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In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations.

📢 It's one week closer to National ODP Day - 14th May 2025. This year's theme: Operating Department Practitioners: Committed to Care, Committed to Safety (1/3)

I didn't realise that Donald Trump was the lead singer of REM. (Sorry.) 😏 😂 #USPolitics #music 🎶

Try as they might, the Trump admin will never be able to extinguish the light of knowledge and pursuit of science

Right, I'm engaging with the whole Blsky thing now. If you're following me and I've not followed back, please let me know. AND give me suggestions of who the cool kids are? onwards!

‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist

NEW How Trump's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in his government's litigation being shockingly awful The US government is on the back-foot because it is not thinking strategically By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-tr... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...

Donald Trump’s solemn announcement about Pope Francis was rendered far beyond the absurd by the presence of the Easter Bunny. www.thepoke.com/2025/04/22/t...

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

“i dont think you need to draw that” ☠️

‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

If you know, you know

JD did a Liz Truss 😬

What is the #SASsix, we hear you ask? It is the right contract for the work done, support to develop your career, and the opportunity for all senior doctors to become leaders and educators. It supports doctors to achieve their potential, regardless of their career route. Help us make this normal.

If only there were some forum other than social media in which this evidence could be presented and evaluated like, oh I don’t know, a court of law.

The so-called "Christian Right" wears the cross but wields it like a weapon. It’s not Christianity. It is heresy wrapped in nationalism, bigotry, and the gospel of greed. A faith warped to serve empire, not Christ. Time to name it. Time to cast it out.

MORE MEDICAL SOCIETIES and publications need to do this. 𝕏 has become a cesspool and I’m surprised more physicians, scientists and academics aren’t fully on BlueSky yet. Bravo @anzca.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #medsky #academicsky #sciencesky

History always has a lesson.

On 2nd May, I’ll be in Cambridge with the splendid Henry Normal, reading poems. Not to fuel the rivalry further, but in Oxford last year, we had an audience of 600+. It will be interesting to see if Cambridge has as many intellectuals. Tickets here: crosstownconcerts.seetickets.com/event/brian-...

Maybe the real problem here is the company Thomas Erikson chooses to keep?

Re-watching Season 1 of "Andor" before Season 2 drops next week and boy does it have extra resonance now

Have we tried “be the best #AnSky you can with the equipment made available to you by your organisation whilst working with managers to improve kit within the limited cost envelope afforded to you by a socialised healthcare setting” yet?

How to write about fascism (1939)

I’ll go. Hey #ObsAnSky - 2.4mL or 2.5mL!? #AnSky #MedSky

Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.

We could have been talking about $25K down payment assistance for new homeowners in a thriving economy right now, but here we are.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

Yep, absolutely no confusion here whatsoever.

Arizona dog found a missing 2-year-old on his nightly patrol that a local rescue team spent 16 hours searching for. 15/10

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was disappeared. The US defied a federal court, and now openly defying a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling. This isn’t an error. It’s a test. Authoritarianism doesn’t kick down the door. It slips through the cracks. “just one man” “just this once” The canary’s dead. The gas is rising.

Make sure you wash your genitals before you go to the gym. It's not fair on the staff when they're deciding which changing room you go into.

What if they discover a cause for autism that can be vaccinated against?

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that probable cause exists to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for willful violation of his March 15 orders regarding Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation and sets next steps toward possible prosecution. More to come: www.lawdork.com

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview