Steve Fifield
@stevefifield.bsky.social
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Mine of occasionally useful information.
NHS and healthcare 💙
#Equality #Justbe #Inclusion
#LGBTQ+ 🌈 ally
#pwME
#MECFS
#Activetravel 🚲
#Sustainability
#Gardening
#VisibleApp
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Steve Fifield
@stevefifield.bsky.social
· Oct 17
If you are ME/CFS community, please find useful information in below posts 💙❤️🫂
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused their strikes choose not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
Seven Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners have announced the end of their hunger strike after the government decided not to award a £2bn contract to the Israeli arms company subsidiary Elbit Systems UK.
Fears had been growing for the welfare of those taking part in the protest. On Wednesday, Heba Muraisi, 31, would have been on day 73 of refusing food, the same number of days as reached by the Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, who survived the longest of 10 men who died in a 1981 action. The earliest death among the Irish republicans was after 46 days, raising fears about the risk to life of the prisoners in jail awaiting trial for offences relating to protests claimed by Palestine Action. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
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Instead of withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has imposed a so-called "Yellow-Line," leaving its military occupying 58% of Gaza and forcibly confining Palestinians to the remaining 42 percent. This largely unmarked and lethal boundary functions as de facto annexation... 1/3
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Instead of withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has imposed a so-called "Yellow-Line," leaving its military occupying 58% of Gaza and forcibly confining Palestinians to the remaining 42 percent. This largely unmarked and lethal boundary functions as de facto annexation... 1/3
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Post-holiday crash hit hard. Walked to the end of the driveway for trash cans & now can’t stay upright. This is post-exertional malaise in action: seemingly minor tasks stealing days of function. I wrote about why I can’t just meet for dinner:
#PEM #MECFS #LongCOVID
substack.com/@darthfoo/p-...
#PEM #MECFS #LongCOVID
substack.com/@darthfoo/p-...
Why I Can’t Just Meet You for Dinner
The Reality of Post-Exertional Malaise
substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Post-holiday crash hit hard. Walked to the end of the driveway for trash cans & now can’t stay upright. This is post-exertional malaise in action: seemingly minor tasks stealing days of function. I wrote about why I can’t just meet for dinner:
#PEM #MECFS #LongCOVID
substack.com/@darthfoo/p-...
#PEM #MECFS #LongCOVID
substack.com/@darthfoo/p-...
Recently functionalities like noise cancellation & echo cancellation arrived in low cost technology.
Takes ‘energised brain level processing power’ to eliminate distractions.
IMO unlikely memory related.
We are unconsciously very capable, but low powered brain processes slowly, with fewer threads.
Takes ‘energised brain level processing power’ to eliminate distractions.
IMO unlikely memory related.
We are unconsciously very capable, but low powered brain processes slowly, with fewer threads.
January 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Recently functionalities like noise cancellation & echo cancellation arrived in low cost technology.
Takes ‘energised brain level processing power’ to eliminate distractions.
IMO unlikely memory related.
We are unconsciously very capable, but low powered brain processes slowly, with fewer threads.
Takes ‘energised brain level processing power’ to eliminate distractions.
IMO unlikely memory related.
We are unconsciously very capable, but low powered brain processes slowly, with fewer threads.
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e.g. "immunity debt" and the obvious politically motivated lies fabricated to encourage mass infections with zero concern for long-term outcomes, followed by covering up those outcomes and blatantly lying about it.
Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts theconversation.com/why-people-b... by @kellyfincham.bsky.social cc @alicetiara.bsky.social
"When fabricated claims align with a person’s existing values, beliefs and ideologies, they can quickly harden into a kind of 'knowledge'."
"When fabricated claims align with a person’s existing values, beliefs and ideologies, they can quickly harden into a kind of 'knowledge'."
Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts
Misinformation is not just a content problem, but an emotional and structural one.
theconversation.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
e.g. "immunity debt" and the obvious politically motivated lies fabricated to encourage mass infections with zero concern for long-term outcomes, followed by covering up those outcomes and blatantly lying about it.
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Net migration has already collapsed — down nearly 80% from its 2023 peak. 📈
Fewer people are coming, fewer are staying, and more are packing up to leave.
So what’s driving this?
2/9
Fewer people are coming, fewer are staying, and more are packing up to leave.
So what’s driving this?
2/9
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Net migration has already collapsed — down nearly 80% from its 2023 peak. 📈
Fewer people are coming, fewer are staying, and more are packing up to leave.
So what’s driving this?
2/9
Fewer people are coming, fewer are staying, and more are packing up to leave.
So what’s driving this?
2/9
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Given the mainstream coverage of immigration, this headline will surprise many.
But the truth is that net migration is close to zero — and could even go negative this year — which would have profound impacts on life in the UK & dent the govt coffers.
🧵Here's why? 1/9
But the truth is that net migration is close to zero — and could even go negative this year — which would have profound impacts on life in the UK & dent the govt coffers.
🧵Here's why? 1/9
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Given the mainstream coverage of immigration, this headline will surprise many.
But the truth is that net migration is close to zero — and could even go negative this year — which would have profound impacts on life in the UK & dent the govt coffers.
🧵Here's why? 1/9
But the truth is that net migration is close to zero — and could even go negative this year — which would have profound impacts on life in the UK & dent the govt coffers.
🧵Here's why? 1/9
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Reposted by Steve Fifield
'We Feel Betrayed': Greenland Minister Condemns Donald Trump Over Invasion Threat
Naaja Nathanielsen said US troops being sent to the Arctic island would create a "new world order".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/we-fee...
Naaja Nathanielsen said US troops being sent to the Arctic island would create a "new world order".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/we-fee...
'We Feel Betrayed': Greenland Minister Condemns Donald Trump Over Invasion Threat
Naaja Nathanielsen said US troops being sent to the Arctic island would create a "new world order".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
'We Feel Betrayed': Greenland Minister Condemns Donald Trump Over Invasion Threat
Naaja Nathanielsen said US troops being sent to the Arctic island would create a "new world order".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/we-fee...
Naaja Nathanielsen said US troops being sent to the Arctic island would create a "new world order".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/we-fee...
Anyone know how Karen Gordon is doing?
January 13, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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I've seldom felt compelled to block people on BlueSky. But the hunger strike has mobilised some people's worst instincts: "Let them die! It's all their fault!" etc etc. It appears to trigger a deep, and deeply disturbing, inhumanity. I must have blocked 20 of them by now.
A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends.
Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action hunger strikers are still the state’s responsibility | Letters
Letters: The power is in the hands of the DPP or the attorney general, writes Stephen Sedley. Plus Roshi Fernando on Keir Starmer’s unforgivable conduct
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I've seldom felt compelled to block people on BlueSky. But the hunger strike has mobilised some people's worst instincts: "Let them die! It's all their fault!" etc etc. It appears to trigger a deep, and deeply disturbing, inhumanity. I must have blocked 20 of them by now.
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We're ready. Let's go!
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
We're ready. Let's go!
I resemble this symptom.
I always wonder if “sleep dept & extreme fatigue” could be equally ‘upstream’ of what is viewed as “poor working memory”?
Maybe “sleep deprived” controls might be a useful cohort for this type of study?
I always wonder if “sleep dept & extreme fatigue” could be equally ‘upstream’ of what is viewed as “poor working memory”?
Maybe “sleep deprived” controls might be a useful cohort for this type of study?
January 13, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I resemble this symptom.
I always wonder if “sleep dept & extreme fatigue” could be equally ‘upstream’ of what is viewed as “poor working memory”?
Maybe “sleep deprived” controls might be a useful cohort for this type of study?
I always wonder if “sleep dept & extreme fatigue” could be equally ‘upstream’ of what is viewed as “poor working memory”?
Maybe “sleep deprived” controls might be a useful cohort for this type of study?
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🧬 Major breakthrough: IOB researchers identify new genetic cause of inherited blindness in overlooked RNA genes. The discovery solves decades-old diagnostic mystery and opens new pathways for many patients worldwide.
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AcademicBlueSky #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AcademicBlueSky #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs
January 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
🧬 Major breakthrough: IOB researchers identify new genetic cause of inherited blindness in overlooked RNA genes. The discovery solves decades-old diagnostic mystery and opens new pathways for many patients worldwide.
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AcademicBlueSky #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AcademicBlueSky #Genetics #VisionResearch #IRDs
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It absolutely works when it comes to objective facts, like what proteins do or what causes cancer.
It does not work, and will never work, when subjective experience is involved.
There is no such thing as expertise that can know better lived subjective experience than those living it.
It does not work, and will never work, when subjective experience is involved.
There is no such thing as expertise that can know better lived subjective experience than those living it.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
It absolutely works when it comes to objective facts, like what proteins do or what causes cancer.
It does not work, and will never work, when subjective experience is involved.
There is no such thing as expertise that can know better lived subjective experience than those living it.
It does not work, and will never work, when subjective experience is involved.
There is no such thing as expertise that can know better lived subjective experience than those living it.
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One of the biggest tells of how blatantly screwed up medicine's mishandling of chronic illnesses is comes from physicians who end up suffering from them pretty much all saying that it's nothing like what they were taught it's like and no one else in the profession is bothered by that.
If you're wondering how the medical community can ignore a disease that causes all of the damage laid out in the thread below, take note of the fact that continuing medical education processes are so outdated and ineffectual that many can't even recognize #longCOVID when they get it themselves.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
One of the biggest tells of how blatantly screwed up medicine's mishandling of chronic illnesses is comes from physicians who end up suffering from them pretty much all saying that it's nothing like what they were taught it's like and no one else in the profession is bothered by that.
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Yup, we are 100% living in a science fiction story.
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Yup, we are 100% living in a science fiction story.
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It's not the responsibility of seriously ill #pwME to do the hard work of raising awareness of #ME nor to raise funds for the MEA all of which could potentially jeopardise our own health.
MEA have the funds to employ professionals to do this essential work
MEA have the funds to employ professionals to do this essential work
Please mark the following key dates in your diaries, and start to think about how you can get involved in raising awareness of ME/CFS and Long Covid, and funds for the ME Association to continue our vital work.
#pwME #MECFS #LongCovid #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PostCovidSyndrome
#pwME #MECFS #LongCovid #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PostCovidSyndrome
January 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Is parking actually permitted on that pavement?
If it's banned in London I can't see how it can be allowed like that wherever you are 🤔
If it's banned in London I can't see how it can be allowed like that wherever you are 🤔
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Is parking actually permitted on that pavement?
If it's banned in London I can't see how it can be allowed like that wherever you are 🤔
If it's banned in London I can't see how it can be allowed like that wherever you are 🤔
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There's an easy way to tell that I'm not in London today: nearly everyone is parked on the pavement, and there's no room to walk!
January 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
There's an easy way to tell that I'm not in London today: nearly everyone is parked on the pavement, and there's no room to walk!
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“Time and time again, the research shows that governments have a very clear and simple route to drastically slash carbon emissions and tackle inequality: by targeting the richest polluters,” Dabi adds.
#PollutocratDay
Reported in @euronews.com ⬇️
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
#PollutocratDay
Reported in @euronews.com ⬇️
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Top 1% have blown their 2026 carbon budget. Do we need a wealth tax?
Governments are being pressured to ban carbon-intensive luxury items and tax fossil fuel profits to meet climate targets.
www.euronews.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
“Time and time again, the research shows that governments have a very clear and simple route to drastically slash carbon emissions and tackle inequality: by targeting the richest polluters,” Dabi adds.
#PollutocratDay
Reported in @euronews.com ⬇️
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
#PollutocratDay
Reported in @euronews.com ⬇️
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...