The thing is it would probably be a lot safer to snort coke off a toilet seat a few times than unfiltered air in a classroom everyday, but we’re not ready for that conversation

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M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Today @thesicktimes.org: Shielding Cournoyer reviews the book "Invisible Illness." "Though Mendenhall accurately acknowledges the harm of psychologizing illness, her thesis does exactly that." thesicktimes.org/2026/02/13/i...

This is dangerously disrespectful of what we know about the PEM disease process as well as how motivated & socialized patients are to push ourselves. When we say this advice is dangerous, THAT’S KNOWLEDGE WE LEARNED IN THE MOST DEVASTATING WAY POSSIBLE. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS TO ANYONE ELSE 😩

These vaccines could prevent so much absolutely horrific suffering if anyone in power actually cared about preventing human suffering… everything from MS, ME/CFS, multiple cancers, dementia… we could stop them in their tracks if we wanted to #TripleTheNIHBudget

Okay but this would be a really great college course

Every billionaire: "I only went to the island to read the articles."

Rockwell would have painted this.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

This is an important story, & also, *of course* billionaires are eugenicists. They have to believe they’re innately superior while everyone dying at their hands is inferior in order to justify their own existence. But what I really want to know is what about the rest of us?

Submit Written Testimony Alert! Tuesday, Feb 10th ONLY! 8am-6pm ET SB 0392 Long Covid Innovation Grant & Loan Program Submissions are required to have a my MGA account NOT required to be a Maryland resident Please see linked 🧵 for details #LongCovid

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Second chance to support this exciting Long Covid legislation tomorrow/Tuesday February 10th! Submit your testimony between 8am & 6pm Eastern Time. You don’t have to be in Maryland! Instructions here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thrilled to get to be part of this!

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Almost half a billion people w/ Long Covid around the world w/ around half of them meeting criteria for ME. I’m sure it’s fine that only 33 doctors in the UK have learned anything about managing the life-threatening severe end of this horrific disease. It’s totally not going to get anyone killed /s

***CALL TO ACTION: Please email Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Chief Executive Ben Travis ([email protected]) with just the title “Restore pain relief to Savannah NOW”*** Savannah’s advocate posted a 2 part update. Content warning, it’s distressing. gofund.me/fc6791ded

The hostile immigration system is a disability justice issue.

Sundance, Valentine’s Day, the Oscars, my 1st AND 2nd “Covid destroyed my life” anniversaries… they all mysteriously show up around the same time to wreck my mental health. As if winter isn’t hard enough already?? The Super Bowl gets a pass for being one thing I’m never in any danger of caring about

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

I’m so tired of fighting for my life against this long list of lies 😩

putting this here. Who’s bringing food to people with long covid who are too weak to cook or are you just condemning them for ordering delivery? Are you masking up to visit friends or making them sicker or just abandoning them? There is a precedence for community care in the face of gov abandonment!

“When my doctors told me that I had Hodgkin lymphoma, they shared the various molecular markers the biopsy revealed…‘It’s EBV positive,’ they told me. My cancerous cells bore the genetic fingerprints of Epstein-Barr virus.”

Go submit your testimony to the House right now! And again (or if you miss today’s House deadline) to the Senate on Tuesday! You don’t need to live in Maryland—the idea is to show this is a global problem/global market. Here’s how to submit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Slowly making my way through the various climate mentions in the #epsteinfiles. It's a pretty interesting/disturbing window into the tech-finance-power broker universe of climate skepticism. Exhibit A: www.instagram.com/p/DUZq04EEQG...

Omg, I spent 30 minutes looking down to work on a little art project & I feel like it undid years of healing. Nauseous, dizzy, pure misery. Can’t believe I used to feel like this all the time. This is hell

Sharing my #MEAwarenessMonth poem. It's July, but the months, years, decades pass #pwME by, & the question remains. #GreatestMEdicalScandal #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @thrasherxy.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Hey #MedSky, have you ever treated someone with ME/CFS? If so, your input is sought on this survey!

Hi all! There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is: This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID (Feb 3, 2026) www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new...

The clock is ticking. The NIH now has 180 days to develop an implementation plan for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap. In 6 months, we SHOULD have a plan to implement the NIH’s roadmap for biomarkers, treatments & clinical trials. #MEAction partnered with #NotJustFatigue to secure this support. #NIH

Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us. Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

I once worked an EPA hotline for recycling & found myself counseling a woman on a very contentious-sounding breakup featuring stolen trash bins

To think she coulda just been a ballerina 🫠 Apologies to Langston Hughes but what happens to a dream deferred? Something something fester stink rotten explosion

too good not to have alt-text

“All that wanting, right? Sometimes it happens & sometimes it doesn't & sometimes it happens worse.”

Sobbing “because I’m worth it, it’s okay not to be okay” & colouring my whole entire self in from face to feet with the BACP lipstick collection & wondering why I’m still completely & utterly fucked

Maybe I’m late to the game on this but there’s a gluten free option now fyi ☺️

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

Shared this on insta & will share here too. If you’re not in the ME or Long Covid communities you’re likely unaware of just how often we have to watch young people die.

“Younger and middle-age individuals are disproportionally affected by neurologic manifestations of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection regardless of acute COVID-19 severity.” (Choudhury et al., 2025; DOI: 10.1002/ana.27128) Might 👆 be connected to 👇? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

Horrifying details here about the conditions inside the Whipple Building in Minneapolis and about how the detainees are being treated, including being “sent out into the cold—sometimes at night—to find their own way home” when released:

🧵(1/3) The Epstein link to back-room manipulation of pandemic authority is a huge deal for many reasons, but 👉first and foremost as COVID got loose *because* out-of-touch back-room manipulators rejected science and based policy on beliefs that were nearly a century out of date👈. We are owed a...

Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.

Anyway, here’s the moon

Blessed Imbolc ("in the belly" as in lambs waiting to be born, but I think of it as the belly of the beast… deep winter... halfway to spring... which could be March 20th, could be 20 years from now or 200 or 2000. We all have fires to tend. Rest yes but don't give up 🕯️)