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David Shepherd

@davesheph.bsky.social

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Husband, Father, ex NHS GP trainer & LCCCG Board, Genetics, Astronomy, CoE Reader & Lay Canon Kiteto Diocese 🇹🇿, Fair Trade, Tigers! Views my own (he/him)

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 2h

OTOH if you prune but still don't see fresh new growth...

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 3h

Gweithio gyda'n gilydd!

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC: "Trust is earned" promo 06:57

..and then a gleeful 07:00 1st headline "4% inflation RISE!", clearly written before checking the facts, only to correct it a few minutes later!

BIAS showing much?

Actual trustworthy sources don't need to advertise it, less disprove it!

Try harder!

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 3d

He deserves what he gets but I can't help wondering who else out there is very relieved that Prince Andrew is taking all the heat
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 3d

BIGLY IMPRESSED!

You should have a peace prize

Thank you for your attention in this matter, Mr Nobble

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's fair to say that anyone who identifies Greta as a 'legionnaire of the antichrist' has probably lost the plot

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 7d

That Reform and Tories aren't advertising themselves with 'Vote for us: the parties that gave you Brexit' is indeed very telling

and in any rational world would rule them out as much as any used car salesman who'd sold you a lemon

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 7d

Godwin's Law (antisemitism version) kicked in quickly!

Yes Jewish people have lived in the Levant since biblical times *alongside many others*, which makes even your narrow definition problematic: whose homeland?

Many Zionists themselves don't see it that simply
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Zionism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 7d

It is problematic but for different reasons
The label is confusing because it can mean many things
Some are genocidal anti-Arab racists
Some support a two state solution
Some think it speeds the Second Coming
All imply varying displacement of Palestinians from land they own

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 7d

There are lots of other non-Jewish kinds too, varying in their position on the status of Palestinians

The nuttier Evangelicals hope it's really about the end of the world, the secular ones about a home for Jewish people +/- Palestinians

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 8d

Isn't equating 'zios' with Jewish people itself a form of antisemitism?

Not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 9d

Figures

The holocaust didn't cease being a holocaust just because WWII ended

Peace provided opportunity to face it

Same here

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11d

The convo goes: -

Economics? Any clue?

Not me, none

No, me neither; look at Brexit!

Have you seen any Traitors?

Well, there's our mate Nathan

Shh! Not the real ones

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11d

The 'wrong' kind of Christian will always fall foul of an authoritarian because they will constantly remind him he isn't the ultimate authority

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 13d

The opportunity cost of not investing in primary care in this country over the last 20y is huge; in missed patient care & outcomes, IT innovations, actual service left shift, research..

When I started in 80s it looked so bright

What it could have been..

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14d

That's the best way to watch it and you save time

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14d

The intellectual level is two ignorant and cognitively impaired conspiracy theorists confabulating over a beer

Except it's the US cabinet

Sitting silently at this garbage should be both terminally embarrassing and culpable

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14d

You mean it might be worth watching again rather than merely infuriating?

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 15d

One things for sure, our politicians have been captured much more quickly and effectively than carbon

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 15d

Even if it helped reduce severity (it can't in well-nourished populations), if you don't ensure everyone else gets them and don't vaccinate against you getting and spreading a bug, it's antisocial behavior, as you imply

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 15d

...and vaccinated!

So sad. Was she able to give a rational explanation?

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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 15d

What is it about Labour backing loser policies?

They should set up a betting syndicate whereby you bet on the horses they say will lose

David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 16d

It'd be hard to split the Express and Putin on their commitment to lying