Laura

People with severe ME are so often denied a voice so this video is like gold dust! Thank you so much for finding it and sharing - and thanks to Hollis for making it!

There are important & powerful insights here plus practical tips for patients, professionals, families and carers.

Vital insights & practical tips from Hollis for patients, professionals & caregivers

People with severe ME are ‘often left out from research,recommendations & community care’.

‘Those around the patient need to make pacing possible’.

A powerful must watch. 💪

#pacing #PEM #pwME #longcovid

I have done some calculations, these rule changes will affect between 200K-500K immigrants already settled here. The large range is due to uncertainty stemming from if they're able to negotiate higher salaries or switch employers. This will (already is) dragging down our GDP.

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Reminder that the application of new thresholds affecting settled skilled migrants already resident in the UK was a Tory policy enacted by James Cleverly.

Labour has had opportunities to revert this, i.e. new policies should only affect new migrants, but have rejected the possibility of doing so.

More than 60 Tube staff set to be deported after Government changed immigration rules EXCLUSIVE: Foreign workers who came to London to work for TfL could lose jobs and be forced to leave country, RMT union warns

Skilled immigrants who have worked for TFL for years will be forced to leave the UK because many incomes don't meet the new thresholds and in some cases, their jobs have been removed from the shortage list (presumably because they filled the shortage?)

A heartbreaking account of a young girl who died of complications of measles.

Renae was 6 months ago when infected - too young to be vaccinated - and lived in a low vaccine uptake area.

These misinformation-induced tragedies are preventable. Get your kids vaccinated. For their sake and others.

Yup. As I am constantly saying.

People say they want far less immigration when polled because they have been led to believe that immigration is primarily a small boats phenomemon.
I try to push back but jesus, they're funded by fucking billionaires.

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner Would a SAFE ROUTE WORK to stop Channel crossings?

Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.

Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...

Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days afte…

UK government sat on detailed research, including reports into disability employment, poverty and benefits, then quietly published them *after* MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q...

Essential reporting from @johnpring.bsky.social

Volume on! This is delightful. 💜

Palantir is a grave threat to human rights and civil liberties. Detailed consolidated data profiles on potentially billions of people across many countries in the hands of basically billionaire Nazis. Extremely dangerous.

‘Journalists are prevented from entering Gaza by Israel.
Looking out the plane windows from 15,000 feet is the closest any foreign media has been to seeing the aftermath of 22 months of war, apart from trips arranged by the Israeli military.’

‘Children are entering a hellscape’: the terrifying film about grieving parents taking on social media giants Sextortion, suicide scenarios, unwanted sexual advances – all this and more is served up to teens on their phones. Can’t Look Away tells a devastating story of bereft parents trying to hold the likes ...

Smartphones, social media & the making of explicit material for clicks .. is big business. Children are being targeted & exploited here & all over the world.

We should be listening to them & fighting for them not diminishing their experiences & turning away.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

‘Children are entering a hellscape’: the terrifying film about grieving parents taking on social media giants Sextortion, suicide scenarios, unwanted sexual advances – all this and more is served up to teens on their phones. Can’t Look Away tells a devastating story of bereft parents trying to hold the likes ...

Smartphones, social media & the making of explicit material for clicks .. is big business. Children are being targeted & exploited here & all over the world.

We should be listening to them & fighting for them not diminishing their experiences & turning away.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Labour continues to fade.

When you have both Labour and the Tories cosplaying Reform as hard as they can, anyone attracted to that sort of thing is stampeding towards the Real Deal.

What Farage used to lack was validation. The two main parties have gifted it to him on a platter.

Textile artist featuring three small black and white birds with long forked tails in flight, flying right against a swirling blue green sky

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt

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Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage

This is next level disgusting.
Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Entrap, impoverish and enslave in a fully privatised corporatist hellscape. This is why they want to leave the ECHR.

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here.

We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥

📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

Blinkered Starmer supporters think criticising Labour means Reform will get in at the next election.

But to prevent the rise of the far right, we need government policies that will break the vicious circle of socioeconomic conditions that breed fascism.

And we're not currently getting them.

Absolutely wild how these “protect women” types seem to think so little of cis women

According to them, too weak, too naive, too stupid - no match for cisgender men, Trans men, or even Trans women

This going to take some unpicking

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Four years ago, my daughter won a World Book Day competition at school with this review of the iconic ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ 🍑🍐

RIP Allan Ahlberg - from The Jolly Postman to Mrs Wobble the Waitress, you and Janet brought reading joy to so many generations ❤️📚💫

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Fascists buy up land for white-only communities in Wales A far-right group has raised £162,000 to create racially exclusive settlements as its leader seeks to create enclaves across Britain

Groups of Nazis are buying up land to create whites-only communities in Britain. They aim to use Nigel Farage’s Reform to gain further political leverage.
Although @thetimes.com appreciates that ‘anti-immigrant sentiment’ fuels them, it continues to promote it. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is the consequence of institutionalised discrimination & deliberate stigma & hate speech by successive govts & media, normalising hate towards disabled ppl. Equality act is ineffective.
@kierstarmerpm.bsky.social this is on your watch. As an ex HR lawyer & as PM what will you do about it?

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A picture of me at 17, with long hair and skinny arms.

I was 17 when I met my first trans person.
I think she was 14 or 15 at the time.
She was the younger sibling of the boy I was madly in love with - and secretly dating.
She told me she thought she was a girl.
I believe I was the first person she’d told.
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A black and white photo of me at 17. I’m wearing a baggy grey jumper and for some reason a leather cap.

A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s:
I was 15 when I first had sex with a man.
I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer.
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