If you want to figure out how to keep an eye on what’s circulating, this webinar should be excellent!

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I’m guessing the wastewater data will catch up soon bc everywhere I turn people are sick right now… &/or coming to terms with new chronic conditions & sending out “I’m stepping back from xyz to prioritize my health” messages 💔 I sent that same message 6 years ago. Still sick. Important thread ⬇️

I have an illness which is largely, not completely, but largely preventable.
This illness has impacted my life to the point where I’ve lost my home, my job, my social life & hobbies.
This illness also killed several friends as well as my parents.
This illness has no cure.
1/2

anti poetica there is no poem greater than feeding someone there is no poem wiser than kindness there is no poem more important than being good to children there is no poem outside love's violent potential for cruelty there is no poem that ends grief but nurses it toward light there is no poem that isn't jealous of song or murals or wings there is no poem free from money's ruin no poem in the capital nor the court most policy rewords a devil's script there is no poem in the law there is no poem in the west there is no poem in the north poems only live south of something meaning beneath & darkened & hot there is no poem in the winter nor in whiteness nor are there poems in the landlord's name no poem to admonish the state no poem with a key to the locks no poem to free you ~Danez Smith

So cool! 🐟🐟🐟

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I just keep thinking in a just world I wouldn’t be treated as the crazy/demanding/inconsiderate one in this situation

Thank you. It really is, especially considering the procedure I need anesthesia for (& had to do a GoFundMe to afford) is for a complication of Covid 😣

I tried to thread the needle this week & politely advocate for my medical providers to mask for me when I have to be unmasked under anesthesia, but I think it only lowered my chances of them actually doing it. Asking in advance just gives them more time to project their ugly feelings onto me

Watching this happen at every level of society from governments to healthcare to research to media to friends/family/spouses is just so shit

Everybody look at this charming tiny home for sale in Portland. It's only 8'6" wide, so you can move it anywhere

Ugh, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid & unaccommodating & liable to make us worse the medical system is. I hope it all went okay & you got the answers you needed!

Right?? It shouldn’t be such a rare privilege to have a doctor who has actually heard of, believes in, & even knows enough to treat your extremely common debilitating disease 🫠 (Dr Chheda/Center for Complex Diseases)

We want to talk to anyone in prison who thinks they may have Long COVID, and would appreciate readers sharing this call for sources with any loved ones, friends, or contacts. People in prison have limited access to information, so they may not know much about what Long COVID is. Rather than just asking if someone has Long COVID, you may need to explain that a person might have it if they got COVID-19 and never felt they really got all the way better or if an old health issue got a lot worse after COVID-19. Anyone with ideas for sources should contact reporter October Krausch by May 31 at rebelprof@proton.me If writing from the prison: The Sick Times Attn: October Krausch PO Box 331009 Brooklyn, NY 11233

Reporter @octoberk.bsky.social is working with The Sick Times on an investigation about the experience of #LongCOVID in prison, which will also highlight how people outside of prisons can advocate on this issue.

the lost women By Lucille Clifton i need to know their names those women i would have walked with jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom i would have joined after a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

Stunning beauties all around 💖

Today is Tinu's birthday.🎂

Tinu always had a birthday week and birthday month.
Celebrate her life and legacy!
Engage in mutual aid, do something for yourself, rest aggressively when needed, check in on your friends, read her words, say hello to some ducks!
So many ways to honor our beloved Tinu.✨

A drawing of the U.S. Capitol with Long COVID Campaign logo above it, and Sign on, Senators to #FundLongCOVID underneath, with the message: Sunday Voicemails Plus Emails Equals Change.

📣#LongCOVID Community📣 THANK YOU to the almost 600 folks who've emailed & called their Senators! Sunday emails & voicemails CAN move the Senate on Monday! Senate FY27 #FundLongCOVID "Dear Colleague" deadline extended to Monday AM. @lccampaign.bsky.social free, customizable tools here: 1/x

This was one of the formative incidents in my young life. And I watched almost an entire city of people across racial lines absolutely lose their minds. It was the equivalent of a lynch mob and the NY press was leading the way.

Telemachus' Detachment When I was a child looking at my parents' lives, you know what I thought? I thought heartbreaking. Now I think heartbreaking, but also insane. Also very funny.

Louise Glück

😆👏🏻

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

UNSUNG HERO: Iris Long was an unlikely AIDS activist. A married chemist from Queens, she barely knew any gay people. She joined ACT UP to use her expertise to fight for treatments. May her memory be a blessing.

By Richard Sandomir, w/ a small assist from me.

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#TripleTheNIHBudget

Two ancestors of deer talk to each other, "Indohyus, my brother. I've decided to search for more food in the waters." "You will regret this Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt." "I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine." 35 million years later, a huge blue whale floats over a tiny deer, "AAAOOOOOOOOAAAAHHH MRUUUUUHHHH BWOOOOEEEEE" and the deer says "WTF"

for anybody who doesn't know about the deer whale thing here ya go

Friend! I’m so sorry 😣🤢😳🫣 Med people desperately need ableism 101 training

I hear that! I mostly get mad when fake empathy is offered in lieu of real care, but having to go through the song & dance of performing gratitude in exchange for performed empathy/is also very obnoxious! Like, I didn’t come to the dentist because I wanted pity, I came to get my teeth cleaned 🙃

Incredible. That would be so hard to leave!

Omg

Something I appreciate about my ME specialist is that she doesn’t waste time performing empathy—which is what most doctors seem to think patients like me want. “If I say ‘that sounds so hard’ with my eyebrows crinkled, this bitch should be happy, right?”

Wrong. We just want doctors to do their job.

When people don’t respect you they’ll treat you terribly, blame you for their harmful behavior, & then convert any guilt they may feel into more hatred & disrespect towards you. It happens on an institutional level like this, & it happens on a personal level. And everyone with ME has experienced it