I get that sanism is your emotional support bigotry that helps you sleep at night, because you get to Sit there going "I cant do and believe terrible things, I'm not "insane" like those bigots and fascists. I have the essentially good brain, unlike these evil bad brain people." 7/🧵

Normalize virus reports like weather reports. We appreciate weather reports even if they bring us bad news, as they help us plan ahead and avoid accidents. We need to stop being in denial about airborne viruses spreading. Sharing data helps us prepare and makes our lives easier.

UPDATE: The CDC just updated its COVID wastewater data. COVID wastewater levels continue to rise, exceeding levels at the same time last year. COVID wastewater levels in the U.S. are at their highest since Omicron in 2021-22.

Reindeer chew their food and nap at the same time 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/rein... by @meghanbartels.bsky.social

Following up with the story (published this past Tuesday): thesicktimes.org/2023/12/05/p...

For @thesicktimes.bsky.social next week, I'll be writing about Project N95 winding down their operations. Would love to hear from people in the #LongCovid community who have relied on this organization for masks!

You can provide input before the Census Bureau implements a new framework that could lead to a 40% cut in disability estimates here:

The US Census Bureau is considering changing how it tracks disability. The change could result in estimates of people with disabilities dropping by 40%. This would affect funding for disabled communities inc. Long Covid. thesicktimes.org/2023/11/21/c...

Personally, I'm a bit bummed that tens of millions have died and that hundreds of millions have been maimed and that it is all still happening. How are you?

If I see you break this out I'm getting the fuck out of your house

Start with believing we can probably have more than they're telling us we can have.

there’s this neat little trick here to getting more visibility. see what i did there? yeah, i’m talking about alt-text. not using it is just fucked. i won’t reskeet your shit if you don’t, and i’m far from the only one. so here’s what’s happening 👇 you’re going to settings, then to accessibility 👇

I love that more people are at least trying! I’m also trying by following “How To” tutorials like this one allyant.com/how-to-make-... but ofc I welcome comments about my attempts at alt texts! :)🌹

Workwell teams up with STAT Health Our research aims to understand whether cerebral blood flow is reduced during post-exertional malaise (PEM) and if this metric helps explain the worsened orthostatic symptoms many report while in PEM.  Check out our new blog on this exciting collaboration!

oh are we doing food/cooking snobbery again? could we fucking not?

please for the love of all that is unholy stop conflating "people who are bigoted/problematic" with mental illness signed, a very tired neurodivergent person

Users: Can we get DMs? Muted words? Privacy options? Bluesky: We hear you loud and clear: We will now show everything you say to all of your harassers and make you easier to be found by anyone who is stalking you. You're welcome!

Public libraries in New York will be forced to close on weekends due to Mayor Eric Adams budget cuts

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

This was a heartbreaking story to work on: New data from reveals the crushing burden of Long Covid in NZ. Reading testimonies is like reading obituaries. LC patients describe their lives in the past tense, because the lives they used to have are now gone. newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/17/t...

Bragging on my wife Meg: She apprenticed in stained glass in New Orleans, worked in the business, and now does miniatures. This is a dollhouse replica of the Nathan window from Canterbury Cathedral. 5.75x2.75 inches, 279 pieces, fired-on glass paint, foil and solder construction. I am in awe.

Pesti lány is a colloquial way to refer to a girl from Budapest. In case you were wondering. I'm USian but Pest is a second home to me. I repost liberally and follow my eclectic special interests where they take me. Big cognitive limitations right now, please bear with me. You may know me from 🐦

Here's a nun trying to get a cat to trade a fish for a penis. 1555. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

reckoning with "germany has decided to criminalise support for palestine in the name of holocaust victims" and "germany is planning to drive an S-Bahn through the memorial to romani holocaust victims" as two independently true facts

Very cool. Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis have launched THE SICK TIMES--a new digital newsroom devoted to covering long COVID. Here's the launch letter, and there's a newsletter you can subscribe to: thesicktimes.org/newsletter/ I trust these folks and am excited to see where this goes.

also if you are uninsured or underinsured, the updated covid vaccine is still available to you for free through the cdc bridge program! please don’t let fear of out-of-pocket cost prevent you from getting vaccinated! www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

What doesn't kill you, make you darkly sarcastic.

#LongCovidResearch in/near NYC

not only is taking covid caution in your daily life a form of community care, but it’s a crucial strategy necessary to sustain your commitments—we cannot afford to catch and transmit covid constantly while organizing for liberation and it’s antithetical to disability justice to pretend otherwise.

Also, remember #Accessibility for #disabled people and use alt-text. #DisabilityTwitter is/was a robust community that will need a new home. And wider circulation and group alliances benefit all of us.

This is also a good format for LinkedIn messaging.

If you're on a search committee this year, and a colleague points out that someone got a Ph.D. in 2015, or 2011, or 2019, and maybe that time gap indicates a certain spoiling, a decline in quality, simply say... "We're hiring a professor, not buying an egg salad sandwich."

Open until December 1, 2023

Immensely informative roadmap for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). H/T Chydorina of RemissionBiome on Twitter/X. Created by Hip of Phoenix Rising. Good place to start for people with known or suspected ME/CFS and/or Long Covid.