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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very empathetic and largely positive piece I’m reacting to only mentions Covid once and it’s in context of how some of the newly IDed disabled people boldly wear “Covid masks”. Totally a coincidence everyone’s got POTS &/or ME now. Unrelated to a virus that gives you POTS &/or ME running rampant

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you done The Sick Times' reader survey yet? We plan to use the results to inform future stories, updates to our website, and more! www.surveymonkey.com/r/SS6ZH8S

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Truly awful injustice. To everyone who thinks LC is just something "hysterical" rich women complain about um...

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The CDC and partners “implemented air monitoring for pathogen surveillance in congregate areas at four U.S. international airports. From October 2023 to August 2024, SARS-CoV-2 was detected by PCR in 98.3% of air samples.” We desperately need indoor air cleaning measures. Til then: 😷

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Solve M.E. @solveme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/ 🚨Take action by Friday! NIAID has proposed eliminating its Division of Clinical Research — the infrastructure behind its clinical trials — on a public comment window of just five days. #MECFS #LongCOVID

Solve M.E. action alert on a deep teal background. Headline: Take action by Friday. Text: NIAID has proposed eliminating its Division of Clinical Research, the infrastructure behind clinical trials, on a five-day comment window. Comment by Sept 18.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last day to apply: the Norris Lab in the US has a visiting scholars program superficially similar to mine. If you're interested in/have #EDS, you can apply for a three-day intensive to focus on becoming a patient-scientist. Very cool! 🧪 #MedSky www.thenorrislab.com/vsp

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Visiting Scholars Program | The Norris Lab

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Benny Six-Cats @teeveeben.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anything wider or longer than an iPhone 12 mini with a case is too wide to comfortably fit in a pocket.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apple, what many folks really actually want as a phone feature is that it will FIT IN OUR POCKETS AND HANDS. I know a surprisingly large number of folks - in Silicon Valley!! With well-paying tech jobs!!! - who keep limping along their iPhone 12/13 minis year after year, our hopes never fulfilled.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.

A leaky drop ceiling with a large, dirty water stain.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What I want in an iPhone is an iPhone 12/13 mini sized phone with modern battery and camera technology. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR?!??? What I do NOT want in an iPhone is a way to smash even more screen real estate (that my hands have to hold somehow!) into it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/09/2026

AI data centers as profane temples of the necromancer lords.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I was doing my PhD (in Applied Physics, at Stanford) I ended up on a crackpot’s email list. He emailed me every single month. It was amusing! But definitely not something to respond to in any way.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i think its telling that the warmakers understand that long covid is a serious problem for our continuing function as a society yet our political operatives do not.

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Lorraine Boissoneault @lodrinkswater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Calling all people with #LongCovid and/or #MECFS: I'm writing for @thesicktimes.org about the "October slide" -- when symptoms get worse in the fall. I want to talk to people who are aware of this but DON'T get worse in the fall! Is that you?? You can DM me here or email L.boissoneault@gmail.com

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Defense is funding a new clinical trials program for Long COVID with an initial grant of $8 million. Called PROBE-PASC, the program will focus on mechanistic trials that will study the disease’s underlying biology in tandem with testing treatments.

A graphic features an aerial photo of the U.S. Pentagon building. Text overlaid on the photo reads, “The Sick Times: Breaking: Department of Defense announces $8 million grant for Long COVID clinical trials”.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Moderna approved for all 65+, and for 6 months to 64 with underlying condition that increases risk of severe Covid Pfizer for all 65+, and 5-64 with underlying condition Sanofi (Novavax) for all 65+, and 12-64 with underlying condition What proof is required is going to vary by where you get it

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if you have trouble hydrating consider: a data center is beating you at hydration dont let a data center beat you at hydration

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"If we want people to stop using AI, we need to help them come up with alternatives for what they use it for." THINKING. WITH YOUR BRAIN. THAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE.

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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PhD students Annabel Zhang and Katy Krupinsky quantified variability in factors that control the risk of airborne transmission in our new paper, "Heterogeneity of Airborne Virus Transmission in the Built Environment: A Narrative Review." paijournal.com/index.php/pa... With Adam Lauring

Cartoon showing 3 phases of transmission--emissions, transport, exposure--and factors that affect the risk

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hear me out: what if Ladyhawke, but the eclipse were actually accurate to how a total eclipse looks? (This thought brought to you by a road trip across Spain, and hopes for seeing totality this evening!)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another 🎯🧵 by @biff234523.bsky.social on XTwitter about the speed & options for vaccines & variants: "Re: Approval of an mRNA flu vaccine, I keep seeing a lot of people excited about the idea that we can update the vaccine more quickly now, which means..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20854...

Re: Approval of an mRNA flu vaccine, I keep seeing a lot of people excited about the idea that we can update the vaccine more quickly now, which means we can be better at quickly matching the vaccine to emerging strains.

To be clear: That’s not a thing.

The potential is technically there in theory, but it’s very far from becoming a reality.

In fact, there are so many challenges that the FDA has been clear throughout this entire approval process: There’s no mechanism for an interim strain update, and there are no plans for how that might potentially be achieved…heck, there aren’t even any plans to make the plans.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/08/2026

being in a situation where you need Literally Every Single Dem on Literally Every Single Vote is a recipe for getting mad at the Dem party all the time because you give maximal leverage to its worst members elect enough Dems and you’ll be less mad! it’s basic math!

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My semi-boss sent me a Teams chat message just now during my 1:1 with my boss, telling me “crazy story, I woke up with a bat in my bedroom this morning!” Thanks to bsky knowledge from @faineg.bsky.social and @tkingfisher.com, I knew to immediately reply “ARE YOU GETTING RABIES SHOTS?!???”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bay Area! Tiny orange babbies waiting for you!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We have also been rather consistent in saying you cannot contain eugenics to one issue. It is too convenient to capital to blame sickness on sick people. And it’s why it needs to be resisted openly, fiercely, bravely, and even when you want brunch.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Begging you, reporters everywhere: stop using this framing. Anyone anywhere at any time can have an underlying condition. That has only become more true as you decided to join the war on COVID on the side of COVID. People with fallible bodies—all of us—deserve to not shit themselves to death.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/08/2026

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My #DisabilityPrideMonth is not pride in being disabled. Being a disabled person is value neutral. I’d much rather not be disabled by this illness. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. But my #DisabilityPride is my pride in the Disablity Justice Community and THAT is worth celebrating.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 31/07/2026

In humorous news, now that it is clear our entire family has ADHD, let me tell you it really confuses reality when like attracts like so aggressively. Kids "Does everyone have ADHD?" Me "No, just everyone you like to hang out with."

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“We found that children who had a history of atopy, a group of allergic conditions like seasonal allergies, asthma or eczema, were more prone to develop Long COVID,” No one thinks of "people with seasonal allergies" as "The Vulnerable". YOU may be the vulnerable.

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PhillyPhile215 @phillyphile215.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#pwLC can those of you from Pennsylvania give a shoutout? Either commenting below or DMing me. Going to try (again) to maybe start thinking about some state/local advocacy.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

To be clear: this is because it takes more than four years to do a PhD in the sciences in the current American higher education system!!! Six is perfectly reasonable; even eight is not unreasonable. This policy is perfectly designed to cut us off from international talent who WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 24/07/2026

I forget who said this, but when people tell her (I think this was a her!) "you're so inspiring!" regarding her disability, she asks "oh thank you! what is it I inspire you to do?" 😂 and there's crickets, every time

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

People find it easy to love Jimothy because of stigma. It's "oh see the deformed raccoon who's family ...I guess loved it anyway" Also Jimothy asks nothing of you. So it also allows people to be like, See Jimothy makes HIS way.... I don't know. I love Jimothy but ... yeah. We need more convos.

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Sage @sagetoko.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Re: my repost yesterday, oof. I find it really depressing how increasingly one simply cannot trust any writing online.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Our findings indicate a systemic immune dysregulation, particularly involving the complement system and profibrotic cytokines, as a common feature in hEDS pathophysiology. These findings challenge the traditional view of hEDS as solely a connective tissue disorder and support a revised paradigm that

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Proteomic discoveries in hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome reveal insights into disease pathophysiology

Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) is a poorly understood connective tissue disorder that lacks molecular diagnostic markers. This study aimed to identify proteomic signatures associated with h...

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There is no other outlet that duplicates the work of The Sick Times. If you have the capacity they deserve the support.

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