the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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Bat!

A small red cup shaped mushroom on an old log, with an ivy covered wall behind.

Scarlet Elf Cup

Today is Long Covid Awareness Day.

Long Covid is not over - especially for healthcare workers.

They were there for us. Today, we are here for them.

#LongCovidAwarenessDay #SafeAir4All

Read more: shh-uk.org/working-i...

Key text in the middle: How serious a problem is Long Covid? How bad can it be? Top: Image: Greens Against Covid logo (a picture of the Covid virus in white with a X through it surrounded by the Green Party of England and Wales petals) + text “Greens Against Covid”. #LongCovidAwarenessDay. The Long Covid Awareness Day ribbon in teal and grey. Background colours: Fair Green and shades of teal, green and grey. Imprint: Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

Key text in the middle: “As a healthy 39 year old woman I was reassured that Covid was not a risk to me. What no one ever mentions is that it can make you chronically ill & wheelchair bound. The Greens are the ONLY party with a long covid policy.” Anne-Marie. Top: Image: Greens Against Covid logo (a picture of the Covid virus in white with a X through it surrounded by the Green Party of England and Wales petals) + text “Greens Against Covid”. #LongCovidAwarenessDay. The Long Covid Awareness Day ribbon in teal and grey. Background colours: Fair Green and shades of teal, green and grey. Imprint: Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

Key text in the middle: “I’m a witness to lives devastated by Long Covid. Covid remains ndiscriminate, regardless of your passions and life missions. While Covid’s bodily damage is often quiet until it’s too late, the Green Party’s actions won’t be. This party’s Long Covid policy remains the only one in the running.” Georgia Leach. Top: Image: Greens Against Covid logo (a picture of the Covid virus in white with a X through it surrounded by the Green Party of England and Wales petals) + text “Greens Against Covid”. #LongCovidAwarenessDay. The Long Covid Awareness Day ribbon in teal and grey. Background colours: Fair Green and shades of teal, green and grey. Imprint: Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

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

You do this to yourself because you both enjoy and deserve it.

Spotlight on Weird Pride Day with Fergus Murray, AuDHD Writer, Community Organiser and Science Educator Celebrating Weird Pride Day on March 4th

Spotlight on @weirdpride.day: I wrote a piece for @jadefarrington.bsky.social's excellent newsletter.
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Weird Pride in a Hostile World | Autistic Realms Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us so ...

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else
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Free Tickets to @ndhumanities.bsky.social
More Than Neurodiversity Event Wed 4th March
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I let out an audible gasp.

What in the absolute fuck.

There's a dark, dark, history of this. Of forced sterilization.

I am so, so sick.

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

A sprig of green beech leaves brightly lit by the sun against a dark forest background. The trunk of the tree and some ivy are also outlined by the light on the left of the picture.

A little burst of green in a dark world

Hope it goes as well as is possible and you are swiftly recovering

artist's impression of life: with 5 sections: before ME; mild ME; moderate ME; severe ME; very severe ME

M.E.: "How it can shrink one's world, bit by bit" by Kornelia Paulsen (who no longer appears to be on X or IG).

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #SevereME

Oh no. It's Monday again. Isn't it.

Why We Need More Autistic Health Care Professionals and How to Support Them - Sara Eileen O’Neil Woods, 2026 Many autistic characteristics (especially attention to detail, social nonconformity, monotropism, and knowledge of autism) set autistic health care professional...

#AutRes Being Autistic made me a better floor nurse and makes me a better prescriber & diagnostician 💯

Autistic healthcare professionals could fill the staffing shortage (read: labor crisis) if we paid fair wages, had universal healthcare, and accepted more PT positions w/in healthcare settings.

There are nearly 2million people in the UK alone disabled by Covid. It's been the largest mass disabling event I have ever lived through in this country, and yet people still aren't seeing that for what it is.

Oooh interesting thing! Lovely #WELS colleagues have put together a hub and toolkit for supporting #neurodivergent #children #neurospicy www.open.ac.uk/courses/choo...

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The entire British media fabricated a "scandal" at Tavistock and there were only 8 complaints over an entire decade. Yet the most actual common issues were about access to care and waiting lists.

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

A cave opening shaped a little like a face, the stone is orangey brown, There are two lighting units silhouetted which look like eyes, and the cave opening itself looks like a mouth.

Cave mouth

Image of a person stuck inside a huge box I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’: I would sooner call the experience a bad trip Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid. Some people refer to the long Covid experience as a “journey.” I wish they would stop. I’m pinned down by it, stuck with it. I feel like I’m getting nowhere. Sugarcoating my bitter pill, a chronic disease, by calling it a “journey” might sweeten it for you, but not for me. Read more here>>

"I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’: I would sooner call the experience a bad trip"

Screenshot from February 2026 AMMES newsletter

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#chronicillness #LongCovid #hiddenillness #invisibleillness
#Spoonies #Spoonie #ChronicallyIll #MEcfs

I don't use them either. I don't miss it at all.

2023- 1 in 5 Doctors had long covid.
1 in 4 nurses also have long covid.
We will end up at a tipping point without action, with gaps throughout the labour force and at that point it will be very hard to turn things around. www.bma.org.uk/media/7318/b...

Managing Data & Storage location All paid customers (including Pro) will be able to choose the storage location for some of their data

Not that it negates your point, but there is an option in Zoom to have at least some of your data held and processed in various countries some of which are not hostile authoritarian states. As long as you trust it to do that if you click that option of course.
support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...

A portion of a silver plaque on stone, the text is in Icelandic and English. The English reads The Black Cone, Monument to Civil Disobedience "When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and and the most indispensible of duties." Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1793

Civil Disobedience

Sometimes you just need a basket full of baby otters to make your day complete. Oh, look what I found! You can thank me later....

This. And the oppressive and unsupportive organisations which should help you.

Sorry to hear that, sounds horrendous.

A street painting of cartoon flowers on a hot pink panel, text in beige reads "Amongst the Doom and Gloom we must continue to Bloom"

Continue to Bloom

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

It was inevitable.

So sorry to hear that Thom.