Here's Johnny (Aardvark)
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Teacher scientist astronomy and photography and music buff! World observer...
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‚He adds: 'we are the unfortunate aftermath of the pandemic that people don't want to think about. They just want to put their things in their ears and move on with life. We can't do that though, because we're living with long Covid.'‘
#LongCovid
#LongCovid
Metro UK: “The long Covid legacy: ‘People don’t want to think about us”
‘Alex Sprackland caught Covid-19 in March 2020, he thought he’d be back to normal in no time…five years on, the 34-year-old still grapples with the severe, life-limiting effects of the infection’
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
‘Alex Sprackland caught Covid-19 in March 2020, he thought he’d be back to normal in no time…five years on, the 34-year-old still grapples with the severe, life-limiting effects of the infection’
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
The long Covid legacy: 'People don't want to think about us'
Around 2million people are still thought to be living with long Covid in the UK
metro.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
‚He adds: 'we are the unfortunate aftermath of the pandemic that people don't want to think about. They just want to put their things in their ears and move on with life. We can't do that though, because we're living with long Covid.'‘
#LongCovid
#LongCovid
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An article published in the Metro today - The long Covid legacy: ‘People don’t want to think about us’ includes Avalyn Godfrey, who dreams of being a primary school teacher and has written a book to help educate children on Long Covid .
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
#YoungWriter #LongCovidKids
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
#YoungWriter #LongCovidKids
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
An article published in the Metro today - The long Covid legacy: ‘People don’t want to think about us’ includes Avalyn Godfrey, who dreams of being a primary school teacher and has written a book to help educate children on Long Covid .
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
#YoungWriter #LongCovidKids
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
#YoungWriter #LongCovidKids
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GP Rammya Mathew’s comment on the government’s 10 year plan for the #NHS in the current BMJ:
‘Fit for the Future: patient power or quiet exclusion?’
Really important and to the point.
We need to remember who the NHS is for. People. Patients (while not to forget staff).
‘Fit for the Future: patient power or quiet exclusion?’
Really important and to the point.
We need to remember who the NHS is for. People. Patients (while not to forget staff).
July 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
GP Rammya Mathew’s comment on the government’s 10 year plan for the #NHS in the current BMJ:
‘Fit for the Future: patient power or quiet exclusion?’
Really important and to the point.
We need to remember who the NHS is for. People. Patients (while not to forget staff).
‘Fit for the Future: patient power or quiet exclusion?’
Really important and to the point.
We need to remember who the NHS is for. People. Patients (while not to forget staff).
I never did this but kind of wished I had taken these opportunities especially as I see now how much my partner benefited from this scheme when she came to the UK.
It's a real shame we are not still part of this program.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-quiz...
It's a real shame we are not still part of this program.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-quiz...
Erasmus+ Quiz
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I never did this but kind of wished I had taken these opportunities especially as I see now how much my partner benefited from this scheme when she came to the UK.
It's a real shame we are not still part of this program.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-quiz...
It's a real shame we are not still part of this program.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/erasmus-quiz...
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‚If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism.‘
You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
‚If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism.‘
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Partial solar eclipse
29/03/25 11.24am
29/03/25 11.24am
March 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Partial solar eclipse
29/03/25 11.24am
29/03/25 11.24am
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Long Covid is a feminist issue. Not because men can‘t get Long Covid, but because Long Covid is seen through the lens through which much of illness in women has always been seen - ignored, belittled, psychologised. Women and men pay the price.
#IWD
#LongCovid
#IWD
#LongCovid
March 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Long Covid is a feminist issue. Not because men can‘t get Long Covid, but because Long Covid is seen through the lens through which much of illness in women has always been seen - ignored, belittled, psychologised. Women and men pay the price.
#IWD
#LongCovid
#IWD
#LongCovid
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Why you‘ve got to love cinema more than ever in today’s world ❤️
#Berlinale
#FilmFestival
Why you‘ve got to love cinema more than ever in today’s world ❤️
#Berlinale
#FilmFestival
February 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Why you‘ve got to love cinema more than ever in today’s world ❤️
#Berlinale
#FilmFestival
Why you‘ve got to love cinema more than ever in today’s world ❤️
#Berlinale
#FilmFestival
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‘The worst it’s ever been’: teachers decry Send crisis in England’s schools
‘The worst it’s ever been’: teachers decry Send crisis in England’s schools
Staff and parents share their experience as number of pupils with special educational needs spirals
* Send provision in ‘vicious downward spiral’, says former children’s commissioner
“The Send [Special educational needs and disabilities] system is…
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
‘The worst it’s ever been’: teachers decry Send crisis in England’s schools
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
Just checking up on where the Voyager probes have got to... cool website #nasa #Voyager #astronomy #space @drelke.bsky.social
Just checking up on where the Voyager probes have got to... cool website #nasa #Voyager #astronomy #space @drelke.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Just checking up on where the Voyager probes have got to... cool website #nasa #Voyager #astronomy #space @drelke.bsky.social
Just checking up on where the Voyager probes have got to... cool website #nasa #Voyager #astronomy #space @drelke.bsky.social
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December 1, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
The week around the world in 20 pictures
The ceasefire in Lebanon, the aftermath of floods in Valencia, Russian airstrikes in Kyiv and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
The week around the world in 20 pictures
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Dr Elke Hausmann & Sue Hewison respond to @timdowling.bsky.social’s Guardian column on #Covid:
“Never mind the millions of us including children, living with debilitating #LongCovid, some for coming up to half a decade, with new patients still joining our ranks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
“Never mind the millions of us including children, living with debilitating #LongCovid, some for coming up to half a decade, with new patients still joining our ranks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many | Letters
Letters: Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowling’s column about his sons testing positive
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Dr Elke Hausmann & Sue Hewison respond to @timdowling.bsky.social’s Guardian column on #Covid:
“Never mind the millions of us including children, living with debilitating #LongCovid, some for coming up to half a decade, with new patients still joining our ranks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
“Never mind the millions of us including children, living with debilitating #LongCovid, some for coming up to half a decade, with new patients still joining our ranks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...