fourlights
@angiechaseface.bsky.social
Human in NW England.
COVID aware and concerned, like history, data science, dancing and solidarity.
Not my real name, but otherwise it's all true.
Only occasionally post bad jokes!
COVID aware and concerned, like history, data science, dancing and solidarity.
Not my real name, but otherwise it's all true.
Only occasionally post bad jokes!
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"It should be the default assumption of any study of respirators that all diseases are spread by aerosols...because we know that every time anyone has gone looking for aerosol spread they have found it.
Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."
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Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."
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I'm reading a history of the 1918 influenza in the US and learned that early work on the effectiveness of masking was rejected by the physicians at the time as quickly as they could get away with it. It's been a century. Time to accept the science or get out of the way. My angry account of the past:
No Question Left Unasked
www.tjradcliffe.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"It should be the default assumption of any study of respirators that all diseases are spread by aerosols...because we know that every time anyone has gone looking for aerosol spread they have found it.
Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."
🎯
Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."
🎯
Good environmental news does exist
NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Good environmental news does exist
Genuine signs of genius here, love it
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Genuine signs of genius here, love it
Wild and fascinating threads and replies on serotonin and the gut here
the destruction of all the happy lil guys in my gut, both by the c. diff itself and by the antibiotics, was so much more of a nightmare for my mental health than, theoretically, my years of actual depression. incredible stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Wild and fascinating threads and replies on serotonin and the gut here
Oh, Jarman's Wittgenstein is a lovely corker of a film
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Oh, Jarman's Wittgenstein is a lovely corker of a film
Bahaha
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Bahaha
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“STEPHEN COLBERT: The important thing is: I’m fine. We’re ALL FINE. If we’re not, I hereby declare a new normal.
[Mission Accomplished (again)]
Because in the end, America, COVID doesn’t change who we are—it helps us forget who that was.
[“The Word” static-glitch fade-out]”
[Mission Accomplished (again)]
Because in the end, America, COVID doesn’t change who we are—it helps us forget who that was.
[“The Word” static-glitch fade-out]”
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“STEPHEN COLBERT: The important thing is: I’m fine. We’re ALL FINE. If we’re not, I hereby declare a new normal.
[Mission Accomplished (again)]
Because in the end, America, COVID doesn’t change who we are—it helps us forget who that was.
[“The Word” static-glitch fade-out]”
[Mission Accomplished (again)]
Because in the end, America, COVID doesn’t change who we are—it helps us forget who that was.
[“The Word” static-glitch fade-out]”
Beautifully put.
It's important when you first meet someone. It's if you have to keep doing it after that that it gets annoying.
It's important when you first meet someone. It's if you have to keep doing it after that that it gets annoying.
You need small talk to establish you can trust someone with bigger talk. “How ‘bout that weather?” “Oh it’s been wild”: neither of us care about the weather, we might as well be making dial-up modem noises. The point is to see if this is a freak who can’t EVEN be trusted with the weather question.
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Beautifully put.
It's important when you first meet someone. It's if you have to keep doing it after that that it gets annoying.
It's important when you first meet someone. It's if you have to keep doing it after that that it gets annoying.
Aphantasic Resistance unite!
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Aphantasic Resistance unite!
Calling all COVID-conscious people! These vibes sound familiar? What with COVID upregulating dopamine production and everyone deep in cheery denial?
Might watch to feel seen.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Might watch to feel seen.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it’s a ...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Calling all COVID-conscious people! These vibes sound familiar? What with COVID upregulating dopamine production and everyone deep in cheery denial?
Might watch to feel seen.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Might watch to feel seen.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Great, now accompanied by the unbeatable and unbearable phrase "big sweaty whales" for the rest of the day
Dating apps studied this pay to be seen phenomenon, and they discovered that guys use it approximately infinitely more than women. Zero reduction of spam, instead every woman on the site gets spammed by the very biggest and sweatiest whales with the most disposable income
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Great, now accompanied by the unbeatable and unbearable phrase "big sweaty whales" for the rest of the day
Bloody hell!
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Bloody hell!
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Long Covid is now one of the biggest causes of long-term sickness in the UK.
Writing a workforce plan that never mentions it is like writing a flood report that never mentions rain.
It’s denial disguised as strategy.
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www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Writing a workforce plan that never mentions it is like writing a flood report that never mentions rain.
It’s denial disguised as strategy.
🖇️
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Self-reported coronavirus (COVID-19) infections and associated symptoms, England and Scotland - Office for National Statistics
Analysis of Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study data: trends in self-reported symptoms of coronavirus, ongoing symptoms and associated risk factors.
www.ons.gov.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Long Covid is now one of the biggest causes of long-term sickness in the UK.
Writing a workforce plan that never mentions it is like writing a flood report that never mentions rain.
It’s denial disguised as strategy.
🖇️
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Writing a workforce plan that never mentions it is like writing a flood report that never mentions rain.
It’s denial disguised as strategy.
🖇️
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Love these, very beautiful
For Bonfire Night, an annual celebration here in the UK, our yearly visit to 6 vintage Japanese firework catalogues. All in full. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Love these, very beautiful
This is brutal and hilarious: hadn't seen it before
I always enjoyed this wonderful drive-by on Alfred Lord Tennyson from Philip Larkin.
polyarchive.com/the-literary...
polyarchive.com/the-literary...
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This is brutal and hilarious: hadn't seen it before
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When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
Everyone around was trying to help, innit. People are wonderful.
'Kingston helped a young man who had been stabbed, putting pressure on a wound using "blue roll" from the buffet carriage. "Everyone around" was trying to help, he says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
Man charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after train knife attack
Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough, is also charged with one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Everyone around was trying to help, innit. People are wonderful.
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Just to remind anyine who wants to look, Conde Naste is a huge publisher. It wiukd be really great if bunches of people did not reup their subscription for any of their publications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3...
Condé Nast - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Just to remind anyine who wants to look, Conde Naste is a huge publisher. It wiukd be really great if bunches of people did not reup their subscription for any of their publications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3...
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From my good friend Dr Asad Khan. Why do health and care professionals turn everyone taking infection control seriously into a neurotic? Why are there so many people labelled and self labelling as mentally ill?
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From my good friend Dr Asad Khan. Why do health and care professionals turn everyone taking infection control seriously into a neurotic? Why are there so many people labelled and self labelling as mentally ill?
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Btw you recognise the real experts by the respirator they wear. #Covid #LongCovid
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Btw you recognise the real experts by the respirator they wear. #Covid #LongCovid
Great summary
🔴How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
Former Independent columnist @donnachadhmc.bsky.social on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist Donnachadh McCarthy on how the UK's billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great summary
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Absolutely incredible: let's get Ozzed up!
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Absolutely incredible: let's get Ozzed up!
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Alarming news if you live in the UK. We really don’t need these guys interfering with an already shaky economy and harvesting our data.
There’s a parliamentary petition here. Please sign it.
Also please write to your MP and ask for answers.
America has gone to shit. Let’s not follow them.
There’s a parliamentary petition here. Please sign it.
Also please write to your MP and ask for answers.
America has gone to shit. Let’s not follow them.
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Alarming news if you live in the UK. We really don’t need these guys interfering with an already shaky economy and harvesting our data.
There’s a parliamentary petition here. Please sign it.
Also please write to your MP and ask for answers.
America has gone to shit. Let’s not follow them.
There’s a parliamentary petition here. Please sign it.
Also please write to your MP and ask for answers.
America has gone to shit. Let’s not follow them.
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"When patients complain of memory loss or heart palpitations or an inability to exercise, their doctors are more likely to blame it on aging & downplay their symptoms...- 'The diagnosis is harder for this age group to receive because there’s ageism at play'":
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Long COVID More Common in Seniors: What Doctors Need to Know
Many long-COVID symptoms in people older than 65 years mimic signs of early aging, particularly cognitive, cardiac, and kidney issues.
www.medscape.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"When patients complain of memory loss or heart palpitations or an inability to exercise, their doctors are more likely to blame it on aging & downplay their symptoms...- 'The diagnosis is harder for this age group to receive because there’s ageism at play'":
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...