A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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I’m seeing you all in Alameda tomorrow night, RIGHT?! (Unless you’re seeing me at the Mill Valley Library on Thursday??) I’m bringing door prizes!! (They aren’t cats.)

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2d ago

Yooo Alameda, I'm going to be on your fair shores with @bethwinegarner.bsky.social on WEDNESDAY to chat about the book, grief, death, and so much more. There might be plum jam. I hope to see you there. (But seriously, RSVP so they know you're coming.)

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

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If you could make a milkshake in a microwave I would have done it already

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 20h ago

did someone say sadder

This is how they get you to feel okay about diarrhea lettuce. Reminder that paying a monopoly to eat literal shit is not okay. And yes, this is eugenics.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

I heard about this earlier today. He was denied his meds, taken out on a stretcher on Saturday and was DOA at the hospital. The Trump regime is running death camps.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say murderers .. the next president must prosecute all of these and govs should not wait for feds to act www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

then it says i gotta bring this diction down and not rely so much on italics. Diane Seuss #smallpoemSunday

Late 2026 would be a TERRIBLE time to cut wastewater surveillance—and yet, the proposal is to cut it by 80 PERCENT. Let’s write our electeds and let them know we want more, not less funding for this exceedingly valuable public health tool.

Congress Must Fully Fund CDC Wastewater Surveillance Program

The CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System remains one of the most valuable public health tools for detecting the increased spread of infectious diseases in the US, such as SARS-CoV-2, measles,...

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People with ME & Long Covid hate Fauci for entirely different reasons than the MAHA crowd

Alex@admiringbog.bsky.social · 6d ago

It’s hard to find a lot about this, but Fauci is also largely responsible for defunding #ME/CFS research, which is one of the reasons we can’t treat #LongCOVID. www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/04...

1 in 4 people are disabled. Make it make sense 😭

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 5d ago

Not going to lie, the past year and a half has tested me. Right now, I'm arguably the singular person doing disability breaking news regularly at a national newsroom. And breaking news, the process of rushing to find sources, is hard on my disabilities.

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again

Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.

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Jupiter met the sun in Leo yesterday. A day for immense luck & abundance 🦝💫

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

PLRC is continuing our summer fundraiser to help sustain our work and fund new projects that will improve clinical trials and biomarkers! You can help us by donating, sharing our posts, & forwarding emails you receive to folks in your network 🧵 Donate: patientresearchcovid19.com/donate/

At last!! #ME #Research into unrefreshing sleep, led by OMF Ron Tomkins www.omf.ngo/sleep-distur...

Sleep Disturbance in ME/CFS and Long COVID - Open Medicine Foundation

We intend to examine multiple sleep studies that have been conducted in the past two years and performed at the MGH Neurology Sleep Medicine Laboratory.

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Ah, it’s the “climate doomers are just as bad as climate deniers” discourse again. A) No. Ppl can feel bad about bad things & still contribute good things. B) The majority of ppl advocating for either climate or Covid have reasonable goals & pretending they’re extreme & crazy & bad is bad actually

“we are worse than dead to them because the dead don't keep talking back” The impulse to make us go away by calling us crazy/ridiculous/narcissistic/bad is honestly so scary. We’re just ppl disabled by a pandemic, as pandemics do. Their disdain for us is part of the fascism they say they’re against

Acorn@snacklesbian.bsky.social · 7d ago

every couple months we get one of those "my crackpot theory is that covid changed everything" threads from non-sick people and then a couple posts down they make it clear that by "covid" they really just mean "the brief period where we were sorta still trying to mitigate covid".

I appreciate people reckoning with this, but the real truth is it is still happening. Long covid affects tens of millions of people in the US, people are still getting it, people are still dying from covid every week, and our determination to insist it is in the Recent Past Is part of the problem.

Every now & then I peek at Twitter bc that’s where most LC & ME patients & researchers still are, but my goodness the animosity that place stokes 🥴Plenty of legit questions & criticism but the automatic assumptions of bad faith are so unproductive & energy-sucking for an energy-limited population

#pwLC can those of you from Pennsylvania give a shoutout? Either commenting below or DMing me. Going to try (again) to maybe start thinking about some state/local advocacy.

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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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

🚨The American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis. buff.ly/4WN92Ur 🩸Blood inventory is at critically low levels across the country. Type O blood is especially needed. 🩸Please share and book a donation if you’re eligible. #medsky #hemesky #nursesky

this is EXTREMELY relevant for all “culture war” issues and i think about it constantly. just kirby the frame

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

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SIGNAL | Renegade Research

SIGNAL is built around a device lending library. Patients diagnosed with ME/CFS or Long COVID borrow promising therapeutic devices, shipped directly to their homes at no cost to them, for a 1-3 month ...

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Fiona C@drfionac.bsky.social · last wk.

New remote trial recruiting now (US only) #MECFS youtube.com/watch?v=RmEH...

The nuclear block discourse is just rape culture and that's why people are reacting so viscerally it to it. Nobody owes you access to them.

#SmallPoemSunday even though I’m not sure Gwendolyn Brooks ever wrote a “small poem”

sometimes I read the work in disability history, and I struggle with maintaining a sense of hope and direction for the future, because when disability is involved, people often become so very....ugly. And this is true across the board Some glimmers of light exist, but these are difficult histories

Natalya D@natalyad.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just read that. Also the stigma within Japan against survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how they suffered twice; the original bombing and then in society afterwards. I'm always struck by how disablist stigma against survivors of mass-disabling/killing events is.

20 years here & I’ve tracked down just about every kind of GF bread/bagel people have raved to me about. Some of it is sorta okay toasted as a holder for something else, but none of it *remotely* compares to even the cheapest, stalest, crappiest loaf of gluten

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · 2w ago

I've been on gluten free bread for, I think, over a decade now. I've tried every brand, shape, type. And every single mouthful of it is still as disappointing and objectively shit as the first one was.

I need you all to know that the Berkeley Public Library has solicited submissions for a new mascot, and you can now vote for the contestants and I'm losing my mind. berkeleypublic-library.github.io/Fiber-Mascot...