Andrew W Moore (he/him)

Tots, bots, measles and the surging distrust in vaccines How does the decline in take-up of the measles vaccination tell a tale of our times?

Disinformation. Austerity. Vaccine fatigue.

Measles is back — and the consequences are landing on the smallest shoulders.

Liz Crosbie explains how & why...

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this:

I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public

shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely

it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society

fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

Thats not to say there haven't been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant's electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in the parking lot.

AI is the new microwave.

Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.

This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.

It baffles me how the Left, who seem to take decent positions on many things, have got the Online Safety Act so wrong.

Opposition to it is being portrayed as right-wing, whereas it's pure common sense.

It doesn't do what it was designed to do, AND it has tons of negative second-order consequences.

Love it - and a side mission to hammer barn too.

It amazes me this stuff is “order a kit” now, a long wonderful way from the crude stuff a low-skill amateur could build (I wish I had those 1970s?) issues of s&t My teenage enthusiast is crawling with excitement!

Earth’s oceans may have undergone a fundamental shift, study says Scientists fear the oceans’ prolonged hotter state is now the ‘new normal’.

If the oceans die, human civilisation will already be on terminal palliative care ...

"Marine heatwaves may have driven the world’s oceans to a critical tipping point, scientists warn"
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

AP The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @GeauxGabrielle Hi! Epidemiologist here! Don't do this. In the 80s and 90s this was done by Depts. of Health during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Somehow" the lists they created found their way into the hands of cops, landlords, & job sites to deny people human rights. It's partly WHY the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act exists

Motherfucking wind farms…

“What if it’s a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

A map of countries that recognise the State of Palestine.

You can now add France… but apparently not the UK, Germany, Canada of Australia.

Shameful.

We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.

Wes Streeting’s donations are 80% related to private healthcare providers

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep!

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications.

This should also be banned?

Influence being bought in Govt?

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Your tracking jjj 100?

If not - a 🤷‍♂️ coincidence.

Right! That smile is always top notch.

Guardian headline: Epping asylum hotel protesters ‘upset for legitimate reasons’, minister says Jonathan Reynolds says ‘I understand the frustrations people have’, as police brace for further unrest

We go live to 2029, where a Reform government backs the mob that's terrifying the occupants of an asylum hotel...

Then the mists clear, we realise that it's still 2025, and it's Labour who are legitimising the hate-mongers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lovely article and quite fascinating insights too!

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

For Labour supporters, the key issue is not:

"Are Starmer and Labour's current incarnation better than X really bad alternative?"

The key issue is:

"Are they good enough to win over a jaded frustrated electorate in 2029 and stay in power?"

At the moment, I estimate that probability at 0%.

I expect Mastercard and visa will dictate the acceptability… no payment reversal will mean no chance it will succeed

I am always reminded of people booking tickets to Sydney and winding up with tickets to Sidney….

(Oz vs Canada… sort of the same eh?)

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Have you created a compare and contrast table for such things?

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

This is abominable and everyone involved in the series of events which led to it, from the Home Office to the police, should be ashamed of themselves.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

You'd probably like to know, right, that this piece arguing against consumer protection was written by an organisation funded by the US and British Chambers of Commerce? But the Daily Rowling doesn't tell you that.

I’d meant why does it have a big mirror (solar bbq? Archimedes mirror to protect the harbour?)

Enjoy the wedding!