Dave Power

Enjoys midnight snacks

[NutriScience @Nutri_Science_]

Heart disease doesn't start with age.

It starts with inflammation, insulin resistance, and low nitric oxide.

Here are 6 science-proven tips to keep your heart young:

1. Eat some ice cream.

[Dave Power @tromover]

@Variety I loved it, great acting and some of those sweeping, transportive shots were supreme

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@TrackGazette Astounding. Great start and so fast he had to accommodate to clear the last 3 and he’s only 1 inch shorter than Bolt. Is anyone in his team thinking about what Gail Devers and Carl Lewis did?

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@_sorrengailll @TimRegency What happens in a drought?

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@hilde_angel @YvonneB94779919 In all of history this was the one to boycott. Allowing the US and FIFA to football wash a rogue and racist state is not worth it. The beautiful game got ugly

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@forallcurious What if you took it all at once?

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@BigBadWolf_SOD @ATRightMovies Y’all have short memories

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@sVathis @ATRightMovies Multiverse option

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@ATRightMovies Most of the Muppet movies

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.

Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.

After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.

This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.

Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.

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@_OwenM_ Actually I take it back. Once the training lines up for when she is meant to peak she will trail Werro longer and kick later

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@_OwenM_ Today was the legit one for me. Amazing and looked like Werro pulled up momentarily. I think Keely will look to control the front earlier on next time

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@guyrowlanduk @gill1109 It’s good, realistic and nuanced. I don’t blame the system for perjury though, that still matters separately.

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@BBCPolitics Politicians think it’s unfair for the Epstein machine to have Kompromat on them and want the same on the public to balance it out.

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@amyghunt Congrats Amy!

[Dr Svilena Dimitrova @NeoDoc11]

So glad this is finally public so I can comment on it openly.

I have seen a fair number of HR investigations over the years. In my experience, whistleblowers are often formally investigated before they are pushed out, or as a way of “teaching a lesson” to anyone who challenges the status quo. This is actually one of the most competent internal investigation reports I have seen.

What surprised me most was the outcome. Usually, management plays an active role in managing out people who raise concerns - such as Lucy, who was clearly DATIXing poor standards and practices within the neonatal unit. Dr Brearey and Dr Jayaram were in management positions at the time and therefore carried responsibility for patient safety and culture within the department. So that would have been a pretty major motivator to want her out if she was shining the spotlight on their managerial/leadership failures.

Lucy Letby was never going to be safe returning to a workplace where she was clearly being bullied by a group of colleagues (most of whom were consultants and thus in a position of power over her) unless individual accountability followed. At the very least, that should have meant formal warnings, apologies to Lucy, and mediated discussions. Management could have supported her with a temporary redeployment to another clinical unit so she could continue practising while matters were resolved. Clinical work was clearly what Lucy wanted to continue doing. Some people in these situations , where redeployment is necessary during HR investigations, choose to remain in management or leadership roles instead, but that wasn't what Lucy wanted.

So in essence the hospital made a strong start with doing a competent HR investigation - but by failing to follow through properly, the situation escalated to the point where consultants went to the police.

What nobody seems willing to ask is this: if the consultants genuinely believed Lucy was murdering babies, why did they only go to the police after they were found to have bullied her? If you truly believed a nurse was a serial killer, is it reasonable to accept that a consultant would really think that internal Trust procedures were an appropriate way to deal with it?

UK trained consultants are NOT politically naïve. Consultant appointments are highly political positions, and consultants understand very well how NHS systems actually work. It stretches credibility, and that's a generous description, to claim the consultants genuinely believed reporting concerns over a serial killer internally was what they thought was the right thing to do. If they truly thought Letby was such a prolific killer, were they not concerned she might harm children outside work as well?

This entire case is a national disgrace, and I suspect it will remain in history as one of the most consequential modern witch hunts in British healthcare. Witch hunts within the NHS are unfortunately, however, very common - often carried out through internal employment procedures or GMC processes. But turning that common dynamic (whose root cause is toxic leadership practices) into the conviction of a serial killer is something else entirely.

An extraordinary outcome, enabled by a broken medical "expert" system and sealed by an inadequate police investigation and criminal justice system. What a world we live in.

I hope everyone involved in this MoJ - or anyone who knew what was happening and could have helped but chose not to - gets what they deserve.

@LucyLetbyTrials @drphilhammond @PrivateEyeNews @NadineDorries @ClarkeMicah @peter__duffy @MartynPitman @willcpowell @DavidDavisMP @DavidRoseUK @PeterElston1 @Michelehal7344 @Voice4theDead @reasonoverfear @Oversig58651516 @Seagreen2707 @RexvsLucyLetby

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK government vastly underestimated carbon emissions from AI data centres and now raised their estimate by more than x100.

Energy use by AI data centres in the UK could cause emissions of 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide – as much generated by 2.7 million people over 10 years.

Net zero for us, but not for the tech giants.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Palantir. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @carolecadwalla

[Dave Power @tromover]

@alvaro_maestro Some hacks. Charter a yacht where needed. Go to Venice in winter.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.