Peter Gray (per/per) ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿž๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ ๐ŸŒฟ

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Anti-monarchist; Secularist; Pacifist; Municipalisationist; Socialist; Cyclist; Saxophonist; allotmentist
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BORN AT 317 ppm CO2
Display Name includes an image of a bicycle, countryside, a saxophone, a house and a plant.
Profile picture depicts a bicycle breaking out of a No Entry sign
Header picture shows Charles Windsor - Not My King and an image depicting the last 200 years of average global temperature
Writing and illustratinghttps://quilldrivergray.co.uk/
Musichttps://jigforakiss.band/
I've spent years warning that the COVID "Lab Leak" idea had moved from "valid hypothesis" to "dangerous conspiracy theory." Last week, the Trump administration violently arrested a retired 78-year old scientist bc of his refusal to lie about COVID's natural origins https://skepchick.org/2026/05/trump-just-arrested-a-scientist-over-the-lab-leak/
Trump Just Arrested a Scientist over the Lab Leak

Transcript: Itโ€™s been two years since I last discussed the โ€œlab leakโ€ hypothesis: the now completely debunked idea that COVID-19 began with either the accidental or intentional release of the virusโ€ฆ

Skepchick

Long COVID and Being Prepared for a Future Pandemic

The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry continues its valuable evidence gathering into the response and aftermath of the pandemic in Scotland. It has published a report commissioned from independent experts on post-viral and other post-acute infection syndromes, including long COVID. The report examines what was known about long-term health consequences of infectious diseases before COVID-19, and their implications for pandemicโ€ฆ

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/04/long-covid-and-being-prepared-for-a-future-pandemic/

Long COVID and Being Prepared for a Future Pandemic

The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry continues its valuable evidence gathering into the response and aftermath of the pandemic in Scotland. It has published a report commissioned from independent experts โ€ฆ

The Orkney News
UKโ€™s first electric flight demonstrations launch today, as Loganair and BETA Technologies fly Royal Mail postal routes

Royal Mail, Loganair, the UK's largest regional airline, and BETA Technologies (NYSE: BETA) (โ€œBETAโ€), a U.S.-based electric aerospace company leading in the development and commercialisation of electric aircraft, have launched the UKโ€™s first real-world electric flight demonstrations across Royal Mailโ€™s essential Scottish mail flight routes.

@danyork there is an ISO standard for warning signs. One of them is this:
RT: @LeedsGreenParty Itโ€™s Green vs everyone else.

This week a new Copenhagenโ€“Berlinโ€“Prague service began running. We love seeing new cross-border trains! Thereโ€™s so much unmet demand. The EU was right to designate this one of their 10 pilot routes in 2022, but Europe needs more. Now more than ever is the time to go from good intentions to action.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/05/01/direct-prague-to-copenhagen-train-returns-after-more-than-a-decade

Direct Prague to Copenhagen train returns after more than a decade

A new direct rail link from Prague to Copenhagen, via Berlin and Hamburg, is bringing back an easy, no-fly way to travel between some of Europeโ€™s most popular cities โ€“ just in time for summer travel.

euronews
VOTE, GODDAMMIT, Scotland !
@Robbins @BylinesScotland But why do they? What's the point?

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@kentishfran/116509664084017866

If you're on Bsky, Xitter, Fbook, IG or any others, please post this there. They're the people that need to see this.

Fedifolk are already mostly aware of this but the people on the other networks aren't.

Many sadly concluded that we would have to go through Brexit before voters realised what an appalling act of self-harm they had committed.
I'm terrified the same will happen with Reform voters - that people will unwittingly vote to screw over the country, their loved ones and themselves.
Don't do it.
Vote for the party that will keep ReformUK OUT.
#reform #LocalElection