Poor people—especially poor disabled people—are allowed to dislike things. They’re allowed to be allergic to or sensitive to things. They’re allowed to be in circumstances you don’t understand. And they do not owe you any explanation, especially when your advice is unsolicited and unwanted.

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

It's time for the super-rich and big corporations to pay their fair share. Visit greens.org.nz to learn how "A Tax System for All of Us" can build a fairer country for everyone 💚✊

Are you ready to vote Green from overseas? 🧵 #NZPol

New Zealand: "Several COVID-19 cases among patients at Porirua's Kenepuru Hospital" "While COVID-19 remains present in the community, it is now managed as part of our usual winter illness response, alongside other respiratory conditions and common viral infections"🤦‍♂️

Oh dear! Please, please, please wear a mask when you visit medical facilities. Keep yourself safe, your family safe, and as a bonus you make the space safer for those who are hit hard if they catch even that minor sniffle that definitely isn’t Covid even though you didn’t test 😷

Nz in 2026: record temperaturea again. 25C in chch at winter solstice Also nz in 2026: we gotta bring down petrol prices, drill for oil, and do nothing about our emissions, and breach all our climate agreements.

If you don’t get what it’s like to be disabled please read this and think about you assumptions and biases about disability.

I’ve got a friend who was non functional after a few hours with a GI bug. I gently pointed out their symptoms matched the ones I deal with every single day. Their response? “You’re used to it. It’s not the same”. That’s how disabled people are treated in a nutshell.

Can anyone recommend a data recovery service? 🙏 🤞 RTs appreciated 👍

It's Day 20 of Sweat with Pride. Chilly morning in Kirikiriroa, but it was gym time🏋️‍♀️🌈 Fighting discrimination against the rainbow community is very dear to my heart. Would love your support! Please donate or spread the word so I can reach my fundraising goal🙏 www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

I’m not saying my cat is perfect, but…

Honestly, at this point in my life? This. Without bothering with the censorship!

"We can't let a church offer charity to the poor in our neighborhood, what if we have to look at poor people when there are definitely no poor people here!" Absolute ghouls.

It’s truly not that hard for kids to have “normal childhoods” while also protecting them from chronic illness. All we have to do is clean the air, make PCR tests widely available, & normalize not spreading infections—w/ public health messaging, paid sick leave, & not punishing kids for staying home

This one hits hard 😢

Loads Of Kids With Chronic Conditions Are A Price Worth Paying For Normal Childhood

“I’m ashamed to say that my very first reaction to that diagnosis was, oh my God, I don’t want her to have that because that was a label, a stigma that you are taught in medicine.” @binitakane.bsky.social speaking about her daughter’s diagnosis of #MECFS following Covid.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I dunno maybe this is why I am so sensitive about covid. Why would we not do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WE CAN to prevent as many people as possible becomming permanently disabled. To shield the already disabled. Not metaphorically. Literally. It shouldn't be controversial.

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Are we sure we're banning the correct age group from using social media. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz...

Especially since a certain type of writer will always be: revise as you go and build. It's important to know your 1st draft doesn't have to be perfect, but your 1st draft should also have great bones and the soul of your narrative.

Perfect timing to have this come up again on my timeline!

A man who has “done some reading” tells me, the mother of a child with ME/CFS (and I also have CFS) how to ’fix’ my child with CFS. What’s the bet they’re wrong? (rhetorical question, they are wrong is the correct answer).

I feel like the universe is being a bit mean to me at the moment. I am due some good news or even just a break from the crapiness. It’s only fair I reckon!

i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable

These things are both true: 1. It's likely someone else may have a situation worse than yours. 2. You are allowed to feel whatever you are feeling without having to justify why you shouldn't have those feelings as others have it worse.

Fork Etiquette. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...

Health Risk Low Except For Those At Risk From Health Risk

Long Covid Cases Hidden By Widespread Preference For Literally Any Other Diagnosis

Most People Do Not Have Long Covid, Just A Mysterious Illness Since Covid, Says Study

Researchers Find Long Covid More Common Than Willingness To Say Long Covid

Hidden Fungus Network Below Our Feet Could Circle Earth 2.7 Trillion Times, Still Shorter Than Gap Between Long Covid Evidence And Public Understanding

I’m going to start the long arduous process of trying to save enough for a dental procedure I need, and a psychiatry assessment I need. Any & all help would be so so appreciated. I know times are tough so I’m incredibly grateful for anyone who tips my Kofi. Have a fantastic day everyone. #Kikorangi

Office has a censor filter in internal comms to replace swear words with other terms. Added a rule changing "AI" to "my cat", so we get "According to my cat..." and "I asked my cat and it said..."

This is a terrible health condition. My daughter developed it after covid. Being ND she already had dysautonomia among other comorbidities. Much like myself. Post viral illness needs to be taken seriously. We must #dobetter

"POTS - the condition leaving Australians bedridden that doctors say medicine has missed." "For years, many patients with dizziness, exhaustion and racing heartbeats were told it was anxiety. Doctors now say a little-known post-COVID condition is emerging as a major health challenge in Australia"

POTS has huge impact on people. And what many people don’t know is if you suffer from PEM you should be assessed for POTS. this is easily done by a nurse at your local GP practice using the Lean test, no fancy tilting table needed!

The environments, people and systems that make you sick will often be the first to blame and shame you. And that’s intentional. #LongCovid #MECFS

The process of reading & writing stuff *myself* is so fundamental to my thoughts forming, crystallising, & being refined I genuinely don't understand how one can try to short circuit that front end & expect a similar result. Polish at the end, maybe (tho I wouldn't). But research & 1st draft? Never.

As I work on researching and writing a paper, my brain is fizzing with connections found in the work of others, ideas becoming concrete as I put them in paper in a really crap draft, becoming more refined as a revise a draft. It's difficult, it's hard work, and it's also exhilarating.

A powerful read which combines lived experience with professional knowledge. Heart breaking too 😢 I am so thankful to the amazing people who in the midst of their health issues so generously share their experiences so we can learn more and feel heard.

“So the community is not a mob protecting a story. It is a population that watched a treatment paradigm hurt its own members and now flinches when the same machinery rolls out under a new name. That flinch is learned, and it was learned the hard way.” #LongCovid

This is a hard read 😢

Here’s a favorite link of mine from their site. I’m in a crash or I’d dig up more, but I hope this helps a little: batemanhornecenter.org/wp-content/u...

Does anyone have a link to an authorative resource that explains (in an accessible way) by CBT to fix/improve ME/CFS/LC is problemati? I know I have read stuff but I can’t find anything to pass on to people that need the info (think they are ‘fixing’ my tween with the 3Ps approach).

Please share my lovely Bluesky friends. Caring Caller is Nationwide. Companionship visits available in Auckland Central suburbs and West Auckland. I may have people who will be able to go to the North Shore. No availability in Counties Manukau currently.