“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."
Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action.
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
Climate change – the world after tomorrow
Records of chaos following historical climate change offer a warning to contemporary global society
By Dr Pam Jarvis
"Polanski has blended anger with hope.
“Hope is much more difficult to sell than outrage, but he’s finding a way to do it that connects with people.”
Let's make hope normal again!
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
AuDHD 101
AuDHD can combine the challenges of both ADHD and autism, but also the strengths of both, like hyperfocus and attention to detail
👉 How would you leverage your own combination of skills to tackle a big challenge?
#Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #Neurospicy #ADHD #AuDHD
More archiving.
This article by Kenneth Friedman compares the histories of ME/CFS and HIV/AIDS
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’
Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.
"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."
Email from The Green Party for membership
The Green Party has had my vote over the years, but now it feels time to join the Green Revolution!
Two sparrow birds sitting on a wooden table
Close up of a sparrow
Sparrow sat on a wooden fence
Sparrow sat on a wooden fence
Friendly sparrows on the Holy Island.
View of the sea through an archway
View of the sea through and archway
Stacks of stones on the shoreline of Lindisfarne
View of the shoreline of Lindisfarne
My husband's photography skills of the shoreline on Lindisfarne.
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do we fix this mess?
The Green Party has announced it has hit 70,000 members – the highest figure on record.
The party says a surge in new members has taken place since the leadership election was called and since Zack Polanski was announced as the new leader a week ago today.
Zack Polanski and the Green Party of England and Wales seek to rewrite the narrative and tell people there is an Alternative
Well worth a listen @zackpolanski.bsky.social talking to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social . About the facts of #immigration and how to counter the fears open.spotify.com/episode/1hyL...
It's #MEAwarenessMonth - learn about this common condition that can affect anyone www.omf.ngo/what-is-mecfs/ & actions you can take right now to help meactions.org
New US research funded by
@dysautonomia.bsky.social
Long-COVID Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: A deep phenotyping study
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"An unexpected finding of our study was that 8.7% of LC-POTS participants exhibited aggregates of P-syn on skin biopsy"
#POTS #LongCovid
In the latest Food X @jennifermolidor.bsky.social writes about rewilding your community through food.
(... which is more than Reform, by the way)
In a Party crying out for gifted communicators, AB has been carefully distancing himself from the Leadership on a range of issues.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
The medical model needs to move beyond “exclusive” diagnostic categories & traditional boundaries between body/brain leading to siloed healthcare/education Social model needs to accept the medical need for a diagnostic pathway, support mgt. #CommunityVoice #Hypermobility #Neurodivergent
Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school The proportion of children chronically absent from school has doubled since we removed airborne protections and pretended the pandemic was over. Picture: Larry Cummins
Research now shows over 70% of Sars-CoV-2 household transmission started with children in schools.
5 years on from Covid's arrival what are we doing about airborne infections?
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is.
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
