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👋 Illustrator-on-hold,
#LongCovid
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#POTS
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#ME
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
5 days ago
Not sure of the
#ChronicIllness
community here but need some help. Thanks to all the sweating I’ve done during Covid, I now have an outbreak of keratosis pilaris on my arms. What do people use for this? It normally it calms down alone but not calming this time. Help appreciated.
#EhlersDanlos
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sarah boothby
11 days ago
justice4me.uk
call for evidence - time sensitive!! If you know anyone who has severe/very severe ME, or severe/very severe Long Covid, in England or Wales please ask them to fill out the form and send it back to
[email protected]
by Friday 17 April 2026. 1/3
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NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
https://justice4me.uk
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Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓
12 days ago
Two collaged monoprints
#michelebrownart
#michelebrownearthpainter
#landscapeart
#collage
#monoprint
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
13 days ago
Need to rest & recover from
#Covid
but bills & problems don’t disappear while sick. Read my story. Help me escape abuse. I don’t know how long I’ve got to live.
chuffed.org/project/61937-help-anna-escape
#MutualAidAustralia
#HelpSky
#DisabilityMA
💕💸
#MADBoost
#MutualAid
💸❤️
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
https://chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape
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Rose Ruane
14 days ago
Anyway, it’s clear this guy turns up to alleviate the tedium as their crowns are in the air amongst his zip zap of joyful chaos
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
21 days ago
It’s Easter Weekend🐣 Please help fund new life free of abuse & neglect. Details in fund. I don’t want to die. Thanks❤️ 💸Fund:
chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape
☕️BMaC:
buymeacoffee.com/Halcionandon
🎁Amazon:
amazon.com.au/hz/wishlist/ls/1B9A74NSROTQZ
ᯓ➤Beem:@halcionandon
#MutualAid
💸💕
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
https://www.chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape
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Cort Johnson
about 1 month ago
he Massive Sequence ME/CFS and Long COVID Project Aims to Find Precise Drivers of These Illnesses
#MECFS
#longCOVID
www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/03...
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The Massive Sequence ME/CFS and Long COVID Project Aims to Find Precision Drivers of These Illnesses - Health Rising
The massive Sequence ME/CFS and long COVID whole genome sequencing project aims to find the precision drivers of these illnesses
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/03/16/whole-genome-me-cfs-long-covid-sequence/
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Prof Christina Pagel
27 days ago
🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
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Paul Welsh
4 months ago
Joseph Cornell. Constellation (Project for a Christmas card). 1953
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skeletori amos 💀🌈
9 months ago
Artists I Love, 8/1 (A little early) Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a pop artist, designer, teacher, and former religious sister. She created serigraphs, which involve screen printing, and her work usually incorporated themes of social justice and Christianity.
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Guggenheim Sculpture
6 months ago
Chinese Dog by Eduardo Paolozzi
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5076
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Please share or donate if you can - see Anna's post below for details of her crowdfund
#LongCovid
#MEcfs
#MutualAid
#MutualAidAustralia
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Jenny Rowbory
about 1 month ago
I need just 400 people to help save my life! It’s 40 days until I turn 40. NEW BLOG POST:
www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2026/03/40-d...
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Rose Ruane
about 1 month ago
Painting created c.1967, by Muriel Lewis, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live. Her illustrative work features faceless figures & depicts life inside & outside the psychiatric system; including Surrey villages, romantic trysts & scenes from home & her past
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Long Covid Support
about 1 month ago
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Long Covid AGM is taking place this month. 📅 Tuesday 24 March 2026
#LongCovid
#APPG
#APPGonLongCovid
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Greens Against Covid
about 1 month ago
On
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
, We recognise that in its seventh year, Covid continues to devastate lives.
#LongCovid
#EveryHeartbeatCounts
#LongCovidStandUp
#fundlongcovidresearch
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
@carladenyer.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
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#LongCovidInternationalAwarenessDay
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Covid Support Community is a managed safe space for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Including those with Long Covid and suffering from associated, loss and grief, with a variety of Courses, Live Events, Groups, and much more – all entirely free to access
#LongCovid
#POTS
#MEcfs
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Covid Support Community
Our Member Led Covid Support Community is a managed safe space for those affected by Covid-19, including those with Long Covid and suffering from trauma, loss and grief. We have a variety of Courses, ...
https://community.covidaidcharity.org/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzUyNDI3AAGnPxO2ostmpPpIM8ttuVHZ-FcEj4eqMs4jXGNS4BSmhCfDNEMn03pxeDdm7so_aem_1kOOqoOK0_VqOrWL2lwoMA
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Rabih Alameddine
2 months ago
Helen Frankenthaler, Provincetown, 1964
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Roger Kuhn
about 2 months ago
Red Travels Helen Frankenthaler, acrylic and marker on canvas, 1971
www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/artworks/pai...
#art
#painting
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Simon Knott
about 1 year ago
St Christopher and the Christchild by Trena Cox, 1927 in Chester Cathedral.
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Jenny Rowbory
about 2 months ago
First update of 2026 (!), new poems and fundraising update:
www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2026/03/firs...
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First update of 2026, new poems, and fundraising update - Jenny Rowbory
It’s a bit late, but Happy New Year! I have something exciting to share with you today. First though, apologies for the lack of updates; it’s been a hard and
https://www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2026/03/first-update-of-2026-new-poems-and-fundraising-update/
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#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD
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about 2 months ago
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London UK: CureME are still looking for people with Long Covid as well as healthy control volunteers 👇 UK ME/CFS Biobank HHV-6 Study: Recruitment in its Final Phase
#LongCovid
#MEcfs
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UK ME/CFS Biobank HHV-6 Study: Recruitment in its Final Phase - The ME Association
The HHV6 study, which is looking at the association between symptom exacerbation […]
https://meassociation.org.uk/2026/02/uk-me-cfs-biobank-hhv-6-study-recruitment-in-its-final-phase/
about 2 months ago
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Cort Johnson
about 2 months ago
Is the OMF’s ME/CFS BioQuest Study the Study We’ve All Been Waiting For?
#MECFS
www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/02...
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Is the OMF's ME/CFS BioQuest Study the Study We've All Been Waiting For? - Health Rising
The Open Medicine Foundation's huge Bioquest project has the potential to transform ME/CFS patients experience with doctors, dramatically enhance research and get drug companies finally interested in ...
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/02/28/omf-bioquest-study-chronic-fatigue-me-cfs/
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John McCafferty
8 months ago
A Mother Cleaning Her Child's Hair, Known as 'Mother's Job', Pieter de Hooch, c. 1660 - c. 1661 (Rijksmuseum) The mother thoroughly examines her child for lice. In the front right is a "kakstoel", a high chair with built-in potty.
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Anna is still short of her fundraising target and needs help to escape abuse and neglect Please donate, share or offer help if you can
#MutualAid
#MutualAidAustralia
#MEcfs
#POTS
#LongCovid
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Robbert Leusink
about 2 months ago
Jacob van Ruisdael gave two-thirds of every canvas to sky In Netherlands' Golden Age art market, where portraits and still lifes paid, this was a commercial gamble John Constable studied him William Turner copied him The Barbizon School built on him He never left the Netherlands
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Long Covid Advocacy
about 2 months ago
📚💙 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! 👇
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Endless Horizons Book Club | Join & Read on Fable
Join Endless Horizons on Fable. Connect with readers, discuss books, and explore curated reading lists.
https://fable.co/club/endless-horizons-with-fantasy-465654853635
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Covid Support Community is a managed safe space for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Including those with Long Covid and suffering from associated, loss and grief, with a variety of Courses, Live Events, Groups, and much more – all entirely free to access
#LongCovid
#POTS
#MEcfs
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Covid Support Community
Our Member Led Covid Support Community is a managed safe space for those affected by Covid-19, including those with Long Covid and suffering from trauma, loss and grief. We have a variety of Courses, ...
https://community.covidaidcharity.org/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzUyNDI3AAGnPxO2ostmpPpIM8ttuVHZ-FcEj4eqMs4jXGNS4BSmhCfDNEMn03pxeDdm7so_aem_1kOOqoOK0_VqOrWL2lwoMA
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
over 1 year ago
Sunlight falls through windows, adding to the geometric pattern on floor. A woman is playing music. And a man listens from the shadowed bed. Painted by Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
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Prof Danny Altmann
about 2 months ago
Thanks for getting in touch. We are indeed particularly interested at present in people able to get to us for a blood test. Also, please bring your ‘healthy control’ friends. Contact:
[email protected]
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Harebell
2 months ago
Absolutely shattered even after an early night. I'm hoping a bacon roll will rejuvenate me. Have a pleasant Sunday. A favourite photo from 2023. Chapel in Brittany.
#stainedglasssunday
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Dobrochna Kołoczek
2 months ago
#melbourne
#australia
#auspol
#disability
#accomodation
#flatmate
#housing
#housingneeded
#mutualaid
#chronicillness
#domesticviolence
#disabilityaustralia
#disabledvoice
@australia.theguardian.com
@6newsau.bsky.social
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An🌿na
2 months ago
© Saul Leiter
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Long Covid Advocacy
2 months ago
🎉 Some Good News with the launch of SEQUENCE ME & Long COVID. Led by Ponting & Birney, this bold study is exactly the direction research needs to take. More details & donation link on Action for ME website: 🖇️
tinyurl.com/mr96dxj4
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
2 months ago
It’s Lunar New Year! 🎉🥳🐴 Help me escape daily
#abuse
from dark triad
#Narcissist
(psychiatrist diagnosed)
#SignalBoost
#MutualAid
#HelpSky
#FundSky
#UrgentNeed
#HelpFolksLive2026
#MutualAidAustralia
#MutualAidMonday
Basic need: safe house, friend to help. Paid. Negotiable.
#Melbourne
#Australia
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A. Torch
over 1 year ago
My first time seeing Ensor’s, “Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889”. Getty collection. I’ve studied this painting in art history classes and have taught this painting but to see it in person…the scale is shocking. What a stir this caused in his day. Christ as a Revolutionary. A socialist.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
2 months ago
Help me escape
#abuse
for
#ValentinesDay
🥀
#CoerciveControl
#Neglect
Help me find a safe home.
#MutualAid
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Eric Orchard
2 months ago
I first read Mervyn Peake in my late teens and it completely rewired my brain. Revisiting it is always amazing.
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Lizzy
2 months ago
My consultants are talking with my MP today about
#SevereME
provision etc because many of our situations are so desperate, there is nothing on offer, no guidance for them, no treatments for us. @wesstreeting It HAS to change. Funding research, and funding a specialist service will save lives.
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Tessa Munt MP 🔶
3 months ago
Savannah Victora-May has been in hospital for 11 months with severe ME; a dearth of specialist treatment has contributed to her situation. The Govt’s Final Delivery Plan committed to exploring a specialised service for very severe ME. *What* is happening to prevent more cases such as Savannah’s?
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Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out! 👉Please continue to contribute to her crowdfund👈 What now? - Anna needs a safe place in the Melbourne area. She can pay $250wk - Someone to advocate for her and make phone calls and do admin
#MEcfs
#SevereME
#domesticabuse
#MutualAid
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
https://chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape?utm_campaign=campaign&utm_id=161937&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=chuffedreferral
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐
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Adam
3 months ago
A new go fund me for Savannah has been set up to cover medical costs and ME-literate nursing support. I have just donated.
www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...
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Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce
Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital
https://www.gofundme.com/f/severemergencysavannah-save-severe-me-savannah
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C.H. Romatowski
3 months ago
Long Covid friends— A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled. The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed! More info:
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Sign the Petition
Advocate for Maryland HB 0027 for Long COVID R&D
https://www.change.org/p/advocate-for-maryland-hb-0027-for-long-covid-r-d?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=c1f2ac20-f3fc-11f0-b5a1-c5e2eeef9276
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Adam
3 months ago
New article on Savannah’s case. Queen Elizabeth Hospital has declined to take up Sonya Chowdhury’s offer to advocate. Savannah remains without nutrition. Fluids restored after pressure, pain meds reduced, and she is still at serious risk.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Roger Kuhn
3 months ago
Untitled (Children’s Room), Private Rooms series Menno Aden, fine art pigment print, 2017
mennoaden.com
#art
#photography
#architecture
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✨steph ✨🏳️🌈
5 months ago
polaroids by andrei tarkovsky
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