Dawn fryer

@AngryTheInch WOW !! Who needs a camera

And he's done 🦊 Acrylics on canvas, 50x70cm. 💚

@mooramana I’ve heard that Jack Savoretti is quite therapeutic for hips.

Have sacked off supermarket will go this evening🤷🏼‍♀️ Currently soaking up the sun in the garden with my ever constant companions🥰 listening to Jack Savoretti’s new album Life’s good just now, so important to stop & just be in nature…

@LBFlyawayhome I picked up more than 12 things wrong the boys would never have had their hair combed ! !

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

@mooramana Message back from Houston analysing the first picture of the fork would seem to indicate the hip is getting a greater workout than is wise.

We have a problem Houston!

@SueHadley @mooramana That’s my excuse too but I shall take your advice and reward myself with something lovely for dinner with wine.

@mooramana I think I’m too far away to get there before dark. Reward yourself with something lovely for dinner with wine!

Blue skies so gardening! Have tasked myself with digging out these sedge grasses as I want a rose bed here😳😬🙈pray for me…To be fair I’ve had better ideas😂 If anyone would like to offer some muscle you’d be most welcome! Will pay in food!

@BowersWrites It feels wrong to say the pictures are beautiful, but I think they are as beautiful as they are poignant.

The Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery is the largest such Great War burial site in France. Beneath its endless rows of dark crosses lie more than 44,000 soldiers, many still unknown. Set within the rolling Artois landscape, it feels secluded, almost hidden.

@BowersWrites Thank you for all you do to educate and inform us.History has always been important but never more so than now when the World seems very precarious.

Going inside Maison de Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (also known as "Canada House"), not to mention meeting its owner, was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

@AngryTheInch Has he/she got a name ?

I'll call it done before I ruin it. Acrylics on canvas, 40x50cm. Say hi to my little friend 💚

@MikeyFromUK @Alexandr4Denman I think the ability to write our thoughts and for others to be able to read them is obviously the most important invention. knowledge can be transferred from one lifetime to another.

@Alexandr4Denman Inventing the computer is probably our biggest, and the worlds biggest ever invention

An American gentleman just surprised at exactly what the British actually did for the world! He seems shocked!

@ezkappdo @fitterhappierAJ I can’t help thinking that the majority of people won’t have the faintest idea of what it is you are referring to. For me I found your comment erudite,succinct and prescient.

@fitterhappierAJ Copernicus would have been proud of you.

The Price of Denial: Early Warnings, Arrogant Dismissal, and the Lingering Cost of COVID's Immune Legacy There have been a recent number of articles framing the immune harm from Covid as a new insight. While I am pleased this has entered the mainstream, I am afraid it is too gracious to the lagging scientific consensus of how covid has been wearing away at our immune responses. Especially given how when I raised this based on T cell phenotypes, I was dismissed and attacked with extreme prejudice. Reframing Covid's immune harm as a new insight rather than a long-fought hypothesis contrary to 'immunity debt' achieves several aims: 1) It deemphasizes the role in propagating false narratives that several individuals had along with choice medical journals. For example, the BMJ extensively platformed Alasdair Munro's claims of the 'immunity debt' hypothesis. When an editor was approached with a proposal for how covid was harming immunity by individuals who had published in the BMJ before and myself, they refused to accept it. 2) It saves face for the individuals who staunchly attacked the hypothesis and dismissed it as a joke. Those people also strongly attacked me, and they would go on to claim that it is my fault such a false and ridiculous narrative of immune harm from covid even existed. These are lay people but also others. 3) it preserves a semblance of credibility for the established sources who previously denied the hypothesis and obfuscated it. 4) It shirks accountability for the duty of discernment, consideration, and equipoise that stewards of information and knowledge, like the BMJ, had to the public. They had access to the hypothesis and rationales previously and chose to trounce on it and dismiss it with extreme prejudice. To me, it highlights how many of the experts were ill-equipped to grasp early immunological changes and project them to their outcomes. This was not just an oversight, it was an editorial choice. The author of the BMJ article, Nick Tsergas, confided that the editors wanted to avoid controversy and drama. They wanted to whitewash its history. What did I do to earn such controversy? Tell the truth before other scientists could see. By the time immune harm manifests there is much damage already done. In the first half of 2020, I noted that SARS-CoV-2 had been shown in preprints to downregulate MHC Class I, overstimulate and kill CD8 T cells, and would likely accumulate harm with reinfections. I noted this even in mild cases and was dismissed by many figures, including Francois Balloux Marc Veldhoen, Zeynep Tufekci, and Antonio bertoletti. They did not dismiss kindly. Bertoletti, a senior professor at Duke NUS would reply under my posts calling me a clown and insulting me constantly. I was a medical student at the time and this behavior seemed inappropriate and offensive, especially considering how I was engaging him with genuine concern when I was discussing T cell death with him in the summer of 2020. By late 2022, I was pointing out that many people, after even mild infections, appeared to have reductions in plasmacytoid dendritic cells and other immune changes without reporting symptoms that would fit the conventional definition of Long COVID. These were not dramatic claims; they were mechanistic observations grounded in emerging data. However, the implications were stark. I had numerous media appearances discussing that immune harm was occurring. This was discussed in The Tyee by Andrew Nikiforuk. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/… In April 2023, FactCheck.org published a piece that characterized concerns about lasting immune effects from mild infections as exaggerated. They quoted Professor Danny Altmann, who stated there was “no phenotype” resembling immunodeficiency, only “nuanced differences” that did not translate to real-world consequences. The article framed early warnings as misinformation, implying that those raising them were overstating risks. This was not neutral correction; it was authoritative closure of debate. The message was clear: mild infection left no meaningful immune scar outside severe disease or formally diagnosed Long COVID. Discussion effectively ended there for many. factcheck.org/2023/04/sciche… Where did factcheck find the authority to promise that no such immune harm was occurring? Did they truly seek to understand what the consequences of broad t cell activation, differentiation, and death would manifest in? The dismissal was reckless and arrogant. And now proven wrong. The personal cost for telling the truth when people were actually concerned about covid was immediate and lasting. I was tagged in threads alongside senior immunologists who dismissed the ideas outright, accused (implicitly or explicitly) of fearmongering or misinterpreting preliminary data. These characterizations spread quickly on social media, embedding themselves in timelines and memories. People lied about me. Zeynep and Jeremy Kamil said that I had paid for my own PhD, when it was actually paid directly by the National Cancer Institute for my discovery of a linked mechanism of T cell death and differentiation. Years later, a search of my name still surfaces echoes of those accusations, unaccompanied by context or correction. Professional relationships cooled; invitations to collaborate quietly dried up. I lost a fellowship offer at the National Cancer Institute as Tom Misteli, the head of NCI research, wrote how, "I needed to learn what I can and can not say." The energy spent defending basic mechanistic possibilities was energy not spent on research or clinical work. It was isolating, and it was unnecessary. This manifested into something remarkably shocking and completely unprecedented in scientific literature. My two greatest and most eminent antithetical-fans teamed up and published an article mocking my twitter handle, saying that mild breakthrough infections correlated with 'fit and happy' t cells. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im… It was shared across social media with an interpretation to mock my claim that T cells were harmed. People that mocked me cheered, like the Harvard professor Mark Davis, along with zeynep saying that it was a good rebuttal to 'looney twitter-only claims.' On Indie Sage, Christina Pagel did not disagree with the scientific content but expressed disappointment at the devolution of my interlocutors, that she was not a fan of shaming and mocking no matter how outlandish my claims were. She was wrong on both counts. Their mockery is now a testament to their ignorance and the devolution. This is not something they can retract, only deny publicly. When it occurred I reached out to the editor and he asked me if I would like to reply about the scientific content. I wanted to, but, on advice of a friend who was mortified at the conduct of the individuals and the journal itself, asked for an investigation of bullying from professors. The journal concluded the investigation saying that only my followers would know that I was the one being referenced, so were under no fault or obligation to amend the title. They retracted the offer for my response. (I included this saga and the emails to Nick and the BMJ. They chose not to include it.) I continued to watch the literature. The signals did not vanish: persistent T-cell alterations, exhausted phenotypes, subtle shifts in innate compartments. These were not the province of fringe voices; they appeared in mainstream journals, yet the narrative remained that mild infection was immunologically inconsequential for most. The possibility that repeated or even single mild infections could erode immune resilience was treated as speculative at best, irresponsible at worst. I paid a price for insisting otherwise, not in fame or notoriety, but in the quieter currency of reputation and peace of mind. Now, in early 2026, the conversation has shifted. A recent Daily Mail article discusses widespread reports of people “getting sicker more often,” with doctors noting struggling immune defences against routine bugs. The piece quotes Danny Altmann again, this time describing the hypothesis of lasting immune harm from mild COVID as “reasonable.” The idea is presented as fresh and worthy of consideration. There is no mention of the earlier certainty that no such phenotype existed, no acknowledgement that some of us were attacked for articulating precisely this possibility years ago. The system lacks both memory and foresight. The absence of reckoning is striking. Those who confidently declared “no phenotype” now entertain the same hypothesis without reference to prior denial. No correction, no apology, no credit to those who endured the backlash. This is not personal grievance alone; it reflects a broader pattern in science where consensus resists challenge until the evidence becomes overwhelming, then absorbs the insight as if it were always obvious. History is replete with such examples (Semmelweis, Warren and Marshall), yet we seem incapable of learning the lesson. The societal toll compounds the individual one. Delayed acceptance meant delayed mitigation: fewer precautions against reinfection, less urgency in studying immune reconstitution, slower recognition that population-level immune dysregulation might follow waves of mild cases. Excess respiratory illness, rising cancer concerns, unexplained reactivations. These are not abstract. They represent preventable burden born of a refusal to countenance uncomfortable possibilities when they were first raised. Vindication, when it arrives quietly and without acknowledgement, is a hollow reward. The smears linger longer than the evidence ever did. Yet the deeper failure is not personal. It is the persistent hubris that treats early, mechanistic warnings as threats rather than contributions. Until we cultivate the humility to listen when the data are still emerging, rather than demanding certainty before engagement, we will pay this price again in the next crisis. I hope the record shows that some of us tried to warn you, not for credit, but because the immune system deserved better stewardship than it received. I am glad I can look upon this period knowing that I did my very best, was ruthless, about conveying what seemed so clear to me, in very unambiguous terms. What is happening was more important than my professional standing as a fragile, early-career immunologist, because I was placed in a niche position as a specialist in T cell aging and death.

@mooramana That really made me laugh ! Welcome home there is no place like it.

No sea & sunshine this morning ☹️

@mooramana Many thanks for your beautiful photos I am pleasantly surprised at how much vicarious pleasure I get from them. My overwhelming emotion is that if there are two people on this planet who deserve some TLC it’s definitely you two.

Another wonderful exhausting day doing nothing 🙈😂 Dinner tonight is in the Japanese Fusion restaurant. A few pics from today including a baby shark

@mooramana It’s funny you should say that because it had the same effect on me. It took me completely by surprise,he’s never done that before.I guess it was more like unexpectedly seeing an old friend whom I hadn’t realised I had missed. I hope you both enjoy a lovely holiday.

Oh my Strictly #Paddington brought me to tears 😭

@mooramana 12 years ago, I had many dreadful experiences with this drug. My best advice would be to drink a lot of pure natural spring water. I believe that will help to dilute the toxicity.A rash all over your body is serious. Best wishes.

Today’s other excitement was an emergency appointment at Dr to confirm I’d had an allergic reaction to metronidazole due to a raised red rash all over my body! Another drug to add to penicillin & nitrofurantonin that I’m allergic to🤷🏼‍♀️

@mooramana I am thankful that you are able to have such a close relationship with Gs daughter, that I hope, gives you both help and comfort albeit a poor substitute for the man who was so cruelly taken from you. My thoughts are with you. XX

Today is 2 years since G died… This week has been difficult. Though I look at where I was a year ago I couldn’t have imagined the progress I have made thanks to all my friends & that includes on here. Life continues I miss the man, his humour, his kindness but mostly his love

@AngryTheInch This image has a powerful spiritual quality that enables the viewer to both see and believe in other Worlds. For me, he is , and will always remain the G of the G. I like to think your souls are entangled so your feelings and instincts are real.

When he was still with me. Moonlit walks under the aurora. I swear I can still feel him sometimes.

@AngryTheInch This is when you can tell that we are carbon based bipedal life forms descended from apes,but some of them are able to take very good photographs.

Our star is a tiny little dot, just like one of these, in a tiny little galaxy in a vast universe. We're sitting on a tiny spinning pebble circulating around said tiny star, acting like idiots.

@kennena I completely understand what you mean, but unfortunately I think for far too long, we have been ignoring the insanity and it’s high time it is treated seriously and called out. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed anything like it and I don’t believe it will end well.

Has anyone else noticed the insane diatribe that comes from the White House on a Friday? They want to stay in the media for the weekend…exhausting, the best thing to do is to ignore the insanity.

@nfergus We owe a great debt of gratitude to this superb and diligent broadcaster. He has informed,educated and entertained us through out his career. I wish him a long and happy retirement.

End of an era. A wonderful broadcaster.

@AngryTheInch It’s perfectly true, and I meant every word. THANK YOU !

@Dawnfryer3 Oh wow, that's high praise! 😀 Thank you, Dawn! 😊

The picture I just posted... If I had seen it online I might have thought it's a fake, photoshopped or AI. But luckily enough it's from a real-time video I filmed of an auroral corona. This shape starts forming at around 15sec in and is gone within seconds. :)