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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl.

@iamchronic.bsky.social
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Chronic: pain, illness, rare disease, lichen nerd, & ND. I write, read, garden, and do my best to support my friends & community. Equity & Disability Justice are priorities.

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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🟢 Hraphis Scripta was ID'ed is some interesting places recently.
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PLOS Medicine @plosmedicine.org · 22/05/2026
Suppression of HIV with antiretrovirals eliminates HIV transmission risk: Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U). In this Perspective, Thiago Torres & Paula Luz outline what is needed to improve equity and accuracy in global awareness and education of U=U to reduce stigma. 🧪 #MedSky bit.ly/42OXQcs
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U = U for all: Advancing equity in HIV prevention
Suppression of HIV with antiretrovirals eliminates HIV transmission risk, summarized as Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U). However, U=U literacy remains unevenly understood and shared, and stigmas ...
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Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 @keyserlauze.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Here's a submission to the #blueskyartshow theme #Vertical! Of course that makes me think of trees, but then again I usually am, haha.💚🌲💚 "Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat." - Patti Smith #trees #eastcoastkin #photography #nature
In the forest, among the trees, thats what feels like home to me. Draped in gowns of moss, glowing green, they radiate a warmth thats inviting. Below a vibrant blue sky and cotton clouds I wander admist these humble giants. Gazing up at their majesty, one cant help but feel connected to something bigger than themselves.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🟢 Perhaps a bird's nest fungus. What do you think?
A tiny, pale cupped fungus with round-ish, yellow parts inside the cup. Very close-up picture.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🌱 picked the last tromboncini.
A long, light green squash wraps around my wrist. The long neck drops toward the floor for about 3 feet. The squash ending in bulb.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🌱 My first year tending corn for seed and meal. I've got everything thing from milk corn to mature ears. The immature ears are going into a corn chowder. Heirloom, open pollinated is the bomb!!
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🌱 I found 2, black swallowtail caterpillars in my garden today. They are on a celery plant. Rat away, little ones! I'm happy to share my celery.
Small, leaf green caterpillar with black spots that look a bit like eyes,  filled in with yellow.  It's about 1.5 inches/3.8 cm. Resting on a celery leaf a bit darker than the caterpillar. A large, bright green caterpillar.  About 3 inches/7.6 cm long. It's resting on a celery leaf stem.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🟢 maybe this type of Fungus? Leucocoprinus birnbaumii - Wikipedia share.google/xFtTVXmwKxES...
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Leucocoprinus birnbaumii - Wikipedia
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New, unknown fungi in a garden bed. What species do you guess or know? (3 photos of yellow, bumpy fungi by green plants & bark. Some small ones look like finger tips, medium ones are more cone shaped mushrooms, the largest have wide caps and faded color. All look fuzzy with small protrusions.)
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🌱 My first Bennings Green squash of the year. NorCal is having a cool summer over all, so things are happening slowly out here. A small head of garlic for scale. The light green, fluted, flattened, round squash is about 12 inches/30.48 cm across.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🌱Desert beans update: they get a but of water every 10-14 days. This variety won't bloom and produce if over watered. There are blooms and some baby pods sets!
An A-frame trellis (made from mattress and bed frames( shows beans climbing up the trellis fabric about 2 feet. A couple squash plants are on one side. The same beds from the other end showing vibes wrapped around the frame and a near thicket of bean vines.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My fun compression gloves arrived! Thanks, @bibicosplays.bsky.social !!
Black, left-hand, open-finger, compression glove with a pleated, sheer frill at the wrist. A right-handed, black compression, open-finger, glove with a lace frill and ribbon bow at the wrist!
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🌱 Today's posey. A white vase, with multiple openings in the shape of an anatomical heart. It holds 3 colors of roses and a few sprigs of feverfew.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🌱 Some genetic roulette is happening thanks to my lunch apple. I wonder if either of them will keep growing?
Two apple sprouted apple seeds on a woven gray background.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@bibicosplays.bsky.social I got Bibi mail today. Yay!!
Three pair of compression gloves. One each of pastel rainbow, galaxy purple, and lavender Sakura blossom.  Also displayed is a bibipins post card. Everything is against a gray, woven placemat background.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Yes they do! I have multiple pairs and recently ordered more.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 24/06/2025
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🌱 Hello again. #Chronic so I've been off-line for a while. Fortunately, I am still gardening, bit by bit. And my CA native beds are doing well!
Light purple frilly blooms on narrow stalks with fernlike leaves on the plants. California native Lacy Phacealia. Short plants with thicker leaves and wide, funnel-shaped blooms. The blooms are white with 5 dark purple spots spread around the edge ofvthe blooms. They are called 5 spots.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Yes! Watch Crip Camp!!
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This #LongCovid stuff is intense. Shower and sitting up for lunch results in needing a nap. Pacing the best I can. And my body has other opinions.
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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 02/01/2025
I know that sometimes working on a "micro" level and just helping individual people figure out stuff like what shower chair to get can seem like you're "not doing much" But I figure, eugenicists want disabled people to die Helping us stay alive, and suffer less, *is* important
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Don't forget to add alt text on Instagram and Facebook, too. When you forget, the auto-generated alt text is not as helpful, complete, or accurate as human-written alt text. A.I. can't know the purpose of a photo. Always add your own alt text on Instagram and Facebook.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
More rest. "Rest is Resistance." Tricia Hersey
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Here's where you can get the articles--just to make it easy for anyone else hitting exhaustion or brain fog. Like me in this moment. journals.lww.com/cptj/pages/c...
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Current Issue : Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I can't wait to read all these articles!! #LongCovid #ME/CFS @sunsopeningband.bsky.social Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you (not enough thank yous) for being the editor. And to all the contributors. And the journal for making this ACCESSIBLE to all of us to read. THIS IS SUPER!
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/12/2024
So many elders and disabled people are being forced out of their homes by poverty and lack of social supports, especially in high cost of living areas. It's disgusting.
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Aging Out of Home in Los Angeles
For millions of older Americans who will rely on Social Security without adequate retirement savings, the cost of living in cities like Los Angeles will be out of reach. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojo...
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︀︀︀Damon Dawg ✌🏼🫶 @bigdawgnc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Sierra 📚👽🏳️‍🌈 @reading-w-sierra.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
FAVORITE READ OF 2024: August - Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha I loved this book so much. I learned a lot, cried a little, and man this book makes you really think. Disability justice is for everyone. #booksky
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
🌱 I just finished my first browse through the Territorial Seed catalog. So many ideas for Spring!!
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
🌱 Yay! My body let me pull some weeds today. Looking forward to another short session tomorrow. Good sleep and pacing for the Covid recovery win!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/12/2024
Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.”
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ThatAnxiousArtist @whitneyyoh.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
What if instead of driving to be the “best”, “most powerful” and “richest” nation we strive to be the healthiest, most educated and helpful nation? 🤔
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geneva 🖍️ @gdbee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Fragmented, yet flawless
Portrait illo of a woman holding her hand up to her chest. She has yellow tinted glasses, smiling with a deeply sincere gaze on the viewer. She is wearing a sheer turtleneck, black tank top, black pearl necklace and gold hoops. Her hair is a framing Afro. She is broken up from eyes to corners with gold slivers with bits of stardust in the darkest areas. Drawn by gdbee art in 2024 with paint tool sai
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Holiday spirit, Shelly Girl style. Since I'm not into any of the winter festivities this year, my style feels like perfect match.
A skeleton against a snowy night, black background. They are drinking a hot beverage, wearing a Santa hat with holiday decor on the rib cage.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/12/2024
"Race is a distraction from class consciousness" I mean, sure, yeah, in the sense that being stabbed in the back is a "distraction" from the gun pointed at your head, but you still need the stabbing to stop before you can worry about the gun.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🟢 Some lichen time yesterday. They are working to expand their presence. And a bonus Elephant Seal. The boys are slowly starting to return for the season. Point Reyes National Seashore.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Personally I would be more willing to pay for a social media website that made protecting marginalized people a core part of its business than one that offers them up as bait for bigots. That's my preference
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amelia "rem" jane @handle.invalid · 12/12/2024
we are all tired of screaming. this is a make or break moment for the platform & we have few options left to make our voices heard i don't need to tell my trans siblings how important it is, but cis allies, if you care about us being here, being safe, please consider signing & sharing. thank you 💖
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#disability #access #justice
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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"The challenges faced by teen mothers, many of whom are compelled to carry pregnancies to term, continue to be overlooked. Despite the rhetoric of valuing life, little has been done to support those who give it." www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-...
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Opinion | Teen Mothers Need Support Amid Anti-Abortion Landscape
Tahmina Begum writes on debates regarding reproductive rights and how there should be more support for teen mothers if anti-abortion laws are passed.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Recovering from 1st known Covid infection. I'm so grateful for the health monitor that includes research from the incredible @putrinolab.bsky.social. Having visible data for how my body is doing is a bigger-than-usual help right now.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Additionally, help should not be dependent on the requirements of religionification. So bad in so many ways. Much better options exist.
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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’ve been seeing some classic Monday morning quarterbacking as the necessity of #COVID19 lockdowns are being discussed once again. As usual, we’re seeing a lot of hyperbolic statements and attempts to create conversations around comparative suffering which is always just a 1/
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@beingcharis.bsky.social
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#SundayYellow 🌱 Mullein with so many pollinators in attendance.
A tall plant with large, hairy leaves around a thick, central stalk. The top has many secondary stalks branching out. Each one has many yellow blooms surrounding the smaller stalks. Looks almost top heavy from the size difference.
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Peggy Brava Radical Left Scum @peggybrava.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🟢 Moss crowd: what's your ID on this piece? A lichen nerd is curious. It shared dense habitat with lichens. And yes, I'm checking lichen species, too.
A single strand of a mossy lifeform. Its brown and rough like a natural twine. It also had little pieces sticking out in brown and green. The piece is shown against a fingertip, for scale, in a closeup.A larger grouping of the mossy looking growth. Many strands showing on a small branch.
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IAmChronic. A Skelly Girl. @iamchronic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Struggling to wait today. Needed to call in a wellness check on an at-risk friend. At least we have options outside of law enforcement in CA, USA. No more trauma is needed.
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