Maddy

This is dangerously disrespectful of what we know about the PEM disease process as well as how motivated & socialized patients are to push ourselves. When we say this advice is dangerous, THAT’S KNOWLEDGE WE LEARNED IN THE MOST DEVASTATING WAY POSSIBLE. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS TO ANYONE ELSE 😩

A text: ‘Open call!’ Below it a hand-written text reads ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Kills’. A text: ‘An online Group Exhibition’.

Hi! Our online art gallery, A Quiet Storm, will host an open call group exhibition on International ME/CFS Awareness Day, May 12, 2026.

The submissions will open on March 12th. Our website is currently updated to a dark theme. Full statement below!

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#MECFS #pwME #OpenCall #OnlineExhibition

Truly. I was still shaky a while after seeing it.

Can I suggest *not* watching footage of Jiayu Liu’s crash in the women’s half pipe today.

I saw it once, and that was once too many.

She fell on her head/neck, and was seemingly knocked unconscious instantly.

I really hope she recovers as quickly and fully as possible.

#WinterOlympics

It truly did 💔

It was horrific 😩

Loll.

(We also have Eisteddfods in Australia… but I don’t want to ruin the story lol. I only recently discovered they originated in Wales!)

Turn down the temperature?
Oh he was talking about the protesters

💎💯👑

Liz Watson celebrates her 100th Test tonight, becoming the sixth Australian Diamond to reach the feat.

Congratulations Liz, on a remarkable career to date!

#AUSvJAM

Ah yes surely preprogrammed in there!

Do you know who are the next in line to reach 100 test caps for the diamonds?

Paige must be close?

#Netball

Yeah I’ve been wondering if they’re pre programmed too.

During one of of the big air jump, it looked like one nearly crashed into an athlete mid air. They gave more distance after that. But they need to be much more careful to avoid a catastrophe

A rare use of AI that I would fully endorse: editing out the drone audio from the #WinterOlympics broadcasting.

It is so loud and annoying 😭

Also we’ve finally had some rain and the circadas outside have just woken up from their slumber. I’d also endorse that audio being way quieter lol.

Hey Afghanistan when will you allow women to play cricket?? We blackballed South Africa while they were under apartheid, so I don’t know why we let Afghanistan play 🏏 #T20WC

State sanctioned violence & silencing of free speech only work if people on the ground (aka police) are willing to enforce it. And with threatening menace and violence.

Monday proved the NSW gov has that backing.

Their denial of police wrong doing after the fact proves police will be supported

Did any hesitate or refuse to enforce indiscriminate violence? Will they be punished for not doing so?

Why isn’t the media focusing on how terrifying it is for literally everyone in society that we have armed forces so willing to enact such violence with no provocation?

And be protected.

#AusPol

I haven’t seen enough analysis of the individual police officers involved in the violence on the protesters, who seemingly gleefully and with a sense of impunity, assaulted countless peaceful protestors.

Who gave them that licence? What culture makes it not only acceptable but encouraged?

#AusPol

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Meanjin's back!

Yupppp. 😑

The Unspoken Rulebook of Disabled Life Disabled people are expected to be poor, meek, sad, and apologetic. Break that stereotype and society short-circuits. A raw, sarcastic blog post on the unspoken rules of disability.

“Apparently, if you’re #disabled, you’re only allowed to exist under 1 condition: Poor. Meek. Sad..Want a garden? Selfish. Go on holiday? Fraud. Dress nicely? Suspicious. Cashmere? Criminal. iPhone? Scam artist. Takeaway curry? Witchcraft.”: buff.ly/OJVO4FM

by goblinbloggeruk
#disability #NEisVoid

Wow they’re really trying to hit as many groups they think we should hate as possible. Just in case the first few didn’t get us riled up 🤦🏻‍♀️

Half the flag poles outside Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra have been changed to Israeli flags.

Is this typical for days with visiting foreign leaders?

Our gov truly has no shame in visibly expressing our support for a genocidal government.

I mean, tracks with our own history.

#AusPol

Whaaaaaaaaaat

"Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500°C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians."

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

"This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it ... I was there".

Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.

While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
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I was talking to one housemate about the police violence last night. Including Hannah fleeing into a locked 7/11.

My other housemate overheard this, and said “Oh Hannah! Is she ok?!”

She thought I was talking about Hannah, a YouTuber who lives in Minneapolis.

“No. Hannah Thomas. In *Sydney*”

“It could not be any clearer. Your government doesn’t mean “social cohesion,” it means silent complicity. It means OBEY. It means join the ranks of the “good Germans” that looked away while their fascists murdered millions of innocents.”

#AusPol

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

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