Only 227 NHS workers have even done the INTRODUCTION to ME course??

I LOVE the exoskeleton on this thing!

Tell me you didn't read Redwall as a child without telling me you didn't read Redwall as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...

I don't understand cats. I see these cats every day. One or two of them sleep on my bed most nights. I know everything about them. I also hate boring stuff and I crave novelty. Relationships sometimes fall apart when I find a new shiny hobby. But literally every time I see one of my cats? JOY

Morning.

OK. Brace yourself for the most delicious ancient Egyptian hippo. Just lovely. Quite old. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-obje...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this female peregrine falcon shake The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨 This video is NOT in slow motion! Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶

Is McSweeney a hydra?

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

OH I WANT THAT MIDDLE ONE SO MUCH (except it's silk). French, late C19.

Is he frying a banana with the skin on in that picture?! I need answers!

There's been a very upsetting update to Savannah's case - they found a hospice that would take her but it then changed its mind because of her care needs, and the hospital is still intransigent 😐

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

The Swiss have had references to William Tell on their uniforms. How is this different?

POTS review: ‘Patients who have been inappropriately labelled with psychiatric diagnoses throughout their diagnostic journey of many years can describe the effect of being believed as “lifechanging”’ www.heartlungcirc.org/article/S144...

Yes, in art there's always the paradox that the richer you are the more likely you are to receive expensive art schooling, but the less you have to say. Poor people do have the advantage of expressing something worth hearing. A machine by definition has nothing to say.

If you haven't done it yet, I'm begging you to look at the Norwegian Curling team. They always have the most incredible game uniforms.

Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines.

Amazing. Looks much better from the back than the front, but perhaps that's a feature, not a bug.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

⚡️ Moldovan president rejects Nobel Peace Prize nomination, says Ukrainian POWs deserve it instead. "Today, I was watching Ukrainian (prisoners of war) who returned home from Russia, and these are the people who deserve the Peace Prize," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said.

sittin outside and a bird just shit on my laptop and phone. work is now over.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I have made... a mistake. Each auction lot had 8-12 photos, so I assumed that was the number of pieces in the lot. It was merely a sample. Each lot contains 100-ish pieces. I won three lots.

Maybe disabled chronically ill people like us were put on the earth to defeat energy vampires Since we have negative amounts of energy, an energy vampire attack would drain them and they'd succumb

In case nobody has told you yet today: 1. You are allowed to rest. 2. Your pain is real. 3. Wombats are the only animals that poop in perfect cubes and they stack them like little brown bricks to mark territory. 4. You are not a burden.

New Survey now out: experiences of people with ME and Long Covid with hyperbaric oxygen / oxygen therapy. Please share widely. For all the info and survey link, head on over to www.physiosforme.com/o2survey

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

French channel TF1 shows an An-28 passenger plane, armed with miniguns, shooting down Shahed drones over Ukraine. The aircraft's crew, consisting of civilian volunteers, has shot down nearly 150 UAVs in total. www.tf1info.fr/internationa...

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

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People, as a whole, do not understand that AI is not a search engine or source of truth. It's a stochastic parrot.

The amount of delicious stuff that assails you from #FoodSky becomes a problem when you can't eat solid food.

Tapati has just started, a festival done in Rapa Nui that celebrates their culture and ancestors. And because of that I'm going to talk about one of the most controversial items currently in the British Museum, the moai known as "Hoa Hakananai'a" (that can be translated as "Stolen Friend") 🔽🧵

Retired former IDF chief, Moshe 'Bogie' Ya'alon, accuses Israel of 'Jewish supremacy' and having become 'Judeo-Nazis' www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Update (Feb 3) from Team Karen Gordon. Karen has now been in Conquest hospital in East Sussex for 2 years and 1 month. Karen has been very unwell with a severe infection/s for almost a month. #SevereME #VerySevereME www.change.org/p/save-karen...

This is very important to a very small group of desperately ill people. So please help me reach them and RT. Survival Diet "Can I get IV feeds/fluid at home?" open.substack.com/pub/undercla... #IBD #LongCovid #ME #Diet (It might be a tough read, but I hope it helps)

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Well, I would criticise Lord Mandelson, but two and a half years ago, a UK government official emailed me to tell me that I can't criticize government officials on social media, for a period going back five years. So. I have to wait a bit. (You think I'm kidding. The UK government told me that)

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Hey #MedSky, have you ever treated someone with ME/CFS? If so, your input is sought on this survey!

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

So everywhere? lol

Basically, any score greater than 11 on the CFQ means "I am getting worse". How do you compare a score of 30 at baseline - "I am much much worse" - with a score of 25 at endpoint - "I am much worse". Much worse compared to *when*?

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour's changes to immigration rules, including potentially applying them retroactively, would be some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies in decades. They're the hostile environment on speed. This is pure cruelty as policy, with absolutely no merit to them archive.today/2026.02.03-2...

American wanker kept his Irish boyfriend around for long enough to renovate a $4.3m flat then had him deported to get all the sale cash for himself.

Honest question. Is the list of rich people not on the Epstein list shorter than the list of rich people who are?

The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices. What a way to leave X.