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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

TRIGGER WARNING: MEDICAL MISINFORMATION & LONG COVID DENIALISM These losers have been using the same tired conspiracy bullshit for five+ years now. Where are our able bodied allies to shut this shit down? We’ve fought it long enough, it’s time for y’all to step up and have our backs.

Post from user HANK TOUGH @/flag-burner.bsky.com

Text reads: I've decided I'm gonna start believing unreasonable conspiracy theories that I make up:

I believe long covid is a lie that people subconsciously tell themselves in order to get more time off from work after they get better from covid. It's entirely psychosomatic.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is Toast’s birthday! He’s 11 years old 🥰🥹

Photo of my smaller dog, River, taking a treat from my hand. The treat says “Let’s” on it. River is a medium sized tan dog with white paws and a little bit of grey around his mouth.

Photo of my bigger dog, Toast, taking a treat from my hand. The treat says “Pawty” on it. He’s a large tan dog with lots of grey around his muzzle and eyebrows. He’s the birthday boy!

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

WOW. Just saying the quiet part out loud with her whole face and name on her account — This is the kind of disgusting ableism we have to face down all the goddamn time. Long COVID is NOT “just people being a bummer/not being able to read a room/TMI” Getting some unwanted comments is NOT (1)

Post from account anthrodiva.bsky.social:

I've had to hide two comments today, mostly just people being giant bummers/not reading the room/TMI or just what I think of as Long Covid:

Me: posts cute bunny pic
Friend: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF BUNNY FEVER!

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I’m racing to get this baby blanket done before my new nephew comes ☺️ I’ve got mayyybe a month to go. It’s gonna take a knitting miracle for me lol Pattern is called Basket Weave Preemie Blanket by Cheryl Chow.

A shot of a work-in-progress knitting project. There is the beginning of a light yellow blanket perched on top an attached cake of yarn. There are about four inches of fabric made, which has a basket-weave-like texture.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

My neighbor and I heard them screeching sometime last week and I wouldn’t have known what the hell I was hearing, but he told me they were owls. I thought just hearing them was cool! This is probably the best frame I can get from the video. It must’ve been on the hunt to be down in the grass 😯

A very blurry screenshot from a video taken at night. The silhouette of what I’m quite sure is an owl is illuminated by street lights. It has just taken flight - its wings are flung straight upward and its talons are just barely pushed off of the ground below. The bird’s shadow stretches out beneath it on a green lawn.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

The bit on Long COVID for anyone who doesn’t have the spoons to scroll.

Text reading:
Improving Access to Health Care:
Addressing Long COVID. As tasked by the President in his Memorandum on Addressing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, HHS established the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, which is coordinating a whole-of-government response to the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and responding to the needs of those living with Long COVID. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) RECOVER initiative has enrolled nearly 30,000 people to help us understand Long COVID and develop treatments.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

This is so so so important - Catherine provided a gift link for this article. Please share it widely!

Screenshot including text: It’s bad enough patients of color are coping with a debilitating illness, they said. It’s all the more devastating, they said, to feel like they’re being erased — from medical records, public imagination and policy considerations. Researchers say that in many cases, people are not even being formally diagnosed, meaning they’re suffering and not getting help.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

From the Guardian article referenced in the above - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can trace the origins of this model to a paper published in 1970. Without assessing a single patient or interviewing a single doctor, it blamed an earlier outbreak of post-viral ME/CFS on “mass hysteria” based on case notes alone. The reasoning included the fact that the outbreak affected more women than men. For centuries, doctors have been readier to classify women’s illnesses as hysterical or psychosomatic than they have men’s. ME/CFS, like long Covid, hits women harder, so, the thinking goes, it must be all in the mind.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

Of course I find the perfect hair salon when I have a month left in the city 🥲 guess I’ll be coming back for doctor visits AND haircuts

Photo of me - a 30 year old white woman. My hair is medium brown and hits just at my chin. It’s freshly cut and very cute. My glasses are oversized lime green square frames and I’m wearing a black shirt with text visible that says “born too.” I’m standing in front of a green curtain and a white dresser with a tendril of a pothos plant trailing just behind my shoulder.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Damn I love New Yorkers so much 🥺

Screen grab of the article linked in the previous skeet. The text reads:

Passengers on the train told Eyewitness News that everyone was screaming and it was very scary when it happened.

They said there was crying until the fire department arrived and broke the doors to help the passengers out.

Others said despite the scare, it will still as calm of a situation as it could have been given the circumstances.

"People were asking that everybody was OK, it was a good New Yorker experience," Danny White said. "It was as good as it could have been."

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

CW: long COVID denial/dismissal, ableism, general assholery Account to report and block - don’t waste your energy engaging with these trolls. Send them back to Twitter where they belong 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

Screengrab of a skeet by user jimcolbert.bsky.social. Text reads: “Venn Diagram” followed by a photo of a circle with the text “People with ‘Fibromyalgia’… People with ‘Long COVID’”

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I’m doing some light packing - no heavy lifting, no bending, no lifting my arms above my head. Just putting lip gloss into my little quart sized baggie, chill as can be listening to a podcast… why the fuck is my heart rate at 130bpm 😐 FUCK LONG COVID

A photo of a fitness tracker watch on my pale pale arm. The screen reads:
TUE 5
01:43
Little footprints signifying daily steps: 1339
A heart signifying heart rate: 130
A battery signifying, well, the battery: 72%

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Someone didn’t get the 🐝 memo… 😂 Happy Halloween everybody!!!

Five dogs pose in their Halloween costumes in front of a wrought iron gate. Four of them, the two large brown mixed breed dogs and the two little Boston Terriers, are in an array of bumble bee costumes. The fifth, a tiny chihuahua mix, is wearing a pumpkin costume. Of course only two of them are successfully looking at the camera. None of them look particularly pleased, but they put up with us regardless!

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Reskeet with a photo of you in the sun… Had to dig back into the days before I was a long COVID zombie. I miss her 🥲

A white woman in her late twenties takes a selfie of her leaning on a windowsill. The window is pushed all the way open and her long auburn-ish hair catches the sunlight and trails out over the threshold. It’s the longest her hair has ever been. She’s wearing a red wine colored bridesmaid dress and oversized octagonal sunglasses. The sky beyond is blue and speckled with fluffy clouds.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than ten times. I KNOW a lot of awful dudes Stan this movie but idc… Once a Chuck Palahniuk girlie, always a Chuck Palahniuk girlie 😘

A still from the movie Fight Club. In a dark room, Meatloaf (the musician and actor) embraces Edward Norton.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Heard “no nightshades” and had to rewind. Michelle representing for the autoimmune girlies 🥰

A tv in a dark room with the screen showing a still from RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Michelle Visage, a fashionable white woman is wearing silver and black to match her hair. She sits in front of a blue and red honeycomb-patterned wall. The subtitles read: “But also the AIP— so no nuts, no beans,”. If you look closely you can see plants and paintings and a globe around the tv in the dark

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Can’t let Dog Day pass without posting Toast and River - they are quite the chaotic duo but there’s no way I would’ve made it through the last few years without them 🩷🩷🩷

Two tan dogs are cuddled up on a beige couch. Toast is the bigger dog on the left, and he has his paw outstretched towards the right. River sits to the right and has his little white paw draped over Toast’s leg. They’re looking at the camera like they’re a little apprehensive, like they’re thinking, “why do you keep taking pictures of us, mom?”

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Love a good food dog name 😄 this is Toast! Happy Dog Day!

Toast, a big tan mixed breed dog is sitting on a dark brown couch with his front paws dangling down off the side. He’s looking at the camera and doesn’t seem particularly amused, but he is still very cute and handsome.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Pushed play on the first movie in a list my friend recommended and 😳 Now what are the chances of that? 😅

Screengrab from the movie Videodrome. A brunette white woman is paused mid-sentence. The subtitles read: here with your wake-up call of today, which is Wednesday the 23rd.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I value the opportunity for the opportunity for you and I ✨😂

Finish with predictive text:

Aries: I admit
Taurus: I value
Gemini: I speak
Cancer: I deserve
Leo: I admire
Virgo: I reevaluate
Libra: I balance
Scorpio: I transform
Sagittarius: I hope
Capricorn: I avoid
Aquarius: I belong
Pisces: I dream

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Ahh fuck it… why not a little throwback to the buzzcut days 😋

Year-old selfie of me - 29-year-old white woman with buzz cut brown hair. It’s just my head in the bottom right corner against a plain white wall. I look a little moody and maybe a little stoned.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Sending you a very special virtual birthday cuddle 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 hope you can treat yourself today!

Two tan dogs are laying on a white sheet. The smaller dog has his chin resting on the bigger dog’s neck

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Aww so so relatable - I’ve got ME/CFS by way of long COVID and I also spend most of my days snuggled up with my boys - this is Toast and River 🤍 Give your pups some good scratches for us 🥰

Two large tan dogs sit on a tile floor looking up at the camera. To the left and slightly behind is the bigger of the two. He has a big block head, expressive little black eyebrows, and a touch of grey around his snout. The smaller dog has white sock-like markings on his paws that connect to a white patch on his chest. They are posing very nicely for the camera together.

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meg’s malaise @megclems.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Scrolling past this with Automatonophobia…

Image of the animated Simpsons character Ralph Wiggum seated in the back seat of a bus. He has a thousand-yard stare and a wide open mouth. The caption reads: (chuckles) I’m in danger.

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