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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

Dorothy Thompson, 1941

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 1d

Have seen it described as “LinkedIn with stoning”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 6d

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

Summer 2018 was hot, had a great football world cup going on - much of which I experienced from this desk, trying to get the fans to work😭

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

Here are pictures of my process for thinking about how people cope with the recovery from having a stroke. For all the faff, having it on paper helps me think through the categories we use and claims we make

July 2018

Transcripts and notes strewn across a desk

Post-it notes across a desk on large bits of coloured paper

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

At that stage of research - trying to bring the ideas back together

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

im sure a site other than BBC sport will catch my eye for this at some point but they are mad for a pie chart

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data

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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Two pie charts, one showing the competitions that Memphis Depay has scored his Dutch goals in, one showing which national team manager they have been under

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data

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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 2d

Net promoter score has no place as a research methodology in health services.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

(massive, full screen popup): "we and our 941 partners process data to..."

jesus outlook i just wanna send an email

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

Worth saying the numbers aren't perfect and leave out some important aspects but they do at least help to explain why the NHS eligibility criteria have tightened - something I haven't seen explained in NHS comms around the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

Since this ultimately comes out of the same budget that pays for everything else the NHS does, it becomes hard to justify. Good that it's available privately so people can make their own choice about whether it's worth it. Shame it's not cheaper.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

NHS estimates it costs £25 per dose to deliver. So that's £1.5 million to £2.5 million per (non-critical care) hospital admission avoided. Numbers to prevent a critical care admission or death are substantially higher still.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

Bit nerdy, but it's worth having a skim over the number needed to vaccinate figures here. E.g. to avoid one hospitalisation in otherwise healthy people JCVI estimated 60-100k would need to be vaccinated (based on Autumn 2024 data).

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Appendix A: estimating the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation in autumn 2024 in England

www.gov.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 4d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 3d

lol

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a guy whose brother (with dementia) had seven phone contracts running concurrently and had been caught up in multiple scams from cold callers.

These folk experience life as predatory - seeing daytime calls and an internet browser as opportunities for people to trick them.

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · Nov 22

One thing I learned while researching at the Office of the Public Guardian: the extent of the scamming industry preying on vulnerable people.

We spoke to people whose family members (often with dementia) had lost £10k+. Sometimes finding the scam was the confirmation they were struggling.

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · Nov 22

As will be unsurprising, this was my experience when interviewing people about their interactions with banks around Lasting Powers of Attorney. They were excluded for not feeling confident using digital and remote services.

Really doesn't help a group already worried, understandably, about scams.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4d

I would start particularly with the financial services industry where the line between "wealth management" and "elder abuse" has always been blurred. (I started, but was not brave enough to finish, an article about US wirehouse brokers vs. their parents, a distressingly common court case)

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4d

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent suggestion, thank you!

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a historic instruments community I can enquire with?

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 3d

Niche request: has anybody ever wrapped a hammered dulcimer for transport by courier?

Any advice for packaging it?

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 3d

Niche request: has anybody ever wrapped a hammered dulcimer for transport by courier?

Any advice for packaging it?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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