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 ...⛔🤐

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...

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:

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/...

Untitled (Children’s Room), Private Rooms series Menno Aden, fine art pigment print, 2017 mennoaden.com #art #photography #architecture

polaroids by andrei tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky. Instant Light: Polaroids.

9. Stockdale Paradox: The optimal state of mind is neither optimism, which leaves you unprepared for adversity, nor pessimism, which destroys motivation, but optimistic pessimism: by preparing for the worst outcomes, you increase confidence in dealing with any outcome, and thus, you increase hope.

Rabindranath Tagore From Across the Dark (1937) #painting #landscapepainting

Absolutely charmed by these illustrations from Orlando the Marmalade Cat’s 1952 Seaside Holiday by Kathleen Hale. These photographs are from a just-landed modern facsimile reprint.

Went to an artist talk with Benjamin Phillips in Brighton last night. Been big fans of his work for years so it was great to hear about his drawing process and flip through his beautiful sketchbooks. Here are some of his illustrations. More stuff here: benjaminphillips.co.uk

The Parable of the Sower, Canterbury Cathedral #stainedglass

Anna is severely affected by ME/CFS and other illnesses and urgently needs help to escape domestic violence 👉 Please donate, share, or offer direct help now! #MEcfs #severeMEcfs

An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids! Please scroll to the end to copy/paste an email to NHS Trust Chief Executive! Please share! www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... #pwME #MECFS #SevereME

Now we need the professionals to step up - ones who left Anna in the too hard basket Naarm FDV and Disability supports, this is your time to step up and do your job: Contact Halcionandon at gmail dot com (non-professionals who can offer a room or support please are asked to do the same!)

Anna has just posted about her worsening situation. She needs out now. If you’re in Melbourne and can help in any way with advocacy or a room, please contact her directly at Halcionandon at gmail. Her Chuffed (where anyone can give) is below with more information.

Anna @halcionandon.bsky.social has met her first financial goal on chuffed, but now needs help from the people of Melbourne - she needs a room to move into and people to advocate for her If you can step up please email her directly Halcionandon at gmail dot com #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidAustralia

Afraid ppl will forget me. Picked lowest Chuffed goal bc thought nobody'd help, can’t escape on 5k in this economy. Raised to next. Sill need help finding housing, advocate, & daily admin. Pls ask around; many have spare rooms. Ppl help hard to find Don’t let me become a blue rose.🥺 #MutualAid

🖼️ painting titled "Pani od gwiazd" (Lady of the Stars) by Polish artist Monika Szpak.

I'm probably preaching to the converted, but I did a little video on why you shouldn't call ME/CFS 'chronic fatigue syndrome'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn41...

Please help me escape abuse. Anything helps. Info in Chuffed link. 💸Crowdfund: www.chuffed.org/project/1619... ☕️BMaC: buymeacoffee.com/Halcionandon 🎁Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/hz/wishlist/ls/1B9A74NSROTQZ ᯓ➤Beem: Halcionandon Please share. #MutualAidAustralia #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidMonday

Anna is suffering from severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and needs to get out of an abusive home. Please share and give if able. Extra ask for those in Australia (preferably Victoria) - Any help with housing, advocacy, or making necessary calls is also very appreciated. #MutualAid 💕💸

Please share wherever possible I am running myself into the ground with any energy trying to promote this. Please help I am running out of time. My health is declining rapidly & will result in death if I don’t escape, backed by my doctor. I can’t do it alone. Please share this

#Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape #Abuse – Time is Running Out! @phonakins.com kindly helped make a Chuffed ♥️ Please help: 🔄SHARE, 💬 COMMENT, 📝QUOTE &💸 GIVE if you can. Share on all social media platforms. chuffed.org/project/1619... #SevereME #MutualAid #Disability #MECFS #ChronicIllness

A 30 min video on my experience of being medically gaslit for the first 10 years of my illness. #ME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MedicalGaslighting www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPul...

Lara Hawthorne

The wonder of it!

Post a photo of a sculpture that takes your breath away. Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz.

Today, hundreds of millions face #MECFS & #LongCOVID without FDA-approved treatments. Until December 2, your support goes 3X further to advance critical research and bring us closer to answers. 💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.

Donations to OMF #LongCovid #MEcfs research are being tripled this November - please share 🌻

Berkeley's crowdfunding campaign for Trial By Error, which investigates problematic psycho-behavioral research involving ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc., has reached 98% of the goal, with one day remaining: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

2nd donation ✅ David Tuller DrPH has shown he has a: -good skill set for this type of work -good knowledge base from following the field closely for many years -an appetite as it can be very draining Proponents of exercise/psychologicalisation/etc are still around #MEcfs #LongCovid #CFS #PwME

For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

New Puffin Post acquisition. What can I say, I am powerless before the incredible art of Jill McDonald. I have a personal Puffin pusher and everything now, one who knows my proclivities, my weaknesses, my unappeasable appetite for 20th century illustration

Gorgeous early Jill McDonald illustrated primary education book with an equally lovely interior

🙏 Getting very close to £10k now with a couple of days left on original stretch target timescale 👍 We can start to give #pwME & #pwLC #Justice4ME

👉 Please share & donate if you can! Help crowdfund a legal case against the UK government for neglect of ME/cfs - only 8 days to go ✊ #MEcfs #LongCovid #JusticeforME

🔥♥️ Please help share the campaign. A specialist NHS service for everyone living with ME, including family carers, regardless of the severity or duration of the illness. Help nudge the total a tiny bit. Every little helps. Can we help reach £9K by Sun evening? 🙏 ➡️ Justice4ME.uk ⬅️ #pwME #Justice4ME

Last of a recent brilliant bundle of Puffin Post magazines. Part of my pleasure in collecting them is sharing them here & seeing others enjoy them too. Another glorious Jill McDonald illustration & a bright reminder that spring light always returns, as autumn dampens the air & lengthens the shadows

The weather here is very much for witches skidding sideways through the gloomy gales, so this Jill McDonald gorgeousness feels like just the right Puffin Post perfection for today

Another joyful Jill McDonald jewel. I constantly marvel at the motion she packed into her illustrations, a distinct sense of them being frames from animations. Always makes me wish such a thing existed. In a just, alternate universe there’s a lovingly crafted colourful caper on the SeeSaw schedules

In PMQs today, @joshnewburymp.bsky.social asked about EDS patients with neck instabilities who have to crowdfund surgeries abroad because there’s no help on the NHS for us. Mum has sent an email to him on my behalf to see if he can help. More info on my blog: www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2025/09/a-qu...

Puffin Post pairing, I am your wistful sommelier of nostalgic ephemera today

Cabaret

Puffin Post madcap mummers to gussy up the greyest, gloomiest, Sundayest of Sundays

From the Tumult of the World to the Silence of Paper Assoukrou Aké, acrylic on craft paper, blue masking tape, and a page from a mini encyclopedia published in 1906 under the British Colonial Empire, 2021 www.assoukrou-ake.com/galeries #art #collage

🔥 Please share - Very important care campaign for anyone with ME #pwME #pwLC ♥️💙🫂 "Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness" justice4me.uk

Dr Zeest Khan: The science behind plain water, salt water, and oral rehydration solutions (ORS)—from the World Health Organization’s formulation to Gatorade—and how to use each of them #LongCovid #MEcfs #POTS #Dysautonomia

Total Puffin Post paradise with the first of a few new acquisitions. As always Jill McDonald’s work is a colourful, capering, screwball 70s heaven

I’ve just donated to this worthy cause