Meri 8x💉“Exiled for Good of the Realm” Williams

Incredibly honoured to feature on this year's Pride Power List. Honestly taken aback by being included amongst such illustrious and impactful company -- thank you! #PPL2024

Shopify's River agent system lives in Slack and can only be used in public so that other employees can learn from what you do with it Reminds me of how Midjourney's Discord-only launch helped people figure out the weird & complex craft of image prompting by watching each other

Here in England *three times as many people* are dying from infections as were seven years ago, as a proportion of all deaths, based on the 'main underlying cause of death' data from the ONS.

This is a worthwhile read from Meta engineer @championswimmer (who I met last time I was in London - great guy) His point is that a lot of these “AI layoffs” could well be backwards: they are prob happening because more AI spend doesn’t correlate with better business results…

So if you're either *trying to be* a good person or *trying to look like* a good person, it's easier just to pretend that your actions don't have repercussions See also: Climate change Non-sustainable farming Fossil fuel use Working conditions Environmental harm Over consumption

Look: There is no such thing as overdiagnosis. There is just diagnosis (correct) or misdiagnosis (wrong). If a diagnosis is correct, then you can't have too much of it.

Hey UK government, I get the impression that you don't listen or actually care about us, but when eligible people don't take up the nuvoxavid doses in the spring covid boosters, can you make them available for people who actually want them? Rather than just chucking them in the effing bin? @wesstreeting @UKLabour @UKHSA

And every covid infection *adds* to the risk. So the more covid infections people have, the more vulnerable our population will be to these outbreaks.

Don't you get it? If lots of people in your population have lower ability to fight infection, it doesn't just mean those people are more likely to *catch* infections. It means they are more likely to *spread* them too. Let me explain. This is important.

Healthy life expectancy here is now 61 years and falling. Retirement age is up to 68 and rising. Do the maths.

At the beginning of the pandemic disabled people felt hope We saw inclusion & accessibility improve overnight We saw accommodations put in place that we spent years begging for We saw the world adapt That hope was ripped away during the rush back to normal It still hurts

The central difficulty with getting your head round it is that there are *two* scandals detailed here: 👉The first is that key advice by experts was ignored in 2020. 👉The second is that a huge amount of money seems to have been spent covering that up.

When you become disabled and unable to work, you mourn your independence. Most disabled people want to work. They don’t want to beg for meagre handouts that keep them in legislated poverty. They don’t want to be sick. It’s not a choice & better social supports are needed.

I once had a boyfriend tell me that if I tried, I could force my period out in one day, because the uterus is a muscle. This is why men shouldn't be legislating women's reproductive health.

Are people 'sicker' now than in 2019? In the most recent year for which we have data here, 2024, infections were the main underlying cause of nearly *THREE TIMES* the share of deaths that they caused before the pandemic. Yes. By every objective measure, we are sicker.

Anyone can become disabled at any time. Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are. People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher. It’s not a moral failing. Very few people are the “exception”

People are afraid of disability They can’t comprehend getting sick and never getting better They tell us to try harder They blame it on lifestyle choices. They label us expendable and tell themselves they’ll be the exception No one is the exception. It can happen to anyone.

In a meeting at the office one time, this dude fully repeated something I had said almost word for word, just slightly changed. After he finished, my coworker raised her hand and said, “I don’t have anything to add, but I just wanted to point out he basically repeated exactly what Natalie said like it was his own idea.” Happy Women’s History Month to her.

Them: Anyone who thinks that Covid infections made us all more ill is a scaremongering conspiracy nut. Is anyone even more ill? Are there really more disabled people?? Where's their evidence?? Where's the proof??! Me: The rise in deaths as a result of infections, as published by the ONS. The rise in the number of infections, as published by the UKHSA. The rise in sickness absence of *young* doctors, as published by the NHS. The rise in sickness absence of *young* civil servants, as published by the Civil Service. The millions of 'why is everyone sick right now' posts on social media, published everywhere. The rise in the number of deaths while working, as published by the NHS. The rise in the number of people retiring from healthcare due to ill health, as published by the NHS. The huge number of infections that follow covid infections as opposed to the number of infections that follow flu infections, as published by the UKHSA. The rise in economic inactivity due to sickness, as published by the ONS. The rise in infections that exploit immune deficiency, as published by the UKHSA and NHS. The rise in the number of secondary conditions like psychiatric and cardiovascular disorders that Covid infection can cause, as published by the ONS, NHS, and UKHSA. The increase in delays to healthcare, as published by the NHS. The drop in healthy life expectancy, as published by the ONS. The excess death burden, as published by the ONS. But other than that, yeah, everything's fine. All fine.

@HarryHo26956660 @bmj_latest Like what? I’m autistic & ADHD and in the UK and having both costs me a huge amount every month rather than anyone giving me financial support

@Geek_Manager @bmj_latest UK

Autism and ADHD: does the global rise in diagnosed neurodivergence reflect increased awareness of undiagnosed cases? bmj.com/content/392/bm…

@HarryHo26956660 @bmj_latest Which countries have financial benefits for autism and/or ADHD?

@bmj_latest It is a delicate subtopic to raise, but there is a not-insignificant number of people who wish to obtain a diagnosis in order to receive extra financial benefits.