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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 3h

Forest, 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12820

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4h

The fundamental disconnect is that the steps required by both science and patient safety are the steps hospital infection control leaders foolishly dismissed in 2020.

They have to choose between killing patients, and admitting a very big mistake.

Turns out their egos are worth more than your life.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 4h

Instantly got a post showing the face in a screenshot because the people I followed hadn’t used his name.

Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 4h

Just got so very tired of seeing that fatuous idiotic face pretending to be intelligent and ‘hard’ I’ve muted the T word for a bit.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 5h

Japan’s flu season hits 5 weeks early amid fears of an evolving virus.

Japan’s Health Ministry declared an influenza epidemic after 4,030 cases were reported in the week starting Sept 22, up 957 from the previous week.

135 schools closed amid outbreaks, three times higher than last year.

Japan’s flu season hits 5 weeks early amid fears of an evolving virus

The government has declared a nationwide flu epidemic, prompting calls for vaccinations and heightened vigilance

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Julian Ryall
Published: 8:00am, 8 Oct 2025 Updated: 11:50am, 8 Oct 2025

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20h

NEW! Episode 283 - Night trees of Boggle Hole (sleep safe)

Up the beach from Robin Hood's Bay to the Youth Hostel. A perfect location. No road noise, no planes.

Here's our first episode from this special place. Just the sounds of the trees at night.

bit.ly/LenBog

#FingerpostFriday

wooden fingerpost sign at night on the beach. Pointing inland along the Cleveland Way to Robin Hood's Bay and Boggle Hole YHA.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hello + welcome new followers!

We're a podcast of sounds from quiet places.
No ads. No music. No talking. Just quiet.

We have 260+ episodes to explore. Find us here

Podbean - radiolento.podbean.com
Apple Pod bit.ly/LentoAp
GoodPods bit.ly/LentoGoodP
YouTube - youtube.com/@RadioLento

A path through a forest in April sunshine. Just the birds for company. The air is fresh and quiet here.

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John Atkinson Grimshaw @jagrimshaw.bsky.social · 11h

Park Row, Leeds https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/park-row-leeds-1882

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Stephen 🔶🌹💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @thestephenralph.bsky.social · 11h

On the BBC News @ Six, Clive Myrie enthusiastically says that Gazans are returning home.

They're not returning home Clive because their homes have been destroyed. They're returning to find the rubble where their homes used to be. Significantly different Clive. They're homeless now. 😔

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact: plants make a (ultrasonic) clicking sound when stressed, and the sounds are different for different types of stress (dehydration, injury)
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Easy read/listen: www.businessinsider.com/plants-shrie...

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

Plants emit species- and stress-specific airborne sounds that can be detected in acoustic chambers and greenhouses.

cell.com

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 10h

Courtesy of @1goodtern.bsky.social, via X -

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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 12h

To me, the ongoing pandemic isnt JUST about science. It is about morals and ethics.
It is acting on the evidence and the HARM that sars2 is causing. There is evidence of harm.
There is ONGOING evidence of harm
The is evidence of ONGOING transmission of sars2
CLEAN THE AIR
Do no harm

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15h

"Well it was nice while it lasted. We had an unprecedented 10 months of low and stable Covid levels in England - but this is now over. We are seeing a definite, significant wave of Covid infections across England."

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 17h

It’s quite difficult listening to an audiobook when the author is unaware how to pronounce a word he uses in nearly every sentence.
It’s Jew-fray not Gif-ray or Gif-ree, Andrew.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 20h

If this isn’t evidence of an AI bubble I don’t know what is 🫧

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20h

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 1d

'Thor's stone' rising above Thurstaton [=Thorstein+tūn] Heath (Wirral), the latter used for common grazing since time began. The stone’s encircled by a broken ring of peaty ponds, the result of quarrying - but I can't help thinking of other monuments where the juxtaposition was deliberate

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 1d

Phew

Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible family. Disturbed. Mother (I think it was her not him) chucked the children’s TVs in the lake.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal.

No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.

Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 26

The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has been continually driven, from the outset, by an extensive conspiracy of negligence and denial on the part of authorities who are supposedly charged with preserving essential safety in the public realm.

#COVID19

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 26

From the start, there was never any attempt by authorities to honestly acknowledge the full extent to which Covid-19 was spreading. Everything was constantly downplayed, to keep the public in a state of delusion regarding what was happening at the time, and what was likely to happen in the future.

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 1d

Just catching up. Omg do NOT leave Rome without doing the underground tour of San Clemente. One of my favourite places ever. Mithraeum AND underground spring.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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