Steve Adams 🇺🇦 😷 💉 💙 🇪🇺
@sadams.bsky.social
I work in IT.
I am/was @sadams_s on the Twitters
I am/was @sadams_s on the Twitters
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'Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Mr Gloster* added that hospital emergency department attendance was at its "highest ever" last Monday'
Highest ever.
*The HSE Chief Executive.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Highest ever.
*The HSE Chief Executive.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
IMO warns that flu has hit Ireland 'fast and hard'
The Irish Medical Organisation has warned that the flu has hit Ireland "fast and hard" and will add enormous strain to the already stretched public hospital system.
www.rte.ie
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
'Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Mr Gloster* added that hospital emergency department attendance was at its "highest ever" last Monday'
Highest ever.
*The HSE Chief Executive.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Highest ever.
*The HSE Chief Executive.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Very strong and worrying thread from
@1goodtern.bsky.social
over at the other place.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19937...
@1goodtern.bsky.social
over at the other place.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19937...
Thread by @1goodtern on Thread Reader App
@1goodtern: 😮I want to smash something. I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor. 🚨When paired with the data ...
threadreaderapp.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Very strong and worrying thread from
@1goodtern.bsky.social
over at the other place.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19937...
@1goodtern.bsky.social
over at the other place.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19937...
Interesting.
Google's own TPUs are a significant differentiator Vs their main competitors.
Google's own TPUs are a significant differentiator Vs their main competitors.
Sure, NVIDIA is "delighted by Google's success" in many ways. But they're also clearly less "delighted" in other ways...
NVIDIA's "Delight"
Passive-aggressive tweets aside, NVIDIA has a point, but also a potential problem...
spyglass.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Interesting.
Google's own TPUs are a significant differentiator Vs their main competitors.
Google's own TPUs are a significant differentiator Vs their main competitors.
This is very good.
Of course 😊
Of course 😊
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is very good.
Of course 😊
Of course 😊
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Insightful article by @jjn1.bsky.social on the the stance of authors/publishers on their works being included in LLM training (or not) and who should be paying who.
In the thread I'm quoting I was asking this of David Quantic (who I admire).
Immediate block😳
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
In the thread I'm quoting I was asking this of David Quantic (who I admire).
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observer.co.uk/news/columni...
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Insightful article by @jjn1.bsky.social on the the stance of authors/publishers on their works being included in LLM training (or not) and who should be paying who.
In the thread I'm quoting I was asking this of David Quantic (who I admire).
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observer.co.uk/news/columni...
In the thread I'm quoting I was asking this of David Quantic (who I admire).
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observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It seems to me...
The people who felt requiring us to use masks/respirators during a dangerous pandemic was a threat to civil liberties (their right to infect others, be infected) and oppose a National Digital ID as some kind of Big Brother, surveillance threat are the most in favour...
1/2
The people who felt requiring us to use masks/respirators during a dangerous pandemic was a threat to civil liberties (their right to infect others, be infected) and oppose a National Digital ID as some kind of Big Brother, surveillance threat are the most in favour...
1/2
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
It seems to me...
The people who felt requiring us to use masks/respirators during a dangerous pandemic was a threat to civil liberties (their right to infect others, be infected) and oppose a National Digital ID as some kind of Big Brother, surveillance threat are the most in favour...
1/2
The people who felt requiring us to use masks/respirators during a dangerous pandemic was a threat to civil liberties (their right to infect others, be infected) and oppose a National Digital ID as some kind of Big Brother, surveillance threat are the most in favour...
1/2
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Today's Internet winner.
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Today's Internet winner.
Good grief
Churchill used to do his lots of paperwork in bed and held most of his meetings in the Cabinet War rooms.
Sure he liked to pace about but the man sat down in bloody chairs a lot of the time.
What unhinged nonsense is this?
Sure he liked to pace about but the man sat down in bloody chairs a lot of the time.
What unhinged nonsense is this?
‘Every chair you own is a commitment to mediocrity…’ IKEA must be quaking in their flat pack boots.
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Good grief
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I don't know what pathogen will cause the next pandemic - Disease X - but what I do know is that the combination of the immune dysregulation effect of SARS-CoV-2 and the political legacy of our response to Covid means this pandemic makes us much more vulnerable to the next one.
October 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I don't know what pathogen will cause the next pandemic - Disease X - but what I do know is that the combination of the immune dysregulation effect of SARS-CoV-2 and the political legacy of our response to Covid means this pandemic makes us much more vulnerable to the next one.
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Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.
If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...
If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...
Very quick update on Covid in England
Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early
christinapagel.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.
If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...
If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/very-quick...
Great, long thread from Prof @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
So pleased he's still doing this.
Make sure you get to the end for his conclusion.
So pleased he's still doing this.
Make sure you get to the end for his conclusion.
So, without going into details, the LP8.1 strain is a lot more recent than KP2, so has more mutations, many of which are shared with XFG.
However, as they have different histories, the matches are by no means perfect.
I stole this nice figure from the
@solidevidence.bsky.social
🧵 above.
However, as they have different histories, the matches are by no means perfect.
I stole this nice figure from the
@solidevidence.bsky.social
🧵 above.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Great, long thread from Prof @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
So pleased he's still doing this.
Make sure you get to the end for his conclusion.
So pleased he's still doing this.
Make sure you get to the end for his conclusion.
Our policy to accept and normalise repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections in our child population is costly.
this study highlights that Long Covid remains a risk with every Covid infection, including for children and adolescents.
Particularly relevant as the Children's module opens for the UK Inquiry.
It's nonsense to say that children are and were at no risk from Covid.
Particularly relevant as the Children's module opens for the UK Inquiry.
It's nonsense to say that children are and were at no risk from Covid.
“These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisystem effects and highlight the need to promote vaccination in younger populations...”
Time to reconsider our approach to kids and COVID/long COVID.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Time to reconsider our approach to kids and COVID/long COVID.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Our policy to accept and normalise repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections in our child population is costly.
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Laughable as this is, the reality is that many will take it at face value.
Many more who are undecided will hesitate further.
The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost.
It is a shameful, callous act.
Heartbreaking.
Many more who are undecided will hesitate further.
The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost.
It is a shameful, callous act.
Heartbreaking.
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Laughable as this is, the reality is that many will take it at face value.
Many more who are undecided will hesitate further.
The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost.
It is a shameful, callous act.
Heartbreaking.
Many more who are undecided will hesitate further.
The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost.
It is a shameful, callous act.
Heartbreaking.
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This past week with the idiocy of Rayner throwing away her job by being stupid about tax, the complete stupidity of the Mandelson appointment, and now the silence in the face of fascist rallies and incitement from Musk and Robinson... I'm feeling despair at where we are & fear at where we are going
September 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This past week with the idiocy of Rayner throwing away her job by being stupid about tax, the complete stupidity of the Mandelson appointment, and now the silence in the face of fascist rallies and incitement from Musk and Robinson... I'm feeling despair at where we are & fear at where we are going
So well said.
Articulate and concise.
Articulate and concise.
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
September 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So well said.
Articulate and concise.
Articulate and concise.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Vote | National Television Awards
Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards
nationaltvawards.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Strong recommendation for this BBC R4 series from mrmarksteel.bsky.social: The People vs McDonald's
Totally delivers on the BBC's "Reithian values", to inform, educate, and entertain.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Totally delivers on the BBC's "Reithian values", to inform, educate, and entertain.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shadow World - The People vs McDonald's - Trailer - BBC Sounds
Mark Steel introduces a battle between two activists and a fast food giant...
www.bbc.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Strong recommendation for this BBC R4 series from mrmarksteel.bsky.social: The People vs McDonald's
Totally delivers on the BBC's "Reithian values", to inform, educate, and entertain.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Totally delivers on the BBC's "Reithian values", to inform, educate, and entertain.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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1/6 – 🎯 Ukraine’s Precision Strikes
Ukraine’s drones have knocked out 17 % of Russia’s oil refining capacity, over 1.1M barrels/day gone. A devastating blow to Putin’s “untouchable” energy lifeline.
Ukraine’s drones have knocked out 17 % of Russia’s oil refining capacity, over 1.1M barrels/day gone. A devastating blow to Putin’s “untouchable” energy lifeline.
August 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
1/6 – 🎯 Ukraine’s Precision Strikes
Ukraine’s drones have knocked out 17 % of Russia’s oil refining capacity, over 1.1M barrels/day gone. A devastating blow to Putin’s “untouchable” energy lifeline.
Ukraine’s drones have knocked out 17 % of Russia’s oil refining capacity, over 1.1M barrels/day gone. A devastating blow to Putin’s “untouchable” energy lifeline.
Really good episode with @chrischirp.bsky.social from @snellarthur.bsky.social
Actual podcast home is here (for those who avoid the 🍏 solo).
shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
Actual podcast home is here (for those who avoid the 🍏 solo).
shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
August 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Really good episode with @chrischirp.bsky.social from @snellarthur.bsky.social
Actual podcast home is here (for those who avoid the 🍏 solo).
shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
Actual podcast home is here (for those who avoid the 🍏 solo).
shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
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Reposted by Steve Adams 🇺🇦 😷 💉 💙 🇪🇺
Reposted by Steve Adams 🇺🇦 😷 💉 💙 🇪🇺
this is a really good article and makes very important points very clearly
July 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
this is a really good article and makes very important points very clearly
Why are good people still using Twitter/X.
Why are businesses, governments (local, national) news & media organisations?
Why are businesses, governments (local, national) news & media organisations?
Once again, why the fuck are some of you still on twitter? Hint, there is no good reason to still be on twitter!
I guess clout and follower counts on there are a hell of a drug!
I guess clout and follower counts on there are a hell of a drug!
OH MY GOD
July 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Why are good people still using Twitter/X.
Why are businesses, governments (local, national) news & media organisations?
Why are businesses, governments (local, national) news & media organisations?