Adam Elbourne
@drelbourne.bsky.social
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The expensive purchase of insurance against the actions of mad kings that Carney was talking about. Plus social-media-fried brains?
Another extraordinary move from Gold this morning as it rises US $200 to above US $5500.
January 29, 2026 at 9:03 AM
The expensive purchase of insurance against the actions of mad kings that Carney was talking about. Plus social-media-fried brains?
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This is essentially blackmail and could endanger vaccine supply for many countries that need thiomersal in vaccines to keep them stable when they lack infrastructure to keep vaccines cool in transport and storage 🧵
The Trump administration has told global vaccine group GAVI to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding. Thimerosal was targeted by RFK Jr last summer in US vaccines without a rigorous scientific process
TAT: [Attacking Science]
TAT: [Attacking Science]
Exclusive: US conditions funding to global vaccine group on dropping mercury-based preservative from shots
The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This is essentially blackmail and could endanger vaccine supply for many countries that need thiomersal in vaccines to keep them stable when they lack infrastructure to keep vaccines cool in transport and storage 🧵
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"If more people understood more about how fascinating, beautiful, terrifying, and dangerous viruses are, maybe they would understand why it’s so important to keep studying them and learning how to stop them from spreading and causing disease."
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"If more people understood more about how fascinating, beautiful, terrifying, and dangerous viruses are, maybe they would understand why it’s so important to keep studying them and learning how to stop them from spreading and causing disease."
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
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Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
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NEW| Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
In an attempt to maintain balance, the BBC is letting obvious lies go unchallenged.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 AM
NEW| Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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This comedy sketch is 12 years old but resonates more than ever now Trump has unleashed his own SS on US streets. Now Farage calling for his own version should chill everyone in the UK. Vote NO TO REFORM
youtube.com/watch?v=SMMw...
youtube.com/watch?v=SMMw...
That Mitchell & Webb Look - Nazi Sketch (English subtitles)
YouTube video by Jakub Holáň
youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:50 AM
This comedy sketch is 12 years old but resonates more than ever now Trump has unleashed his own SS on US streets. Now Farage calling for his own version should chill everyone in the UK. Vote NO TO REFORM
youtube.com/watch?v=SMMw...
youtube.com/watch?v=SMMw...
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Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
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End of Days stuff - Daily Mail outperforms BBC at accurate reporting of a far-right attack.
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 AM
End of Days stuff - Daily Mail outperforms BBC at accurate reporting of a far-right attack.
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New Cryptic (North Carolina) derived from a 2020, pre-B.1.1 lineage, meaning from an infection that has lasted nearly six years.
It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T.
Eager to see the rest of the genome.
It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T.
Eager to see the rest of the genome.
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
New Cryptic (North Carolina) derived from a 2020, pre-B.1.1 lineage, meaning from an infection that has lasted nearly six years.
It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T.
Eager to see the rest of the genome.
It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T.
Eager to see the rest of the genome.
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I can’t quite convey how frightening it is that people who think it’s fine to let people catch deadly diseases like polio rather than have a vaccine are in charge of US vaccine policies
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I can’t quite convey how frightening it is that people who think it’s fine to let people catch deadly diseases like polio rather than have a vaccine are in charge of US vaccine policies
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-laughs nervously in Ukrainian-
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 PM
-laughs nervously in Ukrainian-
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
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🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨
Fast answers, overconfidence and the superficial appearance of rigour. Airport bookstores are the perfect place for those who chase fresh ideas without doing the legwork.
Unfortunately, much of our policy is shaped by the same impulse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Fast answers, overconfidence and the superficial appearance of rigour. Airport bookstores are the perfect place for those who chase fresh ideas without doing the legwork.
Unfortunately, much of our policy is shaped by the same impulse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Airport Book Brain
How faddish ideas keep seducing.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 8:26 AM
🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨
Fast answers, overconfidence and the superficial appearance of rigour. Airport bookstores are the perfect place for those who chase fresh ideas without doing the legwork.
Unfortunately, much of our policy is shaped by the same impulse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Fast answers, overconfidence and the superficial appearance of rigour. Airport bookstores are the perfect place for those who chase fresh ideas without doing the legwork.
Unfortunately, much of our policy is shaped by the same impulse.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
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Trump, Vance, and Kushner have been making speeches that contain odd phrases: 'you don't turn the Titanic around overnight', 'catastrophic success' etc.
Remember it's propaganda. And they have AI to make us respond how they want.
Not everything that seems stupid is stupid.
bsky.app/profile/dunc...
Remember it's propaganda. And they have AI to make us respond how they want.
Not everything that seems stupid is stupid.
bsky.app/profile/dunc...
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" - JD Vance, 2026
You know, what's odd about this is someone *did* say it before. In 2011.
So I assume the speech was AI generated. But that's not that surprising, is it.
www.middletownpress.com/news/article...
You know, what's odd about this is someone *did* say it before. In 2011.
So I assume the speech was AI generated. But that's not that surprising, is it.
www.middletownpress.com/news/article...
January 23, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Trump, Vance, and Kushner have been making speeches that contain odd phrases: 'you don't turn the Titanic around overnight', 'catastrophic success' etc.
Remember it's propaganda. And they have AI to make us respond how they want.
Not everything that seems stupid is stupid.
bsky.app/profile/dunc...
Remember it's propaganda. And they have AI to make us respond how they want.
Not everything that seems stupid is stupid.
bsky.app/profile/dunc...
For some reason my wife can't quite explain, she's been leaving €50 notes around on the bedroom floor... and the robot vacuum cleaner has sucked them all up. Should I be concerned?
January 23, 2026 at 9:32 AM
For some reason my wife can't quite explain, she's been leaving €50 notes around on the bedroom floor... and the robot vacuum cleaner has sucked them all up. Should I be concerned?
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Not so fun fact: Tear gas isn’t a “gas”
If it’s not a gas, then what is it?
Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters.
Let’s discuss 🧵
If it’s not a gas, then what is it?
Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters.
Let’s discuss 🧵
January 22, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Not so fun fact: Tear gas isn’t a “gas”
If it’s not a gas, then what is it?
Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters.
Let’s discuss 🧵
If it’s not a gas, then what is it?
Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters.
Let’s discuss 🧵
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Seems to be the most dramatic breakthrough in preventing/slowing dementia & alzheimer's ever. But it's a vaccine, so it doesn't get headlines.
Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).
Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
erictopol.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Seems to be the most dramatic breakthrough in preventing/slowing dementia & alzheimer's ever. But it's a vaccine, so it doesn't get headlines.
Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).
Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).
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January 22, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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"It is something of a paradox that, for all this govt.’s talk of closer alignment with the single market, it is doing a better job than its predecessors of delivering divergence from EU rules."
@jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour
ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...
@jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour
ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...
Labour burnishes its Brexit credentials - UK in a changing Europe
Based on the most recent edition of the UK-EU Divergence Tracker, Joël Reland argues that, despite rhetoric about aligning more closely with...
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:28 AM
"It is something of a paradox that, for all this govt.’s talk of closer alignment with the single market, it is doing a better job than its predecessors of delivering divergence from EU rules."
@jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour
ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...
@jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour
ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...
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Trump:
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Trump:
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
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He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland.
His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.
His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland.
His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.
His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.
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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
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Macron’s allies say it plainly: Brexit is why Starmer is weak with Trump.
Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka.
Outside it, you urge calm while others decide.
Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it.
archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...
Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka.
Outside it, you urge calm while others decide.
Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it.
archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...
January 21, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Macron’s allies say it plainly: Brexit is why Starmer is weak with Trump.
Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka.
Outside it, you urge calm while others decide.
Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it.
archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...
Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka.
Outside it, you urge calm while others decide.
Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it.
archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...
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These hypocrites really make me sick. The UK increased massive trade barriers with all its direct neighbours with their sovereign Brexit, and now they come up with this blah blah.
And use it as an excuse not to work with the rest of their own continent to stop the mad dictator.
And use it as an excuse not to work with the rest of their own continent to stop the mad dictator.
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 AM
These hypocrites really make me sick. The UK increased massive trade barriers with all its direct neighbours with their sovereign Brexit, and now they come up with this blah blah.
And use it as an excuse not to work with the rest of their own continent to stop the mad dictator.
And use it as an excuse not to work with the rest of their own continent to stop the mad dictator.
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#Brexiteers got it very wrong, and they still do.
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM
#Brexiteers got it very wrong, and they still do.