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Trisha Elliott

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Interested in life in general & people in particular. Living in Edinburgh, now enjoying a non clinical role, but still a doctor at heart. Posting about medicine, health, social inequalities, sport, politics, Scotland, sustainability, veggie food & cats.

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I thought he was!!! I kept putting in “kidney doc” to find him but it wasn’t coming up!

I like Bluesky but the search functions aren’t as good as they used to be in other places….

Thank you for helping!

03.03.2026 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And as Farage himself said, FPTP is your enemy until you get to about 25% and then it becomes your friend. A certain irony if the Labour and Tory parties are destroyed by the same ridiculous voting system that they’ve championed.

03.03.2026 07:53 — 👍 37    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0

Agreed.

03.03.2026 10:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Listening to Darren Jones floundering on Today, I think the govt needs to talk more candidly about its differences with the US.

That can still be respectful - this isn't "Love Actually" - but when a US President is phoning the UK press to attack the PM, there's no point rolling out the usual script

03.03.2026 09:31 — 👍 141    🔁 29    💬 4    📌 0

I'd love to know what the plan is when a huge proportion of people are laid off thanks to AI or whatever and there are no jobs for them to go to, no way for them to earn money to live.

03.03.2026 07:32 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 10    📌 3
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Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

From the department of "No Shit, Sherlock"

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

26.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 60    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 1
Article about Dr Ash Patel who bakes cakes for his team.

Article about Dr Ash Patel who bakes cakes for his team.

I can’t find Ash on here, but that doesn’t mean Bluesky should miss out on this recent piece in the @bmj.com!

He’s a children’s kidney doctor, and I’m sure his team appreciate his creations.

Geriatricians (like me) are often keen bakers. Cake features in many multidisciplinary meetings!

#MedSky

03.03.2026 08:40 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

I think you’re right there.

03.03.2026 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of book “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah with picture of Eiffel Tower in background.

Cover of book “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah with picture of Eiffel Tower in background.

I’ve just finished listening to “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah.

Stories of occupied World War II France are particularly distressing at the moment.

How can we have failed so badly to learn from history?

#BookSky
#HistorySky

02.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of book “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah with picture of Eiffel Tower in background.

Cover of book “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah with picture of Eiffel Tower in background.

I’ve just finished listening to “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah.

Stories of occupied World War II France are particularly distressing at the moment.

How can we have failed so badly to learn from history?

#BookSky
#HistorySky

02.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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One year ago governments around the world announced historic aid cuts. These cuts are not abstract. They are immediate. And they are deadly.

🔗 Read the joint statement from charity leaders urging governments to reverse the cuts:
https://bit.ly/4aBARpX

*Source: Lancet Global Health

25.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Varies quite a lot. Some people not too bothered by it but others say it’s one of the worst pains you can get.

02.03.2026 18:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s what I wondered.

02.03.2026 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

02.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 698    🔁 180    💬 25    📌 56
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Renewable Energy Defies Trump’s Attacks, Reaching a New Record Wind, solar and other green sources generated more than a quarter of all US energy last year.

Despite Trump's frantic efforts to stop it, the renewable energy revolution rolls on:

"93% of new generation capacity expected to be added to the grid this year will come from wind, solar and batteries"

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

02.03.2026 15:59 — 👍 37    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you! It was!

02.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

02.03.2026 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We were very lucky. We were substituting for friends who couldn’t go but didn’t want the tickets to go to waste.

It was amazing.

02.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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05:33 Sun 1 Mar - L 100% 2 凸 ••• https://nation.cymru/feature/why-isnt-the-greens-growing-success-reflected-in-media-coverage/# • Reform UK • Conservatives • Liberal Democrats SNP •Greens • Plaid Cymru Frequency 69 60 40 45 20 14 13 4 Reform UK Conservatives Liberal Democrats SNP Greens 3 Plaid Cymru Number of items led by an opposition party on BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten. Cardiff University, CC BY-NC-ND < >

A new study by researchers at Cardiff University shows a massive broadcast media bias (including by the institutionally transphobic BBC) against the Green Party and others and disproportionate coverage in favour of Reform…

nation.cymru/feature/why-...

01.03.2026 10:08 — 👍 276    🔁 154    💬 5    📌 10

Farage's Reform bandwagon has stalled & beginning to go into reverse. There is a clear ceiling to Farage's support of abt 30% in the polls & the increasingly radicalised & racist language from Reform & successive failure to win by-elections is having a detrimental impact.

02.03.2026 12:07 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1

Question/advice needed for bicycle/active travel people on here. Our primary school is creating first proper bike/scooter park. What are the elements we need to consider to make it a huge success? Shelter? Security? All thoughts welcome

02.03.2026 13:14 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 7    📌 0

Let me make something clear.

Britain has been flying missions out of Cyprus to defend Israel and US military installations attacking Iran.

This is not 'defensive' this is being at war.

02.03.2026 13:38 — 👍 45    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1
Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 

'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well."

"I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well." "I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

It's Private Eye I feel sorry for. How do you spoof The Daily Mail these days?

02.03.2026 13:17 — 👍 223    🔁 64    💬 7    📌 4
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"They died to save her face"

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 550, January 1983, some months after the Falklands war.

01.03.2026 19:34 — 👍 659    🔁 181    💬 19    📌 1
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"I want a change of regime in Iran.
But what’s happening isn’t about freeing the Iranian people. It’s an imperialist, capitalist war started by bullies who take whatever they want & murder whomever gets in their way, including humanitarian and health workers"
via Maggie Chapman

02.03.2026 10:37 — 👍 219    🔁 96    💬 8    📌 2
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"To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France."

02.03.2026 08:00 — 👍 517    🔁 295    💬 0    📌 21
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As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

01.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 1474    🔁 651    💬 45    📌 20
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"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

02.03.2026 11:44 — 👍 1331    🔁 362    💬 287    📌 165
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That wanker from school living in Dubai now THAT utter wanker from school is now living in Dubai, it has been confirmed.

There's a reason this one stuck around in the collective consciousness

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...

02.03.2026 11:18 — 👍 114    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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"Unquestionably blindly following the Americans is, in my view, the wrong thing to do.. I'd pass legislation that said military action could be taken if.. the lawful case for it was made.. there was a viable objective &.. you got consent of the commons"

When's the vote, Keir?

02.03.2026 06:04 — 👍 402    🔁 211    💬 19    📌 26