Any other #pwME tend to flare with the solar flares? I feel like I’m being low key electrocuted 😅

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This is important to know about—it’s a common Covid outcome! One of my many scary first year of #LongCovid symptoms was not being able to breathe almost any time I tried to eat. It would start a few bites in & I would gasp for air for the next two hours, my lungs refusing to open properly

Oh wow, this system sounds bad not just for reading but for thinking in general. Seems like it would train your brain to not have to pay close attention to anything, & to feel falsely confident about being able to predict the future. A sort of magical thinking meets AI pattern recognition wasteland

Probably somebody reported an old post and the AI autosuspended her. @support.bsky.team bring back Sarah Kendzior's account. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

It’s depressing/enraging/terrifying how little has changed

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Re-skeeting with alt text:

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I bought this book for $4 for research. Imagine, as a Black person, specifically a Black woman, seeing this. It's not that old, it's from 1990. Imagine not only seeing this but hearing it said by the CDC. To not see this travesty spoken about more in IACC spaces is... well there are no words.

Just heard about a case in my city where a woman was assaulted by a man claiming to be a police officer and threatening to report her to ICE for deportation if she didn’t open her door. Luckily, family members convinced her to report it and he was caught. Hell isn’t big enough.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Edinburgh University PhD 3 year funded fellowship. Closing date 16th January 2026: "Personalised blood-based biomarkers for ME/CFS symptom severity" www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

*beams* This is lovely!

Google symptom searches mapped over COVID waves 👀

A long excerpt from this 1987 interview with Beth Bighley, a patient with chronic EBV, now known as #MECFS This could’ve been written by someone last year with #LongCovid and/or ME. “My parents' reaction was one of relief that I did have something physically. But also frustration, 1/

Alt: Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein leans poutily on a bench in a photograph styled to look like an oil painting. In lower case: “oh sure blame the guy whose fault it was” and an eye roll emoji.

Can we please get some disabled folks into these positions? 🙏💙

There’s a viral post on Twitter with 134k likes because when Zohran got a question from a disabled person in a wheelchair he … answered it. Idk man maybe we shouldn’t regard that as heroic

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

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Most of them lol. But Kossakovsky comes to mind

We are the doughters of the wiches they couldn’t bun

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years. We hear of a few, but most barely make the news. Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel. He was in perfect health when ICE detained him. He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

If I’m ever lucky enough to go into remission & I start telling people I “overcame my illness” please tell me to go fuck myself 🙂

Question for the 42M: how are you coping with not having your SNAP Benefits? My mom and sister have come through for me and I am beyond grateful that I have them because MOST do not. I want to know YOUR stories. I want people to see what we go through.

Love this idea and its scrappy vibe Dooo it, dooo it! Peer pressure!!!

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

Every now & then I think about the time a doctor sent me to a shaman who told me “if it doesn’t have a medical solution, it must not be a medical problem. You see?” I did not see. But I paid $250 for her to tell me to imagine myself hanging upside down while purple light flows into my feet 🫠

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

“I hurt the ones I love, I don’t deserve to live” no you are a hawk landing on unprotected forearm, come here, I have falconry equipment

in a way aren't we all looking for more sink cheese where we found it yesterday

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

Teen Vogue has produced some of the strongest and most important political journalism of the past few years. This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.

I spent a summer as a filmmaker fellow at the Southern Environmental Law Center in Birmingham where one of the other fellows was working on a project about Alabama Power, & omg they were like the mafia.

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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!