Kris (@atxcopywriter on the old place)

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

seriously. we have the money to pay for ANYTHING WE WANT.

UBI? we could pay for it! we don’t want to.

universal healthcare? we could put every single person in the country on medicaid. we don’t want to.

free public transit and high speed rail- we could pay for it! WE DO NOT WANT TO.

Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year.

We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.

@MisaonWheels Having a positive attitude does not make a disabled person less disabled. Regular exercise and a healthy diet does not make a disabled person less disabled. Succeeding in life does not make a disabled person less disabled.

@misaonwheels.bsky.social

Big yikes

a screenshot from LinkedIn that says "your post got 666 impressions"

The last thing I see on LinkedIn before taking October off... 😈

Holy crap, these numbers.

Gift link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

It is so cool how now and then we just have to sacrifice a full workday (or more!) to dealing with errors made by the health insurance companies we pay hundreds of dollars every month to fuck up without impunity.

Somebody at the WSJ should absolutely be fired for printing that with no evidence.

Fact Check: Most mass school shootings are not carried out by transgender people The mass shooting at a Georgia school on Wednesday sparked a narrative on social media that all mass shootings at schools in the U.S. in recent years have been carried out by transgender people, which is false.

Transgender individuals represent less than 1 percent of perpetrators in all mass shootings over the past decade, and about 2 percent involved in school shootings specifically, according to The Gun Violence Archive (GVA).

Acting like the chronically ill are naive—rather than desperate—for chasing any treatment that *might* work, when that's our only option 🙄

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

This is one of the horrors of mass shootings that doesn't get enough attention. The pain and expenses the injured survivors face.

Thanks for including this part. This conversation can feel very othering without acknowledging those of us with ME/CFS (mine wasn't from COVID, but COVID could make it much worse, so it still impacts my life in big ways)

I intentionally use Covid in present tense because I am a disability reporter, and it is a mass disabling event, even if acute deaths are down.

I have had numerous friends from various walks of life who have had their cancer come back as a result of getting coronavirus. And all of them have passed away quite quickly after the cancer has returned.

We know that coronavirus can lead to a resurgence in cancer. So please go back to masking.

Oooohhhh, I get excited any time I see her name in the credits cause I know the female lead will have some amazing looks 👀

It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

The only way out of this is out of it together.

Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less.

We hang together, or we all hang separately.

Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights

At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for

This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too

this is the first time in my life it has occurred to me to draw a line between the AIDS epidemic and the 2000 election and now I'm floored

we have no idea what country we'd be living in if AIDS hadn't happened

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Screenshot of tweets from Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband Maybe it's just another day ending in "y" around here but l'll volunteer we can never do enough to educate health care practitioners about PEM— the thing that breaks all the rules. We simply can never have enough caution and clarity surrounding PEM, particularly how to do no harm. 8:48 PM • Aug 15, 2025 • 8,530 Views Next tweet reads In trying to understand this confusing phenomenon, l've spent more times wrong than right. After all, as a researcher all your best ideas are still just hypotheses and as a clinician the best you'll ever do is still considered practicing. The greater pursuit isn't to be right...

Screenshot of tweets by Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband thread continues from previous photo it's to *get it right.* Sometimes that critique is pointed and direct. There's a lot of painful experiences and trauma out there. As someone studying a phenomenon I don't live with, the best I can do is be a knowledgeable and empathetic interloper. But an interloper nevertheless. Thread continues So it's with close partnership of people living with PEM that we can learn, grow, and do better. Patients don't have the obligation to deliver feedback on our mistakes in any certain tone or way. No heroes, no pedestals. Only our best. Here's to the pursuit of getting it right.

As a patient with #MECFS and someone with an MD, I agree with Dr. Davenport.

Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is the key element we need to educate providers on. Let me step you through why 🧵

Disabled people need accessibility and for the US to not want us dead, not Meta glasses, and if I catch you freaks that keep using us as a shield without ever once doing anything material to improve our lives, well, disability is one of the only minorities everyone will join at some point.

I like to imagine that Bobby that Scully are siblings, since they clearly have the same dad (he's pretty much the exact same character). What are those family dinners like? 👀

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

I get DVDs from the library! I was one of the rare weirdos who kept Netflix DVD-by-mail until he very end. My library's filled that void. Even better, the have a homebound program for people like me who can't make it in person. Libraries are the best 💜