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Spencer Carter

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Mesolithic & community archaeologist, FSA Scot, Hon Research Fellow at Durham University Archaeology, Long Covid since 2020. timevista.co.uk | clevelandarchaeology.com

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · Sep 6

I used to be a Mesolithic archaeologist. In 2020 Covid19 hit me, crashed me. My pleas for help continue. Year 5 chronic #LongCovid, now bed-bound, unable to walk, no income or support, bankruptcy close, house repossession on horizon. Please help and share if you can 🆘
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Long Covid victim year 5, Spence seeks help to stay afloat

Dear friends, colleagues and philanthropic folk, my pleas for help continue. Year 5 chronic #LongCovid since 2020, now bed-bound and unable to walk, no income or support, bankruptcy close, house repos...

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu's original family name was Mileikowsky. Polish & Belarus decent. Moved to Palestine as zionists, father in 1920s lobbied USA to support creation of a 'Jewish state'. Immigrants. Nothing is quite what it seems. History since: violent & apartheid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzion...

Benzion Netanyahu - Wikipedia

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful work.
You can't stop the boats? #Archaeology

mhoyle.bsky.social @mhoyle.bsky.social · 2d

WIP on a small diorama using some existing assets and some new ones recently created. I I wanted to test them out in a low light setting, and utilised a new sky rig node setup #blender #illustration #vikings #archaeology

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 2d

#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology takes you back to 2019, pre-pandemic. A late Neolithic arrowhead from Teesside may have been very well traveled, itself or the flint likely from Devon, over 450km away 🏺 clevelandarchaeology.com/2019/08/11/n...

Neolithic Journey | Eston Hills arrowhead is well-travelled!

A late Neolithic arrowhead, a Ripple-flaked Oblique type more than 5000 years old and discovered in the 1980s, has always stood out amongst other finds because of the unusual quality of the flint a…

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, way up on a parallel brain loop: This is how SARS-CoV-2 (Covid19) invades and destroys our immune system. A co-lateral observation. #LongCovid

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in the hover zone of needing to go for a restorative nap for an hour 7pm, realising I may not wake up until tomorrow. I awoke at 1pm today no matter how early I go to bed. #LongCovid

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 5d

@marcusjdl.bsky.social I haven't changed have I??? (age 24 1990) - I started the MJDL-style screaming much later.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 5d

Mood. We are being ignored and left to die slowly since 2019-2020 Wuhan (the viral lab, US funded). We know what the SARS2 virus does, Covid19, like HIV. Engineered then a leak accident #LongCovid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o05f...

The Sound of Silence | The Bands of HM Royal Marines

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 6d

Me at 24 in 1990, now age 59. Our golden years at SCO Unix (Santa Cruz Operation), still like family. If only one could return. Also about the time I started pole dancing in Soho, but there's no memory or evidence. Golden years.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11d

PS he marked my Durham undergrad flinty dissertation 1986-7 and I got a distinction, friends ever since. But I always paid for supper.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11d

That, Gabe, has made my day and week. Blessings at you. I think the last thing he ranted at me was something like "you smoke and drink too much". As we popped a cheroot over a glass of vino outside Olivelli's, subject to Chatham House Rules.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11d

Hear hear Petra.

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 11d

He should have been expelled. This is way more than policing opinions.

- Inciting violence at far right rallies
- Interfering in government affairs
- Destroying health and science infrastructures
- Ensuring thousands will die

Abusers, excused and enabled by craven others, always grow in power.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 11d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11d

I love the old packaging in Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North York Moors

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11d

If you talk to us, the victims, ***WE KNOW*** every hour, every day, we can feel it, scalp to toes. #LongCovid

Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 12d

From ME Research UK @meresearchuk.bsky.social

A small study has identified that skeletal muscle oxygen diffusion may be impaired in both people with ME/CFS and in those with long COVID.

Read more: bit.ly/4naUeKi

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Skeletal muscle oxygen diffusion may be impaired in people with ME/CFS and in those with long COVID _}

• Oxygen diffusion in skeletal muscle is the movement of oxygen from the blood, through tissue, and into the mitochondria for cellular respiration. • Impairment of this process would lead to reduced oxygen reaching mitochondria decreasing their ability to produce energy through the most efficient pathway. • This may explain exercise intolerance in people with ME/CFS, and in those with long COVID, but more research is needed before firm conclusions can be drawn.
Jothi et al., Physiological Reports (2025)
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INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST. SCO36942

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 12d

How do neilc82.bsky.social

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 12d

Polycam is very very good, and especially for easy communications. We've been using it for test pits (and some large) this year. I'm housebound but have been able to explore the results, and fair amount of features, in 3D.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 13d

Same page, as millions of us, no help or support. Strength in solidarity. Sending hugs and wishes (I'm into yr 6). #LongCovid

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 14d

Tees #Archaeology Day Sat 18 Oct, Stockton-on-Tees
The post-medieval & industrial landscapes of northern England, new research over last 5 years, £25 / £15 concessions

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 16d

Had the pleasure to see it before submitted to PAS. Truly beautiful. Another from the same field is a bit more battered and different type. PS HELLO Rebecca 👋

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 16d

#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology Whoop! Had the pleasure of IDing this absolute beauty from near York, one of the finest I've ever seen. finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 17d

Hour this eve testing Microsoft Teams for a call tomorrow w/a friend. I'm still old Windows 8.1, current Firefox browser, but audio broken. Teams needs Win10/11 as an app. All vid/audio/mic SW drivers fine. But Google Chrome works with fiddling. And it's supposed to be 21st century!

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 18d

Oi, why the question mark headline? Yes it's safe. No, there is zero proven medical evidence for a connection. (I understand that autism is largely hereditary, genetic, first diagnosed 1911, so pre-existing, 50yrs before paracetamol). STOP scaremongering. POTUS is wrong and infantile, or senile.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d

Is paracetamol safe during pregnancy and does it have links to autism?

US president’s claims around painkiller also known as Tylenol contradict scientific consensus

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 18d

Not close enough petal. And I was bullied at school cos I talked posh, because mam had electrocution lessons. See? Get yer running shorts on, I want to show you my moors (and bogs) x

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 18d

Altho my 1970s bedroom... and I thought you were from Stoke? See me after school.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 19d

So sorry to hear. Sounds like a brilliant chap.

Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 20d

Mentally unwell. Vindictive, sociopath malignant narcissist. Low IQ. Financially corrupt. Morally corrupt, as is his family. A rapist in evidence. A likely pedophile. POTUS.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20d

President Trump, "Charlie Kirk did not hate his opponents, he wanted the best for them"

"That's where I disagreed with him, I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them"

"I can't stand my opponent"

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