This is how communities show up for each other. Do read this by Nicola Browne from Act Now👇

38 Degrees@38degrees.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“People in Northern Ireland have muscle memory of violence, murder and riots in our not-very-distant past. We also have muscle memory on how to organise and help each other through.

1. Training of #hcps People with #ME/CFS and #longcovid I need your thoughts and ideas please. I would like to develop simulation training for all #hcps. We now use a lot of simulation which means that we can simulate severe #ME and #longcovid in a hospital setting.

I saw a patient last week with ME who in 2023 was told by the MECFS service to ‘get back to the gym’. She did 20 minutes, collapsed and hasn’t walked since. The advice is still out there, still wrong and the harm is real.

Trish Davis@ozfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cochrane is stubbornly refusing to withdraw the 2019 review recommending exercise therapy for ME/CFS despite being supplied with ample evidence that it doesn't work and causes harm for #pwME with post exertional malaise. Please sign the petition: chng.it/zTZ7vX9Czd

Think I'm going to have to rewatch the first race across the world episode and count the number of cats 🐈 Close ups of around ten of them and several more in the background too. I have no objections.

Energy security, food security, economic security, and democratic stability all depend on a stable climate.

Local authorities spend £150 MILLION a year fighting SEND parents in appeals and tribunals. That money could've supported 26,000 kids. Oh, and their success rate is less than 1% By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Councils spend over £150 million a year trying to stop disabled kids getting support

Local authorities are supposed to help the parents and families of SEND children. But many are failing in their duties entirely

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Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

theguardian.com

I can believe what I want. My worldview comes from my own lived experience, the things I've learned, struggled with and made sense of over time But here’s the bit people miss: lived experience doesn’t automatically make me right or wrong. It just explains why I see the world the way I do 1/3

This..⬇️ anyone means anyone! Resulting in long term debillitaing illnesses, unable to work or function normally, not knowing how youre going to get through the day from the moment you wake up, if you're lucky enough to get some decent sleep. 🤷‍♀️🙏🏽

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 9mo ago

One Public Health department is telling the whole story. Shining a light on those who are being less than transparent! Oopsie!

Hopefully the other parties take note of this. Reform voters are not united and with the right messaging can hopefully be swung... #HopeNotHate

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.” Farage - the foghorn of failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace

Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

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Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs. You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.

Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division. None of our problems are because of too much kindness.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎 youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g #Kimmel #Colbert

"Freedom of Speech" - Marsh Family parody of "Under the Sea" from Disney's "The Little Mermaid"

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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Well, this is terrifying. Not just because there are people so openly explicit in their deranged transphobia, but because in practice segregation of trans and non-binary individuals is already occuring, and not just in US. We're seeing it in UK and elsewhere 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/r...

Republican makes 'disgusting' call for mass institutionalisation of trans people

Texas Republican Ronny Jackson has been branded 'disgusting' after calling for trans people to be banned from public life.

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Trans rights are human rights.

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of chronic illness is being an observer. Seeing everything, feeling it all, able to do nothing. At times I've found ways to channel it +make some small difference. Then everything changes and I'm stuck again. An empath, relying on others with no end in sight.

What if your body couldn’t bear light, sound, movement — or even touch? Today, #SevereMEDay, we ask you to imagine living that way not just for a day… but for years. For people living with Very Severe ME, this isn’t a metaphor — it’s reality. 🧵

The posthumous album of young singer Kara Jane was released to mark #SevereMEDay. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara Jane left a legacy of beautiful music that has moved and inspired many thousands of people around the world while raising money for research. bit.ly/3UVX752

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Most folks are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. All it takes is one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck. We all need & deserve better social supports

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.