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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Finally a sensible approach Yes, people should have a choice but it needs to be a real one Really hope this signals a change in direction and more concern for disabled people and our lives
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“For all the talk of ‘soft’ welfare, it isn’t the left that’s broken the benefits system - it’s the right. Their model of botched cost cutting, privatisation and punishment has had every chance to offer reform – and failed repeatedly.” My col. on fixing Pip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Burnham has a chance to overhaul Pip. Here's what a truly progressive system could look like | Frances Ryan
Last week’s Timms report shows how disability is still vilified. But some pragmatic fixes would help both claimants and the economy, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Psst: I’ve got an alternative suggestion for how to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses: STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Trial of multi-cancer blood test among 142,000 NHS patients fails to meet main aim
Results presented at oncology conference in Chicago show Galleri test failed to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I've seen a few people here denying that antisemitic hate crimes are still a major or widespread problem in this country. This denial does no one any favours. We must be rock-solid against all hate and prejudice.
Chart showing recorded hate crimes by perceived religion of victim per 10,000 population in 2024-25. Published in The Guardian
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
But we can just think ourselves better, right guys? 🙃
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Transferring IgG antibodies from patients with #LongCovid to mice recapitulates many symptoms www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
RIP to a real one
tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 

"Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13/03/2026
another day proving my theory: the only thing billionaires have ever contributed to society is their ex-wives.
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Solid Moderate
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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Not for nothing but my one friend from school went to trinity hall and when I went to visit her I literally couldn't get in in my wheelchair so maybe they need to examine their priorities
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The scope and scale of the wanton destruction across Gaza - buildings, trees, fields, hospitals, schools, universities, churches, mosques, streets, homes, *people* - is staggering. All of it with the support and funding of American administrations of both parties. Shameful.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.” Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan
Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I’ve long said that a lot of the resistance to adequately funding research into MECFS and long COVID is that a lot of medical professionals are ideologically opposed to the idea of a condition where exercise makes you worse.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The government’s disability cuts could breach equality law due to their “devastating” impact on women’s dignity, experts warn.  The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet needs.  My story in tomorrow’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Labour’s benefit cuts will have ‘devastating’ impact on disabled women, say charities
Organisations say planned four-point rule will not properly take into account menstruation and other hygiene needs
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Covid taught us so much about airborne transmission It provided an opportunity to adapt & build a “new normal” that was safer for all Had we invested in clean air, normalized masking (especially in healthcare) and pushed for paid time off, we could have beaten the virus We would all be healthier
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects' Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...
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Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects | CNN
Jeff Bridges is sharing some good news pertaining to his health.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On the dysregulation of the immune system after infection resulting in #LongCovid, 2 new studies @natimmunol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The longer I’ve been ill the more I’m reminded of that part in The Beach where the guy attacked by the shark who didn’t die or get better is carried into the forest and left because he was ruining the vibe.
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The longer I’ve been ill the more I’m reminded of that part in The Beach where the guy attacked by the shark who didn’t die or get better is carried into the forest and left because he was ruining the vibe.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live
‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm really sorry, but we just need to stop doing this. Your wood-burning hygge leads directly to people's deaths - other people's and perhaps your own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Map reveals residential wood-burning hotspots in England and Wales
Researchers analyse energy performance certificate data to identify areas with potentially high particle pollution
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Sister of bedbound ME sufferer urges more funding" www.bbc.com/news/article... Sympathetic coverage of a tragic case of very severe ME. This was new to me: "a new tool called digiTherapix which can track and record a patient's movement in real time at home" #SevereME #MEcfs
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The Barrett family A young woman wearing a blue and red sports tank top on an athletic field running with a baton in her handThe Barrett family
Alice Barrett, 27, was fit and healthy until her third year of university when her condition deteriorated
The sister of a woman with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is calling on the government to adequately fund its plan to overhaul care for patients with the debilitating disease.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’m excited (and slightly nauseous) to say The Guardian is launching Who Wants Normal? into the world with two exclusive extracts from today. This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written but is for anyone going through a tough time with their health. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s so brilliant to read an author that just gets it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This government, urgh. Not the first clue what it can mean to be disabled or chronically ill, and how many extra costs you incur.
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My feed on Blue Sky is just so much nicer than X. Actual people being people rather than ads and bots.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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BBC Verify analyses video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics
The IDF's killing of 15 emergency workers has drawn international condemnation. BBC Verify examines new footage of the incident.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025
The Doctors Telling Us Not To Drink Our Urine Probably Just Want It For Themselves theonion.com/the-doc...
The Doctors Telling Us Not To Drink Our Urine Probably Just Want It For Themselves
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/04/2025
nothing has ever been vindicated as much as woke has been vindicated in the last week
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Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019
Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Apartheid Clyde a petty, dangerous, incompetent man but what always amuses me is how no one likes him and he can’t even buy his way into getting people to like him. He can’t buy a good sense of humor or good looks or good reputation.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us. healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Scanxiety is the absolute worst.
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Sebas @sebajones.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There really needs to be hepa filters in every hospital ward, staff room, clinic etc. And mask wearing needs to be destigmatised, encouraged, and mandated for all high risk situations.
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m afraid LC (and ME-CFS)funding always falls foul - no matter the protestations of funders and policymakers to the contrary- to panel decisions that go “well we already had to pay billions to all that pandemic related stuff, now we need to forget it, move on, and catch up with business as usual”
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G @netflixandill.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ed Balls
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Sorry to screenshot from the bird site, but I am deceased at this community note
Screenshot of a tweet from the official Sky News account: 

Timothy West played the Tories’ wartime hero Winston Churchill three times, yet he was a passionate lifelong supporter of the Labour Party 

Community note added which just says: This is called ‘acting’ - and a link to the Cambridge dictionary definition
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Brian Fog @uselesspriest.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I can handle a lot but I can’t handle GPs telling people with Long COVID they’re just depressed in 2024.
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Tanya @chronicmyalgice.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
People often say “it must be so difficult to let go of all of your future plans” because of being chronically ill. And it is difficult. But what they don’t understand is that it’s even more difficult to survive this specific day. Or even the next hour. #MECFS
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