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In Lisbon I went out for a meal. I had to have proof of a Covid test *that day*, but didn’t. So the restaurant sold me a Lateral flow test for €2.50. I went in & enjoyed my meal, with all the other tested customers. Pretty simple really. No fuss and no arguing about “freedoms”.
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London is turning into a “Steam Punk” city, with Victorian lampposts now adapted as electric car chargers.
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German TV put the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
at 2.2 million, according to a German methodology for estimating crowds
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WhatsApp will share its users' personal information, including phone numbers, IP addresses, contacts, & more with Facebook from Feb. 8, according to the new T&Cs. No opt-out. The only way to object is to leave the service & move to a service like Signal or Telegram.
If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook from next month – and no, you can'…
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Turkey can kiss goodbye to it’s tech talent. Many will contemplate leaving the country now.
BREAKING: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won re-election, according to unofficial data
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The UK population *only began Googling the meaning* of 'No deal Brexit' in July 2018. Do not believe Brexiteers when they say the public signed-up to this at the referendum.
#NoDealBrexit
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Fantastic work by
@sophie_e_hill
getting the “My Little Crony” map of Tory cronyism (PPE contracts etc) - based on work by
@allthecitizens
&
@carolecadwalla
- mentioned today in Parliament
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Nigel Farage is raising money in the US to influence a possible U.K. election. This is the work of a traitor, pure and simple.
Nigel Farage has joined forces with Americans to form new lobbying body to raise 💰 for Brexit.
“World4Brexit” was launched in New York and attended by Trump supporters including Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager, and Phil Bryant, the gov of Mississippi.
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Turns out Liz predicted the recession back in 2016. How prescient of her.
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It’s against international maritime law not to aid a vessel in distress. Furthermore, this is not journalism!
"They're using a plastic container to try to bail out the boat"
Live on
#BBCBreakfast
@SimonJonesNews
found another migrant boat attempting to cross the Channel. The group say they're from Syria.
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Steele dossier said Putin offered Trump 19% of Rosneft if he became President & removed sanctions. Last week 19.5% of Rosneft was sold...
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THREAD: I’m pretty sick of the poor quality debate about whether to involve Huawei in the roll-out of 5G in the UK and elsewhere. The simple fact is that it is NOT the only provider of 5G networks - but it is the largest and (surprise!) the CHEAPEST
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Signal and Telegram are now better alternatives if you are concerned about your privacy. Here’s what a Facebook wants out of you on WhatsApp and it’s own site:
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Appalling disinformation campaign going on at Conservative Party Press office which has changed its name to masquerade as a fact-checking organisation! cc.
@Twitter
@TwitterUK
@TwitterSafety
#LeadersDebate
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Germany took in a million refugees. It's economy is solid. Unemployment plummeting. Makes you think, huh?
#Germany
's economy keeps roaring: German jobless rate drops to fresh low of 5.8% as March unemployment saw biggest drop since Sep2011.
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VIDEO: Vote Leave chair: ‘We can’t prove our innocence because we destroyed the evidence’
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Behold, the UK’s new Digital Minister also responsible for cyber security.
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Q: How do you set up a Conservative with a small business?
A: Give them a big one, and then wait.
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Macron has insisted that any Brexit extension can last no longer than 15 days. Can someone please tell (scream at?)
@EmmanuelMacron
that 2 million Leavers have passed away and 2M Remain teens have hit voting age? A longer extension could ensure a Referendum on the deal.
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The Tories have taken out a Google Ad to appear top of the page when people search 'register for a postal vote uk'. It comes ABOVE the .gov.uk official website portal. Before you can register you have to give them all your contact and personal data...
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UK gets US travel ban exemption. "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last" Churchill
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Lukashenko will only resign if he runs out of money. The Belarusian gov. listed its bonds on the London Stock Exchange in June. The people of
#Belarus
don't see this money. Therefore the LSE should delist Belarusian gov. bonds, or
@DominicRaab
shd ban Belarusian sovereign debt.
The violence against peaceful protesters in Belarus is appalling. The UK does not accept the results of this fraudulent Presidential election & calls for an urgent investigation through
@OSCE
into its serious flaws & the grisly repression that followed.
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The boss of Next says he wants a Brexit deal but could handle “no-deal chaos”. Ok then mate, how about handling a
#BoycottBrexiterShops
from me because you just lost a customer. Let’s make a list of these Brexit-backing businesses!
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The “ITV Exposure” documentary on Sunday at 11pm will be a 1hr investigation into the Boris Johnson & Jennifer Arcuri story, by award-winning journalist John Ware.
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After Dyson, Britain’s richest man, Brexiter Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who was knighted less than a year ago, plans to move to Monaco to avoid £4bn in tax. Brexiters are so supportive of the UK...
#FinalSay
#WTOBrexitNOW
#letsgowto
#NoDealBrexit
#nodealnoproblem
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Just FYI: The
#RevokeArticle50
tag is trending on twitter and this petition has just shot up from 17K to 25K in the last hour or so. It was started two days ago.
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8,825 people in North East Somerset have signed the petition to
#RevokeArticle50
. That is 86% of
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
MP's current majority, and 9% of the population of North East Somerset
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The method is based on how many people pass every second on the official march route.
200 / sec for 3 hours is 2.16 million. The march was actually longer than 3 hours. Even if you call it 100 people every second you get 1.08m.
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The man suspected of supplying the bomb that killed the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is part of a group which funnelled €200,000 into a European Parliament party and foundation with close links to Nigel Farage, says
@BylineTimes
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An archive of awful, his name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Here’s his litany of lies, listed for your convenience.
#BorisBus
#BorisJohnson
@mrjamesob
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Somebody out there - and no one knows who - has spent over £250,000 in less than a year to push pro-Brexit messages to over 10 million people in the UK. Who’s going to investigate this?
New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers by
@mikebutcher
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But talk about numbers is a distraction: there is, by comparison, almost NO Leave movement. It is simply rallies Farage etc manufacture. These are COMICALLY LOW in numbers. Leavers attacking the count of the PV march is trying to own our narrative. Here’s a Leave march:
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Debunking 25 years of false claims about the EU - in The Economist. The Daily Mail & Telegraph (BoJo’s paper), were/are the worst. It’s not journalism, it's propaganda designed to serve a wealthy tax-avoiding elite.
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Quite something.
Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.
The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President.
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Any journalist writing up this stupid stunt needs to know that 1. Organiser
@YannyBruere
routinely RTs Far Right account Prison Planet & similar 2. This is clearly a front for the Far Right. 3. London’s safety is down to historic underfunding of the Police by HMG, not Sadiq Khan.
Sadiq Khan blimp to fly over London one month after Donald Trump balloon stunt
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Brexit versus the Millennium Bug / Y2K:
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Goodbye
@Sainsburys
- and the rest of these brands
Hey
@Sainsburys
. You tweeted 285 times over the weekend, but not one answer to the people asking why you fund Nigel Farage as he attacks RNLI lifeboat crews. So what’s your policy? Still paying Farage’s salary?
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The dark side of Silicon Valley culture: Thanking a tech founder for creating a car that’s was improved after sacrificing its driver. Implying death is a useful beta-testing tool to create a better adaptive cruise control. It’s morally empty.
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A friend of mine went to a gig recently. Guy beside him worked for the Bank Of England economic forecasting unit. Brexit came up. He laughed: “We can’t tell you how bad it’s really going to be, we are barred from speaking." Then he moved his hand slowly down to the floor.
#GE2019
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Yes! It looks like we may have a vaccine for Malaria! My father, Dr Geoffrey Butcher, worked tirelessly for 40+ years on similar research.
@JennerInstitute
in Oxford, which recently cracked COVID19, is putting their vaccine into trials in Africa now!
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Our febrile political atmosphere has led to tensions in Northern Ireland. Last night someone I actually know from journalism was shot & killed in Derry:
@LyraMcKee
. An incredible young journalist &
@mediagazer
editor. It’s utterly heartbreaking. RIP Lyra
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Our media community, led by
@mjrharris
, has set up this Gofundme campaign, the money from which will go to the family of Lyra McKee for funeral expenses and to decide on her legacy, likely to be the continuation of her campaigning. Please donate:
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Facebook is losing $13m an hour.
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Tip
@Techmeme
Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M Seed led by Founders Fund
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Congrats to my eldest son, who got amazing exam results and is now off to University in September to study Physics & Maths! I'm a very proud Dad! 🎉
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Today I have been told at least 3 UK startups lost deals from EU-based investors because funding was conditional on Remain to win.
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Imagine there's no Facebook
It's easy if you try
No more ads towards us
We’re taking back our lives
Imagine all the people
Living for today
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Just 11% of the Pentagon’s current $716 billion budget — about $80 billion — would pay to produce enough wind and solar energy to power every one of the 127.59 million households in the United States
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Tomorrow
@TechForUK
will be delivering its letter to the Prime Minster, rejecting her Withdrawal Agreement & calling for a
#FinalSay
#PeoplesVote
, on behalf of over *900* Tech CEOs, MDs & industry leaders. There’s still time to sign it!
The
@TechForUK
UK Tech Industry Letter to the Prime Minister rejecting the Withdrawal Agreement & calling for a
#FinalSay
on Brexit via a
#PeoplesVote
has now passed 800 signatories! If you're a tech executive, please sign Here's a selection:
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For its Brexit ads, the government is using a font made by the Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Institute for Standardization) invented in 1931.
Perhaps satire by the ad agency commissioned for the job? (H/t
@kosso
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Dear
@BBCNews
it was not "several thousand" it was at least 40-50,000 marching
#marchforeurope
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I just signed the petition "UK Parliament: We request that the UK rejoin the EU as soon as possible”
#RejoinEU
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THIS IS BIG: Revealed: Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network
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I must say that
@lilyallen
, having taken up the just cause of refugees & migrants, does not move on like most celebs. She stands & fights!
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So here we are, selling off our Crown Jewels to China, and then afterwards wringing our hands about whether to buy China’s technology, which is now based on *what WE developed*!
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The Neverspoons app is here! Find yourself an alternative pint while also supporting local independent pubs and bars.
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Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko estimated more than 20,000 civilians had been killed and noted that this was twice the number of deaths recorded in the entire two-year Nazi occupation of the city during WWII: “Putin is a bigger evil than Hitler.”
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@elonmusk
The T-Shirts are from 2016: Dorsey explained the shirt: "To me, my interpretation of what it means, and it has evolved a little bit over time, is really being aware, and staying aware, and keep questioning. Being awake, and eyes wide open."
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How social networks can be used to bias votes - Evidence is stacking up that a small number of strategically placed bots can influence the choices of undecided voters.
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“Congrats America, You’re Not the Dumbest Country in The World Anymore. Britain Is. How Incompetence, Malice, Greed, and Stupidity Left Britain A Smoking Shattered Wreck”
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US Election 2020 Results live tallies
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Extinction Rebellion ran a poll on their Telegram about attacking the Tube. Huge majority against. One group ignored it and pre-announced an action. Obviously no one saw that. It went ahead. Here’s the result:
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THREAD! DROP EVERYTHING!
We need *every UK & EU national* in the UK to vote in the EU Elections!
You can now easily sign up online for a Postal vote!
Here’s how:
Share this message via WhatsApp to spread the word, just pick your language:
UK:
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The Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) is not transparent about who funds it. And yet a Minister of State is happy with launching its report. It’s ridiculous.
Tory Heath Secretary teams up with think tank who want NHS replaced by insurance
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.
@Tim_r_dawson
is a ‘freelance journalist’ behind “
@Brit_Future
” - a shadowy group which has spent up to £350,000 telling people to attack MPs for questioning
#Brexit
. Where does a *freelance* journalist get £350,000? Who is supplying
#DawsonsCash
?
#AskTim
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To conclude: If Western governments HAD SOME COURAGE, they would start backing THEIR OWN companies in the development of 5G, rather than falling for technology from a government which is NOTORIOUS for industrial and other types of espionage.
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Awful news, again :-(
*Don't spread rumours
*Don't spread gruesome images
*Use official sources or trusted news, BBC etc
#LondonBridge
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Our Parliament votes on
@theresa_may
’s Brexit deal on Tuesday.
It’s a *bad deal* for Britain, compared to what he have now!
Click here to send your MP a REAL postcard and ask them to *vote down* this deal:
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I’ve got so much respect for
@MadeleinaKay
who so often puts herself in very stressful situation like this!
4/ they called me a fascist, a complicit racist and then asked me if I was
@Anna_Soubry
's daughter 🙄
#YellowVestUK
#YellowVest
#StopBrexit
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@unquale
No future under an effective dictatorship that also strips women of their rights.
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I don't speak French, but think I understand this.
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And let’s not even get into the sheer stupidity of Brexit, which collapsed Sterling, caused huge uncertainty and probably led directly to the sale of ARM (in 2016 for $32BN) the UK’s last major hard-core tech firm & the leading maker of chips for smartphones, to SoftBank.
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You can report it to Google for “Misleading content or scam" in the drop-down next to the advert.
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Oh. My. God.
I’m literally speechless.
For an app!? I.. I...
WHAT!?
Lord Bethell reveals to peers that the cost of the failed NHSX app has so far been £11.8m
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Just bumped into a US company founder at an event. Company has raised over $90m and just launched their European office. They wanted to do it in London but they decided they had to choose Amsterdam because of the uncertainty caused by Brexit. (
#TechForUK
Join
@TechForUK
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Uyghur Horror: Harvesting Hundreds of Thousands of Organs from Mass Murder
“90,000 Muslims and other political prisoners are being executed each year for the purpose of profiting from the sale of their live organs.”
China is creating a new Holocaust.
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There is a LOT of suspicious twitter bot activity on the hashtag
#SackTomWatson
- beware of disinformation campaigns being run by, well, we know not whom...
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We’ve heard the same from multiple sources. No official confirmation yet but it looks like the
#peoplesvotemarch
hit 1.5m+ people which is the biggest march ever in the uk. Beat that, Leave.
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TECH FRIENDS!
There are connections between people/orgs in the whole
#Brexit
debacle that we just don't know about.
And they are hard to MAP.
So, we want people in tech to look at the best way to map them (e.g. LittleSis). Come to our meetup!
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@alanmendoza
@IsabelOakeshott
SCOOP!? She’s decided to turn “whistleblower” simply as cover for her own culpability! Exactly how naive can you be!?
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The KEY message is that these EU election results are a *wake up call* for Remainers in all parties to get their act together BEFORE a GE! If they don’t work together there is a huge risk that a *MERGED Cons & BXP party* gets a big majority on 30% of the vote.
#RemainersUnite
!
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Portugal has temporarily given all migrants and asylum seekers full citizenship rights, granting them full access to the country's healthcare as the outbreak of the novel coronavirus escalates in the country. THIS is how to treat refugees *right now*.
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hi
@BBCNews
👋 please report on the Policing Bill, it's a threat to British freedoms and the media is hardly covering it.
Read more and tweet at other news outlets here
#PolicingBill
#KillTheBill
via
@HeyNewsOrg
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Scariest Tsunami video yet. 1st person view as a town goes in 6 mins.
http://bit.ly/h80nZm
via
@Percival
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This is an incredibly prescient comment on the FT site:
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"Your starter for ten: Why did
@amolrajan
studiously avoid reporting on Evgeny Lebedev's links to Boris Johnson while Media Editor of the BBC?"
BREAKING: Amol Rajan confirms he will replace Jeremy Paxman as University Challenge host
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I should add that Signal is the gold standard for Privacy at this point and beats Telegram on a number of fronts.
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Dr Firman, an Australian physicist, put the (tentative) estimate between 1.5-1.9 million on the
#PutItToThePeople
March on Saturday.
This seems more accurate than other methods the media have reported on.
#PeoplesVoteMarch
#FinalSay
#FBPE
#PeoplesVote
@UK4Europe
@Iloveautumn2
@cbtwittle
@MaxwellLevy
@Old_Ben_Kay
@WernerT_Man
@Jimena_1976
@AuroraBlogspot
@spconnolly
@PulseofEurope
@mikegalsworthy
@andrea95115861
@EreaAndrzej
@GenreResearch
@So_Ethereal
@karolinho
@madgie1941
@phoenix_de
@acgrayling
@csibike1
@judithbogner
@abcpoppins
@spaceangel1964
@DirkLaabs
@eyejosh
@AndrewAtter
@RobertCPalmer13
@UKEUchallenge
@MollyMEP
@EmmaLBriant
@dianayz
@premnsikka
@FRANCE24
@CharlesTannock
@JangleB
@julietlodge2
@MrsEmmaJK
@robert_busch65
@nickreeves9876
@RemainingKind
@VesperUK
@JohnFordBlagger
@maikebohn
@ByDonkeys
@labruunt
@EUflagmafia
@BBCNews
@carolecadwalla
@guyverhofstadt
@ladyhaja
I have access to a program we used to use to count ants over video feed, we used the ITV helicopter film, we ran the test 20 times and got an estimate of between 1.5 and 1.9 million people. Please note this is not reliable number of people attending.
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What an absolute dickhead. Seriously.
I'm planning a 'Men's March' to protest at the creeping global emasculation of my gender by rabid feminists. Who's with me?
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Perhaps "Long Covid" should be renamed "Short Parkinsons"?
See also this study in macaques with covid showing all developed what are called Lewy bodies associated with Parkinson's.
1918 flu also associated with Parkinson's years later.
We are risking *a lot* by ignoring mass infection.
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