A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

1) 🇬🇧 Good news from the UK: the government is investing 4.75 million pounds in the study "Sequence ME & Long Covid" It will allow the sequencing of 6000 ME/CFS samples previously collected through DecodeME. The project is led by the University of Edinburgh and Action for ME.

What's this? Accusations of payments (bribes?) being taken by Johnson and Farage to 'rig' elections? Sounds VERY serious. Can we move on from gossip to look at this REALLY serious story and ensure EVERY LAST DETAIL is fully examined to find out the full truth?

DecodeME has received £4.75M in UK government funding to sequence 6,000 DNA samples. This is phase 2 of a wider project, to sequence 9,000 #MECFS samples and 9,000 #LongCovid samples. Full article in The Times: archive.ph/2026.05.11-2...

Why wouldn't you support a government that has done all of this and more in less than 2 years? Lifting 550,000 children out of poverty, increasing employment rights, nationalising rail, improving renters rights, allowing for the public ownership of bus companies alongside more local oversight, 1/n

1) An analysis of rare DNA variants by AstraZeneca using the UK Biobank showed that people who self-reported having ME/CFS, had more rare DNA variants that disrupted the gene BTN2A1. This gene also came up in the common DNA variants analysed by DecodeME.

Wes Streeting wants GPs to stop writing so many sick notes and send people to the gym. Worth remembering Brynmor John MP had #MECFS and died on Westminster Bridge in 1988 after exercising in the House of Commons gym. He had been advised to exercise his way back to fitness.

The second image pretty much sums it up indeed... 😵‍💫

“Solicited adverse reactions were more frequent with mRNA-1010 than with the standard-dose comparator” Why? Who is susceptible to these AE? Understanding who is at risk and why is vital to make these vaccines even safer. Any AE is detrimental to vaccine uptake.

"Majority of voters say welfare system is too easy to abuse" [Times] Majority of voters they asked have clearly never tried to get welfare

Proteomic discoveries in hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome reveal insights into disease pathophysiology October 2025 Griggs, Daylor, Petrucci et al academic.oup.com/immunohorizo... #EDS #hEDS #Hypermobility #HSD #Research #Science #Proteomics #Zebras #NEISvoid #Immunology

If the UK were a US state, how would it rank? It depends entirely on what you measure! Fascinating table showing a startlingly different picture depending on the choice of metric. Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/diogo-...

Has Richard Tice resigned from his front bench & deputy leader positions in Reform yet? It's a week since controversy over his unpaid tax came to light. It is way more serious than anything related to Angela Rayner. He called for her to go. But he remains in place. Why won't Reform take action?

Incredible really.

Fun fact: #ME is not even NAMED in the list 😂 I mean, there is lack of prestige and then there is us ☠️🤡 We don't deserve an entry even when studying 'desprestiged' conditions. I mean, some days, all you can do is laugh at how ridiculous the #GreatestMEdicalScandal is.

Neuropsychiatric features of Long COVID in older adults & the potential association with neuroinflammation: Preliminary observations in a small cohort pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41985377/ "persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms could potentially be associated with chronic neuroinflammation"

From Greece Association of ADIPOQ rs1501299 with long-COVID syndrome: a single-center cross-sectional study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid

We've known the gut-brain axis is a key underpinning of Parkinson's disease. Today, for the 1st time, a gut microbiome signature denoting risk found in healthy individuals with genetic predisposition nature.com/articles/s41...

From Italy Immune correlates underlying small fiber neuropathy presenting as vaccine-associated post-acute SARS- coronavirus syndrome www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid

“This failure of biological recovery does not occur in healthy controls, deconditioned people, or in other chronic diseases, including heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and multiple sclerosis. It is not fatigue. Rather, it is failed metabolic recovery.”

Well done Labour! IMF hails UK's budget deficit improvement, which fell from 6.1% of GDP in 2024 to 5.4% in 2025. The IMF is forecasting that the UK’s annual deficit will drop to 3.9% of GDP this year, and continue falling until 2031 when it will be 1.6% of GDP, the second-lowest in the G7.

Resistance to local anesthesia (seen) in people with the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes presenting for dental surgery 2019 Schubart, Schaefer, Janicki et al buff.ly/2wEJ4co #EDS #hEDS #Hypermobility #HSD #fibro #Fibromyalgia #NEISvoid #MedTwitter #Dentistry #Dentists

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social For every five women living with #ME there is only one man. No ME specialists in the UK, no training in medical schools. The lifetime prevalence of ME/CFS for English females may be as high as 0.92% This is misogyny, it’s been going on for decades.

Woman With 3 Autoimmune Diseases Enters Remission After Immune 'Reset' : ScienceAlert share.google/3z3UEjnl7a8M...

They also didn’t account for a stupid, dumbed-down electorate voting a convicted felon, sexual abuser & adjudicated rapist BACK into office.

A large chunk of my therapy sessions are processing bad doctors appointments. My therapist says this is common among her chronically ill or currently ill patients.

Incredible picture: Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA

A UK man with ME is fundraising for SequenceME, a deeper look at the DecodeME samples (whole-genome sequencing study). www.justgiving.com/page/gregsan... Screenshot is extract from his story where he argues there has been a lack of investment in research #MEcfs #PwME #ME #MyalgicE

This is good news. I've told people before that the Tories signed us up to a multi-year contract and you cannot just end it. But it looks like there could be a clause in that contract to end it early and the time has now been reached to see if it can be used!

One of the key revelations of the Epstein documents from the UK perspective is the strange plot to topple (and that's the word they use) the Tory government of Theresa May. Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson were at the core of it. Here's an excellent recap of the whole sordid scheme.

1) 🇩🇪 This German study found that Long Covid patients (n= 128) had less circulating, cell-free mitochondrial DNA than recovered controls (n = 100).

It is getting hard to keep up with the remarkable progress for engineering immune cells in vivo—in the body—which is going to change the way to deal with some refractory cancers and autoimmune diseases from today www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Los Angeles jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and Google over her childhood addiction to social media. A panel of jurors found Meta & Google intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the mental health of a 20 yr old woman

146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.

'Long COVID antibodies induce persistent pain-like symptoms in mice' 'This provides evidence for a potential causal role of autoantibodies in Long Covid. These findings open the door to the development of targeted antibody-based therapies for Long COVID..' www.news-medical.net/news/2026032...

Insightful new work on the genetic architectures of brain-related traits, by @huishengzhu.bsky.social @yuvalsim.bsky.social @jeffspence.github.io @jkpritch.bsky.social, showing that “the genetic architectures of complex traits are shaped by the tissues through which these traits are mediated” 🧪🧬

This may be well-known in the world of Long Covid patients but it's now to me so I share it Teams in the Netherlands found that auto-antibodies could be implicated in developing LC It would be great to get to the root of this mysterious illness... www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

I remain surprised that, despite this bias being well-documented in the literature, not a single study so far that looks at vax induced illness or mortality signal has actively sought to correct for the bias And so we have another merry-go-round of unbaked claims ... Sigh END

"Autoantibodies implicated as drivers of long COVID in new study" "What is really striking," say both co-leads of the study, "is that three independent research groups have recently reported similar findings..." medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03...

The endless exhaustion and frustration of having to explain #ME and PEM to health professionals who are not convinced is heartbreaking and aggravating beyond belief. They should know, they should be disturbed and interested enough to get themselves informed and then help us. Act please!

That people on all "sides" abuse us, whether they use us as fodder for their narrative or to sell us their "protocol", or call us misinformation.

Today is my 5 year anniversary of taking a vaccine that changed my life forever. Half a decade! It's always a bit mixed. 🧵 (With a poem at the end in case that tempts you to read on 😆🎣)

Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice www.nature.com/articles/d41...