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Alan Rankin

@grandadalan.bsky.social
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Struggling to be average one day at a time. Sometimes I just sit and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Why are journalists barred from Gaza? substack.com/@palestinewi...
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Palestine Will Be Free (@palestinewillbefree)
DO NOT LOOK AWAY Utterly horrific scenes from the latest massacre committed by the Jewish supremacists against civilians while they were trying to get drinking water on Al-Thalathini Street in Gaza C...
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Rumoured that Keir Starmer bringing another letter from King Charles, apologies he will not personally be able to host DJT state visit because of health concerns, but Prince Andrew will.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A narcissist wants the authority of a King while having the accountability of a toddler.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
@laylamoran.bsky.social A concise explainer about exercise and ME/CFS and Long Covid: youtu.be/wxSwYUennBA?...
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Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A concise ME/CFS and exercise explainer: youtu.be/wxSwYUennBA?...
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Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse
YouTube video by SciShow
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Who is more wise, in your opinion? m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hi Pete Hegseth, fancy a hug? i.ytimg.com/vi/cOk8lSyQL...
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
From across the pond: youtu.be/VWCVfpdTwDg?...
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Police SHUT DOWN BBC Gaza Protest - But New Revelations Will Shock You w/. Ben Jamal
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 From @harryspoelstra.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Choroid plexus volume is enlarged in long COVID and associated with cognitive and brain changes - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Choroid plexus volume is enlarged in long COVID and associated with cognitive and brain changes
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
@dbkell.bsky.social @sunny-rae1.bsky.social #LongCovid #TeamClots @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbc-politics.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @theguardian.com @thetimes.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Sadly, we all know the answers to these questions 🫤🇺🇸
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thinking about the possibility of Zionists agreeing to, or keeping any ceasefire/peace agreement is as depressing as thinking a Chief Justice will refuse to uphold swearing in someone disqualified by 14th amendment section 3.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The future is not what it used to be. The expectations of many will disappear. How will the ‘poorly educated’, the poorly prepared, and the selfish react to materialised reality?
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Are you feeling harassed? If so why? www.facebook.com/100000729810...?
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Are you feeling harassed? If so, why?
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Need hope for so many aspects of the future. Taking a brief look back with help from Ilan Pappe and ‘A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.’
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Jeremy Jeffs | photography & documentary @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
My first post here, so I thought I'd make it about 2 things that have shaped my life #MECFS & #photography. For the past 3 years I've been photographing other people who also have ME, & I was delighted when @wellcomecollection.bsky.social published a selection wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...
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Living with ME
Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I share the feeling. I order and buy from my local bookshop. I appreciate the service provided and the human friendship.
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
For everyone with #ME however mild or severe, for those that have died and those who care for people with ME. Also for the scientists who are working to solve the puzzle of the illness and the medical staff who care about us. To 2025 🙏 Happy New Year.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A Christmas story from London 2024 youtu.be/6gGowhg5LJs?...
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London Police SHUT Down Pro-Palestinian Carol Service Organised By Jews, Christians and Muslims
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This team also highlights the similarities in symptoms and level of disability with those living with other chronic conditions including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome #ME #LongCovid journals.lww.com/cptj/fulltex...
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More than “Brain Fog”: Cognitive Dysfunction and the Role... : Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal
e activity is considered when working with people with long COVID, particularly when identifying triggers of post exertional symptom exacerbation. There are many potential mechanisms that could be dri...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Humans: “We should exercise our immune muscles by catching viruses.” Viruses:
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Epstein-Barr virus hijacks B cell metabolism to establish persistent infection and drive pathogenesis
@TrendsImmuno Opinion @Bojana_MD @HessLab
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
…and it was written ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Is focussing on everything the same as not focussing on anything? What to focus on and why a necessary step to progress. (IMHO)
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Needs to be watched, and implications understood, before Sunday 29th www.youtube.com/live/lUASY40...
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
What happens next depends on what happened before. Feeling hopeless precedes feeling hopeful. (I hope so)
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Dragonflies & Dreams (aka Nathalie) @dragonflydreams-za.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Millions of men, women and children all over the world are desperate for a treatment or cure for a disease that has robbed them of their lives. Please support the work of the Open Medicine Foundation (www.omf.ngo) as they search for the cause and a cure. #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Action vs apathy
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
What to Know About ME/CFS, a Complex Condition That Involves Crushing Fatigue and So Much More www.self.com/story/what-i... An overview article on ME/CFS which also mentions Long Covid. Has quotes from Drs Charles Shepherd & Hector Bonilla #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #longcovid
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What to Know About ME/CFS, a Complex Condition That Involves Crushing Fatigue and So Much More
Above all, it’s important that you don’t push through your symptoms.
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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Mum just dropped by with my presents, so I have something to open in the morning. Sending lots of love to everyone who can’t have the Christmas you’d like to have, owing to illness. It’s a hard time of year to face it all. Wishing you much coziness 🎄❄️🌟 #pwME #MECFS #Chronicillness
The photo shows a few Christmas presents stacked on a brown wooden floor. One present is large and flat and wrapped in silver paper. Two other rectangular presents are on top of this one and wrapped in colourful paper with a Christmas tree pattern and have Santa Claus faces for gift tags.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...
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The Western media: drenched in Palestinian blood
You are more likely to read the truth about Israel's crimes in an Israeli newspaper than you are in a Western media outlet.
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Dr. Sabine Hermisson 🦋 @sabinehermisson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
🌟 If you are suffering from #MECFS and feel isolated during the holidays, please know that you are not alone. If you feel like connecting and can, please reach out. If you can't, please remember: There is a community around the globe that knows and cares. 💙
Christmas star in dark night
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Karen Hargrave @karenlhargrave.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
We’re very lucky to have @binitakane.bsky.social as a #ThereForME Ambassador! We’re looking forward to continuing the collaboration in 2025 🤩
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
New study on Dutch patients: The Cardiac Output–Cerebral Blood Flow Relationship Is Abnormal in Most #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / #ChronicFatigueSyndrome Patients with a Normal Heart Rate & Blood Pressure Response During a Tilt Test www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12... #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MEcvs #CVS
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Andrea Fighting for #MECFS Diagnostic Biomarkers @mecfsnanoneedle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
An #MECFS patient does not need professional help to move more. An #MECFS patient needs professional help to explain to friends and family that they need to move less and rest until pharmacological interventions for low ATP, T cell exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction are found #MillionsMissing
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
No one really truly understands that their health is their most precious possession until they lose it. There’s a sense of invincibility about us all until the day we crash into a new world, a world of disability and chronic illness. Then we understand! #ME #ChronicIllness #MEcfs #Health
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Are ‘psychiatrists’, quoting debunked GET, suffering from ‘physics-envy’?
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
….perhaps two idiots that think they are geniuses.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.omf.ngo/the-end-mecf... Christmas presents for all ME/CFS and Long-COVID sufferers.
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The End ME / CFS Project - Open Medicine Foundation
Discover OMF's End ME/CFS & Long COVID Project: Advancing the latest research in chronic complex diseases. Learn about groundbreaking studies here.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
For the many frustrated sufferers who feel not enough research into ME/CFS Long-COVID is taking place: www.omf.ngo/the-end-mecf...
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The End ME / CFS Project - Open Medicine Foundation
Discover OMF's End ME/CFS & Long COVID Project: Advancing the latest research in chronic complex diseases. Learn about groundbreaking studies here.
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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We hope you're enjoying the #ThereForME Advent calendar! It's the mid-Advent weekend and we have 2 questions for you: 1. Who else would you like to see on the Advent calendar? 2. Which message has meant the most to you so far? #pwME #pwLC #PatientSafety
Image shows all the numbered baubles from our "Guess whos #ThereForME" posts surrounding one big red bauble with a question mark in it. Below is the Christmas tree from the advent calendar and #ThereForME
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A reductionist approach combined with a holistic process.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
…and a merry Noel Smuk to you.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Not to be sniffed at.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Pass on to the missing millions suffering, their carers, and health professionals.
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Freemasons?
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Explainer to come from Guru @ejustin46.bsky.social Fascinating paper... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Multi‐Organ Spread and Intra‐Host Diversity of SARS‐CoV‐2 Support Viral Persistence, Adaptation, and a Mechanism That Increases Evolvability
Intra-host diversity is an intricate phenomenon related to immune evasion, antiviral resistance, and evolutionary leaps along transmission chains. SARS-CoV-2 intra-host variation has been well-eviden...
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A pilot study on the immune cell proteome of long COVID patients shows changes to physiological pathways similar to those in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome www.nature.com/articles/s41... (12 December, 2023) W. Tate et al. 🇳🇿 #MECFS
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A pilot study on the immune cell proteome of long COVID patients shows changes to physiological pathways similar to those in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A pilot study on the immune cell proteome of long COVID patients shows changes to physiological pathways similar to those in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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Alan Rankin @grandadalan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Watch the Sky bit from 17:25 minutes to 37:30 minutes
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Paywalled 🤬🤬 But for those with access jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Long-Term Risk of Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders After COVID-19
This cohort study investigates the long-term risk of autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases among patients in South Korea who had a COVID-19 diagnosis using an extended observational period.
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