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SEND Warrior Mum making a difference! ( same as Twitter!) @sendwarriormum.bsky.social · 14h

Talk about inciting hate and creating divide. Here’s ignorance at its very best! 👇🤬💔 inews.co.uk/opinion/anxi...

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 10h

Latest Letter: ‘Coercive control: Recognising relational patterns that affect patient wellbeing’; overlaps with patient healthcare experiences In December, my friend & fellow patient, Jo sent me a paper. Despite being on opposite sides of Earth, it was like we read it in sync 🧵

Coercive control: Recognising relational patterns that affect patient wellbeing’; overlaps with patient healthcare experiences
We read with interest Lynch et al’s paper1 on recognising patterns of coercive control in patients; an important topic worthy of attention. However, the descriptions were eerily familiar to us – not from a domestic relationship perspective, but from experience accessing healthcare.

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Eleanor @eleanoralbaugh.bsky.social · 16h

The Public Service Consultants!is being paid £1 mill for “Professional Services for Co-production Expertise for the Facilitation of the TIMMS Review”. Disabled people’s organisations, on the other hand have struggled to get any funding at all to carry out Timms review “Workshop in a Box events”.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it is so stressful and very complicated. In case helpful : IPSEA is a useful organisation for families battling through the SEND system. They’ve free template legal letters parents can use, training videos on aspects of the process and helplines to call. www.ipsea.org.uk/pages/catego...

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Get support

Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities are entitled to support with their education. Follow the links below to find out more and to access our free guides, resources...

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 6h

This Guardian article fails to explain that laboursSEND ‘reforms’ will shockingly reduce children & young people’s legal rights! The panic is with good reason! And not one quote from the many SEND parents groups & disability organisations who will be impacted. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Labour Send changes at risk as parents rush to secure support, say experts

Overhaul of special education in England could unravel, thinktank finds, because of ‘use it before you lose it’ dynamic

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Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

Screenshot of the header of a published paper:

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient's knowledge, doctor's ignorance: The production of knowledge about myalgic encephalomyelitis

Chloé de Canson

Department of of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, Groningen, 9712 GL, the Netherlands

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/10/2026

4) The lack of good science and medical care has resulted in an active patient community that tries to fill in the gaps as well as it can. As a result, patients are often better informed about their illness than their doctors.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

Otomi embroidery is a traditional Mexican embroidery style known as "Tenangos", featuring vibrant colors, and unique floral and animal designs #WomensArt

Colourful embroidery with birds, animaks and plants against a white background

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'The job cuts are one of the highest figures seen in a sector which has seen an estimated 30,000 cut in recent years as universities battle a financial crisis caused by declining international enrolments, rising costs and a long fee freeze.'

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 18h

Makes me want to scream. Or maybe … sing .. this bsky.app/profile/tomk...

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 19h

You have to solve all the problems in a way that never loses sight of the fact that all people matter.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 19h

This is outrageous from Sharp. Truly staggering. Vile.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is great. Thank you for posting

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"One study found that 10-20% of children with a history of COVID-19 develop Long COVID. The same study estimated nearly six million children have Long COVID in the U.S. as of 2024 and that it surpassed asthma as the most common chronic health problem in children." thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...

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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times

Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"These Long COVID Superheroes may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they’re showing us a world where listening to your body, standing up for your needs, resting, and leaning on others is true bravery" 📝: @heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...

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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times

Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who watched my performance of The Secret Of The Poets at the Edinburgh Book Festival at the @iamloudpro.bsky.social Grand Slam! I'm still reading through comments ❤️ Here's the text version, which you can also find on my poetry site. I'll post a video soon about why I wrote this ❤️

The Secret of the poets by Fiona Robertson

I wrote my wedding vows with ChatGPT.
I’m no good at words. It does it better than me.

I typed out some facts and asked AI
to write my mother's eulogy.
I know, I know, her final goodbye
summed up by machine.
But I'm not a poet. Words don't come easy to me, you see.

My friend’s kid died and I didn’t know what to say
so I asked Claude and straight away
I had something to text him
and he thumbs-upped the message so I think it was OK.

I asked it to write a Valentine.
My best man speech.
My marriage counselling homework.
My suicide note.

I’m not a poet.
I don’t know what to say.

Let me tell you the secret of the poets:
Nobody ever knows what to say.
There are no words to mend a shattered heart.
No verse can make someone fall in love.
No poem can ease the ache of loss.
No-one can speak the depth of gratitude
or trust
or pain.

Nobody ever knows what to say.
Not even us.

Generative AI will give you an answer
but it will be a lie,
because all these words have ever been
are stand-ins for
‘I cared enough to try’.

https://linktr.ee/FionaRobertson

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Closing the gap means taking women’s pain seriously in the clinic, routinely analysing data by sex, properly funding research into the biological and social causes, and developing better, more personalised treatments for women.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds

Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ps trouble at mill

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Engineer Vanessa Wyche is the 3rd woman & 1st Black woman to hold the post of Director of the Johnson Space Center (2021-). She oversees >11,000 people & is responsible for the hub of America's human spaceflight activities from astronaut training to managing ISS ops. #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀 #WomenInSTEM

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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s been a lot of chat about scrapping the pension triple lock. It’s not good for Scotland - Heather, SNP explains why: 👇

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. Alt text is so important. That bluesky setting that reminds everyone to add alt text to images - should be made a default. And people need to know you can just copy and paste you don’t need to type it all out.

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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is important. #ME #LongCovidME pose clinical challenges to every medical discipline. #pwME the neglect of your illness is far more profound than the paradigm shift everyone has been fixated upon since the PACE debacle. Medics urgently need proper training in safe management of #PEM

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Unlike foster carers who receive months of preparation and ongoing support, kinship carers have no notice and get little support, forcing many to lose jobs, pensions, savings and even their own retirement to keep a child they love out of the care system,” www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer

Those who have stepped in to keep young family members from going into care in England and Wales say the decision has brought them joy and hardship

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My #MECFS Scandal explainer has just hit half a million views on YouTube. I remember worrying that 27 minutes was too long and nobody would watch it. I never expected it to get so many. Thank you to everyone who shared it! Here’s the trailer 👇

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

“For all the relative protection from austerity, the British state pension remains among the lowest in Europe relative to average earnings" - James Meadway And that's the only measure that matters.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Workers uniting across Europe through the EU brought about workers rights like the minimum wage and much of our equality legislation. We can lift each other up. Isolating ourselves, living in a barricaded fortress country would do us no favours in my view. Let’s agree to differ. 👋

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why not then hypothetically ‘lose’ 2.7 million of ANY of the UK population to free up housing … 2.7 million..morris dancers or the rich ? Why are you so concerned about losing immigrants? Besides, reducing the size of the population by 3.8% won’t magic away all the complex causes of homelessness.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Olivia Colman is wearing hair extensions. Lovely extensions but extensions nevertheless.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Labour once more attacking the vulnerable and already marginalized. Yes, more needs to be done to help young people, along with others, find employment, but not at expense of disabled people's lives. It's irrelevant someone's age if they need disability support 1/ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When the unexpected happens, anyone of us might need support. 'It could be you. It could be someone you love. That, surely, is why we have a social security system.' 'I would rather live in a society that reaches out a hand than one that points a finger.'

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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just don't get it 🤔 I've been offered a Free Flu Vaccination on the NHS - URGENTLY. I.e. within 4 days of receiving the email. Because I am judged as being at high risk from the Flu. But the SARS virus that gave me blood clots, a Pulmonary Embolism AND Long Covid isn't as much of a threat to me?

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really don’t think you can blame a housing problem on immigration policy which ever way you look at it. Even our house building programme relies heavily on migrant workforce. Migrants are building our houses. And if course vital and hugely valued in our nhs, care services.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If following that argument we could look at who in the UK uses up the most housing space. The wealthier homeowners use more housing space per person (ie higher rates of under occupancy) than the poorest. And white people have more space per capita than any other ethnic group.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People are dying homeless because we have a vastly unequal society , with billlionares and corporations hoarding our assets ( including housing) whilst welfare and public services are being hollowed out. That is nothing to do with immigration which by the way has been going down.

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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The last time 'government tried to force hundreds of thousands of out-of-work disabled people into employment – in 2008, through the work capability assessment – it led to 600 suicides in three years, mostly under the subsequent coalition government.'

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare?

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Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes

The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am gobsmacked at the hold the Church of England already has over so many English primary schools. The extra funding the CofE provides is contingent on the schools embedding Christianity within the entire workings of the school. The church’s inspections & targets inevitably ask for more each year.

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