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@joabbess.bsky.social
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Still reading for my next written work on the topic of synthetic, renewable molecules. Which we need for energy storage, vehicle and machine fuels, agrochemistry and polymers.

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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hello Blueskies, I don't have the time or patience or studio equipment to record an educational presentation. Is there somebody in here who could help me set up a lip-syncing avatar to perform my role from a script for streaming ? Without needing to take a bank loan.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Moving on from cable severance to negligent oil tanker ramming ?
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Provocative action ? Agent provocateur ?
Headline from The Guardian newspaper "North Sea collision: Russian container ship captain charged with manslaughter". Russian ?
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Dag Kees, Iets als linkbait ? Dankjesowel !
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Do you mean this ? kensa.co.uk What are the key technical aspects in normal English ?
kensa.co.uk
Kensa - Heating that's better for everyone | Kensa
Kensa provides the UK with clean, affordable, zero-carbon heating solutions. Upgrade to energy-efficient heat pumps for a sustainable future that’s better for everyone.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hey @1goodtern.bsky.social How is the "respiratory season" going ? An increasing number of radio and television presenters are breathless and hoarse, and MPs are clearly suffering with cold-like symptoms. Anecdata coming from schools, too.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A cruel and unusual denial of residency.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I did not really follow the double or even triple negatives, but there is a summary here that works for me :- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Without being granted Indefinite Leave to Remain, this daughter and mother could lose permission to stay living with her family in the UK.
bbc.co.uk
Windrush: Woman loses High Court bid to remain in UK
Jeanell Hippolyte's siblings have leave to remain in the UK - but she has been denied the right.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
omg? lol
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Peter Feld 🍉 @peterfeld.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Monopoly money in denominations including 500, 100, 50 and 20
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Here are some nice mushrooms
A rosette of orange and green Stereum ostrea mushrooms growing on the broken end of a tree branch nestled under fallen autumn leaves
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💥 The Maverick Mind 💥 @themaverickmind.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
CANADIAN Version of this series would have been boring. Man gets cancer... Man goes to Dr. because they have universal healthcare. The End.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9J...
A backpack recovered near a PLAYGROUND contents MONOPOLY MONEY...
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/12/2024
Thanks to all the atheists out there just doing the right thing without me threatening you with fire and brimstone.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Acts 6:1-4 The appointment of deacons to serve the community's welfare www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
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Bible Gateway passage: Acts 6:1-4 - New International Version
The Choosing of the Seven - In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in...
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea... Acts 4:32 "All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had."
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Bible Gateway passage: Acts 4:32 - New International Version
The Believers Share Their Possessions - All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
We need socialist funding for healthcare. It's Christian. It's Biblical. The governments exist to administer welfare or they fail. A state or nation that doesn't collectively fund healthcare is bound to fall.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Call it tithing. Call it zakat. Call it charity. Call it whatever you like. I'm sure most people would be happy paying 5% of their income so that everyone, old grannies, young orphans, you, me, we all get the healthcare we need. It's a society we all need. Yes, social co-operation.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How do so many countries afford to offer everyone healthcare that is free at the point of use ? Everybody pays in a little. Anybody who needs care gets it. Call it socialism. Call it community funding. Call it what you want. It's the model of welfare put in place in the Early Church.
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joabbess @joabbess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Involved in family care of elders today. God TV is on. The preacher is praying for healing for people. Suddenly I have insight. Many ordinary Americans are thrown on the mercy of Jesus, because they can't afford healthcare. Let's get back to the communal welfare of the Acts of the Apostles.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
And exactly how many times lower would it have to be to get R<1… Clue. Not 9 times.
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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder) @audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 06/12/2024
Currently dealing with my almost monthly cold/flu and need to vent.

Me and my boyfriend caught COVID twice in a short space of time in 2021-2022, we barely got ill before but now it has been almost constant. I started off with long COVID (it triggered vestibular migraine and dissociation that lasted for a year and a bit, still deal with it on and off).

 I need to vent because UK workplaces are not accommodating of the fact that people are sicker than they used to be. I know so many people including myself and boyfriend thats jobs are being threatened because of having to be off sick when there is naff all we can do about it! Something needs to be done to protect the workers from circular rules when the world has changed to squares (I hope that makes sense, does in my sick brain) 

I'm so exhausted, I want to be at work earning money not laying in bed barely able to function.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/12/2024
New modeling study finds that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks from the start of the pandemic, the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have been 9 times lower.
What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.What would have happened if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn high-grade masks during the COVID-19 pandemic? A modelling study1 has estimated just how sharply transmission might have dropped.

Determining the effect of masks on viral transmission is difficult, and most studies so far have been affected by limitations such as small sample sizes. To overcome this issue, Richard Sear at the University of Surrey, UK, developed a model of transmission using data from the UK National Health Service COVID-19 app. The app, which ran on mobile phones between 2020 and 2023, logged information about infections and the length of time users came into contact with each other.

Sear built on a previously published analysis2 of 240,000 positive COVID-19 tests and 7 million contacts — instances in which app users were notified that they had been exposed to the virus. He estimated that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks — both highly effective at filtering particles — the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have dropped by a factor of 9.
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Save Our Democracy @saveourdemocracy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I started wearing a mask about a month before most of the population of the United States even knew the covid was coming. A P100 mask. I have not had any problems since, and I have not even caught a small cold! It's simple common sense! Works wonders. The next thing, get ready for the bird flu.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Just because a bunch of professors at Stanford say COVID’s no big deal doesn’t make it true. You know this. You know someone who’s died from covid. You know someone with long covid. You’ve probably had covid several times yourself. They are spreading misinformation because it fits their ideology.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/12/2024
Declaring martial law to force myself to go to bed
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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In 1888, a course at MIT taught how to use CO2 measurements to determine whether a building was properly ventilated. The CO2 thresholds recommended in 1888 are exactly those used in 2024 by a large number of official agencies: 600, 800, 1000 and 1500ppm. Public health is also a matter for engineers.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It’s alarming to think #H5N1 is just one mutation away from human-to-human transmission. If we had acted decisively when it first emerged in March, we wouldn’t be playing Russian Roulette with this threat now. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 06/12/2024
🧼✈️ Norovirus Prevention at Airports A new @plos.bsky.social study finds that disinfecting public surfaces every 2 hours can reduce norovirus infection risk in airports by up to 83%. How will airports adopt this change? 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm 🧪 🍎 #PublicHealth
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Public surface disinfection every 2 hours can reduce the infection risk of norovirus in airports up to 83%
Author summary The occurrence of norovirus outbreaks during air travel is common. Previous studies have predominantly focused on aircraft cabins, but airports, serving as connectivity nodes for variou...
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trishorwen.bsky.social @trishorwen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
US orders the milk supply be tested for bird flu. apple.news/AZvOCuEJ1TWK...
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Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply — Reuters
The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters, as authorities seek to grapple with rapid spre...
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Even if you believe that Long Covid is caused by viral fragments and not replicating virus. Do you really think reinfection is going to improve that outcome? Why not fight for better vaccines to target these stubborn antigens.
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Kat @kittywifclaws.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Good morning to all the kind smart people in my phone. Yes, you with the bed hair and not enough caffeine. Especially you.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I asked my aunt, the doctor, to help me make sense of the new article in Science titled: “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors,” and my aunt replied: “it means that we are a single mutation away from catastrophe.”
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-...
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Covid: Masks upgrade cuts infection risk, research finds - BBC News
Wearing a high grade FFP3 mask can almost entirely protect health workers from Covid, research finds.
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Q: What's worse than having a quad-demic? A: Having a quad-demic straight after a large wave of Covid infections that have damaged people's immune systems.
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Megastar27 @megastar27.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#weararespirator #covidisnotover www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/features/lac...
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Lack of Mask Mandates Leaves Cancer Patients Feeling Unprotected
A lack of mask mandates at cancer centers and elsewhere has left cancer patients feeling unsafe and abandoned by society.
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Dave Cactus @davecactus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
WAITRESS: Would you like to try a quesadilla? ME: I can barely eat one dilla, let alone a whole case.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Getting More Dangerous time.com/7200088/can-...
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Bird Flu Is Becoming a Bigger Threat
It's one mutation away from getting more dangerous to humans.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Before 2020, I was sick pretty often and it was a really big obstacle for me academically. Now several years wiser, I'm teaching classes of >80 undergrads and not even catching a sniffle all term. Getting sick this much less this easily has been a huge quality of life upgrade; I highly recommend it!
A smiling selfie in front of a poster of minerals, wearing a black KN95 mask.
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This veteran 🇿🇦 human rights activist is still very much alive—and very much an activist—in spite of being HIV positive for decades. youtu.be/rWVK7ReNnsY?...
youtu.be
Zackie Achmat, 2024 Fries Prize for Improving Health Recipient
YouTube video by CDCFoundation
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In 2003, the New Yorker called the co-founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, Zackie Achmat, “the most important dissident in the country since Nelson Mandela”.
A young Zackie Achmat wearing an HIV positive t-shirt, smiling and waving his arms. He is a brown skinned Cape Malay man with black haur. With him is Nelson Mandela also wearing a similar shirt, waving his arms. Nelson Mandela has a similar skin colour and grey hair. They are with a crowd.
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is what we need now: we need a Treatment Action Campaign in every country—for #LongCovid. bsky.app/profile/alph...
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is what's happening now. This is why so many people, children and adults, are falling ill with so many things. There's an airborne virus causing an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. bsky.app/profile/alph...
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Old wisdom about healthy lifestyles isn't enough to address the seriousness of this immunity-ravaging disease. bsky.app/profile/alph...
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Many governments, including your own, are in denial about what's needed. bsky.app/profile/alph...
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Tania Melnyczuk @alphabetania.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The virus that causes it is airborne.
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