Drills holes; doesn’t always talk bollocks; usually to be found searching for a ball in the rough...

Asia, Mid East, Europe.
Joined July 2012
We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years. For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours. It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt. And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works. Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life. And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward. Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug. For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark. This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it. I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime. I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field. I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer. We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.
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Soooo, basically unless your name ends in a 'V' you're getting beat today, I guess.. 😂🤣 @ufc
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“Norway to reopen North Sea oil fields. UK looking like a ‘daft neighbour.” 180 of the UK’s 280 fields to close by 2030 & the offshore sector is losing 1,000 jobs a month. In the last 12 months, Britain spent £20.6bn buying oil & gas from Norway. Ed Miliband’s net zero idiocy.
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No, we did not teach cases at the Naval War College where the president loses his last grip on reality and wants plans to start wars against our own allies. Amazingly, we did not think we had to design cases about a POTUS in a de facto alliance with the Kremlin to destroy NATO.
Replying to @RadioFreeTom
Do they teach this kind of dilemma at the War College? I would hope the senior commanders would understand by now that their oath is to the constitution, not the orange guy.
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Why is it so difficult for people to understand that Greenland already is under US control (in all the ways that matter to US security) and has been since 1941? The choice isn't between having Greenland or not having Greenland, it's between keeping our friends and allies or losing them.
This is why Greenland is so important strategically. I'd rather the US have control than Russia or China, and they both want it badly. Trump will be gone in 3 years but Russia and China are playing the long game. The US are better to have as a partner than either China or Russia.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
USA already has military base and Defense Agreement with Greenland/Denmark that are also part of broad defense strategy of NATO alliance created by USA. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/d…
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BRITAIN, AMERICA AND NATO 1/10 Like many Brits, I have close friends and family in the US. I feel a strong affinity for all things American - its people, its culture, and its ideals. I deeply respect the fact that so many Americans died to help us prevail during two world wars. 2/10 My appreciation of America is shared by other European nations, as well as by Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our shared values have created and sustained NATO and AUKUS alliances. 3/10 But these aren’t transactional agreements; they represent a community of democracies built on shared values - liberty, the rule of law, and Christian ethics - and which encompass mutual trust and sacrifice. 4/10 After 9/11, NATO invoked Article 5 for the first (and only) time. Europeans, Americans, and Antipodeans fought and bled alongside each other in Afghanistan. That solidarity mattered and still does. 5/10 Which is why talk of the US “acquiring” Greenland through coercion - or worse, by force - is so alarming. This isn’t strategic toughness; it’s self-harm. Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. It sits within the Kingdom of Denmark - another NATO ally. Threatening an ally’s territory tears at the very fabric that keeps us safe. 6/10 Yes, the Arctic matters. Russia and China are active there. But the answer is increased allied cooperation: shared basing, joint surveillance, stronger maritime presence - done together. 7/10 If we normalise taking land from friends, we hand authoritarian states a propaganda gift and a precedent. It weakens the rules that restrain aggression everywhere. 8/10 Some Europeans didn’t support US decisions during the GWOT era - yet we showed up, because alliances aren’t fair-weather friendships. 9/10 US friends: you can be proudly pro-American and still say this clearly - respect allies’ sovereignty. America leads best when it leads with partnership, not pressure. 10/10 As Churchill said: democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest. It means governments change, but the bonds between free peoples should not.
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Question: Are @amazon / @AmazonSG now so big that they don’t need to care their service is now shit? Not delivered / delayed / wrong / etc., too easy to refund as they’re so big. They would have never succeeded with service like this from the start.
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Replying to @FoxCricket
@FoxCricket why when commentators change, do they think they need to tell us what they missed?? Vaughan & Isha do it all the time.. just because they haven’t been watching & need a summary they think we all do. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’ve been watching all day.. unnecessary-thanks.
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In fact … Isha just talks too much nonsense anyways.. needs to re-read Richie Benauds golden commentary rules. Sometimes silence is golden!!
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And while we’re at it.. stop shuffling my shit around!! How would you like someone to come in to your house / office / garage and rearrange your shit ??!? Leave it alone FFS!! Like I ho my sock drawer and it’s full of winter gear.. Fuck off!!
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Personal opinion… why @SkySportsPL @BBCMOTD et al think any woman ex-player should comment or commentate on premier league football is beyond me. They haven’t played to the required level. You don’t employ non-league footballers to do the job for the same reason.
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110% that never gets overturned at Anfield, OT, Emirates; Etihad; Stamford Bridge.. differnet rules for big boys.. refs playing the game for the big payers..
#IPSEVE – 25’ VAR OVERTURN The referee awarded a penalty to Ipswich for a foul by McNeil on Clarke. The VAR deemed that Clarke kicked the back of McNeil’s leg and that no foul was committed and recommended an on-field review. The referee overturned the original decision and play restarted with a drop ball.
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This game is unfortunately making it obvious that Morsey ain't up to the Prep I'm afraid.. haven't seen him near it since his yellow - games passing him by. #ITFC
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Who is that annoying Australian woman who won't shut up on The Open comms ????? Please.. someone tell her to chill the f** out.. we can see what's going on.. honestly... Jesus wept.. @TheOpen
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More frankly criminal careless storage of samples, slack management & lack of communication from @CordlifeSG After being sold a product with the promise of stem cell medical possibilities of life long coverage, offers of a few hundred bucks aint gonna cut it. #CordlifeSingapore
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There’s literally millions and millions of Americans.. surely there must be better options than just choosing between an orange madman or a senile grandpa? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️
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Why is it that banks want you to do everything through an app or online.. until you want to close an account.. then they need everything hand written on parchment with quill & ink with half a dozen supporting docs & hand delivered by special courier?? @CBQat @bankmuscatcare
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Shining bright again, and not just tonight when #ITFC were worthy winners over Wolves. But since Kieran McKenna arrived. He’s got something special going here.
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The frightening thing - the truly frightening thing - about Ipswich’s 3-2 Carabao Cup win over Wolves is that it looks to be their second team. Only the goalkeeper remained from their league side at the weekend. Some statement by Kieran McKenna & #ITFC
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