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.

🧵 New Canadian research "Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here’s why. New U of A research reveals underlying mechanisms of how long COVID affects women and men differently" #LongCovid #MEcfs 1/

Poverty and disability often go together Most people have no idea how fast their life can change One accident or illness is all it takes Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network It’s why we need robust social supports.

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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.

Sunday mutual aid thread: Reply with your mutual aid requests. People are really struggling right now so please consider liking, sharing and donating to the people who reply. #helpsky #fundsky #MutualAid #HelpSaveLifes2025 #MutualAidrequest

“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!

Did you know about the Bald Cypress? I did not & was so shocked when I came upon this magnificent tree bc it’s got needles but also turns colors! It’s a deciduous conifer! It’s a hybrid-genre tree! Like the larch. It gets its cool name bc it goes bald in winter, dropping its needles.

Did anyone’s kids NOT go as K-Pop Demon Hunters for Halloween? I’ve never seen such a universally popular costume (at least among my friends’ kids)!

This happened to me with two guy friends in the past year tho… whole new level of anxious attachment activated

i don’t want to know about people disliking my posts that’s not my business

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night

Some of the first victims of fascism last century were people disabled by the 1918 flu pandemic. It’s really weird watching history repeat itself.

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

An excellent article on #MECFS and the lack of evidence for graded-exercise therapy (GET). Too many studies use outdated criteria that don’t require post-exertional malaise (PEM) which means they’re not actually studying ME.

Proud of #MEAction for fighting to #SaveMedicaid & the #ACA so creatively this Halloween! We've got an advocacy action for you! You don't have to have #MECFS or #LongCOVID: this is a fight for all of us. Read through this 🧵to find out how to participate 💪 youtu.be/E-8B0NpENtk

A haunted house but it’s losing your health, career, marriage, ability to leave the house to an incurable disease people refuse to believe in, & all the normal things you’d do to grieve like cry, exercise, socialize, make art, make your disease a thousand times worse so you just have to lie there

Beautiful essay. “‘We cannot expect to feel hopeful, at least not very often, and having any particular hope is likely to end in heartbreak.’… Instead, we practice a kind of hopeless action—we keep trying because trying itself is a form of faith, a muscular type of prayer.“

Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues

The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut... 1/16

Look at that bottom shelf and let that sink in for a minute. “Get dressed. Eat. Shower.” Out of reach. Fortunately eating has become not a problem for me. But I cannot change clothes every day (tho more easily than I used to) and I absolutely cannot shower by myself or frequently.

This is the full quote. @medscape.com doesn’t mention ME/CFS once in the article. How this should read instead: Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is the hallmark of #MECFS, a condition found to affect at least 50% of those with #LongCovid. Why this matters🧵

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Getting a rejection letter & realizing the last rejection letter you got from them was actually the good kind because this one is much less encouraging lol