Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 27/01/20261/ A new study from Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, led by prominent researchers Peter Novak, David Systrom, and colleagues, compared 143 Long Covid, 170 ME/CFS, 73 healthy controls, and 290 hEDS patients to map shared autonomic and neurovascular dysfunction. 🧵 13215
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I was once accused of 'wanton positivity' which is hilarious if you know me. I should have out it on a t-shirt. 100
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/12/2025‘Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum, genius of marketing and hype. Altman could go toe-to-toe with Barnum, and I wouldn’t want to pick a winner.’ John Lanchester: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJohn Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in... 37520
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I saw the play End on Monday and thought it was excellent. Re funeral music, my sister chose Shot By Both Sides by Magazine as the coffin was taken out! By coincidence I'm going with my parents and children to see The Spy Who... this afternoon. 010
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Sherry Thomas @sherrythomas.com · 30/10/2025Looking for something to read for Halloween? The fateful murder mystery-themed Game Night in THE LIBRARIANS takes place the night before Halloween! 0142
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 03/08/2025youtu.be/IyNj-SmFWsQ?...youtu.beThe Face Bra - Ally McBeal - Hilarious!YouTube video by Jammers90 040
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I'm sure that Jane Krakowski's character in Ally McBeal series had a story-line about inventing a 'face bra' to be worn at night to prevent sagging. 100
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The problem with this, is that whilst they're voting against him, they are broadly voting in line with public opinion. He's sending them a message, but he's sending a stronger, more consequential message to us www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comKeir Starmer removes Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPsRachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff pushed out and three trade envoys lose roles 4218
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Can an MP ask this in parliament please? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @carladenyer.bsky.social There is no long covid screening going on or testing in hospitals. Yet research shows COVID infections can cause serious blood clots, especially in those unvaccinated. Over 3.2 million had self reported via 2229
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Today is 3 months since Who Wants Normal? was published. Thanks so much to everyone who’s bought a copy, left a review, or shared a favourite quote on socials. As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually. 210634
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Yes, agreed. Do you think the Greens will start poaching disaffected Labour MPs, or will they join Corbyn's thing? 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025mention climate change. You'd think that with 3 heatwaves already this summer now was quite a good time to mention that! Also the old dirty power producers get massive tax breaks/subsidies, plus electricity is over-taxed compared to gas. This sort of thing is why Labour lose votes to the Greens. 010
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social re Reform wanting to withdraw clean energy subsisdies, the Labour Party spokesperson says "leaving bills higher for families, threatening hundreds of thousands of good jobs across the country and putting our energy security at risk." Interesting that they choose not to 110
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025huge swathe of south London had the Green Party in second place. What is to stop all those rebel MPs just joining the Greens? Green policies are more like what Labour's used to be. Are you aware of the Green Party are actively seeking defectors? Thanks. 110
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 17/07/2025@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social seeing my MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy having her Ghana trade envoy role removed despite her Ghanaian heritage shows how vindictive the Labout whips are. Is it because she posts consistently about Gaza? And also opposed the Welfare Bill I think. Anyway, at the last election a 210
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I love the way that had the five of them lined up between the pillars. What came first, the task or the location? #Taskmaster 130
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"Your back's hurting? Ok good." Fair to Alex I think 🤣 #Taskmaster 020
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Such a great series, really well done guys. I think you should go to 25 series then stop when you've done Champion of Champion of Champions. Otherwise you'll have to do 125 series and even at the prodigious rate of output you have I don't think Alex and Greg would last that long 🤣 010
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/202532 rooms! 51 minutes! Oh Mat, poor Mat. #taskmaster 030
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It'll either be terrible or brilliant, that's the rule on #Taskmaster 010
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025#taskmaster the way Jason threw Patatas down! 🫣 030
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025But of course his contrariness trumps everything else! 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025#taskmaster ok. The butterflies is the cutest thing but Greg doesn't often score cute very highly. 150
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025#taskmaster Alex with long hair! Not bad actually. 030
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A Palestine Action protester in Newcastle - someone with the courage and insight and militant decency to risk their freedom by putting their body on the gears of an ongoing atrocity - wrote this, and it's class: summerjasmin.substack.com/p/in-defence... 213748
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Radio 4 yesterday said that he'd 'used a profanity' which just made them sound prim rather than addressing the whole madness of his communications. It's the random capitalisation that gets to me -- could that be a hangover from his German grandparents? 010
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Oh come on America, is it really true that you don't use the word boffin? It's such a good word! "Boffins at the University of Wherever have discovered whatever..." #NYTspellingbee #NYTgames 060
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Helen/OT_Skiff @otskiff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025For those in the UK - please can you sign and share this petition @ukpots.bsky.social Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 🫶🫂 #PoTS #LongCOVID #posturalorthostatictachycardiasyndromepetition.parliament.ukPetition: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilitiesFund training for all healthcare providers on spotting and dealing with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) as well as facilities where people with this condition can access the correct form of healt... 0104
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 22/06/2025You do elaborate work free of charge. Worth waiting for. 000
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Always remember - the AIDS Memorial Quilt in London at Tate Modern (2025) and Hyde Park (1994) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2010/12/worl... 151
Reposted by Anna Watson 📷Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Let’s be clear- this Labour government isn’t just using existing capacity in the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists - they’re building that capacity🚨. They’re funnelling billions into private companies when they could be investing in publicly-owned NHS services. 28396188
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 06/06/2025And pineapples. And bananas. Yellow things? But then frozen peas too... 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Jason seems to be becoming more the agent of chaos I had hoped, based on only having seen him in Brooklyn 99. 020
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I just want them both to shut up and leave government to people without massive egos and terrible daddy issues. 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I have desire paths in my unmown lawn from the foxes that live there. 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 04/06/2025This is the reason I followed you to Bluesky. 000
Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Don't fake it but don't show your anger. Burst into tears. Tell them you're scared about everyone's taxes going up except the richest. Tell them you're scared about deportations for your friend/co-worker. Make what they are doing personal and maybe they might eventually develop some empathy. 040