Indigo Rose

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Waning immunity. A significant Covid wave in England. No new variant.
Thanks Prof Pagel for highlighting and contextualizing

“You’re already sick so why not take the risk?”

Non disabled people act like because our level of functioning is reduced, we should be ok taking extra risks.

It’s the opposite. We know the pain of losing health & independence. We know help isn’t coming. We protect what we have left at all costs.

‘Medical misogyny’ condemns women to years of gynaecological pain, MPs told Damning parliamentary report blames lack of education by healthcare workers and ‘pervasive stigma’ for poor care

Medical misogyny exists beyond gynae conditions too. It is implicit & explicit bias. It is gendering of emotions so women’s pain is minimised & women are seen to be hysterical. It’s not trusting women’s testimonies about their own bodies. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

So excited to finally see this study out in pre-print! This study is the largest of its kind to date: Using data from 4,244 people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex chronic illnesses, we took hundreds of thousands of data points across hundreds of
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'Easier to let go' without support: B.C. woman approved for medically assisted death speaks out A B.C. woman is speaking out about her experience accessing 'death care' with more ease than health care at a time when federal policymakers are considering further expanding access to medical assista...

“Kat” a disabled Canadian living with EDS - wanted access to palliative care or a family doctor.

She received approval for MAiD instead.

This is why we’re scared. Her suffering could be alleviated. Denying palliation but approving death is wrong:

Every day I become more convinced that the blame laid on disabled people for not “getting better” stems from fear.

Its easier to believe we’re not trying hard enough - or not taking care of ourselves - than to recognize health is NOT a guarantee. You can lose it at ANY time.

a meme featuring a painting of a brunette woman laying on a bed reaching upwards towards a night sky with the text "Due to personal reasons, I will not be reincarnating on Earth again"

Fake or superficial conversations can trigger the hell out of complex trauma survivors, who have had glib chitchat about stupid sh*t used as a way to distract us from what's actually happening or gaslight us into believing nothing's wrong in a f*cked up station.

💥BOOM💥
My question was rejected, but paraphrased. Leading to this!

Hallett "...the answer is, the more of them [air filters] you have about, even in normal times, the better ventilation you have, the better chances for patient and healthcare worker safety"
Beggs "Yes"

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No such luck in the UK. We only have promises of old vaccines for Clinically Vulnerable people unless you can afford to get vaccinated privately.

#TwoTierHealthcare

#WeekGForGreen coming out of the dark, entering the portal of light.💚

Have a beautiful day.😊

1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian Arno Meyer called a “crisis stratum” of disillusioned young men. 🧵

If you're a young person, it might be hard to really understand this but the whole world used to smell like cigarettes.

TheOnion (Satirical News) - picture of woman on couch Woman Puts Off Going To Doctor Until Disease Bad Enough For Him To Believe Her

#chronicillness #autoimmune #chronicallyill #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillnessmemes #autoimmune #fibromemes #fibromyalgia #spoonie #mecfs #longcovid #chronicillnessmemes

a screenshot from the twitter account of new scientist magazine, asking "could we set uranus on fire to steal its hidden diamonds?"

Could we calm down, do we think

Trauma conditioning will try to convince you you don't know yourself; you don't remember or understand what happened to you; &/or it's wrong or pointless to try to describe your experience.

None of that's true. That is trauma conditioning trying to preserve its own existence.

"its the kiki bouba label! everyone loves the kiki bouba label!"

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"the kiki bouba label used ai"

Everybody who successfully worked a trauma or addiction recovery did so by becoming intensely protective & intentional about our time & attention.

Letting either slip away is a recipe for flashback and/or relapse. (Ask me how I know.)

A bad thing about car reviews is they're written by people who love cars and know a lot about them.

I need car reviews by people who hate cars and know nothing about them.

Our trauma conditioning will have us saying "I don't know," when we absolutely do know, or could take a very educated guess.

Trauma recovery will have us following up that "I don't know" w/ "You know what? Actually, I do know/think..."

Work your recovery habit by habit.

#OharaKoson (1877 – 1945)
Flowering Plum and Moon

Instead of hot girl summer, I will be participating in bog witch summer where you live in the woods, spend your days in the garden & befriend a toad.

When we've been shamed &/or punished for expressing fear or pain growing up, we don't stop experiencing fear or pain. We stop acknowledging it-- definitely to the world, but also often to ourselves.

Then we wonder why, when we get triggered, the fog starts rolling in.

This is an 18th-century political system, designed at a time when only the richest and most powerful people could vote. It is used in the 21st century to protect capital and established power from the challenges that real democracy would present.

Happy 30th birthday to “The Sisters EP” by Pulp. Best known for the lead track “Babies” which has gone on to be one of the band’s best loved songs.

People don't get that setting boundaries for many trauma survivors is scary, in that our only real power in setting boundaries is in our willingness to disengage or walk away if they're not respected-- & we've been conditioned to believe we literally can't do that & survive.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

What the fuck I looked up the lyrics to Puff the Magic Dragon and now I‘m crying did people convince themselves this song was about drugs so they could pretend it wasn’t the most despondent fucking thing ever written

Up until 2013, autism and ADHD were mutually exclusive diagnoses according to the DSM.

Since the comorbidity rate is actually close to 50%, this meant almost the entire field of diagnosing was mostly just subjective woo pulled out of someone's ass.