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Ellen West
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I scream, you scream, we all scream.
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“If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”

RIP #TomLehrer
July 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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DOCTORS BAFFLED, he's 39, looks 65, his secret will SHOCK YOU (he cut down an ancient tree and now the Dryads have cursed him)
May 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Our antibiotics are under threat.

Join Andi Biotic’s mission to #KeepAntibioticsWorking.

Share our video and blog post with your network: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/w...
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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kityates.bsky.social
April 1st: The only day of the year when people pause for critical thought instead of automatically accepting what they read on the internet!
April 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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ukhsa.bsky.social
We have published new #Norovirus data today showing cases are 117% above the 5-season average. Lots of people are getting sick with the winter vomiting bug. 📈

Learn about managing the virus in our blog post 👀
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/17/n...

Full report here 👇
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Norovirus lab reports in England, by week. Data from 1 July 2024 to 03 February 2025. The data shows a peak in late November, decreasing over the festive period, then a continued rise since. Source: Second-Generation-Surveillance System (SGSS)
February 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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What do you do when your doggie misses the sitter and doesn’t want to share the sofa with you? 😢
Whippet sitting on a sofa covered in towels, his eyes pools of longing and regret
December 29, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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I feel very strongly that candy canes ought to have an alternative, more british sounding name. What are we doing calling those things candy canes?! I'm going to call them.... shepherd's peppermints.
December 29, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy
December 21, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Flight Attendant: Is there a doctor on board?

Man: I’m a veterinarian. Can I help?

Flight Attendant: Yes! This child broke her leg

Man: Damn, my rifle’s in my checked bag
December 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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So sad when a woman turns forty and the eyes in the haunted paintings no longer follow her around the room.
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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I will literally never learn to not discuss Bruce Springsteen with a baby boomer man when I am not in the mood for a long conversation lmao
December 17, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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Mishal Husain’s last day on the Today Programme 💔. I’m going to miss her incisiveness and acute listening
December 17, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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One thing I think about way too much is that after you die, your white blood cells keep living for up to three days pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8366783/.

Just little security guards, wandering the apocalypse, loyal to the end, slowly realizing no one is left
#Medsky #PharmSky #RxSky #hemesky #Skyence
Cellular changes and time since death - PubMed
Based on a hypothesis that post-mortem cellular (chiefly nuclear) changes in the white blood cells could reliably be correlated with the time interval since death, (ti), serial observations were made ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
December 13, 2024 at 11:54 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
December 12, 2024 at 9:52 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust
December 9, 2024 at 8:51 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Silver Crown by Robert O’Brien
December 8, 2024 at 11:21 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
December 7, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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@privateeyenews.bsky.social is out….😂😂😂
December 4, 2024 at 9:07 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
December 5, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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My top song this year: Boom Boom Back by Hinds (featuring Beck) m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5I1...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:56 PM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Tenth of December by George Saunders
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. For more information please follow @GoNUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
Not for Sale: Save The Observer
Journalists at the Guardian & Observer are taking strike action in opposition to the hurried sale of the title.
nuj.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 8:52 AM
ellenwest.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Under the Skin by Michel Faber
December 3, 2024 at 8:41 PM