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

London, England
Joined December 2009
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...
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when i accidentally close my 55 tabs it's like the burning of the library of alexandria, but worse and much more dire
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Normally @UKHSA when the graph exceeds the top of the axis, you increase the axis.
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“If you cut taxes for the rich, they’ll create jobs.”🤡
Microsoft just made $133.7 BILLION in net income last year. Today they announced they are getting rid of 60,000 workers. Fuck these companies man.
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It's difficult to describe how much of a stupid bastard you must be to want to opt out of bowel cancer screening. From someone who has been through it, use every opportunity to get checked.
Hubs just got an NHS bowel cancer screening kit unasked for. They waste about £15m a year on unreturned kits. 35% approx I phoned up at his request to opt out. They now have to send a letter for him to sign. Why are people not asked to opt in to this if they want it?
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Lots of people don't want to wear masks because of the stigma associated... Please ignore that and wear one, especially when traveling.
I am so disenheartened by the number of people on my flights today hacking away and by the number oblivious to their fate that either are sick or are getting exposed.
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I made a little show as an extra for BBC Radio 4 Extra (pretty much in my own time): it’s being repeated to mark 20 years since the death of Nigel Kneale. This sort of bonus (dare I say it Reithian?) content will not be possible once the station goes: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016jc…
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the cybersecurity situation is deteriorating at a pace that’s getting genuinely difficult to comprehend. > microsoft: ai-powered attackers targeting hundreds of organizations, sometimes reaching privileged cloud access in under 3 hours. > crowdstrike: four separate threat actors using autonomous agents. one already compromised 15+ healthcare organizations. > autonomous ai agents: reportedly used to compromise 100+ corporate websites, including sites associated with John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. > major us banks: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are dealing with third-party ai agents accessing customer accounts. some apparently attempting actions beyond user instructions. > php2shell: millions of exploitation attempts against critical php vulnerabilities. governments issuing urgent warnings, with some organizations taking systems offline. > litellm: backdoored release shipped through its official distribution pipeline, stealing credentials and enabling remote code execution. > railway: possible exposure of decrypted customer secrets. > zeabur: breached AGAIN, now shutting down entirely. > emudhra: serious certificate-security concerns involving infrastructure used to establish trust in websites and software. > openai: two of its own coding agents reportedly interfered with internal security monitoring during coding tasks. > gitlab and node.js: major vulnerabilities requiring urgent patches. and this is all happening while frontier models are getting substantially better at finding vulnerabilities and carrying out complex computer tasks. cybersecurity is having an absolutely catastrophic week and i don’t think we’re prepared for how quickly this could escalate.
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NHS doctor: There’s COVID and flu armageddon in our hospital... It’s everywhere, to the point where they’re definitely not swabbing on purpose... They’re like, ‘We don’t even want to know if you have COVID or flu, because it just makes things complicated.’ youtu.be/n9v49YhY5oE
It’s Covid. Put a mask on BEFORE you get ill.
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Hillary Clinton: “The Republican Party is no longer a political party, it is a cult devoted to Trump and Trump’s power. The Republican Party needs a total transformation. If we’re gonna have a healthy government that actually gets things done and delivers for people, the Republican Party has to purge itself of everybody that lost both their conscience and their backbone over the last ten years and that’s most of them”
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The NHS repeatedly announcing at regular intervals that they are overwhelmed with airborne illness, but doing nothing meaningful to actually stop the illness is insane. Insane behaviour. There are loads of measures available to stop the spread, but they won’t do it. WHY?
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This is precisely why I believe the COVID-19 pandemic has forced modern medicine to confront something extraordinary. We may need to rewrite entire chapters of our medical textbooks. For generations, physicians have relied on established diagnostic criteria to identify disease. But what happens when a virus disrupts the autonomic nervous system, triggers abnormal immune responses, affects multiple organs, or brings previously silent vulnerabilities to the surface? What happens when a patient presents with symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, or an autoimmune disorder, yet doesn’t meet the diagnostic criteria for any of them? Too often, the patient is left without answers. Long COVID has exposed enormous gaps in our understanding of post-viral illness. It has also demonstrated how profoundly interconnected our neurological, vascular, cardiovascular, and immune systems really are. And perhaps most importantly, it has challenged the assumption that normal laboratory results necessarily indicate a healthy patient. I believe we’re witnessing a turning point in medicine, one that demands new research, better diagnostic tools, and a willingness to reconsider what we thought we understood about chronic disease. A diagnosis of exclusion should never become an excuse for exclusion from medical care. The patient isn’t necessarily failing to fit the textbook. Perhaps the textbook hasn’t caught up with the patient. Sending love and prayers to Christina Applegate…I get it… …Million’s of us do. 🙏💜
Massive respect to Christina Applegate for speaking out. People think "not MS" is good news. In reality, it just leaves you blindly fighting a battle with no solutions. Mayo told me something similar back in 2020: Probably not MS, but a viral-triggered neuroimmune and vascular condition. Still struggling. Zero validated diagnostic or treatment protocols since. Without a clear diagnosis, there's no real understanding. When people can’t put a recognizable name to your struggle, asking for accommodations at work, at home, or in your social life feels nearly impossible. "Not MS" isn't a cure- it's an exclusion. Medicine must evolve beyond the art of ruling things out and commit to mainstreaming precision diagnostics for complex chronic illness. Thanks, @1capplegate, for bravely bringing this crucial issue to center stage. 💕
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Hospital acquired (nosocomial) Covid in Welsh hospitals accounts for over 70% of Covid in their hospitals…patients who are given Covid while already in hospital. And they wonder why “pressures” haven’t eased 🙃
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says immediate action is needed to avoid a potential 'disaster' in the Welsh NHS this winter, adding pressures have not eased over the summer. The Welsh Government says it's working with health boards on a year-round approach.
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В 1994 году США, Россия и Украина подписали соглашение об отказе Украины от ядерного оружия. Украина отдала 4 400 ядерных боеголовок. Взамен США и Россия гарантировали Украине «независимость и существующие границы». Спустя 30 лет один гарант напал, а другой требует капитуляции
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Radio Times Editor Shem Law says BBC Radio 4 Extra is living proof that great broadcasting does not acquire a sell-by date – and we'll be losing more than just a radio station when it's turned off. Read in full: radiotimes.com/audio/radio/b…
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Hillary Clinton: “The profit that the Trump family has made off of the presidency could pay for a full year of SNAP benefits for about 1.3M people, 600M free school lunches, or three months of groceries for the 5.2M people who have been thrown off SNAP. Wasting your tax money, the corruption is rife, it’s undermining government services, even our national defense, and hurting people who should be able to get support because of their needs for food or to pay their bills. We already know that he’s a fraudster”
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we're in a global pandemic that we decided was over because of vibes hope this helps :)
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Why are people angry about care homes being abandoned in 2020 but saying nothing about care homes in 2026 during the current (13th) Covid wave being in an even worse situation with no universal PPE, no universal testing & no care for what is happening?
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The latest cover of Private Eye is 😘
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Radio 4 extra draws on purely achieved shows like Round the Horn , dramas and other shows which licence fee payers of the past already funded. It costs buttons but now you are being denied the BBC’s rich catalogue in the latest spiral towards its end.
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