Last call for a conversation I’m really looking forward to with Robin Ince.
Live
Free
8.30pm
On Substack

With his newly released poetry collection
Ice Cream For a Broken Tooth
Robin has been an endlessly creative and I think important voice across performance, broadcasting, writing…

here's a direct link to more info with the poster advert image I can't post (for some annoying reason!!!)
gavcross.substack.com/p/how-about-...

If you like geeky humour, science, creativity, independent book stores, radio 4, nice beards & more-- tomorrow the lovely
@gavcross.bsky.social will be chatting with the amazing
@robinince.bsky.social !

8:30pm UK time (that's 3:30pm Eastern & 12:30pm Pacific, USA)

tr.ee/GavCrossSubs...

When Harlow Shapley received a letter from Hubble containing the evidence that the spiral nebulae were separate "galaxies", he said: “This is the letter that destroyed my universe."

Shapley had believed the Universe contained just one "Big Galaxy" - our Milky Way. Now we know there are ~2 trillion!

And, on the piano….

Yungblud Forced to Cancel Show Due to Illness, Offers Free Beer to Apologize to Fans.

“I’ve been trying to get better for two days since New York but I literally can’t get off the floor and doctors have advised me that I have a virus that requires me to rest and take it seriously.”

Why isn’t school attendance policy reflecting the research in the Lancet on long covid? @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Children’s long term health should be the priority here!

Failure to rest, especially in girls, increases long Covid risks! Over 120k children in UK with long Covid now

#CleantheAir

I feel the priority in schools should be #CleanAir and allowing children to rest after sickness. Not 100% attendance. We should abandon school uniforms for warm clothing and move to a footing similar to that at the height of TB crisis. Safety of children’s long term health should be the priority!

Do masks work?
YES
This is physics
This is based on the laws of physics
N95 or ffp2 works
It reduces viral transmission
WE CAN END measles or reduce it (we did)
WE COULD end polio (we could)
The problem is scientific illiteracy.

I like the analogy of digital asbestos. Treated like a miracle product now, but it's going to be a huge pain to remove all the embedded AI slop in the future.

Studies show how common long COVID is globally and in teens

The two most commonly identified long-COVID symptoms were memory problems and muscle weakness,

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

🤣

“Viral and allergic conjunctivitis are more common than bacterial conjunctivitis in healthy immunocompetent adults. Neisseria meningitidis is an uncommon cause of bacterial conjunctivitis.”

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes....

people act like it's not traumatic for the body to be infected with a virus but like. viruses infect your cell and proceed to replicate inside the host cell until the cell literally explodes, spreading more virus to other cells to do the very same thing.

of course that process would be oncogenic!!

🚨 Important message about this weekend’s alert system test if you have an emergency phone! Info below on how to silence and refuge.org also have useful information.

I wish I had a tenth the influence on my students’ minds that Farage froths at the mouth about…

Its really a drag that these tech cultists and con-men are just spraying buckshot and splattering spamming AI everywhere because if smart people had just focused surgically on its most discrete functions…

Instead of a capitalist feeding frenzy and surveillance state making the world shittier.

Clean the air in schools FFS

'Steampunk fairy' by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates sculptures and jewellery out of recycled watch parts #WomensArt

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about.

@lancslass.bsky.social has sent me £15 so that I can buy someone a book.

So, if there's a particular book you'd like up to £15, get in touch!

UK only

Since we're thinking about Nimbus (NB.1.8.1), I thought I'd re-share a couple of Substack pieces.

"How to be (and make others) sick less often"

open.substack.com/pub/tryangre...

1/2

My favourite ways of saying “I’m in a spot of bother” from ten different languages…

FAFO👇

Here we go again. The *total* risk goes up with every infection, because math. Also, 1/20 risk with each subsequent infection is not great odds of you ask me.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dat...