Samantha (she/her)

Wow! If you're entitled to the flu vaccine in the UK this year then you're also entitled to antivirals if you become ill or exposed.
#flu

Black background with white and red text: NEW CONCERNING FLU STRAINS FOR 2025 MEAN THE NHS FLU PLAN IS KICKING IN... [Image: stop watch] FLU? 48HRS TO ACT... You will qualify for antivirals if you are in a risk group: Under 6 months Pregnant Over 65 years Clinically Vulnerable You don't need a positive test. Contact your GP or 111: IF EXPOSED TO SOMEONE WITH FLU OR, YOU HAVE RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS Clinically Vulnerable Families [logo]

For some, the first 48 hrs of 'flu are critical.

Call your GP or 111 for treatment if you receive an NHS 'flu vaccine based on risk, even if you have only been exposed.

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Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

If you're watching people dig into the newly-released Jeffrey Epstein documents, but you are sure where they are coming from?

They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Square World Ventil8 Day poster on a blue–teal–magenta gradient. Left: open window with sweeping arrows; below, a CO₂ monitor shows “800 ppm.” Right: stylized family silhouettes, an adult wearing a mask, next to a HEPA filter sending a bright clean-air arrow across the scene. Headline text reads “WORLD VENTIL8 DAY — 8 NOVEMBER” and “CLEAN AIR IS A RIGHT. PROTECT CLINICALLY VULNERABLE FAMILIES.” CLINICALLY VULNERABLE FAMILIES logo and World Ventilation Day logo

On #WorldVentil8Day we are reminding everyone:

💨 Clean indoor air saves lives! 💨

Flu risks are high this year and ventilation, filtration, high-grade masks, and CO₂ levels still matter.

We are proud to be a founding supporter of
#WorldVentil8Day

The interrogation room in #StarTrekTNG's "The Drumhead" (middle row) earlier appeared as the courtroom in "The Measure of a Man (top row). In between, it was also seen as the replicator center ("Data's Day"↙️), Drafting Room 5 ("Galaxy's Child"⬇️) and the cybernetics lab ("The Offspring"↘️).

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to, is such an amazing gift to all of us.

Please visit actual Wikipedia pages more often instead of using AI responses, which take Wikipedia's content.

Please also consider contributing to pages or donating.
www.wikipedia.org
#Wikipedia

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Bring Joe Marler back for Celebrity Traitors S2!
#TheTraitors
#CelebrityTraitors

Kudos to Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman for helping to normalise masking. 👏👏👏
#MasksWork
#ProtectYourself

🤣
#TheTraitors

Time to get ready for World Ventilation Day, 8th Nov 2024. Our theme is “we care about healthy air” and we’re focused on enabling individuals, communities and businesses to make their ventilation and indoor air better. #WorldVentil8 #WeCareAboutHealthyAir

www.worldventil8day.com

OMG! OMG! OMG!

Why can't we preorder, though?!

#Lego

kermit the frog is dancing on a stage with a red curtain behind him . Alt: Kermit the frog is smiling and dancing energetically on a stage with a red curtain behind him.

Lego. Enterprise. D.

My dream came true!!!

#StarTrek
#Lego

Just like you, so many other people have been pleasantly surprised by how good The Orville is. If you liked the Topa storyline in episode 3, you're going to love what's coming up later on. It's so exciting and emotional and so well written. Enjoy!

Chart from Office of Rail and Road (HMG) showing annual and quarterly passenger rail journeys for Great Britain from April 2015 to March 2025.

In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

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Holiday-themed flyer which reads this year, we're doing holidays OUR way! 12 Days of Covid Consciousmas. Get read for 12 days of free (but priceless) virtual events designed to bring connection, community, and celebration to Covid Conscious folks during this holiday season! Want to get on the invite list, share your ideas, or be part of the planning? DM @guinesspig.bsky.social or @KaliButterfly.bsky.social

Holidays can be especially hard for Covid Conscious folks. Let's make this year different.

12 Days of Covid Consciousmas -a holiday season of our own- is coming your way!

Crafting, game nights, movies, comedy, and more are in the works! Details in graphic below. Stay tuned!

A man, Hamza, wearing a winter coat and holding a large camera and stand in the snowy mountains of the Cairngorms.

Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles on BBC1 and iPlayer is such a gorgeous and wonderful programme.
Amazing that the UK has such incredible wildlife.

I'm dressing up as clinically vulnerable person without any entitlement to an NHS covid booster 😭
#Halloween
#KeepCovidBoosters

Why don't JCVI recommend boosting all clinically vulnerable people? It's not just the immunosuppressed and >75s at greater risk.

Genuinely unsure how this works. Does the gov set a budget for JCVI?

Many CV reduce their risks and have no recent infection "natural immunity".

#KeepCovidBoosters

Idea: Nick Mohammed and Joe Marler to be new presenters of Strictly.

Clean air in schools can improve attendance for everyone but esp clinically vulnerable families and kids with allergies.

Remote education cab help clinically vulnerable, SEN and poorly/injured kids stay on track.

Recognising clinical vulnerability in the Equality Act could help all this happen! 🤞

As the Children's module comes to a close,
@adamwagner1.bsky.social KC will be sharing our closing statement.

Boris Johnson said that "ALL children MUST be in school" and implemented strict fines and prosecutions for non-attendance.

Human rights to #educationANDlives put in conflict.

I know a few children suffering seriously debilitating effects of long covid.

Some have been withdrawn from school, some only attend for a few hours and they're still struggling.

Kids deserve to be educated without being disabled in the process.

#CleanAir
#CleanAirInSchools
#LongCovidKids

Like many clinically vulnerable families, we were threatened with prison, fines of £1,000s and losing my job and my child's school place.

All because my family chose to protect our lives by temporarily educating at home.

It was the most stressful time and it must never happen again. 😭

#CleanAir

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

Exactly! Families with multiple people to protect are being hit so hard by this. Clinically vulnerable people, including those who are borderline immunosuppressed or in their early 70s, aren't covered. 😭
#KeepCovidBoosters

Very quick update on Covid in England Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early

Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...

thomas skinner on strictly with a union jack flag and ladder

CRYING 😭

Exactly this. 🫂
I just hope those who are being misled (on both sides of the pond) will eventually come to realise what is happening and we'll all get back on track.