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I design things for a living but my focus right now is on helping people with Long Covid. I have a lot of resources, maybe I can even help you. "A carping, nihilistic ideologue" — online mutual
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This is what AI does

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

Confirming what we all knew: the Cass Review isn't worth the paper it's written on. This should be a national scandal the scale of Andrew Wakefield paper on MMR vaccines and autism. Hilary Cass should be struck off, at the bare minimum.

Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act... Incredible work 👊🏻

I would like to read a book about the Black Panthers and the wider civil rights movement, specifically with all the ways the Panthers ran counter insurgency activities alongside community care. Do people have recs? Not academic pls I am very dumb. Extra points for an audiobook

I just downloaded a copy of this and it's genuinely brilliant. Thank you so much for this resource!

bagels are just too claggy

the tree outside my flat has died and I think I may have killed it with my bad vibes

"graciously"

It's utterly absurd that UK hospitals pig-headedly refuse to act to prevent airborne infections even when being overwhelmed by them, causing avoidable deaths & disability. Petition closes 11 May. It needs 10,000 signatures for a Government response. Currently around 7,000. If in the UK PLEASE sign🙏

Just careening into a robocop/starship troopers future

To say that to be healthy is a patriotic duty goes even beyond the spurious notion that health is one's personal responsibility. We are in dangerous territory indeed.

is this good

Mehmet Oz just said on Fox News that: “It is your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can”.

well this sucks

children don't want DOLLS, they want RAW MILK, they want MEATPACKING DEREGULATION, they want powdered shakes that replace their DEAD MITOCHONDRIA

hi hello this is eugenics it's not knocking on the door anymore it's in the room with us. anyway maybe wear a mask to disobey

In my experience poor people don’t care about rich people who aren’t on TV so long as they can generally do what they want without going to prison or losing their homes and rich people devote their entire lives to making sure poor people aren’t misbehaving or taking more than their share

Again for those in the back: 👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential” Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The quiet eugenics of the COVID years were the perfect warm-up act to the loud eugenics we will soon witness. It's the exact same message, the same intent, with the volume turned up to 9-10 instead of 2-3, allowing the quiet part to be audible. Slopes rarely get this slippery.

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

I get tech job alerts via email and for the last few months all jobs have been for companies in AI or private healthcare. In case people are wondering where things are heading.

"DWP published figures in March that showed that the government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age adults into both relative and absolute poverty* by 2030." #StopTheCuts #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid

Growing up in the 90s there was a huge divide between the sporty kids and the arty kids. As a former arty kid I had to unlearn years of suspicion that the sporty kids were conservatives. And now look

It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"

Can anyone tell me if its possible to have ME if the only symptom is PEM?

Mark Zuckerberg could just google how to be normal

I know it feels hopeless to think this way but I don't know how we change reality without first engaging in reality. We must stop putting an "optimistic" spin on this stuff and start holding these people to account.

"Why would X (formerly progressive) political party parrot lines from Y (deranged right wing) political party?" because they believe it. That's what they think. I don't know how many ways to explain that it's not a strategy, it's not a chess game, it's what. they. think.

Like maybe the fact that all the greatest art is made by misfits and weirdos and outsiders and minorities and queer people and disabled people is THE REASON generative AI is being pushed on us. They want to crush these people further and make society more impossible to survive. Like hi hello