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Dr Josephine K (Retd)

@drjoretd.bsky.social
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Refugee from civil war in Sri Lanka. Emergency doctor in NHS for over 30 years. Wife and mother of 3. Irish national, living in Belfast.

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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If you are lonely and looking for a life partner, let me offer you this Buddhist proverb: All you can do is become worthy. It will not happen by itself. You have to be ready for it, so that it can happen. And the moment you are, the rain will come. Stop searching elsewhere and focus on yourself.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Trump's bluster and his overt threats of military action are not working anywhere in the world. The reason is obvious to anyone who is not American and to many who are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPsQ...
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Canada Wins Big In Greenland — Arctic Influence Shifts Overnight | Robert Reich
YouTube video by The Public Brief
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Everyone knows that Christ was English.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The military industrial complex formed after the Vietnam war has given America the most powerful armed forces ever assembled. But it's also the most expensive, and it's vulnerable to technologies that didn't even exist when it was conceived in the 1970s.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The NHS always has been an unwelcoming country for overseas doctors. I should know, I worked in it for over 30 years, without ever becoming a British citizen. I was regularly called a Paki, even though I look nothing like one. Anyone able to find Sri Lanka on a map would realise why this is so.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I'm a South Asian Catholic. We have lost our strongholds in Goa and Kerala, and our numbers in Sri Lanka are greatly reduced. Donald Trump has never acknowledged our plight, and probably doesn't even know that we exist.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Apparently Howard Lutnick is often misspelled as Nutlick.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
When did Christians start celebrating Christmas? Constantine may have settled on 25th December himself. It's the sort of thing he did, and he wasn't someone you made a habit of disagreeing with.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trump says that America is powerful enough to game international markets. Conway says that it isn't. I'm with Conway on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLX...
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1 Minute Ago: Trump Explodes as Canada Redirects Aluminum Exports Away From the US | George Conway
YouTube video by Conway Media
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
What would Trump do if Venezuela declares a 100-mile exclusion zone for its territorial waters, and starts deploying drones from an unspecified source?
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trump's piracy is bringing America to the brink of war with China. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vit...
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US 'Cuts Off' Oil Supply To China; Xi Rages At Trump Amid Huge Escalation Over Venezuela
YouTube video by Times Of India
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
China produces 1.5 million engineers per year. The US produces 7.5 million MAGA voters per year.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Nigeria has ditched the dollar, and is now trading oil using the BRICS trading mechanism. Trump just found out and threatened them with war, but they just told him to fuck off.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Patrick van der Vorst is an immigrant, like me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEeo...
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A Christmas Tree in Stained Glass: Unveiling the Jesse Window
YouTube video by Christian Art
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
When Trump is buried, there won't be a tombstone, just a urinal.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A gun transforms a harmless individual into a dangerous one. In almost every case, the law favours the owner. So get yourself one with a hair trigger and chamber a round. Then you're good to go. You might not get back in one piece, but at least nobody's going to call you harmless. Who'd want that?
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Donald Trump showed Americans how to hate people, and they were so grateful that they made him president. It was a wise choice. If they need someone to hate, they just listen to him. Yesterday it was Somalis, tomorrow who knows? He may be crap at everything else, but he sure knows how to hate.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Trump is turning America into a nation of pirates. news.sky.com/story/us-for...
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US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
"We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually", the US president said.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Agricultural land in Northern Ireland is the most expensive in the UK, because we pay the owners huge subsidies. www.irishnews.com/opinion/bria...
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Brian Feeney: After 25 years, it’s time to accept that Stormont has failed
A century ago, the north-east was the richest part of the island. Today it is the poorest and guaranteed to deteriorate further
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Recently I've taken to running my Chromebook in split screen mode. A browser window and an Android app fit together quite nicely.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Chaim Herzog, the former Israeli president was raised in Dublin, and there is a park named after him. Moves to rename it are being strenuously resisted by Israel, much to the amusement of locals. Because nobody calls it Herzog Park, it's always Hedgehog Park.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Trump is completely out of control. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Donald Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela is closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings. Does the same concept exist in Theravada Buddhism? Sort of. He is a monk who meddles in politics, in order to harm others. i.guim.co.uk/img/media/74...
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Interesting article about Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka though it does not mention the Great Chronicle of Ceylon, which is where it all began. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Now we have an education minister who teachers refuse to work with, and a health minister that nobody trusts. Unfortunately, neither of them can be dismissed. Unionists are undermining the Assembly with their own incompetence. www.itv.com/news/utv/202...
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This illustrates one of the many absurdities of the Northern Ireland assembly: he cannot do his job, but only the DUP can get rid of him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Paul Givan: No-confidence motion in education minister over Israel visit fails
The move was set to fail as it needed cross-community support and unionist parties had already ruled out supporting it.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Keir Starmer always looks as if he's attending a funeral, or a memorial service.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Loyalists in Belfast are celebrating the fact that a road has been renamed. For them, everything to do with the Boyne is sacred. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Loyalists plan march on Belfast’s newly opened Boyne Bridge Place
Loyalists planning to march down Boyne Bridge Place just days after the new road next to Belfast Grand Central station is due to be opened, it has emerged.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New IRA are a pain, they really are. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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UK government places financial sanctions on New IRA and Derry man it suspects of dissident involvement
The action is the second use of the Treasury-led domestic counter-terrorism regime to target individuals in the north
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Formerly known as Prince. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Democrats in US Congress ask Andrew to appear for questioning over Epstein links
The panel, which does not have the power to subpoena Andrew, made the request as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For Israel, a ceasefire just means that they kill hundreds of Palestinians a day, rather than thousands.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Only the DUP can dismiss Givan. but teachers refuse to work with him. www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
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Paul Givan’s Israeli trip being probed by civil service head as MLAs agree to scrutinise impartiality of officials
Stormont’s finance committee is to examine whether officials breached rules in using departmental resources to promote DUP minister’s trip to the Middle East
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
FIFA has prepared a consolation prize for Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Fifa Peace Prize: What is it and is US President Trump going to win it?
Our Ask Me Anything team explain what the Fifa Peace Prize is and why US President Donald Trump is being tipped for the award.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It's not a ceasefire if you keep breaking it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
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As it happened: Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks
Israel accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire as the group's civil defence agency says nine people have been killed in the strikes.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wearing a poppy can be a political statement. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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‘We were getting questioned about not wearing poppies’ – Sinn Féin councillors ‘accosted’ by anti-immigration ‘mob’
Incident at Antrim and Newtownabbey Council saw ‘sectarian and racist abuse’ hurled
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I was taught that yawning was caused by a high level of carbon dioxide in the blood, but that was 50 years ago. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Why do we yawn? It’s almost certainly not for the reason you think
Given that we’ve literally grown up with them, we often know surprisingly little about how our bodies work. This new series aims to fill the gaps
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... How the fuck does a kid called Mohammed end up at a Catholic School?
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Boy, 15, who murdered Harvey Willgoose named and sentenced to 16 years in jail
Mohammed Umar Khan stabbed fellow 15-year-old at All Saints Catholic high school in Sheffield in February
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It's not often that I agree with a member of the DUP, but the appointment of Edwin Poots as speaker of the Northern Irish Assembly was inspired. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
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‘Shut up’ and ‘grow up’ not appropriate language for Assembly chamber
Speaking before the start of Monday's plenary, Mr Poots delivered a dressing down to members over language.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
England has a lot of talented young chess players, all of them Asian. indianexpress.com/article/spor...
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Indian-origin British 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan stuns former world champion, continues making waves
Bodhana Sivanandan, just 10 years of age, beat 33-year-old Ukranian former world champion Grandmaster Mariya Muzychuk at the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is unnecessary. Reform voters don't read The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform suspends four Kent councillors after Guardian publishes leaked video of fierce infighting
Members of Reform’s flagship county council will be investigated after ‘evidence that they brought the party into disrepute’
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Let's get this right. Israel broke off the truce with Gaza, carried on bombing the crap out of it, and then resumed the ceasefire. Or is it just breaking off the war again?
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The fact that Trump and his cronies have a bee in their bonnet about Antifa is a tacit acknowledgement that they are indeed fascists.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
southwarknews.co.uk/area/waterlo... Miscarriages drive some women crazy.
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St Thomas’s Hospital to support early pregnancy loss with new bereavement suite
A new bereavement suite has opened today (Wednesday 15 October) at St Thomas's Hospital to help families through baby loss
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ml...
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UK or United Ireland - How would the middle ground vote?
YouTube video by BBC News NI
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... When I was an A&E consultant, I always treated sepsis as a priority.
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Portsmouth woman waits nine hours at QA Hospital for Sepsis treatment
Lorraine Hedges said that she was left traumatised after a nine-hour wait left her in convulsions.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "...was suspended for criticising patients' English skills and asking a woman to remove her veil was active in late 2022". I feel sorry for this guy, but patients will always complain and the GMC tends to take their side.
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GP suspended again after lack of contact with regulators - BBC News
The doctor was previously found to have worked for Reading-based Practice Plus Group while banned.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/nationa... I live in Wandsworth before I retired. Now I work part time on Google's Med-Gemini project.
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Waymo to introduce driverless minicabs in London in 2026
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she was ‘delighted’ by the announcement.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Pine Martens are making a comeback in Northern Ireland. Their favourite food is grey squirrels, giving the native red squirrels a leg up too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland
One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Police in the UK are recording more attacks by out-of-control dogs.
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Dr Josephine K (Retd) @drjoretd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Conservative party and Reform UK both want to punish Northern Ireland. They forget that our country was only forced into existence by hardline Protestants.
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