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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#ME/CFS and the emotional toll of persistent disbelief: from epistemic to affective injustice Sven Walter link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ME/CFS and the emotional toll of persistent disbelief: from epistemic to affective injustice - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating chronic illness whose sufferers are frequently met with disbelief, stigmatization, and psychologization in both clinical a...
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The deepest wound of severe M.E is not simply the loss of bodily capacity, but the loss of a shared world in which that loss can be intelligently spoken.
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Everybody's Talkin' (Teaser) HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION
YouTube video by Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"There is no answer to any of it, ultimately. It's just what is." Harry Dean Stanton was born 100 years ago today. #botd #filmsky
Harry Dean Stanton looks at camera  w/ his hair tousled, his tie pulled down, and that look we'll never forget.
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Rewatching Dallas Buyers Club - has a surprising amount in common with the ME/CFS or Long Covid experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDvP...
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Dallas Buyers Club - Official Int'l Trailer (2013) HD
YouTube video by Voltage Pictures
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/07/2026
What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The great Beckett actor Peter Marinker has Alzheimer's. He's doing Krapp again, which he last did in 1983. Beckett's estate has such respect for his work that they've allowed some changes to the staging to make the production about his disease - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
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‘I’d pause then carry on’: Peter Marinker, star of Krapp’s Last Tape, on performing with Alzheimer’s
The 84-year-old actor has spent decades bringing Samuel Beckett’s plays to life. Does his recent diagnosis give him new insights into playing ‘sad clown’ Krapp in a drama about age and the battlefield...
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Suffering in Cyberspace: Biopolitics, Habitus and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Doctoral thesis researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28... This looks like it might be of interest to some people #MEcfs #PwME
Suffering in Cyberspace: Biopolitics, Habitus and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)



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Fuest, H  (2026) Suffering in Cyberspace: Biopolitics, Habitus and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Doctoral thesis, Liverpool John Moores University.



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This thesis investigates how people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) use digital environments to communicate suffering, build community, and challenge the institutional disbelief that surrounds their illness. Drawing on digital ethnography, illness journals, and qualitative interviews, it explores how online interaction becomes a site of knowledge production, care, and political action.



The study introduces the concept of suffering-capital to describe how the emotional and communicative labour of illness generates value and legitimacy within moral and bureaucratic economies. It develops the idea of a political–biosocial habitus, drawing on and reworking Bourdieusian conceptions of habitus and capital, showing how digital illness publics consciously cultivate shared dispositions and forms of expertise that reconfigure the field of health knowledge. Together, these frameworks illuminate how power, visibility, and care are negotiated through digital practice.



Empirically, the research traces how people with ME/CFS transform isolation into collective infrastructure through platforms such as MEpedia, online benefits forums, and campaigns like Millions Missing. Within these spaces, participants collaboratively curate and test treatment protocols, translating biomedical research into practical guidance and shared care strategies. The analysis reveals how welfare bureaucracy conver…
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ACID HORIZON 👁️ @acidhorizon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Acid Horizon in The Quietus!
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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TOMORROW
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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
INFERNO. 18 TRACKS. 70 MINUTES. 2xLP, CD, DIGITAL. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Movies The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher
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The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher
Touching on everything from late-stage capitalism to Adele, the work of the late writer is proving increasingly influential. Now a documentary on him is looking to live up to his ideals
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Corduroy Psychedelia: On Boards of Canada, Hauntology, and the PBS Unconscious
A Philosophy of Sick Days in the 1980s
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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 08/04/2026
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Katie J. @kjohnstone.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Simon Wessely used intimidation to change how an author wrote about ME and Long Covid. The threat of a law suit was likely a bluff, but still had the desired effect. This is how Wessely operates.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The Samuel Beckett advent calendar via @tomgauld.bsky.social
a tree
three funeral urns
Nothing
a carrot and some turnips
an empty room
an abandoned bicycle
darkness
a rock
nothing again
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 29/11/2025
the whole thing - so so great www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6g...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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How Dennis Potter's TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age | The Quietus
Darran Anderson gets to grips with the brilliant body of work created by revolutionary television playwright Dennis Potter
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | Official Trailer | 2023
YouTube video by Shout! Studios
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” 

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” 

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time' The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare
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Flare!
<p>‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Looks potentially my bag. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUnN...
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URCHIN - Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas Now
YouTube video by Picturehouse
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Cinema Without Borders @cinemawb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Köln 75 is about artistic brilliance Ido Fluk’s Köln 75 is a vibrant and heartfelt retelling of one of the most remarkable nights in modern music history, a film that succeeds as both an intimate character study and a celebration of artistic perseverance. At its center is Vera Brandes, the teenage…
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Köln 75 is about artistic brilliance
Ido Fluk’s Köln 75 is a vibrant and heartfelt retelling of one of the most remarkable nights in modern music history, a film that succeeds as both an intimate character study and a celebration of artistic perseverance. At its center is Vera Brandes, the teenage promoter whose faith and determination led to Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert. As embodied by Mala Emde, Vera is a force of nature, bubbling with youthful enthusiasm and comic energy, a performance that critics have rightly singled out as dynamic and joyful.
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Was able to spend just enough time to take some pictures of Charleston House en route to a physiotherapy appointment.
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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 in his studio,1964 East Hampton 📸 Hans Namuth, Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate / Rothko family archives © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
‘Under the paving, the beach.’
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What’s On Rap? @whatsonrap.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
‪52 years ago today, hip-hop was born 🙏‬ ‪#DJKoolHerc’s Back to School party marked the start of it all.‬ ‪Who is your favorite Hip Hop contributor⁉️‬ 🔗 Read more about the founder of Hip-Hop, DJ Kool Herc 👇 www.whatsonrap.com/2024/05/dj-k...
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=9t8Q...
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Comafields
YouTube video by Burial - Topic
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is where I used to go in my University days.
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=d8yq... Both series of Lodge 49 are available to stream again after being entirely unavailable for the last few years. A thing of beauty equivalent to a Pynchon novel.
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Lodge 49 - All The Beautiful Things
YouTube video by lizowen85
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Morgan: a suitable case for treatment (1966) - a trip to Marx's grave
YouTube video by Paul Thompson
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-be...
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I Became a Better Magician | Los Angeles Review of Books
Paul Thompson reviews Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal.”
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=zk_6... Another Day
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Roy Harper. Glastonbury 2025
YouTube video by Gareth Edwards
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Marc Chagall @marc-chagall.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A Wheatfield on a Summer's Afternoon. Study for backdrop for Scene III of the ballet Aleko www.moma.org/collection/works/85004
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=NO9h...
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN | Final Trailer | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’ve been reading Havi Carel’s book ‘Phenomenology of Illness’ and using ChatGPT to discuss the phenomenology of #M.E. These are notes on Drew Leder’s chapter on illness in ‘the Absent Body.’
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Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Glastonbury - Four Tet
The underground dance music veteran-turned-superstar DJ headlines the Woodsies Stage.
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mookpixie @mookpixie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Back momentarily to let you lot know that the Mirrorbox will be visiting Glastonbury Tor on my behalf tomorrow afternoon. www.iwouldbehereificould.com/mirrorbox-jo...
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Mirrorbox Journey: Glastonbury Tor, Somerset – I Would Be Here If I Could...
The Mirrorbox will travel to the top of Glastonbury Tor! (wind permitting)
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Professor of Philosophy Havi Carel on the central importance of Epistemic Justice in healthcare youtube.com/watch?v=v9hb...
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Havi Carel: the role of the patient in improving quality
YouTube video by The King's Fund
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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
wrote about how aesop rock finds profundity in the mundane on his wonderful new album, black hole superette up now at @pitchfork.com
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Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette
Read Dash Lewis’ review of the album.
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
“Coming just a couple of years after Godard’s death, the movie is partly a memorial of a specific moment of possibility, but its verve is an invitation to do it yourself, too” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague from #Cannes2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Nouvelle Vague: A Cahiers caper
The American director goes behind the scenes of Breathless’ historic production for a film that embraces Jean-Luc Godard’s cinephile passion and formal imagination.
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