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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
2 Oct 2023
Hi Elon. NHS palliative care doctor here. I cannot begin to count the number of people I witnessed suffocating to death from Covid-19. How dare you trivialise their deaths, their families’ grief, & the trauma experienced by frontline staff?
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
16 Sep 2023
Our October 1st meeting (ONLINE via Zoom), will feature Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones giving a talk on "The Cleopatras: the forgotten Queens of Egypt" 🧵
ALT Two views of the head of a stone sculpture of Cleopatra, side by side
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
26 Aug 2023
At our September meeting (Sunday 3rd, IN PERSON), Professor Aidan Dodson will give a talk on "The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt" (1/5)
ALT Statues of pharaohs of the Nubian 25th Dynasty of Egypt
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
1 Aug 2023
A change of plans! Our scheduled speaker is unable to join us this Sunday (6th August), but we have been able to bring forward a talk from Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on "The Persians in Egypt" in its place.
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
Have signed! Wales and Scotland already do this - and we did until march 2022. It's a relatively cheap way to keep track of circulating viruses!
Petition: Restore COVID-19 wastewater monitoring in England
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
24 Jun 2023
Next weekend, we have Dr. Omniya Abdel Bar joining us in Witham to give a talk titled "Ancient Fragments Finding New Life: The reuse of building material in Cairo's medieval monuments"
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Anyone else finding Twitter has more ads than usual, and they're shittier too? #enshittification
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
5 Jun 2023
If you can look at this chart of life expectancy falling on every continent on Earth and still convince yourself covid was overblown, that's your brain on coping mechanism mode
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
23 May 2023
Our meeting on Sunday 4th of June (ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Ziad Morsy giving a talk on "Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats"
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
23 Feb 2023
Brexit: Work longer hours and eat turnips.
I can see why that wasn’t on the side of a bus.
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
30 Nov 2022
If Aliens happened now.
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
12 Dec 2020
Snitches get stitches
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
28 Jan 2023
‘Land Ahoy. Oh no!… Cat Island!!!’
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
21 Jan 2023
Here is how #platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. 1/
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John Patterson (@JigsawPieces@mastodon.social) retweeted
28 Dec 2022
Transcript is now posted.
Here is Prof @linseymarr explaining 1- and 2-way masking impact
medscape.com/viewarticle/984…
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