Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

“Jesus Christ, these are the people I now feel most connected to—random people I’ve never met in real life and probably never will,” said a visibly distressed Andrew Riley

Took me less than a minute.

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Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

Anyone needing a balm during #MEAwarenessMonth this can make those of us isolated without social contact feel less alone… youtu.be/6iRbQNX07zY?... Watch and donate if you can too 💙🌟🎶💙

It's #BlueSunday2026! A day to fundraise for ME advocacy and the #MillionsMissing, and like every May, I will match your donations! For 3+ years I have been of this world but not in it, and this is my best hope of getting my old life back. For now, this is my day to day: hashman.ca/me-cfs/

Happy #BlueSunday2026 #TeaPartyForME2026 ! I just donated the cost of a coffee/pastry to @meactnet.bsky.social & to mutual aid for people with ME 🩵

Soo who’s gonna make the Herzog-style remix of Omaha quarantine guy’s videos? (No dunk on him, he seems lovely, but they’re such a weirdly rich cultural artifact… all the unboxing videos & product placements & the strange cheerfulness… someone could make a great doc out of it)

No one: My brain: remember that time 8 years ago when we tried to cheer on a colleague’s win & we shouted “go you!” & “fuck yeah!” at the same time but it came out “fuck you!” & then she never talked to us again?

Oedipus Rex!

Now imagine craniocervical instability where the brain stem is getting knocked around every day for years on end… #MESpine

Blue Sunday, the Tea Party for ME, is always the Sunday after #MEAwarenessDay & is a sweet way for healthy allies to support ppl with ME. You throw a little tea party (for friends or just yourself), donate the cost of a tea/pastry to an ME org of your choice, & post a pic online to raise awareness 💙

#MECFS #LongCovid

hell yeah voice actors

Exciting stuff! “Ensitrelvir administered to household contacts of a patient with Covid-19 within 72 hours after symptom onset in the index patient was effective in preventing Covid-19 in the contacts.” Covid incidence in the ensitrelvir group was 2.9% compared to 9.0% for placebo (RR 0.33).

I really cannot overstate how ppl and govt responses to COVID led directly to this. When you find ways to minimize rather than alleviate the impact of a deadly virus, you damage public health immeasurably. Public health is worse than before COVID. This is a fact. metro.co.uk/2026/05/13/h...

Just to be clear, #MECFS isn’t some rare disease that will probably never impact you or anyone you know. Around 1% of the population is affected. Maybe more! Definitely more if you’re only looking at women!

Long Covid and #MECFS is a workers rights issue. People catch this on the job. Then all they have strength to do is their job, nothing else. Then they get sicker and lose their job anyway. Then SSD is denied. #MillionsMissing

Amazing matching funds offer for some excellent #MECFS orgs! 💙 #MEAwarenessDay

The full quote is that #pwME "feel effectively the same every day as an AIDS patient feels two months before death; the only difference is that the symptoms can go on for never-ending decades." Prof. Mark Loveless, Head of the AIDS and ME/CFS Clinic at Oregon Health Sciences University

This ME Awareness Day I’m emailing my elected officials to ask where the research funding is and my professional bodies to ask why nurses get NO education on ME/CFS

Did you know May 12th is Florence Nightingale’s birthday & #MEawarenessDay? It’s not a coincidence: watch my vid &find out why… (I have #SevereME so this took a lot of energy to make, pls share🙏 I’m also homeless if you want to help!➡️ linktr.ee/EthyricalArt... ) #MEawareness #pwME #MillionsMissing

Please sign and share. This institution has far too much sway over a biomedical condition and is listening to the wrong people. Please help @longcovidadvoc.com make a difference on #WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessDay

If you’re not affected by ME, I challenge you to look through the hashtags this #MEAwarenessDay & choose one post to share on behalf of the #MillionsMissing. We desperately need healthy allies to get angry for us & advocate for research & social support 💙 #MECFS #WorldMEDay #GreatestMEdicalScandal

I wasn’t planning to write anything for #MEAwarenessDay this year but I’m at my Mom’s & she pulled out a bunch of old photos for me & I’m just so angry for this little one. She deserved better than to have her fate sealed by misogyny & ableism before she reached 8 years old. #GreatestMEdicalScandal

Tale as old as time

Tens of thousands of dollars of off-label meds & treatment experiments & I’m still mostly bedbound & too sick to work/socialize/do anything but exist & suffer for years on end. No research funding = no validated treatment = millions of young lives rotting away #MEAwarenessDay #GreatestMEdicalScandal

Tomorrow is #WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessDay and in person #MillionsMissing at HHS! Our virtual action goes from May 9th-16th. Take action toolkit: bit.ly/MM2026toolkit Thanks to @hospmom.bsky.social for sharing this pic. (& designing Tees that benefit #MEAction - www.bonfire.com/store/jessne...) ⬇️

#smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry #writingcommunity @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

some things you can really only do the once or they become rote but if I could relive one moment this here would be high on the list www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67...

Raise your hand if you're a man who's gained some new awareness recently about the fact that nearly all the women you know were sexually harassed by adult men as children. I wanna see a show of hands to see if this is getting through to you from today.

I need to change a southwest flight, which is supposedly free, but changing to the new flight costs $940 while just booking that same flight costs $480. I don’t understand 😵‍💫

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

We show firm solidarity with the Anti-Psychosomatics Club! It's at the root of the harm for #pwME & #LongCovid Amazing to see the #liegenddemo images coming through. Our BPS 101 is nearly ready for pub! Enjoy a 🧵of protest 👇 bsky.app/profile/buec...

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This is heartbreaking. It does bad things to the soul to know and to witness pain like this decade after decade and to see it make so little impact. We’ve lost so many and struggled so long.

#NEISvoid poli ed: The Appropriations process is important for action on Long Covid, ME, etc because Congress is passing fewer and fewer laws. The budget is one of the only bills that does get passed (sooner or later), so shoehorning something into it is often the best shot at Congressional action.

Today, hundreds of people went to the streets in over 40 cities (!!!) in Germany to demand better support for Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patients. One of the reasons I chose Germany as my new home. Very proud of you my German friends. #LiegendDemo #MECFS

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

I think an uncomfortable truth we have to sit with that Biden's CDC had the same rhetoric. Obviously, what RFK Jr says here is horrible but pervelance of eugenics is a both party problem.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Officials Clarify That Mandatory Hantavirus Quarantine Will Be Voluntary

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Love/hate this

A long time ago I used to work w/ the lead author on this paper. Not that I was ever as smart as her, but my brain worked ok 😅 Now there are many days where I can’t think, carry on a conversation, tolerate sound, etc. If you prefer your brain to keep working at its current capacity, protect it!

With AIDS—once they knew what was happening—they at least had a few years of able bodiedness to fight with. By the time ppl realize (by experiencing ME/LC themselves… no one *really* believes otherwise) how devastating these diseases are & how absolutely abandoned we are, they’re too sick to fight