Why, body, why? 😩

I haven't read the original article. Don't want to give it any more oxygen, plus rage doesn't support my health goals. This clapback, however, is 🔥🔥🔥! thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times

The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...

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"Now the sermons arrive through #SelfHelp podcasts, #HustleCulture, billionaire morning routines, " #discipline over #motivation " posts, and endless narratives about personal #responsibility" (I’m 38 & I Can’t Support Myself Anymore): buff.ly/86Ra13a by itsmevox #ChronicPain #human #ableism

I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore

Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value

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Pleez help Debra if yu cann itis too hott to be in a car yu cam dm her to zelle or cashapp is $debradisney4

Debra Disney@debradisney.bsky.social · last mo.

We can't endure More days/nights of 100 degrees in my car⚠️- I am begging All of you to PLEASE pitch in/donate to help us out, Debra 🥵 & Coco 🐾 @gonzo.bsky.social 🐱🧡 May I Please get a repost? This is brutal & we Need a room w a/c bed & bathroom on Tues. + Wed.

Some days this illness feels suffocating. I’m usually really positive, I look for all the tiny goods in my days, there are always goods, and I always find them. But sometimes the realisation of how different life is and how cruel this illness is hits me. Here’s what I mean:

Neighbors of mine are enduring unimaginable tragedy and could use any help you can provide. gofund.me/4826e56df

Donate to Help the Manati Family, organized by Alessia Firi

On the morning of August 26th, the Manati Family experienced a devastating house fire that changed… Alessia Firi needs your support for Help the Manati Family

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Pleez conseddir helping Salem and famolly. Thay are having a varry harde time in manny ways. Salem needs neurological help varry badly and thatis not cheep

Salem, segrentarri ov boks & papurr, 🌈Bailey, 🌈Charlie@mornedhel.bsky.social · last mo.

The ER visit for me was $300. Chewy bill for latest diffuser refills and new supplement was 98.73. We have 393.87 left for his neuro visit on 9/22 at 10am. Donations are open. Please share! #plundercats #hedgewatch #catsofbluesky gofund.me/0d9862e0b

Heer is anothur lovely kitty whomst coulde use a liddol help

@charliedontsurf.bsky.social · last mo.

I hope you don't mind me pointing to a gofundme for a poor friend's rescued kitty that needs a vet checkup and spay. Your community is very generous and loves kitties, and he needs so little. www.gofundme.com/f/cover-sabr...

Pleez conseddir helping Tortilla, on top of everthing else tortillamomb haz naow lost her jobb

🧡 Tortilla 👑 Segrentarri ov cudduls@hurricanetort.bsky.social · 4mo ago

momb here. hey yall. i come to you again asking for help from our little community here. I am having trouble financially since we escaped our last living situation. i am in desperate need of help to pay my lawyer for our custody case. i am fighting to keep my 10 year old with me gofund.me/7bc472e3b

Sombone pleez go git this guy,! look, he haz a madgick eye like my uncle Pete did!

Renee' Martin@sachikoko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👉🏽SENIOR ALERT🙏🏾PLEASE RE-POST 💝Sweet 8YO #Senior Brown #Tabby Kitty "ANNUBIS"💝 🔊Needs A Loving 🏡 #FureverHome 🏡 ▶️4 Info wecareanimalrescue.org/adoptable-ca... 🙏🏽 #AdoptDontShop #AdoptASeniorCat #StHelena, #CA #Norcal #NapaValley #PurrfectlyImperfect #WeCareAnimalRescue #CatsOfBluesky #Cats

@catsofyore.bsky.social hi Molly, my local humane society is seeking donations for hurricane recovery. Kona shelter still has no power but are working to help ppl in Ka’u who suffered the worst damage. Can you please share? There’s a donor who is matching up to $10k linktr.ee/hawaiiisland...

Hawaii Island Humane Society Official: Facebook | Linktree

A nonprofit organization on the island of Hawaii, with animal shelters in Kona + Keaau. Open Fridays through Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come visit!

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OMG, y’all. I saw someone use their turn signal today. What is this place???

www.actionforme.org.uk/wp-content/u... One of the most necessary and accurate (to my and many others’ experiences) reports I’ve ever seen. I wish all friends, family and certainly medical teams would read it. 1/7

Should I see if I can become interested in masochism? Looking for coping strategies after insurance denied two pain medications back to back.

Tonight we light a candle in memory of those we have lost to #SevereME. We mourn. We hold all who are mourning in love. We come together as people with debilitating illness, caregivers, partners, allies, advocates, researchers, & clinicians. #SevereMEday

This Severe ME/CFS Awareness Day, take some time to watch even part of this short video to bear witness. @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzg...

Severe ME/CFS Awareness Submissions 2026

YouTube video by Bateman Horne Center

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Never too late to learn how to add ALT text to your images! It's a simple way to let people with visual or neurological impairments know that you care about making them feel included in the Bluesky community.

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 2y ago

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

"Accepting a sick body that doesn’t perform to capitalist demands has been difficult but I feel is quite revolutionary, as it’s a process of deliberately slowing down and seeing value in other ways of being.” Anonymous colleague at a recent @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social support group

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Sign the Petition

WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid"

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Putting green on the eyes is putting a Band-Aid on the soul.

@mark156.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A friday feeling and early start to the weekend,have a good one and weekend ahead wherever it leads🌿

Ask your doctor if hemlock is right for you.

Rob Wüst, corresponding author of the new paper: "Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Link to his full post www.linkedin.com/posts/rob-w%... #MEcfs #LongCovid

Dystopian nonfiction is easily the worst genre

It is apparently International Self-Care Day. If you are a woman, BIPOC, sexual/ethical/religious minority, spoonie, crip, &c., I hope you are giving yourself all of the love that your resources will allow.

My poem "Feathers" appears in the Spring/Summer edition of Buoy's Substrata zine, coming out very soon, and I am SO stoked!

For folks with chronic illness affected by wildfire smoke, from the awesome folks @longcovidbreathing.bsky.social longcovidbreathing.com/blog/breathi...

Wildfire Smoke and Long Covid/ME/CFS: How to Protect Your Body Without Adding More Stress:

Wildfire Smoke and Long Covid/ME/CFS: How to Protect Your Body Without Adding More Stress: If you live in an area affected by wildfire smoke, it’s understandable to feel worried—especially if you’re a...

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The insurance dickheads denied my pain medication. Cool, cool, cool. Glad you can still make your boat payments and keep your kids in private school while I like awake at night with my skeleton on fire.