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Val @valmel.bsky.social · 3d

Along with Truss' mini budget which cost the country billions why don't journalists also ask about the £billions wasted on VIP lane for unusable PPE during pandemic? Tories make out they borrowed billions to 'save' us, nobody mentions the Tory cronies they hugely enriched with the PPE procurements

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Val @valmel.bsky.social · 3d

@BBCNews @bbcpm.bsky.social Ask the Tories about £billions wasted on useless PPE during pandemic.

#ITVFollowtheMoney

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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 4d

Manchester synagogue attack: why so many people in Britain’s Jewish community felt a sense of inevitability that this day would come
theconversation.com/manchester-s...

Manchester synagogue attack: why so many people in Britain’s Jewish community felt a sense of inevitability that this day would come

The data on antisemitic attacks is patchy but nevertheless revealing.

theconversation.com

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 8d

www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

Scapegoating a common tart
Whodathunkit 🤨

UK's anti-corruption tsar accused of defending COVID ‘cronyism’

Exclusive: Tory MP husband of Test and Trace boss Dido Harding criticised for appearing to blame ‘transparency measures’ for delaying government's COVID response

www.opendemocracy.net

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 8d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 6d

Book Review: The Shakespeare Ladies Club: The Forgotten Women Who Rescued the Bawdy Bard, by Christine and Jonathan Hainsworth tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #BookReview

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 7d

Virginia Woolf said, "Thinking is my fighting," and what better way to aid our thinking than by reading books -- particularly those they try to ban. Thank you, brave librarians! bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/23/f... #VirginiaWoolf

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 6d

From the September 2025 Chronic Living Therapy @chronicliving123.bsky.social newsletter

Articles and useful links from around the web during August and September 2025. Covering Gulf War Illness, Functional Neurological Disorder, Lyme Disease and more…

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Articles and useful links from around the web during August and September 2025. Covering Gulf War Illness, Functional Neurological Disorder, Lyme Disease and more…

Gulf War Illness – solid science leads to a code for medical notes
Gulf War Illness and MECFS – overlapping research and issues
Gratitude felt towards scientists researching ‘psychologised’ conditions
German ‘rehabilitation’ clinics, covered by The Sick Times
David Tuller on ‘Functional Neurological Disorder’
Lyme Disease – one family’s story of their search for diagnosis for their child
Picturing M.E. – photographs/illustrations for articles about chronic illness

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 6d

Pssst, if any Long COVID (or ME/CFS, IACCI, etc) friends are thinking of using the new free RTHM AI tool, worth noting that their terms of service explicitly grant them permission to use any medical history you upload to train their models.

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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 6d

A fascinating podcast for people who don't know about the issue of testing people to establish their gender in sports. What is ideology vs. what is the science of gender?

Alex @admiringbog.bsky.social · 6d

Another issue where I see a lot of parallels with ME/CFS: a small marginalized group subjected to pseudoscience.

www.cbc.ca/radio/podcas...

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Alex @admiringbog.bsky.social · 6d

Another issue where I see a lot of parallels with ME/CFS: a small marginalized group subjected to pseudoscience.

www.cbc.ca/radio/podcas...

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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 6d

Oooh, this is really smart.

When I still had the physical strength to attend protests, I carried my own #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis kit w/ me.

Great to see our most prominent advocacy group laying out a blueprint for everyone w/ post-infectious illnesses.

#pwME #pwLC #LongCovid

#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 6d

We know that there are a lot of protests happening. Stay safe everyone! We have a protest guide available! www.meaction.net/_files/ugd/b...

It includes planning an accessible protest & attending an in person protest when you have ME or similar.

#pwME #Protest #MECFS #ChronicIllness

Photo from #MEAction Still Sick Still Fighting protest in front of the White House showing protesters lying on the sidewalk. Text above: MEAction protest guide available. Text below: Part 1: For people who are planning a protest/activism to include people with ME Part 2: For those planning to attend an in-person protest that have complex chronic illness

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Secret Life of Books Podcast @slobpodcast.bsky.social · 28d

Jonty chats to English literary critic and Virginia Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee, in this must-listen episode for Woolf fans and all classic literature lovers alike!

The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

#virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 24d

It would be hard to overstate the shock Virginia Woolf felt on the arrival of the major 19th-century Russian writers—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Turgenev—in English in the early 20th century. In her diaries & essays she writes of them with awe, like they’re newly discovered continents.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23d

“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”

~ From ‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf (1883-1941)

#Art, ‘Falling Rose Petals’ by Harold Davis.

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De la Cole (Paul) 🍁🍂🎃 @olekingcoley.bsky.social · 19d

Joy Battick, the first woman of colour to have a statue in the capital (London), which now has two, making her just the second non-royal, after Virginia Woolf, to be honoured in this way.
www.positive.news/society/monu...

Monuments of change: London’s statues honouring remarkable women

A new book uncovers a quiet revolution in stone and bronze, the growing number of statues honouring remarkable women across the capital

www.positive.news

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 18d

“For most of history, anonymous was a woman.”

― Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 Classic Literature

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ME Association @meassociation.org.uk · 7d

1/2: This summer, the CureME team ran a competition for researchers to receive free samples from the biobank for their research. The aim was to support more researchers by making more samples available free or at a reduced cost—helping advance understanding of ME/CFS together.

#MECFS #pwME

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: graphic of a map highlighting the following countries: Canada, USA, UK, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, South-Africa, Australia.

Heading - Where did the application for the UKMEB Sample Campaign come from?

ME Association, LSHCM and Cure ME logos.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 7d

Our #Dieselgate petition is growing. Let's get this even higher, before the trial begins on October 13th. Have you signed yet? #AirPollution #DitchDiesel

Make polluters pay for poisoning our children

10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 8d

A huge achievement but still a long way to go:

As @mumsforlungs.bsky.social highlight, although London has now lowered nitrogen dioxide pollution levels to UK legal limits, these limits are still 4 times higher than WHO recommendations to protect people's health.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 9d

A DEFRA report suggests London is now finally compliant with UK legal #AirPollution limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

DEFRA reports that last year, London complied with the UK’s annual average legal limit of 40ug/m3 for NO2, 15 years after it should have.
uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/annu...

The front page of a DEFRA report. White background, with the top half of an image of London's skyline visible. The title of the report is Air Pollution in the UK 2024.

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 8d

A reminder that pre-orders are now open for our lovely new limited edition Dartmoor zine, 'Flow'.

60 perfectly bound pages of striking and original images and beautifully fragmented words from Kirsteen McNish.

We're really proud of it, and hope you enjoy it.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...

Cover of the Dartmoor Collective Flow zine - it's an abstract painting inspired by Dartmoor by artist Louise Bougourd- it resembles a bank of dark grey cloud with gold highlights flowing over the moor with a brighter patch of blue sky breaking through.

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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 7d

Living with ME/CFS - photos and words by, well, me.

www.centreforbritishdocumentaryphotography.co.uk/house-bound-...

Thanks David Cross of @cbdp.bsky.social , for including this photo story!

#Photography #CBDP #DocumentaryPhotography #MECFS #pwME #LongCovid

ME/CFS | Andrew Gifford

Andrew Gifford has struggled with a longterm condition that is little understood. Here in documentary photos and text, he lifts the veil for us all to witness the day to day struggles with ME.

www.centreforbritishdocumentaryphotography.co.uk

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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 10d

Here but not here - from my ME/CFS photo project

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ALT: Colour photo of a caucasian adult male's head just about visible through foggy blue-grey glass, as he peers in through the murk

#DocumentaryPhotography #pwME #MECFS #LongCovid

Here but not here:

Andrew Gifford on Glass

glass.photo

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Gillian Kent @cambridgegill.bsky.social · 7d

How wonderful! And thank you for all you're doing.

Sara Fox @saraf0x.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you 🥹🫶🏽 It's eye-watering but we can do it! ✊🏼 We've outnumbered them every time so far!

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Sara Fox @saraf0x.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you 🥹🫶🏽 It's eye-watering but we can do it! ✊🏼 We've outnumbered them every time so far!

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