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This withered little bellend will say anything in order to ingratiate himself with Trump. He hasn't had an original thought since the cries he let out on the ill-fated day he was born.

Manoeuvring a Spanish Galleon into the #Liverpool #AlbertDock The #GaleonAndalucia now berthed and open to the public. ⚓📷 @scousescene.bsky.social @visitliverpool.bsky.social

#LivesInterrupted: The Voices of Young People with Long Covid” launching in just 5 days. Young people with Long Covid urgently need support, policy changes and better research. Join our movement for change with our new film collaboration. #CombinationDance & #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #CharityFilm

We're at a turning point. Since losing Co-Founder Ondine Sherwood in March ‘25, we need your help to continue our vital work. We’ve launched a funding appeal to hire our first paid team member to keep fighting for those with #LongCovid. Can you help secure our future? Donate today: shorturl.at/J5aan

This is Charlie. He can't help but sing along when his favorite song comes on. 14/10 please turn it pup (TT: nunnyaaaaaaa)

enormous crispy leaf just fell on my head like i am Winnie the Pooh. undignified but autumnal

Bessie & Ken #Liverpool

🧵 BREAKING: Gene therapy shows promise in slowing Huntington’s disease progression. A major milestone in neurodegenerative disease research. @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great that gov isn't setting up yet another pot of money that councils have to bid for. Much more efficient to allocate money & let councils and local people decide how to spend it. Community power to buy assets & decide what the high street looks like is also positive. www.gov.uk/government/n...

More and more such incidents happening daily www.bbc.com/news/article...

Record fraud crackdown saves half a billion for public services www.gov.uk/government/n...

if it is mold that has never been seen before it is called mnew

writing "self defense" on all my ammo just in case anyone ever asks me any questions that are already answered by the ammo

Surprised and delighted to see Everything Must Go on the New Yorker's list of the best books of the year so far. Available in all good bookshops as they say www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Well look who it is, right at the top of Waterstones' suggested non-fiction paperbacks of the year www.waterstones.com/campaign/pap...

Few things nicer than watching the sun go down over the sea 😎

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #WomensArt #Tuesday

People came from all over the world. They have serious problems to solve.

What Wes said. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

School meals are not just about feeding children—they're a powerful tool for green industrial strategy that can lead to transformative change. Today I'll deliver closing remarks at @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social's regenerative school meals event to launch our new report ➡️ buff.ly/bOxeCWl

Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic review – an hour of pure terror

This is how much the price of food has risen in 5 years... 🤯 🥛Milk, eggs and cheese: +47% 🍖 Meat: +35% 🧈 Oil and butter: +60% 🍞 Cereal and bread: +34% 🍓 Fruit: +26% 🥦 Vegetables: +35%

Love from Corca Dhuibhne at the autumnal equinox Go mbeirimid uilig beo ar an am seo arís #spéirgorm

Sunny late afternoon walk in Greenfield, Saddleworth.

[naked and stuck like a helium balloon against the Home Depot ceiling during The Rapture]

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Delighted to announce that Borderlines is one of @waterstones.bsky.social paperbacks of the year!

Not often that @erictopol.bsky.social posts about one of our papers! The ESC Consensus statement for Long #COVID We reviewed the evidence & reached a consensus on a diagnostic algorithm, intervention, vaccines, cardiac rehab, sports participation. Worrh a Read academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

Couldn't live update (as was chairing) but an interesting/important session this afternoon on health inequalities in the UK, hosted by @smfthinktank.bsky.social and Policy@Manchester - all the speakers stressed the importance of preventative public health measures #LDConf

Bluesky’s glitching

This is very much a ‘don’t read the comments’ piece, but I trust you all here to respond to the actual meat of the piece. Provocative, yes - but I still think an important social dynamic playing out & worth exploring. Constructive discussion v welcome, as always. inews.co.uk/opinion/rese...

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

British Future Director @sundersays.bsky.social is speaking alongside Lisa Smart MP and Tim Farron MP today (Mon 22nd) 13:00 at the Safe Routes Coalition event ‘Safe routes at risk: defending compassion for refugees’. Bournemouth International Centre, Meyrick Suite.

'Advice from a 1918 suffragette pamphlet'

Interesting to speak to Jonathan Falkingham from Urban Splash on how they helped regenerate Liverpool in the '90s and 2000s - and their grand plans for Festival Gardens

If the rapture happens do I still have to go to work

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Autumnal equinox tomorrow Paperback edition of #TheBooksellersGift pre-ordering now Coincidence? I think not Put your feet up with "a gentle tale, clever, nuanced & full of nourishing humanity" and, as it's set in an #Irish indie #bookshop, do consider getting it from your own local #bookseller 📚💙

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

In the relatively undisturbed countryside outside Paris, Henri Biva depicts the river in the early morning, focusing on strong light effects and foliage detail (Morning at Villeneuve l’Etang: From Waters Edge, 1905)

I did some drawing today, in the welcome warm sunshine. I don’t do this often enough.

#Autumn sun (very welcome after torrential rain, yesterday!) 😎

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. #BookSky

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state

Will I physically be able to run a half marathon after 3 weeks of party conferences? Time to find out! I'm running the Manchester half in a few weeks' time, to raise money in my mum's memory for @inquest-org.bsky.social - please do donate if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/rebecca...

PM Keir Starmer's commentary on patriotism vs racism and populism can be read here www.thesun.co.uk/news/3678572...