Anna Watson 📷
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Freelance press photographer. Pics on Insta @annawatson99 annawatson.com Parent, Green, fox fan, Londoner.
1/ A new study from Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, led by prominent researchers Peter Novak, David Systrom, and colleagues, compared 143 Long Covid, 170 ME/CFS, 73 healthy controls, and 290 hEDS patients to map shared autonomic and neurovascular dysfunction. 🧵
‘Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum, genius of marketing and hype. Altman could go toe-to-toe with Barnum, and I wouldn’t want to pick a winner.’ John Lanchester: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
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Looking for something to read for Halloween? The fateful murder mystery-themed Game Night in THE LIBRARIANS takes place the night before Halloween!
The problem with this, is that whilst they're voting against him, they are broadly voting in line with public opinion. He's sending them a message, but he's sending a stronger, more consequential message to us www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer removes Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs
Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff pushed out and three trade envoys lose roles
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Can an MP ask this in parliament please? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @carladenyer.bsky.social There is no long covid screening going on or testing in hospitals. Yet research shows COVID infections can cause serious blood clots, especially in those unvaccinated. Over 3.2 million had self reported via
Today is 3 months since Who Wants Normal? was published. Thanks so much to everyone who’s bought a copy, left a review, or shared a favourite quote on socials. As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually.
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social re Reform wanting to withdraw clean energy subsisdies, the Labour Party spokesperson says "leaving bills higher for families, threatening hundreds of thousands of good jobs across the country and putting our energy security at risk." Interesting that they choose not to
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social seeing my MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy having her Ghana trade envoy role removed despite her Ghanaian heritage shows how vindictive the Labout whips are. Is it because she posts consistently about Gaza? And also opposed the Welfare Bill I think. Anyway, at the last election a
I love the way that had the five of them lined up between the pillars. What came first, the task or the location? #Taskmaster
"Your back's hurting? Ok good." Fair to Alex I think 🤣 #Taskmaster
32 rooms! 51 minutes! Oh Mat, poor Mat. #taskmaster
#taskmaster ok. The butterflies is the cutest thing but Greg doesn't often score cute very highly.
A Palestine Action protester in Newcastle - someone with the courage and insight and militant decency to risk their freedom by putting their body on the gears of an ongoing atrocity - wrote this, and it's class: summerjasmin.substack.com/p/in-defence...
Oh come on America, is it really true that you don't use the word boffin? It's such a good word! "Boffins at the University of Wherever have discovered whatever..." #NYTspellingbee #NYTgames
For those in the UK - please can you sign and share this petition @ukpots.bsky.social Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 🫶🫂 #PoTS #LongCOVID #posturalorthostatictachycardiasyndrome
Petition: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities
Fund training for all healthcare providers on spotting and dealing with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) as well as facilities where people with this condition can access the correct form of healt...
petition.parliament.uk
Always remember - the AIDS Memorial Quilt in London at Tate Modern (2025) and Hyde Park (1994) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2010/12/worl...
Let’s be clear- this Labour government isn’t just using existing capacity in the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists - they’re building that capacity🚨. They’re funnelling billions into private companies when they could be investing in publicly-owned NHS services.
"those who appear to be lying (???) can legally be refused entry as long as they are not asked in a rude or offensive manner" oh yes they denied my right to exist but they were so gosh darn pleasant about it that I didn't mind one bit
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr.Front page of the Daily Telegraph. Shops and leisure centres can do this if they want. They will get sued.
Come on @nytgames.bsky.social what is your word list based on?! The word punnet isn't in there? What the hell do you keep your strawberries in then? #nytspellingbee
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
