Steve Senior

NHS begins rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccine programme NHS and local authorities begin rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccination programme across the country.

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Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.

Good idea. My son got into reading after I told him under no circumstances was he to stay up late reading.

The lengths my children will go to to avoid reading a book are genuinely remarkable.

lol. Lmao even. I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the McKinsey treatment than McKinsey consultants.

Your Joke is Factually Incorrect: A Guide to Dying Alone

expert reaction to an observational study comparing teen smoking rates and vaping use across three UK birth cohorts

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A more measured response than the breathless, overblown (and at times plain stupid) headlines in last week's press
Peter Hajek esp

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins

“Should superhumans be registered by the government? Should the Avengere be subject to political control”

Yes, obviously, are you insane, no a private army with WMDs cannot just casually operate in Manhattan, sit the fuck down Steve “Prigozhin” Rogers

At 10pm, you get forcibly switched to the national anthem on YouTube, and then the test card.

What’s the bet this is the 3x3 D&D alignment grid?

No better way to announce to the world that you're fundamentally not a serious commentator when it comes to health policy than proposing charging people to see their GP. Ought to mean instant disqualification from the conversation.

RSV vaccine highly effective in preventing hospitalisation RSV vaccines are 82% effective for older people and 72% for newborns when mothers are vaccinated at least 14 days before birth.

RSV vaccine is safe and effective. Please encourage anyone who is eligible- pregnant women from 28 weeks and people aged 75-79.
My parents paid for the vaccine last year- we are very glad they did.

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My mentions right now are 1/3 people shocked about Dr. Dexter Holland helping cure AIDS, 1/3 puns of The Offspring song titles, and 1/3 talking shit on the band's ex-drummer Pete Parada who got fired for being anti-vax while in a band with a guy whose research was cited in creating the vaccine.

The language used to describe outbreaks, like “pandemic” or “epidemic” can be tied politics, funding, international agreements, and more. And disinformation intentionally causes confusion.

So how do epidemiologists use these terms in their day-to-day work? Here’s a simple guide to what they mean👇

I also think we're at risk of losing sight that we're talking about 200 people here. 0.04% of the civil service. An internship is as good a shout as any to improve diversity (let's see if it works), but gov needs to sort other stuff including pay and wider recruitment too. Some thoughts from IfG 👇

*Searches 'old norse' on duo linguo*

These are political problems, but they are not fundamental real ones. They're distributional, through time and between groups. Chancellors over the decades, facing currency crises (1949, 67, 76 etc) did far worse. It's not the situation that's worse but the political pain threshold that's lower 3/

"Sack Jenkins and I'll subscribe" is worth a go, right?

Also true. Pete Parada, whose resume also includes getting kicked out of Face to Face, released a public statement asking people to do their own research about the vaccine.

Did not mention the guy who kicked him out as literally as possible WAS one of the guys who did the research.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Yeah, my first reaction - speaking on behalf of everyone in Yorkshire obvs - was "wait, that's an option? well get in line then".

There's five and a half million of us (not counting the gobby expats, out there, antagonising the world, god bless 'em).

Simon Jenkins is a spoof character, right? Like Ali G and Alan Partridge yes?

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

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On the plus side, he learned a lesson about respecting women I think.

I warned him that the day would come when she'd be able to tackle him. He didn't listen (see my earlier comment).

Fortunately I got to them just as she was about to shove her thumbs into his eye sockets.

a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him ALT: a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him

I have a 7-year old daughter as well, so it's not a hypothetical.

Fortunately she has a much better awareness of other people's emotional states as well as an instinctive grasp of violence. The problem there may be protecting other people from her, not least her brother.

Today is Yorkshire Day so I'd like to give a shout-out to my lovely friend from Bradford, who is a proof-reader. She always says it's unsung but heroic work because she's out there, each and every day, fighting the the war on t'error