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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 1d

A little taster of the pod. First episode tomorrow!

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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 9h

Our first episode is now live on Spotify and Apple Music!

We debate five things we love and hate about podcasts, and which of them should go to Podcast Heaven or Podcast Hell...

Blue sticky note featuring the title of this week's episode: "Podcast Heaven & Hell".

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · Aug 26

Every time living standards fall, Nigel Farage blames migration.

And every time, Keir Starmer nods along.

People are struggling with the cost of living and blaming migration won’t fix that.

Scotland deserves better - a fairer, wealthier, welcoming future with independence.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

One single data centre. The combined energy draw of both of our largest cities.

Utterly unreasonable that this could be signed off without an environmental check. What about the impact on our energy prices?

The investors should have to fund the clean energy needed.

inews.co.uk/news/data-ce...

Giant data centre could use as much power as every home in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Edinburgh Council has said the developer will not have to submit an environmental impact assessment, sparking concerns data centres are avoiding scrutiny from planners

inews.co.uk

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Patrick MB @psawyerschue.bsky.social · 1d

the lesser of two great evils.

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bigode de varrer chana @tuttopassa.baby · 1d

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SpookySeasonSar(She/They) @sarthedarkone.bsky.social · 1d

Does Gianmarco Soresi count?

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say The Mario Bros but their status as imports from Japan means they're probably in an ICE facility somewhere

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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johnny @jjmj.bsky.social · 1d

Stanley Tucci

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Just like they killed USAID, they are now killing CDC

“CDC is over. It was killed”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 5d

So I started my podcast honestly as a form of physio post-hospital e.g. enunciation practice and I love it but this is so true, it's so time-consuming esp when you do every 😂

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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 14d

People thinking that Reform's suggestions of getting rid of legal immigrants will fix the NHS have no idea how much it will hurt healthcare. Immigrants & children of immigrants keep the NHS functioning. Same with social care.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar

If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6d

The center at Duke that I'm fortunate to lead studies the effects of aid cuts; we recently summarized key lessons from our research at www.brookings.edu/articles/nav...

One key conclusion: sudden, poorly planned donor exits, like the one @jamellebouie.net describes, cause disease resurgence & death

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 5d

Who'd've thought?!

a girl in a pink shirt is smiling and holding a fan

ALT: a girl in a pink shirt is smiling and holding a fan

media.tenor.com

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 5d

Welcome to all my new followers (can't quite believe I have this many but thank you, starter packs 🙏🏾)!

I'm a ✨️recovering academic✨️ a.k.a. global health consultant, podcast host and rare disease patient advocate with @thesumairafdn.bsky.social based in the UK 👋🏾

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 15d

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 5d

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19

Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

www.news-medical.net

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10d

Anger is not the predominant emotion for many of us from minority backgrounds. It’s actually existential fear. We don’t necessarily have the privileged position of polite disagreement. Also someone could support a wealth tax & at the same time have racist views. The former doesn’t excuse the latter.

Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 14d

You won't stop Reform by calling their supporters racist

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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 10d

🚨US funding cuts to vaccine programmes have imperiled vaccine coverage around the world.

💉In our new Georgetown Center for Global Health Law and Policy Working Paper, we unpack these decisions/

🎱The US dropped the ball, leaving a mess for others to fix.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 22d

1 in 3 GPs in England do not work in #NHS, says BMJ study

@theguardian.com reports on study led by Luisa Pettigrew suggesting high number of GPs not joining NHS after training, moving abroad, working privately or quitting general practice early in careers.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

One in three GPs in England do not work in NHS, says BMJ study

Almost 20,000 family doctors who could work for health service are ‘lost’ to it despite increasing demand for care

www.theguardian.com

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