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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Man. X is on another level right now, and not in a good way. I can see how people get radicalised on there. It’s pushing very disturbing content.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we sued over this issue, and lost on the grounds that the Environment Agency couldn't be in breach because the government had issued no direction. An absurdity, which means that poisons continue to be spread on farmland every day. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge spread on UK farmland every year

Exclusive: Experts call for stricter regulation as current rules set in 1989 require testing for only a few heavy metals

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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

📣 1/5. The UK Government is proposing significant changes to welfare benefits. These reforms could profoundly impact individuals with #LongCovid and #MECFS. We've launched a survey to gather your insight. ⬇️

Blue background with white text that reads Survey Have your say on welfare benefits reform. Calling people with Long Covid and ME/CFS. Four logos at the bottom of Long Covid Support, Action for ME, ME Local Network, #ThereforME.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@amandabennett.bsky.social I saw your post on the nazi app. I needed a covid antibody test recently and they had to send my blood to fucking France because UK labs stopped being able to do it. They truly abandoned us and are pretending it's over.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Superbly put Shami Chakrabarti 👏 BBCNewsnight

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

*cw violence* New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence. Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet. www.404media.co/instagram-er...

404media.co

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”

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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

‘What must happen to break the spell cast by Sir Wessely, who was energized by two psychiatrists?’ Excellent Substack on U.K. #ME history by @oslersweb hillaryjohnson.substack.com/p/in-sympath...

hillaryjohnson.substack.com

In Sympathy with the Beleaguered UK

A failed response to ME continues to play out in a country with a venerable legacy of ME research

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Feels like a good time to reshare SwearSky: Every curse word used here, visualized in real time Click on a swear to see the post it graces & enjoy 😆💯👀 swearsky.bagpuss.org

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SwearSky

Bluesky profanity, as it happens

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Every single post in my Long Covid support group on Facebook is being marked as spam and needs manual approval now. No keywords or obvious pattern.

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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Well, it looks like my rant about Andrew Gwynne's letter saying "COVID-19 is not prominently transmitted through the airborne route" has gone beyond social media. Interested to see how this plays out. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

northwestbylines.co.uk

‘Airborne’ seems to be the hardest word

Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?

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James Neill - 🇺🇦💙 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶 @jneill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Philip Low's Facebook post about Elon Musk, with alt text: [1-4 of 6] www.facebook.com/share/p/1DHG...

Philip Low:

I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14 years, well before he was a household name. We used to text frequently. He would come to my birthday party and invite me to his parties. He would tell me everything about his women problems. As sons of highly accomplished men who married venuses, were violent and lost their fortunes, and who were bullied in high school, we had a number of things in common most people cannot relate to. We would hang out together late in Los Angeles. He would visit my San Diego lab. He invested in my company.

Elon is not a Nazi, per se.

He is something much better, or much worse, depending on how you look at it. Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else. Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person - he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he acts as if he has all the solutions.

All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain the light of consciousness" or about "free speech absolutism" is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion

Philip Low
...control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla (the reason he does not do patents is because he would not be listed as an inventor as putting a fake inventor on a patent would kill it and moreover it would reveal the superstars behind the work). His lust for power is also why he did xAl and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAl and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to undermine NV.

Elon did two Nazi salutes.

He did them for five main reasons:

1. He was concerned that the "Nazi wing" of the MAGA movement, under the influence of Steve Bannon, would drive him away from Trump, somewhere in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, rather than in the West Wing which is where he wants to be. He was already feeling raw over the fact that Trump did not follow his recommendation for Treasury Secretary and that the Senate byalso did not pick his first choice;

2. He was upset that he had had to go to Israel and Auschwitz to make up for agreeing with a Nazi sympathizer online and wanted to reclaim his "power" just like when he told advertisers to "go fuck yourself". This has nothing to do with Asperger's;

3. There are some Jews he actually hates: Sam Altman is amongst them;

4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;

5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience would reflect his abject gesture back to him, thereby showing complete control and dominion over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.

Bottom line: Elon is not a Nazi but he did give two Nazi Salutes, which is completely unacceptable.

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N.B. For the few whining about my post "sans connaissance the cause" and either trembling about my having shattered their illusions about their cult leader or thinking I am defending Elon:

I. My point is that he is transactional rather than ideological;

II. That being said, I am not defending him or his actions, just explaining them and no confirming that he did, in fact, do two Nazi Salutes if anyone had doubts or believed the doctored footage of Taylor Swift doing the same thing to normalize what Elon did;

III. At some point, it matters to few people if one is a Nazi or if one acts like one. My father was a Holocaust Survivor. 32 out of 35 of his family members were murdered by Nazis. My mother's grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz;

IV. After Elon tried to manipulate NV's stock in 2021,I fired him with cause, and he was unable to exercise his stock options. In the aftermath of the Nazi Salutes, I told both him and his wealth manager to fuck off. Any remaining friendship between us ended with the Nazi Salutes. He is blocked on my end and I am pretty sure I am blocked on his;

V. I did not share what he told me in confidence. I just happen to know him extremely well, the person, the aspirations and the Musk Mask;

VI. I know who I am, have no desire to be famous and give exceedingly few media interviews. I prefer to work in obscurity and let the work speak for itself. I am certainly not envious and would definitely not want Elon's life, including living in a bubble and having to make one outlandish claim after another and manipulate the public, elections and governments to shore up my stock and prevent the bubble from bursting. Unlike Elon, I am an actual scientist and inventor and I am not pretending to be someone I am not, like a fellow who got his BA in Econ at 26 all of a sudden pretending to be an expert in mechanical engineering, chemistry, rocket science, neuroscience and Iand keeping the people actually doing the work hidden and paying people to play online games in his name to appear smart and feed his so-called "Supergenius" Personality Cult - the "Imperator" has no clothes, and he knows it. I am just very disappointed in what happened to someone I had a lot of deep admiration for and the first person to find out about my concerns about his behavior was always him;

VII. He is the one who betrayed a number of his friends, including Sergey, and, given his actions, many other people who believed him and believed in him. I have no sympathy for this behavior, and at some point, after having repeatedly confronted it in private, I believe the ethical thing to do is to speak out, forcefully and unapologetically, whatever the risks may be, so as to not be part of the timid flock remaining silent while evil is being done, including propping up far right governments around the world in part to deregulate his companies and become the first

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Steps like a goose, honks like a goose…

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Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Our #LongCovid Groups legal team has written to @gwynnemp.bsky.social to express our concern about comments made in his letter to @timfarron.bsky.social regarding #covid transmission #CovidIsAirborne - it is not primarily spread by droplets

Letter on Bhatt Murphy headed paper addressed to Andrew Gwynne Mp:
Dear Sir
Covid-19: Routes of Transmission
Long Covid Groups: Long Covid Physio, Long Covid Kids, Long Covid
SOS and Long Covid Support
1. We act for the Long Covid Groups in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.
2. We write on behalf of the Long Covid Groups to express their concern regarding recent statements made by yourself asserting that Covid-19' is not predominantly transmitted via the airborne route.
3. This position appears to be at odds with the testimony of prominent officials and experts during the Module 3 Covid-19 Public Inquiry who have emphasised the significant role of airborne transmission.
4. By letter dated 16 January 2025 to Tim Farron MP, you referred to the October 2020 UK Government guidance on SARS-CoV2 routes
of
transmission and stated: "In her testimony to the Covid-19 Inquiry Dr Lisa Ritchie, NHS England's National Infection Prevention and Control Lead, reaffirmed that Covid-19 is not predominately transmitted through the airborne route. This position is supported by the Government and aligns with the scientific evidence provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Until scientific evidence suggests that the virus is predominately spread through the airborne route, this stance will remain unchanged."
5. Our clients are troubled that as the Minister responsible for health protection including Covid-19 and other infectious diseases that you have referred to a long outdated guidance and have apparently
not considered the
overwhelming scientific evidence in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry supporting airborne transmission. Further your statement incorrectly reports the WHO position

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 23/01/2025

Opinion | You have to perform contorted intellectual gymnastics to avoid the word "fascism" which explains the phenomenon we see in front of our eyes 🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/opinion/look...

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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I checked again on Bluesky if several of the chronic illness advocacy groups from Xitter I was following moved here and of course they didn't. They seem to miss the point that part of the advocacy is to keep members in your community safe, and being on the far-right hell that's Xitter is not safe.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🚨Dame Kate Bingham🚨 Dubbed the "hero in a pink jacket 💕" On Evusheld: "I felt very strongly [.]. We were following a very clear 2 tier strategy where the CV immunocompromised were being deprioritised [.] I felt that was *manifestly* wrong both ethically and morally [.]" 1/🧵

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

So is the Long Covid/Covid Conscious community going to stay on X? Because I’m pretty certain the nazi’s weren’t great for disabled people…

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Flo Mask @flomask.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Every superhero has an origin story. Designing a better mask due to California wildfires was ours. Today, we're supporting our community in SoCal by offering @flomask.bsky.social at cost with discount code CaliStrong30. Please help us spread the word.

Image of adult and kids Flo Masks with the line "Supporting our Community 30% off Discount Code CaliStrong30"

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Carrot Weather calling out the TikTok situation for what it is and confirming that they are still worthy of my money. 🫡

A screenshot of Carrot Weather that says “TikTok is back thanks to First Lady Trump. (Please forget that it was his idea to ban it in the first place.)”

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

What a shitty time to be a social media manager with morals.

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Carpinche @claiborne.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Vice signaling is the act of individuals and corporations showing willingness to corrupt themselves and their morals to curry favor with Trump. It's Meta allowing for hate speech against certain groups. It's banks dropping pledges to fight climate change. It's Amazon paying $40MM for a Melania doc.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Zuckerberg went super homophobe the same week he started publicly sucking dick.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Rice cooker pizza bread. Used bell pepper instead of tomato to get the histamine content down a bit.

Top left: Dough in a bowl
Top right: Dough with bell pepper sauce and garlic on top
Bottom left: A round pizza bread on a blue plate
Bottom right: A piece of pizza bread with a bite taken out

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The garlic is loving this cold weather.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Someone on insta picked up a dead pigeon with her bare hands, so I messaged her about H5N1, and she goes “I washed my hands, what more can I do?”. How are people so helpless? Wear gloves and an FFP2, then double bag that thing? How is that not obvious? You have no cause of death so don’t touch it.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I don't think there is a way to make bread baked in a rice cooker look aesthetically pleasing, but the bread is breading. It's a wholemeal & 00 mix, baked in a Yum Asia Panda.

Top image: A round loaf of bread on a blue plate.
Bottom image: The bread cut open on a blue plate.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Future peppers, planted a week ago. I may be turning my rooftop terrace into a farm. A bit. There’s already garlic and shallots out there. Someone may have bought a raspberry bush. Potatoes and strawberries get planted this month too.

A black seed tray with 6 compartments. 5 bell pepper sprouts are visible.

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Did everyone know that you have to plug your Nintendo Switch dock into your monitor in a specific order and am I the only one who's finding out in year 6 of owning this thing? I bought a whole new cable, cleaned my connectors, did all the things. Turns out I just plugged it in in the wrong order. 💀

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A chronic 🐝 @thatsnailgirl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So no one is confused by the new profile picture situation: 'T is I.

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