@sarahvhearne

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A lover (though not in the Troy McClure sense ;) ) of all things marine (the deeper and weirder the better!).
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If anyone tries to tell you that cancel culture is a real thing, remind them that in 2022 admitted sexual predator Louis CK won the Grammy award for best comedy album and in 2023 it went to proud transphobe and antisemite Dave Chapelle.

Cancelling isn’t and never has been real.

Saw a lovely fieldfare while walking the dog this morning #BritishBirds
I went to Slimbridge today and got to see so many birds. Loads of bewicks, sky full of lapwings, plus my first pintail and a shoveller. I also got to see the my second-ever water rail.
I’ve written about striking coverage and how certain newspapers want you to believe that “us” doesn’t include strikers. Share this with anyone you know who is taken in by the rhetoric https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/a-counterstrike-by-his-majestys-1st
A counterstrike by His Majesty's 1st Battalion of Bastards (Volunteer Regiment)

Coverage of strikes is not journalism but propaganda.

Conquest of the Useless
me trying to show affection and immediately making it weird
Copyright by #TheShovel

In July I had to call an ambulance for my father. 999 answered instantly, but then the ambulance service line just rang, & rang, & rang, for over half an hour without answer. My father stayed injured on the ground for the whole night even after we called via another agency. As a result of his neglect that night, he has now become unable to live at his home and is in residential care.

The UK ambulance #strike is because people are at risk. It is not the cause, it is action to end the scandal.

WHO recommends a one-dose schedule (for many people, caveats apply) for the #HPV #vaccine

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-12-2022-WHO-updates-recommendations-on-HPV-vaccination-schedule

It's such a good vaccine. Prevents #cervicalcancer (along with a range of other benefits, like reductions in oral and skin HPV infections, genital warts etc)/

Like every other routine #immunization, need to increase uptake, increase access, better understand hesitancy, better counter the #antivax lies and misinformation that is sadly prevalent.

WHO updates recommendations on HPV vaccination schedule

In a new position paper published last week, WHO has updated its recommendations for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Of particular note, the paper states that a single-dose schedule, referred to as an alternative, off-label single–dose schedule can provide a comparable efficacy and durability of protection to a two-dose regimen.

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent
Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

The Guardian
Howdy, migrating over from science twitter which looks like it has run its course. Gonna try to spend less time online but when I do it'll likely be about #neuroscience, #photography, #birds and general #wildoz. For my #firstpost, here's one of my favourite pics I've taken, when I was down in coastal Vic.