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Chief superintendent for Miss David Mittens, Cats Protection Senior Cat of The Year Medical sociologist at UCL interested in sexual health, HIV and relationships 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Running Hackney Half 2025 for Positive East 💟 https://bit.ly/TWHH2025
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States theonion.com/fbi-unc...

Immigrants are only 3.5% of people worldwide – and their negative impact is often exaggerated, in the U.S. and around the world theconversation.com/immigrants-a...

#FiveYearsOn

#NowWatching The Miniaturist (2017 Guillem Morales) The auto generated-subtitle feature keeps struggling with the Dutch name 'Johannes'

Join us this week! There are still spots left at our love hub events!

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate 🍒☕🥧

This makes me laugh every time. I will not explain myself!

"Solidarity has always been a cornerstone of activism, and the history of #HIV advocacy highlights its transformative power," Joe Parry writes on our website looking back at previous generations of activists this LGBT+ History Month #LGBTplusHM. nat.org.uk/views/joe...

Nina Simone. Born this day in 1933. Ink, pencil and watercolour drawing from 2018.

I don't know Thames Water, why ARE bills going up?

A broadcast from the emergency cat feeding system. Photo from my collection, 1960.

The paper reporting findings from our HPRU BBSTI study with trans and gender diverse people on their perceptions of sexual health services in the UK is now open access! We also developed this snazzy visual summarising the key findings with @julesscheele.bsky.social sti.bmj.com/content/earl...

Instructions on a fix in this thread c/o @dwknight.co.uk for anyone affected by Community Fibre outage 👌

love this guy on the humane society website who appears to have just learned what neutering is

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run. The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were *chilling* (& barely reported at the time):

Margaret Thatcher was the worst Prime Minister ever and the continuation of her policies is the reason that the UK is such a sh*thole.

The plunder of children’s services by private equity continues unabated, despite the Government’s commitment to clamp down on profiteering. 🧵

#academicvalentines

We are nearing the end of National HIV Testing Week but we still have more sessions happening across East London so find one that works for you! You can book your test through our sexual health chatbot Pat - www.positiveeast.org.uk/chattopat/ or on our website - www.positiveeast.org.uk/hivtest/

“Legitimate concerns” and “just asking questions” were and always will be fig leaves for hate

GB News are now lashing out @goodlawproject.bsky.social, who they accuse of a launching "a deliberate and orchestrated campaign"... So GB News probably *don't* want you to share this: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

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Thread of comical/worrying dog crossbreeds: