Johnson has been vaccinated against COVID several times, and it was on the news at the time. He is publicly pro-vaccine.

The hairdryer thing was probably before vaccines were available, although this article does not make that clear.

If banning does not work, how do you explain the significant drop in attacks by breeds that are already banned, whereas XL Bullies, previously not banned, account proportionately for far more attacks?

No COVID for me. I work from home and don’t socialise much. Also have not had a cold or flu since 2019. Fully vaccinated.

I could not find this story on the BBC news app, but I did hear about it on Radio 4.

As a Brit, I feel your pain, as I have many times watched England being knocked out of tournaments in the late stages, sometimes playing at home too. I sure your time will come too. Kerr’s goal was a cracker.

Chalk is my local MP. Although he is a rising star in the Conservative Party, he holds a marginal seat which was Liberal Democrat for a long time, until Chalk won it. I will be surprised if he retains it next time.

Imagine having to try and clean off a runny dog turd that is slowly sinking into your plastic lawn. You can blast it with a hose and turn it into a pool of dog shit slurry; if the lawn is on slope you can try to encourage it to slurp downhill.

Yes, and it also prides itself on journalistic values, unlike a lot of the Murdoch empire, for example.

Yes, they are completely different things.

Filled with virtual doctors who never go on strike.

Got to laugh at David Mitchell’s reaction: “Alan can’t regain control of the account due to the exciting new way Twitter is run.”

I definitely think his career is over - I can’t see his reputation ever recovering from this, even if he could overcome the shame and embarrassment of going in front of the camera again.

Given the success of Threads, and Reddit’s current problems, I think there is a good chance that Meta are already working on a Reddit killer, based on ActivityPub. Threads membership could easily be extended to this new app, and all of a sudden there is a lemmy instance with 100 of millions of users, spewing forth all their unmoderated content to anything that is federated. The rest of the fediverse would be absolutely swamped. Gone will be lemmy as we know and love it.

I would not be surprised that after Twitter, Meta’s next target is Reddit, which is ripe for a serious commercial rival. Meta are probably working on a Reddit replacement, using activitypub and their experience with Threads. If you federate already with Threads, then it is a relatively small step to extend that to Meta’s Reddit killer. Maybe federation with Threads will automatically be extended by Meta to this new app. Give them an inch….

You said threadiverse a couple of times when I think you meant fediverse.