Katy B

Donald Trump is a global chaos generator. He couldn't give a damn about the Iranians and will walk away the moment things get difficult, leaving a trail of pointless death and destruction.
It's all about spectacle for him. Once that's achieved, job done.

It would be great if someone feels able to invite
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social to be a member of the APPG on #ME now!
@sianberry.bsky.social @tessamunt.bsky.social ?

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

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

Jonathan Edwards and other members of @scienceforme.bsky.social are drafting a document on what we want in terms of service provision for ME/CFS. Latest draft here: www.s4me.info/threads/a-th...

All welcome to comment and make suggestions before the document before it is finalised.

@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
Your words “these must become never events”

PLEASE INTERVENE TO SAVE LIFE
Savannah has not eaten for 9 weeks. There are no NHS services for severe ME - 7 months since publication of the Delivery Plan for ME/CFS

www.meresearch.org.uk/claims-of-nh...

Speakers include Christopher Armstrong, Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social , Oystein Fluge, David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social , Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social , and many other ME/CFS experts.
#MEcfs #LongCovid

How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour | George Monbiot This byelection should have been a stroll for Keir Starmer’s party. Instead, all hope of defeating Matt Goodwin now seems to lie with the Greens, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If Labour followed its own logic, it would now step aside and let the Greens walk home in this crucial by-election. It is hard to imagine how Starmer and co could have made a bigger fist of this - and of everything.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.

The British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS issued a "therapy guide" last year. Very unsatisfactory. Professor Jonathan Edwards and colleagues have responded in an open letter. I spoke with Professor Edwards about it. virology.ws/2026/02/20/t...

Graphic with a dark, moody photograph of a red fly agaric mushroom with white spots growing in a mossy forest. The background consists of blurred, dark tree trunks. White serif text over the image reads: "Psychologisation 101: Definitions, Distinctions, and Why It Matters." At the bottom, in a smaller italicized font, it says "Long Covid Advocacy" next to a small bookmark-style logo.

🌟The first in our new 101 back to basics series.

In this article we look at Psychologisation.

If there's a topic you'd like us to cover please let us know in the comments!

🎧 Audio available

🖇️ tinyurl.com/52vthd5b

An image titled "PROGRESS WORTH CELEBRATING" announcing that Phase 1 of SEQUENCE ME + Long Covid is now funded for two years. The text explains it is a bold study exploring root causes through large-scale, whole genome sequencing, building on the DecodeME study. It notes the proposed £20 million study is the largest for any disease and still needs funding. The bottom features a "LONG COVID ADVOCACY" logo with a purple and blue gradient hand icon.

🎉 Some Good News with the launch of SEQUENCE ME & Long COVID.

Led by Ponting & Birney, this bold study is exactly the direction research needs to take.

More details & donation link on Action for ME website:

🖇️ tinyurl.com/mr96dxj4

A screenshot of a text document on a purple background under the heading "Summary." The text criticizes a healthcare document regarding ME/CFS, stating it fails to move toward an evidence-based approach and serves the interests of BACME members rather than patients. It argues that current policy lacks an evidence base, perpetuates patient distrust, and that resources should instead focus on medical care for severe cases and establishing a specialist medical "home" with a research base to improve patient outcomes.

✉️ Strong Open Letter from Bull, Edwards & Crawford in response to BACME's 'Guide to Therapy' 2025.
👉 Dysregulation theory speculative
👉 Vague active therapy rec that serves BACME more than patients
👉 Deceptive jargon

In essence = BACME should be shut down

🖇️ tinyurl.com/373hbbc5

a white bread sandwich with baloney in and crisps on the side. A post by Long Covid Advocacy

🥪Beware if someone serves you a baloney sandwich:

Bread = Lots of über praise about how they believe you, your symptoms are 'real'
Filling = Then comes the psychologising!
Bread = More sympathy on how the illness has been dismissed & the stigma etc.

💣 Medical love bombing is medical gaslighting.

With the lives of pwME still being put at severe risk while under NHS care, we can't express how urgently the government need to include severe ME.

@meassociation.org.uk @actionforme.bsky.social @meactionuk.bsky.social @physiosforme.bsky.social
@tessamunt.bsky.social

Professor Robert Howard - 2026 Presidential candidate Read Professor Robert Howard's Presidential election statement.

BPS Cabal member Robert Howard is hoping to become the next president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Howard is openly hostile towards #pwME & biomedical #ME research
It would be great if the #ME orgs could challenge his nomination on this basis
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/our...

It's deliberate in the UK
As @davetuller1.bsky.social says "The leading FND folks signed the screed with 50+ authors that pushed back against the 2021 NICE guidelines. Two leading FND proponents are students of Michael Sharpe. There is definitely diagnostic creep going on--expansion of territory."

#ME orgs, allies & advocates need to address this directly & urgently with the Association of British Neurologists
@tessamunt.bsky.social @meassociation.org.uk @meactionuk.bsky.social @actionforme.bsky.social

There's an apparent increase in Neurologists who are refusing to recognise #ME, automatically diagnosing #pwME as having FND
I wonder if FND-BPS proponents are feeling threatened by the
@decodemestudy.bsky.social results & are doubling down & as ever are willing to harm #pwME in the process

We Can Make an Impact. Save Savannah Victora-May - Prevent Another ME/CFS Tragedy

Save Savannah Victora-May
Prevent Another #ME Tragedy
Please keep Signing & Sharing the Petition
✍️🔁
c.org/ccd8GhpyTt

If there are any online protests scheduled to try to raise awareness & support for Savannah & call out Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust please do let us all know
Many #pwME feel helpless in the face of what's happening & we need support to organise an accessible protest
🪧📢🪧

Update on Savannah’s case in The Times. She has severe ME/CFS, has lost 30kg and eaten nothing since January 18.

Sonya Chowdhury, CEO of Action for ME, describes the situation as “appalling” and says she is very worried Savannah could die.

archive.ph/J3Xv3

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

When people say “but what about the good policies” they fail to understand the anger these things produce. As someone living on benefits due to disability & *still trying* to get PIP, the attack on disability alone was so personal, so cruel, literally nothing they do now would make me trust them

Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔

The language used to describe the symptoms of #ME & experiences of #pwME does nothing but downplay & misrepresent what we experience
It's played straight into the hands of all those who deny & mislead about the truth - that #ME is a potentially fatal multi-system biomedical illness.

"Disabled People Fightback" banner from People's History Museum 2014 from the exhibition 'Design & Disability' at
V&A Museum South Kensington, on now.
I live close to the V&A, would love to go, but like hundreds of thousands of #pwME am much too disabled.

Promotional graphic for the Pedantic Zebra Bookclub, a disability and chronic illness reading collective. Against a black background, three book covers are displayed: "Unwell Women" by Elinor Cleghorn, featuring an anatomical illustration with flowers; "Air-borne" by Carl Zimmer, showing a colorful, iridescent cloud; and "Disfigured" by Amanda Leduc, depicting a house hidden in green foliage with a crutch leaning against it. Text reads: "We are voting on what to read for our Spring book club! Comment your choice." The logos for Pedantic Zebra Bookclub and Long COVID Advocacy are in the corners.

We have a poll out to decide on our spring read! There's some crackers to choose from:
- Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn
- Air-borne by Carl Zimmer
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability & Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Just comment your choice!

Fable: tinyurl.com/3r2ctufh

A text: ‘Open call!’ Below it a hand-written text reads ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Kills’. A text: ‘An online Group Exhibition’.

Hi! Our online art gallery, A Quiet Storm, will host an open call group exhibition on International ME/CFS Awareness Day, May 12, 2026.

The submissions will open on March 12th. Our website is currently updated to a dark theme. Full statement below!

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#MECFS #pwME #OpenCall #OnlineExhibition

Thanks David, I really hope you're feeling better.