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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 18h

Low Vasopressin in Myalgic Encephalomyelitise/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Vasopressin is also known as antidiuretic hormone www.endocrinepractice.org/article/S153... Screenshot from AMMES October 2026 newsletter #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

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LOW VASOPRESSIN IN MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
In a consecutive series of ME-CFS patients, majority had very low vasopressin levels, relatively high plasma osmolality and low urine osmolality, in absence of overt hypothalamic or hypophyseal pathology. Chronic down-regulation of vasopressin mimicking central diabetes insipidus may contribute to the core symptoms of ME/CFS.
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Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not sure it's a great sign when diplomats are asking historians of the 1930s for advice.

This Fellowship offers the opportunity to work with the
Historians Team in the Global Strategy Department of the FCDO. The
Innovation Fellowship award holder will collaborate with colleagues in the
Strategy Directorate and others across the FCDO and foreign policy
community in Whitehall, to develop understanding amongst policymakers on
how the history of the 1930s might help them think better about present-day
challenges. In particular, they will look to develop historical awareness
amongst policy-making colleagues of how the UK state conducted
diplomacy, made policy and formulated strategy in the face of multiple
challenges and crises, including rapid technological change, stubborn
economic malaise, overwhelming global commitments, increasing
international isolation, and the growing number and strength of adversaries.
The Innovation Fellowship award holder will also support the Historians’
wider Applied History work - providing rapid, policy-focused historical
analysis - and use their own networks to help strengthen the Historians
team’s links with external researchers.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23h

In every conceivable way it isn't. 🚨Already shown to lead to people sent to Rwanda being trafficked, predominantly into Europe. 🚨People seeking asylum aren't put off by it as they just won't seek asylum and will instead become undocumented. 🚨Costs a metric fuck tonne for no benefits whatsoever.

Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak: Admit it, Rwanda is the only way to stop the boats

Critics said it was fantasy that we could leave the ECHR and secure our border. The real fantasy is thinking there's an alternative

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22h

I'd love to go somewhere properly dark so I can see the aurorae Everywhere I've ever been it's been indistinguishable to light pollution to my colour blind eyes

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Do check your electrics first though A lot of us have antique setups that won't be safe with plug in solar

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Managed to get the #BBC to admit that it made a serious error in its reporting about trans healthcare, when in *two separate articles*, it misquoted NWJCC to claim patients of the Welsh Gender Service were referred inappropriately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BBCBias

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This country likes racism more than prosperity part 3,548

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 08/10/2026

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Great Recession 2: Even Recessionier

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And aren't we all, in some way, Bingo Lingfucker?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants. The chips on some shoulders had been passed down for generations. Some had antique value. A bloody good grudge, Lancre reckoned, was like a fine old wine. You looked after it carefully and left it to your children.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They fucked off to Essex and Kent of their own free will to be racist that’s on them mate

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bloody hell that's impressive. Kai Winn still scares me and she's both fictional and dead

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You mean people prefer vernacular materials with human-scale details & massing and active streetscapes to featureless, unengaging glass, concrete and cladding boxes? You have to be an architect graduate to not get it worksinprogress.co/issue/do-peo...

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Do people prefer traditional architecture? - Works in Progress Magazine

Taste is subjective. But when it comes to architecture, there is a surprising level of agreement.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How did I ever miss Psychobitches? This is the best Thatcher accent I've ever heard www.instagram.com/p/Dc1YGZjNS7X/

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This pisses me off hugely. I think most men have stories of the women in their life suffering huge pain and being given the equivalent of paracetamol when they ask for the help they need I can't imagine what it would be like to go through www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

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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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought I'd discovered an error in a 50s tv programme intro sequence's image of written music of the intro's main motif... but it turns out I can't read music 🤦🏼

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can think of no better illustration of this point that "holistic influencer" gulping from a ceramic vat with a radioactive glaze because the Rothschilds supposedly tried to take them away from us.

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Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He's Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight

Holistic influencer Matt Roeske recently bragged that he's been drinking from an irradiated jug for the better part of a year.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

oh no. the Tortie thinks she's Fremen. i have made a terrible mistake.

silhoutte of a tortie, focused on watching Dune 2

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Racists continually insist that black and brown people can never be English. Then they accuse them of 'refusing to integrate'. I mean, make your bloody mind up.

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be fair the Bayeux Tapestry isn't a of tapestry either Also I agree with Phil. Our ancestors should never have left the bloody ocean

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council

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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years

Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lmao sometimes feels like tech people are in kindergarten tier English class!!!! We are currently paying *crazy money* for these people to realise something humanities grads understand and can wield expertly for less than the price of this bad software

resonated with me. As someone still experimenting and learning with Al filmmaking, I'm finding that generating something visually impressive is becoming easier, but creating something that actually makes people feel something is the real challenge.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/09/2026

A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto

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