@atacamacactus

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@ParaHandy 53% of mail readers vote no. To the surprise of nobody, since that's how they've been made to feel for the past few weeks
Do YOU think the nurses were right to strike today? https://mol.im/a/11543043#poll-share-1158827 via @[email protected]
Do you support the nurses NHS strike today?

Up to 100,000 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) medics braved -8C temperatures and snow to bolster picket lines outside ailing hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland .

Daily Mail
@melix ne jugeons pas trop vite.. Que celui qui n'a jamais péché tire le premier obus

Second stage burn complete, payload separation achieved, and on orbit.

Not sure why, but always indulge myself with a “launch” joke with each new paper. Promise not to talk about “trans-journal injection” when we kick it from the ArXiV parking orbit to the journal.

And a 3-paper month, which never a bad way to end the year.

Mastodon has cracked the top ten social networking apps in the App Store. For context, Signal is at 15.
@ethikeen because the Tory NHS killers have been elected, over, and over, and over again by this country ?
Arguably with the biased FPTP system but still (38k votes needed per tory MP, 51k votes needed for one Labour MP)

@barnes_russell I think debate is one thing, but laypeople with no expertise and big platforms throwing data around out of context are quite another.

I think this presents a good summary: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-vaccine-safety-debate/

I don't know what his true motivations are but given his record I wouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt!

Andrew Bridgen's vaccine debate claims fact checked - Full Fact

The Conservative MP made a number of claims about vaccine safety and effectiveness—we’ve fact checked four of them.

Full Fact

“We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

How convenient

#UKPolitics #PPEMedpro #BaronessMone #VIPLane

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64029040

Government to sue Mone-linked PPE firm for £122m

The firm won contracts to supply protective equipment after being recommended by peer Baroness Mone.

BBC News
Anyone who's spent time in smaller online forums has met a mod like Musk. You can tell it's gonna be a disaster from the moment they take over. Using their mod powers to settle personal scores, making up new rules to justify them, apologizing and reversing course, taking polls, offering to step down and then not doing it...
@omniumgatherum fair point, I was being too simplistic - was simply trying to list more explicit factors than 'neoliberal capitalism' - which is quite abstract