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helephant
@helephant.bsky.social
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👋 Illustrator-on-hold, #LongCovid (COVID-induced #POTS / #ME)
London, UK
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mcmgoptimist.bsky.social
Post a photo of a sculpture that takes your breath away.

Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz.
Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz.
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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openmedf.bsky.social
Today, hundreds of millions face #MECFS & #LongCOVID without FDA-approved treatments. Until December 2, your support goes 3X further to advance critical research and bring us closer to answers.

💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
helephant.bsky.social
Donations to OMF #LongCovid #MEcfs research are being tripled this November - please share 🌻
openmedf.bsky.social Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) @openmedf.bsky.social · 16d
🌟 Kick off a TRIPLE MATCH Fundraiser for OMF! 🌟

Follow this link to launch in as little as 60 seconds: www.omf.ngo/digital-fundraising-toolkit/. ALL donations to your fundraiser will be tripled between November 1 -December 2, 2025!

#MECFS #LongCOVID #pwME #pwLC
Image of a person using a smartphone, with an illustrated donation icon showing a coin and heart above their hands. Text reads: ‘#Triple Giving November OMF. All donations tripled from Nov 1–Dec 2, 2025! Kick off a triple match fundraiser for OMF!
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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davetuller1.bsky.social
Berkeley's crowdfunding campaign for Trial By Error, which investigates problematic psycho-behavioral research involving ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc., has reached 98% of the goal, with one day remaining:
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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tomkindlon.bsky.social
2nd donation ✅

David Tuller DrPH has shown he has a:

-good skill set for this type of work

-good knowledge base from following the field closely for many years

-an appetite as it can be very draining

Proponents of exercise/psychologicalisation/etc are still around

#MEcfs #LongCovid #CFS #PwME
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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davetuller1.bsky.social
For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
New Puffin Post acquisition. What can I say, I am powerless before the incredible art of Jill McDonald.
I have a personal Puffin pusher and everything now, one who knows my proclivities, my weaknesses, my unappeasable appetite for 20th century illustration
Cover of a 1968 puffin post magazines with two carton puffins in wizard robes and hats patterned with stars, on the left red, on the right bright blue, standing over a cauldron filled with bubbling yellow and orange liquid over a fierce burning fire emitting grey curls of smoke from which are emerging sparkly clouds filled with cartoonish characters - the three little pigs, a witch, a lion, a dog, a puffin and some musical instruments with faces. To the top right, puffin post is written in curly black letters inside a zig zag shape in pink
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Gorgeous early Jill McDonald illustrated primary education book with an equally lovely interior
A slim educational book for primary children called further and further, the title is in black serif text inside a red circle to the top left, to the right a white diamond has black san serif text which reads a PM number story caption book, bellow this, in red and black the cover is patterned with cartoonish drawings of birds in red white and black, playfully positioned between geometric shapes, the style is very much mid century modern for children
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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stevefifield.bsky.social
🙏 Getting very close to £10k now with a couple of days left on original stretch target timescale 👍
We can start to give #pwME & #pwLC #Justice4ME
stevefifield.bsky.social Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · Sep 18
🔥♥️ Please help share the campaign. A specialist NHS service for everyone living with ME, including family carers, regardless of the severity or duration of the illness.

Help nudge the total a tiny bit. Every little helps.
Can we help reach £9K by Sun evening? 🙏

➡️ Justice4ME.uk ⬅️

#pwME #Justice4ME
NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
Justice4ME.uk
September 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
helephant.bsky.social
👉 Please share & donate if you can!

Help crowdfund a legal case against the UK government for neglect of ME/cfs - only 8 days to go ✊

#MEcfs #LongCovid #JusticeforME
ris-law.bsky.social Rook Irwin Sweeney @ris-law.bsky.social · Sep 1
Our client, supported by #JusticeforME, is crowdfunding for legal advice with the aim of ensuring that specialist health services needed by everyone living with ME/cfs are made available – find out more here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis @swastrosarah.bsky.social
A painting of a woman lying in a bed with a landscape of hills in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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stevefifield.bsky.social
🔥♥️ Please help share the campaign. A specialist NHS service for everyone living with ME, including family carers, regardless of the severity or duration of the illness.

Help nudge the total a tiny bit. Every little helps.
Can we help reach £9K by Sun evening? 🙏

➡️ Justice4ME.uk ⬅️

#pwME #Justice4ME
NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
Justice4ME.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Last of a recent brilliant bundle of Puffin Post magazines.
Part of my pleasure in collecting them is sharing them here & seeing others enjoy them too.
Another glorious Jill McDonald illustration & a bright reminder that spring light always returns, as autumn dampens the air & lengthens the shadows
Cover of a 1971 puffin post magazine with colourful cartoon illustration of a giant puffin head with a ladybird mooching along their beak, emerging from a green hedge looking up at cherry blossoms and insects, including a bee, a red admiral butterfly and something that looks like a kind of pink tea fish with lots of legs and wings flitting about above in a bright blue sky. In the top right corner, the title puffin post is hand lettered in hot pink psychedelic script
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
The weather here is very much for witches skidding sideways through the gloomy gales, so this Jill McDonald gorgeousness feels like just the right Puffin Post perfection for today
Cover of a 1970 Puffin Post magazine, against a turquoise blue background, above shadowy black, leafless winter trees, an intrepid witch speeds along on her broomstick, with a colourful computer type contraption, a dubious looking puffin and stoical seeming brown dog riding behind her. The style is bright and cartoonish and very 60s into 70s psychedelia, albeit for children. In the top right corner the title Puffin Post appears in swirly hot pink lettering
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Another joyful Jill McDonald jewel. I constantly marvel at the motion she packed into her illustrations, a distinct sense of them being frames from animations.
Always makes me wish such a thing existed.
In a just, alternate universe there’s a lovingly crafted colourful caper on the SeeSaw schedules
Cover of 1970 Puffin Post magazine, drawn in a colourful cartoonish, psychedelia inflected 60s into 70s style which gives a lovely sense of motion and chaos, a really animated feel as if the scene it depicts is the paused frame of a film almost. In a red room with a green carpet, a puffin in the the middle right of the imagine is wearing a stripy woolly jumper in pink orange and blue, they are writing a list of New Year’s resolutions on white paper with a red fountain pen. In the front left a rough coated brown dog with a blue collar is writing their own list with a purple pen. Both are entangled in a swirling spool of ticker tape spilling from a colourful cabinet computer whose rainbow of lights & tape spools & dials form a face. In the top right, an absolutely shitfaced looking black cat in a yellow and red tartan scarf pitches in the doorway holding a bottle of whisky and tipsily exclaiming New Year Wishes. In the top right, the title Puffin Post is written in daffodil yellow in curly swirly hand lettering
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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jennyrowbory.bsky.social
In PMQs today, @joshnewburymp.bsky.social asked about EDS patients with neck instabilities who have to crowdfund surgeries abroad because there’s no help on the NHS for us. Mum has sent an email to him on my behalf to see if he can help. More info on my blog: www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2025/09/a-qu...
A question raised in parliament about EDS patients with neck instabilities who have to crowdfund for treatment overseas because there’s no help available on the NHS - Jenny Rowbory
Mum has immediately sent off an email to the MP that asked the question to tell him about me and to ask him to keep us up-to-date on any developments or if
www.jkrowbory.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Puffin Post pairing, I am your wistful sommelier of nostalgic ephemera today
Cover of a 1969 puffin post magazine featuring huge cartoon sunflowers populated by puffins who seem to live amongst them with the title Puffin Post written in swirly yellow cursive against a bright blue sky
September 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Cabaret
A hot pink leaflet with a lovely black pink and white 1970s cartoonish Puffin dressed a circus clown in bowler and spats riding a unicycle over the word welcome in white
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Puffin Post madcap mummers to gussy up the greyest, gloomiest, Sundayest of Sundays
Cover of a 1972 puffin post magazine featuring a colourfully costumed cartoon parade of puffin mummers, each puffin capering with a sense of motion & ebullience as they enter the orange interior of a building with snow visible outside and a jolly but ferocious winged dragon still standing in the snow, the top left, the title puffin post appears in rainbow hand lettering
September 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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roger-kuhn.bsky.social
From the Tumult of the World to the Silence of Paper

Assoukrou Aké, acrylic on craft paper, blue masking tape, and a page from a mini encyclopedia published in 1906 under the British Colonial Empire, 2021

www.assoukrou-ake.com/galeries

#art #collage
September 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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stevefifield.bsky.social
🔥 Please share - Very important care campaign for anyone with ME #pwME #pwLC ♥️💙🫂

"Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness"

justice4me.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
helephant.bsky.social
Dr Zeest Khan: The science behind plain water, salt water, and oral rehydration solutions (ORS)—from the World Health Organization’s formulation to Gatorade—and how to use each of them

#LongCovid #MEcfs #POTS #Dysautonomia
Hydration Isn't Just Water: What Really Helps for Long COVID
Plus: How do Gatorade, Pedialyte, and Liquid IV Compare
longcovidmd.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Total Puffin Post paradise with the first of a few new acquisitions.
As always Jill McDonald’s work is a colourful, capering, screwball 70s heaven
Cover of a 1979 Puffin Post magazine in which a series of cartoonish madcap puffins are dressed in homemade looking newspaper and cardboard masks and costumes painted in bright colours with grinning faces against a daffodil yellow background, the drawings have a real fun sense of the puffins capering around in their creations and they evoke a screwball party atmosphere. In the top left the words Puffin Post appear in big hand drawn lower case sans serif letters, outlined in black and infilled bright red
September 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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abrokenbattery.bsky.social
I’ve just donated to this worthy cause
swastrosarah.bsky.social sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · Aug 29
I am proud to endorse this initiative, with thanks to the very many people made unwell by medical neglect of #ME who never give up, no matter how difficult it is to continue.
This fundraiser goes live 7pm BST 29 August 2025. #Justice4ME www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice... 1/2
www.crowdjustice.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
helephant.bsky.social
👉 Call to action: Help protect key ME/CFS language in the House Appropriations process

Use this toolkit to email, call, or tweet to your Representative and ask them to support keeping these provisions in the final House bill

#LongCovid
Urge Congress to Keep ME/CFS Language in Final FY26 Appropriations
The Senate included critical ME/CFS and Long COVID provisions in its FY26 spending bills—now we need the House to keep them. Call your Representative and urge their support for these life-changing mea...
solvecfs.quorum.us
August 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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roger-kuhn.bsky.social
Violent Objects - 16 possible combinations of four corners

Runo Lagomarsino, wood, golden sheets, 2014

www.runolagomarsino.com/works/

#art #sculpture
August 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM