Ed Rooksby

Political theorist. Books, coffee, hedgehogs, weightlifting & trying to resuscitate Left Eurocommunism. All views my own etc. #longcovid

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Wrote something about having long covid https://t.co/foWTgYk8jG

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Watching 'Wayne' on Prime and while it's horribly violent it's also extremely good.

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new statesman: coffee shops are posh and middle class except for worker owned cooperative coffee shops which are racist

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@NuPopulism 'And yet you participate in society, curious!' meme

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fuck you

[Financial Times @FinancialTimes]

Should a 'big wave of infection' be allowed to flow through the UK once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated against Covid-19? https://t.co/8TuMp6rqy0

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Ah yes 'mild covid' on the timeline. Fucking do one.

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After several months of this I'm not sure I'm ever actually going to fully recover. Not ever going to be fit again probably. Bit shit tbh

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I think it's delayed onset from the lung function tests on Friday, but I'm exhausted from going up and down the stairs a couple of times, stabby pains in chest, pins and needles in arms and my insides feel like pate. Not nice. Would not recommend

[Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_]

UPDATE: Following today's official data, the latest estimate of the number of UK excess deaths to date since the pandemic started is

120,000

The figures are now pretty stable, so the model's updating of the 110,800 excess deaths already announced is likely to be accurate

1/

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@BiggusDiggus I'm just joking

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Googling bird boxes on amazon and far too expensive so scrolling through some 'insect hotels' instead before thinking why the fuck do I want loads of horrible insects in my garden?

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@Kennedy121 just in the mood man

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Hypothetically what is the latest socially acceptable time to drill holes in walls if you live in a terraced house and all the neighbours are in because it's lockdown?

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@Ecoclown this is discrimination

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@janepickering99 You are welcome to them if you want them

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@DawnHFoster Just googled rawl plugs and google is 'do you mean *wall* plugs dumbass'?

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I have just discovered they are called 'wall plugs' and not 'rawl plugs'. Can this be true?

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@Archimbaldo I'm trying to think of one

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@bat020 Apparently so. But I think I may have scoffed at someone referring to them as wall plugs in the past. Bit embarrassed.

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@BiggusDiggus Yeah but I don't want them in my garden

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@KieronMcCarron1 Ah!!