Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org
Engineer, European, Brit. I am also https://mobile.twitter.com/parkinjim
parkinjim.bsky.social
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Joined Nov 2022
This evening's walk, bit slippery underfoot but a beautiful, calm clear night
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Suella Braverman...
Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said the home secretary’s description of migrants as an “invasion” was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.
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'The British Medical Association has warned that relying on the private sector threatens the "sustainability of the NHS”, which has suffered from “a decade of underinvestment”.'
Private health firms donated £800,000 to Conservative Party | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/private-health-firms-donate-to-conservative-party-amid-nhs-crisis/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Conservatives%20took%20more%20than%20%C2%A3800%2C000%20from%20private%20health%20firms&_kx=u21e0qqT6J7jw__c2srKO-SI0dMizRafjc_2d6g4uiMltCkKqCY0pZm1jLnP4TV2.YjCYwm
Impressive flooded pothole in Yorkshire
@13sarahmurphy he should be suspended for long enough to face a recall petition for lying.
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RT @AvaSantina@twitter.com
Lib Dem Layla Moran says there should be a by-election after Tory MP Andrew Bridgen compared the Covid vaccine to the Holocaust.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1613203784901222400
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It really is bizarre. I know I mentioned this story once on Mastodon somewhere before, but it fits here.
A few years back there was this know-it-all nurse at my kid's school. One day I get a call around mid-day that I need to come pick up my son because he wasn't feeling well. So I get there and she brings him out and in front of a bunch of other parents and teachers she proceeds to give me this sanctimonious lecture about how I clearly never should have let my kid go to school and how awful it was that I was letting him spread whatever had made him ill to everyone else.
Of course, he was showing no symptoms hours earlier. I never would have sent him in sick, but, anyway....
One of my his friend's moms remembered this interaction and a couple of months ago sends me a text that the same nurse called her and gave her a big lecture about how her kid had been out sick for a few days in a row and that wasn't acceptable. No matter what he needed to get into school and not miss anymore days. There's no testing requirement anymore, so it didn't matter what he had, just get him back in class.
A couple weeks later another parent shared almost the exact same story. They seem to be, literally, calling everyone who's out sick and telling them that not only is it OK to send their kid to school sick, but it's the right thing to do. Insanity.
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Brexit et Frexit
#LeaveLies just sort of keep exposing themselves. Like rancid old perverts who just can’t help opening their stupid mouths. I take no pleasure at all in this - it was all so predictable, all so obvious and inevitable. I desperately don’t want to see France walk the same path. Il faut jamais #Frexit
@est@emily.news yup
Descriptions of sexual violence
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn3dm/andrew-tate-whatsapps-arrest
Shocking. What was the Hertfordshire Police and the CPS doing to not push forward with charges against Andrew Rate, when they had three women complaining about him, for either rape or violent sexual assault, and also had voice messages and texts to one of the women boasting of his acts?
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HOLY SHEET! The Nassau County @GOP is on national TV calling for George Santos to resign.
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If you are the kind who say, “You know, I'd mask on flights if WHO or the CDC said I should,” I guess you can now start masking on flights.
WHO urges travellers to wear masks as new #COVID19 variant spreads. #wearamask
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RT @Stuzipants@twitter.com
Andrew Pierce accidentally forgetting to mention that his party has literally caused 50,000 excess deaths via their endlessly botched policy that’s sucked the soul out of the NHS while attempting to blame Labour for 13 years of Tory theft and managed decline. Absolutely Joey https://twitter.com/toryboypierce/status/1613071202787942400
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Stuzipants/status/1613084202047619072
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#Astrodon #Exoplanet #TESS
"The newly discovered planet and its Earth-size sibling are both in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on their surfaces.
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star. The world is 95% Earth’s size & likely rocky."
Thrilling discovery! 😀 🚀
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tess-discovers-planetary-systems-second-earth-size-world
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#CovidUK #CovidIsNotOver
Around a year since the UK government promulgated their illusory view that we are 'living in a post-pandemic world' - the crisis in our hospitals says not - shouldn't we act with more care? Just a few basic public health actions could make such a difference. @brownecfm @GWalker9
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RT @AstroMikeMerri@twitter.com
If only there were some way to figure out what had gone wrong with the NHS…
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri/status/1610270500973936641
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My apologies. Was tagged and am too lazy to retype. Regarding enlarged tongue (macroglossia) as a complication post Covid infection.
RT @white_bite@twitter.com
@busycactus@twitter.com @Lando05503298@twitter.com @dbdugger@twitter.com There have been reports of acute macroglossia post Covid infection which, upon histopath, showed infiltration of lymphocytes in the area. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10006-021-01031-0
But...
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/white_bite/status/1610223771457323009
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It was stored on a cold wallet.
He lost everything: $3.5 million.
Let 2023 be the final death of this giant scam.
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Luke Dash, one core developers of Bitcoin just got all his Bitcoins stolen.
But let's pretend anyone can safely store their life savings in crypto.
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coast (not long after moonrise) - ice on the sand & a slurred tide turning (turnstone & curlew, oystercatcher yeeping constant)
Engineer, European, Brit. I am also https://mobile.twitter.com/parkinjim
parkinjim.bsky.social
#BlackLivesMatter
Joined Nov 2022
