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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GODS I nearly fell again, hour ago. Caught my toe in furniture. Twisting jelly knees, spiraling in vertigo-vortex, but grabbed on. Caught myself. Otherwise another night on the floor. #LongCovid. The brain-balance stuff is surreal (MCAS, Dysautonomia, POTS etc). I'm into my 6th year in major crash.
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
GODS I nearly fell again, hour ago. Caught my toe in furniture. Twisting jelly knees, spiraling in vertigo-vortex, but grabbed on. Caught myself. Otherwise another night on the floor. #LongCovid. The brain-balance stuff is surreal (MCAS, Dysautonomia, POTS etc). I'm into my 6th year in major crash.
Why aren't we testing us long haulers from 2020, so that's into year 6? (And even just 1 infection, not multiple). SIX YEARS since 2020, and many of us crashing again, as happens regularly, right now.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Why aren't we testing us long haulers from 2020, so that's into year 6? (And even just 1 infection, not multiple). SIX YEARS since 2020, and many of us crashing again, as happens regularly, right now.
Sir, soundbite panicky alley. I'll focus on just 1 missing for me. You treat SARS2 pandemic like it's over, it isn't. There's ZERO support for ~3mill UK all ages in #LongCovid chronic illness. No schools clean air (HEPA) policy. I could write an hour re: broken Utilities, broken MSM & BBC, yada!
✋🏾 Five good things you may have missed that the Labour government delivered last week… 🌹
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Sir, soundbite panicky alley. I'll focus on just 1 missing for me. You treat SARS2 pandemic like it's over, it isn't. There's ZERO support for ~3mill UK all ages in #LongCovid chronic illness. No schools clean air (HEPA) policy. I could write an hour re: broken Utilities, broken MSM & BBC, yada!
Including for the ~3 million of us in the UK alone suffering life-crippling #LongCovid without any support, too unwell to work, barely able to function, often housebound (and losing our homes), in an ONGOING pandemic, many infected multiple times, all ages. #MECFS is in the same bracket.
The word "COVID" doesn't appear once in the govts 10 year plan for health, says economist @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social from the @99organisation.bsky.social in parliament just now.
How can you make an economic plan while ignoring something so monumental?
"Ignoring COVID is a serious flaw."
How can you make an economic plan while ignoring something so monumental?
"Ignoring COVID is a serious flaw."
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Including for the ~3 million of us in the UK alone suffering life-crippling #LongCovid without any support, too unwell to work, barely able to function, often housebound (and losing our homes), in an ONGOING pandemic, many infected multiple times, all ages. #MECFS is in the same bracket.
Decade for me, no TV or any derivatives. Don't miss it. 2012 last I watched (when a sense of being a viable nation). BUT BY GODS the TVLA come at you every year with threats like you're a criminal. Like "but you have an aerial". Well "I also have a cellar but no dead bodies in it" logic.
We haven't for years. You can declare you don't need a licence on the TV Licence website.
www.tvlicensing.co.uk/easy-read/wh...
www.tvlicensing.co.uk/easy-read/wh...
www.tvlicensing.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Decade for me, no TV or any derivatives. Don't miss it. 2012 last I watched (when a sense of being a viable nation). BUT BY GODS the TVLA come at you every year with threats like you're a criminal. Like "but you have an aerial". Well "I also have a cellar but no dead bodies in it" logic.
Encapsulate the entire UK predicament into the "Rejoin the EU" concept. Single Market, customs union, save £££Bns, and grow. What's "whacky" unless one is driven by cynical offshored interests and tax avoiders? The latter is Brexit and criminal, and evidence-based.
What these types of politicians haven't grasped yet is that you can't really pull the 'this is whacky/undeliverable/student politics' line if you yourselves are pushing extremist policy that is not in any way evidence-based.
EXCL: The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of next election, PM's chief secretary Darren Jones tells me 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Encapsulate the entire UK predicament into the "Rejoin the EU" concept. Single Market, customs union, save £££Bns, and grow. What's "whacky" unless one is driven by cynical offshored interests and tax avoiders? The latter is Brexit and criminal, and evidence-based.
(7-Oct) Researchers have pinpointed a biological cause of #LongCovid brain fog w/ advanced PET imaging; widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impairment & inflammation; confirm brain fog as a measurable, biological condition. Hope!
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog
Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impa...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(7-Oct) Researchers have pinpointed a biological cause of #LongCovid brain fog w/ advanced PET imaging; widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impairment & inflammation; confirm brain fog as a measurable, biological condition. Hope!
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Reposted by Spencer Carter
We need Mr Gove in a Court of Law facing corruption, gross negligence and conspiracy-to-defraud charges, at the least. (I'd add a drugs test too).
🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We need Mr Gove in a Court of Law facing corruption, gross negligence and conspiracy-to-defraud charges, at the least. (I'd add a drugs test too).
We need Mr Gove in a Court of Law facing corruption, gross negligence and conspiracy-to-defraud charges, at the least. (I'd add a drugs test too).
🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We need Mr Gove in a Court of Law facing corruption, gross negligence and conspiracy-to-defraud charges, at the least. (I'd add a drugs test too).
Anybody UK been through the enforced BT transition to "Digital" yet, landline & broadband? Involves an engineer visit. How was it? Supposed to be quick & seamless, and don't think I'm complex (all hubs in one place, plus wireless phone extensions). But call me cynical & cautious. Not Shirley.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Anybody UK been through the enforced BT transition to "Digital" yet, landline & broadband? Involves an engineer visit. How was it? Supposed to be quick & seamless, and don't think I'm complex (all hubs in one place, plus wireless phone extensions). But call me cynical & cautious. Not Shirley.
@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social Hello. What's the Green Party's position on Universal Basic Income (UBI)? Everywhere it's been piloted globally it appears to have worked, for individuals, families, health & well-being, aspiration, equality, employment, societally, economically.
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social Hello. What's the Green Party's position on Universal Basic Income (UBI)? Everywhere it's been piloted globally it appears to have worked, for individuals, families, health & well-being, aspiration, equality, employment, societally, economically.
Reposted by Spencer Carter
The thing about universal basic income is: it works. Every time. Every study. The participants, the community, the local economy: all benefit.
Yet it’s still treated like wishful thinking instead of a practical solution to existing problems.
Yet it’s still treated like wishful thinking instead of a practical solution to existing problems.
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The thing about universal basic income is: it works. Every time. Every study. The participants, the community, the local economy: all benefit.
Yet it’s still treated like wishful thinking instead of a practical solution to existing problems.
Yet it’s still treated like wishful thinking instead of a practical solution to existing problems.
How did that thing evolve, if not from Tory Austerity or Oligarchic Billionaires?
LOOK AT THAT THING GO!
Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating
🐙🧪
🐙🧪
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
How did that thing evolve, if not from Tory Austerity or Oligarchic Billionaires?
A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif. 64.media.tumblr.com/93fa7ac5222c...
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif. 64.media.tumblr.com/93fa7ac5222c...
Nails it.
November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Nails it.
Reposted by Spencer Carter
Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too!
Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner
Join Greg Jenner and Professor Nicky Milner for a Stone Age talk, covering Star Carr and Greg's book, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild.
www.york.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too!
Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
We've been doing it for two+ years in London. You get free liner bags for inside the secure small bins. No problems at all, even with urban foxes etc.
Food waste collections in 2026: Redcar residents fear streets will be 'laden with rats and trash'
Food waste collections in 2026: Redcar residents fear streets will be 'laden with rats and trash'
Councillors heard how residents were unaware or worried about the forthcoming new waste collections, and uncertainty still remained over funding
www.bntmedia.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We've been doing it for two+ years in London. You get free liner bags for inside the secure small bins. No problems at all, even with urban foxes etc.
KEEP THEM AWAY FROM the Blue safe space. Please gods. They're the toxic poison.
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
KEEP THEM AWAY FROM the Blue safe space. Please gods. They're the toxic poison.
And the EU just 20 miles away. Why are they in denial? Who are they afraid of? There is time for a Ref25.
Rachel Reeves heads to Saudi Arabia in search of economic growth
Rachel Reeves heads to Saudi Arabia in search of economic growth
Rachel Reeves heads to Saudi Arabia in search of economic growth
www.independent.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And the EU just 20 miles away. Why are they in denial? Who are they afraid of? There is time for a Ref25.
Can somebody qualified and sensible, medically-qualified, like living on the same planet, explain the mental-health issues going on here?
Steve Bannon: Trump is "a vehicle for divine providence" & "an instrument of divine will".
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...
October 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Can somebody qualified and sensible, medically-qualified, like living on the same planet, explain the mental-health issues going on here?
Hmm. Not shocked.
U.S. intelligence has confirmed that Larry Ellison’s wife is a Chinese intelligence operative who infiltrated Silicon Valley to obtain strategic tech information.
Authorities are now tracing possible data leaks from Oracle network.
This is one of the most shocking revelations in recent years.
Authorities are now tracing possible data leaks from Oracle network.
This is one of the most shocking revelations in recent years.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hmm. Not shocked.
Hear hear
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hear hear
Speedos and Spandex. Outside chance. Altho it would look like a 1970s Kays catalogue (which included Damart underwear and sensible footwear, tupperware and pointless utensils).
Four in a Hypocaust won't make it to the screens...
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Speedos and Spandex. Outside chance. Altho it would look like a 1970s Kays catalogue (which included Damart underwear and sensible footwear, tupperware and pointless utensils).
Found it again, fave video (2017). 31mins is the gentlemen's newspaper & tea slot. Peat bogs are palaeo-environmental & #Archaeology archives back to the Ice Age. Brrr 🤪
Tell me our ancestors didn't do this or sit in heated sauna mounds ont't moors. Rest is fun too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FypG...
Tell me our ancestors didn't do this or sit in heated sauna mounds ont't moors. Rest is fun too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FypG...
The North York Moors Wild Swimming Guide
YouTube video by Foot Forward Media
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Found it again, fave video (2017). 31mins is the gentlemen's newspaper & tea slot. Peat bogs are palaeo-environmental & #Archaeology archives back to the Ice Age. Brrr 🤪
Tell me our ancestors didn't do this or sit in heated sauna mounds ont't moors. Rest is fun too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FypG...
Tell me our ancestors didn't do this or sit in heated sauna mounds ont't moors. Rest is fun too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FypG...
Just de-activated my X/Twitter account. Toxic crap just went too mad. Thankfully most politicians and MSMs don't realise they're talking to nutcases there, and nuts to themselves.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Just de-activated my X/Twitter account. Toxic crap just went too mad. Thankfully most politicians and MSMs don't realise they're talking to nutcases there, and nuts to themselves.