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Adam Squires

@adsquires.bsky.social

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Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · Feb 12

Here are my previous main twitter threads on aerosols and airborne disease mitigation from 2020-2022:

5 Jan 2022 Classrooms: threadreaderapp.com/thread/14788...
23 Dec 2020 new variant threadreaderapp.com/thread/13416...
12 Oct 2020 Aerosols and COVID threadreaderapp.com/thread/13157...

Thread by @adsquires on Thread Reader App

@adsquires: The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we should act like pe...

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 2h

"is that the best you've got, you woolly-headed bourgeois twat?" Absolutely brutal in the original Russian.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Don't do this, it takes valuable resources away from etc etc.

Also disappointed by the lack of "911? So US-centric, it's supposed to be 999" discourse.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

I've entirely lost track of who's being serious and who's got which joke?

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

I'm fairly sure that the pixelated person got the joke and was also joking.

But then maybe the next repost of *them* was aware of that and making a further joke? And the joke's really on me?

[James K, to me, with a twinkle in his eye: "you see my child - *that* is what Bluesky is like"]

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 5h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 12h

Right! I can think of only four, maybe five if you count Anton.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 21h

Also (for the right) he hasn't "beaten Hamas" either.
The best time for him would have been just after the Iran strike and Hezbollah pager attacks.

What happens next is anyone's guess, but there's a good chance that with time the public forgets about his continuation of a very unpopular war.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 21h

It is, but then I'm not sure the less tel-aviv-y right would be impressed with him now either (for them his schtick was "I can play the US president and avoid making concessions towards Palestinians", no?)

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 22h

Who are you thinking? Bennett?

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 22h

Dunno about that. He was booed in Hostage Square in tel Aviv when Trump and Witkoff were cheered.
www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-cro...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22h

As so often, @laylamoran.bsky.social finds gracious, unifying words.

"I choose to believe that peace is possible. Everyone who went on a protest, wrote to their MP, cares about it, shouted at their TV - from whatever point of view - what were those deaths for, if not for a sustainable peace?" ~AA

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 23h

I wasn't (not that you can tell either way from this low-res reproduction) but this also works as a "different era" wordplay.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · Nov 21

Post you from a different era
1994(?) episode of Poirot

Photograph of a 20 year old Adam in an episode of Poirot

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the inhibitor molecules are made by "lizards" but it's unclear if that's "lizards" in the David Icke sense.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

If it's all the same with them I'd rather they promoted the conspiracy with a medicine like Ozempic where someone else's uptake doesn't affect me, rather than vax, where it does.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, good point! Something to do with whether the sorts of people promoting the conspiracy theories might imagine themselves using it? Whether Jewish scientists were involved? Does seem rather arbitrary, now you've pointed it out.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there are now!

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. America produces the finest of the "British food" discourses, everyone agrees.

(Although this was British irony and not a real American)

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

It's exactly like conkers.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

It's all good. You can't have too much Chicken Tikka Masala info. (Or too much Chicken Tikka Masala)

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

I was, but no need to apologize for educating Bluesky re Chicken Tikka Masala - thank you for the article!

(I toyed with the idea of replying "they're not Brits you dumbass coloniser they're Indians lol" but I think one can take irony too far)
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · Apr 6

True fact. Invented in Glasgow by my mate's Uncle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Ahm...

Ali Ahmed Aslam - Wikipedia

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if you Brits did a bit of cultural appropriation with your *food* it wouldn't be like boiled beans and cabbage.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 2d

Was so-called "Independent SAGE" set up to undermine trust in SAGE advice?

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 3d

Entirely false. Quite a few people were in both, much of the advice was the same - iSAGE would often quote and amplify SAGE's advice in theirs. It was set up when / because SAGE's advice wasn't published, so govt could lie and claim they were following it when they weren't. (Which was what happened)

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I think you meant to type "racism".

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 2d

"minutiae"

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Air Library Scotland @airlibraryscotland.bsky.social · 3d

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Thanks again to @smartairuk.bsky.social !

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 3d

H from Steps?

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