Sally Bourliakas
@sallybourliakas.bsky.social
Mum, scientist, Sci-Fi reader Studio Ghibli fan☮️ 🐈 🪄 ! I’ve had #LongCovid for 4+years Covid is Airborne wear FFP2/3 masks! Air filtration needed in schools & workplaces now.
#Teamclots #RejoinEU #FreePalestine
#Teamclots #RejoinEU #FreePalestine
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The anti-vaccination movement is largely to blame for the continuing measles outbreak and the fact that the U.S. is going to lose our measles elimination status.
Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse.
@jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:
Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse.
@jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:
The US is on track to lose its measles elimination status in months. RFK needs to go.
Canada has lost its measles elimination status and the U.S. is likely to be next. These failures are the result of the anti-vaccination movement, bolstered by the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
www.livescience.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The anti-vaccination movement is largely to blame for the continuing measles outbreak and the fact that the U.S. is going to lose our measles elimination status.
Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse.
@jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:
Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse.
@jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:
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Published today after 2years of work behind the scenes by us at WHN/DELPHI Executive team : Our Global Expert DELPHI Consensus document on Long Covid. 179 Experts from 28 countries around the Globe Participated. Please share. Happy Easter!
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April 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Published today after 2years of work behind the scenes by us at WHN/DELPHI Executive team : Our Global Expert DELPHI Consensus document on Long Covid. 179 Experts from 28 countries around the Globe Participated. Please share. Happy Easter!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Normalizing shaming corporations who refuse to pay people a living wage so that their billionaire owners can get even richer.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Normalizing shaming corporations who refuse to pay people a living wage so that their billionaire owners can get even richer.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
🧪 To add to this interview by @sunny-rae1.bsky.social
here’s a discussion with
Profs
Jeremy K Nicholson,
Peter Openshaw/Greg Daw & Michael Osborne
On Australian Radio (ABC) Looking Back series
On #Covid_19 #pandemic & #LongCovid
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
here’s a discussion with
Profs
Jeremy K Nicholson,
Peter Openshaw/Greg Daw & Michael Osborne
On Australian Radio (ABC) Looking Back series
On #Covid_19 #pandemic & #LongCovid
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🧪 To add to this interview by @sunny-rae1.bsky.social
here’s a discussion with
Profs
Jeremy K Nicholson,
Peter Openshaw/Greg Daw & Michael Osborne
On Australian Radio (ABC) Looking Back series
On #Covid_19 #pandemic & #LongCovid
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
here’s a discussion with
Profs
Jeremy K Nicholson,
Peter Openshaw/Greg Daw & Michael Osborne
On Australian Radio (ABC) Looking Back series
On #Covid_19 #pandemic & #LongCovid
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years.
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/m...
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/m...
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country has officially lost its measles elimination status that it had held since 1998.
montreal.citynews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years.
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/m...
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/m...
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Top News on #BBCRadio4 this morning
1 in 5 adults are now Not Working
A massive increase since 2019 🤔
Costing the economy over £200billion a year 🤔
Some mention of 'since Covid' and talk of being holistic, but totally missing a trick!
#KeepBritainWorking Review
#LongCovid
1 in 5 adults are now Not Working
A massive increase since 2019 🤔
Costing the economy over £200billion a year 🤔
Some mention of 'since Covid' and talk of being holistic, but totally missing a trick!
#KeepBritainWorking Review
#LongCovid
a nurse wearing a mask is holding a sign that says we must care for people living with long term covid
Alt: a nurse wearing a mask is holding a sign that says we must care for people living with long term covid
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Top News on #BBCRadio4 this morning
1 in 5 adults are now Not Working
A massive increase since 2019 🤔
Costing the economy over £200billion a year 🤔
Some mention of 'since Covid' and talk of being holistic, but totally missing a trick!
#KeepBritainWorking Review
#LongCovid
1 in 5 adults are now Not Working
A massive increase since 2019 🤔
Costing the economy over £200billion a year 🤔
Some mention of 'since Covid' and talk of being holistic, but totally missing a trick!
#KeepBritainWorking Review
#LongCovid
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue
King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign
A memorial is unveiled dedicated to gay military personnel and to those who served during the armed forces gay ban.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue
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The goal of healthcare is not to increase the GDP
It’s to make people healthy & tend to the sick. It’s not supposed to be a money making scheme
Dr Oz saying that to “flourish in life” you must engage in the workforce is useless eater rhetoric
He wants you to see the sick & disabled as expendable
It’s to make people healthy & tend to the sick. It’s not supposed to be a money making scheme
Dr Oz saying that to “flourish in life” you must engage in the workforce is useless eater rhetoric
He wants you to see the sick & disabled as expendable
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The goal of healthcare is not to increase the GDP
It’s to make people healthy & tend to the sick. It’s not supposed to be a money making scheme
Dr Oz saying that to “flourish in life” you must engage in the workforce is useless eater rhetoric
He wants you to see the sick & disabled as expendable
It’s to make people healthy & tend to the sick. It’s not supposed to be a money making scheme
Dr Oz saying that to “flourish in life” you must engage in the workforce is useless eater rhetoric
He wants you to see the sick & disabled as expendable
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Labour. Conservatives. Reform.
Peter Thiel’s fingerprints are on them all — an ideological pincer movement pulling Britain toward MAGA-style autocracy.
My first @BylineTimes video investigation exposes how.
🎥 Watch here → youtu.be/7OaSuAVKCGE?...
Peter Thiel’s fingerprints are on them all — an ideological pincer movement pulling Britain toward MAGA-style autocracy.
My first @BylineTimes video investigation exposes how.
🎥 Watch here → youtu.be/7OaSuAVKCGE?...
The Thiel Effect.
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Labour. Conservatives. Reform.
Peter Thiel’s fingerprints are on them all — an ideological pincer movement pulling Britain toward MAGA-style autocracy.
My first @BylineTimes video investigation exposes how.
🎥 Watch here → youtu.be/7OaSuAVKCGE?...
Peter Thiel’s fingerprints are on them all — an ideological pincer movement pulling Britain toward MAGA-style autocracy.
My first @BylineTimes video investigation exposes how.
🎥 Watch here → youtu.be/7OaSuAVKCGE?...
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Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
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The Friday edition of the virus update is now out with the latest news and data of the day.
We Are In The Calm Before The Winter Storm Of Viruses youtu.be/z8EqGInd-fY?... via @YouTube
We Are In The Calm Before The Winter Storm Of Viruses youtu.be/z8EqGInd-fY?... via @YouTube
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Friday edition of the virus update is now out with the latest news and data of the day.
We Are In The Calm Before The Winter Storm Of Viruses youtu.be/z8EqGInd-fY?... via @YouTube
We Are In The Calm Before The Winter Storm Of Viruses youtu.be/z8EqGInd-fY?... via @YouTube
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Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
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Plaid Cymru has beaten Reform and Labour in Caerphilly. Apart from other things, Plaid Cymru is also an anti-Brexit party that supports rejoining the EU, the Single Market and the Customs Union.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Plaid Cymru has beaten Reform and Labour in Caerphilly. Apart from other things, Plaid Cymru is also an anti-Brexit party that supports rejoining the EU, the Single Market and the Customs Union.
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Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?
🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?
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Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper
By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…
lurgeelife.wordpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
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🚨 Labour want to scrap the Work Capability Assessment & make Daily Living PIP the gateway
DWP FOI: 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA claimants tried & failed to qualify for Daily Living PIP
A further 500,000 have never tried to qualify for DL PIP so are also at risk
OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER!
#CareNotCuts
DWP FOI: 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA claimants tried & failed to qualify for Daily Living PIP
A further 500,000 have never tried to qualify for DL PIP so are also at risk
OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER!
#CareNotCuts
![37. First, we will scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This will end the state categorising people into binary groups and labelling them as either 'can or can't work'. Instead, any extra financial support for health conditions in UC will be assessed via a single assessment - the PIP assessment - and be based on the impact of disability on daily living, not on capacity to work. [footnote 44] This will de-couple access to the health element in UC (current LCWRA rate referred to as UC health throughout) from work status, so people can be confident that the act of taking steps towards and into employment will not put their benefit entitlement at risk. We will implement this change via primary legislation. Further details will be published in the forthcoming White Paper. We are not consulting on this measure.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycy7lq7vtr4gzrdatvvazpuo/bafkreidfswrpghqiwv4iygatylv53ldeqceebghfvxg22gvgkxv3aeangi@jpeg)
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
🚨 Labour want to scrap the Work Capability Assessment & make Daily Living PIP the gateway
DWP FOI: 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA claimants tried & failed to qualify for Daily Living PIP
A further 500,000 have never tried to qualify for DL PIP so are also at risk
OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER!
#CareNotCuts
DWP FOI: 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA claimants tried & failed to qualify for Daily Living PIP
A further 500,000 have never tried to qualify for DL PIP so are also at risk
OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER!
#CareNotCuts
Reposted by Sally Bourliakas
Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper
By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…
lurgeelife.wordpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country
#CareNotCuts
lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...
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Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #TeamClots #PASC @resiapretorius.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #TeamClots #PASC @resiapretorius.bsky.social
![Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients — Alain R. Thierry et al.
"The plasma concentrations of circulating DNA, [myeloperoxidase] and [neutrophil elastase] are statistically much higher in patients with LC than in healthy patients (5.7‐, 3.5‐ and 14.9‐fold)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43rudsv62fuwsmnk7oppgtdy/bafkreicysvvryb5yjcr5etshkgmpxfgky6ngf3ok2xqasbahtwjlzr7kuy@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #TeamClots #PASC @resiapretorius.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #TeamClots #PASC @resiapretorius.bsky.social
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It's been 44 months since my Pulmonary Embolism. Luckily my GP arranged a d-dimer test 🙏
1 in 4 people Worldwide are dying from conditions caused by thrombosis
Prevent Blood Clots, Save Lives | October 13 - #WorldThrombosisDay share.google/pxqdbYk45LSv...
#WTD2025 #TeamClots #COVID19
1 in 4 people Worldwide are dying from conditions caused by thrombosis
Prevent Blood Clots, Save Lives | October 13 - #WorldThrombosisDay share.google/pxqdbYk45LSv...
#WTD2025 #TeamClots #COVID19
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's been 44 months since my Pulmonary Embolism. Luckily my GP arranged a d-dimer test 🙏
1 in 4 people Worldwide are dying from conditions caused by thrombosis
Prevent Blood Clots, Save Lives | October 13 - #WorldThrombosisDay share.google/pxqdbYk45LSv...
#WTD2025 #TeamClots #COVID19
1 in 4 people Worldwide are dying from conditions caused by thrombosis
Prevent Blood Clots, Save Lives | October 13 - #WorldThrombosisDay share.google/pxqdbYk45LSv...
#WTD2025 #TeamClots #COVID19
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I do think the media is giving too much attention to the possibility of Farage winning an election that's nearly four years away. I also think it's underplaying the extremely high possibility that, even if he does, he immediately drowns in the same mire that swallowed Starmer and Sunak before him
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I do think the media is giving too much attention to the possibility of Farage winning an election that's nearly four years away. I also think it's underplaying the extremely high possibility that, even if he does, he immediately drowns in the same mire that swallowed Starmer and Sunak before him