Audrey D

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[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

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[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

Oh mi good g#d. How utterly horrendous.

[Coll McCail @MccailColl]

An extraordinary map of proposed data centres in Scotland via APRS.

Scotland’s land owners clearly eye an opportunity in big tech’s expansion.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Sainsbury's boss eyes bumper £7.3m payday as shoppers reel from higher food prices.

Up from £5.4m last year – 200 times average employee pay.

Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, shareholder returns.

Let workers vote on exec pay.
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[BigDaddy @strujillo075]

Trump is sending ships in June to remove over 900 deep-sea instruments from the Atlantic and Pacific, dismantling a $368 million monitoring network built over a decade that was meant to last 25 years. It will be dismantled in just 15 months.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Almost like Farage and Boris Johnson lied to us....

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS BOSSES WHO COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS ARE BEING QUIETLY RECYCLED INTO NEW NHS JOBS

A major @Telegraph investigation published in May 2024 interviewed 52 NHS doctors, midwives and nurses who raised patient safety concerns. Of those 52, only 27 remain in full NHS employment.

The managers who went after them? Most are still working in the NHS.

Here is who they found.

Simon Holmes. Portsmouth University Hospitals. Cost to taxpayer: £679,000.

Dr Jasna Macanovic was a kidney consultant who raised patient safety concerns about a dialysis procedure. Holmes, then medical director, launched a disciplinary investigation against her. A tribunal found it was direct retaliation under whistleblowing law. Dr Macanovic won £219,000 in compensation. NHS legal costs came to £460,000.

Holmes retired from Portsmouth and moved to Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as their Non-Executive Director responsible for speaking up culture. Pay: £20,000 per year stipend, on top of his NHS pension. He passed the fit and proper persons test.

Tim Powell. Portsmouth University Hospitals. Same case. Same new trust.

Powell was HR director when Dr Macanovic was wrongly dismissed. The tribunal heard he blocked an internal investigation that would have scrutinised those targeting her. He is now Chief People Officer at Hampshire Hospitals. Same building as Holmes.

Kathryn Magson. Isle of Man Department of Health. Cost to taxpayer: over £4 million.

Dr Rosalind Ranson was the island's medical director. She raised patient safety concerns and challenged whether Covid advice was being passed to ministers.

Her boss Kathryn Magson responded with what a tribunal described as humiliation, bullying, harassment and vilification. The judge called Magson's conduct "vindictive," "self-serving," and found her defence was "a travesty of the truth" drafted substantially by Magson herself. Dr Ranson was awarded £3.2 million. She has been unable to find NHS work since.

Ted Baker. Care Quality Commission @CareQualityComm. Case cost: undisclosed.

Orthopaedic surgeon Shyam Kumar worked part-time as a CQC hospital inspector. Between 2015 and 2019 he raised repeated concerns about unsafe inspections, patient harm and bullying. The CQC dismissed him. A Manchester Employment Tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed because of his whistleblowing. His concerns were found to be justified.

Throughout proceedings, Ted Baker, then CQC Chief Inspector of Hospitals, maintained the official position that Kumar had been sacked for inappropriate behaviour. That position was later comprehensively rejected by the Employment Tribunal. Baker has since retired from the CQC and been appointed Chair of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.

Jacqueline Totterdell. Epsom and St Helier / St George's University Hospitals. Cost to taxpayer: £12 million.

Prof Marjan Jahangiri was an eminent cardiac surgeon who raised patient safety concerns. Totterdell, group chief executive, wrongfully suspended him. A High Court judge found her decision-making "wholly inadequate." The suspension cost the trust £11 million in lost revenue and £936,000 in legal costs. That trust now projects a £115 million deficit.

Totterdell remains in post on £180,000 per year.

Paula Vennells. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

The disgraced Post Office chief executive, fresh from apologising over the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters following a High Court ruling, was appointed board chairman at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2019. No one asked any questions.

The pattern is the same in every case. The whistleblower loses their career. The manager who went after them gets promoted, recycled into a neighbouring trust, or handed a new role. In some cases NHS managers are accused of falsifying or destroying evidence to make whistleblowers appear to be the guilty ones.

Of the 52 medics interviewed by The Telegraph, 41 said their own conduct had been investigated rather than the issue they had raised.

Obstetrician Martyn Pitman @MartynPitman described the system plainly: "NHS executives are recycled within the system. Time and time again we see the re-appointment merry-go-round. If it was a senior clinician who made the equivalent mistakes, they just wouldn't get another job."

In November 2024, Health Secretary @wesstreeting launched a public consultation on proposals to regulate NHS managers and bar those who silence whistleblowers from ever working in senior NHS roles again. A consultation has been launched. Again.

This proposal has been made before. Nothing happened.

At a conference organised by @justice4doctor Justice for Doctors, Professor Jane Somerville of Imperial College London called for NHS managers to face the same regulatory standards as the doctors they manage.

Doctors lose their licence. Managers get a new office.

Sources: @Telegraph @BBCNews @bbchealth @HSJnews @BylineTimes @davidhencke @alexander_minh @MartynPitman @justice4doctor

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The government to us: “reduce the your carbon footprint and pay green taxes.”

The government to giant tech corporations: "feel free to build mega AI data centres that massively deplete energy and water resources and we will give you taxpayer funded subsidies to help you.”

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@elonmusk There will be fluctuations. If the population of our little world just keeps increasing there would be standing room only.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

Day, one at Camp Breastie and these conversations, I’m having are everything.

I met with a Breastie who was offered a lat flap and told it was her best option after radiation.

It's not.

This is 2026 and we are still here — still having this conversation. Doctors are not always right. Some offer surgeries that aren't always in your best interest, and I need you to know that.

No one should be losing muscle to rebuild a breast when better options exist.

If you're being gaslit, I see you. Keep asking questions. Keep pushing.

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@theiaincameron 'toiled in the blaze of the midday sun' .... .... .... in Dundee ???

[tern @1goodtern]

It's worth understanding that when they say "the biggest El Niño ever", they don't mean it the same way as 'biggest hurricane ever' or 'hottest heatwave ever'.

They mean the 'biggest fluctuation when compared with recent seasonal averages'.

Hmm. That's still confusing.

So it's the El Niño with the biggest ever deviation from the recent norm... but bear in mind that the *norm itself is higher than it used to be*.

So the variation is bigger.
But the baseline is bigger.

So no one really knows how big the repercussions of a huge El Niño effect will be on top of the new norm. They can model and estimate, but that's all it is.

But everything is pointing towards the effect being BIG.

I still think I haven't explained it right.

To summarise:
Good luck.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Over 1 billion lab-made mosquitoes have already been set loose.

Not in a movie. In real life.

Since 2019, a British biotech company called Oxitec has been releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild by the billions.

The targets? Aedes aegypti, the species behind dengue, Zika, and yellow fever.

The twist is in the engineering. The released males don't bite. They mate with wild females, and their female offspring never survive to adulthood.

Fewer biting females. Fewer disease carriers. A population that quietly collapses on itself.

It's already happened across Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Panama, and India.

And the program isn't slowing down. In the US, the EPA cleared the release of up to 2.4 billion more across parts of Florida and California.

Supporters call it a precision weapon against diseases that kill hundreds of thousands every year.

Critics call it an open-air experiment we agreed to before fully understanding it.

Either way, the swarm is already in the air.

Source: CDC — Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Bob Ochoa @Bobochoa7]

@maddenifico CANADA BANS TX CATTLE
Canada has announced a ban on livestock from Texas after flesh-eating screwworms were discovered in calves this week. "This is likely to spread over the course of the summer," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told reporters on Friday.

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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@forallcurious reference?

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@sonofagor @forallcurious reference?

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@anishmoonka Aspirin - made from coal tar.

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.

[Audrey D @FellowStargazer]

@DeGeorgeG @AnnieForTruth EC may be incentivised to hit out against tourism from US to Europe to enable the US tourism industry to stay afloat fueled by internal customers.