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Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

Physios for ME co-founder Natalie Hilliard shares insights from physiotherapy for therapists and counsellors: an understanding of PEM, the challenges of trying to pace properly, and the impact of emotional exertion on people with ME. tinyurl.com/st7zy9vy

US researchers have found evidence of Bartonella or Babesia infection in 46% of people with ME/CFS in a small study. Both are transmitted primarily through ticks, fleas and lice, but also blood transfusions and organ transplants. This warrants further investigation. tinyurl.com/379b5h5h

A year to the day since Mandelson told the FT that their questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off." I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?

Thinking back over five years of me asking: what exactly is Mandelson’s role in this project? And the closest I ever got to an answer was people saying Yes it’s weird, somebody should totally look into that, but apparently nobody pressing them for an answer.

Trying to Tik-Tok with the kids.

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

Wes Streeting wants people to forget. Never let him forget.

Again we remind ourselves that the peaks of the UK media landscape are owned by people who know these people, & 99% of anything the general public ever learns about all this will be filtered by them.

There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit. Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.

“Chilling” is right.

This is essential reading for all policy makers - and it’s exactly what many of us have been warning about for years. Our current economic model is simply incompatible with a safe & secure future. We can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks

The gov. are reducing welfare costs so that the #Disabled can be supported into work? With more help offered to get a job and keep it? Whilst starving Access To Work of funds and causing applicants to wait 30 weeks to over a year. And cutting existing hours of support workers. Just cost cutting.

And if you’re a British citizen who is finding themselves Very Upset about all this, reminder that the right time to act is NOW, not later when all you can do is be sad about deportations. Respond to the consultation ASAP: vanessaganguin.com/news/how-to-...

This is the reality. The British state MILKS immigrants ruthlessly for money. Thousands and thousands of pounds. And then declares they're all dangerous spongers.

It’s the 317th anniversary of the first night of Appius and Virginia, by John Dennis, at Drury Lane. It’s not what you might call a widely remembered piece of theatre, but the play did give rise to one of the best known phrases in the English language. Well, according to legend, anyway... 🧵

between all the bookstores he put out of business and now the books section of the WaPo, you could make a case that Jeff Bezos is the greatest enemy of literacy there has ever been.

Fifteen years ago on this very day, I made this low quality photoshop of a photo I took in 2002, and somehow it became a meme. You’re welcome.

thanks to @londoncentric.media for featuring this bit of news because i haven't seen it anywhere else and it bothers me a lot that i haven't news.met.police.uk/news/man-arr...

Every time you are eating a babybel, or some laughing cow cheese, you are nom nom nomming on something born in the scars of war, and the resilience and grim determination of France.

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

Out of nowhere, I was struck by the question, ‘Lembit Öpik… what was his fucking deal again?’ And was rewarded beyond my wildest dreams.

🚨Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost about $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year. Actually, he could have ensured there were no staff cuts for the next decade and he'd still have net worth of 249B. Thank you Lizzie Johnson.

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Another comic I never bothered posting This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all

This is brilliant news, and also shows why the Labour Party wants to abolish most trials by jury, and how important it is they don't get away with it:

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

I understand the necessity of parental rights, but when did we decide that anyone under eighteen doesn't get to have rights? When I was seven, I think I had the right not to die of measles. When I was twelve, I think I had the right not to be permanently disabled by polio.

Such an incredibly classy response from Melinda French Gates on allegations against ex-husband, Bill. That she’s been more grilled on Epstein than any of the men accused of abuse says so much. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There is a huge gap between doctors' gut feelings and the reality of people affected by #MECFS. Studies from 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭, and 🇦🇹 show that late diagnoses, psychological misattribution, inadequate support, and high levels of dissatisfaction are more the rule than the exception.

Catch and kill

TFW I see Long Covid researchers, doctors (or clinics!) that don't or won't mask.

Final bit of bovine war history for you today: The last known casualty of the WW1 Battle of Messines happened on 17th June 1955. On that day, one of the two 'lost' 600 tonne mines beneath the battlefield exploded, taking with it about 250ft of hill top and one very surprised cow.

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

When she caught it (again) my colleague said she was frustrated but only slightly and with a sigh she explained that everything happens for a reason, and it took all my self control not to reply: that in this case the reason was that she refused to take any precautions.

Kyiv, 21st century. The center of Europe. In hundreds of buildings, there is no heating due to russian attacks. A mother warms her child with hot water poured into plastic bottles. This is a reality no baby deserves. Help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

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...

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

F Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, in The Last Tycoon, that there are no second acts in American Lives. If ever anyone proved that wrong, Patricia Hearst did – and, indeed, continues to. Obviously, you know the most prominent bit of her story, which began on this day in 1974... 🧵

Can you scoop out your period all at once? Should you? No, and regardless of what Reddit and TikTok tell you, absolutely NOT. Please don't do that. Here's a quick fact check on a misinformation-riddled viral trend...

Today is #NationalSweaterDay so let's enjoy 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' painted by #Orkney-born artist Stanley Cursiter in 1923. Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976) was Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1930-1948 and was appointed the King's Painter and Limner in Scotland.

this is always the thing that makes me most emotional. yes copy us, yes spin-off, yes you can do it too and you can kick ass at it. we are not special, we just have zero impulse control and a lot of adhd so we always go 0 to 1384 🤣

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Vienna – After a publicized assisted suicide of a 22-year-old #ME/CFS patient in Austria, demands for better medical and social care as well as training and research on the multisystem disease are again being made. Palliative physicians and experts also demanded more understanding of the needs of

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because these people will have been VERY cherry picked. #disability #mecfs #disabled

Just past halfway! Yay! Thank you so much ❤️

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight