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Tessa Munt MP 🔶 @tessamunt.bsky.social · 14h

Today, Lifeboat Saturday, I’d like to pay tribute to the many brave men and women who volunteer for the #RNLI, risking their lives to save others in grave danger. I’m appalled at the abuse and intimidation faced by RNLI crews in recent weeks. Let’s support and celebrate this incredible charity.

Tessa Munt MP with Marie Goldman MP and Sarah Gibson MP visiting the Brighton Lifeboat Station.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 7h

Oh you poor thing. That sounds awful.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry to hear that. My main breast cancer legacies include that it’s difficult to lie on my front because of a lumpy scar where the abscess was, and I think my hormones are still all over the place! Others have had far worse than me though. Agree with your sentiments.

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Timlagor @timlagor.bsky.social · 15h

I'd take a network of well equipped and staffed gyms free at the point of use. Throw in some playing fields and organised games.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 16h

What does it mean to recover from Long Covid? Here in the @bmj.com from a few weeks ago, Charlie Dennis, a final year student and @nisreenalwan.bsky.social write about how we’ve still not got a good definition of this, and that is hampering progress. Link: www.bmj.com/content/393/... #MedSky

Except from BMJ article:

Defining recovery is essential for research, clinical care, and patient experience, say Charlie Dennis and Nisreen A Alwan

If you have long covid, how can you tell if you have fully recovered? Six years of evidence and collective lived experience show us that this is not an easy question to answer. Yet if we do not define recovery, we cannot properly count the number of people living with long covid, and its present and future impact on the population’s wellbeing, economic productivity, and health systems.

Long covid remains a substantial global health problem. A recent report estimated that this condition will cost countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) $11bn (£8.3bn; €9.6bn) a year in healthcare costs over the next decade. The projected economic costs are $135bn a year.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘There’s no climate justice without social justice.’ The kids largely agree. I hope the grown ups will too rather than pitching them against each other.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 16h

You are absolutely right. Having worked in the NHS for four decades, we remain spectacularly bad at treating and caring for people with #mecfs and in fact many long term conditions that medical science doesn’t fully understand. #MedSky

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Alcohol Focus Scotland @alcoholfocus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome news from Wales today on minimum unit pricing. The Scottish Government now needs to build on the success of the policy by introducing automatic uprating of #MUP so that it changes with inflation and remains effective.

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SHAAP @shaapalcohol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WHO's Health Reality Check podcast asks who *really* keeps us healthy? Dr Margarida Santos, Gundo Weiler & Allison Ekberg discuss prevention, the environments that shape our choices and the Best Buys governments can use. Scotland's minimum unit pricing is one example of that approach in practice.

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Health Reality Check: Who Really Keeps Us Healthy?

Is staying healthy simply a matter of making the right choices? Or are those choices shaped long before we make them? In this episode of Health Reality Check, host Dr Margarida Santos sits down…

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 16h

I liked this piece from @johnlauner.bsky.social on the concert of General Practice as “mosaic care”. #MedSky

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perhaps we ought to take a moment to reflect on how many white male cishet privately educated non disabled men have been given jobs and promoted without question based on fabricated CVs, unfounded self-confidence and an embellished life story & whether we’ve even heard of them.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 16h

I think @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social is right in her assessment here. Promoting walking for everyone is a good thing, but is this really the best way to get everyone more active? From the @bmj.com back in the summer, but I’m just catching up now. Link: www.bmj.com/content/394/... #MedSky

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NHS England recently announced plans to launch a new incentive scheme that will reward people who achieve 30 minutes of walking a day, adding up to a “marathon in a month.” I see several weaknesses in this plan.

A quarter of the adult population do less than 30 minutes of exercise in a whole week. This is the group who stand to gain the biggest health improvements from any exercise, but they are unlikely to start doing 30 minutes of walking every day. I worry that the new incentive, and the funding, effort, and media outreach behind it, will attract only the people who are active already, further widening health inequalities.

Evidence suggests that incentive schemes lead to minimal long term behaviour change, so this scheme won’t tackle deep rooted cultural and behavioural determinants of inactivity.There is a science to behaviour change. Capability, opportunity, and motivation are required to change behaviour. A third of adults claim that they don’t have the opportunity to be active because of time constraints, safety concerns, or where they live.

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have a British passport in my drawer because I AM British. But I’m not culturally English - I’m Scottish. Do I not count as real British to honest Bob? Or to his racist cronies? I grew up with this shit, from uneducated fascists. And now it’s openly spoken out loud by a political leader. Fuck him

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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A good message for Shouty Russell Findlay and the rest of the "Scottish" Tories currently on a mission to demonise and denigrate Scottish benefit claimants...

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Scotland's Climate Week (28 Sept – 4 Oct), why not help to look after trees across the Lothians by supporting Tree Time through www.tree-time.com #ScotClimateWeek #ClimateAction

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's bulb planting season, so we've begun planting tulips and daffodils in West Pilton Park to enjoy next spring. We're planning to plant around 1000 spring bulbs over the next few weeks, so come and join us on Wednesday mornings 10:30-12:30 at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre.

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you to the team from Essence Mediacom Scotland for your help improving Leith Links and providing valuable care to the arboretum within the eastern part of the greenspace. The team looked after 52 trees which have ornamental, scientific and educational importance.

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We've made fantastic progress on our NHS Lothian Charity project in Deaconess Gardens, thanks to generous support from the CEC Parks Department who have delivered all the materials to the site for us. @nhslothcharity.bsky.social

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026

The hypocrisy 👀 Sarah Pochin MP bought an £800,000 second home on a Welsh island two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.

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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000

Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communiti

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Your wife: spend time with your child You: no

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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Labour reducing VAT on energy bills, cost £200m. Tory press “this is outrageous how will it be paid for?” Tories scrapping inheritance tax, cost £8.5bn. Tory press “this is the most amazing news ever, hurrah”.

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just do NOT UNDERSTAND why no-one wants to talk about raising inheritance tax to fund social care etc. And I REALLY DO NOT understand why Kemi can propose exactly the opposite and no-one thinks it a bit dubious to hand £6bn to the wealthiest 5% in the country. Do people just not realise??

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfectly put.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Flu jag done today! I even remembered to wear a short sleeved dress so I didn’t have to wrestle with clothing at the pop up clinic. #JagDoneJobDone is apparently the hashtag. I’m motivated to get vaccinated to protect the patients I see as a volunteer and the older people in my family.

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HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Being pro-the UK joining the EU and being pro-EU are not the same thing. The challenge for UK leaders is to turn the former shallow preference of the population into the latter deeper sentiment & belief. Then the UK can convince the rest of Europe that it would be a force for the good of the EU.

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just seen Barnum at Capital Theatres - Festival Theatre, tonight in Edinburgh ! Amazing… ! Take home message? Need to take up at least one more musical instrument and work harder at the yoga… (and singing). www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/barnum/

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Barnum - Capital Theatres

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Christoff (Chris B) @chrisb2605.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Didn’t cutting that pesky red tape lead to Grenfell!

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Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Tories repealed the Summerland Act because they believed that an act banning flammable/melting cladding was just 'red tape' and that's how we got Grenfell and the cladding crisis of hundreds of unsafe, inhabited buildings. We have proof this is a bad idea...

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NHS Lothian Charity @nhslothcharity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOOK! Who’s been appearing across the walls of Crichton Ward and Theatres at #RHCYP! Artist Lauren Morsley has translated patient ideas into almost 600 square metres of designs, thanks to partners Edinburgh's Children's Hospital Charity and generous donors, including Coldstones Charitable Trust.

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