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jonathan (pwME)

@crumpledleaf.bsky.social
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he/him. i sometimes write about living with ME/CFS.

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Miranda 🌸 @crookedneighbor.bsky.social · 19h
Reminder to young adults that it is never too late to get the MMR if you were not vaccinated as a child, or you're not sure. Your PCP or local community health center should be able to run titers (blood tests that tell you if you're immune or not) and help you get any vaccines that you're missing.
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
as pwME, it’s important we be on our guard about conspiracy theories. if I believed Whitney about the nanoneedle, i would advocate passionately for the community pour all our time, energy, and money into its development. we might divert significant resources to that end. all likely for naught.
A post on X (formerly Twitter) made on October 13, 2026 by Whitney Dafoe. It reads:

“Look no further than the Nano Needle.  The researcher at Ron's lab who invented it spent years working on it, came up with a diagnosic test that was super accurate, actaully highly *unlikely* *not* to work, was so cheap to manufacture we could have had it in every lab around the world and thus could have diagnosed every single ME/CFS patient worldwide in a short time.  It was brilliant.  And NIH would not fund it for baffling (or disgusting) reasons and it kind of ruined his career. He's now at another university trying to start over when he should be famous for changing the world.  

Anyone else want to sign up for a field of research like that?  Any takers?  You get kicked to the curb for a brilliant invention that would completely change the world and save millions of lives. 🤦😨🤬”
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Made a new video ranking ME/CFS silver linings! youtu.be/cG-k9xDV_3M?...
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ME/CFS Silver Linings--Real and Imagined
YouTube video by Jonathan (pwME)
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’ve just finished my first ME/CFS video essay. It concerns what I’ve learned about hope over the course of my illness. There’s a link to a text version of the essay in the video description if that’s more accessible. youtu.be/jMiVAAzo4p0?...
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On Hope and Chronic Illness
YouTube video by Jonathan (pwME)
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
another day, another person with severe ME being mistreated in an NHS hospital 💔. please sign her petition for appropriate care! chng.it/JfzLXdZzzH
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Savannah Victora-May - Prevent Another ME/CFS Tragedy
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Matt Lazell-Fairman @mfairma.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Plz sign and share this petition to help Dill, a severely ill pwME in UK hospital. #MECFS #LongCovid www.change.org/p/the-nhs-mu...
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Sign the Petition
The NHS must take measures to STOP Dill deteriorating
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
in a fairer world, there would be hell to pay for the torture and human rights abuses being visited on this poor man. this article contains a link to his fundraiser. please donate/read/share ❤️‍🩹
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Yann (ME/LC) @me-cfs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Very Severe ME is a relentless suppression of everything it means to be human, a denial of nearly every one of the most basic instincts and desires. And where even the capacity to grieve or process that incomprehensible loss is taken away.
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The subject of this article is a friend of mine. His circumstances are utterly heartbreaking and yet, somehow, he remains a warm and kind young man. It would mean something to me if you read his story.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The Severe....recognize the depths of the pit of horror that the Very Severe may find themselves stuck in...yet by leaning over to lend a hand, we risk falling further into the quicksand ourselves." Vital op-ed by Sam Pearce in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/04/04/a...
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An international emergency task force is urgently needed for Severe Long COVID and ME crisis cases - The Sick Times
Without one, Severe advocates are putting themselves at risk. It’s time for advocacy organizations to step up. Writer’s note: In this essay, I deliberately capitalize different categories of ME in ord...
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
you have ME and something needs explaining. you begin to talk. you know the final destination—your understanding, shared—but your working memory is too shot to devise and hold in it a route there.
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This tweet is about a friend of mine with very severe ME ❤️‍🩹. If you have any ideas, please let me know! #pwme #MECFS
a tweet which reads: “I have a blind friend with ME and other neurological issues who is being physically abused by a family member, they need access to some form of disability-friendly domestic abuse assistance in Poland/the EU. Any help welcome.”
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
as someone who became homebound at 13, it’s hard to relate when pwME who got sick in their 20s lament “these were supposed to be my fun years” i feel confused: “supposed to”? then i remember ppl didn’t nesc spend their teenage years having “you’re owed nothing in life” curbstomped into them
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Cheminism🏴 @atrophous.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hierarchies other than class are actually real. People don’t like this fact because “the 1%” is a more appealing fraction for “people who have an interest in exploiting others” compared to idk the 50% or 80% or whatever the more realistic fraction is for people benefiting from *someone’s* oppression
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases - In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5 - TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe - smallpox killed 80% of infected children theconversation.com/infectious-d...
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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
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jonathan (pwME) @crumpledleaf.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
i wish everyone who comments on ME clinical trials would internalize this image. the blue line is the health scores of the placebo group in the rituximab phase III trial it shows that not only did rituximab not work, but pwME on a placebo report a modest benefit on some health surveys over time
a graph. the vertical axis is labeled “mean SF-36-PF raw scores” and the horizontal axis is labeled “time in months”. there are two lines, a red and a blue one, corresponding to the treatment and placebo groups in the rituximab phase 3 trial. there is substantial overlap in these lines—they are virtually identical—indicating no difference in how patients fared in the two groups.
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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 23/11/2024
1) Which ME/CFS studies did the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fund in 2024? We published a new blog post that briefly describes all projects. mecfsskeptic.com/nih...
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NIH funding for ME/CFS in 2024 - ME/CFS Skeptic
In 2024, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund 25 research projects on myalgicContinue readingNIH funding for ME/CFS in 2024
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