Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid
@thrivingplanet.bsky.social
Was: Facilitation & organisational culture nerd for do-gooders; climate & sustainability. Healthy, athletic; MTB, ski, mountaineering, outdoors. Everything on pause: Long Covid is brutal. A lot funnier IRL Lancaster, North West England (Plague Island) ⓥ🇨🇭
This August, every donation to The Rothbury Estate appeal will be matched up to £100,000. Help secure 3,800 hectares of river, land and sky for wildlife before it's too late. One special place. One final chance to secure it. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/donate/rothbury-gift-0?donation=50
Heat & drought records keep falling. Reform promote denial. The Tories want to ditch our targets. The new PM still hasn't said a word. Such a relief to hear a politician actually name it. Should be ordinary. End the #climate hushing! Thanks for your #ClimateLeadership @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
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Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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"Nearly everyone is infected by a variety of viruses throughout their childhood and adolescence. A handful of these pathogens are never fully cleared from the body. Instead, they hide quietly inside cells for a lifetime, kept in check by a healthy immune system."
Nature@nature.com · 7h agoA severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w
I found a mint #moth ... feeding on the mint flowers at the weekend. It's less than an inch across and has a coiled proboscis that extends as long as its body.
This excellent piece in @theconversation.com provides a much more reasoned and evidenced based assessment than some of the stuff currently circulating in print and online... How #rewilding could help stop the spread of Britain’s #wildfires theconversation.com/how-rewildin...
How rewilding could help stop the spread of Britain’s wildfires
Done properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.
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Just been reminded of Starfish Hitler. You’re very welcome
It’s not my considered opinion, let’s say, that the three months I was unable to work last year are disputed. The Covid lingering in my gut that’s causing unpredictable food intolerances, and the heart palpitations on simply standing up - in someone who was fit and active - seemed pretty real to me
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoLong covid is a disputed subject, at best.
Everyone agrees that fungi are fantastic, but have you ever seen the inside of a Pisolithus mushroom? 👀🍄🟫🤯 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends
But by all means, let’s play footsie with the fossil fuel industry.
George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 14h agoBritish farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Very severe #MECFS can cause profound suffering, extreme disability and life-threatening symptoms. Many are completely dependent on care, yet still face misunderstanding and inappropriate management. #SevereMEAwarenessWeek
📣 We’re looking for someone with ME/a carer to a PwME who would be interested to write a short piece (500 words) for our @thereforme.bsky.social blog about their experiences of/challenges with social care. Ideally looking for someone in Wales or NI - but can be flexible!
The Premier League returns this month. As a lifelong Red, I’ve written to Liverpool FC about links to six sponsors implicated in Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. The club has not yet responded. Liverpool must answer supporters and end complicity in apartheid and genocide.
"What they found was a measurable, consistent, and symptom-correlated loss of dopamine nerve terminals averaging 18 percent across the long COVID group."!
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d agoThe COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
Lake District #rewilding! Pine martens! Red squirrels! Chuck in a few £quid or share to help this film get finished? #Cumbria @hardknottforest.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUS...
A Simple Act | Official Trailer | A Documentary About Restoring Hardknott Forest
YouTube video by Lake District Films
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Lake District Films@lakedistrictfilms.bsky.social · 2d agoGreat to see A Simple Act featured in Cumbria Crack! The article looks at our documentary about the remarkable restoration of Hardknott Forest in the Lake District, and the people making it happen. Read more: cumbriacrack.com/2026/08/04/n... 🌿 Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ony...
Tbh I'm tired of poking my head out of the "echo chamber" and being smacked in the face by the most abhorrent, egregious and sinister concepts in the known universe (while being told I'm being too sensitive 🙄)
MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
Why is Britain a tinderbox? Because: 1) The climate crisis, obvs; but also - 2) *6.4 million hectares* of farmland in England & Wales is riddled with field drains - draining water from the land where it could be retaining it. Make Britain Wet Again! ahdb.org.uk/drainage
A BMW playing Spider-Man advertising at me on the dashboard was not one of the reasons I previously had for never buying a BMW
BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would
The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings...
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I did assume that this was a case of a local organisation having totally lost the plot, but Kemi Badenoch is now forcefully and explicitly defending the selection of a former neo-Nazi with a significant criminal history as a candidate. Crackers and terrifying.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d agoKemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe www.energylivenews.com/2026/08/03/h...
Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk - Energy Live News
As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe
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Apparently, on Christian album covers in the ’60s, the only thing worse than the hair was the obliviousness to the lewd double entendres.
Since Sep 2022, I've been building a website where you can find out who owns rural Scotland. Today I am publishing the latest update (July 2026) which contains ownership information on 5050 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/2
"We’ve just experienced the driest July on record and BP has driven record-breaking droughts, unprecedented wildfires and extraordinary excess heatwave deaths while amassing $5.7 billion (£4.24 billion) in profits". www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
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Lake District #rewilding! Pine martens! Red squirrels! Chuck in a few £quid or share to help this film get finished? #Cumbria @hardknottforest.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUS...
A Simple Act | Official Trailer | A Documentary About Restoring Hardknott Forest
YouTube video by Lake District Films
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Lake District Films@lakedistrictfilms.bsky.social · 2d agoGreat to see A Simple Act featured in Cumbria Crack! The article looks at our documentary about the remarkable restoration of Hardknott Forest in the Lake District, and the people making it happen. Read more: cumbriacrack.com/2026/08/04/n... 🌿 Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ony...
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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