Michael Askren

So are people actually going to hold a general strike now that Brandon Johnson is suggesting it

Average NYT opinion saying incredibly ignorant ass shit

Drew Struzan might be most famous for Star WARS, but he did plenty of Star TREK over the years. And they were always gorgeous.

Never seen a local cop do shit to stop an ICE raid and thats because they’re on the same damn side

Whoa. My insurance just approved my IVIG. I’ve been waiting… three years for this medication. Feels a bit surreal right now.

Someone who’s read the rest of the Sun Eater series, please tell me that it gets better after the first novel 😩

I’m pretty sure my insurance is never going to approve any treatments that would actually help me.

This is just a reminder that it’s okay to hate the people that did wrong by you. If they gave you good reason then your feelings are valid.

5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high. (Purple & yellow lines are adult incidence in cohorts of 3.8 & 1.9 million people, using either NASEM or non-NASEM definitions. Green line is children). https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/80/6/1247/8002322

🚨 post by @ahandvanish.bsky.social on Twitter:

"5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high."

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It’s honestly offensive that the CIA could take out Fred Hampton as a supposed threat to our government but they didn’t see the bumbling, hamfisted danger of conservative manosphere podcasters. They could have all been psy-oped into chugging bleach if we had just tried hard enough

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.

Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.

We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

She just cancelled her vidcon appearance. Idk it’s clear she has chronic health issues at this point and I’m sure she’s trying to address them but like, doctors don’t know shit about LC, so she’s probably just running around in circles.

It’s genuinely so obvious that Nihachu has long COVID the way she talks about her health. But she keeps going to conventions and getting infected. 😮‍💨

I cannot tell you how bad this is. We've handed over the health of all Americans to this deranged zealot and his flunkies and mini-Mes. This is going to get people sick, some will die. Nothing good will come of this.

Blaming “The Antivaxxers” for measles outbreaks is a wild double standard coming from people who magically believe COVID isn’t harmful and that we can’t do anything about it so they live in make-believe (or glass houses I guess)

Disaster Awaits Us if the NIH Dies We need to be sending more federal research dollars to more people in more places. Instead, the government is doing the opposite.

Cuts to NIH will keep science exclusive. Already training programs that open doors for those who are not rich & are underrepresented. Cuts to budgets will decimate public institutions & communities. We write to say save NIH & keep science for the working class.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I really have to get my CPTSD looked at

If the algo had locked in on my tastes it could be forgivable lmao but most of the time it’s so completely outside what I want or expect so it just feels rude

It’d be cool if people stopped using AI to make mediocre crap they mistakenly label as self expression

Profiles in cowardice. #BillCassidy owns every death, every illness that comes from this Administration. He is a coward who has betrayed his Hippocratic Oath. #RFKJr #publichealthmalpractice.

You say it wasn’t “established science” but the reality on flu deaths, AIDS deaths, and many deaths from pathogens are a matter of statistical record. Is the fact that no one cared to take such a basic precaution to stop those not a failing to you? Do you really think it was fine?

It was an ableist world before then too, we just didn’t have millions dead and disabled to remind us how harmful our actions can be. Certain people want change and so they act on it in accordance with their values. If you want to go back to the way things were, you aren’t really about that.

Trapdoor spider, oils on gold painted panel, sold

The subtext here is that none of these clowns—Bhattacharya, Kennedy, Makry, or Oz—believe government has any business protecting people from disease threats or doing public health.

It’s just social Darwinism.

Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where...

Again for those in the back:
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning

Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”

Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

More poor disabled and chronically ill people who do not have the means to travel to Canada or Mexico will die if this happens.

I think what this makes abundantly clear is that Bhattacharya is either an inveterate liar, has no idea about any of the policies he himself is implementing, or some combination of both.

All of my content moderation settings are set to not display NSFW content. WHY THE HELL IS BLUESKY STILL SHOWING ME NSFW CONTENT