Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialJohn Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"Why doesn't she want strangers' personal mouth juices up her nose — like a normal person?" Ah yes, pathological behaviour, to be sure to be sure. 072
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialMary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I agree with Kelly. From someone specializing in mental health: an anxiety disorder is defined as overreacting to a threat. Many rationally choose to protect ourselves from an airborne virus by the simple act of wearing a mask when needed. Just like wearing seatbelts makes sense. #NotAnxious 814439
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialPublic Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Please mask up in public indoor spaces. Even if you stopped masking, it's worth resuming it until we have guaranteed healthy indoor air for all. You don't want to get even one more #COVID19 infection, as every infection makes it more likely you'll be affected by #LongCOVID, like Kelly has been. 0215
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialLukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Lunchtime walk. Kingfisher over the River Adur at Upper Beeding. More to follow. #birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds 510011
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialGaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.theguardian.comHow the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s AmazonCultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness 5320101
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/09/2025Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism? 22489112
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialJames @jaym7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This is spot on, and it’s shameful to see a government under the ‘Labour’ name falling this far. Spineless authoritarian bootlickers 18415
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance. 361198333
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The Media is run by the richest, for the richest, and it will always blame everyone and everything except the richest for all the problems. You cannot expect the problem to ever blame the problem. 212644
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialPutrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 27/09/2025got to hear from @loosewomen: an all-woman UK chat show that heard a young woman effectively communicating consensus science about the dangers of COVID, and so naturally decided to talk about health anxiety. Nothing like an all-woman panel dismissing a strong woman's science 6/ 28013
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2025How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia briberyNathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament. 16228211379
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialConor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart. 291954518
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2025People are still dying and being disabled by long covid. bsky.app/profile/cati... 1133
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2025We need clean air in schools urgently @neunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @nasuwt-official.bsky.social 01810
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2025We were never told to wear ffp2/3 respirators. We were told to wear gappy surgical FRSM masks, for an airborne virus. We were also told we could remove them to dine out in a shared air space, of course people caught COVID. We should have been told to wear ffp2/N95 masks and medical staff wear ffp3.🧵 714258
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders. Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders? 672736475
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialChristophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 23/09/2025More research💔on what Covid infections do to kids... "Children don’t just bounce back after COVID. A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders." Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700... 57430
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Unit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7m. Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies. archive.ph/54e7ythetimes.comUnit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7mNatis received £38m from taxpayers to pursue widespread abuse of pandemic business loans and had previously claimed it recovered £23m 22238144
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months. 13067732206
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialKinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 22/09/2025'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...news.ki.seNo link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in childrenIn the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ... 421655697
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/09/2025One thing that would address the chronic disease epidemic would be not getting COVID 5 or 10 times 1828846
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAlan Barnard @alanbarnard1.bsky.social · 11/08/2025@mrjamesob.bsky.social DfE have just released attendance data for last school year. In England: Overall absence: 6.9% Authorised absence: 4.5% Illness absence: 3.2% So 71.1% of authorised absence was due to illness. (How much unauthorised absence was also illness?) www.gov.uk/government/s...gov.ukPupil attendance in schoolsData on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. 173
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk 281233402
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Tylenol in pregnancy doesn’t cause autism. There isn’t an “epidemic of autism”. Autism is not the fault of the mother or the child. Whatever they announce tomorrow, it won’t be based in science or truth. Stay vigilant, follow the science and support the neurodivergent community. 20900268
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22/09/202522 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Abraham de Leeuve, was born in Zwolle. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork on 19 Oct 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection with his mother, Dina. --- VIDEO: The first two gas chambers near Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU 17564128
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for. 7648681393
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22/09/2025“I can confirm we are seeing single gunshot wounds to the head, neck, and chest.” “Just 2 days ago, we lost 6 children under the age of 12 to single shots to the head.” “This is worse than anything I have ever witnessed.” —American doctor Kathleen Gallagher speaking from Gaza 8189143
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialSupporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025🌬️ Indoor Air Quality Basics 🌬️ Did you know the air inside your home or workplace can impact your health as much as the air outside? Join us in promoting #SafeAir4All ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=... #longcovidawareness #longcovidrecovery #publichealth #longcovidyoutube.comIndoor Air Quality BasicsEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 076
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialScribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A reminder that a legal guidance on the use of FFP3 masks to protect healthcare workers from airborne infections now exists in the UK. 👇 063
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialJosephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Let’s be super clear what this means: Reform want foreigners to stay that way. No access to permanent residency or support - both key to enabling people to put down roots & feel like they belong here. This is ethno-nationalism as policy proposal. 15315
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialClinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21/09/2025📢 Children have been bullied by adults and children, denied remote education & families threatened with fines – just for trying to stay safe in a pandemic. This is the reality for Clinically Vulnerable families. Read our new blog ahead of the #CovidInquiry children’s module👇 16235
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2025💔That CV children have gone through so much. “People would… even go to school with Covid, and I was expected just to sit around by them, and accept it… I think there were a lot of times where I didn’t go to school because there were so many people going to school with Covid.” (Aged 15) 13416
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025One thing I would love to see is dental professionals quit shaming patients for (what they see as) poor dental hygiene. If you’re poor, you don’t go until there’s a problem, and by then what was a minor problem is major. EDS and other chronic diseases cause problems on their own. 3047165
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2025George Monbiot, "By inviting President Trump for a state visit, Labour dishonour us and they dishonour themselves. They are rolling out the red carpet for Farage" 518251
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2025George Monbiot, "We're here to protest not just against Donald Trump, but against his enablers in the British government" "At the same time they are rolling out the red carpet for Trump, they're rolling out the red carpet for Farage" 425590
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/09/202519 September 1941 | A French Jewish boy, David Henri Kuperberg, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 Feb 1943 in a transport of 998 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 802 of them murdered in gas chambers. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN 9364103
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2025UK banks, building societies required to get savers NI number, make it easier for HMRC to tax. Won't apply to the same to wealthy receiving income from dividends, share buybacks, bonds, stock market gambles, assets stashed offshore. State surveillance of low/middle income people, not the rich.independent.co.uk 7214115
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it. 5033164310440
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialDr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"It makes you feel like your body doesn't work for you. Your health is your main concern, not rowing a boat.. I struggled to get out of bed." Olympic champion Hannah Scott on struggling with PoTS (likely triggered by Covid) #LongCovid www.bbc.com/sport/olympi...bbc.comHannah Scott: Olympic champion wants world title after 'struggling to get out of bed' with health issueOlympic champion Hannah Scott speaks to BBC Sport NI about her struggles with PoTS and her long-awaited return to rowing. 03312
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialDr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"Reported menstrual flow volume, menstrual duration (more than eight days), intermenstrual bleeding, and missed episodes of menstruation were significantly increased in those with long COVID versus no COVID" #LongCovid (Study here:) www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe potential bidirectional relationship between long COVID and menstruation - Nature CommunicationsMenstrual disturbance has been reported as a symptom of post-acute COVID-19 while other long COVID symptoms may vary across the menstrual cycle. Here, the authors investigate this possible bidirection... 01712
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press 52073132540
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Did you know that one of the early symptoms of Ebola virus disease is a sore throat? Hmmmm? I wonder what that might mean? 117815
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialBuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 16/09/2025As of 14 September, around 1 in every 186 people in England were infected. This means that the risk of encountering an infected person in most indoor places is now significant. Unless the indoor air is fresh, or filtered/purified, good quality PPE respiratory masks are needed to protect yourself. 164
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/09/202516 September 1908 | A Polish Jewish woman, Fanny Cukier, was born in Radom. She emigrated to France. In August 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her daughters, Ginette and Irene. After the selection they were murdered in a gas chamber. 14497133
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.socialChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"This is the life you've chosen," Oh boy does this one irk me. No, in fact I didn't choose not to be able to safely enter public spaces for 6 years. I've just adapted to the reality that COVID is airborne, and follow the science 🧬 631456
Reposted by @lacoureuse.bsky.social#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Oh, there was a choice? Now you tell me! Okay, I choose for our government, health authorities, & media to honestly address the COVID pandemic and take reasonable measures to combat it. I don’t choose the reality where they lie about it & 98% of people then go into denial. That would really suck! 05910
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