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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
No Xmas ecard, due to someone special needing all my attention., but in the process I found how much love and support we can call on. Thnkas Chaturi, Nahil, Darryl, Sharon, Yasiru, & the Sri Lankan home posse. To all of you: this seemed appropriate. May spring return for all. jlcards.com/gs2oW3
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An ecard from Gus Cairns
Please click the image to view your ecard!
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Former Supreme Counrt judge Jonathan Sumption, witing in the New Statesman. www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
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A question of intent
On Israel and Gaza.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
*EATG's doxyPEP page* Polish translation just released. Robert Hejzak and I wrote it; Deniz Uyanik made the 'sauna flyer'; Apostolos Kalogiannis put it online (CZ, UK, TR, GR!). - Easy to insert a translated version - Polish is the latest of several. - Share widely! www.eatg.org/publications...
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DoxyPEP | EATG
EATG has released an updated resource on DoxyPEP (doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis) to provide a community-informed document on a prevention strategy, the implementation of which varies widely ar...
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
About time a national newspaper reported fully on *this* Trump genocide, which may kill 4 million by 2030. I understand why US ones don't, but others should concentrate as much on the lethal impact of US foreign aid cuts as on his so-called 'diplomacy'. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts
From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international corr...
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... Every word of this... 'If this were poker, Putin is holding a pair of twos and bluffing by going all in. Trump, instead of calling Putin’s bluff, is saying, “I think I’ll fold.”'
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Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama
For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... "But net zero's a disaster!" - Farage, Gove, Jenrick etc
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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
www.positivelyaware.com/articles/lay... Closing down huge areas of scientific research the action of an empire in terminal decline. The problem is that the US has been so far ahead in some aspects of medical research, including HIV, that other countries aren't ready yet to pick it up.
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Lay low or mobilize? HIV researchers agonize over how to respond to Trump administration’s attacks on science
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This just out in The Lancet with Moi as co-author (I mainly revised the PrEP bit). Miłosz started writing this about 3 months ago and it's been a bit overtaken by events. But the message still holds, Europe won't see 'the End of AIDS' till eastern Europe does. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is the nostra-culpa article I've been waiting for from the Telegraph. In its own way quite daring; unequivocally draws a parallel between Trump 2025 and Hitler 1939, & the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Also says 2010s Austerity was a disastrous mistake. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for Europe
The new regime in Washington is testing pro-American sympathies to breaking point
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Excellent interview between novelist/journalist/activist Tim Murphy and Mitch Warren, Executive Director of AVAC, on the current and fast-moving PEPFAR freeze situation. www.positivelyaware.com/articles/hiv...
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As HIV activists disrupt PEPFAR hearing, an expert explains the damage Trump has already done to U.S. global AIDS fight
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Blimey. Back to the AIDS era. Millions of lives threatened. www.iasociety.org/ias-statemen... If Trump keeps going as he seems to intend, the rest of the world will either have to do without America - which implies uniting against it - or *become* America. So much for sovereignty?
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IAS statement: PEPFAR freeze threatens millions of lives
25 January 2025 (
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I've watched the vid now. It wasn't a Nazi salute. It was a Fascist one. A clearly deliberate full Mussolini. Wasn't he the guy who ended up hanging from a lamppost?
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Gulf Stream shows no sign of weakening yet, though will eventually: "It's almost unanimous that the Atlantic overturning will slow in the future, but whether or not it will collapse is still up for debate," Foukal said. "This work indicates that there's still time to act." phys.org/news/2025-01...
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Critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years, AMOC study finds
Earth, being 71% covered in water, is influenced by the ocean and its movements. In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), m...
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's popular with me. Except that the best poetry also talks precisely about precise things, too. Just differently.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My BlueSky feed's already getting deluged with tacky AI pics from tacky AI accounts. Today: a flood of cute pics of foxes (I'll probably get more now). But at least they're more jarringly different from real posts than on FB & are getting called out more by real people. Best we can hope for I guess.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"It's disgraceful Labour won't spend years on a public enquiry instead of enacting key recommendations from the last one, which didn't come up with the finding I wanted, that all Pakistani-origin men are culturally conditioned to rape white girls" - précis of Robert Jenrick on Today this morning
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I was going to stop sending a yearly e-card but this year I bumped into someone I hadn't seen 4 ages who said "I love the really nice e-Cards you send each year. Reminds me of the fun we had working together." So here it is, on BlueSky as well as Facebook this year. Happy Xmas! jlcards.com/7Cd7mx
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An ecard from Gus Cairns
Please click the image to view your ecard!
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
So far I'm liking it here, with one exception. What's with all the soft-porn anime drawings?
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The headline makes this sound like a defence of the US for-profit healthcare system. It's not. It's an exposé by a former insider. www.statnews.com/2024/12/11/w... (I have a sub to Stat if you want the whole thing)
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I used to do health insurance company PR. Here’s what I think the backlash is missing
A health insurance company executive turned whistleblower, Wendell Potter thinks that the backlash to the industry is missing something key.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Gilead's HIV prevention shot, Lenacapavir, is going to go annual. statnews.com/2024/12/11/h... Once a year has always been, for me, the threshold for a medication that's functionally the same as an annual vaccine. Like the ones we have for flu or COVID.
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Gilead to test once-a-year HIV prevention shot
Gilead is going to start testing a drug it believes could prevent HIV infection with just a single shot every year.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This news is 18 months old, though he first came out as cured to the German press, so many missed it. I met him at Munich in July. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/... Since then, a second woman has (probably) been cured hivglasgow.org/second-woman...
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Von HIV und Leukämie geheilt: Der Düsseldorfer Patient
Marc Franke war HIV-positiv und erkrankte an Leukämie. Nun gilt der "Düsseldorfer Patient" als geheilt. Was man davon lernen kann.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Not doing anything in 50 minutes' time? Want to hear about doxyPEP prophylaxis for STIs? I'm presenting on it for EATG / the EU Civil Society Forum at 10:00 CET / 09:00 GMT today. www.eatg.org/events/eu-ci... Register here : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... A recording will be available!
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EU Civil Society Forum on HIV/AIDS, HEP and TB | Addressing STIs beyond HIV and viral hepatitis –Webinar | EATG
The CSF organises this meeting to engage community organisations and representatives to review current issues concerning sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual health, well-being, and substanc...
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The extraordinarily non-reverential reaction to the whacking of that Health Insurance CEO among US friends and FoFs here, has even got into the UK news... It suggests to me BlueSky is getting real traction as a site for people angry about the right things rather than the wrong things. Bravo.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thanks you!
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I'm not very active here yet because I'm sizing the place up and seeing what goes down. Even before X became a horrorshow I never quite got it - its lack of easy interactivity always felt like shouting into the void. I love discussions, not assertions, & hope this will be better for conversations.
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guscairns.bsky.social @guscairns.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello! When I joined That Other Site 15 years ago I was: "Ex-alien who settled for earth. Ex-singer, bus conductor, hustler and barman. Failing to die of AIDS, ended up as a writer, activist and psychotherapist." The only thing that's changed is I stopped being a therapist and re-started singing.
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