Thank you, yes it is.
03.12.2023 16:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@chronicallylinz.bsky.social
scientist, artist, stack of illnesses in a trenchcoat; listening, learning, trying to do better. disabled #pwME - no energy for anything much. she/they.
Thank you, yes it is.
03.12.2023 16:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My Mum is dying in hospital.
She's being cared for and surrounded by people who won't do the bare minimum to protect patients like her.
Fuck everyone who doesn't mask, especially in a damn hospital.
Never dating ableds again and feeling freed by this realisation πͺ
10.11.2023 15:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The necropolitics of the pandemic were a test run for the Necro politics/ capitalism of climate change and we failed. οΏΌ
06.11.2023 16:05 β π 35 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0Your usual reminder that CBT has *never* been shown to improve *actual physical symptoms* in #MECFS patients.
Self-reported well-being is often higher after CBT; but that's what CBT does -- it gets people to look at things more positively.
Actual strength, endurance, mobility etc all UNAFFECTED
Wear a mask in public because chronic illness is exhausting and expensive and if you can avoid it by doing something so minor and unobtrusive, you might as well.
06.11.2023 17:26 β π 65 π 18 π¬ 2 π 0I was trying to think about advice related to my expertise as a Disabled person in the US but honestly all of my advice is "it sucks; don't end up in this position if you can help it" so.
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There is never money for people drowning in student debt, can't afford housing, or are having to crowdfund their medical bills. But there is always money for war.
03.11.2023 18:25 β π 464 π 134 π¬ 5 π 1The absence epidemic has struck β welcome to sick day Britain Carrying on at work despite a cold used to be a badge of honour β not anymore
Wilfully spreading disease used to be a badge of honour, writes spluttering idiot and committed infection vector.
02.11.2023 04:57 β π 94 π 17 π¬ 14 π 3Every time I accidentally but viciously bite the inside of my own lip, I think bitterly about all of my precious time that was wasted by people trying to convince me that human bodies were intelligently designed by some perfect deity.
02.11.2023 07:47 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0You want the people who are trapped on other platforms to leave themβ¦ by making Bluesky MORE inhospitable? Mute. Block. Fuck off.
Itβs inaccessible. If youβre Black you still get directly or indirectly abused here. This will become Twitter if you donβt listen to marginalized people.
Lots of people know about #LongCovid but are unaware that "post-acute infection syndromes" are a recognised medical problem & have existed for centuries.
Here Yale School of Medicine outline the 4 main causal theories >> viral remnants; autoimmune responses; latent viruses; tissue damage
#MECFS
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30.10.2023 19:18 β π 137 π 25 π¬ 4 π 0Some account felt the need to decide that everyone who does mass gun violence is mentally ill by definition and it's like... I think you don't understand what illness is?
"Illness" and "harmfulness" are two different things.
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#NEISvoid... let's say I accept that I'm going to be working mostly from bed through the winter and have awhile before complete collapse to plan that.
What are some things I can do/buy that will make that easier & more pleasant?
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#DisabledMath is getting several major items off your to do list Monday & Tuesday, then waking up Wednesday morning completely useless & out of all the cutlery except knives.
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These tight-fisted fucks wonβt lend a few grand to people with a 650 credit score but will eat a $2B (or greater) loss for the sake of Muskβs ego and our government has the temerity to tell us this is the product of a healthy economy
25.10.2023 15:13 β π 718 π 213 π¬ 13 π 1The world's richest man talks about the importance of having as many children as possible, yet is suing that his children's residency be moved to Texas so he can cap their child support to $2760 a month for 3 kids. The richest man in the world wants to pay $920 per child a month.
25.10.2023 15:00 β π 39 π 12 π¬ 3 π 1I donβt mean to be king of doom here but the farming troubles arenβt getting anywhere near enough press, I think from a combo of not wanting to cause panic and the fact that the rich people in charge feel like theyβll be fine. Iβm not even sure thatβs true.
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21.10.2023 16:25 β π 94 π 35 π¬ 3 π 1Wow. Blue check users pushed 74% of Xβs most viral false Israel-Hamas war-related claims.
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21.10.2023 15:14 β π 186 π 93 π¬ 26 π 7The goal of disinformation isnβt to mislead you but to make you feel so insane that you canβt trust anything, thatβs when propaganda is at its most effective
17.10.2023 21:27 β π 463 π 138 π¬ 7 π 4So weird how as soon as the pandemic started it became very immediately clear that things like socialized medicine and giving people money so children donβt starve actually work really well but now that itβs been a couple years we have to all pretend we didnβt notice that
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