Spencer Carter
@microburin.bsky.social
Mesolithic & community archaeologist, FSA Scot, Hon Research Fellow at Durham University Archaeology, Long Covid since 2020.
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Long Covid victim year 5, Spence seeks help to stay afloat
Dear friends, colleagues and philanthropic folk, my pleas for help continue. Year 5 chronic #LongCovid since 2020, now bed-bound and unable to walk, no income or support, bankruptcy close, house repos...
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I used to be a Mesolithic archaeologist. In 2020 Covid19 hit me, crashed me. My pleas for help continue. Year 5 chronic #LongCovid, now bed-bound, unable to walk, no income or support, bankruptcy close, house repossession on horizon. Please help and share if you can 🆘
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Colour me "SHOCKED". Six years in. WE KNOW as the effing victims since 2020. No treatments, simply patronised by medics, ignored, "too complicated". #LongCovid @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidjustice.org
Scientists Shockingly Find That the Blood of Those with Long COVID-19 Is Full of Microclots and NET Structures!
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Scientists Shockingly Find That the Blood of Those with Long COVID-19 Is Full of Microclots and NET Structures! - Thailand Medical News
Medical News: Also Shocking Was That These Microclots Are Not Easily Dissolvable by Current Drugs or Processes!
A new wave of scientific research has uncovered a shocking and deeply concerning pattern inside the blood of people suffering from Long COVID. A team of leading experts from Montpellier University and the Montpellier Cancer Institute (IRCM) at INSERM in France together with researchers ...
www.thailandmedical.news
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Colour me "SHOCKED". Six years in. WE KNOW as the effing victims since 2020. No treatments, simply patronised by medics, ignored, "too complicated". #LongCovid @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidjustice.org
You know, I usually read and ignore these things. Something a bit special about this one, and "care in the community" a few years ahead, presumably ankle tagged. They walk amongst us, or us amongst them? Really not sure any longer. www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teessid...
NORTH EAST NEWS: Pervert jailed after claiming jury and police were hypnotised
Natalie Wolf, of Byker, who was known as Ryan Haley at the time, has been jailed for over three years
www.gazettelive.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You know, I usually read and ignore these things. Something a bit special about this one, and "care in the community" a few years ahead, presumably ankle tagged. They walk amongst us, or us amongst them? Really not sure any longer. www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teessid...
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Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
Drugs test please.
President Don Jr? Trump’s son closes gap in new poll of Republican prospects for 2028
President Don Jr? Trump’s son closes gap in new poll of Republican prospects for 2028
President Don Jr? Trump’s son closes gap in new poll of Republican prospects for 2028
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Drugs test please.
This is distressing. Sounds like a local news story somewhere in England. Could be anywhere. It's the tip of an iceberg that won't vanish. Many of us #LongCovid victims remain chronically ill, disabled, since wave 1 in 2020. And it's ongoing. The Pandemic is *NOT* over. SAMARITANS 116 123 (UK free)
CW: Death, Distressing Content
Teignmouth Post: 'Teignmouth woman dies by suicide after long Covid struggle'
'Mr Cowton felt she had been ‘let down’ by the health service and not received medical help quickly enough.'
www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/courts/...
Teignmouth Post: 'Teignmouth woman dies by suicide after long Covid struggle'
'Mr Cowton felt she had been ‘let down’ by the health service and not received medical help quickly enough.'
www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/courts/...
Teignmouth woman dies by suicide amid long Covid battle
A WOMAN from Teignmouth took her own life after struggling with debilitating symptoms of long Covid, an inquest was told.
www.teignmouth-today.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is distressing. Sounds like a local news story somewhere in England. Could be anywhere. It's the tip of an iceberg that won't vanish. Many of us #LongCovid victims remain chronically ill, disabled, since wave 1 in 2020. And it's ongoing. The Pandemic is *NOT* over. SAMARITANS 116 123 (UK free)
Hear hear
Destroying jury trials because everything else is broken is a terrible idea
www.standard.co.uk/comment/jury...
www.standard.co.uk/comment/jury...
Destroying jury trials because everything else is broken is a terrible idea
Tristan Kirk: While not perfect, the jury system is a treasured and historic commodity that fosters a level of trust in our courts
www.standard.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hear hear
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AARGnews Spotlight: 📣Drone-based magnetometer survey📣
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
AARGnews Spotlight: 📣Drone-based magnetometer survey📣
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
Now then. If only I were well enough to offer a pole dancing in red #Archaeology PPE knickers and one knitted sock contribution... noting that modelling is excluded. I miss my London Soho days 😘
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Now then. If only I were well enough to offer a pole dancing in red #Archaeology PPE knickers and one knitted sock contribution... noting that modelling is excluded. I miss my London Soho days 😘
But fall out with him, stay away from high-rise windows, don't juggle grenades on a plane. Don't let him steal your kids (ICC). Comic in the darkest sense.
Today's headlines are just one comedy pearl after another
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
But fall out with him, stay away from high-rise windows, don't juggle grenades on a plane. Don't let him steal your kids (ICC). Comic in the darkest sense.
@niklashausmann.bsky.social any thoughts?
🏺 Archaeology question:
Say I've found some shell midden that has been removed from its original context and placed into a secondary context. But I know that its org. location is likely one of the middens nearby. Is there a way for me to test to determine its org. location, like an XRF for shell?
Say I've found some shell midden that has been removed from its original context and placed into a secondary context. But I know that its org. location is likely one of the middens nearby. Is there a way for me to test to determine its org. location, like an XRF for shell?
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@niklashausmann.bsky.social any thoughts?
I like this. The scale of our collapse into stagnation. Don't even imagine a Trillion. We'd be... geology.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like this. The scale of our collapse into stagnation. Don't even imagine a Trillion. We'd be... geology.
And continues to do so... the carpet-swept #LongCovid victims (& families), and Govt still won't admit why there are so many of us - out of employment but employable age (coughs about ageism), ignoring the disabling effects of SARS2 (and ME-CFS). "Get back to work" they say, like 5th formers 😠
The least I could do was use my platform to help scientists and medics engage directly with the public. I remember feeling in early 2020 that the government had sacrificed anyone with any vulnerability on the altar of “the economy” - and that included my children. The state failed so many.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
And continues to do so... the carpet-swept #LongCovid victims (& families), and Govt still won't admit why there are so many of us - out of employment but employable age (coughs about ageism), ignoring the disabling effects of SARS2 (and ME-CFS). "Get back to work" they say, like 5th formers 😠
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Not dissimilar in the UK I'm guessing. A good (disturbing) 30min listen and you can skip through. Loop hole after loop hole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKa...
Why the Rich Don’t Pay Taxes
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Not dissimilar in the UK I'm guessing. A good (disturbing) 30min listen and you can skip through. Loop hole after loop hole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKa...
#Archaeology #SiteSaturday throwback to the very hot summer 2013: RESCUED FROM THE SEA Low Hauxley Northumberland, England. Mesolithic after the tsunami, Bronze Age, sand, flint, peat, hazelnuts, footprints, beaker burial, bone. archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/res...
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
#Archaeology #SiteSaturday throwback to the very hot summer 2013: RESCUED FROM THE SEA Low Hauxley Northumberland, England. Mesolithic after the tsunami, Bronze Age, sand, flint, peat, hazelnuts, footprints, beaker burial, bone. archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/res...
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We we will never forgive or forget.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We we will never forgive or forget.
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#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News
"(Auctioneer) Noonans' head of coin department, Bradley Hopper, said the find was "important nationally."
But not so important it wasn't broken up into 57 lots which were the flogged to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile the PAS is underfunded and local museums lose out.
"(Auctioneer) Noonans' head of coin department, Bradley Hopper, said the find was "important nationally."
But not so important it wasn't broken up into 57 lots which were the flogged to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile the PAS is underfunded and local museums lose out.
Roman coin find in Dorset field sells for over £16,000
A hoard of 97 Roman coins found in Dorset by metal detectorist Trenton Oliver sold for £16,625 at Noonans Mayfair auction, exceeding estimates.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News
"(Auctioneer) Noonans' head of coin department, Bradley Hopper, said the find was "important nationally."
But not so important it wasn't broken up into 57 lots which were the flogged to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile the PAS is underfunded and local museums lose out.
"(Auctioneer) Noonans' head of coin department, Bradley Hopper, said the find was "important nationally."
But not so important it wasn't broken up into 57 lots which were the flogged to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile the PAS is underfunded and local museums lose out.
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This is like running asthma trials without mentioning asthma attacks. PEM is one of the most common and most dangerous symptoms of ME-type long covid, because a bad episode can *permanently* lower your baseline ability.
Today @thesicktimes.org: big story from @spichaksimon.bsky.social examining exercise trials for Long COVID. His analysis found that, among LC exercise trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov, less than 20% even *mention* PEM in their trial registration. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is like running asthma trials without mentioning asthma attacks. PEM is one of the most common and most dangerous symptoms of ME-type long covid, because a bad episode can *permanently* lower your baseline ability.
simply because I do not watch any TV, since 2012, nor any derivatives. Yet TVLA threaten annually with increasing aggression. I have to register my buy-out. Yet I don't need to declare "I have no car" while I have a Drivers Licence. NON-SEQUITUR. I don't have a TV Licence because I DO NOT WATCH TV.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
simply because I do not watch any TV, since 2012, nor any derivatives. Yet TVLA threaten annually with increasing aggression. I have to register my buy-out. Yet I don't need to declare "I have no car" while I have a Drivers Licence. NON-SEQUITUR. I don't have a TV Licence because I DO NOT WATCH TV.
Contrition might be a good start. Honesty never did any harm. I'll leave it there.
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has said he’s got “no home,” citing the costs he’s incurred following allegations of sexual assault.
Kevin Spacey says he doesn’t have a home | CNN
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has said he’s got “no home,” citing the costs he’s incurred following allegations of sexual assault.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Contrition might be a good start. Honesty never did any harm. I'll leave it there.
Noooooooo! And it's fecking obvious why not.
Starmer ‘set to approve controversial super-size Chinese embassy’
Starmer ‘set to approve controversial super-size Chinese embassy’
Starmer ‘set to approve controversial super-size Chinese embassy’
www.independent.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Noooooooo! And it's fecking obvious why not.
Cummings is also, if I recall correctly, a self-professed neuro-divergent person (autism spectrum). A lack of human empathy (and perhaps even honesty) might be up for debate. Add that to a sociopathic and chaotic PM, "the trolley", it was already a recipe for a toxic and incompetent administration.
A very personal story of Covid tragedy and Dominic Cummings, which I wrote early in the pandemic in 2020.
bylinetimes.com/2020/05/27/c...
bylinetimes.com/2020/05/27/c...
Cummings' Contempt for Us All has Revealed the Real Man Behind the Myths
Otto English shares a personal story of tragedy during the lockdown which was unfolding at the same time as Dominic Cummings was conducting his Barnard Castle eye test. My family loves Easter Sunday. ...
bylinetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Cummings is also, if I recall correctly, a self-professed neuro-divergent person (autism spectrum). A lack of human empathy (and perhaps even honesty) might be up for debate. Add that to a sociopathic and chaotic PM, "the trolley", it was already a recipe for a toxic and incompetent administration.
A very good 11-min listen to @femi-oluwole.bsky.social at Cambridge Union
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOy...
Only the LEFT can solve immigration - Cambridge Debate
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A very good 11-min listen to @femi-oluwole.bsky.social at Cambridge Union
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOy...
Listened to the full 23 mins. Much respect for Chair, The Rt Hon Baroness Hallett. This report: core political & administrative decision-making across the UK. We had, likely still have a dysfunctional & inept Government, across our 4 nations. I did cry a bit too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xY...
Modules 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report - Statement from the Chair, The Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett DBE
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Listened to the full 23 mins. Much respect for Chair, The Rt Hon Baroness Hallett. This report: core political & administrative decision-making across the UK. We had, likely still have a dysfunctional & inept Government, across our 4 nations. I did cry a bit too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xY...
Jonson & his inept cabal need to be in a Court of Law for homicidal negligence in office. Nor lose sight of the dysfunctional UKHSE organisation then and since. Nor should we forget the ongoing morbidity for us #LongCovid victims whose lives have been wrecked with zero support, simply denial.
UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Jonson & his inept cabal need to be in a Court of Law for homicidal negligence in office. Nor lose sight of the dysfunctional UKHSE organisation then and since. Nor should we forget the ongoing morbidity for us #LongCovid victims whose lives have been wrecked with zero support, simply denial.