Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @EuropeanPowell
Why would US Palantir's Peter Thiel who donated $1.25m to Donald Trump’s election campaign and despises the NHS be given carte blanche to access patients private medical records?
Intergrated Healthcare is a scam to sell off the NHS to the US
#ToryScumOut
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-england-foundry-faster-data-flows/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Palantir%20to%20collect%20%27confidential%20patient%20information%27%20from%20NHS&_kx=8KfYL5-0l22OqcYAy8XikDaE8GsgHZ0fWTGw8B4FrMk%3D.YjCYwm

RT @ThierryAaron
"To attempt to censor an unrepresented defendant's closing speech to a jury by ordering them not to say why they acted as they did strikes me as both unprecedented and a massive judicial overkill" -@timowenqc Quoted in this week's @PrivateEyeNews

RT @doug_parr
I, along with many others, was calling out algae for biofuels as greenwashing years ago

Not because it could never work - in some ways it’d be great if it did - but because of the huge role it played in oil company advertising to show how green they were
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/big-oil-algae-biofuel-funding-cut-exxonmobil?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RT @earthskyscience
Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will zip safely past - less than halfway the distance between us and the moon - on March 25. Astronomers at the observatory at La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain, discovered it in late February. Find out more:

https://earthsky.org/space/200-ft-asteroid-2023-dz2-will-pass-by-earth-closer-than-the-moon/

📸 Image via NASA.

RT @premnsikka
Bosses at seven rail companies have awarded themselves annual pay rises of up to 275% whilst most rail workers have been subject to a pay freeze.

Govt says pay rises for workers are inflationary, but does nothing to curb fat-cattery at the top.
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/railway-fat-cat-pay-increases/

RT @Anna_Soubry
The Govt banned the #BBC but took GBNews ?! When are people going to wake up & stand up to what this Govt is - ideologically driven, intolerant of dissent, terrified of scrutiny, incompetent & arrogant. And that’s for starters. Come the GE make sure you vote them out of office. https://twitter.com/clivemyriebbc/status/1636969618370621440

RT @piratecto
A scalable and programmable quantum phononic processor based on trapped ions - (Left) Experimental setup. Five Yb+ ions are aligned in a segmented-blade trap to realize a phononic network.
https://ift.tt/Ka85kLV

RT @WilliamYang120
"The World Health Organization rebuked #China on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/health/covid-origins-who.html

RT @tsmullaney
Ever wonder how Morse code works in Chinese? Telegraphy nerds, you've come to the right place.

THREAD

RT @igor_os777
Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure http://dlvr.it/Sl36fl

RT @NargisWalker
For shame. The Tories are not to be trusted on anything.

Government ‘to cut £250m from social care workforce funding’ in England.

Ministers set to halve the £500m promised to invest in staffing of sector with more than 165,000 vacancies, report says. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/government-to-cut-250m-from-social-care-workforce-funding-in-england-report-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RT @KaivanShroff
This is how textbook publishers are responding to fascist DeSantis’s war on history. They are erasing the truth.

Scary scary stuff. Look at the part they took out.

Original vs. Florida compliant

RT @SocialistHB
NHS Staff, if Sunak and co visit your ward or dept, please consider turning your back or refusing the smiling meet and greet. They are selling us, our patients and the NHS down the river, don’t be used as a photo op.

RT @CounsellingSam
Public urged to stay away from animal corpses as Bird flu found in dead seals https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bird-flu-dead-seals-cornwall-beach-b2302763.html

RT @danielgoyal
We should all be worried about the govt’s offer to nurses.

Ending strikes is not the goal.

The goal is to end the massive exodus of nurses from our health service.

I just can’t see 7% over two years stopping this exodus.

RT @dianefrancis1
Russia collapses https://dianefrancis.substack.com/p/russia-collapses

RT @docrussjackson
So Rishi Sunak's ex-boss Richard Sharp not only "gave" the @Conservatives £400,000, & helped arrange an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson just before Johnson appointed him, but Sharp was also a #TuftonStreet think tank Director, resigning just a month before he became @BBC Chair... https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1636369516069535744

RT @insideclimate
New research links liver and metabolic syndrome in teens to childhood exposure to glyphosate, the world’s favorite weed killer. The conditions, once found mostly in much older adults, can lead to cancer and other serious diseases.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032023/roundup-glyphosate-health-kids/

RT @BizPears
Peabody, one of London's oldest housing associations, was set up to provide safe, affordable homes for people facing poverty.

These devastating stories of mould, damp and flooding show how badly it is falling short. Excellent from @abby_wallace3

https://www.ft.com/content/aafd30ce-b933-4d5f-898e-403c8ecf3671

RT @sib313
@ianmulheirn @axelheitmueller @HPIAndyCowper The NHS constantly confuses cost cutting with productivity improvement.

But the effects are like a driver cutting the cost of driving by never topping up the engine oil or replacing worn out tyres.