bowlingshane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thames Water CEO went unchallenged on the BBC on the claim that public ownership means water investment competes with health and defence. This is a myth! 99% of water investment comes from BILLS. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC vist.ly/5d5xb

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Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership

Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The significant health costs of AI data centres - something the tech firms, politicians and media are not telling us… arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Prime Minister, @andyburnham.bsky.social, has spoken about being honest about the challenges we face. So, as we welcome our new Prime Minister and cabinet, let's start there: Nature is disappearing. The climate crisis is accelerating. The UK cannot thrive while both continue unchecked.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want this to be standard. I’ve had at least five or six friends whose parent has gone into the hospital for an injury or a minor issue and died two weeks later from a hospital-acquired infection.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reported today that Labour plans to withhold benefits to people who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. Performative cruelty and total cowardice. That’s why the Greens will replace Labour.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is infuriating crap. He says: “There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.” He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale. He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.

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Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’

Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New DfE statutory guidance on allergy safety in schools states: "Clean air is a core asthma control measure. Good ventilation, air quality monitoring and supplemental HEPA air filtration are essential." Schools are now legally required to have regard to that. 2/

children. Exercise and cold air can also cause symptoms. Common symptoms include coughing, wheezing and breathlessness out of proportion to effort, and a tight chest. An asthma attack occurs when symptoms are severe, and breathing becomes difficult.

Poor air quality worsens asthma and increases asthma attacks, and those in deprived areas with poorer nutrition suffer increased negative health effects from poor air quality. Clean air is a core asthma control measure. Good ventilation, air quality monitoring and supplemental HEPA air filtration are essential, especially when ventilation is limited and outdoor air is polluted. Systematically integrating and embedding clean indoor air into legal health and safety duties, policies, procedures and practices will reduce pressure on staff and ensure consistency and support without too much extra work.

Children and young people known to have asthma should have their own reliever inhaler at school to treat symptoms and for use in the event of an asthma attack. If they are able to manage their asthma themselves they should keep their inhaler on

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

June temperature record broken as 35.7c recorded

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/06/2026

So one of the things I do at regular intervals is a literature scan on long covid prevention Basically, no one giving a fuck about preventing this fucking awful disease is getting a bit demoralizing

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Fuck. Off. Anyone who says ‘hand outs to hand ups’ should be hounded out of politics.

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years.

Chart from the Resolution Foundation of Social security spending as a proportion of GDP by category, Great Britain. The chart from 2007-2008 shows social security spending falling since 2013 from a peak in 2008-2009, pensions rising to account for the biggest share, and disability and incapacity spending rising in the post-Covid years from 2023.

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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Public health risks during the World Cup haven't received much media attention. But there is a capacity building opportunity here - some basic things to keep in mind to elevate safety. So how can one assess and mitigate risk? A thread ... 1/15

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

You may be interested in having a look at the report of the SARS Commission. The medical management class mishandled SARS-CoV-1 the same way they mishandled SARS-CoV-2. The exact aerosol screwup that let COVID loose was flagged as "things not to do" in 2006! wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

One should be aware of the effects of droplet evaporation and the resultant diminution in size of ejected droplets. A 30 Ìm droplet dries to a 5 Ìm droplet within seconds under normal indoor air conditions. This means that a large droplet, as it evaporates, will not settle to the ground but become a free-floating entity.This has implications for the 3 foot rule, the basis for infection control precautionary measures, since it is commonly believed that large droplets ejected upon sneezing or coughing will follow Stoke’s Law and fall to ground within a 3 foot distance from the person’s face. It is evident that it is commonly believed that the 3 foot rule is a division between an unsafe and safe distance. There is no indication that the 3 foot rule takes into consideration the evaporation factor and the drift factor of airborne droplets, as discussed above. No scientific evidence is offered by WHO,DHHS-CDC,PCAH,or other medical authorities in explaining the rule. If large droplets quickly evaporate to free-floating small droplets, then the 3 foot rule applies only to droplets greater than about 50 – 100 Ìm in diameter for which there is insufficient time chance for evaporation to take effect before they fall to the ground from a height of 5–6 feet. Free floating small droplets readily go beyond the 3 foot radius. Therefore, if the majority of ejected droplets following a sneeze are evaporated to a size that is free-floating after only seconds in air, the 3 foot rule becomes illogical and not particularly helpful from a disease transmission perspective.

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crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Burley Oaks Primary now has clean air in every classroom. That happened because of a Smart Air UK partnership just like this one. This June: buy an SA700, code CRFUK10 (10% off), and help us do it again for another school. #CleanAir go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/8yxbaUb

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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is not COMPLETE airborne infection control advice, people. It's good general advice though. Yes, wash your hands. But, it doesn't protect against airborne infections like COVID. For that you need an ffp2 ffp3 mask or equivalent, space ventilation and air filtration. Get vaccinated if you can.

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