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👋 Illustrator-on-hold,
#LongCovid
(COVID-induced
#POTS
/
#ME
) London, UK
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
11 days ago
Can people PLEASE repost or quote my pinned post? 🙏🤞🥺 I’m getting too sick to promote my crowdfund. My bloods show my 6th Covid infection from March is still active! I now have Costochondritis & pericarditis. My abuse is worsening. I’m unsafe here. Please help.
chuffed.org/project/1619...
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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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Cort Johnson
14 days ago
Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses
www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06...
#MECFS
#longCOVID
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Hitting the Target? ME/CFS and long COVID T-Cell Researchers on Uncovering the Precise Drivers of the Illnesses - Health Rising
Dr. Selin and company believe they can solve one of the key mysteries of ME/CFS and long COVID: exactly why the T-cells are getting pummeled.
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/09/t-cell-long-covid-me-cfs/
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
16 days ago
It’s really hard to keep interacting so I have an online presence & people don’t forget I’m still (sorta) alive. Gotta crowdfund & I don’t have the energy on a team of 1. Got a laundry list of
#ChronicIllness
diagnoses.
#SevereME
on its own is enough. Yeah. I’m exhausted. I just want to escape. 🥺
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Prof Christina Pagel
19 days ago
🧵A Covid thread - but a good news one! I’m barely writing about Covid anymore because there is barely any Covid to write about. I thought it was worth celebrating this in this thread. 1/7
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Todd
over 2 years ago
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1945). Film image from
thecinemaarchives.com
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helephant
about 1 year ago
John Craxton (British, 1922-2009), Taverna by the sea, Poros, 1953. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, 60.5 x 48 cm.
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Richard Morris
over 1 year ago
Rejected for military service late in 1941, soon after his 19th birthday, John Craxton turned to the drawing and painting of poets and shepherds sheltering from a world of turmoil. 'Sheltering Shepherd,' would be repeated for Geoffrey Grigson's 'The Poet's Eye,' for 1944.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
about 1 month ago
👇 If you can, please help. I need people to help the most, even just a retweet helps to keep me visible. I need to escape ASAP.
bsky.app/profile/halc...
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Adam
about 1 month ago
“The injustice of it, I couldn’t believe it.” Former Team GB rower
@oonaghcousins.bsky.social
talking about the
#MECFS
“scandal” where patients were told they were deconditioned and needed Graded Exercise and CBT. It is the “opposite of what they needed” and that legacy still runs “super deep”.
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Dr Elisa Perego
about 2 months ago
#LongCovid
advocates demand biological research into the disease at a conference in Paris
@winslowsp.bsky.social
thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/l...
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Long COVID advocates demand biological research at a conference in Paris - The Sick Times
We spoke with the two organizations behind the viral moment where advocates interrupted speakers at the Long COVID EU Project event.
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/long-covid-advocates-demand-biological-research-at-a-conference-in-paris/
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Steve Fifield
about 2 months ago
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-dwp-r...
“DWP admitted there was a risk it had become “unintentionally desensitized” to such failures, or “process non-compliance” as it is described in the paper.”
#pwME
#pwLC
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Secret DWP report reveals how multiple errors led to claims ‘spiralling out of control’… and claimant deaths
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted in a secret paper that the cumulative effect of multiple errors or “inaction” on benefit claims caused situations to “spiral out of control for v…
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-dwp-report-reveals-how-multiple-errors-led-to-claims-spiralling-out-of-control-and-claimant-deaths/
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Jennie Jacques
about 2 months ago
ME Awareness
@davetuller1.bsky.social
has spent years fighting for scientific integrity & exposing misinformation surrounding ME. Independent voices matter. So does truth in medicine.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
DONATE here 🔻
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/4972...
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UK News 🇬🇧
about 2 months ago
Nationwide could have first customer on board for nearly 25 years James Sherwin-Smith will be up for election after securing more than 250 nominations to run alongside existing directorsNationwide building society could have a customer on its board for the first time in nearly a quarter of a...
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Nationwide could have first customer on board for nearly 25 years
James Sherwin-Smith will be up for election after securing more than 250 nominations to run alongside existing directors
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/27/nationwide-first-customer-on-board-nearly-25-years
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The Color Archive
about 2 months ago
Telepathic Alien Ghost Lauriston Avery, mixed media on canvas, 2023
www.lauristonavery.com
#art
#sculpture
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The Color Archive
about 2 months ago
The Tears of Eros Paolo Piscitelli, Kenian black soapstone, 2025
artpaolo.com/work/small-c...
#art
#sculpture
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David Tuller
about 2 months ago
I am very touched that Berkeley's crowdfunder for Trial By Error has now received more than 500 donations. If you'd like to support my work exposing bogus research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc, here's how:
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49720
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Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc
Help UC Berkeley raise $75,000 for the project: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME and ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. Your gift will make a difference!
https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49720
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Steve Fifield
about 2 months ago
#pwME
#pwLC
🔥 Justice4ME have posted an update on their Crowd Justice page and Sarah Boothby has shared extremely encouraging details about exactly what's happening below 👍 🙏 💙
#Justice4ME
➡️
Justice4ME.uk
to support / donate, please 🙏
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
about 2 months ago
Does
#MutualAid
exist anymore? Crowdfunding stalled. Too sick to stay visible? People too broke? If you’re reading please share pinned post! Help if able. Room or granny flat? Board neg. Land for trailer/ cabin? LMK. Dying, Dr backed!
#DisabilityMA
💕💸
#MADBoost
💸❤️
bsky.app/profile/halc...
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
2 months 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
2 months 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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helephant
Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓
2 months ago
Two collaged monoprints
#michelebrownart
#michelebrownearthpainter
#landscapeart
#collage
#monoprint
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏
3 months 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
3 months 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.🙏
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
6 months ago
Joseph Cornell. Constellation (Project for a Christmas card). 1953
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skeletori amos 💀🌈
11 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
8 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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3 months ago
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Jenny Rowbory
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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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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
4 months ago
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Rabih Alameddine
4 months ago
Helen Frankenthaler, Provincetown, 1964
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The Color Archive
4 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
4 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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4 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/
4 months ago
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Cort Johnson
4 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
10 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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4 months ago
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Robbert Leusink
4 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
4 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
4 months ago
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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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