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A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

This image has a dark grey background with five coloured stripes. Red: Physical Disabilities, Gold: Neurodiversity, White: Non-visible and Undiagnosed Disabilities, Blue: Emotional and Psychiatric Disabilities, Green: Sensory Disabilities. The white text reads: Disability Pride Month 2025.

July is Disability Pride Month, and we're celebrating the incredible contributions, voices, and experiences of disabled LGBT+ people.

We will be marking this month by sharing content that uplifts and educates, starting with the story behind the Disability Pride Flag and the meaning of its colours.

‘We celebrate all’: America’s diversity and concern on display at San Jose Fourth of July parade It was the 18th edition of the parade.

My town, my people; this is my America.

'We celebrate all': America's diversity and concern on display at San Jose Fourth of July parade www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/04/b...

Here’s my new We Are The Opposition starter pack. Longtime friends and activists, influencers, trusted reporters and independent news, political cartoonists, comedians, a sprinkling of some of my favorite politicians. Please Share, Follow All 💙

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Join me on June 14

Real power isn't staged in DC — it rises up everywhere else. Join me on No Kings Day to stand together against cruelty, corruption, and authoritarianism. app.sosha.ai/s/i7GKFB6v

You're just deconditioned, not trying hard enough, depressed, lazy...when you have Long Covid.

Protect the Rights and Privacy of Autistic Americans! We need states to intervene, protecting Americans' medical data and stopping RFK Jr.'s dangerous stigmatization of autistic and disabled people. Add your name to the petition!

We need states to intervene, protecting Americans' medical data and stopping RFK Jr.'s dangerous stigmatization of autistic and disabled people. Add your name to the petition! sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...

#disability #autism #ADA

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (teal) infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Live blog: Following the Spring 2025 PolyBio Symposium on Long COVID and related diseases. By The Sick Times team.”

Some highlights from the Symposium: Johan Van Weyenbergh from the Rega Institute in Belgium, presenting on small clinical trials of antiviral and anticoagulant therapies Michael Peluso from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), on results of a monoclonal antibody trial Michael VanElzakker from Harvard Medical School, on studying neurological symptoms Akiko Iwasaki from Yale University, on transferring antibodies from people with Long COVID to mice

Some highlights from the Symposium: Steven Deeks, also from UCSF, on a new program to find and test Long COVID biomarkers David Putrino from Mount Sinai, on several clinical trials happening at the hospital's complex chronic disease center Daniel Chertow from the NIH, on an upcoming trial studying SARS-CoV-2 persistence in tissue samples

In my opinion, there continues to be great energy not just in the Long COVID space, but in the entire [infection-associated chronic conditions research] community. - Amy Proal, PolyBio Research Foundation president

ICYMI: The Sick Times team live blogged the Spring 2025 PolyBio Symposium on #LongCOVID and related diseases. Read the full recap: bit.ly/43g8dWu

Join Research into Long Covid and ME/CFS Your data can make a difference. With Visible, taking part in research has never been simpler. You can sign up to studies right from your phone.

I've signed up for a study on complex illness in the Visible app. Join me and help contribute to this important research. makevisible.com/join-research #LongCOVID #MECFS #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #POTS #Disability

Keep schools safe for children and families—and keep ICE out! The threat of ICE in schools creates unnecessary trauma, leads to damaged trust in educators, and causes students from undocumented and mixed-status families to miss school, leaving a lasting impact o...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...

Happy birthday to your amazing project. You are literally our future and we are proud of you!

8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.

If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.

What's Next in the Fight? · Hands Off On April 5, millions of Americans took to the streets—in big cities and small towns—to remind Donald Trump and Elon Musk that our democracy doesn’t belong to billionaires—it belongs to the people. Th...

Join Hands Off! this Wednesday (4/16) at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST for a nationwide call to find out how we can build on the resounding success on April 5th and keep the pressure on Trump, Musk, and their enablers in Congress.

www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

#handsoff #longcovid #mecfs #fibromyalgia

‘We are looking at a crisis’: Protesters pack rallies across Bay Area, nation Saturday The rallies — at more than 50 cities alone across Northern California — add to the drumbeat of protests in recent weeks

'We are looking at a crisis': Protesters pack rallies across Bay Area, nation Saturday www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/05/h...

That's my daughter Celeste Walker who is quoted. She's held Orchard City Indivisible together since 2016.

#handsoff #indivisible #resistance

Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back · Hands Off 🚨 Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back! 🚨 They're grabbing everything they can—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to...

Calling Up Justice and One Free Community are organizing a virtual protest for disabled people and those who can’t attend in person. We refuse to let accessibility barriers exclude us from this movement. Our voices, our resistance, and our solidarity will be seen and heard! #longcovid #mecfs #POTS

Question for the #birding #ornithology #ornithologists hive:
Ravens like to pick up shiny objects (stones? Metal?) and glittering bits of trash, right? Do they create a cache or caches of such objects? What do they do with them?
#corvid #corvids #corvidsofbsky

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Opinion: Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials Some people may remain ill after COVID infection because the virus still lurks in their bodies. The looming question now is: Who will pay for drug development and trials?

MUST-READ: Dr Proal on why #LongCOVID both solvable & urgently needs accelerated clinical trials. LCC continues to engage Hill & US govt leaders on cost-effective @arpa-h.bsky.social CDMRP grants to @polybiorf.bsky.social & other top researchers NIH hasn't funded yet: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Black and white rescue dog wearing her red nightgown taking mom's place in bed

Sammy girl declined to move from my pillow last night #rescue #velcrodog #dogsofbluesky

I like this god. Maybe you should follow them.

Close up of a dog nose

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A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
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This thread:

Literally, I tell my husband I want to go to ER and we both sigh as we realize again (and again) that no one is helping (the forgotten).

This is important