i cut my face while shaving in the most unbelievable way just now

🚨 The U.S. is about to lose measles elimination status. South Carolina: 156 cases Utah: +6 cases Highest measles activity in 30 years This isn’t bad luck. It’s what happens when vaccination rates drop and misinformation spreads. Measles was eliminated once. Now it’s back—and it’s preventable.

this is why well-run clinical trials are so important. in LC, things that work for one person often don't work for another

Seems like a pretty cool time to donate to @thesicktimes.org, a newsroom where two of the best humans I have ever met call the shots! the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians. But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.

hi let's also please support @thesicktimes.org in this push to support independent media

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Here’s one people have been convinced is normal: repeat exposure to a neurodegenerative & cardiovascular disease that regularly disables people. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Here’s the thing: we’re all out here getting exposed needlessly and getting sick, over and over, whether we recognize that or not. We don’t have to live like this.

—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.

Being sick, I’ve probably posted more than I really ought to, being on whatever era of internet we are currently on, more than 30 years after I first built a website. I know from experience I can’t be a real person on the internet anymore. And yet—

deeply destructive

deeply destructive www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

2) collection of longitudinal data 3) design of a placebo arm to enable comparison of treatment effect relative to disease natural history 4) accounting for, & when feasible, measuring PEM 5) balancing severity, duration, & relevant phenotypes across trial arms & within subgroups to be analysed 2/3

Out today - our recommendations for Long COVID clinical trial design, focusing on currently available outcome measures: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We make 5 overarching recommendations for Long COVID clinical trials: 1) thorough characterisation of baseline disease 1/3

This is an effort to limit DE’s subsidy of ICE contractor Avelo Airlines. Bc the DRBA is an independent agency jointly administered by NJ & DE, the DE leg can’t directly tell it what to do - but Rep. Gorman & Sen. Seigfried’s two bills will accomplish quite a lot using the power they do have+

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

NEW: On a podcast last month, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: - said HIV “very likely came from a lab.” - said Lyme disease came from a lab—“a high degree of probability.” - said the so-called “Montauk Monster”—a bloated, dead raccoon carcass—was proof “mad scientists” were doing experiments.

death cult

i genuinely do not understand the various ways people capitalize POTS. Other than capitalizing every letter, none of the variations I see out in the world make sense to me

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

art is from the 2023 book Yenebi’s Drive to School and including a wheelchair user & a masker is the representation that basically everyone cool in my life wants so shout out @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social 🥹

would anyone like to discuss the fourth quadrant of this SFPL bookmark I picked up TODAY?!

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

What if we kissed at the credit card exclusive promotional comedy show

Can you actually lie to participants in a clinical trial and still pass ethical review? It seems so, at least at Western University in Ontario, Canada. virology.ws/2025/12/11/t...

not too late to try this on the 321xlr

This is one of the best synopses of Symptoms Syndrome I've ever read 😭

wild that in the year 2025 the california state tax agency makes me change my password multiple times a year

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

We did it, folks

(cw: death, violence) Some horrifying local news relevant to Long COVID, as reported by @missionlocal.org. Ward 86 is the HIV clinic run by members of UCSF's LIINC research consortium. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

it really doesn't take much to have a spine, and it really is disappointing how many leaders won't do the minimum. across all sectors

I'm consistently impressed by the crucial content @thesicktimes.org publishes (yes, their end of year fundraiser is still going on if you want to support and/or share the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/)

Hey my phone updated and I don't like it. Has this ever happened to anyone

From bizarre to maybe TOO sexy, find out what furries think of the Bay Area’s spread of sports mascots. ✍️ @reveleth.com

Lmao

What are we going to do about the millions of people who are not recovering nor dying after an acute infection event? Will we continue to pretend they don't exist? #LongCovid #MECFS #LymeDisease #PANS etc, etc 🙄

We're hosting a LoCITT-T update webinar on 12/17 at 2:30 eastern / 11:30 pacific. We've received a lot of questions about what the experience might be like for those who believe they're receiving the placebo. We'll answer those & more. Register here: scrippsresearch.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/2

I don't know how you square saying this stuff about Olivia Nuzzi with the fact that the CDC decided to stop recommending birth doses of the hepatitis b vaccine days ago. The stakes here are children's lives.

Oh wow. I’m one of the 152

trying to understand the 2020s without the lens of long covid is like trying to understand the 1930s without understanding the massive amounts of disability caused by influenza and post-polio syndrome.

rfk is stupid and evil but in 2020 the CDC was literally telling us to wash our hands and sing happy birthday to stop an airborne disease from spreading. both things can be true

also led the US government's exec branch Long COVID response.

The text generator generates text. If you ask it for persuasive text, it generates text that is more persuasive. The text generator cannot lie, or tell the truth—it just generates text. Every time we say “the bot lied” we are misleading ourselves.

i "upgraded" to macos 26 because of some performance issues I was having and boy do i miss being able to use all the space on my screen

so close!