Caitlyn Smith

A pretend polaroid shows Dr William Weir posing for a photo holding a #ThereForME Christmas card. The design shows two presents, one labelled "patient safety", the other "research". The photo is labelled "1".

This second image displays Dr Weir's handwritten message. It reads “Best wishes for Christmas to everyone with ME or Long Covid. You all deserve excellent and appropriate treatment, with a full understanding of its causes. William Weir”

Dec 1: It's Dr William Weir, who has worked with and supported patients with ME for decades.

His message: “Best wishes for Christmas to everyone with ME or Long Covid. You all deserve excellent and appropriate treatment, with a full understanding of its causes. William Weir”

In case anyone was wondering what the worst change table set up of all time is

High School Is Becoming a Cesspool of Sexually Explicit Deepfakes AI-generated child-sexual-abuse images are flooding the web.

"[It's likely that] there are thousands of new [child-sexual-abuse material] images being generated a day"

Discussions of open-sourcing AI need to consider the risks of harming the most vulnerable.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen Families placed in hotels in England are being forced to live on snack foods, putting young people’s health at risk

Welcome to 2024. The old rich get richer burning fossil fuels, the new rich on crypto and AI ponzi schemes which, to perpetuate, require we burn fossil fuels and melt the planet, while rickets makes a comeback because people can only afford to eat Ramen noodles

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Always remember that you are somebody's weird sick friend

Actual “Eau de 🚽”

Lippy, don’t forget the lippy!

Post Covid syndrome leaving my body, when people say Covid is not real or over. Image of a cat laying on the ground and above it a ghost of the cat coming out and floating upwards.

#meme #memes #covid #longcovid #covid19 #teamvorsicht #cleanair

A pink cell phone showing the text: BERLIN BUYERS CLUB News Flash: Immuno-compromised people exist! And they want to live.

If more women's clothing had reasonable pockets, imagine what we could accomplish!!! Men would never see it coming! WE WOULD HAVE ALL THE TREASURED STONES!!!

Your dog must love it.😊

I love,
“Garbage in = Garbage out”

It was great to hear her speak at one of the rallies.
A powerful voice!❤️❤️❤️

Still thinking about Prof John Conly prioritising zits over the lives of HCW families in a novel disease outbreak…

There are creams for zits.

Do not pet. Do not make eye contact.

#photography
Cobra Chickens

Kookaburra refuses to budge

Saw my doctor this morning. Showed him the rash on my butt. Bastard just walked away, paid for his coffee at the 7/11 counter and walked away!!
Inconsiderate SOB!

Not to self: wear mittens to your next doctor's appointment [an illustration of someone waving to another person, but with a mitten on, underneath the mitten is a middle finger]

chronic illness
#chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillness

But, but, but.....
I thought axe the tax was Slogan Boy's go to slogan.....

#InvestigatePoilievre
#PierrePoilievreIsAForeignAsset
#NeverPoilievre
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#nsicop
#PierrePoilievreMustResign
#PierrePoilievreIsARussianAsset
#PierreHasGotToGo
#MapleMAGA

Interesting 🧵👇

Here's a threaded version (from Twitter as the bsky skyview threader seems to be having issues):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18597...

@theglobeandmail.com & other msm want you to hit subscribe/follow in their Starter Pack.
Nope. Not not for me.
Before you hit that follow all of their team button, take a thorough look.
These publications are also hoping to quickly build their staff base.
Hard pass from me.
#cdnmediafailsagain

Screenshot of a starter pack page in blue sky for the globe and mail

They want you to hit the FOLLOW ALL button.
Hard pass especially after G&M just stated in an article that this platform is just an echo chamber for Twitter escapees.
Of their list, there were only 3 journos who I follow. Think long & hard about enabling these MSM platforms. #cdnmediafailsagain

This man only works for billionaires and foreign powers.
He wants to destroy our country for his own personal gain.
It's what Cons do.

Doug's doing it to Ontario.
Danielle's doing it to Alberta.

Skippy will do it to Canada.

Them: "must be nice staying home all day every day" Me: *straight up not having a good time*

This is me today and I'm not having a good time guys ☹️ #Chronicillness #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #migraine

New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults New study from Northwestern Medicine finds symptoms occurred regardless of mild or severe COVID-19 infection

Northwestern: New research shows younger & middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults

These findings have an immense public health impact, given that long COVID significantly contributes to the leading global burden of disability

news.nm.org/new-research...

That looks delicious!
I bet the aerosols floating around your kitchen smell amazing!😉

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low eve...

More news we will not see reported in the future:
phys.org/news/2024-11...