1) The ME Association in the UK announced that it will invest £1.1m into the Rosetta Stone study. The study will compare the immune profile of ME/CFS and Long Covid patients, with 250 patients in each group.

If this is a priority, I should've gone into public "service."

You know, we picked on my mom when she converted a coat closet to media storage—VHS, mostly, though DVDs mixed in eventually. But then, I grew up on the tail of a mountain where, to the best of my knowledge, cable is still unavailable and satellite dishes are still common.

So the sick man in the WH says "These people are garbage" and a few days later, this happens. Do ya think there's a connection? Maybe? Kinda? www.startribune.com/cause-under-...

Missing from the tributes to the now-late CEO of an org I worked for in my 20s: - HR covered for him a LOT. - At least one harassment lawsuit was settled out of court. - I quietly prepped an early social media strategy for the moment he came in off the golf course and demanded we get on Twitter.

My favorite writing format is the double-edged eulogy.

I had to measure my kid for concert dress and he what some horses do when you try to tighten the girth, and now I have pants that are way too big for him and too little time to alter them well. (I can...but not well.) Do not know why I could catch horses pulling this shit but not a 12yo human.

old soviet joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse

The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

I think the diagnosis of the “male loneliness epidemic” as being largely about women no longer feeling that the *labor* of having a male partner is offset by any observable benefits is mostly accurate.

1️⃣ Visible Health has launched a local clinical trial feature. One of the first surfacing to users is an ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) trial led by Trudie Chalder, a researcher whose work has been highly controversial in ME. This raises important patient-safety concerns.

A good thread 🧵🧪

My 12yo: So there's this great meme where you send a bag full of penises to someone to tell them to eat a bag of dicks! Me: That's not a meme. We used to send those to Congress in protest. 12yo: WUT. Me: Sometimes they were cookies. 🤷‍♀️

Look, it's bad that it's a cat. What if it's a kid?

May you all know the joy an 8yo feels upon discovering he's missed 4 days of his advent calendar.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

"Myocarditis is a known — but small — side effect risk of the mRNA Covid vaccines"... It's also a known, higher risk from directly contracting a Covid infection. #medsky 🛟🧪 💉

I've stumbled onto "Oh. What. Fun." while baking and knitting. I feel this might be Denis Leary's finest work.

We're making the kids mask at school through January and they're salty about it. Their dad is legally blind and low-vision enough to be functionally blind. Maybe *this* will shut them up. 🙄

“COVID-19 leaves microvascular damage, even after mild infection…microvascular changes appear years before vision declines. Just like in diabetes, hypertension, or glaucoma, what we’re seeing now may be the beginning of a process—not the end of it” Prevent Covid infection or face vision loss later😷

Only power lines stand between me and a daily view that rivals a Bob Ross painting rn. #Vermont #Winter #snow

Owner of Whole Foods says food prices are a bargain

Tennessee, vote for this lady. Imagine a world with even a single consequence for fascism.

I just want to note... that if you ever feel bad about yourself or doubt your abilities... remember a man wrote the sentence below and kept right on trucking like it actually made sense

Who taught you math

My middle schooler's science teacher said the winter storm warning likely means a snow day. They're gonna be hella pissed if he's wrong. (I have to go over the damn mountain in the morning and would not mind if he's wrong.)

Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has killed 44 million people globally. Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors. Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.” Silence = Death

I thought the movers lost my discontinued-scent Holiday Sage Yankee Candle, but they just smashed the jar! 😒 (...but it made me look, and the scent is back! So there's that.)

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

This “young men are in crisis!” gives me “they took our jobs!” vibes. Having no purpose can be depressing af but no one took your job or your wife. The problem is you are part of a patriarchal society that believes you have a RIGHT to those things simply because you’re a man & my friend you do not.

Back in the 90s us feminists were like- men need to be liberated from toxic masculinity too! Men aren’t encouraged to be caregivers and lead emotionally fulfilling lives. And now 25 years later everyone is like… men seem not okay and we’re like yes. Catching on are you?

I see our family in this story, and no obvious or reasonable solutions.

ME: I want to do some traveling BANK ACCOUNT: Like...to the porch?

I'm not a fan of remakes, but the new Airplane! looks rad

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“If vaccines work, why would you need a booster?” he asks as he changes his oil for the third time that year.

We're working hard on November's list (which will be another doozy, piggies), but until then, here's October's. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Happy Thanksgiving

HENCEFORTH, I AM IN CHARGE OF STUFFING. Tf was my family making all those years I couldn't manage three bites?!

Well, we wanted to watch Peanuts specials for Thanksgiving, but we aren't an Apple family. So now we've defaulted to South Park specials. Starvin' Marvin ftfw, I guess.

<---This is my shocked face

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime We’re in the upside down. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Church Street Burlington Vermont

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

Cool. Let the man who wants to be king eat it.

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?