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Hippymum

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Happily married. Fighting to get through one day at a time. 42 years with M.E., hEDS, POTS, COPD, Fibromyalgia, Osteoarthritis, Scoliosis, Reynauds, and a whole heap of other crap. I've no quality of life, mostly bedbound and hate it.

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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. πŸ”πŸ” Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

28.02.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Representation of the People Bill: Ask your MP to attend the debate and speak out for Fair Votes The Representation of the People Bill is a rare chance to renew our democracy - yet it ignores the voting system driving chaos and disillusionment. We need MPs standing up for fair votes in this upco...

The Representation of the People Bill is a rare chance to renew our democracy - yet it ignores the voting system driving chaos and disillusionment.

We need MPs standing up for fair votes in this upcoming debate. Urge your MP to attend: actionnetwork.org/letters/repr...

27.02.2026 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell the ECB to scrap their blanket ban on trans women It didn’t take them long. After years of welcoming trans people into cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rushed through a ban on trans women playing women’s cricket just two weeks after...

Let’s show the ECB how many people want the amateur sport to stay inclusive. Together, we can keep transphobia out of cricket goodlaw.social/525376

27.02.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Email Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal sewage until 2040

No more Dirty Business ! The public, MPs and Environmental Groups have said NO to 14 years of illegal Thames Water sewage pollution. Email Ofwat now, so that they can't ignore us @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...

27.02.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the petition: Reform: hands off our hard-won rights! Reform UK just announced plans to scrap loads of our rights🚨 ❌ Water down our rights in work ❌ End anti-discrimination laws. ❌ Bin renter protections against unfair evictions I just signed the petit...

Reform UK just announced their planning to bin hard won workers rights and anti-discrimination laws - sign the petition to demand they cancel their plans NOW: 38d.gs/reform_right...

26.02.2026 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Norwegian Wealth Fund: Divest from chocolate giants! Trafficked and trapped on cocoa farms to work 14 hours every day in blistering heat, with no home to return to. That is the reality for over 1.5 million children in West Africa -- some are as young as

No more child labour, slavery and deforestation in our chocolates. NestlΓ© & Co must pay! No money for exploitation! action.eko.org/a/norwegian-...

26.02.2026 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Wales where everyone can walk or wheel The people of Wales are fed up with more and more traffic, neglected pavements, inconsiderate driver behaviour and dangerous streets at night. We deserve better. Write to your MS candidates today.

The people of Wales are fed up with more and more traffic, neglected pavements, inconsiderate driver behaviour and dangerous streets at night.

We deserve better.

Write to your MS candidates today.

@livingstreets.bsky.social‬
act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/186579/...

26.02.2026 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join the campaign This election could be a turning point for cancer in Wales. But we need your help.

I've joined @cancerresearchuk.org's campaign to call for a #TurningPointForCancerInWales this election.

Will you add your name as well?

action.cancerresearchuk.org/page/184746/...

26.02.2026 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside Health - Is the tide turning on ME research? - BBC Sounds The new wave of ME research that could bring clarity to this perplexing condition.

They keep calling it CFS. Interviewees just sounded tired. No talk of very serious symptoms, death. No talk of NICE not adopting the learning of private practice. No talk of financial ruin vs paltry welfare. No talk of Sir Gaslighter General's career being ended.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

24.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a good discussion on #ME and I’m grateful to all involved. However (!) I do wish that the situation that we know exists within hospitals had been highlighted to illustrate just how important ongoing compulsory education and funding for treatment is.

24.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It will be a great day when, amongst the terrible harms caused by the elite, the names of the BPS cabal are included. The whole murky history of #ME exposed. Misogyny, fraud and lies caused many of us to be unable to leave our beds for decades and suffer abuse throughout.

25.02.2026 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Jeez, I've slept way longer than that when I've crashed!

25.02.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

25.02.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yes, they'll disappear faster than cake at a birthday party.

24.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
End Corridor Care Now. EveryDoctor is collecting staff testimony, and putting pressure on Wes Streeting to end the corridor care crisis for good.

End Corridor Care Now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/end-corrid...

24.02.2026 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the Petition Ensure adequate NHS dental provision for all

Ensure adequate NHS dental provision for all - Sign the Petition! c.org/CyvZYzwHGk via @UKChange

22.02.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Write to your MP Ask your MP to act on the Nature Security Assessment’s findings and press for a meaningful response.

The breakdown of nature and ecosystems overseas threatens the UK's national security. I've written to my MP asking the #UKGov to debate the new Nature Security Assessment and publish their response. Will you join me? action.zerohour.uk/nsa

20.02.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The profits of business in the UK are so high that they could employ every single one of the 2.1m unemployed people in the UK.

And pay them Β£300,000 each.

But still they tell you there is 'no money' to employ people.

18.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Another young woman is at risk of being starved to death in an NHS hospital, but thank god none of her (usually male) consultants have to learn something new, or heaven forbid, rethink their prejudices about #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis. #MECFS

18.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Appalling’ and β€˜frightening’ Reform β€˜ready to legalise discrimination’ by scrapping Equality Act Disabled activists have accused Reform UK of readying itself to β€œlegalise discrimination”, after its new equalities β€œshadow minister” said the party would repeal the Equality Act on its first day i…

β€˜Appalling’ and β€˜frightening’ #ReformUK β€˜ready to legalise discrimination’ by scrapping Equality Act
#EqualityAct
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/appalling-an...

19.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Could a #FurFreeBritain be at risk?🦊 Take action to keep our campaign moving forward➑️

Right now, the Government is entering into trade negotiations with the EU. We must ensure these negotiations do not create barriers to progress towards a #FurFreeBritain.
Will you speak up for animals with @fourpawsuk.bsky.social before it's too late? ➑️
action.four-paws.org.uk/page/183384/...

20.02.2026 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
End Corridor Care Now. EveryDoctor is collecting staff testimony, and putting pressure on Wes Streeting to end the corridor care crisis for good.

End Corridor Care Now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/end-corrid...

19.02.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not only has the NHS not learned from Maeve's death, they're repeating the neglect currently with Karen and Savannah.

Any further ME deaths should be classed as corporate manslaughter, they're just not willing to learn how to provide care for us. I feel it won't be long before I'm next.

17.02.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been ill with ME since 1983 but I've never felt as ill as I do now. Watching 5 couples ice skating from the Olympics whilst laid down has done me in. Dizzy, blurred eyesight, feeling extremely sick, limbs feel like lead and brain feels full of sludge. PEM's never hit this quickly before 😭😭

17.02.2026 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish!!

17.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[pic of woman snuggled up in blanket]  

if you need me i'll be snuggled up in a blanket on the couch pretending that my body doesn't hate me and that everything doesn't hurt

[pic of woman snuggled up in blanket] if you need me i'll be snuggled up in a blanket on the couch pretending that my body doesn't hate me and that everything doesn't hurt

16.02.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Sign the Petition Save Karen Gordon from Dying of Malnutrition and Dehydration due to NHS Failings.

Save Karen Gordon from Dying of Malnutrition and Dehydration due to NHS Failings. - Sign the Petition! c.org/vzTHhxzx2M via @UKChange

17.02.2026 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SociΓ©tΓ© GΓ©nΓ©rale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal SociΓ©tΓ© GΓ©nΓ©rale brags about its so-called coal β€˜exclusion policy’, but behind the scenes, it’s bankrolling one of the world's most corrupt, climate-wrecking coal giants: Adani. Rings a bell? Yes, it’

SociΓ©tΓ© GΓ©nΓ©rale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal
action.eko.org/a/societe-ge...

15.02.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ncer @OpenBritainHQ

15.02.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The time for change is now: end fox hunting Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...

14.02.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0