Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 13hThere is *this* light on the redbud that will never fall again. But I have fallen once more Into worn discourse. 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 19hAh, but here in the Middle West (Northern Indiana) they’ve saved us from the interminable passing of the right of way at four way stop signs, driven by our tragic flaw, politeness. 010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 19hToday’s thought: The ambiguous, or really polyvalent, symbol “lion” might be a key to understanding the Bible. 000
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop. 57848493085
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Excellent article from a LC and ME patient in similar circumstances to my own. She notes that we need Congress to approve $50 million to fund a ME/CFS research plan they’ve already agreed to in principle.grandcoulee.comNurse now homebound from Long COVID: Only Congress can change what happens nextI spent nearly 30 years as a nurse, including in an infectious disease clinic, before I stepped away, worn down by the relentless work. But when COVID swept the nation, I came back to help my fellow S... 020
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 . . . with guest appearances by Previous Nightmares. 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is so on-brand for a US warmonger to say, “We need men who will reduce cultures to stereotypes and extract from them.” No sense for historical complexity whatsoever. 010
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzEpistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Our newest issue, AGENCY VS DETERMINISM, is out today! Read, enjoy, and share! We’ll be sharing individual pieces over the next week or so 😊 #LitMagWeek epistemiclit.com/current-issue/epistemiclit.comCurrent Issue -digital literary anthology accepting submissions based on theme to open conversations aimed at interpersonal understanding. 0186
Reposted by Andy Radde-GallwitzAdam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I was just horrified… The most heartbreaking stories… Treatment is absolutely appalling for patients.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaking to @davetuller1.bsky.social about the hundreds of messages he received from people around the world with #MECFS about their experiences of treatment. 88533
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And what does hope smell like? WE DON’T KNOW — WE LOST THAT SENSE (jk. I did lose my sense of smell at first but it returned after a few months). 110
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just reread my post and it didn’t make sense: not “being well” but “recognize well” 010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was in the same trial, and recognize these two states of being well. 110
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My 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 · 30/09/2026 Through Glassdark I like your image, but can I trust it? 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not sure why Dolly didn’t go with “I Will Often Love You” 000
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trans people deserve our full love and support and protection, including our recognition of who they are. That is an intrinsic principle. But even if you disagree, you must see how anti-trans ideology, already violent (the tip is the ouchy bit of the spear), is being used for ever more violence. 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? 963628663
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. 015061
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
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh, Carrburrito’s! Now that is a good place, if they’re anything like they were 25 years ago. Terrible timing for your trip! 110
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 17925321730
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 · 24/09/2026I reread this poem often, especially the first two stanzas, and mainly because my memory is bad. But it says so much. 010
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Anyway, enjoy Shelley’s Mont Blanc: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45130/...poetryfoundation.orgMont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of ChamouniI The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom— Now lending… 130
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. 332939909
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. 1317897
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. 332696387