It is wildly stressful when you are in fear of the exterior wall falling down or a house fire so you’re having to gather up your most precious belongings in the event you need to escape immediately. I can’t believe I’m in this situation 😶

I wonder how many doctors are attracted to the role because they thrive off the power dynamic over extremely vulnerable people, the money, and the powerful social status the career name brings 😒

WTF

AI is the technological heir of mansplaining and getting it wrong

Alternatively maybe this can all be summarised as “I’m an older millennial” 🤪

It’s fucked when most of our communication has to go via fascist-enabling corporations. I’m tired of telling people “no I don’t use WhatsApp. I don’t use Facebook” and the blank stare in return where they give up on me

This isn’t aimed at any individual so much as where society has gone and I hate it. Because when I don’t use social media apparently I become socially isolated and a lot of people won’t converse with me anymore. “Oh you use text?! No one uses that anymore”

I notice people are addicted to them exactly like a drug and they haven’t worked this out yet. I notice people are happy to go about still using these extremely unethical fascist-enabling companies despite holding otherwise anti-fascist views. Over time they accept worse and worse…

Social media - I notice people getting irritated when I ‘disappear again’ or they can’t contact me via those shitty data-mining companies. I notice I get congratulated/gain their approval when I return. I notice that I’m forgotten about/don’t exist when I am not there. I notice lowkey stalkers. 🤮

Oh yes, I agree. I suppose some of these people are considerably more marginalised than others and these are the people I am concerned about. I really should have also mentioned poor/working class people of colour in general. Btw thank you for all your coverage of M.E. It means a lot

I just had 7 months of having to endure a complete jerk that everything I said he would butt in and tell me it was wrong, it was *actually* what he was about to say. Every. Time. And the ironic part? He was usually wrong. The dynamic of the relationship meant it was always an assertion of dominance

“Yes well actually…”

I think it’s important for privileged people to know exactly who these scapegoats are as neoliberal propaganda is so insidious… I think trans people, poor migrants, poor disabled people/people on benefits are the biggest targets…

Love 💗

Are they always men lol?

This looks more like Toad is actually putting in his eyedrops to me 😆

I think I need a badge that says “if I separate art from artist I will have no music left. And I never liked Queen that much” 🤪

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

The way folks desperately need the real-world villains to be somehow cognitively compromised because otherwise it means they themselves could be a real-world villain.

Just sanist ableism things.

Haha. 😑 does it feed on plastic nanoparticles?

This **** is a loathsome baby/arse face ****. The damage he has done to trans people alone makes my blood boil

DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN. "It is the heart of US policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism." - Michael Parenti

This.

The amount of damage that Simon Wessely has done with his bullying psychosomatic bias (not just for ME, but Gulf War Syndrome & other devastating illnesses) is truly incalculable. 🤬

(The quote below is from the 1990s… the absolute arrogance & hubris! 😒)

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs #SevereME

Its because white cis men get to be treated as individuals then individualised crime is easy to ignore. You don't blame the perceived majority for the actions of a member of the group but the media DOES love to frame the actions of a minority as the responsibility of the group.

Just a bad apple 🙄

It’s near silent outside and I am awake as I usually am at this time (why though) and a lone blackbird has started singing. Oh my heart 🥹

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!

Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

One thing that a lot of trans people have been doing (esp trans women) is silently dropping out of public life. The MSG is obviously extreme but the panopticon of pressure trans ppl experience in a heavily surveilled America is a lot. Safer to just stay home, forfeit public life

But psychiatrists operate on a completely different level to other doctors. Biomedical doctors cannot give a diagnosis without performing some objective test, or showing that the patient has a clear and specific set of symptoms and signs that fit the diagnostic criteria.* The tests and diagnostic criteria have (at least most of the time) been validated through rigorous science. On the other hand, a psychiatrist can simply declare “these symptoms are psychosomatic”. It’s a judgement call. While I’m sure the psychiatrists can always give a justification, the justification is vague and subjective in a way that would never be accepted for a biomedical diagnosis. There is a vast amount of room for bias to creep in.

Extract from: "Liaison psychiatry: The hospital-based psychiatrists who can declare physical symptoms to be psychosomatic" by K. Johnstone (April 17)

mecfs.substack.com/p/liaison-ps...

1/

I feel like a lot of conversations I have with men are actually small battles where they are micro-aggressively arguing what they think, everything they say is right and there’s knee-jerk resistance when challenged and really enjoy being antagonistic… forcing some debate/argument… or is it me?

Streeting and Mandelson

I suspect this photo is going to be one of the most shared over the next few years if Labour is stupid enough to select Streeting to replace Starmer.