This is very cool

with all the shingles talk I keep going over a shameful memory of laughing when a friend told me their mom had shingles. I wasn't laughing because I thought it was funny, but because I was shocked and that's how I used to respond when shocked. Anyway he was upset and I still feel so bad about it

Critics of disability benefits largely frame it as a concern for government spending but beneath it, there’s often a clear prejudice: disabled people should have miserable little lives (unlike hardworking, normal people).

“What about those who are isolated? Those who are in hospital or managing a chronic health condition or disability that means they can’t participate in the world in the same way as other teenagers their age?”

The Great Barrington Declaration pushed the concept of 'herd immunity' as the answer to Covid. Political and economic expediency made it mainstream throughout the US and the UK. Herd immunity to covid is not happening. What's happening is Eugenics. I hope folks are making the connection now.

It is the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes

"Mental health conditions are over-diagnosed" "Long Covid and ME/CFS are mental illnesses"

Something I'm still trying to wrap my head around is how some people feel justified telling other people who they 'really' are. 'I know your mind better than you do' is the language of domination. You don't do this to people you respect.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

It's not just that the output is fucked, the premise of teaching a child to prompt a book cover design instead of making it with their owns hands is so sad.

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

Nothing prepares you for the "goes on walks for mental health" to "short walks make my brain fogy" chronic illness pipeline

It really sucks that all the things I've worried about for the last 20 years have come to fruition. That's 25 years of being told I'm being hysterical, or being too negative, or being a downer, or making a big deal out of things, or going overboard, or being too extreme. I want to kick a wall.

The other day I met an actual, real life "progressives are too purist and are shutting allies out of their movement; I am a terf-sympathiser, and I consider this reasonable". It did not go well.

It’s the mark of an amateur – in journalistic writing, book writing, TV, whatever – that they think ideas are the currency, where the value is, and need fiercely protecting. Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.

If you have a bad interface and your solution is "bolt an AI chatbot to it" you now have two bad interfaces.

There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time. Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids. Always.

Just thinking about kids getting covid over and over and over and over and over again. We have a pretty good picture of what infections can do. And I'm thinking about those kids, growing up with a list of pre-existing conditions which will not only impact their ability to work, but also

So so close to £200,000! Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders. We're growing our movement with the people. If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

These conspiracy theories and AIDS denialism have direct consequences. South Africa has had at least two presidents who denied the cause of AIDS. I grew up watching the devastation, deprivation, death and despair. It's beyond a nightmare. These people are despicable

Me and my friends would kill it with hammers, I'll tell you that much

Who wants to start an all women punk band with me. We'll call ourselves 'The Agonies'

we've been at this level of overstimulation for a decade at least, probably almost two decades. I wonder if something else happened to cause this

"I can excuse transphobic abuse of a child, but I draw the line at damaging private property".

Started listening to R.F. Huangs 'Katabasis' and it's unbearably bad. It is so bad. It's so annoying it kept me awake last night.

It's a rough lesson to learn for most of us but if someone is monstrous to some people they are likely to be monstrous towards you, too.

Hit with waves of grief this morning. Accumulated losses in my personal life plus becoming chronically ill and cut out of society (because I cannot mix indoors, or have a partner who does) has made me feel like I've died. Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

This is a good thread and I'd add that as a woman, if you aren't being listened to it's worth your time to say "I want to get pregnant" or "my husband is unhappy with our sex life" I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving

Zohran, looking at FDR portrait: You know he defeated your guy Trump: What? Zohran: Oh nothing

Some points on the #CovidInquiry: - that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.

civil service really doing everything it can to destroy morale and make people quit lol

I have a hunch that people forced to use a chatbot feel devalued as a result. The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are? On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people. Created with @longcovidjustice.org longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people

The 1918 flu pandemic set the stage for survivor-bias, which then set the stage for the mainstreaming of eugenics. The nazis started with the disabled, used disability framing to move onto queer people, and eventually widened the net to all 'useless eaters' and 'undesirables'.

I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.

Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.

heart breaking that voting for this felt like hope to many people at the time

We are donating to Children in Need, being moved by "Threads of Hope", while the people who had promised to fix asylum routes are instead out-nastying Reform, making sure refugee children can have no security in their lives here, ever. #PerfornativeCruelty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.” Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan. When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

This is devastating.

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend