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Spend most of my free time on books and word puzzles & games Chronically ill, disabled from long COVID Work in tech, background in business and econ
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February reading roundup! 7 books 5 genres 1 five-star read 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is a model that estimates real GDP growth based on available economic indicators. Zoom in on the latest update on the far right of the graph

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We have an HHS director who appears to want many people to die unnecessary deaths.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

As someone who uses my wheelchair when traveling, fuck all of these airlines. What they’re arguing here is that they shouldn’t be liable for damage they do to people’s necessary and expensive mobility aids

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 18 days ago • 93 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 21 days ago • 416 comments

Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs — AP

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 24 days ago • 742 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 34 days ago • 490 comments

I spent a lot of January distracting myself with books because of *gestures at everything* so here’s the roundup! #booksky

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 408 comments

RFK is an AIDS denialist, has questioned germ theory, proposed halting all infectious disease research, and thinks pharmaceutical treatment for chronic illness should be replaced with diet and exercise. Putting such a person in charge of the Long Covid response would be a catastrophe for us.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

New here? Struggling with Long Covid or think you might have Long Covid? I’ve written a series of guides about two of the most common and difficult to diagnose comorbids: POTS and MCAS. If you’re newly diagnosed or undiagnosed, if you’ve been told it’s “all in your head”… read on! 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

submitted 45 days ago • 67 comments