Feeling haunted by your own ghost is honestly an absolutely perfect and beautiful way to describe so many struggles of chronic pain and chronic illness. (A beautiful description as a whole. 🫶🏻)
Marie-Claire
@mmedebrekirk.bsky.social
Disabled. Masked. Great believer in the potential for good. Forward, together. We got this, if only because nobody else does
i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Me, 2015: Carnegie was a complete shit who, with Rockefeller, invested in reforming public education into a means of conditioning children for factory labor. Me, 2024: Eh, at least they believed in public education.
Mike Wiser@drmikewiser.bsky.social · 2y agoLike, I'm well aware of the various ways in which Andrew Carnegie was Not Great, but honestly today's plutocrats could stand to learn a lesson or two from him in rehabbing their image.
People have no idea this is in their future if they don’t try to avoid getting COVID (respirator masking) #WearAMask #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #StopLongCovid #BringBackMasks
My favorite thing to do with friends who are engaged and gearing up to resist is remind them who doesn’t get a line in the “first they came for” poem and who got mass death tested on them to very little resistance at all. And they frown and pull out their phones and say “that can’t be right.”
I try not to judge famous people's works by whom they support politically. But it's really hard. Wayne Gretzky, Mike Tyson, Dana White, Zachary Levi, James Woods.... right now I can't bear to watch or support anything they're a part of.
Parenting right now feels so much like the week before i had surgery, when i needed to have faith in others, tamp down my terror, and help my kids find joy in a world that seemed completely featureless and cold. This is hard. There has been joy since that day, there will be joy again
😂 C19 literally is a “buy now, pay later” plan. So really, it should be a very easy concept for us. Only governments have been pretending the “pay later” is only a few pennies… x.com/1goodtern/st...
This is quite the case. The woman's partner filed the injunction to stop MAID for a condition associated with changing doses of antipsychotic meds, which she was told is treatable & could resolve within months. B.C. judge halts woman’s medically assisted death bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-judge-ha...
Fact we're in the 'Twenties' sounds so weird. It's so synonymous with the 1920s. Sounds like a bygone era when women were still fighting for their rights, the upper classes were living a life of hedonism whilst people starved & the world was on the verge of financial ruin and war.
I appreciate people sharing these starter packs. Make it so much easier for those of us new-ish to BlueSky to find our communities again. 🙏
C.H. Romatowski@chromatowski.bsky.social · 2y agoHey y’all, I think some of you got here this way but in case you’ve not seen it, here’s a starter pack of accounts linked to Long Covid, ME/CFS and related topics, broadly construed. Hope it helps you find some friends!
I often say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s apathy. Every person who’s ever told me their own reason for not wearing a mask is more important than mine to stay alive? That is the diametric opposite of love. And it’s the default state of nondisabled society.
Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of the biggest struggles in disability justice is apathy. The sheer amount of time I spend trying to convince people that ableism is real and harmful is too high. Much of the time, people will agree that something is wrong, but won’t commit to working against it.
New mask bling level unlocked! Use 3d metal kits, attach to mask with magnet - bask in the amazingness @nickelpin.bsky.social @amandalhu.bsky.social
I can’t believe they ever included 2020 in a baseline. A novel pandemic year is hardly a suitable baseline for looking at long term trends. Interesting optimism for life expectancy. I’m expecting a J shaped curve.
"I stopped attending in-person medical events because it is psychologically too difficult. I expect to be the only one masking in the movie theatre or grocery store, but among physician peers? Did they not get the memo? Did I not get the memo?" www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...
Did I not get the memo?
It wasn’t always lonely out here. I have been the only permanent doctor in my little country clinic north of Kingston for eight years now, and I previously felt tremendous camaraderie and connection w...
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This is why I need health workers to mask. If I’m wearing one, don’t ask..Mask. Thanks @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social for writing this. We shouldn’t have to keep health workers accountable.
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2y agoMy latest - a plea to maskless healthcare workers from vulnerable patients everywhere. I’m dedicating this article to @tinu.bsky.social - a fierce disability advocate who never stopped fighting for masks in healthcare. She passed away 3 weeks ago - after being failed by HCWs and society:
We have made a general mix starter pack for anyone joining the exodus 👩💻 Covers #longcovid #me #covidisairborne all sorts! go.bsky.app/Ba6FATY
With all the new people from twitter, I'm here to say this again: ✨️HITTING THAT REPOST BUTTON IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIKES HERE✨️ This site doesn't function like Twitter. It relies on interactions through shares and comments, likes are not as important. Likes do not push posts like the other two do
Last Night is a movie from 1998, and describes how people deal with the end of the world There are the denilalists, the hedonists, those who find refuge in routine. I remember wondering what group i would belong to How strange to look back and understand how prescient this movie was
“Echo chamber” is often a dysphemism for a place where people have belonging that someone else wants to spoil. We all need to be aware of other beliefs and values, and learn and grow from them, but that should be up to every person when they want to be exposed to those things, never a requirement.
Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 2y agoI saw this article very late. About the whole argument on dividing social media into progressive & conservative silos...is it that scary? Who wants to sit with a mix of people from both aisles at a bar? Doesn't that start bar fights? Unless it's Christmas with family, people usually avoid this.
Turns out maybe the most difficult thing about moving isn’t the boxes and logistics It’s saying goodbye to all the familiar spaces and people Turns out maybe that applies to online platforms too Slowly finding my feet here