Helen Seymour
@hmseymour1.bsky.social
Leftie. Immunocompromised - CVID, ME/CFS...loves Green Wing, Outlander, Bosch, The Last Kingdom, Robin of Sherwood...avid reader of Crime fiction.
Devon
Devon
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If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles
We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...
petition.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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The Exmouth factor – exploring the south Devon beach town by bus, train and on foot
The Exmouth factor – exploring the south Devon beach town by bus, train and on foot
Easy to reach by rail and a seafood-lover’s paradise, Exmouth is a perfect place for decompressing, with walks and boat rides on the doorstep
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Exmouth factor – exploring the south Devon beach town by bus, train and on foot
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🚨 MILLIONS at higher risk will lose NHS Covid vaccines this autumn.
Lives will be at risk. The NHS will face more pressure. Covid is as serious as 'flu and also requires updated seasonal vaccines.
We can stop this!
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Lives will be at risk. The NHS will face more pressure. Covid is as serious as 'flu and also requires updated seasonal vaccines.
We can stop this!
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
August 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🚨 MILLIONS at higher risk will lose NHS Covid vaccines this autumn.
Lives will be at risk. The NHS will face more pressure. Covid is as serious as 'flu and also requires updated seasonal vaccines.
We can stop this!
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Lives will be at risk. The NHS will face more pressure. Covid is as serious as 'flu and also requires updated seasonal vaccines.
We can stop this!
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
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Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt.
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
August 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt.
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
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Do you think the government needs to ensure the relevant policy on the management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals?
Click the link to read and support this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Click the link to read and support this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
August 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Do you think the government needs to ensure the relevant policy on the management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals?
Click the link to read and support this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Click the link to read and support this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness
Scientists have found the first robust evidence that people’s genes affect their chances of developing myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community.
Early findings from the world’s largest study into the genetics of the condition pinpointed eight regions of the human genome that were substantially different in people with an ME/CFS diagnosis compared to those without the illness. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
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The consultation ends 26th October 2025.
♻️Please respond and share from post 1.
Thanks for your support!
8/ #MyMaskMyVote
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-vie...
♻️Please respond and share from post 1.
Thanks for your support!
8/ #MyMaskMyVote
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-vie...
Consultation on updated guidance for Returning Officers: Assistance with voting for disabled people
This consultation is open from 4 August 2025 until 26 October 2025.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The consultation ends 26th October 2025.
♻️Please respond and share from post 1.
Thanks for your support!
8/ #MyMaskMyVote
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-vie...
♻️Please respond and share from post 1.
Thanks for your support!
8/ #MyMaskMyVote
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-vie...
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📢 BIG NEWS!!!
For the first time, the Electoral Commission has recognised the voting access needs of Clinically Vulnerable people - thanks to CVF!
But we’re not done. They are running a public consultation, and we need your help!
1/🧵 #MyMaskMyVote
For the first time, the Electoral Commission has recognised the voting access needs of Clinically Vulnerable people - thanks to CVF!
But we’re not done. They are running a public consultation, and we need your help!
1/🧵 #MyMaskMyVote
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📢 BIG NEWS!!!
For the first time, the Electoral Commission has recognised the voting access needs of Clinically Vulnerable people - thanks to CVF!
But we’re not done. They are running a public consultation, and we need your help!
1/🧵 #MyMaskMyVote
For the first time, the Electoral Commission has recognised the voting access needs of Clinically Vulnerable people - thanks to CVF!
But we’re not done. They are running a public consultation, and we need your help!
1/🧵 #MyMaskMyVote
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“Send patients to gym instead of writing sick note, British Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells GPs”
www.gulftoday.ae/news/2025/07...
At least with ME/CFS, rehab courses have been an abysmal failure in terms of getting people back to work including in DWP-funded PACE Trial
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS
www.gulftoday.ae/news/2025/07...
At least with ME/CFS, rehab courses have been an abysmal failure in terms of getting people back to work including in DWP-funded PACE Trial
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS
Send patients to gym instead of writing sick note, British Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells GPs
A new government pilot scheme in England will encourage doctors to refer patients to services like gyms or job coaches instead of signing them off as
www.gulftoday.ae
July 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Send patients to gym instead of writing sick note, British Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells GPs”
www.gulftoday.ae/news/2025/07...
At least with ME/CFS, rehab courses have been an abysmal failure in terms of getting people back to work including in DWP-funded PACE Trial
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS
www.gulftoday.ae/news/2025/07...
At least with ME/CFS, rehab courses have been an abysmal failure in terms of getting people back to work including in DWP-funded PACE Trial
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS
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Very exciting, Exeter Comedy Festival starts this week. Some of the bigger acts have sold out but there are still plenty of tickets available for all sorts of amazing people. Prices are very good value so it’s maybe worth taking a punt on someone you don’t know. www.exetercomedyfestival.com
Exeter Comedy Festival JUNE 5th-8th 2025
Exeter Comedy Festival 2025. 5th-7th June. Lineup announcement coming soon!
www.exetercomedyfestival.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Very exciting, Exeter Comedy Festival starts this week. Some of the bigger acts have sold out but there are still plenty of tickets available for all sorts of amazing people. Prices are very good value so it’s maybe worth taking a punt on someone you don’t know. www.exetercomedyfestival.com
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Sick of sewage and lack of accountability! High time water was back in public hands. A private profit = a public loss.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/exmouth-join...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/exmouth-join...
Exmouth joins national Paddle Out protest as pressure grows for overhaul of water industry
A Paddle Out protest was held in Exmouth as part of a national campaign against sewage pollution and poor performance by water companies
westcountryvoices.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sick of sewage and lack of accountability! High time water was back in public hands. A private profit = a public loss.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/exmouth-join...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/exmouth-join...
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Please sign and share 💪🏻
Petition to the Labour government @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to abandon the #BenefitCuts Green Paper and to create a National Disability Strategy *with* disabled people. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#EndCruelty #WelfareNotWorkfare
#DisabilityJustice
Petition to the Labour government @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to abandon the #BenefitCuts Green Paper and to create a National Disability Strategy *with* disabled people. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#EndCruelty #WelfareNotWorkfare
#DisabilityJustice
Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
The DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ...
petition.parliament.uk
May 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Please sign and share 💪🏻
Petition to the Labour government @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to abandon the #BenefitCuts Green Paper and to create a National Disability Strategy *with* disabled people. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#EndCruelty #WelfareNotWorkfare
#DisabilityJustice
Petition to the Labour government @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to abandon the #BenefitCuts Green Paper and to create a National Disability Strategy *with* disabled people. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#EndCruelty #WelfareNotWorkfare
#DisabilityJustice
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Rejoice! Season 7 has begun with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social looking at an idea that has cast a long shadow over UK politics: Thatcherism. Listen: linktr.ee/originstoryp...
April 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Rejoice! Season 7 has begun with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social looking at an idea that has cast a long shadow over UK politics: Thatcherism. Listen: linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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🚨OUT NOW🚨 Is Labour on the verge of losing popular confidence – and could it win it back? Join @nndroid.bsky.social, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social, @hannahfearn.bsky.social, and @mattgreencomedy.com 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
April 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Is Labour on the verge of losing popular confidence – and could it win it back? Join @nndroid.bsky.social, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social, @hannahfearn.bsky.social, and @mattgreencomedy.com 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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We’re the world's largest genetic study of ME/CFS. We’ll be sharing our findings on here when available, so follow DecodeME to find out more about our study in the meantime, and help our science reach more people in the #MECFS community.
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#DecodeME #MECFS #pwME #myalgicencephalomyelitis
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#DecodeME #MECFS #pwME #myalgicencephalomyelitis
March 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We’re the world's largest genetic study of ME/CFS. We’ll be sharing our findings on here when available, so follow DecodeME to find out more about our study in the meantime, and help our science reach more people in the #MECFS community.
🧬
#DecodeME #MECFS #pwME #myalgicencephalomyelitis
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#DecodeME #MECFS #pwME #myalgicencephalomyelitis
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🚨OUT NOW🚨 Even though the AFD didn’t win the German election, the far-right party still doubled its vote. So, has Germany dodged a bullet? And is America now the enemy of Europe? Take a listen to our latest episode for all of that and more 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
February 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Even though the AFD didn’t win the German election, the far-right party still doubled its vote. So, has Germany dodged a bullet? And is America now the enemy of Europe? Take a listen to our latest episode for all of that and more 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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This weekend, Robert Colvile decided low paid workers don't contribute. This is
@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social's rebuttal - detailing his experience as a health care assistant, something Colvile could never manage to do.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...
@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social's rebuttal - detailing his experience as a health care assistant, something Colvile could never manage to do.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...
Genuinely contributing
Young Robert Colville on Bluesky, me neither but he seems to have a column in the Sunday Times, appears to think that low-paid workers don’t ‘genuinely contribute’ to our society.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This weekend, Robert Colvile decided low paid workers don't contribute. This is
@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social's rebuttal - detailing his experience as a health care assistant, something Colvile could never manage to do.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...
@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social's rebuttal - detailing his experience as a health care assistant, something Colvile could never manage to do.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...
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The Covid Cover Up (on X) have just published this on YT:
'Politicians: Unmasked part 1 - It's airborne'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVv...
'Politicians: Unmasked part 1 - It's airborne'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVv...
Part One: Airborne
YouTube video by The Covid Cover Up
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Covid Cover Up (on X) have just published this on YT:
'Politicians: Unmasked part 1 - It's airborne'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVv...
'Politicians: Unmasked part 1 - It's airborne'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVv...
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♻️ 1.5 days left! ⌛️(ends Thursday afternoon)
💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏
💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕
Please help to share even if you cannot donate:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...
💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏
💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕
Please help to share even if you cannot donate:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...
January 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
♻️ 1.5 days left! ⌛️(ends Thursday afternoon)
💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏
💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕
Please help to share even if you cannot donate:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...
💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏
💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕
Please help to share even if you cannot donate:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...
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Article quotes this petition www.change.org/p/cochrane-w..., Jonathan Edwards and Cochrane. Hilda Bastian is quoted: “It’s hard to find a word to describe how badly they treated everybody involved in this,” she said. “It’s been pretty appalling behavior.” #MEcfs #CFS
January 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Article quotes this petition www.change.org/p/cochrane-w..., Jonathan Edwards and Cochrane. Hilda Bastian is quoted: “It’s hard to find a word to describe how badly they treated everybody involved in this,” she said. “It’s been pretty appalling behavior.” #MEcfs #CFS
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i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
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🚨 Clinically Vulnerable Families call for robust IPC measures in healthcare to reduce preventable infections and further lost lives.
inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...
inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...
'My son has been hospitalised twice with Covid, I'm terrified by the quad-emic'
Clinically vulnerable patients delay or cancel appointments as ‘quad-demic’ of flu, Covid, Norovirus and RSV hits hospitals
inews.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🚨 Clinically Vulnerable Families call for robust IPC measures in healthcare to reduce preventable infections and further lost lives.
inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...
inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...
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So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
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Oooof! Well done those pilots! BA282 on it's 2nd approach to 27R right now at Heathrow Airport
flightradar24.com/BAW8DS/38447... @flightradar24.com
Watch live youtube.com/live/y3LS4A3... #StormDarragh #Heathrow
BTW I don't think windscreen wipers would have helped here Jerry 🤭
flightradar24.com/BAW8DS/38447... @flightradar24.com
Watch live youtube.com/live/y3LS4A3... #StormDarragh #Heathrow
BTW I don't think windscreen wipers would have helped here Jerry 🤭
December 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Oooof! Well done those pilots! BA282 on it's 2nd approach to 27R right now at Heathrow Airport
flightradar24.com/BAW8DS/38447... @flightradar24.com
Watch live youtube.com/live/y3LS4A3... #StormDarragh #Heathrow
BTW I don't think windscreen wipers would have helped here Jerry 🤭
flightradar24.com/BAW8DS/38447... @flightradar24.com
Watch live youtube.com/live/y3LS4A3... #StormDarragh #Heathrow
BTW I don't think windscreen wipers would have helped here Jerry 🤭