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One more sleep until the UK edition is out...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
She had me at Vyvyan and Rik.
Nevermoor’s Jessica Townsend on frantic fans, her fantasy smash hit – and feeling ‘gutted’ by JK Rowling
Nevermoor’s Jessica Townsend on frantic fans, her fantasy smash hit – and feeling ‘gutted’ by JK Rowling
The latest book in Townsend’s bestselling children’s series is out amid a surge in anti-trans rhetoric. But she remains committed to making sure her millions of readers all ‘know they have a place in Nevermoor’ Jessica Townsend feels for George RR Martin. The author of the bestselling middle-grade fantasy series Nevermoor has just released the fourth instalment, Silverborn, two-and-a-half years after it was supposed to come out in October 2022. Readers who were nine when the third book, Hollowpox, was released in 2020 had become full-blown teenagers by the time Silverborn hit bookshops in April. Townsend is now wryly mortified to be “One those authors where people are just tapping their watches and being like, ‘Excuse me!’ “I had to turn off social media for a period,” she admits over Zoom from her home on the Sunshine Coast, where she lives with her two spaniels Vyvyan and Rik. “I was getting so many well-meaning nudges of ‘Where’s the book?’ I’m not having a fun time, guys. I’m not on a cruise. I promise you I’m in agony.” Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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May 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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A dérouler car c'est effrayant.
Ce sont les données pour le Royaume-Uni mais je suppose que c'est la même chose en France.
I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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A horribly sobering thread from Tern.
I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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From the NHS, which actually has comprehensive data.
I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
👀
April 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Read this thread and weep. Then act as if airborne viruses matter 😷
In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.

During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
April 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
👀
April 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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There seems to be a bipartisan agreement in the UK to let the NHS fall to pieces through neglect and underfunding. Or am I missing something?
April 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.

During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.
April 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The idea that 'cloth masks are good only for droplets' still circulates. Many have said this, but it is wrong.

Recommendations about cloth masks, from spring 2020, were based on aerosol evidence

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

#WearTheBestMaskAvailable
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January 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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We are living in such a state of denial that people are seriously debating whether or not Musk's Nazi salute should be seen as a Nazi salute. If that's where you are, you will be in the digestive tract of the monster long before you've managed to convince yourself that it is, in fact, a monster.
January 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The whole thing about buying Greenland is because Republicans *believe* in climate change.

I mean like really believe in it.
They want it. They love the idea of it.

They're excited about the world burning and the north melting.

They're practically counting on it.
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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the crowd did yesterday....
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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They are all birds of same feather
It must hurt so hard for all the people who are defending Musk's Nazi salute when what they really want to do is scream "hell yeah" and join in.
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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This podcast, Sergei and The Westminster Spy Ring is just so epic.
Short episodes told well.

If you want to understand the last fifteen years, this story is key.
🔑🔥

Listen and share.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Digital Barbecues
Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP3 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I’m one episode in and it’s great!
January 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It must hurt so hard for all the people who are defending Musk's Nazi salute when what they really want to do is scream "hell yeah" and join in.
January 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This podcast, Sergei and The Westminster Spy Ring is just so epic.
Short episodes told well.

If you want to understand the last fifteen years, this story is key.
🔑🔥

Listen and share.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Digital Barbecues
Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP3 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I've visited six hospitals this week.
I've actually seen more people in masks than I have in 18 months.

But most of the masks have been ones that aren't designed to protect against spread of airborne disease. They're not the solution.

We need to use the right tools for the job.
January 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A visual guide to the destruction of Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
A visual guide to the destruction of Gaza
Satellite imagery, maps, video footage and graphics show how Gaza has been left in ruins by Israel’s war against Hamas
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I am shocked and stunned and shocked that Boris Johnson might have misled us about this.

"Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for decades"

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
January 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I just mentioned to the ternlings that it takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to get to the earth from the sun, which is exactly 500 seconds, and one of them said "that's a suspiciously round number".
January 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A couple of years ago, I ended up in the hospital with an infection that started in my mouth that moved to my lungs and brain. It wasn't long after having COVID. I still wonder. It was a horrendous experience. I'm glad I beat the odds and have suffered no long-term damage from it.
January 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"...sexual abuse is overwhelmingly likely to be carried out by someone you know, who you may be related to or in a relationship with, and who is pretty nice to you some of the time. These are complex and inconvenient truths, but they are truths." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM