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Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have. Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left. The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out. Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027. The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats. The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.

The full Bill is here The concern is that the SoS powers will be more There are clauses which create concern The current use of Palantir is hugely important in understanding the risks publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…

Wes Streeting’s final shot as he ran out the door Your NHS data is not going to be safe You will have NO option to OPT OUT of data sharing GPs have seen this coming & will stand with their patients Palantir et al will have access & Government controls medconfidential.org/2026/wes-stree…

GP practices are patient data protectors The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

The US government told a 23-year-old math student in 1995: "Your code is a weapon. You need an arms license to share it." He sued them. Won. Then built the encryption protecting every message you've ever sent. 🤯 Meet Daniel J. Bernstein 🇺🇸 > Born in New York, 1971. > Finished high school at 15. PhD in Math from UC Berkeley at 24. > 1995: wrote new encryption code to protect people online. > US government classified it as a military weapon. > Required an arms export license ~ like selling missiles ~ just to publish it. > He filed a lawsuit against the United States government. > Fought for 4 years through federal courts. > Won in 1999. Court ruled: writing code = free speech. 🚀 > One lawsuit. Changed internet privacy law forever. > Then got to work. > Designed Curve25519 ~ the math locking your private messages. > Designed ChaCha20 ~ the code scrambling your internet traffic. > Designed Ed25519 ~ the signature securing your logins online. > Built qmail ~ an email server almost nobody has ever hacked. > Signal. WhatsApp. SSH. WireGuard. Tor. > All of them. His math. Your privacy. > Puts $1,000 of his own money on the line for any bug in his code. > No interviews. No fame. > Still a math professor in Chicago. Just ships code. He didn’t seek power or profit ~ he shipped protection. Absolute Legend 🐐

🔴Dear public, A nurse consultant in London slowly killed a patient by having a crack at a stroke consultant’s job and thrombolysing a patient, leaving them with a major spinal haemorrhage and quadriplegia 💀☠️☠️ ⭕️ Doctors have a complicated clinical judgment process based on robust knowledge and expertise before making any decision. ⭕️ Nurses are only programmed to follow protocols, which can have catastrophic consequences. ⭕️ Even experienced medical registrars can break into cold sweats before deciding to thrombolyse and will typically discuss it with the stroke/medical consultant. RIP patient safety

So @geshNHS Is advertising for a LOCUM PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT to start ASAP . They’re paying £34-38 per hour for this crime against patients . @fletchjack this should be a @BMAResidents job . @jamesmurray_ldn needs to pull this dangerous advert and implement Leng immediately

Natalie and whistleblowers remain seriously concerned that the PA has been allowed to continue performing lumbar punctures – which is classed as a "must not" in the British Medical Association's safe scope of practice for that role. Full story here walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

NEW: A hospital has admitted breaching its duty of care when one of its physician associates botched a vulnerable patient's lumbar puncture. Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital initially closed its investigation into the incident without even telling the patient but...

‼️ Starmer and Streeting’s technofeudalism has no limits. The audacity is staggering. NHS England has quietly granted Palantir contractors unlimited access to identifiable patient data on its £330 million Federated Data Platform. An internal briefing warned of the “risk of loss of public confidence” but approved it anyway because repeated checks were “too inconvenient”. This is a dangerous surrender of our most sensitive health data to a controversial US tech giant. #NHS #Palantir #DataSurrender archive.ph/2026.05.11-132…

🦔Google's developers significantly understated the carbon emissions of two proposed UK data centers in their planning documents, according to analysis by the tech justice nonprofit Foxglove. The Thurrock and North Weald facilities in Essex compared one year of emissions against the UK's entire five-year carbon budget, making the impact appear five times smaller than reality. Greystoke's planned data center in north Lincolnshire contains the same error. The Thurrock facility alone will emit roughly 570,000 tonnes of CO2 annually, more than an international airport. Foxglove's broader analysis found that just ten of the largest UK data centers in planning will produce 2.7 million tonnes of annual emissions, which would wipe out the entire 2.9 million tonne carbon savings expected from the UK's switch to electric cars in 2025. My Take This is not a rounding error. Comparing one year of emissions to five years of the national carbon budget is exactly the calculation you would run if you wanted the number to look five times smaller, and three different developers making the same mistake at the same time stretches the coincidence story past the breaking point. Greystoke has already said they will submit corrected figures, which is what you do when the original numbers were never going to survive scrutiny. Google made a public sustainability commitment in 2020 to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030, and the company has been quietly walking it back as AI compute demand has exploded. The Essex submissions are what that walk-back looks like in practice. When the commitments were profitable to make, they were front and center in every press release. Now that the math no longer works, the same companies are filing planning documents that obscure the actual emissions and hoping the councils approving them are not staffed to catch it. The planning process only works when the numbers being submitted are honest, and a factor-of-five understatement on three different projects is not the kind of thing that happens without someone choosing to let it happen. Hedgie🤗

There is nothing wrong with data being shared across NHS A single patient record is a good thing What is not good is Palantir being anywhere near it GPs are currently data controllers (protectors) & want to protect patients Govt wants to ‘force’ this No to Palantir in #NHS

In January 2025 Keir Starmer launched the digital version of deregulated free zones known as AI Growth Zones. 200 bids on sites so far. Datacentres have already garnered a disturbing pattern of negative impacts on people’s property values, the environment, energy infrastructure, extreme power consumption, massive water usage for cooling, local air and noise pollution from backup generators, and rising regional utility rates.

Residents living within a half-mile of new AI data centers are reporting dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption from sound they can't hear. The source is infrasound. Frequencies below 20 Hz sit beneath the floor of human hearing but not beneath human physiology. The body's vestibular system registers low-frequency vibration directly, triggering the same response as motion sickness. The cooling systems and gas turbines running these facilities 24/7 produce exactly this range. Noise ordinances were written for audible noise. Decibel measurements start at 20 Hz. Infrasound doesn't appear. A 200-megawatt data center with tens of thousands of tons of cooling equipment can run around the clock with zero measurable noise violation under any existing zoning law in the country. The developers know this. They're not randomly selecting sites. Rural jurisdictions get targeted because they lack the legal staff, the engineering expertise, and the regulatory framework to mount any challenge. These facilities require new transmission interconnects that take 5 to 10 years to process through utilities. Building behind-the-meter with gas turbines bypasses that queue. Speed to power, zero delay, zero grid dependency. Households who bought before the announcement have two options. Sell at a price no buyer will pay, or stay and live with symptoms their family doctor has no framework to diagnose as infrastructure-related. That cost never appears in a hyperscaler's earnings call. The regulation will catch up eventually. It always does. But the facilities will already be running. The permits will grandfather everything in place. The turbines don't stop when the legal framework finally notices them.

Is your personal medical information safe from profit-seeking under the government’s plans for the NHS? GPs block data sharing in fight over new contract lowdownnhs.info/comment/gps-bl…

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion." — Bertrand Russell

NHS DESTROYED THE WOMAN WHO CAUGHT ITS DOCTORS STEALING FROM IT Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave 30 years of spotless service to the @NHS. Not one disciplinary mark. Not one complaint. She was the budget holder for radiology at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, which means she could see exactly where the money was going. What she saw was two consultant radiologists billing the NHS for shifts they were spending at a private hospital down the road. The Trust lost £250,000 of public money through those arrangements. She reported it to her line manager. Her medical director. HR. Counter Fraud. The Department of Health. The Treasury. Number 10. She had a paper trail so airtight that @ITV undercover surveillance later caught the same consultants still absent during paid hours, and caught Miranda Harvie and Akkib Rafique taking direct cash payments from patients for private ultrasounds inside the NHS building, money going straight into their own account. So what did the Trust do with this documented, camera-confirmed, publicly broadcast fraud? They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations from a subordinate she had herself reported for breaching patient safety. The man who filed those allegations later sent an email signed off with "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year. Sharmila won the Interim Relief Hearing. She won the internal appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no and refused to let her return. She was blacklisted. Job offers were withdrawn the moment employers discovered who she was. She settled out of court in 2012 with two years pay, out of which she had to pay £77,500 in legal fees alone. 38 Degrees38 Degrees In July 2013, she was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer. Multiple consultants believe this is a direct result of the sustained stress of her treatment as a whistleblower. The consultants she reported kept their jobs. George Osborne said he could not get involved. Andrew Lansley said he could not get involved. David Cameron said he could not get involved. Every single official body, every single minister, every single department looked at a proven, camera-documented NHS fraud case and decided it was an employment matter. Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury com Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News | @ITV

@HedgehogCabin Thank you, at last I know what that noise is, I thought it might’ve been hedgehogs but I wasn’t sure couldn’t see them but certainly heard them! So loud for such a small creature.

Hedgehogs are solitary animals so are silent - they have no need to communicate so don't have a 'vocabulary'. Even when in pain or fear they usually suffer in silence. The only time you'll really hear them vocalise is this time of year - mating season. And it's only the girls who talk.😁 The male approaches the female and circles her, trying to mount. The female turns to face him, keeping her nether regions out of his reach, and makes a chuff-chuff sound, telling him she's not interested. She'll keep this up for hours, sometimes days, until she whittles down which of her suitors is the strongest, has the most endurance and energy, is the fittest and healthiest and most determined. She wants only the very best to be the father of her precious babies. Only when he's proved himself to be worthy, does the female crouch down and lay her spines flat, and allow him to mate. Inexperienced males often need to use their mouth to hold on and get into position, so this time of year you may see females with a small wound on their back. There can be more than one winner, and she'll allow other males who have made the grade to mate with her also. So the resulting litter can be hoglets with several different fathers, producing a truly diverse and healthy gene pool. This genetic diversity within a population allows it to adapt to changing environments and resist diseases. Just one of the reasons our humble little hedgehog has survived for over 15 million years!🥰

Please speak up for foxes.🦊 You got 2 fantastic foxy opportunities right NOW: 1. Join the anti hunt march in London, THIS Saturday, 9. May at 3.15 pm in Westminster at The old Palace Yard ✊️led by the inspirational @chrisgpackham2 2. Fill in the Defra questionnaire for the government consultation to strengthen the fox hunting ban and make trail hunting illegal. ✍️: huntsabs.org.uk/ha-campaign/ The @HuntSabs have done a great job advising how to fill in the form. Take your time and make sure foxes are seen and considered in the consultation. You got until the 15.6.26 🕚