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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In case you need a break from all the awfulness, here's what @sainsburys.bsky.social delivered to me today😂. Equally bonkers was when I asked if I could just keep one tomato (as per order) I was told no. Either keep the lot or they all have to go back!🤦‍♀️😂

Sainsbury's Tomatoes Loose 1 £0.24
Substituted with

Sainsbury's Classic Round Tomatoes x6 1 £0.99
Sainsbury's Tomatoes Loose 9.078kg £16.35

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipses - reflection in a conservatory window.

Image of a reflection of 4 eclipses in a row, seen through silhouhetted, partly brightly illuminated foliage.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For some reason, this Christmas card I made some years ago came to mind yesterday. Not sure what the title should be. "The Voters' Dilemma"? "The Death of Democracy"?

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I took this photo when I visited the War Horse statue, located in a park in a small town in the south of England, commemorating horses lost in the First World War. Today as the US seeks to unleash World War 3, it takes on a whole new meaning. Please everyone. Don't climb on the war horse bandwagon.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

5/6 Indoor air quality was good in the entrance foyer & outside the Committee room when we arrived but OMG 😱 by the end of the first part of the session in the Committee room it was 1802ppm! Very high - well above the 800ppm/ 1000ppm recommended max.

Hand holding a CO2 monitor showing 1802 with figures, white figure on black background which is how it shows figures that are unsafe.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

1/6 This morning, I attended the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee to learn the fate of my petition calling for protection from airborne infections in health and social care settings. I went armed with a few protections/ visual aids myself – mask, portable HEPA and CO2. 🧵

Me outside the Scottish Parliament - head and shoulders visible, wearing a respiratory mask, in a wheelchair, sat in front of a sign saying Scottish Parliament Public Entrance and a big arrow pointing to the left.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

In a world full of much ugly cruelty and injustice, I wish you courage and kindness in 2026. May we never forget that there is love and beauty to be found in this world too. Here are some images for you from a calendar I made for my mum, with photos I've taken over the year, to remind myself.

Twelve images, each a composite of photos, of flowers and blossom, shadows and reflections.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

One of my 'Star of Silver Linings' cards for everyone as exasperated as me by the total inability of Govts to grasp that good indoor air quality & respiratory masks is how to stop the NHS falling apart each Winter. Wishing you festive things & silver linings despite the cloudy forecast for 2026.

Shimmering, pearlised image of a star created from a photo of a streaky white and grey sky.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If you thought you'd heard it all where it concerns explanations for increased demand for healthcare 'post-Covid' without mentioning the health impacts of ongoing Covid, I refer you to Cabinet Sec Neil Gray's response to the Citizen Participation & Petitions Committee yesterday 😕

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

2. The Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air was launched late yesterday evening BST, at a high-level side event at the UN Assembly in New York, with an array of global leaders speaking and attending. #GlobalCommissionHIA #HealthyBuildings #IAQ

Screenshot of livestream of the high-level side-event at the UN Assembly, with all speakers gathered on the platform and audience facing them, viewed from behind.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

1. As someone at high clinical risk interacting online daily with others locally & globally whose lives are similarly restricted due to unsafe indoor air, I couldn't be more honoured & excited to be part of this landmark initiative to make healthy indoor air a priority for every country & community

Image says "Proud to serve on the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air. Meeting the call to action to improve public health and boost human performance

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Scotland prepares to say 'Get tae f**k'

NEW: A sign saying 'twinned with Epstein Island' has appeared at Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course. Image shows the officialn sign for the golf course which has 'Trump International Golf Course Scotland' with a sign attached below with 'Twinned with Epstein Island' on it.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Following the Government's decision to cut billions from disability benefits, and my blog to my MP on Wednesday begging him (again) to vote against it, I found out how he spent his day 😡 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19436...

Screenshot of my post saying "While Parliament debated whether ti remove the benefit lifelines that keep disabled people from starvation, I see he was out enjoying a 'terrific lunch'. Repost below of tweet from French Minister about the terrific lunch with Chris Murray. Top of a photo of the 4 contented diners.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Disabled people protesting outside the Scottish Parliament today, against an assisted dying Bill wholly lacking in real safeguards & wide open to coercion. We may have lost the 1st vote today but we're fighting for our lives and the fight isn't over. With campaigner Liz Carr & Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP.

Crowd of disabled people with lots of placards, outside the Scottish Parliament, with campaigner Liz Carr and Pam Duncan Glancy MSP at the front. Placards say "Support us to live not to die", "Dignity in Living", "Kill the Bill not me", "Assist us to live not to die" "Lethal weapon in the hands of domestic abusers" "Kill the Bill"

A close-up of some disabled people protesting outside the Scottish Parliament, with placards and banners. Placards say "Bin the Death Bill" and "Assist us to live not to die".

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My experience of AI meeting recordings has been somewhat 'mixed', ranging from terrible to hilarious, so I usually don't bother. But recently I accidentally turned it on just as the meeting ended. So it sent me a transcript. Then I asked for a summary😂

Screenshot headed "AI meeting notes". Under it says "Short summary". Then "The meeting concluded with Sally saying goodbye. There were no additional discussions or topics addressed. Overall, it appears to have been a brief interaction". Below is a heading saying "Transcript". Then: "Sally Witcher". Then "Bye". Duration 00.00

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Sometimes I need a break from fighting the relentless oncoming march of fascism, so I visit a safer, kinder time. View through the window of my bedroom at my mum's old house. Oil on canvas, 9.5"x11.5"

Painting of window, offset, sloping towards right hand side. A blind above, part of the top of a white wooden chair below on left hand side. On the window sill, a toy koala bear in the far left hand corner, an empty bright red ceramic pot centre and a dinky toy mini on the right hand side. Through the window, a distant tree-lined horizon, yellow and green fields, lined by hedges and tressm and a couple of out-buildings. Stripes of while clouds with glimpses of blue.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You know the saying “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky at morning, shepherd’s warning”? Here's this morning's warning. Just in case anyone hadn't already noticed the world is going to hell in a handcart [apart from a tiny bit of cropping & straightening these photos aren't edited at all]

Black silhouetted outline of a lamp-post in the centre (lamp illuminated), foliage and building, against a backdrop of a stunningly brightly coloured salmon pink and purple sky.

Black silhouetted foliage with chimney to the left of centre, against stunningly bright salmon pink and purple sky behind and above.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hello people of Edinburgh/Scotland/ Ireland, if any of you are missing a large piece of plasterboard it just fell from the sky and landed outside my back door.

Piece of plasterboard with two straight edges and two jagged torn ones

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Glad helpful! The extent & pace of mutation really does seem to be the most important factor where it concerns Covid. It's very clearly shown in wastewater data for Scotland (others don't collect it). It showed the highest rate in July last year since Omicron's first year in 2022

Chart showing peaks Spring 2022, July 2022, Autumn 2023, June 2024

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I've always hated the festive pressure to buy over-priced pointless tat. I particularly hate it when so many people are going through extremely challenging times and are fearful for the future. So my card is to wish you all a Christmas of Gifts that Matter, and that they continue throughout 2025.

Bottom half of a Christmas tree decorated with coloured baubles catching the light, dark with red glow. Four brightly illuminated yellow presents underneath, each with a big star on the front, with the words hope, hugs, safety and joy written, one on each. In the top left hand corner it says Wishing you Gifts that Matter.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Photo 6/6. Thank you for reading. I hope this is a helpful contribution to a highly complex debate. Please be assured that, whatever your views, that is my sincere intention.

For goodness sake! Even before it’s debated there’s pressure to make eligibility criteria more ‘generous’. They won’t stop. As with Assisted Suicide Bills in different guises, they’ll keep hammering away until one day they batter down the door.
How then can we ensure that attacks on #AssistanceToLive support for desperate & unprofitable people & thus deflect the blows onto them, never culminate in an #AssistedDeathPenalty?
All this is why this Bill is relevant not just to people nearing the end of life but many others. At root it’s about what kind of society we want to live in. Is it one that sees the purpose of profit as being to improve lives or the purpose of lives as being to improve profit?
We should judge a society not just by how it treats its most vulnerable but by how many people it renders vulnerable when it has the wealth & resources, the knowledge, skills & technology, not to do so.
The stakes are high. No wonder it’s become a polarised, emotionally charged debate. If, as I hope & believe, there are good well-meaning people on all sides we must unite to call a halt to this Bill. The opportunities it offers to people who are not good or well-meaning are huge.
If you want choice to end genuinely unavoidable suffering and also don’t want death to be the only choice when genuinely avoidable suffering is imposed, this is not the way. It cannot be resolved in 5 hours of heated parliamentary debate & Committee fiddling with clauses.
Surely no good well-meaning person would ever risk opening the door to eugenics by stealth, as this Bill would regrettably do? I don’t have all the answers. Not even all the questions! Maybe good answers don’t exist. But surely we need to do all we can to try to find them

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This was a long X thread on Assisted Dying, a topic I like many others haved wrestled with. For me it centres on the nature of coercion and manipulation, and what that means for genuine freedom of choice. Too long to post here so have tried posting it in photos and alt text. It may/may not work! 1/6

This is a long thread on Assisted Dying. It’s a topic that I, like many others, have wrestled with. For me it hinges on the nature of coercion & what that means for genuine freedom of choice. It begins with this poster which I find deeply troubling but also illuminating.
My wish is that no one I love should ever choose to end their life because they feel they’re a burden. My wish is also that those responsible for this messaging, who say they aim to end suffering, understood how much suffering this may cause to people already in great distress.
My wish is that everyone understood the coercive power of such posters, whether or not intended. Coercion includes acts of manipulation & persuasion that do not involve force. It can be subtle, gradual, hinting, indirect, perceived where it isn’t intended and imperceptible when it is.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

I started this painting in 2021 - my mum watching Emmerdale - the 1st time I'd been able to see her in 15 months. Couldn’t get it right. I recently recommenced battle. It’s finished. Or I am. Either way I called a truce for Mother's Day. Happy Mothers Day to my lovely mum & mums everywhere!

Elderly lady in light blue jumper, looking attentive, holding a television remote control, sat in brown velvet highbacked chair. Side table to her right, with cluttered items. Big mahogant dresser to the right of that, with crystal class and photos on glass shelves. Print of a painting above her head. Section from larger painting.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Wishing an as-happy-as-possible 2024 to all out there fighting for evidence-based public health policy, meaningful democracy that puts the well-being of people before private-sector profit, & an end to performative cruelty & exclusion. It doesn't have to be this way. Time for an #InclusiveNewNormal

Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al
(To the tune of Winter Wonderland )

Politicians, are you listening?
We're so tired of petitioning.
Our basic human rights,
We need them tonight!
Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al.

Yes, "Air-borne" is the key word.
Yet to them, has it occurred?
To wear a good mask?
It's not a big ask.
Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al.

In the classroom, filters sound a grand plan!
Watch the absence rates come tumbling down.
They'll say, "Want Long Covid?" We'll say, "No man!"
"Please check the CO2 when you're in town."

We have got to aim higher,
Not just dream by the fire,
To move on with our lives,
Our health we can't deprive.
Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al.

When air is clean, ain't it thrillin'?
Better health, if more are willin',
To frolic and play the Covid-safe way.
Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al.
Time for an Inclusive New Norm-al.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

This year's cards came out a bit...odd. Christmas variants, with helpful, festive public health messaging, created by me and an AI image generator. Wishing you all a merry festive time and very best of luck dodging the plague.

Nine images in three rows of three, each of a brightly coloured Christmas tree bauble in a circular snow-flake frame set into a square gold or other metallic background. On closer inspection each more or less loosely resembling a Covid virus in shape, with clip-art of facemasks with "wear your mask" written on or vaccine syringes more or less subtly incorporated into the image.

Image of a gold sparkly bauble-virus with sliver and gold stars coming off it, set into a circular snowflake frame on a gold background, with little masks saying "wear your mask" on them in each of the four corners.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

When lockdown came, I took up oil painting. I'm still at high clinical risk; still living a restricted precarious life. Still painting. It helps. Here’s my latest: 🎵 "Somewhere, over the barbed wire" 🎵. Open space, a promise of freedom - and barbed wire blocking off access #LockdownArt

Landscape with large old cracked wooden post with patches of orange-yellow lichen on it in the foreground, with two strands of barbed wire attached, extending right across the painting from left to right. It’s in front of a slope of long rough tufty grass and dandelions, yellow ones and white round seed-heads, with bushes on the right had side, going down to a large green field, beyond which are a row of trees and hedges, with more hedge-delineated fields, of different greens and yellow criss-crossing into the distance, until they blend into the horizon, meeting a grey sky, streaked with white clouds.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

First #InclusiveNewNormal meeting! Great to get together some key groups & individuals working on Covid-related matters in Scotland to discuss priorities, action & working together for impact. Many thanks to all who came along. Just a first step. More steps & opportunities to come. Watch this space!

Screenshot of zoom call. Eleven key groups, organisations and individuals.

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