URGENT: An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient & has now stopped giving her fluids. Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk. @h-sharland.bsky.social has the story www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Please consider donating to Savannah's fundraiser so she can afford care and continue legal representation. She has v severe ME with feeding problems and is being treated appallingly in QEH hospital right now. Please share! 🙏 Any questions, please read the fundraiser updates. #MEcfs #Disability

Wow. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We have finally finished updating our online art gallery into a dark theme! A Quiet Storm showcases art made by people who have experienced severe ME/CFS. Our full statement is below. www.aquietstorm.me #MECFS #pwME #Art #OnlineArtGallery

A robin photo from when I was able to go out with my modest telephoto lens (I was unable to hold anything bigger than that up). I can't believe this was 10 years ago. #Nature #Robins #Photography

📚💙 A member of our book club on Fable has set up her own space, 'Endless Horizons' for teens living with disabilities to help build community and connection. If you know a disabled teen who would be interested here is the link! 👇

Looking forward to non-fiction workshop with Rae Earl this morning with @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social I'm attending three writing events this week, and I'm completely bedridden. It wouldn't be possible without online provision. Disabled writers and artists deserve inclusion. #DisabledWriters

#writingtip #writingtips #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity

It's great to have successes in creative work but don't pull the ladder up after you. It's good to share knowledge, other people's work and help others on their path. The world is better for art, writing and creativity. #DisabledArtists #DisabledWriters #Writing #ArtSky #Comics

The Sisters are great guests. Come in person this evening or watch the improved live stream on www.youtube.com/@panelborder...

Today (23 Feb) reps from Forward ME are meeting with the DHSC and NHS England to discuss progress on the development of a clinical care pathway for people with mild-moderate ME/CFS. However, crucially, the pathway fails to include people with severe ME. 1/3

TW: Very distressing content Clip from Austrian TV report on Samuel, who developed severe ME/CFS following Covid and chose assisted suicide on his 22nd birthday. Includes a brief interview with him before his death. #MECFS #LongCovid

My writing software doesn't recognise the word 'mither'. How very dare it? #AmWriting

Update on Savannah’s case in The Times. She has severe ME/CFS, has lost 30kg and eaten nothing since January 18. Sonya Chowdhury, CEO of Action for ME, describes the situation as “appalling” and says she is very worried Savannah could die. archive.ph/J3Xv3

A metaphor for PEM. New short comic about ME. #Comics #MEcfs #Disability #DisabledArtists #pwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #GraphicMedicine

Don't miss this on Tuesday eve ONLINE - Morag's book is so brilliant and necessary - a vital amendment to so much walking lit - an intersectional feminist history of walking as creative practice, radical act and resistance, with a focus on queer, disabled & working-class lives. #BookSky #WalkingLit

CW Edited clip from an ORF report on the death of Samuel by assisted suicide. Highlights that many people don’t know about the illness, there are no effective treatments, there is a lack of care, services, financial aid and support for people with #MECFS in Austria.

ROAD TRIP (well, rail trip)! I've got a load of events set up around the launch of Noisy Valley and I'd love to see you at one of them. I'm listing them all in a newsletter to go out tomorrow, so do sign up for all the details on the where and when! mailchi.mp/3e30144be390...

Yesterday, we launched Brave New World? a ground-breaking report about the impact of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This major new study has been published in partnership with other creator-led organisations. buff.ly/vIuLqfn

NEW 🚨 A South London hospital is still putting severe ME patient Savannah's life at risk and a clinician who psychologises ME might be why. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

If someone is listing anti- all the isms apart from ableism, I'm unlikely to follow back. I'm disabled and fed up of the left eliding this. Intersectional everything here. #Disability #Ableism

There is a letter to send in this piece. Urgent! Please do if you can. A young woman's life is on the line, yet again, at the hands of the NHS. #MEcfs #Disability

We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.

Now is a good time to give your existing contracts a once over.   Check when your royalty statements and payments are due. If you have sub-licensing agreements, don’t forget to look at these too. They are often for a limited duration, so make a note of when the agreement expires.

Please subscribe to Alex Fitch's YouTube so that we can get Cartoon County livestreaming again. Making the Arts accessible is a worthy and important cause. I can't attend in-person events because I'm bedridden, so appreciate it. Thank you! #virtualEvents #Comics #Disability

Last day to vote in the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Awards. Some of these categories are *incredibly* tight. Last time I looked there was just one vote between the leading nominee and the two joint nominees trailing them.#BFAwards25 www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

🖼 Woodland floor with Snowdrops, Josef Lauer, C19th.

📌 ME/CFS Feed pinned post 📌 Finds keywords of #mecfs #cfs #MEScience ME/CFS and #MEAwareness bsky.app/profile/did:...

"We lack such treatment (for ME) not because #ME is some “weird” “mysterious” illness that cant be understood Its because our political medical & scientific institutions have chosen to make ME the lowest-funded illness relative to disease burden by a mile"Nick Joliat 👇 massmecfs.org/members/memb...

Good grief. Unrealistic expectations.

I wrote and illustrated my 240pp graphic memoir The Facts of Life over ten years with a concentrated period of two years working more than ft to do the hand-drawn artwork, book cover and hand lettering at the end of that period. I had other jobs and time off for illness within the time #BookSky

Just gonna pin this to the top of my account - with a reminder that pre-orders really help (bookshops order stock in if they see pre-orders are high). Coming out in May ‘26. Thank you! www.waterstones.com/book/noisy-v... #graphicnovels #books #rhondda #protest

Pictures that explain things. Trees in Winter (back endpapers) Artist: SR Badmin, 1963

Happy New Year for 2026. Did you know that snowdrops contain a natural antifreeze? They also contain an alkaloid called galantamine which is used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Available in my Redbubble shop. Link in biog. #HappyNewYear #Snowdrops #DisabledArtists #NewYear2026

Happy New Year for 2026. Did you know that snowdrops contain a natural antifreeze? They also contain an alkaloid called galantamine which is used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Available in my Redbubble shop. Link in biog. #HappyNewYear #Snowdrops #DisabledArtists #NewYear2026

I'm going to this online event - award ceremony for the first graphic novel competition @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social (My book The Facts of Life was shortlisted in this competition in 2012.) #BookSky #Comics www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-...

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

Happy Winter Solstice! A couple of digital snow studies. #Illustration #WinterSolstice #ArtSky #DisabledArtists

The creative nonfiction personal essay I'm working on at the moment has come to 6666 words. Is this auspicious or 10x devilry? Some editing needed! #AmWriting #WritingSky

The Labour government has been accused of a “truly horrifying” betrayal of disabled people after slashing an accessible housing target proposed by the last Conservative government. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-accus...

With all this awful news going on i wanna ask this question once again to fellow artists and general creatives. What got YOU into art? what sparked that motivation to start writing? what made you wanna pick up a camera and start taking pics? Like share with us your reasons.

Eugenics is the long & short position of this administration. #IllnessPolitics

If anyone's interested, I'm posting little films I make from bed on tiktok. Some of them go back to 2018 when I first became bedridden. @ BedscapePaula #MEcfs #Disability #Film #ChronicIllness #DisabledArtists

Important question I need answering for artistic purposes: Do ghosts cast shadows? #ArtSky #Ghosts #Illustration

Please sign and share to make healthcare settings safer for clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised and chronically ill people. Unless we want to live in a health supremacist society...? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... #ChronicIllness #Disability #PwME #LongCovid #Cancer #MEcfs

Using disability aids as jokes to make bad politicians look weak or ridiculous is ableist. Having to use a disability aid says nothing negative about strength of character, morals etc. Disability aids aren't bad, so no need to align them with dodgy politicians. #Disability #Politics

Oxaloacetate has been helping me as well, but the imoort duty came to about a third of the cost of the product this time. If I hadn't been bedridden I would have fallen over. It's already very difficult to afford.

It isn't that complicated, people.