So the government decided to restrict who can get free flu vaccines on the NHS, and now we have a monster flu season overwhelming the NHS and hospitals declaring critical incidents all over the place.
I believe that's what's known as #FAFO
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgxg7kd6p4t
#PreventionIsBetterThanCure #PreventionIsCheaperThanCure #Flu #Influenza #Vaccines #FluVaccine #NHSCrisis #NHSWinterCrisis #FluCrisis
A very quick Myfanwy and Friend Special Edition for #NationalSnuggleAChickenDay
HT to @MaQuest and @art_history_animalia for the inspiration and source, responsibility as ever my own.
I feel like the snuggled chickens have a bit of attitude going on. There is definitely a backstory here.
Hi all. Given the recent announcement from Meta about AI personas and allowed behavior, I am moving threads.net back to a limit, and will likely move them to a block in the future on infosec.exchange. I can’t ignore the reality that the changes they’re making are specifically intended to permit attacks on many of the people that call this place home. I won’t rule out that they walk the changes back, which is why I’m not jumping to sever the nearly 4000 mutual follow relationships between people on threads and here.
The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto - trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users:
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Half of a crisp sandwich in front of Crisp Walk sign
#DailyCrispSandwich https://vole.wtf/buttystock/~mark-norman-francis/3/
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-zuckerberg-recipient-of-worlds-first-rat-penis-transplant-announces-meta-will-stop-fact-checking/
Good evening.
Today I finished the first stage of an Important But Dull report AND finally realised that the photo of this leaf was the wrong way round, and that's why it wasn't looking right.
So there's that.
Everything else seems a bit grim. Running away to play a game and ignore that for the moment.
Today, @ddosecrets published 212GB of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary/militia groups, including Three Percent and Oath Keepers, available for everyone to download https://ddosecrets.com/article/paramilitary-leaks
More about the leak from @ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
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