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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 20/05/2025

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive. Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

Split-image with the text “TO BEE or NOT TO BEE.” The left side shows a vibrant wildflower meadow with a bee on a daisy, symbolising biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem. The right side shows a dry, barren landscape with dead trees and no visible wildlife, representing environmental degradation. An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

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Clean Air Hampshire @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Clean Air Hampshire hosts a monthly masked meetup on every 3rd Saturday of the month. 😷💙 Follow our Eventbrite for updates when tickets are released, they get booked up quickly ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clean-air-...

games, and craft.
Wheelchair accessibility: the doorway to the venue has a small lip which wheelchairs can be pushed over, unfortunately the toilet isn't accessible for wheelchairs.
However, the nearby pub has a disabled toilet we can use.

Please wear an unvalved FFP2 or FFP3 mask and do an LFT test beforehand. If you or someone in your household is ill, please don't attend. The venue has an air filter, feel free to bring your own portable filter.

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social event every 3rd Saturday of the month in Southampton
A chance to hang out IRL with other covid informed people to chat, play games, and craft.
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esottransplant @esottransplant.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🌍 Healthcare emits 5% of global greenhouse gases. What about transplant services? Can we reduce our impact without compromising care❓ 🗨️ Let’s talk. Join us in rethinking sustainable transplantation. #SustainableTransplantation #ESOTcongress @esit-nhsbt.bsky.social ℹ️ go.esot.org/esot_esit2025

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Smart Air UK @smartairuk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Poor air quality in care homes puts residents' health at risk. But a study shows portable air cleaners can reduce PM2.5 by 64% and VOCs by 70%! 📢 Care home owners, protect your residents by investing in air purifiers like the Blast for cleaner air. 📖: bit.ly/42jUoXM

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Clean Air Hampshire @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Clean Air Hampshire's mask fundraiser is up and live: gofund.me/03fb2e8f Please share & support 💙 Our first mask handout will be this Saturday 5th April in Portsmouth at the @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social & @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social protest against disability benefits cuts. 🪧😷💙

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Donate to Help Us Bring Masks to Community, organized by Andrea Barrett

Hi, my name is Andrea and I run Clean Air Hampshire (CAH). We are a collective of camp… Andrea Barrett needs your support for Help Us Bring Masks to Community

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Not a funny day. 10,000 firings at US health agencies, but really more, b/c they're forcing many to quit by making work impossible. "Outside the HHS building in Rockville, Maryland, employees were being turned away and could be seen crying in the street." 🧵1/4 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies

The layoffs are the latest indication of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s drastic effort to completely remake the nation’s public health infrastructure.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Some politicians I have chatted to have said ‘ah we tried masks and it’s not popular with the public’. To which my reply has always been, no you didn’t try. The Tories gave incorrect PPE advice and covid is airborne. No wonder the public were confused. They advised surgical gappy masks for the 🧵

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Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife @cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

RSV FLU Covid 19 #VIRUSareAirborne What about A population wide approach Vaccines + Good #IndoorAirQuality #Ventilation Is ESSENTIAL Protect Children & All Vulnerable #CleanAir in Homes Schools Healthcare Social Care @ukhsa.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

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5 Oct 2023
Respiratory Syncytial Virus associated hospital admissions by deprivation levels in children & adults in Scotland

RSV is a common cause of respiratory infections causing substantial hospitalisation and deaths especially in young children and older people. we estimates globally in 2019 there were 33million episodes &3.6mill hospitalisations of RSV assoc acute infections I'm children under 5y...about 75% of hospitalisation in children under 5years occur in infants< 1 while about 92% hospitalisation in adults occur above 65years

Conclusion
' Our analysis focused on estimating RSV and influenza associated hospitalisation in children and adults based on socio economic status using SIMD levels in Scotland. Our results show that RSV hospitalisation rates are twice as much in groups that are most deprived compared to least deprived groups in Scotland.
We observed that deprivation related disparity in RSV hospitalisation rates were mors pronounced in children aged 2 years and younger than in other age groups.thess results underscore the need to create more awareness of RSV associated hospitalisation among individuals in deprived groups and areas at various levels in the hospital clinical setup and it may also be useful to consider this as part of triage and or treatment strategy

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/229/Supplement_1/S61/7292886

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Disabled people fighting back against cuts with protests across the UK: THIS Saturday Protests will take place in over 20 areas, including London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Edinburgh. To find your nearest protest, head to Crips Against Cuts Instagram: www.instagram.com/crips_against_cuts

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We're pleased to hear the DWP Secretary talking about social security in the Commons. Social security - security in hard times - is at the heart of a fair and just society. Welfare is a US term deliberately introduced in 2010 to stigmatise those needing help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

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Benefit changes: Moral and economic reasons to fix 'broken' welfare system, says No 10 - live updates

Some Labour MPs say the government should borrow more rather than reduce benefits - or introduce a wealth tax.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

EXPOSED: Labour's plan for DWP cuts to severely disabled people's Universal Credit came from the Resolution Foundation The Resolution Foundation was a progressive think tank - yet it has thrown disabled people under the bus, as Labour's planned cuts were its idea www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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EXPOSED: Labour's plan for DWP cuts to severely disabled people's Universal Credit came from the Resolution Foundation

The Resolution Foundation was progressive think tank - yet it has thrown disabled people under the bus with DWP Universal Credit cuts

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Honor Rhodes @honor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

For our American friends- look here. #DEI #Science

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Clean Air Hampshire @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Time for Clean Air Hampshire's March virtual social meetup (every 1st Thurs of month) Today Thursday 6th March @ 7-8pm 💙 teams.live.com/meet/9344497...

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Join meeting on Teams

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Bethany/Ruth @honeycrisp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

At the cinema to see David Tennant in the #ScottishPlay & the majority of the nearly sold-out crowd are in respirators. I've been to a number of movie showings here since mask mandates were lifted in '22 & haven't seen another person masking until now. @heartofthearts.bsky.social #SaltingTheVibes

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Well done @heartofthearts.bsky.social for drawing attention to the urgent need for action to promote Covid-safety in the arts 👏

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

WE DID IT! 🥳🥳😷😷💕💕 Long COVID-suffering performers and allies sounded the alarm on the Long COVID emergency in the arts at #EEBAFTAs. One protestor rushed the red carpet, chanting “Silence=Death” echoing the estimated 27m people who have died as a result of COVID.

Long COVID protester with blue hair in BAFTAs red carpet stopped by security and holding a sign.

Two masked protestors hold a sign at the BAFTAs. "All the World is COVID's Stage."

Two protestors hold a sign at the BAFTAs "All the World is COVID's Stage."

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If this reporting stands up (and it appears confirmed by multiple sources): devastating. The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers. No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Webinar on Improving Air Quality in Schools. @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social 5th March 2025 16.00-18.00 Please register on the link below 🧵🙏

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joecluxton.bsky.social @joecluxton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

From midday on Monday 10 February 2025 bird gatherings of poultry, galliforme or anseriforme birds are banned in England. This includes ducks, geese, swans, pheasants, partridge, quail, chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England

Find out about the latest bird flu situation in England and guidance for bird keepers and the public.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I am thinking of starting a mask bloc map for the UK. Please follow and DM if you would like to network. #AirborneTransmission

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Clean Air Hampshire @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Last few tickets remaining! 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clean-air-...

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Pete #COVIDisAirborne @peteuk7.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Covid Cover Up (on X) have just published this on YT: 'Politicians: Unmasked part 1 - It's airborne' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVv...

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Part One: Airborne

YouTube video by The Covid Cover Up

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Jacqueline Raposo @wordsfoodart @jacquelineraposo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ursula K. Le Guin via @thellpsx.bsky.social’s THE FUTURE IS DISABLED. Pulled from a library book as I spend a week restoring my metaphorical muscle

“Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.” — URSULA K. LE GUIN via Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s THE FUTURE IS DISABLED

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Every activism movement in history has made space for humor, music, art, gratitude, and beauty. It centers you and reminds you what you’re fighting for. Being relentlessly miserable is just a recipe for burnout and giving up.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Study exposes COVID-19’s dire social impact in Brazil. A study found that 65.2% of those infected with COVID-19 in Brazil have or had Long COVID, affecting about 40 million people (18.9% of the population). Nearly 18 million still experience persistent symptoms or complications.

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Study exposes COVID-19’s dire social impact in Brazil

The “Epicovid 2.0” study shows that the “impacts of the pandemic are great and long-lasting” and that it has “exacerbated historical health inequalities in Brazil.”

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 04/02/2025

Don’t want to understate the very real harm being done here but there is an important part of Trump’s style of government that is almost entirely performance art

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Nathalie Pearson @natpearson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A webinar discussing practical solutions 👏🏼🙏🏻 @henryburridge.bsky.social #SafeAirSchools events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d54c6...

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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

📌Indoor CO2 map UK could do with some more data! 🔗https://indoorco2map.com/ Ht @aurel.indoorco2map.com FYI @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social

Map of uk showing co2 readings in various locations

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Social media platforms like LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are actively censoring vital health information. Want to get upset about something? Get upset about that. It matters. @drseanmullen.bsky.social

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 30/01/2025

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you can’t handle the social discomfort or personal inconvenience of wearing an n95 to protect disability communities, you won’t be able to handle the discomfort and risk of actual “resistance” work. Expand your capacity for discomfort to expand your capacity to liberate. And wear a damn mask:

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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

First they came for the disabled and clinically vulnerable and that has been happening since 2020…

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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Aktion T4, the Nazis’ euthanasia programme, began with disabled children. There were special wards in hospitals where healthcare workers murdered them using lethal overdoses, starvation or leaving them outside. In the Netherlands and Belgium, they euthanise disabled children now.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

♻️ 1.5 days left! ⌛️(ends Thursday afternoon) 💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏 💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕 Please help to share even if you cannot donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...

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SJ [SaliWho] @why-should-i.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The benefit cuts committee and the assisted suicide committee didn’t take evidence from any disabled people’s organisations. They intend to kill as many of us as possible, to cut costs. The pandemic continues to boost public support for eugenics. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/lords-commit...

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Lords committee led by Tory banker calls for stricter assessments and conditions for disabled benefit claimants

Disabled activists have questioned the “draconian” conclusions of a Lords committee that has told the government to impose stricter conditions, more assessments, and a more “rigorous” work capabili…

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Nathalie Pearson @natpearson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So pleased that this is getting lots of use in the real world! Warmly welcomed by Public Health and Portsmouth City Council today where we also discussed climate resilient school grounds 🥰☀️🌳🌍💚 Ht @mishwoz.bsky.social #CleanAirClassrooms #JoiningTheDots @cleanairhampshire.bsky.social

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We’re proud to announce that our lead barrister @adamwagner1.bsky.social is being formally recognised as King’s Counsel (KC). A well-deserved honour recognising his outstanding advocacy and expertise!

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

On the inclusion of therapeutics within the remit of the Vaccine Taskforce: KB "It was quite clear that there was 'open warfare' between BEIS [Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy] and the Department for Health" 5/

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Disability rights are human rights! ♿️

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