
Joanne Smith - Jo
@_Joannesmith
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ME since 1991.Owned by Shih Tzu called Teddy 🐾 Interested in ME advocacy & research.Dogs.Wildlife. Books. Bit of Politics. #pwme @joannesmith.bsky.social
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Joined September 2014
A very elegant Christmas card highlighted this week - our 'On the First Day of Christmas' design. Card comes in pack of 10 with the design featuring embossed gold coloured foiling. Each card measures 150 × 150 mm. View our full range and order - https://t.co/5DQjt7YDCC
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The numbers are clear - food inflation has risen by 38% yet Tesco's operating profits have skyrocketed by 72%. How can this be right? It is time the Labour govt stops being missing in action when it comes to tackling profiteering. https://t.co/SHlD769LCi
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Tesco defended profits as it benefited from people cooking at home and eating in more, with an uptick of fresh food sales and cooking from scratch.
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URGENT WISHLIST APPEAL 🐾 We're in desperate need of the following items: ✅ Dried WAG Dog Food ✅ Hypoallergenic Dog Food ✅ Disinfectant Your support makes a life-saving difference to dogs in our foster care. If you can help, please check out our Amazon wish list link
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Do you experience Post-Exertional Malaise? We are conducting a brief online survey as part of a research study focused on Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM). Additional information is provided on the first page of the survey. You can access the survey here:
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Need a lovely distraction from the 🤡🌍 we live in? You’re welcome… ⬇️
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Lots of talk about the welfare tax bill lately… A suggestion: Before pointing the lazy finger at the people our media tells you to hate Look up At the billion-pound firms refusing to pay fair wages You know… The ones posting record profits while taxpayers subsidise the
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I tweet every day to remind everyone that we need to #savenhsdentists in the UK thousands struggle to get NHS dentists, thousands can't afford private dentists, dentists have been privatised via the back door, please retweet, @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer
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Where to start with this? Deep breath Joe Ok, here we fucking go! Firstly, vehicles on the scheme are least to people and despite the fact that PIP pays for the cars each month, many of them come with a very significant advance payment which must be paid for by claimants in
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Security seemed to have prepared his whole life for this moment. 👍😂
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Health(s)care. A short talk for the 8th of August #severemeday2025 about how healthcare can be a frightening place for those of us living with severe ME. We urgently need things to change. We need support, and you can help. Because speaking, 1/ https://t.co/oeOOkiCqzR
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This has been my reality for 32 years. #SevereME No real treatment because there has been no serious research funding. The psych/behavioural lobby make sure of this despite ample proof of physiological damage. How many more generations will live in dark rooms alone and ignored?
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#pwME #decodeME For those waiting anxiously for the DecodeME email and website update, there press embargo must have ended. Apparently Channel 4 have also reported. https://t.co/bR78CLAb6F
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Scientists said the findings offer the first robust evidence that genes contribute to a person’s chance of developing the disease
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Sarah Boothby, “Isla's mother has been arrested under suspicion of causing her death from ME last year (heart failure). There was no inquest. Isla's younger sister (15), who also has ME, has been removed from the only people who understand how the disease must be managed…”
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🚨PLEASE SHARE WIDELY🚨 Today, MPs will vote on cutting £3,000 a year from 750,000 low-income sick and disabled people deemed too ill to work. That’s a £2 BILLION cut. This has had hardly any media coverage. And the Government snuck out the Impact Assessment only last night.
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