Raj LB
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More knockouts than Muhammed Ali
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Nice dataviz from the ONS showing median wealth split by category at different points of the distribution: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Nice dataviz from the ONS showing median wealth split by category at different points of the distribution: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
I'd forgotten all of these were on YouTube. Cracking and fascinating talk about Christian Nationalism from back in June.
(Also an interesting article in this month's @newhumanist.bsky.social by the same person.)
(Also an interesting article in this month's @newhumanist.bsky.social by the same person.)
For more on Christian Nationalism and how wealthy US backers are funding efforts to roll back hard-won rights here in the UK, watch Katherine Stewart’s talk from our Convention: 'Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy Western Democracy.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-UH...
Money, lies, and God | Katherine Stewart | Humanists UK Convention 2025
YouTube video by Humanists UK
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'd forgotten all of these were on YouTube. Cracking and fascinating talk about Christian Nationalism from back in June.
(Also an interesting article in this month's @newhumanist.bsky.social by the same person.)
(Also an interesting article in this month's @newhumanist.bsky.social by the same person.)
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The US State Department classified state-funded abortion services, including NHS services, as 'human rights violations'. Make no mistake, this will embolden the UK's anti-choice Christian Nationalist movement, hell-bent on reversing women's rights. humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n...
New US policy designates NHS abortions as human rights breaches
The US State Department has classified state-funded abortion services, including those provided by the NHS, as human rights violations that it will report on in its annual Country Reports on Human Rig...
humanists.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The US State Department classified state-funded abortion services, including NHS services, as 'human rights violations'. Make no mistake, this will embolden the UK's anti-choice Christian Nationalist movement, hell-bent on reversing women's rights. humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n...
"Get this standing desk with embedded dead cat!"
Seller: crosby-lk2013
Seller: crosby-lk2013
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Get this standing desk with embedded dead cat!"
Seller: crosby-lk2013
Seller: crosby-lk2013
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - The Killers (Hot Fuss)
Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim (You've Come A Long Way Baby)
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
Sheffield Shanty - Monkey Swallows The Universe (The Bright Carvings)
Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo (Sour)
Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim (You've Come A Long Way Baby)
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
Sheffield Shanty - Monkey Swallows The Universe (The Bright Carvings)
Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo (Sour)
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - The Killers (Hot Fuss)
Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim (You've Come A Long Way Baby)
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
Sheffield Shanty - Monkey Swallows The Universe (The Bright Carvings)
Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo (Sour)
Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim (You've Come A Long Way Baby)
Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
Sheffield Shanty - Monkey Swallows The Universe (The Bright Carvings)
Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo (Sour)
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Finished updating the IBCC chapter on septic shock
This algorithm is where I ended up 👇
Therapies should be based on several factors (not solely whether CRT is <3; CRT isn't precise so this dichotomy is problematic)
Beware of vasopressin; it may depress digital perfusion & block the goal #EMIMCC
This algorithm is where I ended up 👇
Therapies should be based on several factors (not solely whether CRT is <3; CRT isn't precise so this dichotomy is problematic)
Beware of vasopressin; it may depress digital perfusion & block the goal #EMIMCC
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Finished updating the IBCC chapter on septic shock
This algorithm is where I ended up 👇
Therapies should be based on several factors (not solely whether CRT is <3; CRT isn't precise so this dichotomy is problematic)
Beware of vasopressin; it may depress digital perfusion & block the goal #EMIMCC
This algorithm is where I ended up 👇
Therapies should be based on several factors (not solely whether CRT is <3; CRT isn't precise so this dichotomy is problematic)
Beware of vasopressin; it may depress digital perfusion & block the goal #EMIMCC
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Hello Bluesky!
Ahead of our Annual Scientific Meeting, which starts tomorrow, we thought we would get this account up and running.
It will be curated by @robjimfleming.bsky.social for the next couple of days at least.
Hopefully we will see some of you in sunny Liverpool!
Ahead of our Annual Scientific Meeting, which starts tomorrow, we thought we would get this account up and running.
It will be curated by @robjimfleming.bsky.social for the next couple of days at least.
Hopefully we will see some of you in sunny Liverpool!
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hello Bluesky!
Ahead of our Annual Scientific Meeting, which starts tomorrow, we thought we would get this account up and running.
It will be curated by @robjimfleming.bsky.social for the next couple of days at least.
Hopefully we will see some of you in sunny Liverpool!
Ahead of our Annual Scientific Meeting, which starts tomorrow, we thought we would get this account up and running.
It will be curated by @robjimfleming.bsky.social for the next couple of days at least.
Hopefully we will see some of you in sunny Liverpool!
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reason 4366 why you learn how to use computers even modestly properly
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reason 4366 why you learn how to use computers even modestly properly
"If you don't know how to spell something, look it up in the dictionary" was one of the stupidest pieces of advice teachers used to give me at school.
I really wish people responded with "I can't find it in the dictionary because I don't know how to spell it".
I really wish people responded with "I can't find it in the dictionary because I don't know how to spell it".
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"If you don't know how to spell something, look it up in the dictionary" was one of the stupidest pieces of advice teachers used to give me at school.
I really wish people responded with "I can't find it in the dictionary because I don't know how to spell it".
I really wish people responded with "I can't find it in the dictionary because I don't know how to spell it".
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DID YOU KNOW: there is enough space in all the world’s oceans to swallow every man, woman, and child alive?
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
DID YOU KNOW: there is enough space in all the world’s oceans to swallow every man, woman, and child alive?
Counterpoint: I thought it was great.
My hot take is they built a whole movie around one cool special effect and I think the movie stinks
Just showed the children Inception and as I warned them, it broke their brains
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Counterpoint: I thought it was great.
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This is an extremely important thread for all of us in NHS secondary care and includes a great piece from @emmajourno.bsky.social and @abirimmer.bsky.social.
My concern is, as we try to stay off Twitter, these pieces disappear into the ether.
There was a valiant effort to make #MedSkyDebate...
My concern is, as we try to stay off Twitter, these pieces disappear into the ether.
There was a valiant effort to make #MedSkyDebate...
1/ The medical workforce and the #SASsix, a Saturday morning thread...
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is an extremely important thread for all of us in NHS secondary care and includes a great piece from @emmajourno.bsky.social and @abirimmer.bsky.social.
My concern is, as we try to stay off Twitter, these pieces disappear into the ether.
There was a valiant effort to make #MedSkyDebate...
My concern is, as we try to stay off Twitter, these pieces disappear into the ether.
There was a valiant effort to make #MedSkyDebate...
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The @rcphysicians.bsky.social have been important allies to the #SASsix campaign.
We agree entirely with President Mumtaz Patel in her rapid response to this weeks @bmj.com article.
Bravo!
We agree entirely with President Mumtaz Patel in her rapid response to this weeks @bmj.com article.
Bravo!
‘Once a doctor has been employed in the same specialty by the same trust for more than two years, they should be moved to a nationally negotiated SAS contract.’
👉 Read our rapid response to a @bmj.com investigation revealing thousands of LEDs are trapped in insecure contracts: ow.ly/m9sm50XwQot
👉 Read our rapid response to a @bmj.com investigation revealing thousands of LEDs are trapped in insecure contracts: ow.ly/m9sm50XwQot
Rapid response to BMJ investigation: Thousands of NHS doctors are trapped in insecure “gig economy” contracts
ow.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The @rcphysicians.bsky.social have been important allies to the #SASsix campaign.
We agree entirely with President Mumtaz Patel in her rapid response to this weeks @bmj.com article.
Bravo!
We agree entirely with President Mumtaz Patel in her rapid response to this weeks @bmj.com article.
Bravo!
Doing a clear out of my spare room which also includes the middle-aged man cable drawer. Bets on how many USB-B cables I find? Moved house in 2017, don't think I've culled any/many since then.
(I've found 3 before even opening the drawer with the cables in.)
(I've found 3 before even opening the drawer with the cables in.)
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Doing a clear out of my spare room which also includes the middle-aged man cable drawer. Bets on how many USB-B cables I find? Moved house in 2017, don't think I've culled any/many since then.
(I've found 3 before even opening the drawer with the cables in.)
(I've found 3 before even opening the drawer with the cables in.)
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I have a less optimistic take. We've made "racist" a bad word. But to many people it's only a label. They believe:
1) Racists are bad people
2) I am not a bad person
3) Therefore I am not racist
Thinking about racism on a deeper level would expose the flaws in that belief, so they refuse to do it.
1) Racists are bad people
2) I am not a bad person
3) Therefore I am not racist
Thinking about racism on a deeper level would expose the flaws in that belief, so they refuse to do it.
Why do racists hate being called racist? They don’t respond in the same way to being called bigots or xenophobic. I think it’s because they know at some level that racism is fundamentally, deeply wrong, because even their broken moral compasses point at the immorality of it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have a less optimistic take. We've made "racist" a bad word. But to many people it's only a label. They believe:
1) Racists are bad people
2) I am not a bad person
3) Therefore I am not racist
Thinking about racism on a deeper level would expose the flaws in that belief, so they refuse to do it.
1) Racists are bad people
2) I am not a bad person
3) Therefore I am not racist
Thinking about racism on a deeper level would expose the flaws in that belief, so they refuse to do it.
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Can't help feel that these people obviously do on one level accept that trans women are women because only women get so blatantly disbelieved about our own feelings and experiences.
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Can't help feel that these people obviously do on one level accept that trans women are women because only women get so blatantly disbelieved about our own feelings and experiences.
If they'd taxed Netflix and avocados, they could have called it The 2015 Millennial Tax
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If they'd taxed Netflix and avocados, they could have called it The 2015 Millennial Tax
Dannii is short for "didgeridoo"
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November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dannii is short for "didgeridoo"
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I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Properly moving xkcd
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xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
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November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Properly moving xkcd
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
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@kamranabbasi.bsky.social shines with this scathing editorial on the mess that has been made with locally employed Doctors (LEDs) in the U.K.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
NHS 2025: a wobbly triadic stool and a gig economy
The NHS sits seventh on the list of the world’s largest employers, rubbing shoulders with the armies of China, India, and the US, as well as mega-corporations.1 It’s also part of the “gig economy.” Th...
www.bmj.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social shines with this scathing editorial on the mess that has been made with locally employed Doctors (LEDs) in the U.K.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
My lukewarm take as a now fairly casualty rugby union watcher is the TMO should only intervene for penalties in the "red zone".
If you've used your hands in the ruck and got away with it:
1) well done
2) stopping play detracts from the flow of the game
If you've used your hands in the ruck and got away with it:
1) well done
2) stopping play detracts from the flow of the game
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My lukewarm take as a now fairly casualty rugby union watcher is the TMO should only intervene for penalties in the "red zone".
If you've used your hands in the ruck and got away with it:
1) well done
2) stopping play detracts from the flow of the game
If you've used your hands in the ruck and got away with it:
1) well done
2) stopping play detracts from the flow of the game