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THREAD. Claire and I joined our friends @KeyWorkerPetUK last Wednesday in #London for #LongCovidAwaneressDay, travelling from all over the UK.
At great cost to us all health-wise, we did it because it was important. We started with a meeting @theRCN
ALT Rachel and Cass at the Royal College of Nursing
ALT Claire being interviewed by Gemma Mitchell of the Nursing Times
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Thanks to those of you asking for this. Here’s the full Drum & Bass remix of the BBC News theme. Composed by @davidlowemusic2, remixed by @crissycriss. And made with this afternoon @glastonbury in mind…
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The 8 Greatest Ads of All Time & Why They Worked:
1. Volvo (Jean-Claude Van Damme)
Cost: $4M
Results: 48M views in 9 days, $170M in revenue.
Why it worked: Stunning visuals + clear product demonstration.
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A group of 150 Southend United fans hired a ‘party boat’ to take them down The Thames to their match away to Sutton on Saturday, and they soon noticed that an American tourist called Evan was sitting quietly by himself, so they asked him if he was OK. It turned out that he had got on the boat by accident and thought he was doing a sightseeing tour of London 😂😂😂
They instantly adopted him as a new Shrimper, got the beers in, and even gave him a ticket to the match that ended 1-1. If you kept hearing the chant ‘Evan is a Shrimper’ on the radio - now you know why!
📸 Andy Ward
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There's no lack of money in our country. We just need to spread it around a little more.
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The Myth of Over-Diagnosis:
Labour is Gaslighting Disabled Communities, and it has to stop!
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By Emma Dolan Horlock
The Labour government’s recent rhetoric on disability benefits has ignited fear among disabled communities across the UK. Their most recent claim that medical conditions are now "over-subscribed" is not just a distortion of reality but an insidious attempt to delegitimise long-term illness and disability. It implies that the rise in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims is a product of over-diagnosis rather than the consequence of decades of medical neglect, ignoring the systemic underfunding within a healthcare system that has failed to diagnose and treat chronic conditions effectively. Many of us have struggled, and continue to do so, for years before receiving a diagnosis, often being dismissed, gaslit, or misdiagnosed along the way. The suggestion that we are now being over-diagnosed is an outright dismissal of our lived reality and implies that the very people who were ignored for so long must now somehow be fabricating or exaggerating their conditions.
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The Drill
Song: T-Pain by @PeteandBas
Created using @Hailuo_AI and @krea_ai
@elonmusk @ianmiles @TonyHinchcliffe @tunguz @cb_doge @DefiantLs @nelkboys @TheFigen_ @FearedBuck @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @jordanbpeterson @charliekirk11
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Putin and Trump are both fascists, @TimothyDSnyder writes. Their use of the word to refer to their enemies is one of fascism’s essential characteristics: a fascist does not serve the language; the language serves him. nyer.cm/TlOg49f
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Musk menace beautiful exposed @ByDonkeys
Holy shit this is INCREDIBLE work from @ByDonkeys. And bonus points for projecting the entire thing on @Tesla headquarters, effectively turning @elonmusk’s building’s most visible exterior side into a cinema screen to broadcast the tale of his corruption and political malfeasance
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I’ve spent a lot of time in St Peter Port this week, a charming Guernsey town with cobbled streets and a beautiful harbour.
It’s a special place for me personally, as it’s where my journey into campaigning for people-friendly streets first began. Here’s what happened ..
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A funny and true story about the late Queen:
Around 2005, the Queen and her Personal Protection Officer, Dick Griffin, were walking alone one afternoon in the hills near the Scottish royal castle, Balmoral.
Two tourists approached them, and engaged in conversation. Griffin recalls:
“There were two hikers coming towards us, and the Queen would always stop and say hello.
"They were two Americans on a walking holiday.
"It was clear from the moment we stopped that they hadn't recognized the Queen, which was fine.
"The American gentleman was telling the Queen where they came from, where they were going next, and where they'd been in Britain.
"I could see it coming, and sure enough, he said to Her Majesty: 'And where do you live?'
"She replied: 'Well I live in London, but I've got a holiday home just the other side of the hills.'
"He said: 'How long have you been coming up here?'
"She replied: 'I've been coming up here ever since I was a little girl, so over 80 years.'
"You could see the cogs whirring, so he said: 'Well, if you've been coming up here for over 80 years, you must have met the Queen.'
"Quick as a flash, she said: 'I haven't, but Dick here meets her regularly.'
The hiker then asked Griffin what the monarch was like in person.
"Because I was with her a long time, and I knew I could pull her leg, I said: 'Oh, she can be very cantankerous at times, but she's got a lovely sense of humour.'
The next thing I knew, this guy comes round, puts his arm around my shoulder, and before I could see what was happening, he gets his camera, GIVES IT TO THE QUEEN, and says: 'Can you take a picture of the two of us?'
"Then we swapped places, and I TOOK A PICTURE OF THEM WITH THE QUEEN.
"And we never let on, and we waved goodbye.
"Afterwards, Her Majesty said to me: 'I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to his friends in America, and hopefully someone tells him who I am'."
❤️The World Misses You Greatly
Rest in Peace Your Majesty ❤️
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Runway of Power, a superb AI view of the world's most powerful individuals on the runway made with Midjourney and Luma AI by interdimensional. tv
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