Petunia Winegum 💙

Storyteller, Illustrator, Frog / #kidlit reviewer / Writes plays & children's books #MG 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

[Petunia Winegum 💙 @Wuuff]

I had a gruesome 2018, then this time last year I was selected by @youngvictheatre as part of their inaugural year-long writing programme, mentored by the fab @EuphoricInk
Play submitted, & this week my monologue will be performed at The Clare. To think I almost didn't apply...

[Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7]

An entire BBC article about cold and flu symptoms, OTC treatments /costs and medical advice if suffering symptoms.

Yet not a single mention of COVID.
It's in high circulation.

How is such an omission even remotely conceivable if not deliberate?
https://t.co/KtcFTj8qDo

[Joanna 🎒😷🍉Human life is sacred @JoannaTeglund]

"The current dominant strain in the U.S., PJ.2.1, has started getting stickier again (higher ACE2 binding affinity). That means it may attach more effectively to cells while still being good at immune escape. We are doing almost nothing to slow this down."

[𝙶𝚘 𝙰𝚜𝚔 𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 📚🐇 @aliceinempire]

Stop wondering “what is this terrible sickness that’s lasting for weeks?” and start asking “what has Covid done to my immune system?”

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

The currently spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is PJ.2.1, which has over 25 spike protein mutations. PJ.2.1 has demonstrated unusually strong binding to human cells compared to previous variants (e.g., JN.1). These changes may help this variant to spread further among people, although no one cares.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[CoronaHeadsUp @CoronaHeadsUp]

Schools: When the CO2 level exceeds 1000 ppm, the risk of Covid transmission nearly doubles

[Adam Wong @Engineer_Wong]

With an N95 mask, at least 95% of the viruses and bacteria in every breath you take are filtered out. With an air purifier, it takes three air changes for 95% of the viruses and bacteria to be filtered out.

The advantage of an N95 mask is that you don’t have to wait for three air changes, and it can block droplets, which an air purifier cannot do directly. Of course, you don’t have to choose one or the other—you can use both at the same time.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

He always looks a little sad that he has to do this to people, but they left him no choice.

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

British artist Louis Duffy's 'Christ Driving the Money-lenders from the Temple' (1940) shows Christ as a truncheon-wielding everyman confronting business-suited arms dealers, one with talon-like hands, trading on graves of war dead https://t.co/F5Cz8rzdQu

[Sky News @SkyNews]

New documents released by the Scottish government under a freedom of information request show that data centres could cause water shortages, higher energy bills and power cuts.

Sky's @emmabirchley explains.

https://t.co/HZ0WbnkpCJ

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233

[Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate @MarkCranfield_]

"The UK's copper wire landline system - which would work even in a power cut - will be switched off on 31 January 2027." Incredible.

There's a link to the govt messages that will be broadcast if the internet goes down.

[helen warlow @helen_warlow]

Saul Leiter (1923-2013)
Photographer of New York in the 1950s. Such evocative photos.
Important contribution to the New York School of Photography
@helen_warlow
#Art

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

JD Vance will never be president.
Never.
https://t.co/TtO0CEm6YC

[Diary of Abandonment @thequeenofrust]

One of the more haunting things in my WWII collection…

Years ago I picked up a badly worn, pocket-size dictionary at a local thrift store. It wasn’t until I got home that I found this note tucked inside its pages.

I tried to find a descendant of the author, hoping to gift them this note, but from my research I concluded that he died without having any children.

[Dr. Jennifer Irwin @drjenirwin]

If our water tested positive for cholera, would we stop boiling/cleaning it & instead share it over & over with our children, elders, friends & neighbours?

Now replace cholera with COVID and water with air.

Why do we protect our water but hesitate to protect the air we breathe?

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

If Covid was that bad there would be signs...

The sign.

[Gustavo @gustavocagnotto]

é MUITO importante que vocês vejam o segundo 37 desse vídeo, dei um sorriso

[★Briana★ @briana__gomez]

In case anyone is wondering what kind of Senator James Talarico will be, here’s him challenging the author of the Ten Commandments bill in the Texas house. He’s been fighting extremism and hypocrisy for a long time

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

Protect the real data centers 📚

[Petunia Winegum 💙 @Wuuff]

Met a lady in hospital today whose husband has visited her once in the 6 weeks she has been admitted, who stayed 15min for that visit during which he told her he had spent the £150 she had left in her handbag for emergencies on the council tax that she pays for via direct debit.

[Norma @JoonesNorma]

We get on with it.
It's a bit like living with a man.