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Dee

@deeruddock.bsky.social

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🧑🏻‍🦳I am a: daughter, sister, wife & auntie; avid reader, shower singer, over-thinker, coffee drinker 📖 currently reading We Solve Murders (R. Osman) & The Ritual Effect (M. Norton) 📍 W.Sussex hoping to curate a positive & interesting feed

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · Aug 20

hoping to curate a positive & interesting feed covering (among others) :

#stars 💫🌍 #cats 🐈‍⬛ (all #animals) #nature 🌱 #piano 🎹 #viola 🎻 #yoga #pilates 🧘‍♂️ NOVICE #seaswim #positivepsychology 🧠 #reading + #bookreviews 📚 #Pizza 🍕 #coffee ☕️ #hope 💞 #grateful 🙏🏻 #POTs , #hEDS #dysautonomia 🦓 🦄

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 3d

does not surprise me - I looked at the (online) RT and groaned at how awful the options were for a Saturday night. Rented a ‘25 release movie on Rakuten instead

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Jim Cardillo @jimcardillo.bsky.social · Jul 8

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13d

POTS or Dysautonomia can be incredibly debilitating.

It’s more than “just fainting”… it’s a malfunctioning of your autonomic nervous system.

That’s the system that regulates breathing, blood pressure, heart rate & more

www.disabledginger.com/p/living-lif...

Living Life Upside Down - An Intro to POTS/Dysautonomia

I live my life horizontally thanks to a condition called POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). It's poorly understood, often misdiagnosed and can be devastating to quality of life.

www.disabledginger.com

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 7d

October is #Dysautonomia awareness month

PoTS UK @ukpots.bsky.social · Nov 22

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) can be a life altering and debilitating health condition.

PoTS UK desires to offer hope that life can be lived and enjoyed despite living with this condition.

You can learn more about PoTS via the PoTS UK website:

www.potsuk.org

youtu.be/XoKmJA-onqg?...

What is PoTS?

YouTube video by PoTS UK

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 10d

New town locations now out:
- Adlington, Cheshire East
- South Gloucestershire
- Enfield
- Heyford Park in Cherwell
- Leeds
- Manchester, Victoria North
- Marlcombe, East Devon
- A ‘Renewed Town’ in Milton Keynes;
- Plymouth
- Tempsford
- Thamesmead, Greenwich;
- Worcestershire Parkway, Wychavon

Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social · 10d

We warmly welcome all 12 of the locations recommend by the Taskforce with Tempsford, Crews Hill and Leeds South Bank looking particularly promising.

We are today commencing a SEA to support final decisions on precisely which sites will be taken forward.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Initial government response - September 2025

www.gov.uk

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 10d

taking all my willpower not to resubscribe to Apple TV+ right now , purely for the new series of #SlowHorses - best show I’ve watched in years……

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 12d

Important new international #fibromyalgia study:

"The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals"
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Someone on an ME/CFS forum has said: "I see some familiar genes from DecodeME*: RABGAP1L, OLFM4, DCC"

*Similar ME/CFS study

#Fibro #FMS #FM

Fibromyalgia is a common and debilitating chronic pain syndrome of poorly understood etiology. Here,
we conduct a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis across 2,563,755 individuals
(54,629 cases and 2,509,126 controls) from 11 cohorts, identifying the first 26 risk loci for fibromyalgia.
The strongest association was with a coding variant in HTT, the causal gene for Huntington’s disease.
Gene prioritization implicated the HTT regulator GPR52, as well as diverse genes with neural roles,
including CAMKV, DCC, DRD2/NCAM1, MDGA2, and CELF4. Fibromyalgia heritability was
exclusively enriched within brain tissues and neural cell types. Fibromyalgia showed strong, positive
genetic correlation with a wide range of chronic pain, psychiatric, and somatic disorders, including
genetic correlations above 0.7 with low back pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and irritable bowel
syndrome. Despite large sex differences in fibromyalgia prevalence, the genetic architecture of
fibromyalgia was nearly identical between males and females. This work provides the first robust genetic
evidence defining fibromyalgia as a central nervous system disorder, thereby establishing a biological
framework for its complex pathophysiology and extensive clinical comorbidities.

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 15d

the fact that I take folinic acid and the price will now increase and stock deplete is a very Monday feel for a Tuesday

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 16d

This episode rather demonstrates the damage you can do by getting it wrong in the first place. Later corrections never make the same splash as the initial 'mistake'.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16d

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants
Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system

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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING: Reporters at the Pentagon have been told they can no longer report information which has not been approved, and those who refuse will lose their press credentials, the Washington Post reported.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21d

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.

Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19d

One thing I would love to see is dental professionals quit shaming patients for (what they see as) poor dental hygiene.

If you’re poor, you don’t go until there’s a problem, and by then what was a minor problem is major. EDS and other chronic diseases cause problems on their own.

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 19d

I am so seen in this thread! So many comments I could have written myself 🦷

Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · 20d

timeless

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26d

Shingles incidence also rising in context of covid immune damage. & In UK vaccine is only offered publicly to 70+ but (even without greater covid indicidences) other countries do 50+. Pals in their early 40s recently had shingles following covid & found it v tough :( academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

Increased Risk of Herpes Zoster in Adults ≥50 Years Old Diagnosed With COVID-19 in the United States

AbstractBackground. Case reports have described herpes zoster (HZ) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, this constitutes low-qual

academic.oup.com

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 27d

We're on the cusp of a global debt crisis. To see that, don't look at 30-year yields, which get pulled down by falling short-term yields. Look at 10y20y forward yields (red) that strip out short-term yields. Those are up everywhere and at alarming levels in places like Japan, the UK and France...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27d

Publication Day for me today. Finally, 6 months after it was originally supposed to be out. What a battle it's been - due to the terrible behaviour of my ex-publishers - to stop this being completely lost.

Emotion of "THANK FUCK" has rarely been more strongly felt.

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

My new novel Everything Will Swallow You on an aptly lichen-blotched bench.

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · Sep 8

saw a good quote reminder over the weekend which will guide this week for me #MondayMotivation

“You can’t control how other people behave, only your own reactions to them”

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'm really looking forward to receiving the emergency alert test from the government on my phone today. So excited. I can't remember the last time anyone phoned me. I'm putting on clean socks.

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · Sep 5

yes, it’s Friday night, but I’m resigned to the fact I’m middle aged and boring.

Anyone got any tips for a decent suction but lightweight cordless vacuum?

I think I’ve narrowed it down to a gtech airRAM K9 or a Shark PowerPro Pet ….. max £200 budget 🙏🏻

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · Sep 5

Artificial sweeteners aged the brain by over 1.5 years, study says www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...

#Alzheimers #dementia #diabetes #health #wellness

Artificial sweeteners aged the brain by over 1.5 years, study says | CNN

People consuming the high levels of certain artificial sweeteners — about 1 teaspoon daily — saw their cognitive abilities decline by 1.6 years, a new study found.

www.cnn.com

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Dee @deeruddock.bsky.social · Sep 2

thank you 🙏🏻 🐾