Emms
@emms.bsky.social
Coffee addict, Rescue dog fluff wearer, anti-Brexit enthusiast, possibly the shortest political career ever, animal adorer. Fond of kind people, chocolate, anything historic and WORDS - if you know that film 😊
The truth will set you free…
The truth will set you free…
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🔴Online first: A new Comment from Clare Turnbull and colleagues on the PATHFINDER2 study of GRAIL's Galleri multicancer detection blood test
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January 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
🔴Online first: A new Comment from Clare Turnbull and colleagues on the PATHFINDER2 study of GRAIL's Galleri multicancer detection blood test
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thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Happy New Year everyone! We're back for another year and still in our celebrating era because we just turned 75, which is a grand age for anyone, even a museum
Happy New Year to everyone and a very happy 75th birthday to @themerl.bsky.social, which came into being officially on 1 January 1951 (the same day as the first national broadcast of The Archers).
January 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Happy New Year everyone! We're back for another year and still in our celebrating era because we just turned 75, which is a grand age for anyone, even a museum
Sorin says to please put on a warm coat 🧥 if you go out today ❤️🐾 and check in on your elderly neighbours 🥶🥶
January 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Sorin says to please put on a warm coat 🧥 if you go out today ❤️🐾 and check in on your elderly neighbours 🥶🥶
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A guy in my town took these tonight. Spectacular
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
A guy in my town took these tonight. Spectacular
Such a beautiful moon tonight 😍😊Love a bright shining moon 🌙
Isn’t it amazing ❤️
Isn’t it amazing ❤️
January 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Such a beautiful moon tonight 😍😊Love a bright shining moon 🌙
Isn’t it amazing ❤️
Isn’t it amazing ❤️
This incredible family puts the ‘Salt Path’ author to shame. What amazing people ❤️💖
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nailsworth couple reach 900-mile mark in cancer charity walk
Champion indoor rower and "full of life" daughter Amelie, died in July from a brain tumour.
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This incredible family puts the ‘Salt Path’ author to shame. What amazing people ❤️💖
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s quite sad looking at the responses to the rolling out of the NHS vaccination against chicken pox.
It’s not just ‘a mild itchy rash’ as anti-vaxxers claim 🤦🏼♀️
It’s not just ‘a mild itchy rash’ as anti-vaxxers claim 🤦🏼♀️
January 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
It’s quite sad looking at the responses to the rolling out of the NHS vaccination against chicken pox.
It’s not just ‘a mild itchy rash’ as anti-vaxxers claim 🤦🏼♀️
It’s not just ‘a mild itchy rash’ as anti-vaxxers claim 🤦🏼♀️
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Reminder that Reform UK featured a notorious antivaxxer as a keynote speaker at their recent conference. The UK is not immune from this weaponized idiocy.
A hearty congrats to RFK Jr., as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status after 25 years, with the most cases since the early 1990s.
Congrats to RFK Jr., As the U.S. Is Poised to Lose Its Measles Elimination Status After 25 Years
After a quarter century where measles was considered eliminated in the U.S., 2025's continuous outbreaks have us back at ground zero.
www.jezebel.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Reminder that Reform UK featured a notorious antivaxxer as a keynote speaker at their recent conference. The UK is not immune from this weaponized idiocy.
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As the sun rises on the very last day of 2025, we'd like to say a huge *thank you* for all your support this year.
Your visits, memberships and donations help us to look after castles and coastlines, hill monuments and historic houses, and more!
Photo: Claydon, Buckinghamshire by John Miller
Your visits, memberships and donations help us to look after castles and coastlines, hill monuments and historic houses, and more!
Photo: Claydon, Buckinghamshire by John Miller
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
As the sun rises on the very last day of 2025, we'd like to say a huge *thank you* for all your support this year.
Your visits, memberships and donations help us to look after castles and coastlines, hill monuments and historic houses, and more!
Photo: Claydon, Buckinghamshire by John Miller
Your visits, memberships and donations help us to look after castles and coastlines, hill monuments and historic houses, and more!
Photo: Claydon, Buckinghamshire by John Miller
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"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend"
And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...
And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...
Oxford high street demand returns to pre-pandemic levels
Oxford’s high street is bucking the national trend, with demand rising and vacancy rates low
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend"
And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...
And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...
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It’s Thursday and New Year’s Day! I’m hoping that love will prevail as I sip my morning coffee! Smile!😊
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 PM
It’s Thursday and New Year’s Day! I’m hoping that love will prevail as I sip my morning coffee! Smile!😊
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My 8th decade starts today. Grateful to have made it. I'm going loads of places in UK this year, to talk about the ancient world - from Exeter to Belfast, Penarth to Glasgow. Some dates here: tinyurl.com/5n6tcn6m and fane.co.uk/talking-clas... + more here (check with bookstores)
January 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
My 8th decade starts today. Grateful to have made it. I'm going loads of places in UK this year, to talk about the ancient world - from Exeter to Belfast, Penarth to Glasgow. Some dates here: tinyurl.com/5n6tcn6m and fane.co.uk/talking-clas... + more here (check with bookstores)
Happy New Year from little Polly ❤️🐾
Not long til Spring now 💖🍀🌳🪷
Not long til Spring now 💖🍀🌳🪷
December 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Happy New Year from little Polly ❤️🐾
Not long til Spring now 💖🍀🌳🪷
Not long til Spring now 💖🍀🌳🪷
Today I was fortunate to have a gastroscopy & biopsy taken, courtesy of the NHS, cost to me = zero
Checking online it’s a minimum of £2100 privately.
I dread people not understanding what we will get if we wish away the NHS. Medical bills will bankrupt ppl 💔
Checking online it’s a minimum of £2100 privately.
I dread people not understanding what we will get if we wish away the NHS. Medical bills will bankrupt ppl 💔
December 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today I was fortunate to have a gastroscopy & biopsy taken, courtesy of the NHS, cost to me = zero
Checking online it’s a minimum of £2100 privately.
I dread people not understanding what we will get if we wish away the NHS. Medical bills will bankrupt ppl 💔
Checking online it’s a minimum of £2100 privately.
I dread people not understanding what we will get if we wish away the NHS. Medical bills will bankrupt ppl 💔
And again, heartbreaking 💔
Mental ill health is real and devastating. We need a govt to understand how crucial good mental health is to wellbeing and the impact poverty and inequality has on mental health
Mental ill health is real and devastating. We need a govt to understand how crucial good mental health is to wellbeing and the impact poverty and inequality has on mental health
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And again, heartbreaking 💔
Mental ill health is real and devastating. We need a govt to understand how crucial good mental health is to wellbeing and the impact poverty and inequality has on mental health
Mental ill health is real and devastating. We need a govt to understand how crucial good mental health is to wellbeing and the impact poverty and inequality has on mental health
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Happy Tuesday lovely phone family. Not much left of 2025 now. I don't buy in to the whole 'New Year, New You' or resolutions nonsense. If you want to make changes or do better at something, any time of year is the right time for it. Just #HaveCourageAndBeKind 🥰
Have a magnificent day everyone ☕️🐈⬛😘
Have a magnificent day everyone ☕️🐈⬛😘
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Happy Tuesday lovely phone family. Not much left of 2025 now. I don't buy in to the whole 'New Year, New You' or resolutions nonsense. If you want to make changes or do better at something, any time of year is the right time for it. Just #HaveCourageAndBeKind 🥰
Have a magnificent day everyone ☕️🐈⬛😘
Have a magnificent day everyone ☕️🐈⬛😘
I was at the GP b4 Christmas accepting with thanks some free vaccinations against shingles, pneumonia etc and the nurse told me they’d had a ‘low take up of flu vaccination this yr & a lot of misinformation from parents refusing child vaccinations’
So very sad 😞
So very sad 😞
December 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I was at the GP b4 Christmas accepting with thanks some free vaccinations against shingles, pneumonia etc and the nurse told me they’d had a ‘low take up of flu vaccination this yr & a lot of misinformation from parents refusing child vaccinations’
So very sad 😞
So very sad 😞
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🌸Despite losing her leg in the war and training amid air raids in bomb shelters,9-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal won bronze at the Rizatdinova Cup!
🦋 “We couldn’t prepare fully – the competition was wonderful. 3rd place is a very special victory for me,” she said.
🌷 Unbreakable spirit!
🦋 “We couldn’t prepare fully – the competition was wonderful. 3rd place is a very special victory for me,” she said.
🌷 Unbreakable spirit!
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🌸Despite losing her leg in the war and training amid air raids in bomb shelters,9-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal won bronze at the Rizatdinova Cup!
🦋 “We couldn’t prepare fully – the competition was wonderful. 3rd place is a very special victory for me,” she said.
🌷 Unbreakable spirit!
🦋 “We couldn’t prepare fully – the competition was wonderful. 3rd place is a very special victory for me,” she said.
🌷 Unbreakable spirit!
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Small ladder, huge impact 🐸
A caring member of the public spotted frogs trapped in a drain at Conningbrook Lakes. Our amazing volunteers installed an amphibian ladder so they can safely reach Eco lake to breed. Many lives saved! 💚
#AmphibianRescue #FrogRescue
A caring member of the public spotted frogs trapped in a drain at Conningbrook Lakes. Our amazing volunteers installed an amphibian ladder so they can safely reach Eco lake to breed. Many lives saved! 💚
#AmphibianRescue #FrogRescue
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Small ladder, huge impact 🐸
A caring member of the public spotted frogs trapped in a drain at Conningbrook Lakes. Our amazing volunteers installed an amphibian ladder so they can safely reach Eco lake to breed. Many lives saved! 💚
#AmphibianRescue #FrogRescue
A caring member of the public spotted frogs trapped in a drain at Conningbrook Lakes. Our amazing volunteers installed an amphibian ladder so they can safely reach Eco lake to breed. Many lives saved! 💚
#AmphibianRescue #FrogRescue
Request please…
I would like to be adopted. I have just discovered my estranged mother is on Twitter praising Trump and Musk. I would like a new family please. Nothing special. Just ordinary. Maybe scone maker? Or something 🤷🏼♀️
I would like to be adopted. I have just discovered my estranged mother is on Twitter praising Trump and Musk. I would like a new family please. Nothing special. Just ordinary. Maybe scone maker? Or something 🤷🏼♀️
December 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Request please…
I would like to be adopted. I have just discovered my estranged mother is on Twitter praising Trump and Musk. I would like a new family please. Nothing special. Just ordinary. Maybe scone maker? Or something 🤷🏼♀️
I would like to be adopted. I have just discovered my estranged mother is on Twitter praising Trump and Musk. I would like a new family please. Nothing special. Just ordinary. Maybe scone maker? Or something 🤷🏼♀️
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Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better.
@greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better.
@greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social
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Next time someone talks about protecting ‘British values’, including Nigel Farage, ask them what they are. Most of the time, you’ll find they don’t have the answer or want to give one because they don’t actually believe in them at all.
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Next time someone talks about protecting ‘British values’, including Nigel Farage, ask them what they are. Most of the time, you’ll find they don’t have the answer or want to give one because they don’t actually believe in them at all.
Roses have taken the foil shiny bits and put their “chocolates” in weird dental mint packaging
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Roses have taken the foil shiny bits and put their “chocolates” in weird dental mint packaging
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December 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM