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THREAD. Claire and I joined our friends @KeyWorkerPetUK last Wednesday in #London for #LongCovidAwaneressDay, travelling from all over the UK. At great cost to us all health-wise, we did it because it was important. We started with a meeting @theRCN

@curiosityonx t=0

If the BIG BANG started everything, what existed before it?

@theamelia__ You are enough

@Rainmaker1973 Humans

What are you deleting?

Thanks to those of you asking for this. Here’s the full Drum & Bass remix of the BBC News theme. Composed by @davidlowemusic2, remixed by @crissycriss. And made with this afternoon @glastonbury in mind…

@Rainmaker1973 Nobody, we all have to die

Name the celebrity

@curiosityonx Humans

What is the biggest threat to humanity?

@adelianurfallah Yes, but who carries a soldering iron when they’re out? And a razor blade?

@CovidSolidarit1 Mel Heighman is great. I’m part of the Long Covid study at UCLH and so is Mel. She’s a great advocate for all of us

They are treating it as form of MECFS that happened in the first wave of the pandemic. No awareness of all the other harms caused by the virus or the high percentage of people who are now disabled or in ill health. And Mel Heightman is IN CHARGE of the UK NHS Long Covid policy!

Sorry to bang on about this, but this is a DISASTER. It means that the #1 Long Covid clinic in the UK has no understanding of what Long Covid is, how widespread it is, how many people are being disabled by it. uclh.nhs.uk/news/five-year…

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Nothing is real anymore. Veo 3 is completely out of control... 10 crazy examples: 1. This is Plastic...

And that’s why this country will never be taken seriously from now on for generations. Official White House account just reposted this.😳

A group of 150 Southend United fans hired a ‘party boat’ to take them down The Thames to their match away to Sutton on Saturday, and they soon noticed that an American tourist called Evan was sitting quietly by himself, so they asked him if he was OK. It turned out that he had got on the boat by accident and thought he was doing a sightseeing tour of London 😂😂😂 They instantly adopted him as a new Shrimper, got the beers in, and even gave him a ticket to the match that ended 1-1. If you kept hearing the chant ‘Evan is a Shrimper’ on the radio - now you know why! 📸 Andy Ward

There's no lack of money in our country. We just need to spread it around a little more.

@hjwakerley And their new electric version looks awesome

Could I see the R5 3E on this lawn in 40 years? Yes. But the real test? Its first arrival in London. My bet: IG meltdown. Chiron who? If I were Renault UK, I’d park it on Berkeley Square. The anti-supercar supercar.

The Myth of Over-Diagnosis: Labour is Gaslighting Disabled Communities, and it has to stop! A thread 🧵 By Emma Dolan Horlock The Labour government’s recent rhetoric on disability benefits has ignited fear among disabled communities across the UK. Their most recent claim that medical conditions are now "over-subscribed" is not just a distortion of reality but an insidious attempt to delegitimise long-term illness and disability. It implies that the rise in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims is a product of over-diagnosis rather than the consequence of decades of medical neglect, ignoring the systemic underfunding within a healthcare system that has failed to diagnose and treat chronic conditions effectively. Many of us have struggled, and continue to do so, for years before receiving a diagnosis, often being dismissed, gaslit, or misdiagnosed along the way. The suggestion that we are now being over-diagnosed is an outright dismissal of our lived reality and implies that the very people who were ignored for so long must now somehow be fabricating or exaggerating their conditions.

@heidisecker We’re good thanks, Heidi! Just sold our house and we’re moving down to Devon

@AntonyLoveless Thanks Antony! Hope you guys are ok?

New school photo 📸😄 Saturday Breakfast 6-10am on BBC Radio Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Just ask your smart speaker or find me on the BBC Sounds app. 🧡

As requested I’ve added the Benny Hill theme tune 🤣