Fandango

'Our societal bias that exercise can only ever heal, never harm, is incredibly pervasive. It is playing out right now in how we understand and discuss #LongCovid, and as we have done in relation to #MEcfs for decades.'
May be one of main reasons why no further in finding a cure for those conditions

This is where it gets silly. You don't need to pay "advisors" (millions no doubt), you just need to walk into the board meeting with a team of senior civil servants and say "Right, you lot, piss off."

Greetings from the #ME Chapter of the "We Do Not Care Club" A woman is sitting in a chair with a checklist of things we do not care about She’s saying “This week we DO NOT CARE about the careers/ research funding/job losses/ disgrace/or knighthoods-that-have-to-be-returned. of any psychiatrist or psychologist who based their career on telling sick and dying people with #ME that they were making it up. In the bottom right hand corner is a wise cat wearing glasses. She’s saying “And if you think this is directed at you - it probably is!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames

As the fallout from the #DecodeME project continues - and still no apology has been forthcoming from the BPSM monsters - I’m taking the battle right into those psych departments and professional bodies. Maybe tomorrow I’ll lampoon the self-justifications we’re just beginning to see too!

Deleting old emails and photos from the cloud would help to save water during heatwaves and droughts. Emails and photographs kept online are stored in data centres that require vast amounts of energy and water to cool their servers and avoid overheating
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Reading the @decodemestudy.bsky.social results something lifted which I hadn't realised I'd been carrying over the decades of being a #pwME, some unkindness towards myself, guilt & a sense of failure for not having recovered
#ME became more tangible & sensation & experience met data
🧬

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Wait this is even better than just the sandwich.

To withdraw your first book, in particular, from a prize is a very big deal - and not something to be taken lightly. If you like the look of any of these, please consider buying them and show the authors some love

For so long we’ve been told to listen to people’s “legitimate concerns” and that we shouldn’t dismiss them as thick or uneducated but everything they’re doing is proving that that’s exactly what they are.

Remembering the Roma Holocaust, and the North East soldiers who helped to liberate them This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps.

Remembering the Roma Holocaust, and the North East soldiers who helped to liberate them

This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps

northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/hist...

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.

I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.

One of the many things one comes to discover in exploring the social history of the 17th of 18th centuries (and probably of most ages) is that sexual predation *was* relentless, & many men of every class treated women appallingly, & encouraged each other to do so.

Hidden away with my camera charging cables (which have absented themselves despite me putting them in a pink & white shoebox marked 'camera'!)

In the burial register of Lymington, Hants, there is the following entry: "12, August, 1722. This fore-noon the body of Samuel Baldwin, late inhabitant of this parish, was conveyed in a vessel off to sea, and was committed to the deep off the Needle Rocks, near the Isle of Wight." "This appears to have been done," says a Hampshire paper, "in accordance with the wish of the deceased, to prevent his wife from dancing over his grave, which she threatened to do."

Happy 303rd anniversary, Samuel. I hope the afterlife is everything you wished for

(but also:🧵...)

At a Council I once worked for, a very senior Councillor put an out if office to the effect of 'don't care, gone to France for the summer'.

Huuuge scramble to cut through IT protections to get it changed!

These kids were already approved months before the new rules came in, they are supposed to be left alone.

The NHS is threatening the clinic that they must remove treatment.

They've already forced one pro-trans Dr out.

As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

As the anti-migrant protests continue, stoked by politicians, the media and far right, there’s a toxic lie taking hold: asylum seekers are a danger to British women and girls. 

My col. in today’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...

Should @ukhsa.bsky.social monitor and report on the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through routine surveillance programmes, and advise on how to prevent and control infection in settings such as hospitals, care homes and schools?
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

GSK IMPACT Awards 2026 | Apply Now | The King's Fund The GSK IMPACT Awards provide funding, training and development for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing. Apply for you charity today.

I hope @actionforme.bsky.social applies for this award, even if they may be too small to be eligible. Publication of the #PlanForME and #DecodeME is the culmination of work they led on. The charity could then use these funds to lead on patient safety #pwME
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”

#DecodeME "part of a “notable increase” in ME/CFS research [..] Bosch says—a trend he attributes to a mix of patient advocacy, the failure of psychological and behavioral explanations [..], and increasing awareness of ME/CFS thanks to its similarities to Long Covid." www.science.org/content/arti...

Detail of a frontispiece (vd17 3:602997Q) showing likely two Swiss Guards.

Frontispiece of "Der Fliehende Passagier Durch Europa", part 6 (vd17 3:602997Q) showing a crowded place in the Vatican, with the Pope present (sitting), a lot of cardinals, and a clerical crowd, and on the right: two Swiss Guards.

You may have heard that since this August, 2025, the Pope's soldiers of the #SwissGuard are allowed to have sun pavilions to protect them from the sun for the first time.

Well, here are two Swiss Guards standing next to a sun pavillion, near the Pope, on an image printed in 1700.

#skystorians

Small grey and white kitten sits at a black screen door. We see the back deck through the screen as afternoon sun beams light up the tiles

The Smol Boi wants to go out but I tell him he is too small. #kitten #proofofcat

Parliament debates a ban on driven grouse shooting MPs defend driven grouse shooting in farcical debate – ignoring wildlife crime, climate harm, and public support for a ban

Parliament debates a ban on driven grouse shooting

MPs defend driven grouse shooting in farcical debate – ignoring wildlife crime, climate harm, and public support for a ban

By verity healey

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

“no news
good news“

From defence to hiking, OS is still mapping out the futur... Ordnance Survey has seen a 4% rise in revenue this past year after several profile-raising projects

'Ordnance Survey, the UK’s mapping agency, originated in 1747 as a military project by the Crown, mapping the bogs of the Scottish Lowlands to track down elusive Jacobite rebels.'

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?

Yes.

The knee jerk reaction to a few idiots spraying paint into a jet engine intake has been called out for what it is.

The protesters should all have tee shirts printed with "Plasticine Action" with a picture of Morph just like this guy. Would the government be forced to ban plasticine and Morph?

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest