Elaine Wright 😵‍💫

anything I write is my brain going............

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Mamas A. Mamas @mmamas1973]

1. In NHS Forth Valley Scotland there surgical care practitioners (non medically qualified individuals that have no formal surgical training / have not passed surgical fellowship exams) undertaking advanced breast surgery autonomously, with "remote"consultant supervision.

That this is happening in a first world healthcare system is both dangerous and incredulous.

➡️The post involves working autonomously in an outpatient setting to review, diagnose and implement a comprehensive treatment plan, including gaining informed consent for surgery and listing patients for surgical intervention.

➡️The post involves autonomously working in an operating theatre environment – both in procedure rooms and main theatres – to perform surgical procedures independently and to lead the theatre team to deliver safe surgical care for the patient.

➡️ Assume responsibility for individuals within a clinical setting /caseload under remote Consultant supervision.

Here is the job advert:
https://t.co/5we93ELFI7
(i have saved content in case it mysteriously goes down)

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

@BeingScots Can I pinch the image? Pure dead brilliant 🤪

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

@m4ggiesimpson @jabberwock951 It definitely does, got one of them t-shirts

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO
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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury.

He was given less than two years behind bars.

It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

This movie was way ahead of its time.
Nailed America to a tee.
I’m not lying.
Watch it for yourselves.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

@m4ggiesimpson @MedRegoncall1 @WestSuffolkNHS No such thing as a 'quick echo'

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

@esanum @IhabFathiSulima Are you sure???

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

@echo_batman ?catching aortic valve flow

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

These people are cruel monsters not guardians of the countryside

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

The UK government wants to put my wife Rose in a cage.

Rose is one of the kindest people I know. We saw a bird hit by a car today, and Rose rushed out on a busy street, with tears streaming down her face, trying to give the bird aid. (The little one passed away in her arms.) Rose risks life and limb to help animals who are in danger.

But to the UK government, she is a criminal. In one month, she'll face charges in two separate cases, one for rescuing beagles from MBR (a facility that has sent thousands of puppies to a brutal death, including in toxic inhalation experiments), and the other for rescuing lambs from King Charles of England (who maintains a de facto factory farm where babies are sent to slaughter).

There are many things I'm thankful for this holiday season. But at the top of the list is Rose. Animal abusing industries can come after her. Corrupt governments can prosecute her. It will only cause more and more people to see the truth:

Rose, and those who defend animals, are not criminals. They're heroes.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Boxing Day is the biggest day of the year for fox hunts across the country. So help us ruin their big day.

RT this and drop us a follow if you're against the sick pastime of fox hunting.

Support wildlife this Boxing Day.

[ScotRail @ScotRail]

It would be a Christmas miracle if we could reunite this teddy with their owner! 🎅

If you were on an Edinburgh service today and your little one has lost their favourite cuddly toy, please send us a message. 😊

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Share if you agree!

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

The grinning face of a #PSYCHOPATH!! Need I say anymore!!! Charisa Argys, from Colorado, with a Cougar that she killed.

RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on #trophyhunting NOW!!

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

It's got to change! 'Share' if you agree!

[Elaine Wright 😵‍💫 @WrightEG]

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