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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 2h

TFW your council comms on something are really unclear and a teensy bit shady so you do a whole-arse FOI request just to get a straight answer...and the response to the FOI request is unclear and a bit shady 🤦‍♂️

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 2h

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 2h

Can you say that again but much more high-pitched and with a recorder accompaniment?

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 2h

NOT LIKE THAT

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 22d

"Teacher did one of those word cloud things with a virtual response thing for the question "what makes rabbits so special?" I submitted the word soft 600 times"

Image is a projection of the word SOFT in the middle of an otherwise empty word cloud screen titled "why are rabbits so special?"

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 1d

See, this is why I've had a total sense of humour bypass about Americans making any kind of joke about British politics, food, culture, looks, anything. Your president is dictating what laws we have, what statements we can make, what jobs individuals can hold. This isn't joshing between peers.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 5h

That must have been such a scary time for you. Glad she is recovering.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe we're just not doing harvest festivals properly any more 🤷

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 5h

...and then he'll definitely eat it 😜 right 😜

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 20h

The AI will make us some more food we can download

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, that classic teenage girl experience! 🤣

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Alice Porter @aliceporter.bsky.social · 23h

Fucking winter. Please please please prioritise ventilation in crowded spaces. Be the one who opens the window. And if you possibly can, please stay at home if you have 'just a cold'

UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 23h

#UKHSAVirusWatch is back, a summary of our weekly winter surveillance report .🦠🧵
This week's data shows an increase in COVID-19 activity, which is circulating at medium levels. Flu activity has also increased, particularly in those aged 15 to 24, but remains at baseline levels.

Graph showing COVID-19 positive tests rising steadily from spring 2025 after a low in early 2025. Data from October 2024 to October 2025, England only.

Graph showing flu-positive tests peaking sharply in winter 2024–25 before declining and then beginning to rise again in autumn 2025. Data from October 2024 to October 2025, England only.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 23h

The one time I caught Covid, I was healthy and 3x vaxxed. I was really poorly for maybe a week and not well enough to work for several weeks. Lost confidence because of brain-fog, lost my sense of taste, didn't exercise for months. I wouldn't even call that Long Covid but it was bad enough!

Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sceptical about this because I just can't see the data. We don't have a test for Long Covid, just a diagnosis of exclusion. We don't have enough data on the risk factors or how the hell to avoid an infection turning into a disability, beyond resting and hoping for the best.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

Went to my local on a balmy summer night only to find we couldn't sit in the beer garden because "we've already put all the chairs on the tables". It wasn't even 9pm!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

The feminine urge to gather the different editors who are making contradictory changes to your copy in one Room, for to bang their very Heads together untill they are in Harmony

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see the data on hospitalisations avoided but I'm not worried about personally ending up in hospital. I'm worried about a) spreading it to vulnerable people and b) becoming long-term disabled with Long Covid. That's a harder risk to measure and I'm pretty sure cases are underreported.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking more of the "was the grimch there" meme but kinda

Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

You definitely have a point there.

Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely don't understand what the Pharmadoctor website does. It's not passing on any booking requests, so you have to book directly with the pharmacy anyway. It's just adding unnecessary steps and confusion so everything takes a few days longer.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

Requested the appointments via the Pharmadoctor website yesterday. No confirmation.

Rang the pharmacy this morning. No record of the online booking request, but they let me book over the phone.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

We'd already scheduled in the time today for the Covid vaccine appointments that turned out not to exist. So I decided to book us flu jabs at our local pharmacy for the same timeslot, so at least my partner and I can get *some* kind of health win this week.

You can guess the rest.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

It's v useful but when I used to do proofreading I found a lot of people didn't know what it meant. Then it causes holdups 😭 and then they ask "why didn't you just write 'leave this in'?" 😭 You're only safe if you're sure you're operating in the same context!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

This is like saying "they held off going down the mine because they were just too concerned with the welfare of canaries."

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

Same story - 2 very different takes.

Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.

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