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Ellie
@madknittrsteaparty.bsky.social
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Love crafts, history, stories, natural world & spending time with husband, children, family & friends. When M.E /CFS & POTS doesn't stop me - which is most of the time right now. Usually found in a dressing gown. Devon, UK ♿🌿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦
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To my followers- I am sorry I can't donate to Gaza accounts at this time. I am disabled, unable to work, & spend much of my life in bed.

Please continue to follow me.

To UK government- we're watching a genocide in real time & you do nothing. This is unbearable. I'm ashamed of my government.
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
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People really don’t know how shitty the quality of life is with #MECFS

Horrible at every stage. “Mild” is anything but with some criteria saying you have a 50% drop in activity.

And the floor keeps dropping out from there.

25% are severe.

I repeat: 1 in 22 Covid infections triggers ME.
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I’m in post exertional malaise #PEM

Social media is the last thing I should be doing.

But I’m soooo bored.

I can only stare at a dark ceiling with earplugs in for so many hours 🫠

Wear a mask. This illness is torture. You feel like absolute crap and any distraction can make you worse.

#MECFS
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These little actions add up. How can you go in to work to paint over a symbol of acceptance?
Across the country, as rainbow crosswalks are painted over, hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community have continued to rise. And queer Texans have voiced disappointment that local leaders aren’t stepping up in their defense — at least outside of San Antonio.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...
Houston Erased Texas’ First-Ever Gay Pride Crosswalk in the Middle of the Night
Houston tore up the Montrose rainbow crosswalk last night, arresting three protestors who gathered at the intersection.
thebarbedwire.com
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[I am not going to comment on who should be allowed to attend a football match in Birmingham, but I do find it deeply depressing that there is more media attention on that than on the inhuman atrocities being committed by an ally of the UK with which we have a free trade agreement]
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We're starting a Butterfly Friendly revolution! 🦋
Lancaster City Council have pledged to take action for butterflies and moths over the next 3 years. And Butterfly Conservation need your council to be next!

Read about how we've been working together here: butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
Council pledges to become Butterfly-Friendly City
Lancaster City Council has announced a pledge to become a Butterfly-Friendly City in partnership with Butterfly Conservation.Councillors have made the announcement following the results of our 2025 Bi...
butterfly-conservation.org
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What an absolute cluster.

Private companies in effect alleging the Thames Water bidding process is rigged. Who’d have guessed!

Ministers should just fess-up. This charade has never been about the public interest.

It was always about keeping water in private hands at any cost.
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To truly represent the UK population there should be over 70 disabled women MPs, currently there are 8.

(I did also quite enjoy that the event organiser Tanni Grey Thompson did have to double check the procedure if I went into labour in Parliament 🤣)
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Today I visited Parliament as part of the Centenary Action Disabled Women in Politics event.

The discussion focused on breaking down barriers for disabled women accessing politics and improving representation of disabled women.
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By the way…

Five years is nothing.

Pandemics and many epidemic and endemic diseases wreak their damage over decades…

Our short concentration span is a problem.
I think I shocked someone to the core.

They discovered I still take C19 seriously enough to practice precautions.

After more than 5 years.

Because.

The evidence says it’s still a problem.
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Don't listen to Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch's lies.

Migrants don't cost you anything.
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Glad to hear Keir Starmer is finally making the right decision to attend climate talks.

Now let's talk about taxing wealth.
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The European ME/CFS Research Foundation’s lemon challenge is well on the way to reaching its target of 100,000 euros to fund research 'to take the bitterness out of life'. 97,286 euros raised. Can you help them get over the finishing line?
tinyurl.com/9artjhxv
Lemon Challenge
PreviousNextUnterstütze die ME/CFS Forschung! Jeder € geht zu 100% in unsere Projekte.Jetzt spenden97.286 € vom Ziel: 100.000 EUR(Stand: 02.10.20
tinyurl.com
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🤑 Ever wonder how the rich keep getting richer, and why the rest of us can’t keep up?

The difference is: we work.
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To the rude man on the train today who accused me of taking up too much room with my folded #wheelchair ♿️ … I am not the problem.
I did not design the #train.
Educating service providers and the general public on accessibility and inclusion has a long way to go.
#Disability
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This you, Fred? 👀

BetFred may claim to have only made £500,000 in profits last year... but they had revenue of over £1 billion, and the owners' personal wealth grew by £500m.

They can find the money for the gambling tax.
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We are bringing light into the places in our care.

Diwali, widely known as the Festival of Light, is India’s most celebrated festival, observed by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs. While Diwali holds different meanings across religions and communities, it is united by themes of light, hope, and renewal.
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We’re decorating the places in our care with the light of diya lamps, over 3000 handcrafted Sholapith marigolds at Kedleston, and rangoli patterns to welcome guests and prosperity into the home.
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Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up
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Shore Larks shuffle into today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight! ❄️

These Arctic visitors, with their distinctive yellow faces and black ‘horns,’ brighten up coastal dunes and saltmarshes on winter days.

An exciting spot along our shores!
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Something extraordinary is happening.

+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.

@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Had MRI today. I was the only one in hospital in a mask. When they pointed out that my N95 had metal in it, they asked me if I'd like an alternative. 'Yes please -or you guys could wear some?' Nope.

I'm grateful to them for the scan, but what makes them think covid is over, or that they're immune?