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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
These giant African rats sniff out tuberculosis in 3 seconds flat, work microscopes take a full day to do. APOPO's HeroRATs are already saving lives across Africa and Asia.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Covid is vascular and airborne both undeniable facts!
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From The West Meadow @handle.invalid · 01/06/2026
big fan of this model of the human body
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parafilm is cool dot com @parafilmm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Different types of scissors one a white background with the headline Types of Parafilmase
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Squill @squillifish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sage Macro
Close up of a sage leaf
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In this issue of "vaunted intellectuals can't do simple addition," experts at the economist purport to be perplexed that adding an entirely new pathogen rivaling the transmissibility of influenza has resulted in a permanently increased volume of hospital visits.
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Hospitals never recovered from covid-19
They are stuck in a deadly doom loop
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/03/2026
"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Meningitis Not Airborne, Except During Normal Breathing Says WHO
Someone breathing normally
Headline:
Meningitis Not Airborne, Except During Normal Breathing Says WHO
Story by Fran Tastick and Bernard Dorf

Photo from Adobe
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🙏🏻🙏🏻 The #Leonardi_Effect is not helpful in world full of pathogens.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Right. Well you saw what I posted the other day about meningococcal survival in aerosol. I’m happy to stake my professional reputation on wearing masks, especially respirators, being helpful.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There have been more deaths recently from covid than meningitis. Neither is ok. We need the government to step up on preventions. #Airborne #Vaccines.
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“6 years ago this week..the WHO…declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic… [It] has been deliberately erased from public consciousness by the political establishment, even as the virus continues to spread, disable and kill on a mass scale.”
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The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence
As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
An informative, joint union, education webinar with the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation UK, is taking place on Wednesday 11th of March at 4pm, on improving indoor air quality in our schools. If you are a parent, teacher, Headteacher or support children as an OT or SaLT. Please see link below.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Covid protection shouldn’t just be at the Olympics or Davos, everyone deserves to be protected. My long thread from earlier in the week. Covid is not over!
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Squill @squillifish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Rock and roller rose, red and white striped
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We are still being told to wash our hands for a predominantly airborne virus. #Covidisairborne
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I guess this says everything 😔😔
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Covid is airborne. Please roll vaccines Ffp3 in healthcare Ffp2 messaging @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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MRI Scans Reveal Your COVID-19 Can Leave Behind Nasty Brain Damage, Even After You "Recover"
Millions of people could be suffering from unseen damage.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 12/01/2026
Menopause & Long COVID share overlapping symptoms, making it difficult to differentiate between the two and offer tailored support. Explore our latest publication designed to help nursing staff understand assessment, diagnosis, and management for both menopause & Long COVID. bit.ly/4jGPwTO
Promotional material by the Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Practice Academy featuring a detailed illustration of a COVID virus particle, titled 'Menopause and Long COVID'.
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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in… | Canary Media www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social name check. 👇
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/... NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’. UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.
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NHS 'cover your mouth and nose' UK-wide update as H3N2 strain spreads
People are being urged to follow safety procedures as the virus spreads
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
 15 July, 2024
Date last updated: 15 July, 2024
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Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long:read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/
Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases
Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning:
• it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so
• the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is the true scandal. Covid is airborne and we are still being told to wash our hands for a predominantly airborne vascular virus!
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Take a look at our MIRO Boards mapping the full extent of govt and corporate partnerships in the nationwide rollout of deregulated freeports and SEZs across the UK. All subsidised with State aid. Tories and Labour +corporate reps sitting on the free zones boards consortia. miro.com/app/board/uX...
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Locus Economic & CPS
Experience mapping looks at your customer’s end to end experience with your brand to identify areas ripe for improvement and innovation.
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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.thecanary.co/global/world... when you know, you know
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Tom Hanks on mask wearing: "I’ve had COVID enough in my life”
Tom Hanks has joined a growing movement of COVID-conscious artists who are openly speaking up about the threats of the disease
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today is the day that the architect of this unforgivable mass murder of poor people got 1 trillion dollars
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nearly there! We need around 50 signatures to push my petition calling for transparency and a review of deregulated free zones to 10,000. Please sign and share across your social media platforms. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Take a bow Christina Applegate!
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus" Published: 14 August, 2024 "The left image shows that SARS-CoV-2 propagated to most organs, whereas the right image shows that influenza was mostly confined to the liver and lungs" Source: whn.global/scientific/n...
Two 3D-imaged mice comparing how SARS-CoV-2 and influenza spread through the body. The left image, labeled Spike S1, shows red fluorescent signals across many organs, indicating that SARS-CoV-2 propagated widely throughout the body. The right image, labeled Influenza HA, shows red signals largely limited to the lungs and liver, demonstrating influenza’s more localized infection pattern. The figure caption notes that SARS-CoV-2 affects multiple organs, unlike influenza.
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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
There are LOTS of credible reports that we are breaching multiple climate change tipping points. The conversations have already started to turn away from reality into nonsensical fiction, just like with COVID. The right will delve in to conspiracy fantasies & the centrists will
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16/10/2025
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Today in: If not a dictator, why dictator-shaped?
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Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
COVID's Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations. www.sciencealert.com/covids-surpr...
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COVID's Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations
COVID-19 infection causes changes to sperm in mice that may increase anxiety in their offspring, a study released Saturday said, suggesting the pandemic's possibly long-lasting effects on future gener...
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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We have a Farage problem. That's it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
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Brian Flake @brianflake.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Absolutely 💯
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Squill @squillifish.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Did they take into account covid infections? Doubt it
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Covid drinking 'left more children with foetal alcohol condition'
A Newcastle consultant says about 900 affected babies are born in the region each year.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Worth voting in this poll if you #Mask www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Should people have to wear face masks in medical facilities?
Violet Affleck, the daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, has now advocated for the return of mask mandates to help protect the vulnerable, during a speech at a UN event in New York.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Not sure what happened. We were supposed to be safe. #Rapture2025 #LeftBehind
A pile of clothes with an inclusion flag on one side and a lesbian flag on the other.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Rapture happened. It just only took three people in North America, all of whom lived in Canada.
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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
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Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...
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