it's so awesome to have this discussion when we don't even believe other people when they say they're in pain

Science Magazine@science.org · yesterday

Can the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Are they measuring the gains in other cuddle devices or just the ones popular with autistic people?

The Economist@economist.com · 7h ago

Enthusiasts liken sleeping under a weighted blanket to being cocooned, gently hugged or soothed by a light massage. Yet measurable gains are small

So many people are blocking me right now. People hate having their ableism held up in front of them. I haven’t said anything other than be more empathetic to the disabled and chronically ill. I desperately wish people understood the hostility we get from all of society, including “allies.”

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

ICYMI relevant to the leftism ableism convo

Justine Barron@jewstein3000.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW FROM ME: On Baltimore media and Covid. - Under scrutiny: the "progressive" @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, which keeps portraying Covid in the past tense. - A shoutout to @mercohn.bsky.social, health reporter at the Banner - Why Covid is still a danger in 2026.

Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.

NEW FROM ME: On Baltimore media and Covid. - Under scrutiny: the "progressive" @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, which keeps portraying Covid in the past tense. - A shoutout to @mercohn.bsky.social, health reporter at the Banner - Why Covid is still a danger in 2026.

Covid isn’t over, Baltimore

How Baltimore’s supposedly progressive news outlet keeps taking a reactionary stance on Covid

justinebarron.substack.com

NEW FROM ME: On Baltimore media and Covid. - Under scrutiny: the "progressive" @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, which keeps portraying Covid in the past tense. - A shoutout to @mercohn.bsky.social, health reporter at the Banner - Why Covid is still a danger in 2026.

Covid isn’t over, Baltimore

How Baltimore’s supposedly progressive news outlet keeps taking a reactionary stance on Covid

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🧵 I thought this 7-page introductory piece written by a medical doctor was very good "Understanding ME/CFS An Introduction to a Complex Illness" (August 2026) by @drmichaelabauer.bsky.social storage.e.jimdo.com/file/1caec72... #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome 1/

Shared a bit about my experience caretaking for my father while dealing with my own chronic illness. There are gaps in the system. They want old people in homes.

FYI, I got Nuvavaxovid (formerly novavax) Covid shot yesterday. I’d only had mRNA shots previously. This is the 1st Covid shot for which I had no side effects, not even a sore arm. If you want to find a place that offers it, you can use the threaded link. I’d also call the place to double-check.

Look my life isn’t thrilling with long covid, but I’m here at CVS getting Nuvaxovid with no issues at all so that’s a pretty good day

The coolest part of disability is how my friends all abandoned me or, if they stuck around, couldn’t stop saying offensive things about my body!

If you’re talking about 9/11 air and not talking about masking, respectfully shut up. You don’t get to pretend to care about air quality. www.tiktok.com/@bubblepeopl...

If you’re talking about 9/11 air and not talking about masking, shut up. You don’t get to pretend to care about air quality. #911 #wtc #longcovid #covid

TikTok video by bubblepeoplepodcast

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Sitcom idea: “Dead Senator.” A wacky bunch of staffers are being blackmailed to keep making their dead senator seem alive

Anyone finding Novovax available yet?

I like junk food

Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️@hunterfelt.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Eagles are junk food music.

Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”

St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

WTAF is wrong with these motherf*ckers...every day a new moral outrage...Look, I have been to prison and these people do things every day that I couldn't live with myself after doing

St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Apparently if you’re a disabled person asking for accountability from a researcher you are “punching down” Does he know the meaning of that?

For the tenth time, Covid isn't over @baltimorebeat.bsky.social. Why are you the worst offender at this while pretending to care about marginalized people? Just sick of this faux-progressive bullshit rag.

The Personal Life section on Nathan Fielder's wikipedia page is good.

Idea for British crime show: cops enlist the help of an American with a Britbox subscription who runs the Britbox reddit account to solve murders.

My 2023 book, "They Killed Freddie Gray," is a featured title in the Hunt Down We Read Storygraph community. FYI! hunt-down.lovable.app/authors/just...

Justine Barron - Author Spotlight | HDWR

Justine Barron, featured HDWR author of They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up. Biography, featured book, community reception, and citations.

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N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective Maskswork today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...

Maryland Today | N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD…

Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective

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As a crime journalist who studied consent decrees, Elsbeth is bunk. For that matter "Patience" and all of those British shows where the cops let anyone solve their crimes.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

That California Starbucks paper straw-plastic cup combo should be challenged more

"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Right-wing media is attacking Francesca Hong for her mental health history

"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy," Hong told Mother Jones.

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I guess what is really irritating me is that they have the scripts for these segments, right? Somebody wrote them. These aren’t off the cuff interviews. It would take two minutes to bung them up on the episode page.

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You have got to be shitting me. The BBC only does transcripts for the podcast about disability. Because disabled people only care about benefits and shit, why would we ever want to learn about other things?