Peter Scott Reid

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson, 1941

Have seen it described as “LinkedIn with stoning”

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Summer 2018 was hot, had a great football world cup going on - much of which I experienced from this desk, trying to get the fans to work😭

Transcripts and notes strewn across a desk

Post-it notes across a desk on large bits of coloured paper

Here are pictures of my process for thinking about how people cope with the recovery from having a stroke. For all the faff, having it on paper helps me think through the categories we use and claims we make

July 2018

Post-it notes and pens on a train table

At that stage of research - trying to bring the ideas back together

im sure a site other than BBC sport will catch my eye for this at some point but they are mad for a pie chart

Two pie charts, one showing the competitions that Memphis Depay has scored his Dutch goals in, one showing which national team manager they have been under

Most of the time there are better ways than a pie chart to display data

#3

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Net promoter score has no place as a research methodology in health services.

(massive, full screen popup): "we and our 941 partners process data to..."

jesus outlook i just wanna send an email

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Worth saying the numbers aren't perfect and leave out some important aspects but they do at least help to explain why the NHS eligibility criteria have tightened - something I haven't seen explained in NHS comms around the COVID-19 vaccine.

Since this ultimately comes out of the same budget that pays for everything else the NHS does, it becomes hard to justify. Good that it's available privately so people can make their own choice about whether it's worth it. Shame it's not cheaper.

NHS estimates it costs £25 per dose to deliver. So that's £1.5 million to £2.5 million per (non-critical care) hospital admission avoided. Numbers to prevent a critical care admission or death are substantially higher still.

Appendix A: estimating the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation in autumn 2024 in England

Bit nerdy, but it's worth having a skim over the number needed to vaccinate figures here. E.g. to avoid one hospitalisation in otherwise healthy people JCVI estimated 60-100k would need to be vaccinated (based on Autumn 2024 data).

www.gov.uk/government/p...

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

lol

I spoke to a guy whose brother (with dementia) had seven phone contracts running concurrently and had been caught up in multiple scams from cold callers.

These folk experience life as predatory - seeing daytime calls and an internet browser as opportunities for people to trick them.

I would start particularly with the financial services industry where the line between "wealth management" and "elder abuse" has always been blurred. (I started, but was not brave enough to finish, an article about US wirehouse brokers vs. their parents, a distressingly common court case)

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Excellent suggestion, thank you!

Is there a historic instruments community I can enquire with?

Niche request: has anybody ever wrapped a hammered dulcimer for transport by courier?

Any advice for packaging it?

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Capron House - 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104320

A wonderful friend is starting a queer running club in Cambridge 💙

www.instagram.com/threesquared...

Dazzling supermoon illuminates skylines around the world From Paris to Taipei, this week's supermoon, also known as the Harvest and Hunter's moons, was captured in photos.

Exquisite

In this house when we say "emerging literature" we mean two papers and one blog post