Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 4hMy grandmother once wrote, in a birthday card to my brother: "I think of you every long once in a while." 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 4h Through Glassdark I like your image, but can I trust it? 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 12hNot sure why Dolly didn’t go with “I Will Often Love You” 000
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzEpistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026CORRECTED LINK I messed up and linked the black and white version, which is always $14.99… 🤦♀️ Here is the full color link, $15 for the rest of the week! #LitMagWeek @clmporg.bsky.socialamazon.comEpistemic Literary Magazine: Volume II, Issues 5 - 7Epistemic Literary Magazine: Volume II, Issues 5 - 7 [Literary, Epistemic, Rotert, Melissa Ruth, Houlihan, Kristin, Barker, Genalea] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Epistemic Literary Magazine: Volume II, Issues 5 - 7 044
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible article on Long Covid in US prisons. These people are part of our community too, but are terribly isolated and neglected. 192
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963603654
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s not a story that anyone wants to hear but in February 2018 I caught a friend’s sore throat. While he recovered fully, I just kept declining, and by June I was 99% bedbound. Eight years later, that’s where I remain. We desperately need better defenses against all respiratory viruses. 618553
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I keep calling the front desk, Could you please turn down the gravity? 020
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've seen a distinct drop in interest in these conditions as people have memory-holed COVID; they'd like to forget infection-associated chronic conditions, but they're impacting everyone, including kids. I'm the Scientific Director at #MEAction, and I advocate for #MECFS, #LongCOVID, & other IACCs. 015060
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is everyone else’s autobiography so freaking niche? Everything I try to say about mine is like an inside joke that would require tons of background, thereby ruining it as either story or joke. Is this just the way everybody’s story seems to themselves? 010
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzAndy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Somehow each of us is like an antenna that picks up our environment. A marvel! Yet we can pick up only those aspects of the environment for which our “antenna” is suited, and that we endow our environment with features of our own experience, such as seeing willows as weeping etc. 141
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzEpistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Kristin and several @epistemiclit.bsky.social contributors suffer from this horrible disease. Thanks to George Monbiot for speaking up for us! 071
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here'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...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges 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 17925171712
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges 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 040
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Somehow each of us is like an antenna that picks up our environment. A marvel! Yet we can pick up only those aspects of the environment for which our “antenna” is suited, and that we endow our environment with features of our own experience, such as seeing willows as weeping etc. 141
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey 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. 332935910
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BTW when I post random verses like this they have nothing to do with any discourse, just lines falling out of my fingers. 010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Science is off doing somersaults; Ev’rything produces queer results. 000
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzKristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Anyone have experience getting a 504 plan for hypermobility? I know it can be amended anytime and I have a list of things to include — just wondering if others have one what does it include? For reference. Thanks! 014
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“But was this lack of feeling — for it certainly showed a monstrous lack of feeling to desecrate someone else’s sacrifice — part of the temperament of looking for the lighter side of life?” (Achebe) 000
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And that, as they say, is the ball game. 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comRussel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grantsPending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. 1317797
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In my nap today I was talking to Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore so now I’m listening to Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. This is called “living the dream.” 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wrote this fragment back in January on how chronic illness messes with one’s sense of self. Decided to share it on this day when I feel like shouting into the void. Hope it speaks to you. andrewraddegallwitz.substack.com/p/illness-an...andrewraddegallwitz.substack.comIllness and ironyA fragment on chronic illness from a writer with Long Covid and ME/CFS 031
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers. 332697387
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A few anti-carpe-diem lines from me as this day dwindles in the EST Zone: Handful Day arrives to spill through fingers. Day arrives to slip through hands. Day seized is day imagined Morning fragment caught In thought — already gone. 021
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Wissenschart: the very serious academic science of potty humor 020
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 15/09/2026Novel drug bezisterim may help improve fatigue, post-exertional malaise, and neurological symptoms in people with Long COVID, according to preliminary clinical trial results that the treatment’s developer, BioVie, shared this morning. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/15/b... 312456
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The last sentence. I’m really no expert on prison abolition, but I’m sure that “deserve” is the most devilish word in our language, and when combined with “criminal,” it chases all possible thinking out far into the wilderness. 152
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about the completely insane last few weeks of AI doomsday rhetoric and media coveragekarlbode.comAI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of ControlThe press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function. 25307104
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This morning I wrote down in my journal what I’m grateful for, and I have felt happier. I hate it when stupid shit like that works. 050
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzEmerge Australia @emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Learn about Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), a condition common in ME/CFS and long COVID, causing symptoms to worsen after minor activity. Join our free course to understand more. zurl.co/4IRf7 💡 0102
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 10/09/2026(I'm going to trust that all of you are smart enough to know that I know that this was not the worst thing that happened to anyone on sept 11, anyway here's a perfect song)youtube.comBob Dylan - Mississippi (Official Audio)YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO 1173
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why are the Talbots holding the dog’s tongue? 000
Reposted by Andy Radde-Gallwitzemily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This was a balm for my spirit. I desperately want this all to be public knowledge, especially among doctors & journos…the history of pseudoscience grifters in the ME space, their ties to disability insurers, & how the same bad actors are now profiting off Long Covid patients #GreatestMEdicalScandal 24017
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzMatthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Time for a long COVID update. We look at new Boston Children's Hospital research on viral reactivation, and how Canadian insurance money is funding Long COVID neuro-bollocks while Medicare is being choked by Carney. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/326-long-covid-updateconspirituality.net325: Long COVID Profiteers — ConspiritualityConspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought it was high time for a long CO... 52010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Because we can’t reduce the two descriptions — the mental or spiritual and the physical — we have a conceptual and linguistic dualism, but this doesn’t require a corresponding ontological dualism. 011
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Look, I didn’t do a whole PhD in religion so I could lie around and not Do Threads. The mental is not to be identified with the spiritual; it is the spiritual account of reality; and the physical is the causal/explanatory account of reality, which science models using mathematics, itself 110
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Extremely impt point. I reject the notion that some mental states are physical, others spiritual not only on experiential grounds but also theological grounds. Yes 🧵 👇 100
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzC.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tonight! Sign up: actionnetwork.org/events/end-t... 031
Reposted by Andy Radde-Gallwitzemily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The legal battle to access the raw data that disproved the PACE trial was an enormous victory for ME patients. It showed that exercise & CBT are NOT legitimate treatments for ME & it led to harmful medical guidelines in the US, the UK, & around the world being overturned. #GreatestMEdicalScandal 16828
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026American political discourse desperately needs the category of the petty bourgeois. 010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The mystical trope of losing one’s personality and individuality in absorption into the One is perversely realized in promotion through bureaucratic corporate and university ranks. (I’m not claiming this is an original idea). 010