Patrick Reid

Much like Super Saiyans, Super gonorrhea is a rare and novel thing that is now occurring far too often.

Clear proof that Reform voters aren't normal with that 30% showing up here refusing to eat pancakes on the day God designed purely for eating pancakes.

I don't know why we're laughing.
Clearly the great fire of London happened because the buildings had harnessed too much energy and so caught aflame.

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).

I got my MMR about 10 years ago!

www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Day of small satisfactions
Made a diagnostic call and consultant concurred
Pushed back on a specialty waffling with unnecessary tests and getting the procedure the patient needs tomorrow.
And wife off to watching Wuthering Heights tonight so I can enjoy both Small Prophets and the new Quinns quest!

Please buy some games from your favourite creators! Making art is hard, and making any money from art is harder.

If you can't spend money, tell your favourite local store about your favourite publisher, drop a review on a game, or offer to run a game at a local club.

Every little helps!

Very informative thread.
Shows that the London outbreak isn't as bad as stuff like the states but still a tragedy considering we so recently had near zero cases.

Chart showing recent confirmed measles cases per year in England ranging from 1,414 in 2013 to 2,911 in 2024 and 91 in 2015

🧵What is going on with Measles in England?

UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).

But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8

Misread the title of the Chinese New year and now all I can think when I see it is 'Five Horses Jeremy? Five?That's insane'

The fact that some of the schemes being proposed to improve vaccine uptake in poorly vaxed areas are things that were already being done 15-20 years ago shows how much progress was lost.

Once you don't put the resources into promoting public health it's only a matter of time for rates to drop

Agree that the return of measles is a disaster but do think the focus on conspiracy theorists and anti vaxxers does leave one group off the hook.

And that is the conservatives for gutting public health in the UK.

Proud to partner with UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to sign an MOU deepening climate cooperation between California and the UK.

As communities face extreme weather and rising costs, we’re accelerating innovation and investing in solutions to tackle climate change.

Aggravated offences (new clause “Aggravated offences” and amendments to clauses 122, 123, 124 and 217) In our manifesto we committed to “protect LGBT+ and disabled people by making all existing strands of hate crime an aggravated offence” and in response to an amendment tabled at Commons Report stage by Rachel Taylor the then Minister for Policing and Crime committed to bring forward an amendment in the Lords to deliver on the manifesto commitment. This new clause does just that. Indeed, it goes further and extends the ambit of the racially and religiously aggravated offences in sections 29 to 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 not just to cover hostility related to disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity but also hostility motivated by a person’s sex. This change will ensure that tackling misogyny is part of the government’s approach to tackling hate crime. It also ensures it can be embedded within the government’s mission to halve violence against women and girls in the next decade

New Govt amendments to the crime and policing bill:

New aggravated offences will now cover hostility based on disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity and sex (part of pledge to tackle misogyny) — extending beyond Labour manifesto commitments on LGBT+ and disability protections

UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative over Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks

Understand why there's a lot of chat bout the reversal over local elections but this feels like a pretty huge move against US hegemony.

(Also separately hegemony has a real nice mouth feel)

Really great point and also just made me realise that this is part of what made the Mandelorian such an enjoyable show as well.

Pictured is an absolute clown of a candidate standing for Reform in the Gorton and Denton, Matthew Goodwin. The words “reform will give incentives to women who have more children and penalise those who don’t. Change is coming.”

I thought this was an AI mock up because no man would be so monumentally idiotic, insensitive and intrusive as to punish women for not having children…but then it is Reform.

Reform are not on yourside.

Reform not care about women’s safety.

Reform only see us as baby making machines.

That's an insane stat regarding GP numbers hen you think about it.

Honestly don't know how George Osborne has gotten away with this whitewashing of his legacy.

He's literally the antithesis of Starmer. A very effective and canny politician but someone who absolutely buggered the state and removed any resilience from it leading to the state we are in now.

George Osbourne cut public spending by roughly 3% in real terms.

The Govt has increased it by 4.3% at the last budget alone.

This sort of critiques are entirely vibes based and detached from reality

We're all mocking her but in 50 years time there'll be a new Assassin's Creed were we use the animus to relive her assassinations of the Queen, the conservative party and the British economy.

And yet my local cheesemongers doesn't stock any of them

Didn't understand a word in any of them.
All intensely moving and powerful.

Wonderful piece and also emphasises how music so often transcends the need for understanding of the language.
One of three things this week that showed this point.
The first was the Superbowl halftime show, the second watching a friends Gaelic choir winning performance at the mod and now this.

YouTube video by Avie Sheck Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups

Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either
manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

Most of these counties only agreed to stop fighting each other 80 years ago
Many of the Christians were fighting each over disagreements on if the body of Christ should be served well done or rare at communion
The final crusade got distracted and invaded Byzantium, leading to the Ottoman empire

Obviously this is terrible for pushing the Christian nationalist world view.

But also something hilarious looking at the history of Christianity and Western countries for the last 1000 years and pointing to it as a one big happy family.

Managed to nearly get through all of winter without picking up any bugs from the toddler.
Now mid Feb he's whacked me with a sinusitis.
Our home is now 50% tissue boxes 50% snot

This is the possible future of extinguished hope for kids who aren’t vaccinated against measles

And of course if enough people in an area are immunised against it, then it won’t spread and take hold. You and your child would be saving other children and families from this awfulness too