We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
13.03.2026 02:03
👍 1350
🔁 503
💬 61
📌 26
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
@zhouliangmask.bsky.social Will you have any more of the dragonfly masks in stock in the future? They look amazing!
It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.
So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.
This notinourname.org.uk petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social has almost reached 90,000 names!
If you are a woman who is opposed to transphobic bigotry being deployed in your name, please sign and share…
Graphic with teal border and Long COVID awareness ribbon. Text reads: “March is Long Covid Awareness Month. Facts about Long Covid we wish were not true: #1. We wish it weren’t true that you don’t have to be ‘high-risk’ to get it. A marathon runner, a teenager, your healthy colleague. Long COVID doesn’t discriminate based on your pre-COVID health or fitness.” A silhouette of a runner appears on the left. Website listed: www.longcovidcollective.org.
Graphic with teal border and Long COVID awareness ribbon. Text reads: “Facts about Long Covid we wish were not true: #2. We wish it weren’t true that even a mild infection can lead to severe long-term illness. You can have a few days of cold-like symptoms and then months or years of crushing fatigue, brain fog, and dysautonomia. Severity of the acute illness does not predict likelihood of Long Covid.” A cartoon virus appears on the left. Website listed: www.longcovidcollective.org.
Graphic with teal border and Long COVID awareness ribbon. Text reads: “Facts about Long Covid we wish were not true: #3. We wish it weren’t true that pushing through can make you permanently disabled. With many illnesses, rest helps and pushing is brave. With Long COVID, pushing through symptoms can trigger permanent setbacks. Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is real: one good day of overdoing it can leave you bedbound for weeks or permanently disabled.” A wilted plant appears on the left. Website listed: www.longcovidcollective.org.
March is Long COVID Awareness Month.
Every Monday, we’re sharing 3 facts about Long COVID we wish weren’t true.
Follow along each Monday in March.
#longcovid #chronicillness #mecfs #longcovidawareness
I agree, but this comes in part because of the high university fees paid in UK, which have made higher education this way.
Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive:
goodlaw.social/m960
I love that there is some form of “meal wrapped in pastry” item from so many cultures - samosas, pasties, empanadas and, of course, the McDonald’s apple pie. They are all identical items when looked at using my theory of culinary topography.
Top left mask is stylized cursive ‘WOW’ vines, with flowers, leaves and raindrops. Middle mask is a giraffe with a bluebird perched on her right ear. Bottom mask is a wide-eyed kitteh. Covid is not over, Long Covid is real, measles and RSV are rampant, and the next plague is only a matter of time.
Please enjoy these fine art KN95s I created for my bus-person elderly mum.
(Note: Previous particle spray tests on Sharpie-painted and unpainted masks showed that if the Sharpie art masks are allowed to cure at least 48 hours, they are just as effective as plain masks.)
@goodlawproject.bsky.social Are offering to defend and cover costs for Girlguiding and the Women's Institute to remain trans inclusive.
They need your help. Email them and let them know that you want them to remain inclusive.
Please, if you can fill out the form (it takes seconds), and share this.
Good News: A Major Scientific Milestone Just Dropped
The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines is now helping the immune system fight triple-negative breast cancer.
In a new study, 10 out of 14 patients remained relapse-free after nearly five years.
Cloudflare test to verify that only humans enter the Robot Shop.
Do robots understand irony?
ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
PALESTINE ACTION BAN RULED UNLAWFUL
Huge win for democracy and embarrassment for the government.
The gov is to appeal. Despite the High Court revealing their authoritarianism, they seem to want the Supreme Court to do so as well.
The court ruled that the ban remains in place until a future hearing.
A linoprint of some otters that my mum did for my book 21st-Century Yokel, which is now back in print.
Otters linoprint by my mum, Jo.
Sorry to hear it doesn't work well for you.
You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Have you got the condensation insert? I find this helps a lot.
URGENT:
An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient & has now stopped giving her fluids. Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk. @h-sharland.bsky.social has the story
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
We've never driven that far with our ratties, only about 2 hours... but they seemed to like a hammock (perhaps it reduces the vibrations) and some familiar-smelling bedding. I hope it goes ok.
Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should!
https://www.goeuropean.org
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
I always love your pictures. Would you be able to include alt text to help more people enjoy them?
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
A faith-based community that truly follows both the teachings of Jesus *and* accurate science on COVID! 🤯 This is a must-read.
“We insist on trying to protect each other frm unnecessary suffering & death in the face of the threat posed by a novel virus whose long-term effects are still unknowable…”
Please consider signing this important petition. Trial by jury is a pillar of British justice.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Have you tried Zimi masks? I find I get a really good seal and can even sing in them. zimiair.com
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
