Beccy Pook
@beccypook.bsky.social
Views expressed are, by default, subjective and encompass my perspective that everything is political. Covid is airborne.
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“We've spent months pointing out the absence of Brexit from Starmer's rhetoric. If that was important, then the re-emergence of it in his rhetoric must also be important.”
🆕 What's past is prologue 🆕
🇪🇺 Brexit's back alright
🗳️ lessons from 2024 GE
📰 media's Reeves derangement
🧌 Dungeons & Dragons
@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social put the world to rights.
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🇪🇺 Brexit's back alright
🗳️ lessons from 2024 GE
📰 media's Reeves derangement
🧌 Dungeons & Dragons
@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social put the world to rights.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/11Nv...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
What's past is prologue
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 04/12/2025 · 1h 10m
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December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“We've spent months pointing out the absence of Brexit from Starmer's rhetoric. If that was important, then the re-emergence of it in his rhetoric must also be important.”
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Facial recognition, scrapping juries, and mandatory digital ID.
This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right.
The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right.
The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Facial recognition to be expanded in fresh crime crackdown
Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the expansion to ‘boost safety’
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Facial recognition, scrapping juries, and mandatory digital ID.
This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right.
The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right.
The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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free advice: don't get mad at a sick person w/ an unreliable body for not being able to do something
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
free advice: don't get mad at a sick person w/ an unreliable body for not being able to do something
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
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Virus activity has been heating up in Canada the last few weeks, with more to come. The good news is that we actually have incredibly effective tools to protect ourselves and others.
Layered approach works, more people using it works better.
Layered approach works, more people using it works better.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Virus activity has been heating up in Canada the last few weeks, with more to come. The good news is that we actually have incredibly effective tools to protect ourselves and others.
Layered approach works, more people using it works better.
Layered approach works, more people using it works better.
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Hot take🔥: You do not have to be anyone special to wear a respirator mask to protect yourself and others from airborne diseases. You can just put one on your face. Boom. 😷
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Hot take🔥: You do not have to be anyone special to wear a respirator mask to protect yourself and others from airborne diseases. You can just put one on your face. Boom. 😷
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December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
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Trump has now effectively increased the cost of drugs on our NHS. With limited resources inevitably this will lead to suffering. #GetTrumpOutOfUKBusiness
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump has now effectively increased the cost of drugs on our NHS. With limited resources inevitably this will lead to suffering. #GetTrumpOutOfUKBusiness
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Now think about how longcovid is now more common among children than asthma is, and how many covid infections the average kid has been getting each year for the past half decade.
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Now think about how longcovid is now more common among children than asthma is, and how many covid infections the average kid has been getting each year for the past half decade.
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WHO launched a new long-term plan to manage COVID-19 and future coronavirus threats.
“Coronaviruses remain one of the most consequential infectious disease threats today,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.
Focus: Surveillance, Clean air, Vaccines, Rapid detection, Protecting high-risk groups.
“Coronaviruses remain one of the most consequential infectious disease threats today,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.
Focus: Surveillance, Clean air, Vaccines, Rapid detection, Protecting high-risk groups.
WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new strategic plan for the management of coronavirus disease threats, including COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and potential ...
www.who.int
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
WHO launched a new long-term plan to manage COVID-19 and future coronavirus threats.
“Coronaviruses remain one of the most consequential infectious disease threats today,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.
Focus: Surveillance, Clean air, Vaccines, Rapid detection, Protecting high-risk groups.
“Coronaviruses remain one of the most consequential infectious disease threats today,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.
Focus: Surveillance, Clean air, Vaccines, Rapid detection, Protecting high-risk groups.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Overhead today, “My son’s entire hockey team is sick after tournament on the weekend. All the coaches too, and most of the parents.”
While not nice to contemplate, covid is still infecting people, damaging our immune systems and triggering disability.
#maskup
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
While not nice to contemplate, covid is still infecting people, damaging our immune systems and triggering disability.
#maskup
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal
and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due
to the immune dysfunction caused ...
www.ajpmfocus.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Overhead today, “My son’s entire hockey team is sick after tournament on the weekend. All the coaches too, and most of the parents.”
While not nice to contemplate, covid is still infecting people, damaging our immune systems and triggering disability.
#maskup
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
While not nice to contemplate, covid is still infecting people, damaging our immune systems and triggering disability.
#maskup
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
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This is the most important video to watch. It shows that Covid is airborne and was known to be from day 1. It shows the current guidance is still incorrect.
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the most important video to watch. It shows that Covid is airborne and was known to be from day 1. It shows the current guidance is still incorrect.
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Testing before visiting someone vulnerable isn’t overcautious, it’s caring.
Antigen tests help, and PCR or LAMP tests more reliably prevent weeks of illness for someone else.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
Antigen tests help, and PCR or LAMP tests more reliably prevent weeks of illness for someone else.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Testing before visiting someone vulnerable isn’t overcautious, it’s caring.
Antigen tests help, and PCR or LAMP tests more reliably prevent weeks of illness for someone else.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
Antigen tests help, and PCR or LAMP tests more reliably prevent weeks of illness for someone else.
#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
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#ArtDD2025
Sanderling
Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar
@saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
(from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)
Sanderling
Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar
@saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
(from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#ArtDD2025
Sanderling
Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar
@saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
(from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)
Sanderling
Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar
@saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
(from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)
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"Both Aneurin Bevan and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Boards have announced the return of mandatory mask-wearing on their sites, echoing practices widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic"
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
#PublicHealth #LongCovid #Wales
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
#PublicHealth #LongCovid #Wales
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"Both Aneurin Bevan and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Boards have announced the return of mandatory mask-wearing on their sites, echoing practices widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic"
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
#PublicHealth #LongCovid #Wales
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
#PublicHealth #LongCovid #Wales
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
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Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UK
Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for new oil and gas will be issued, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said: “B...
www.greenpeace.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
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🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
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Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning over rising flu cases as winter approaches, preparing to require masks in hospitals, health centres, and elderly-care facilities…
euroweeklynews.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
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Read and act upon this thread …
We're in a national emergency, but we're not talking or acting as if we are.
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
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This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Read and act upon this thread …
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This is also why we shouldn’t use similar language when talking about Trump.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is also why we shouldn’t use similar language when talking about Trump.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
Yesterday Versus Today
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Yesterday Versus Today
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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It's important not to normalise spreading germs around. If someone is ill with respiratory symptoms encourage them to self-isolate and not attend in person any work or social events (if they can afford it)... or at the very least wear a mask. Haven't we learnt anything from the pandemic?
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's important not to normalise spreading germs around. If someone is ill with respiratory symptoms encourage them to self-isolate and not attend in person any work or social events (if they can afford it)... or at the very least wear a mask. Haven't we learnt anything from the pandemic?