@monika-dryburgh.bsky.social
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Well.
Certainly not with that attitude.
Certainly not with that attitude.
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Well.
Certainly not with that attitude.
Certainly not with that attitude.
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Disabled people do not owe you their medical history.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Disabled people do not owe you their medical history.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Real world experiment conducted in Swiss school.
"Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact."
--> WE NEED CLEAN AIR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact."
--> WE NEED CLEAN AIR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Real world experiment conducted in Swiss school.
"Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact."
--> WE NEED CLEAN AIR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact."
--> WE NEED CLEAN AIR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Autoantibodies mediate pain and sensory dysfunction in post-COVID syndrome
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#PostCovidSyndrome #LongCovid #PASC
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#PostCovidSyndrome #LongCovid #PASC
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Autoantibodies mediate pain and sensory dysfunction in post-COVID syndrome
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#PostCovidSyndrome #LongCovid #PASC
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#PostCovidSyndrome #LongCovid #PASC
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One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
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My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
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‘The people running the library seem not to see their institution as a library at all … a cultural destination or an events space, the books and artefacts serving a largely scenic purpose. This would explain present trends … a library without librarians … Yes Minister’s hospital without patients.’
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
‘The people running the library seem not to see their institution as a library at all … a cultural destination or an events space, the books and artefacts serving a largely scenic purpose. This would explain present trends … a library without librarians … Yes Minister’s hospital without patients.’
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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
Pardon me that this is a little personal.
I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks with trembling hands. Its stupendous card catalogue blew my schoolboy mind. Search my name in the modern electronic counterpart today and it appears 125 times, mostly for works I researched there. My 84-year-old mother has been a volunteer library tour guide for more than a decade. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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Colin Hay, frontman of Men at Work, postpones Australian shows.
"Colin Hay has postponed his scheduled Australian performances for December after suffering serious respiratory complications connected to the flu and Covid."
"Colin Hay has postponed his scheduled Australian performances for December after suffering serious respiratory complications connected to the flu and Covid."
Colin Hay Postpones Australian Shows Due To Covid
Colin Hay has postponed his December Australian shows due to serious respiratory complications from the flu and Covid. Affected shows include Melbourne Recital Centre, Enmore Theatre and Meredith Fest...
www.noise11.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Colin Hay, frontman of Men at Work, postpones Australian shows.
"Colin Hay has postponed his scheduled Australian performances for December after suffering serious respiratory complications connected to the flu and Covid."
"Colin Hay has postponed his scheduled Australian performances for December after suffering serious respiratory complications connected to the flu and Covid."
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Leopards, faces, etc.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Leopards, faces, etc.
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I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
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Transcripts used to be done by people who were in the room (or in a booth attached to the room). They prided themselves on being as accurate as possible and would interact with parties to make sure little things, like name spelling and the word for a particular legal principle, were correct.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Transcripts used to be done by people who were in the room (or in a booth attached to the room). They prided themselves on being as accurate as possible and would interact with parties to make sure little things, like name spelling and the word for a particular legal principle, were correct.
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This is the kind of story you get downstream of public service cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'I'm deeply troubled': Lawyers call out erroneous court transcripts
Obtaining court transcripts can cost thousands of dollars for a single day of proceedings, but the documents can contain errors, missing text, and even wrong attribution, frustrating legal practitione...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is the kind of story you get downstream of public service cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se