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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 12m

Also, it is GORGEOUS out here - the sun is lovely and warm, and the couple of pubs I walked past all had full tables of people wearing t-shirts sat outside

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 13m

Building my Crow Army

Three Crows in the park tucking into the monkey nuts I have thrown them

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h

"...need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind."

I don't know how many posts I've made about Sigourney and Alien 5, but here's another one.

Sigourney Weaver Has Met With Disney About a New ‘Alien’ Script: “It’s a Very Strong First 50 Pages”

The actress also spoke at New York Comic Con about what was really behind the crew clashes with James Cameron on the sequel.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h

Alien 5

Sigourney Weaver: "Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now. I said I have never felt the..."

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1h

Depressingly close to the mark, I imagine

"I tried but they didn't want the money, what am I to do?"

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2h

You may have to, yes - the only condition that now qualifies you for a free covid jab is if you are immunocompromised

A lot of people who were previously eligible have been turning up and finding out they have to pay - even though their GP had contacted them about it

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion

Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2h

I had the Novavax last year for £55 and that is a much better vaccination - I was genuinely gutted when I found out you can't get it in the UK this year

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2h

I am glad she is doing so well, bless her

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4h

Reminder that pharmacies have to pay the wholesale list prices for medications (which keep going up) but only get reimbursed a set amount from the NHS (which has stayed the same)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pharmacy managers feel trapped in NHS funding system

Pharmacies say they are not getting enough funding to pay for the medicines they need to dispense.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4h

You can read the advice here

Interesting that the 'example' cost for the covid jab is £25, so someone is making a tidy profit here

Likely the manufacturer, but pharmacies may also be taking a cut - they've long been unhappy with the amount of NHS funding they get
www.gov.uk/government/p...

JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026

www.gov.uk

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4h

It is insane they basically removed every eligible medical condition unless you're immunocompromised

This is based on expert scientific advice, which was provided to the Govt last year and accepted

Covid is now a mild illness for most (apparently)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 5h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry to hear this, Sooz - it is properly shit that most of the population are just being abandoned to what is still a horrible virus

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4h

This year

They removed pretty much every eligible medical condition except people who are immunocompromised

It is really shit because £100 is not a small amount!

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15h

🙌🏻

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 16h

Just watched The Last of Sheila, which @rianjohnson.bsky.social recommended during his #LondonFilmFestival talk (which @scientits.bsky.social kindly invited me to). Very enjoyable and smart too - funny and nasty, and you can see how it influenced Glass Onion.

Left to right, James Mason, Raquel Welch, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane, Dyan Cannon and Richard Benjamin, all under a sign that reads 'Sheila'

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16h

I really want to see this now - how did you watch, is it on a streamer?

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 1d

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 20h

One year ago today, a spectacular aurora display graced the night sky across much of the globe. This was my view in *Oklahoma.* What a beautiful world we are fortunate to live on. #photography

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a SAR arc and moon-lit clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

The andromeda galaxy between a red SAR arc and the Milky Way.

Numerous pinkish aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky and spotty clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky over relatively still waters of a large lake.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not interested at all, you’d have to pay me a lot of money to stand in the cold waiting for fireworks but…it used to be free!

Just more and more ‘how can we monetise this?’

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 21h

Top price tickets to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks are £55

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.

Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 23h

This has never happened before in the history of mankind, I must read it immediately

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