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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here’s how I realized I had long covid. I got sick but improved. A month later was Christmas. I did all my usual activities - baking, hosting, good solid walks. On New Year’s Day I collapsed getting out of bed, couldn’t get up for a week, and never, ever got that level of energy back.

Quote from article: In Wired, Levinovitz took aim at claims that Long Covid patients with ME/CFS are limited in their ability to exercise. He argued that the problem isn't exercise, but the belief that exercise is harmful.
"Patients cursed themselves by believing their symptoms had a strictly biological cause," he wrote.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My husband is currently hyperventilating on the couch 😅

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

JD, I hate to break it to you but if you disagree so stridently with God’s emissary on Earth about BASIC theological matters, you might just be Protestant.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Watching the light leave a normie doctor’s eyes as I describe the myriad of ways my brain and immune system have fucked my body is pretty entertaining.

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David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

With One Battle After Another winning big at the Globes last night, it's the perfect time to read @angelicabastien.bsky.social's fantastic analysis of the film and Teyana Taylor's fantastic performance that provides an interiority the script often lacks

vulture.com

Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another

Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

And if you fear that you will now be at higher risk of death and complications because you cannot stay up to date on vaccines, please consider for a moment that that is the burden you’ve been happy to put on disabled and vulnerable people for several years.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The compounding pharmacy that used to prepare my thymosin alpha-1 is no longer doing it and my usual compounding pharmacy doesn’t offer it. Anyone with #LongCOVID or #MECFS and at TA-1 script have a compounding pharmacy that offers it? If so, details pls!

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ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

#Disability is the only universal marginalisation, making up 1/5 to 1/4 of the world's population, yet so few of our stories are published! Help me uplift disabled & chronically ill #writers by supporting & submitting to this #anthology ❤️‍🔥 Guidelines: shorturl.at/jges6 Deadline: July 31st 2025.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Rich white women really coming to BookTok, a place where (primarily) women make content about (primarily) books where people bang out of wedlock, at a time of a puritanical crackdown on reproductive freedom and ask when did things get political… 🫠

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I’m always so tickled when people go “ugh when did [insert thing here] become political?” And it’s like, sorry babe, but as long as groups within society use the state as a cudgeol to decide who has what rights and how collective resources are allocated, most things will be political.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨 🚨 🚨 Really important action for #LongCOVID community and allies! Call or email your federal legislators to let them know #NoLongCOVIDcuts! This condition impacts millions of Americans, many of whom are severely disabled with NO treatments!

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sprained my ankle. Time for all these peptides I’ve been shoving into my body to do something miraculous.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Yes and yes, but your son’s mileage may vary.

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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

As we approach the 4th and 11th anniversaries of the war that Russia started, it is important to remember that this has always been a blatant land grab that turned genocidal as soon as they realized Ukrainians do not want to be Russians

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Naomi Harvey PhD @naomidharvey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New Lancet study shows extremely low, 2%, recovery rate from Long COVID. However, those who considered their Long COVID resolved were still in worse health than those who never had Long COVID. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Interpretation

Among participants followed up to 3 years after initial infection, those with current Long COVID had worse physical and mental health outcomes. The majority of those with Long COVID did not resolve, with less than 2% having resolved Long COVID. The resolved Long COVID cohort had moderately worse physical and mental health compared with those never-having-Long COVID. COVID-19 vaccination was associated with better outcomes.
Funding

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Anyone in the #LongCOVID or #MECFS universe tried the antimicrobial and antiviral peptide LL-37? Would love to touch base about folks’ experiences and dosages.

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Post-Viral Trials @postviraltrials.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Regeneron is recruiting for a phase 2 RCT of REGN7544 (an NPR1 antagonist mAb) for POTS. They’re seeking 81 patients in Pasadena, CA; Carlsbad, CA; Nashville, TN; and Clearwater, FL clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT065...

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ClinicalTrials.gov

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It’s wild how much calmer my nervous system feels when I’m on my period. I wish I knew what was happening in my body that makes it so and how I can reproduce it the other three weeks of every month. 🤔 #LongCOVID

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s no longer low. In fact my amino acids rebounded spectacularly well for the most part since treating SIBO. But interesting to think about certainly.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Anyone with #LongCOVID, #MECFS, or #ChronicLyme tried supportive oligonucleotide technique (SOT) for EBV, CMV, HHV-6, and Lyme and its co-infections? My functional medicine doc does it in his office and I’m considering it to try to shift symptoms. Would love personal anecdotes!

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Luckily I had some on hand so I just took one this morning and the jaw pain has gotten less severe but the tonsils are LOUD. 😣

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The sinus part is very mild but the left side of my throat feels like it’s on fire. It’s extremely unpleasant 😵‍💫

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Have a tonsil and sinus infection. Happy Valentines Day to me from AmoxClav. 😥

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

motherjones.com

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Haven’t really decided yet. I’m adding in truvada shortly and seeing how my body responds. All likely depends on how kidneys and liver respond.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Symptoms. I’ve had no side effects, even at the higher dose. Which I tried because someone else who had success on it for LC said they saw no benefit at 400mg but did get benefit at 800mg

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I’m on day 5 of Sofosbuvir. The first two days I only took one pill, but have been taking 2 the other two days. Very up and down but the ups are very up. My nervous system feels very calm on those days.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Which is really fucking saying something. Because NYC has had some terrible fucking mayors.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Lmao at the idea that DOGE found fraud but an accounting firm didn’t. Like I don’t have that much faith in the Big 4, but I have enough faith that they’d be able to find fraudulent debt obligations…

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Styna Lane @stynalane.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Reminder that protecting each other from illness and potential disability/death when the people in charge actively want us dead is actually punk as fuck. Simple disease prevention is community care. It is resistance. Please mask up, especially at protests.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

Jeff Stein &
@JStein WaPo
A federal worker sent me audio of a call that HR did today with staff about "deferred resignation" agreements offered by DOGE ... I think this is pretty well understood by now but helps confirm what many suspect
The audio goes:
Employee: Lets say I accept the agreement tomorrow - you were to rescind the agreement and they were to stop paying me on Friday ... we would have no recourse available?
HR official: Yes... as the agreement is outlined that is absolutely correct
11:40 AM • 2/5/25 • 168K Views

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 04/02/2025

Thing you can do, action you can take: Register for our Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar on 2/10 @ 4PM ET MAGA wants massive cuts to Medicaid, resulting in catastrophic coverage losses. Learn how to advocate for Medicaid with the legislative staff of a Congressperson or Senator. Reg link ⤵️

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2/10 at 4PM ET: Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar | Matthew Cortland

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hey, guess what has suddenly disappeared from the HHS website? Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration. Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.

theguardian.com

Biden administration allocates $306m in its final days for bird flu response

‘Critical’ funding comes as H5N1 outbreak intensifies and will go toward developing a response to the virus

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“These first two weeks of Trump’s new term and the extensive executive orders removing nearly every right I have as a trans American have been by far the worst in all my professional years.” In The Handbasket’s first guest piece @katelynburns.com explains the toll on trans journalists right now:

thehandbasket.co

GUEST COLUMN: The current ‘mindf*ck’ of being a trans journalist

Katelyn Burns explains the personal and professional toll of Trump's anti-trans executive orders.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So excited for this as an OG fan of the show!!

Scully in a hospital bed. Caption reads “I knew there was a reason to live.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The people who rise to lead now will be the leaders. And the people who do not never will.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yeah for me, something can become a trigger if I’m particularly sensitized due to something like, say, heat. Heat is definitely a known dysautonomia and MCAS trigger for me. And I think a couple other things probably snowballed the effect.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I can live without the other three variables. I just really need it to not be the new meds because the alternative formulations are tens of thousands of dollars.

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Lowkey love that because there were four new variables in play during this two day POTS/MCAS flare, the only way I can make sure it wasn’t the new medication is if I wait a couple weeks for my body to calm down and then try again in the *hopes* that my body doesn’t react violently again. No notes.

Filthy beat up furby. Caption reads: “Bothered. Dehydrated. Tired. Not in my lane. Brain fog. Struggling.”

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Honestly not mad about it…

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Olenka Sayko @osayko.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Conspiracy theorists have been worrying about Big Tech tryin got microchip them with vaccines when they really should have been worrying about Big Parma.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

hey question, is this bad?

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