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Polari Press @polari.press · 10d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 28m

This will age really well

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 19h

Time magazine doing Nazi propaganda and using its language

This is very very specific language they only had one parallel and it’s originally in German.

TIME
HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER
ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
by MUHAMMAD BIN ABDULKARIM AL-ISSA

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robfay.bsky.social @robfay.bsky.social · 1h

UK limits on who can get NHS-provided covid vaccines are really strict now; you have to be over 75, or immunocompromised (from a condition/treatment on a list), or be in a care home. It doesn't include those people's carers. Meanwhile, studies continue to show the effectiveness of the vaccine. 1/3

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

(UK) “It’s really bad, I won’t lie to you” is what the pharmacist told me as she had to deny me the covid vaccine. I got the flu one, no problem. A 74 year old got denied bcs he isn’t 75, so he said he’ll do it next year bcs he cannot afford to pay for private. It’s really bad. 1/4

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 1d

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

this was an illuminating read by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e637... via @okwonga.bsky.social

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

www.ft.com

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gugalanna daddy issues @ninazu.bsky.social · 2h

Just want to say that I happened to be at a hospital today and had to wait around to see someone. In that time a head nurse from a specialist unit mentioned having EIGHT nurses off sick right now. In case people are wondering who’s hurt by costly and inaccessible vaccines.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll find something and I can afford the £80, but many cannot afford to go wherever it is let alone afford the £80.

Again: they changed criteria just a few weeks ago. All to avoid spending money on essential care. People are going to die as a direct result of this.

It’s immoral. 4/4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

What better example of how we live in multiple worlds at the same time than a bunch of people living in the french catacombs together watching movies and eating couscous

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

respect

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

I did it an hour ago, it cost me 118 quid

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

I just got mine at Better Health in Hove. Yes it was 118

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Corpse-us @corpus.bsky.social · 5h

I bet all the bureaucracy of making sure only a tiny portion of the population get the vaccine is less cost effective than just handing it out.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear: the decision to deny most people in the UK the covid vaccine is related to money, *not* based on a public health concern. In other words, Labour did not allocate enough money for covid vaccines so their "cost-effectiveness" end up the determining factor. www.gov.uk/government/p...

For the development of advice relating to COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2025, JCVI has resumed the use of a standard cost-effectiveness assessment, in line with other routine vaccinations in the national immunisation programme and the JCVI code of practice. The advice is based on modelling of the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination where clinical outcomes are stratified by age, high-risk clinical disease groups and patients with immunosuppression. The use of cost-effectiveness is a key pillar in the consideration of immunisation programmes, ensuring that the substantial investments in the programmes are a good use of public money, and that those funds would not be better spent on other healthcare interventions. This has led to a more refined approach to the targeting of the COVID-19 immunisation programme, with a focus on individuals where there is good evidence of a high risk of hospitalisation and/or mortality.

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 5h

I agree it's immoral.
It's also a false economy.
Some will die, but still more will become disabled, chronically ill, suffer long-term health impacts (including cognitive ones).
All while the govt sets rigid targets for school attendance and squeezes disability payments.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll find something and I can afford the £80, but many cannot afford to go wherever it is let alone afford the £80.

Again: they changed criteria just a few weeks ago. All to avoid spending money on essential care. People are going to die as a direct result of this.

It’s immoral. 4/4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I just found a private one in Hove. No other options, depressingly.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Correction to the correction: it will cost me £118 to protect myself and others against covid

Private Covid Vaccination Date: Items: Private Covid Vaccination:

14-10-2025 13:15 1 x £118.00 (30 mins.)

Total for booking: £118.00

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I called. The earliest appointment is next month. I called the other option, Tesco, also next month.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Correction: it'll cost me £98.95. Don't ask me why some are 80 something and others nearly 100.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Not all of them. The one nearby does not, neither does the one a bit further away. I was told the one in the city center does it so I'm calling to book

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

"based on the willingness-to-pay approach"

"dependent on the procurement process"

These are not questions related to public health.

Adult eligibility Adult eligibility should be based on the willingness-to-pay approach that is subject to procurement and delivery at a cost- effective price. The advice for universal vaccination from age 75 years is an example. JCVI has no role in the procurement or delivery of COVID-19 vaccines or any other vaccine. The exact price paid for vaccines used in future programmes will be dependent on the procurement process run by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and these commercially confidential prices will not be made available to JCVI. The deployment costs of the programme per person are also variable, with the minimum cost being the relevant item of service fee (for example £10.04). Given these variables, the actual size of a cost-effective programme may be slightly smaller or larger than this advice specifies. DHSC should aim to deliver a programme which is cost-effective, as determined by the latest modelling results from the University of Warwick and based on the price of the vaccine and the cost of delivery.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

There is no reason besides money for making the flu vaccine widely available 'for free' (paid by our taxes) and not the Covid vaccine.

We're not even talking about a mandatory vaccine here. We're talking about denying those who ask for it.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear: the decision to deny most people in the UK the covid vaccine is related to money, *not* based on a public health concern. In other words, Labour did not allocate enough money for covid vaccines so their "cost-effectiveness" end up the determining factor. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll find something and I can afford the £80, but many cannot afford to go wherever it is let alone afford the £80.

Again: they changed criteria just a few weeks ago. All to avoid spending money on essential care. People are going to die as a direct result of this.

It’s immoral. 4/4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

My kid and my father-in-law are immunocompromised. I even have shortness of breath. I don’t qualify for the covid vaccine according to the Labour government. I asked if I can pay for the private and she said they don’t do that here. I asked where can I go, she didn’t know. 3/4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

The UK government changed the criteria end of September to exclude carers of ppl who are immunocompromised. I fit that criteria which is how I booked my covid vaccine appointment. Pharmacist told me people come in regularly thinking they could get the vaccine and are turned down. 2/4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

(UK) “It’s really bad, I won’t lie to you” is what the pharmacist told me as she had to deny me the covid vaccine. I got the flu one, no problem. A 74 year old got denied bcs he isn’t 75, so he said he’ll do it next year bcs he cannot afford to pay for private. It’s really bad. 1/4

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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