FYI for anyone in New York State who is affected by the SNAP situation, we got this notice just a couple hours ago.

I really do think The Sick Times is doing some of the most important journalism of our generation. And I can tell you firsthand that Miles and Betsy are the real deal. They care so, so much about getting it right. They’re incredible humans in addition to being such good journalists.

City jobssss

Also seeing from ASPEN that the ICD-11 will have several new codes for adult malnutrition, inc. "5B72.2 undernutrition in adults related to starvation." I'm curious how this will get used outside of war and famine contexts, and if anyone will acknowledge starvation in the context of medical neglect.

@Medical professionals and researchers: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition is seeking topic suggestions for Malnutrition Awareness Week 2026. Would be great to see something on malnutrition in severe ME. @meactnet.bsky.social @swastrosarah.bsky.social @janetdafoe.bsky.social

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

i am stuck in a domestic violence situation until & unless i can fundraise to get somewhere safer & secure a mailing address. my survival depends on fundraising enough to get out of here with my ESA dog. please help a queer disabled woman of color get to safety. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree

I can't for the most part because I have aphantasia, and you know what, I still wouldn't want this shit. Let it be known that if anyone shows up with an AI of my dead mom, I will slap you in the face lol

Tell me why I am in an entire meeting about what to expect from an upcoming meeting

Really bummed to be missing this conference. Everything has just exploded this week and I don't have the cognitive energy to even show up to the things. I think/hope there are going to be recordings?

I'm as anti-car as the next person but obligatory reminder that what's actually happening with these stats is owning a car is a proxy for economic status and also for living in neighborhoods that lean more conservative

The framing of this question honestly feels like a great way of examining poverty. Just as one example: These days I would consider myself "comfortably poor," and losing out on $195 would suck a lot but I'd probably just eat the cost and be fine next month. In my 20s when I made just above the FPL,

Hey so if anyone wants to fund a documentary where we buy their houses and turn them into really nice cushy apartments for homeless people, that would be fun

you know things are bad when Romney's son is like "you guys are going to take money to intern the homeless?"

Can anybody recommend any actual good disability financial counselors? Ideally free/pro bono but I would be willing to pay at this point

The Black man in the KN95 and keffiyeh, the coincidentally also Black man in the pimp coat (?!) with the truck full of exploited white girls, the very obvious lack of knowledge of what domestic violence social workers actually do…ugh put me out of my misery here

There's some bureaucratic fuck-uppery with my housing voucher, which means I might need to move without benefit of a voucher, ballooning my expenses for at least a single month, possibly more. I'm raising money to be able to cushion the blow. Anything helps! Thank you! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

If you love trans people, if you love sex workers, if you think we deserve to have families... please donate. The amount of money my friend needs to raise for court costs is shocking. Please donate.

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My great-aunt Pepita, who according to (very unreliable) legend, ran off to be a showgirl or possibly a lesbian

Still very unclear on why/how this is making the news now rather than two months ago when it happened, but really glad to see a whole slate of coverage on the cancellation of the SOAR program, which helped homeless people access SSI and SSDI. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t... archive.ph/zTA4a

Shoutout to the Serbian(?) dudes overheard having an extremely heated conversation about how concentration camps are bad. Every now and then they would switch to English so it would just be like "[bla bla gibberish] due process!" "[some more very pointed gibberish] innocent until proven guilty!"

Hello, internet! My friend K is *so* close to getting a (really great) accessible apartment, but needs $500 for the deposit basically asap. Please help out if you can! (The deposit should get reimbursed if the funding source gets approved, but there's a chance it won't because bureaucracy sucks.)

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

I’d really love to see @autisticadvocacy.org or another org do a “how to write an op ed” / “how to speak to the media” clinic for autistic adults, to counter this

Let me explain: States currently receive a percentage for each medical expense they pay from the federal government (called FMAP). That means they will receive more money if more people are on Medicaid or they utilize more Medicaid covered services. Block grants are pots of money that don't change.

Are there any ethical transcription programs out there or is it all basically predatory AI? Trying to figure out what to do with some call recordings...

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On this note--where are we looking for up-to-date prevalence stats at this stage?

An infectious disease class that can’t teach about *checks notes* recent polio outbreak. JFC!

Two years of hell. Give all you can. Crips for eSims for Gaza chuffed.org/project/crip...

It's Christmas for Lesbians

Very glad to see this finally generating some press and outrage...but also kind of mystified that it took two months?

This is alarming for a whole host of reasons, not least the involuntary commitment element (the article literally includes the phrase "homeless jail"). But I really wish journalists would also dig into what kind of addiction "treatment" is even being offered here utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/18/u...

Oh shit

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments for Chiles v Salazar today. If you want to get caught up on what this Supreme Court case means for conversion therapy), STAT's very own @theresagaff.bsky.social has you covered. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/s...

Oh wow, that's great and I don't have any concerns /s

Additionally/alternatively: Getting long covid in your 30s is like coming out in your teens/20s, in that you get to play roulette with rejection and abuse all over again

"Compassion fatigue is when it makes me sad to look at homeless people"

I've been getting a lot of unsolicited advice especially from white people. I'm Black. I don't get treated the same as you. I can't just switch doctors. I'll be labelled negatively & get no care at all. Yes it's wrong. But at the end of the day, you won't do anything about it.

Of course it's Skyhorse, which has a long history of publishing antivax and other science denialist books--including the "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" book that ACT UP, GLAAD, and others protested a few years ago

These are the type of articles that are published under Bari Weiss. CBS News employees deserve better than to have her as EIC.

This feels directly in line with Trump's push to force neurodivergent and homeless people into institutions. The fact that it's being opposed by Bazelon, ASAN, etc. and endorsed by NAMI (which has historically supported forced hospitalization) says everything. www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/09/25/c...

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Holy shit?!? api-prod.gothamist.com/news/nycha-b...

I'm so tired. Drowning in caregiving admin. Losing access to increasingly more of my own care and meds. Trying to do laundry and cleaning with my unsteady hands. Can barely stay awake but then sleep is consistently terrible. It's about to be October and somehow still 80+ degrees. Everything hurts.

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hi, friends. we’ll be on the streets this Sunday, and are fundraising for a hotel or temp short-term stay while waiting on car titling process. boosting the fundraiser would help my ESA dog & i survive. shares, boosts, all deeply appreciated 🌸