Deb Harrison

“The field is coming of age”: Long COVID researchers gather in Santa Fe to foster collaboration - The Sick Times Last week, leading Long COVID and infection-association chronic condition (IACC) researchers met in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the field’s second Keystone Symposia meeting. They were joined by advocate...

“Long COVID researchers have proven, to an irrefutable degree, the scale and urgency of this global public health crisis...we are beginning a new era of incredible advancement in the field."

@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and I reported on the Keystone Symposia.

thesicktimes.org/2025/08/19/t...

No. The British people should collectively own their energy, transport etc ‘markets.’

I saw him dash up the tree

This video has had a lot of views on TikTok. Thought you’d like to see it too…

Oh things of nightmares

A reminder: 5️⃣0️⃣ of the world’s richest #billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over 1️⃣ hour and 3️⃣0️⃣ minutes than the average person does in their entire lifetime. 👉 oxfam.org

WOW. Read this entire affidavit.

Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTH…

Here’s a clip from 2018 Tony's.

Robert DeNiro: “I’m gonna say one thing: Fuck Trump.”

In other news…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @suzannezeedyk.bsky.social has posted a fascinating thread about the body language during the build up to the showdown. Z wasn’t listened to or heard when talking about the pain of his people - this totally ignored by the bullies who just wanted the win.

From the New England Aquarium: Title: "Lobsters pee out of their heads to communicate with other lobsters." Two cartoon red lobsters with long whippy antennae: Lobster 1: "Eew" Lobster 2, with a little yellow pee: "I was just saying hi" New England Aquarium logo and "Get Schooled @neaq"

Let's talk about the wild world of LOBSTER REPRODUCTION.

First, lobsters urinate from their faces. Their bladder is located under their brain & releases urine from nephropores near the base of the antennae.

This is likely an adaptation of WHERE they mate: in caves or holes.

Please Invite Your MP to EveryDoctor's Emergency Briefing About the NHS

EMERGENCY- we’re running an emergency meeting for MPs, because the NHS is in a state of emergency+patients are dying in corridors🚨. NHS staff will share powerful testimony because we must push the government into action.
Click here to invite your MP!
everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/emergency-br...

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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back?

Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

This is a historical milestone. In 2010, about 75% of the UK's electricity came from fossil fuels.

Recently we’ve had an out pouring of papers warning of a higher-earlier likelihood of AMOC collapse. It’s due to studies now better factoring in fresh water melt from Greenland. Here’s a simplified animation on how it works & an article about a new study.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

If your government has $10 billion to invest in new nuclear power - the earliest that nuclear power will be available will be in 2034.

That $10 billion can build more than 10x the amount of solar + wind + batteries in under 12 months.

Opportunity Cost Lesson 101.

Tubes of tomato paste sold in Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Waitrose

If you are buying these brands of tomato paste, you need to know they are being made using forced labour in China, not even Italian tomatoes as claimed on labels. See the article for some other brands outside the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

1/8

@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

But another theory behind crime’s growing importance may have little to do with total numbers at all

For reasons I explain in the piece, Britain appears to have lost faith in the ability of police to solve crime. Trust in police is plummeting - a pattern seen more starkly among women…

7/8

Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ...

Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

“Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you hadn't."
~ Charles Bukowski

Posted this exact post on both Twitter and BlueSky within 60s of each other.

So far...
Twitter: 3 comments, 11 reposts, 28 likes
BlueSky: 6 comments, 32 reposts, 73 likes

And yet I have 5x the followers on Twitter that I do on BlueSky.

So BlueSky drives MUCH more real engagement.

Northern lights