Gwenfar
@gwenfar.bsky.social
Plants. Cats. ME/CFS. Also, Paleobotany, dinosaurs & earth sciences. #MedievalHistory #Disabled #FreePalestine #TransPeoplesRights #Anarchist They/them. Wales. #GardeningWithME #GreenParty
Also on Mastodon @[email protected]
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Gwenfar
@gwenfar.bsky.social
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Adding Alt Text image descriptions matters.
There a lot of people with a range of disabilities & needs, who can only understand what a photo in your post is saying if you tell them!
Without Alt Text, the attached photo would be meaningless.
Please add #AltText where you can.
#Disability 1/4
There a lot of people with a range of disabilities & needs, who can only understand what a photo in your post is saying if you tell them!
Without Alt Text, the attached photo would be meaningless.
Please add #AltText where you can.
#Disability 1/4
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The aurora was visible in Joshua Tree! You could even see it with your eyes, no camera necessary. I have so many photos to process and share! What a magical night running around the desert with my camera. I cant even begin to explain how happy I am.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The aurora was visible in Joshua Tree! You could even see it with your eyes, no camera necessary. I have so many photos to process and share! What a magical night running around the desert with my camera. I cant even begin to explain how happy I am.
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I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
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Ready to use ChatGPT Atlas? Please don't‼️
➡️ It can be hacked by reading websites
➡️ It reads everything you're logged into: your email, your CRM, your bank account
➡️ "Delete" doesn't mean deleted
➡️ "Incognito" mode isn't private
➡️ GDPR/compliance nightmare
tuta.com/blog/dont-in...
➡️ It can be hacked by reading websites
➡️ It reads everything you're logged into: your email, your CRM, your bank account
➡️ "Delete" doesn't mean deleted
➡️ "Incognito" mode isn't private
➡️ GDPR/compliance nightmare
tuta.com/blog/dont-in...
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ready to use ChatGPT Atlas? Please don't‼️
➡️ It can be hacked by reading websites
➡️ It reads everything you're logged into: your email, your CRM, your bank account
➡️ "Delete" doesn't mean deleted
➡️ "Incognito" mode isn't private
➡️ GDPR/compliance nightmare
tuta.com/blog/dont-in...
➡️ It can be hacked by reading websites
➡️ It reads everything you're logged into: your email, your CRM, your bank account
➡️ "Delete" doesn't mean deleted
➡️ "Incognito" mode isn't private
➡️ GDPR/compliance nightmare
tuta.com/blog/dont-in...
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If there was just one thing I wish every healthy person could understand, it is this: ANYONE can get a chronic illness.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If there was just one thing I wish every healthy person could understand, it is this: ANYONE can get a chronic illness.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
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Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
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Just make Jane Bond starring Katy O'Brian and watch the entire world tear itself apart. Outdo the backlash the female Ghostbusters got by, like, an order of magnitude. Set it off like a grenade and watch the discourse lay waste to everything humanity has built. It's the only way.
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just make Jane Bond starring Katy O'Brian and watch the entire world tear itself apart. Outdo the backlash the female Ghostbusters got by, like, an order of magnitude. Set it off like a grenade and watch the discourse lay waste to everything humanity has built. It's the only way.
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
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"There are soiled sheets, unvoiced fears, missed doses of morphine. The hard truth, in short, about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have." Please read this piece:
"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke
While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"There are soiled sheets, unvoiced fears, missed doses of morphine. The hard truth, in short, about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have." Please read this piece:
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Some in mental health are really bending backwards to dig up myths and pseudoscience to discredit complex physical illness and to claim it is, actually, psychological.
1) 🇨🇦 Problematic letter in the Canadian journal BCMJ, stating:
"Patients with fibromyalgia and ME/CFS have a high proportion of childhood physical abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual trauma. This trauma contributes to profound attachment disruptions..."
"Patients with fibromyalgia and ME/CFS have a high proportion of childhood physical abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual trauma. This trauma contributes to profound attachment disruptions..."
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Some in mental health are really bending backwards to dig up myths and pseudoscience to discredit complex physical illness and to claim it is, actually, psychological.
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At a time when humanities and social science courses are facing severe cutbacks I’ll be mounting a defence of them and their role in shaping a better future at this lecture at De Montfort University on 27 November. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
At a time when humanities and social science courses are facing severe cutbacks I’ll be mounting a defence of them and their role in shaping a better future at this lecture at De Montfort University on 27 November. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
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Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
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Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
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Colours AND smells 🙃🌳💩
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Colours AND smells 🙃🌳💩
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If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago.
The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.
Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.
The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.
Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago.
The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.
Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.
The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened.
Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.
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This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
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Not that anyone will learn a single thing from this, but let it serve as yet another example of the futility of trying to appease right-wing extremists. No matter how much you try to meet them halfway, they will still paint you as insufficiently servile to their ideology.
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Not that anyone will learn a single thing from this, but let it serve as yet another example of the futility of trying to appease right-wing extremists. No matter how much you try to meet them halfway, they will still paint you as insufficiently servile to their ideology.
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Yeah, so just to clarify: if you're buying Christmas stuff now you are sending an economic signal to retailers that this nonsense is profitable enough to make it worth annoying and panicking people. You are not just part of the problem, you ARE the problem. Resist!
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yeah, so just to clarify: if you're buying Christmas stuff now you are sending an economic signal to retailers that this nonsense is profitable enough to make it worth annoying and panicking people. You are not just part of the problem, you ARE the problem. Resist!
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10 years ago I was running 10ks
This week I took 2 sides of A4 worth of symptoms/issues to intro myself to yet another new GP
We still have no real diagnosis beyond "fibro??"
This week I took 2 sides of A4 worth of symptoms/issues to intro myself to yet another new GP
We still have no real diagnosis beyond "fibro??"
If there was just one thing I wish every healthy person could understand, it is this: ANYONE can get a chronic illness.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
10 years ago I was running 10ks
This week I took 2 sides of A4 worth of symptoms/issues to intro myself to yet another new GP
We still have no real diagnosis beyond "fibro??"
This week I took 2 sides of A4 worth of symptoms/issues to intro myself to yet another new GP
We still have no real diagnosis beyond "fibro??"
Finally written up my notes from this year's garlic harvest. So if you want to know what did and didn't work, you've come to the right place!
www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2025/11/garl...
#Garlic #GarlicPosting #GardeningWithME #SpoonieVeg
www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2025/11/garl...
#Garlic #GarlicPosting #GardeningWithME #SpoonieVeg
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Finally written up my notes from this year's garlic harvest. So if you want to know what did and didn't work, you've come to the right place!
www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2025/11/garl...
#Garlic #GarlicPosting #GardeningWithME #SpoonieVeg
www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2025/11/garl...
#Garlic #GarlicPosting #GardeningWithME #SpoonieVeg
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‘They..suggest candidate treatments for clinical trials.
These include
immune suppressing drugs,
pre & probiotics to restore the gut microbiome,
dietary supplementation with compounds deficient in people with ME/CFS,
& drugs to boost serotonin levels.’
These include
immune suppressing drugs,
pre & probiotics to restore the gut microbiome,
dietary supplementation with compounds deficient in people with ME/CFS,
& drugs to boost serotonin levels.’
The NIH in the US have highlighted a recent ME/CFS study they funded:
"Overactive immune responses in ME/CFS"
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mhornig.bsky.social
"Overactive immune responses in ME/CFS"
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mhornig.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
‘They..suggest candidate treatments for clinical trials.
These include
immune suppressing drugs,
pre & probiotics to restore the gut microbiome,
dietary supplementation with compounds deficient in people with ME/CFS,
& drugs to boost serotonin levels.’
These include
immune suppressing drugs,
pre & probiotics to restore the gut microbiome,
dietary supplementation with compounds deficient in people with ME/CFS,
& drugs to boost serotonin levels.’
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Zack had Trevor Phillips stuttering throughout the whole interview.
He kept trying to shut Zack down, but he stayed on point and got his message across.
👏👏👏
He kept trying to shut Zack down, but he stayed on point and got his message across.
👏👏👏
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Zack had Trevor Phillips stuttering throughout the whole interview.
He kept trying to shut Zack down, but he stayed on point and got his message across.
👏👏👏
He kept trying to shut Zack down, but he stayed on point and got his message across.
👏👏👏