Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
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Tonight Gluggagægir (Window Peeper), the 10th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to peep into windows to see if there is something inside worth stealing.
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Tonight Gluggagægir (Window Peeper), the 10th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to peep into windows to see if there is something inside worth stealing.
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
👀🫵🏻 Brian Eno: Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1
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👏🏻👏🏻 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @thenerve.news
www.thenerve.news/p/brian-eno-...
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👏🏻👏🏻 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @thenerve.news
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Brian Eno: Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1
The artists behind this autumn's sold out Palestine solidarity concert have just released a charity recor called Lullaby. Here the musician and activist explains why it matters
www.thenerve.news
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
👀🫵🏻 Brian Eno: Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1
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👏🏻👏🏻 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @thenerve.news
www.thenerve.news/p/brian-eno-...
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👏🏻👏🏻 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @thenerve.news
www.thenerve.news/p/brian-eno-...
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Addictions☑️
Data☑️
Addiction journal: new Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editors
Strong applicants will have knowledge of regression models for the analysis of epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials, and complex survey designs
www.addiction-ssa.org/about/people...
Addictions☑️
Data☑️
Addiction journal: new Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editors
Strong applicants will have knowledge of regression models for the analysis of epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials, and complex survey designs
www.addiction-ssa.org/about/people...
Apply to be a Deputy Statistics and Methodology Editor
www.addiction-ssa.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Addictions☑️
Data☑️
Addiction journal: new Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editors
Strong applicants will have knowledge of regression models for the analysis of epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials, and complex survey designs
www.addiction-ssa.org/about/people...
Addictions☑️
Data☑️
Addiction journal: new Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editors
Strong applicants will have knowledge of regression models for the analysis of epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials, and complex survey designs
www.addiction-ssa.org/about/people...
✊🏻 Nationalise the Royal Mail
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
✊🏻 Nationalise the Royal Mail
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I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.
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Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m...
1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm
2. Why it happens
3. It's not new
4. How it happens
5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m...
1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm
2. Why it happens
3. It's not new
4. How it happens
5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m...
1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm
2. Why it happens
3. It's not new
4. How it happens
5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m...
1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm
2. Why it happens
3. It's not new
4. How it happens
5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
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Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the first National Park in the UK, the Peak District, and a recognition that the moors should be enjoyed by the many, not a few grouse-shooting dukes. But for one woman, it may never have happened. For a bargain £12 read.. 1/2
share.google/X3y1wiiIfwLe...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the first National Park in the UK, the Peak District, and a recognition that the moors should be enjoyed by the many, not a few grouse-shooting dukes. But for one woman, it may never have happened. For a bargain £12 read.. 1/2
share.google/X3y1wiiIfwLe...
share.google/X3y1wiiIfwLe...
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I’ve just discovered that @stmungos.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow and support them if you can.
It’s #InternationalDayOfConscience and, in an effort to put my money where my mouth is, I’ve made a donation to St Mungo's, which supports homeless people and, importantly, also provides accommodation to people with pets.
If you’re able, please consider supporting them 🧡
If you’re able, please consider supporting them 🧡
National Pet Month - Help save two lives from homelessness - St Mungo's
Help us save two lives from homelessness. With your help we can get more people and their pets off the streets.
www.mungos.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ve just discovered that @stmungos.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow and support them if you can.
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Such a horrific event - so awful for Sydney's Jewish community and Jewish communities everywhere
Bondi Beach attack now designated a terrorist incident.
Bondi beach shooting live updates: Australia's PM condemns act of ‘evil antisemitism’ as death toll from attack at Jewish festival rises to 12; event declared terror incident
Further 29 people are in hospital in Australia, with paramedics treating more at the scene near where a Hanukah event was taking place in Sydney
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Such a horrific event - so awful for Sydney's Jewish community and Jewish communities everywhere
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The main thing you need to know about Fraser Nelson is that he pushed “small boats” as a “top story” in *every issue* of the latter yrs of his Spectator editorship. Ppl just switched from death trap trucks to boats when the former became more policed; it’s Fraser more than any1 who created the panic
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The main thing you need to know about Fraser Nelson is that he pushed “small boats” as a “top story” in *every issue* of the latter yrs of his Spectator editorship. Ppl just switched from death trap trucks to boats when the former became more policed; it’s Fraser more than any1 who created the panic
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Who invented non-reflective glass?
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Who invented non-reflective glass?
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
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Fantastic Alabama3 gig @hmvempireCoventry last night - great Thursday night turnout - still one of the best live bands ever. Great city centre venue close to parking and station. Thanks to neighbours for company and tickets! #supportlivemusic
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Fantastic Alabama3 gig @hmvempireCoventry last night - great Thursday night turnout - still one of the best live bands ever. Great city centre venue close to parking and station. Thanks to neighbours for company and tickets! #supportlivemusic
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
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Could not be more thrilled to win scoop of the year at the British Journalism Awards awards for the Press GazeAfghan data leak. A podcast first! Massive testament to the incredible team @newsagents.bsky.social
Genuine pinch me moment- for a show which didn’t exist little more than 3 years ago.
Genuine pinch me moment- for a show which didn’t exist little more than 3 years ago.
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Could not be more thrilled to win scoop of the year at the British Journalism Awards awards for the Press GazeAfghan data leak. A podcast first! Massive testament to the incredible team @newsagents.bsky.social
Genuine pinch me moment- for a show which didn’t exist little more than 3 years ago.
Genuine pinch me moment- for a show which didn’t exist little more than 3 years ago.
🚨 Farage Fake News
“A Reform spokesperson said: “This witch-hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage”
2 reasons why this isn’t a witch-hunt:
1. Witch-hunts targeted (mostly) women, who
2. Were innocent
Farage is neither
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“A Reform spokesperson said: “This witch-hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage”
2 reasons why this isn’t a witch-hunt:
1. Witch-hunts targeted (mostly) women, who
2. Were innocent
Farage is neither
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dulwich college head responds to claims of teenage racism by Nigel Farage
Robert Milne says he recognises the ‘seriousness of the behaviours described in the media’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🚨 Farage Fake News
“A Reform spokesperson said: “This witch-hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage”
2 reasons why this isn’t a witch-hunt:
1. Witch-hunts targeted (mostly) women, who
2. Were innocent
Farage is neither
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“A Reform spokesperson said: “This witch-hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage”
2 reasons why this isn’t a witch-hunt:
1. Witch-hunts targeted (mostly) women, who
2. Were innocent
Farage is neither
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
Well-known Bristol football fan died in tragic fall from lamppost
City fan Paul Lumber was a published author of books about the days of football casuals in the 1980s
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
👀👇🏻 This … Very Much This
A few doctors striking for a few days will not be what causes the collapse of the NHS.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
👀👇🏻 This … Very Much This
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A few doctors striking for a few days will not be what causes the collapse of the NHS.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A few doctors striking for a few days will not be what causes the collapse of the NHS.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.
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this feels apt to repost
I suspect this article framing is a way to criticise the upcoming doctors' strikes.
The real cause for alarm for me is that the NHS is going into this winter stressed and stretched *yet again*.
We should have a health system that can cope much better with winter pressures and we just don’t. 7/8
The real cause for alarm for me is that the NHS is going into this winter stressed and stretched *yet again*.
We should have a health system that can cope much better with winter pressures and we just don’t. 7/8
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
this feels apt to repost
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Alcohol availability is one of the strongest drivers of harm.
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Alcohol availability is one of the strongest drivers of harm.
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
