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Sport, history, language, law & humour | Living with and writing about #ME #POTS #IST #Asthma #Dysautonomia | #Celtic 🍀 | #LifeWriting at merrydholl.wordpress.com 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 29d

Got a wee bit of exciting news. When well enough, I'm part of an international group of writers. Our second anthology has just been published. All proceeds go to @meactnet.bsky.social

I'll remind you all later that this would make an ideal C-word present 😁

#LifeWriting #ME/CFS

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Near-Life Experiences: The Pillow Writers Anthology, Issue 2: Amazon.co.uk: Greenberger, Ann, Janzen, CJ, pagán teitelbaum, iliana, Gessert, Mary, Howard, Sol, Keogh, Martin, Solaris, Laila, Loehrer, ...

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 5h

Oh God love them. I'm in a merciful mood today. Schadenfreude will return.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 5h

Too many to read. I felt pity for the man who said: 'We are now left in this vacuum of hopelessness where I feel lost'. Maybe needs another hobby.

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 5h

Most enjoyable, thank you.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 6h

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I stopped using FB years ago because virtually everything was a reminder of life going on without me. How much worse for these women. Another reminder that Big Tech doesn't care.

The women taking tech giant Meta to task after their baby loss

Several women say the pain of losing their babies was made worse by targeted advertising.

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 10h

Ooh you dirty stop out 😁😉

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 11h

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations 🎉
May it be long and healthy. Were you first out?

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Bob Leckridge @bobleckridge.bsky.social · 13h

As the last of the Sun’s rays colour the sky people in their houses switch on their lights.
Here it looks like the coloured light of sunset is both outside AND inside their homes #stunday #photography

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn't read this, honest! Great minds and all that.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 1d

Leave them be and put in a black background with a silver moon?

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 1d

c) Pop

a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is making a face

Alt: a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is making a face

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 2d

That's just lovely 😻

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 2d

I must make a better job of curating my camera roll/photos. It's stuffed full of photos of others' events. Then I get sent snapshots by my phone pointing me to my memories. Nope, not me, not my family, never been there and don't know who that is.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 2d

👍🏻😂 For sure, bigly sure

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 2d

I daresay Trump's interest in ending so many many wars will dissolve like a one ply hanky at a wake.

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 3d

A short video on unsafety in chronic illness on the Vlads ME Diary channel - youtu.be/_6KSh9AKA-o?...

What “Unsafety” Feels Like in ME and Long Covid

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler ME Diary

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, every word.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

Source: CNN
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Cheery wee article about plastics killing us.

Three CNN reporters on three continents wore chemical-tracking wristbands. The results were alarming | CNN

Plastic is woven into our lives and its chemical pollution is in the air we breathe, the dust we inhale, the food we eat. We did an experiment to see what we’re exposed to every day.

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

So much talking, so little doing. Like many things, the money isn't there. It's much cheaper to wring hands and apply the odd band aid.

Revealed: Scotland’s damp and mould crisis set to cost hundreds of millions (paywalled)
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552822...

Revealed: Scotland’s damp and mould crisis set to cost hundreds of millions

Ministers have been warned that Scotland faces a repair bill running into hundreds of millions of pounds over a failure to tackle the growing public…

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

Thanking you!

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my Lord, what a big beamer alrighty!

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

For some reason I associate it with the Liver Birds but I see a reference to Francie and Josie now. So you're right, maybe just before our time.

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

Conversations with my youngest. Another reference he didn't get:
You dancing?
You asking? etc.

Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

Six foot two, eyes of blue...
To whom does this refer?

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Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social · 3d

That's the one!