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Callirhoé
@callirhoe.bsky.social
Between illness and rebellion.
Climate, healthcare, anti-ableism, ophthalmology.
Climat, santé, antivalidisme, ophtalmo.
Engineer by training, activist by heart.
Fantasy & SF. Good Omens, Star Wars.
Posting in 🇫🇷 / 🇬🇧.

https://linktr.ee/callirhoe_
Les drogues, c’était pas mon truc ado. Je regardais mes ami·es en prendre sans jamais être tentée.
20 ans plus tard, me voilà à tester tout ce qui passe : cannabis, kétamine, et tous les médocs qu’on peut détourner, mais en contexte hospitalier.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's PTSD Day.
And the tenth anniversary makes it even worse with all the commemorations everywhere.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
To those saying the first arc of Andor S2 with the Maya Pei Brigade is too long or too caricatural: it wasn’t. It shows what revolutionaries can be, what fighting fascism looks like sometimes.
Messy, difficult, sometimes absurd, but that is the reality of revolution.
Stellan Skarsgård on ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy’s deep understanding of history.

“Tony Gilroy is an expert on revolutions, and on revolutionaries too. He knows the psychology behind revolutions perfectly. He understands the conflict inherent to it”

(Source: The Film Stage)
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Interesting article about AI in healthcare in the JAMA :

"AI will disrupt every part of health and health care delivery in the coming years. Given the many long-standing problems in health care, this disruption represents an incredible opportunity.[..]"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
AI, Health, and Health Care Today and Tomorrow
This Special Communication discusses how health and health care artificial intelligence (AI) should be developed, evaluated, regulated, disseminated, and monitored.
jamanetwork.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
@franceinsoumisean.bsky.social Vous pouvez expliquer pourquoi vous votez contre la vaccination obligatoire des résidents d'EPHAD et certains pro de santé contre la grippe ?
lcp.fr/actualites/g...
Grippe : l'Assemblée rejette la vaccination obligatoire pour les résidents d'Ehpad et certains soignants | LCP - Assemblée nationale
L'Assemblée nationale a rejeté, dans la nuit de samedi 8 à dimanche 9 novembre, un article du projet de budget de la Sécurité sociale pour 2026 qui ouvrait la voie à une obligation vaccinale contre la...
lcp.fr
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Found on Reddit. So accurate.
#Andor
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The new neuro unit at the hospital I was today feels straight out of Narkina 5. Result: someone with neurological issues leading to photophobia (me) gets a massive crisis from blinding white walls, neon lights brighter than the sun, and that same terrible orange. I hate the architect. And it hurts.
First ketamine infusion or how to see pink elephants.

(IV infusion in the pain management unit)
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
First ketamine infusion or how to see pink elephants.

(IV infusion in the pain management unit)
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be [..]”says Maria Van Kerkhove, director of the department of epidemic and pandemic management at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. “I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19,”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
75 % des 18-29 ans pour Mamdani, 150 000 nouvelles inscriptions juste avant les élections.
Une victoire bâtie sur la jeunesse et les minorités.
NYC est un cas à part, oui mais la leçon vaut pour la gauche française : on ne gagne pas sans reconquérir ces électorats, perdus depuis longtemps.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Callirhoé
Alors que la France est en train de redevenir une société d'héritiers, l'alliance RN-LR-macronistes veut permettre aux plus riches de payer encore moins d'impôts sur les successions...
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The way many US politicians talk about Mamdani shows how stuck they still are in Cold War thinking.
His policies such as rent control or free public transport are common in European cities.
That’s not “communism”, it’s basic social democracy.
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Extraordinaire avec les 10 ans du 13 novembre, les médias sont deja sur le sujet. C'est parti pour le PTSD pendant 10 jours... Déjà une journée par an c'est rude alors la si ça dure jusqu'au 13 novembre...
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I need help funding the anti-CGRP treatment that allows me to survive my chronic pain.
The treatment works but isn’t reimbursed by the French healthcare system.

Every bit of support, donation or share, is precious.

Thank you very much 💙
www.we-solidaire.com/fr/collecte/...
Campagne de dons : Soutien pour un traitement contre des douleurs très sévères
Soutien pour un traitement contre des douleurs très sévères
www.we-solidaire.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Je n’aime pas redemander, mais j’ai besoin d’aide pour financer le traitement anti‑CGRP qui me permet de survivre face à mes douleurs chroniques. Le traitement est efficace mais non remboursé..
Chaque soutien, don ou partage, est précieux 💙
Merci du fond du cœur.
www.we-solidaire.com/fr/collecte/...
Campagne de dons : Soutien pour un traitement contre des douleurs très sévères
Soutien pour un traitement contre des douleurs très sévères
www.we-solidaire.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Reposted by Callirhoé
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reposted by Callirhoé
Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies.
Thousands missing, new horrors emerge after RSF taking of Sudan’s el-Fasher
Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
D'après la Ministre de la Santé nous sommes donc "responsables" de nos maladies chroniques.
Je suis en ALD 31, je suis "responsable" de mes maladies rares?

Ce dont il est question n'est ni plus ni moins qu' une taxe de 100 € de plus par an sur les malades chroniques.

rmc.bfmtv.com/actualites/s...
Franchises médicales : "des forfaits de responsabilité" pour la ministre de la Santé
VIDÉO - Doublement des franchises médicales "J'appelle ça des forfaits de responsabilité", affirme Stéphanie Rist, Ministre de la Santé, des Familles, de l’Autonomie et des Personnes handicapées
rmc.bfmtv.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted by Callirhoé
We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change
We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...
www.technosphere.earth
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A very interesting study to follow for all of us with hEDS/HSD.
My doctor from the French reference center for EDS told me earlier this year they’re becoming less and less certain about a single genetic cause, just like these preliminary findings suggest 👇🏻
www.ehlers-danlos.com/hedge-study-...
Hedge Study Update - The Ehlers Danlos Society
www.ehlers-danlos.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Reposted by Callirhoé
Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A close friend described my “job” now as:
"She works to get preservative-free eye drops generalised”
And honestly… It’s not wrong.

I’ve got the ear of French pharma companies, but not of the health authorities, who still prefer preservatives.

Cheaper, they say. Not safer, not better. Just cheaper.
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@annehidalgo.bsky.social @anneclaire-boux.bsky.social
et si on essayait de faire de même ici ?
Nous sommes en pleine vague de COVID actuellement, il est plus que temps de protéger les enfants des infections à répétition et de leurs conséquences.
📣We’re proud to be a part of the @@london.gov.uk Filters Programme to deliver air filters & air quality monitors to 200 schools across the city, helping protect young lungs where it matters most. 🌬️

#TheMayorsSchoolFiltersProgramme #CleanAirForAll #LondonAir
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Voilà ce qu'il se passe aux US, en pleine dérive autoritaire.
Qu'on ne s'y détrompe pas, nous suivons le même type de trajectoire. Une victoire du RN dans cette atmosphère de fascisme décomplexée mènerait à des propos similaires a droite, propos déjà tenus par pas mal d'élus RN.
"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery"
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM