The Skylark
@theskylark.bsky.social
Feed for Long Covid new arrivals on BlueSky. Reposts from trusted LC advocacy and supportive accounts who've migrated from other social media.
Named in honour of surreal British 1970s cartoon Noah And Nelly. "All aboard the Skylark!"
Named in honour of surreal British 1970s cartoon Noah And Nelly. "All aboard the Skylark!"
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The Skylark
@theskylark.bsky.social
· Oct 31
Next week marks a year since many abandoned the Twitter ship for good and took our chances with Bluesky. It wasn't an easy thing to do for the LC and CC communities, and some chose not to do it.
How has everyone's experience been since then? What more could be done to reconnect? What's missing?
How has everyone's experience been since then? What more could be done to reconnect? What's missing?
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5 years 11 months ago, I become very concerned.
5 years 10 months ago, I wander my city, dazed, knowing what's going to happen soon.
5 years 9 months ago, I read an email that suggests anosmia is a symptom. I decide to do everything I can to not get infected. Still doing so.
5 years 10 months ago, I wander my city, dazed, knowing what's going to happen soon.
5 years 9 months ago, I read an email that suggests anosmia is a symptom. I decide to do everything I can to not get infected. Still doing so.
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
5 years 11 months ago, I become very concerned.
5 years 10 months ago, I wander my city, dazed, knowing what's going to happen soon.
5 years 9 months ago, I read an email that suggests anosmia is a symptom. I decide to do everything I can to not get infected. Still doing so.
5 years 10 months ago, I wander my city, dazed, knowing what's going to happen soon.
5 years 9 months ago, I read an email that suggests anosmia is a symptom. I decide to do everything I can to not get infected. Still doing so.
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Those with the broadest shoulders will bear the burden of tax increases, says the Chancellor. Then she raises £355 million pa from taxes levied exclusively on disabled people with severe mobility impairments, including wheelchair users and amputees.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
Budget’s Motability taxes ‘are devastating, punitive and baffling’ and will add hundreds to upfront payments
“Devastating” and “punitive” tax changes to the Motability scheme that will add hundreds of pounds to upfront payments to lease cars are “baffling” and “unjust” and threaten to “lock disabled peopl…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Those with the broadest shoulders will bear the burden of tax increases, says the Chancellor. Then she raises £355 million pa from taxes levied exclusively on disabled people with severe mobility impairments, including wheelchair users and amputees.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
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Here’s the November 2025 update I just sent to my GitHub Sponsors.
I continued to share results from these projects, here and on other social media platforms
mike-honey.github.io/sponsors/Git...
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I continued to share results from these projects, here and on other social media platforms
mike-honey.github.io/sponsors/Git...
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mike-honey.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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600 kids have been ripped from their families and placed in ICE camps. That’s more than in the entirety of the previous 4 years.
The average time in the camps is 6 months.
This is in addition to the young mothers having their babies ripped from their arms as they’re deported.
The average time in the camps is 6 months.
This is in addition to the young mothers having their babies ripped from their arms as they’re deported.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
600 kids have been ripped from their families and placed in ICE camps. That’s more than in the entirety of the previous 4 years.
The average time in the camps is 6 months.
This is in addition to the young mothers having their babies ripped from their arms as they’re deported.
The average time in the camps is 6 months.
This is in addition to the young mothers having their babies ripped from their arms as they’re deported.
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Remember when the Young Republicans texts were released and contained a ton of harmful slurs and racist, bigoted rhetoric?
Politico censored every word but one.
Guess which one didn’t get censored?
The R slur.
It’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against disabled.
It shouldn’t be.
Politico censored every word but one.
Guess which one didn’t get censored?
The R slur.
It’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against disabled.
It shouldn’t be.
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Remember when the Young Republicans texts were released and contained a ton of harmful slurs and racist, bigoted rhetoric?
Politico censored every word but one.
Guess which one didn’t get censored?
The R slur.
It’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against disabled.
It shouldn’t be.
Politico censored every word but one.
Guess which one didn’t get censored?
The R slur.
It’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against disabled.
It shouldn’t be.
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Indeed we are ✊️ Sound on:
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Indeed we are ✊️ Sound on:
The idea of shaming the mask, of it being the 'scarlet letter of the pandemic', is weirdly fascinating. If you could make the shamers articulate with clear sentences why a mask is a problem, what illogical nonsense would they come up with, if they can't hide behind insinuations and insults?
Shame.
I'm not making a musical advent calendar this year.
I did it for 3 years. I don't need to do it again.
A little🧵about wearing a mask, and shame.
#YuleMasking #ChristmasFever
I'm not making a musical advent calendar this year.
I did it for 3 years. I don't need to do it again.
A little🧵about wearing a mask, and shame.
#YuleMasking #ChristmasFever
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The idea of shaming the mask, of it being the 'scarlet letter of the pandemic', is weirdly fascinating. If you could make the shamers articulate with clear sentences why a mask is a problem, what illogical nonsense would they come up with, if they can't hide behind insinuations and insults?
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Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
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To commemorate the 6th year of the pandemic, here's an animated map showing the early spread of SARS-CoV-2 from December 2019 to January 2020, based on the genomic sequences shared in GISAID.
Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Anyone who’s had an MRI can tell you it’s virtually impossible not to know what part of the body was scanned
They put heavy plates over the affected body part.
If it’s your head they lock it in.
If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.
They put heavy plates over the affected body part.
If it’s your head they lock it in.
If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Anyone who’s had an MRI can tell you it’s virtually impossible not to know what part of the body was scanned
They put heavy plates over the affected body part.
If it’s your head they lock it in.
If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.
They put heavy plates over the affected body part.
If it’s your head they lock it in.
If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.
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Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
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Disability isn’t a bad word.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Disability isn’t a bad word.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
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Hegseth gets accused of murder and war crimes.
Rather than taking it seriously, consulting a lawyer and shutting up…
He turns a popular children’s book into a joke about blowing up “narco terrorists”.
There’s something seriously wrong with this man.
Rather than taking it seriously, consulting a lawyer and shutting up…
He turns a popular children’s book into a joke about blowing up “narco terrorists”.
There’s something seriously wrong with this man.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Hegseth gets accused of murder and war crimes.
Rather than taking it seriously, consulting a lawyer and shutting up…
He turns a popular children’s book into a joke about blowing up “narco terrorists”.
There’s something seriously wrong with this man.
Rather than taking it seriously, consulting a lawyer and shutting up…
He turns a popular children’s book into a joke about blowing up “narco terrorists”.
There’s something seriously wrong with this man.
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Trump has “no idea” what part of the brain was scanned during MRI
Claims it wasn’t the brain because he aced a cognitive test
He points at two female reporters and tells them they wouldn’t be able to pass it.
Quiet piggy. You’re ugly. Are you stupid?
He can’t stop insulting women.
Claims it wasn’t the brain because he aced a cognitive test
He points at two female reporters and tells them they wouldn’t be able to pass it.
Quiet piggy. You’re ugly. Are you stupid?
He can’t stop insulting women.
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Trump has “no idea” what part of the brain was scanned during MRI
Claims it wasn’t the brain because he aced a cognitive test
He points at two female reporters and tells them they wouldn’t be able to pass it.
Quiet piggy. You’re ugly. Are you stupid?
He can’t stop insulting women.
Claims it wasn’t the brain because he aced a cognitive test
He points at two female reporters and tells them they wouldn’t be able to pass it.
Quiet piggy. You’re ugly. Are you stupid?
He can’t stop insulting women.
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NSW experiencing ‘unusually prolonged flu season’
NSW Health CHO Dr Kerry Chant said: "When we compare this respiratory illness season to others, we are experiencing a longer tail, which is a concern."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW Health CHO Dr Kerry Chant said: "When we compare this respiratory illness season to others, we are experiencing a longer tail, which is a concern."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
NSW experiencing ‘unusually prolonged flu season’
NSW Health CHO Dr Kerry Chant said: "When we compare this respiratory illness season to others, we are experiencing a longer tail, which is a concern."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW Health CHO Dr Kerry Chant said: "When we compare this respiratory illness season to others, we are experiencing a longer tail, which is a concern."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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It was a female reporter onboard Air Force One who had the courage to call Trump out for his use of the R slur.
Women continue to show temerity against the tyrant.
They’ve been called piggy, stupid, ugly and more… but they aren’t backing down.
Women continue to show temerity against the tyrant.
They’ve been called piggy, stupid, ugly and more… but they aren’t backing down.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It was a female reporter onboard Air Force One who had the courage to call Trump out for his use of the R slur.
Women continue to show temerity against the tyrant.
They’ve been called piggy, stupid, ugly and more… but they aren’t backing down.
Women continue to show temerity against the tyrant.
They’ve been called piggy, stupid, ugly and more… but they aren’t backing down.
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It’s been six years since the first reported case of SARSCov2.
It’s never too late to wear a mask.
It’s never too late to clean the air.
Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.
We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.
It’s never too late to wear a mask.
It’s never too late to clean the air.
Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.
We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It’s been six years since the first reported case of SARSCov2.
It’s never too late to wear a mask.
It’s never too late to clean the air.
Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.
We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.
It’s never too late to wear a mask.
It’s never too late to clean the air.
Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.
We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
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No child should have to worry about being shot at school or gunned down at a birthday party.
It doesn’t matter if they’re in a red or blue state.
It doesn’t matter who their parents are.
If the volume of mass shootings doesn’t enrage you, you’ve lost your way.
It doesn’t matter if they’re in a red or blue state.
It doesn’t matter who their parents are.
If the volume of mass shootings doesn’t enrage you, you’ve lost your way.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
No child should have to worry about being shot at school or gunned down at a birthday party.
It doesn’t matter if they’re in a red or blue state.
It doesn’t matter who their parents are.
If the volume of mass shootings doesn’t enrage you, you’ve lost your way.
It doesn’t matter if they’re in a red or blue state.
It doesn’t matter who their parents are.
If the volume of mass shootings doesn’t enrage you, you’ve lost your way.
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It’s never ok to use the R slur.
It’s never ok to discriminate against and berate disabled people.
It’s not an acceptable term to describe anyone, for any reason.
He’s emboldening his base.
They’re going to use it more often.
Please speak out. Help protect disabled lives.
It’s never ok to discriminate against and berate disabled people.
It’s not an acceptable term to describe anyone, for any reason.
He’s emboldening his base.
They’re going to use it more often.
Please speak out. Help protect disabled lives.
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s never ok to use the R slur.
It’s never ok to discriminate against and berate disabled people.
It’s not an acceptable term to describe anyone, for any reason.
He’s emboldening his base.
They’re going to use it more often.
Please speak out. Help protect disabled lives.
It’s never ok to discriminate against and berate disabled people.
It’s not an acceptable term to describe anyone, for any reason.
He’s emboldening his base.
They’re going to use it more often.
Please speak out. Help protect disabled lives.
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His use of that slur has emboldened his followers and there’s already been a considerable uptick in trolls using it as well.
Protect your digital space.
Block quickly and without guilt.
No one deserves to be treated this way and we must all unite and fight back.
Protect your digital space.
Block quickly and without guilt.
No one deserves to be treated this way and we must all unite and fight back.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
His use of that slur has emboldened his followers and there’s already been a considerable uptick in trolls using it as well.
Protect your digital space.
Block quickly and without guilt.
No one deserves to be treated this way and we must all unite and fight back.
Protect your digital space.
Block quickly and without guilt.
No one deserves to be treated this way and we must all unite and fight back.
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This is also why we shouldn’t use similar language when talking about Trump.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is also why we shouldn’t use similar language when talking about Trump.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
He’s objectively a bad person.
We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid.
We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.
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Trump defends using the R slur, saying he “absolutely” stands by it because there’s something wrong with Walz
You can say there’s something wrong with a person without using ableist language.
He’s mocked a disabled reporter
He’s said disabled people should be left to die
He’s a eugenicist
You can say there’s something wrong with a person without using ableist language.
He’s mocked a disabled reporter
He’s said disabled people should be left to die
He’s a eugenicist
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Trump defends using the R slur, saying he “absolutely” stands by it because there’s something wrong with Walz
You can say there’s something wrong with a person without using ableist language.
He’s mocked a disabled reporter
He’s said disabled people should be left to die
He’s a eugenicist
You can say there’s something wrong with a person without using ableist language.
He’s mocked a disabled reporter
He’s said disabled people should be left to die
He’s a eugenicist
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Study: “Characteristics of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children during different COVID-19 waves “Single centre Study”
Published: 25 November 2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Published: 25 November 2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Characteristics of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children during different COVID-19 waves “Single centre Study” - BMC Pediatrics
BMC Pediatrics - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has been identified as a systemic inflammatory disorder complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children. Three...
link.springer.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Study: “Characteristics of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children during different COVID-19 waves “Single centre Study”
Published: 25 November 2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Published: 25 November 2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact public health, especially vulnerable groups. MIS-C is a serious inflammatory condition affecting multiple organs in children after SARS-CoV-2 infection, even following mild infection. Research aims to improve care and support.
archive.md/5BSov
archive.md/5BSov
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact public health, especially vulnerable groups. MIS-C is a serious inflammatory condition affecting multiple organs in children after SARS-CoV-2 infection, even following mild infection. Research aims to improve care and support.
archive.md/5BSov
archive.md/5BSov