Reposted by Matt Collins
Typically incisive and optimistic post from Eric. As he says, if this large effect were the product of Alzheimer’s research it would be hailed as a huge breakthrough. And yet, in the UK, those of us between 65 and 70 can’t get the vaccine on the NHS (v expensive as private purchase)…
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
erictopol.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Typically incisive and optimistic post from Eric. As he says, if this large effect were the product of Alzheimer’s research it would be hailed as a huge breakthrough. And yet, in the UK, those of us between 65 and 70 can’t get the vaccine on the NHS (v expensive as private purchase)…
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Convinced the kids the sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Requiem For A Dream. Happy Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Convinced the kids the sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Requiem For A Dream. Happy Christmas!
Reposted by Matt Collins
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Reposted by Matt Collins
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reposted by Matt Collins
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
Reposted by Matt Collins
Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
Ahead of the National Year of Reading, the Education Committee has launched a new inquiry to understand how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure 👇 #BookSky
MPs launch inquiry into how the joy of reading can be kept alive
ebx.sh
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
Reposted by Matt Collins
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Reposted by Matt Collins
“China's renewable energy sector has surged ahead, and India reached its goals five years early, with huge investment in solar and wind energy.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’
Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offer world hope of avoiding climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“China's renewable energy sector has surged ahead, and India reached its goals five years early, with huge investment in solar and wind energy.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Matt Collins
Good morning with good news: India meets 50% renewables & nuclear capacity target 5 years early!
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Good morning with good news: India meets 50% renewables & nuclear capacity target 5 years early!
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
Reposted by Matt Collins
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Reposted by Matt Collins
I will keep saying this until I am blue in the face; we have been in a disinfo/propaganda war with Russia since 2014, & it's one of the few things their military is genuinely excellent at, & we're fucking LOSING
Farage, Trump, Brexit, Transphobia, the rise of the far right - they're pushing it all
Farage, Trump, Brexit, Transphobia, the rise of the far right - they're pushing it all
Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.
Since 15 Sept IFTAS has tracked a network of over 300 Mastodon accounts engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives:
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I will keep saying this until I am blue in the face; we have been in a disinfo/propaganda war with Russia since 2014, & it's one of the few things their military is genuinely excellent at, & we're fucking LOSING
Farage, Trump, Brexit, Transphobia, the rise of the far right - they're pushing it all
Farage, Trump, Brexit, Transphobia, the rise of the far right - they're pushing it all
Reposted by Matt Collins
Georgiy Nisskiy (1903-1987)
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Georgiy Nisskiy (1903-1987)
More issues with Microsoft support today. I keep getting these error pop-ups when trying to submit a service request for a broken Xbox controller. It's stuff like this that really winds me up. Sort out your processes, Microsoft!
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
More issues with Microsoft support today. I keep getting these error pop-ups when trying to submit a service request for a broken Xbox controller. It's stuff like this that really winds me up. Sort out your processes, Microsoft!
Reposted by Matt Collins
Swapping out the microwave whose clock is set on British Summer Time for the microwave whose clock is on Greenwich Mean Time.
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Swapping out the microwave whose clock is set on British Summer Time for the microwave whose clock is on Greenwich Mean Time.
Reposted by Matt Collins
GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”
The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”
The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”
The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”
The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6
Reposted by Matt Collins
From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:
Why is Microsoft support so terrible? Can't call, ai answers are awful, can't request a callback, can't get their chat help to work... Just atrocious.
October 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Why is Microsoft support so terrible? Can't call, ai answers are awful, can't request a callback, can't get their chat help to work... Just atrocious.
Reposted by Matt Collins
“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?”
“It doth not, good sir!”
( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
“It doth not, good sir!”
( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?”
“It doth not, good sir!”
( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
“It doth not, good sir!”
( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
Reposted by Matt Collins
October 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Matt Collins
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
Reposted by Matt Collins
Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology
September 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology
Reposted by Matt Collins
Oh.
That doesn’t seem right
That doesn’t seem right
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Oh.
That doesn’t seem right
That doesn’t seem right