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👋 Illustrator-on-hold, #LongCovid (COVID-induced #POTS / #ME), UK

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Marc Prill @marcprill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bus to Lancaster 26 September 2026 - 1347 

#Bare #Morecambe #Lancaster #MorecambeBay #stagecoach #Drawing #PenAndInk #PleinAir #Lamy #Safari #noodlersink #Bus100 #SeawhiteOfBrighton
A pen and ink sketch of a bus journey from Bare to Lancaster
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 7h
I’d really like a chance at life. I need a stable, safe environment. Without it, I will continue to decline & die. #MutualAid #ChronicIllness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #MCAS #POTS #EhlersDanlos #LongCovid #Endometriosis #ChronicPain #Dysautonomia chuffed.org/project/1619...
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Really interesting read in last entry from @cortjohnson.bsky.social, thank you as always! 🙏 www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/09... Timeline very uncertain though (as usual depending on clinical/research will to move things forward)... 3 years (at best).
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IVO-21 - A Paradigm Changer AND a Mitochondrial Drug for ME/CFS? - Health Rising
Could a new mitochondrial drug called IVO-21 be the answer to the energy problems in ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and long COVID?
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve just donated to Justice4ME. Over a year since the ‘Final Delivery’ plan for ME was published yet still: - Most NHS think we’re just a bit tired - We aren’t getting better - No treatments - Services cut - No public awareness - Barely funded - Severe ME patients still being harmed justice4me.uk
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NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice... Please share widely #ME/cfs #LongCovidME #HumanRights #NHSReform
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NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
IF I DON’T GET SOMEWHERE *SAFE* THEY WILL KILL ME HERE NOT ALLOWED HEAT OR MEDICAL CARE ANYMORE Please share. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape #MutualAid #DisabilityMA 💕💸 #MADBoost💸❤️ #MutualAidAustralia
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please help me get out of here. It is getting worse. I’m being negnect and abused. Need chance at life. chuffed.org/project/61937-help-anna-escape #MutualAidAustralia #HelpSky #DisabilityMA 💕💸 #MADBoost #MutualAid 💸❤️
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Severe ME Difrifol Cymru @severemecymru.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Take urgent action so those with Severe #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (ME) in Wales are no longer left without vital medical care petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... Service provision for people with ME remains inconsistent across Wales. 2/8
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Petition: Take urgent action so those with Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Wales are no longer left without vital medical care
Service provision for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) remains inconsistent across Wales. In particular, major concerns persist regarding access for those with the severe form of the conditi...
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pehpunkt.bsky.social @pehpunkt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
... #jederTagMECFS #MECFS #LongCovid #MEAwareness
Bleistiftzeichnung eines Zimmers mit zwei Fenstern, darin links ein Bett und rechts ein Tisch mit Stuhl. Draussen sieht man ein Haus und einen Baum. Das Haus ist kleiner als im vorherigen Post. Am Himmel sind düstere Wolken und drei Vögel. 
Auf dem Bett liegt eine schlappe Person auf der Seite, wir sehen sie nur von hinten.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A Maid Asleep Johannes Vermeer c. 1656–57 (Met Museum)
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helephant @helephant.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Can anyone tell me if there's any platform, Facebook group etc out there for #covidcautious people looking to house share? #chronicillness #disability #LongCovid #mecfs
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ME/CFS San Diego @mecfssd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Unbound 6-minutes: micro-movements filmed over 9 months during rare energy windows by 22 ME/CFS/LC participants (inc. director & producer). Dance representative of paced disability in some. Created for awareness and medical education with required screening toolkit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxK6...
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Unbound: Illness is not the end of dance
YouTube video by Unfixed Community
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love HJ Ford
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pehpunkt.bsky.social @pehpunkt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
wenn ich wenigstens reich wäre... #jederTagMECFS #MECFS #LongCovid #MEAwareness
Bleistiftzeichnung eines prunkvollen Raumes mit zwei großen Rundbogen-Fenstern. Draussen sieht man einen Orangenbaum und andere mediterrane Pflanzen. Am Himmel fliegen zwei Tauben.
Im Raum links liegt eine schlappe Person auf einem Kanapee, sie trägt einen edlen Morgenmantel. Rechts steht ein großes Fabergé-Ei auf einem Podest.
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The Color Archive @thecolorarchive.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Replica of a Chip Marilou Schultz, wool, 1994 issues.org/marilou-schu... #art #sculpture #textile
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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A wintry thing in my sketchbook
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helephant @helephant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you're local to #Melbourne can you help Anna find a safe place to live? 👉 See links below for her crowdfund & wishlist 👇 #MutualAidAustralia #MutualAid #HelpSky #DisabilityMutualAid #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MECFS #ChronicPain #MCAS #SevereME #PwLC
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 24/07/2026
Long COVID’s heterogenous nature means vast variations in symptoms and severity that may also make it more difficult to study and design good treatment trials. How do you separate strong studies from weak ones, and spot the bunk? Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4fxNWli
ID: Collage graphic featuring a bar chart, an image of a mouse, a bottle of white pills turned over on its side, a gloved hand holding a petri dish, and a researcher peering into a microscope. The background of the image is blue and white graph paper. The text reads, “The Sick Times. How to interpret clinical trial results for Long COVID. By Simon Spichak.”What kind of study is it? 

Observational studies: Follow people over time, with no randomization or control group.

Clinical trials: Experiments that investigate how a drug is absorbed in the body, its safety, and its efficacy. 

Phase 1 trials: test the safety of a new supplement, medication, or device. 

Phase 2 trials: help provide a sign of whether the drug might work. 

Phase 3 trials: are the final stage for new treatments. These are large studies conducted across multiple hospitals or research centers that pit a new drug or medical device against a placebo.

Phase 4 trials: may add more safety and effectiveness data or test whether an approved treatment or supplement could be repurposed.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Still drowning please boost. They infected me again. Have not cleared last infection in March. Need safety. Help please. 🙏 #MutualAidAustralia #MutualAid #HelpSky 💸💕 #DisabilityMutualAid #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MECFS #ChronicPain #MCAS #SevereME #PwLC #MutualAidMonday @mutualaidaus.bsky.social
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Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓 @earthpainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
more sketches #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #watercolour #landscapeart #landscapepainting
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pehpunkt.bsky.social @pehpunkt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
carsten fucking linnemann #jederTagMECFS #MECFS #LongCovid #MEAwareness
Bleistiftzeichnung eines Zimmers mit zwei Fenstern, darin links ein Bett und rechts ein Tisch mit Stuhl. Die Rollos sind fast ganz heruntergelassen, es fällt nur ein Streifen Licht in das Zimmer.
Auf dem Bett liegt eine schlappe Person auf der Seite, uns zugewandt, die Arme um die Beine geschlungen.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
First new Puffin Post in a while and it’s another genius Jill McDonald junior psychedelic screwball delight
Cover of a 1970s puffin post magazine featuring a psychedelic brightly coloured cartoon illustration of a brown dog, a puffin and an old school ticker tape cassette computer with their heads and bodies swapped against a blue background
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Can people PLEASE repost or quote my pinned post? 🙏🤞🥺 I’m getting too sick to promote my crowdfund. My bloods show my 6th Covid infection from March is still active! I now have Costochondritis & pericarditis. My abuse is worsening. I’m unsafe here. Please help. chuffed.org/project/1619...
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Cort Johnson @cortjohnson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06... #MECFS #longCOVID
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Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses - Health Rising
Dr. Selin and company believe they can solve one of the key mysteries of ME/CFS and long COVID: exactly why the T-cells are getting pummeled.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s really hard to keep interacting so I have an online presence & people don’t forget I’m still (sorta) alive. Gotta crowdfund & I don’t have the energy on a team of 1. Got a laundry list of #ChronicIllness diagnoses. #SevereME on its own is enough. Yeah. I’m exhausted. I just want to escape. 🥺
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🧵A Covid thread - but a good news one! I’m barely writing about Covid anymore because there is barely any Covid to write about. I thought it was worth celebrating this in this thread. 1/7
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Todd @kinetograph.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1945). Film image from thecinemaarchives.com.
Blending and overlapping images, with the main focus on Wendy Hiller's character, from the film I Know Where I'm Going!
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alabandine2.bsky.social @alabandine2.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
John Craxton (British, 1922-2009), Taverna by the sea, Poros, 1953. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, 60.5 x 48 cm.
John Craxton (British, 1922-2009), Taverna by the sea, Poros, 1953. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, 60.5 x 48 cm.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Rejected for military service late in 1941, soon after his 19th birthday, John Craxton turned to the drawing and painting of poets and shepherds sheltering from a world of turmoil. 'Sheltering Shepherd,' would be repeated for Geoffrey Grigson's 'The Poet's Eye,' for 1944.
Rejected for military service late in 1941, soon after his 19th birthday, John Craxton turned to the drawing and painting of poets and shepherds sheltering from a world of turmoil. 'Sheltering Shepherd,' would be repeated for Geoffrey Grigson's 'The Poet's Eye,' for 1944.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
👇 If you can, please help. I need people to help the most, even just a retweet helps to keep me visible. I need to escape ASAP. bsky.app/profile/halc...
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The injustice of it, I couldn’t believe it.” Former Team GB rower @oonaghcousins.bsky.social talking about the #MECFS “scandal” where patients were told they were deconditioned and needed Graded Exercise and CBT. It is the “opposite of what they needed” and that legacy still runs “super deep”.
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#LongCovid advocates demand biological research into the disease at a conference in Paris @winslowsp.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/l...
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Long COVID advocates demand biological research at a conference in Paris - The Sick Times
We spoke with the two organizations behind the viral moment where advocates interrupted speakers at the Long COVID EU Project event.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-dwp-r... “DWP admitted there was a risk it had become “unintentionally desensitized” to such failures, or “process non-compliance” as it is described in the paper.” #pwME #pwLC
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Secret DWP report reveals how multiple errors led to claims ‘spiralling out of control’… and claimant deaths
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted in a secret paper that the cumulative effect of multiple errors or “inaction” on benefit claims caused situations to “spiral out of control for v…
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Jennie Jacques @jenniejacques1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
ME Awareness @davetuller1.bsky.social has spent years fighting for scientific integrity & exposing misinformation surrounding ME. Independent voices matter. So does truth in medicine. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social DONATE here 🔻 crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/4972...
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Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc
Help UC Berkeley raise $75,000 for the project: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. Your gift will make a difference!
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UK News 🇬🇧 @news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Nationwide could have first customer on board for nearly 25 years James Sherwin-Smith will be up for election after securing more than 250 nominations to run alongside existing directorsNationwide building society could have a customer on its board for the first time in nearly a quarter of a...
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Nationwide could have first customer on board for nearly 25 years
James Sherwin-Smith will be up for election after securing more than 250 nominations to run alongside existing directors
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The Color Archive @thecolorarchive.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Telepathic Alien Ghost Lauriston Avery, mixed media on canvas, 2023 www.lauristonavery.com #art #sculpture
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The Color Archive @thecolorarchive.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Tears of Eros Paolo Piscitelli, Kenian black soapstone, 2025 artpaolo.com/work/small-c... #art #sculpture
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am very touched that Berkeley's crowdfunder for Trial By Error has now received more than 500 donations. If you'd like to support my work exposing bogus research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49720
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Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc
Help UC Berkeley raise $75,000 for the project: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. Your gift will make a difference!
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
#pwME #pwLC 🔥 Justice4ME have posted an update on their Crowd Justice page and Sarah Boothby has shared extremely encouraging details about exactly what's happening below 👍 🙏 💙 #Justice4ME ➡️ Justice4ME.uk to support / donate, please 🙏
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Does #MutualAid exist anymore? Crowdfunding stalled. Too sick to stay visible? People too broke? If you’re reading please share pinned post! Help if able. Room or granny flat? Board neg. Land for trailer/ cabin? LMK. Dying, Dr backed! #DisabilityMA 💕💸 #MADBoost 💸❤️ bsky.app/profile/halc...
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Not sure of the #ChronicIllness community here but need some help. Thanks to all the sweating I’ve done during Covid, I now have an outbreak of keratosis pilaris on my arms. What do people use for this? It normally it calms down alone but not calming this time. Help appreciated. #EhlersDanlos
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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
justice4me.uk call for evidence - time sensitive!! If you know anyone who has severe/very severe ME, or severe/very severe Long Covid, in England or Wales please ask them to fill out the form and send it back to admin@justice4me.uk by Friday 17 April 2026. 1/3
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NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
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Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓 @earthpainter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Two collaged monoprints #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #landscapeart #collage #monoprint
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Need to rest & recover from #Covid but bills & problems don’t disappear while sick. Read my story. Help me escape abuse. I don’t know how long I’ve got to live. chuffed.org/project/61937-help-anna-escape #MutualAidAustralia #HelpSky #DisabilityMA 💕💸 #MADBoost #MutualAid 💸❤️
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Anyway, it’s clear this guy turns up to alleviate the tedium as their crowns are in the air amongst his zip zap of joyful chaos
A psychedelic black and white book illustration of a frenetic cartoon wizard, white with long back curly hair, pointy beard and moustache, wearing a black pointy hat and patterned robes, seemingly performing multiple tricks at once in a giddy whizzing whirl of Shazam, under the words more advanced magic
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s Easter Weekend🐣 Please help fund new life free of abuse & neglect. Details in fund. I don’t want to die. Thanks❤️ 💸Fund: chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape ☕️BMaC: buymeacoffee.com/Halcionandon 🎁Amazon: amazon.com.au/hz/wishlist/ls/1B9A74NSROTQZ ᯓ➤Beem:@halcionandon #MutualAid 💸💕
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Cort Johnson @cortjohnson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
he Massive Sequence ME/CFS and Long COVID Project Aims to Find Precise Drivers of These Illnesses #MECFS #longCOVID www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/03...
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The Massive Sequence ME/CFS and Long COVID Project Aims to Find Precision Drivers of These Illnesses - Health Rising
The massive Sequence ME/CFS and long COVID whole genome sequencing project aims to find the precision drivers of these illnesses
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Joseph Cornell. Constellation (Project for a Christmas card). 1953
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