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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨
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Former doc filmmaker/cinematographer/teacher, current full-time sick person, occasional poet
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · May 19
Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤
Emily Fraser Encouraging News As the CDC director announces with a smile that the overwhelming number of deaths occurred in people with at least four comorbidities —people who were unwell to begin with I think of the film noir my students made where local townspeople kept being killed— how after every murder twelve-year-old Charlie in a too-big trench coat and fedora announced in his best old timey radio voice: There's been a murder. But don't worry— it was only a SMALL murder.
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chromatowski.bsky.social
Hey #MedSky, have you ever treated someone with ME/CFS? If so, your input is sought on this survey!
vashetc.bsky.social v. ashley @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.
This is a flyer for the Rest & ME/CFS research study, IRB number 26-6. It says "participate in a survey about rest, energy, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". In the upper right corner it says Questions? Email Study Co-PI Victoria: empwrtc@protonmail.com Below the header is interwoven circles, one is black with text that says Fully Virtual, low- energy version included. The circle behind is an image of white silk wrinkled. Next to it text says To participate you must be: Over the age of 18 AND EITHER Have ME/CFS worked with at research. (self or professionally diagnosed) or be A medical/healthcare provider who has least one person with ME/CFS, currently practicing or conducting Below this it says learn more at www.restandmecfs.com There are two icons on the bottom left corner. One says ETC and above it are six icon-stick figure people holding hands in a circle. Next to it is Cal Poly Pomona's logo, a diamond with an orangey yellow background and palm trees and a building inside. The Cal Poly Pomona Institutional Review Board has reviewed and approved for conduct this research involving human subjects under protocol IRB 26-6
February 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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chromatowski.bsky.social
Hi all!

There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is:

This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm

To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
chromatowski.bsky.social C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 6d
Long Covid friends—

A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled.

The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed!

More info:
Sign the Petition
Advocate for Maryland HB 0027 for Long COVID R&D
www.change.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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drinfosec.bsky.social
New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID (Feb 3, 2026)
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new...
New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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meactnet.bsky.social
The clock is ticking. The NIH now has 180 days to develop an implementation plan for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap. In 6 months, we SHOULD have a plan to implement the NIH’s roadmap for biomarkers, treatments & clinical trials.

#MEAction partnered with #NotJustFatigue to secure this support.

#NIH
A large alarm clock with a road going behind it against a cream background. Text: The Clock is Ticking. The NIH has been directed by Congress to come up with a plan to implement the ME/CFS Research Roadmap in 6 months.
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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gregpak.net
Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us.

Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs.

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February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
I once worked an EPA hotline for recycling & found myself counseling a woman on a very contentious-sounding breakup featuring stolen trash bins
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2d
there are two kinds of people: those who have worked intake for legal organizations, and those who have not.

you really don’t know how insane the general public is until you‘ve done that.
notalawyer.bsky.social Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d
there are in fact extremely graphic allegations against Thomas in the files BUT they’re contained within an extremely weird, rambling email that does not seem reliable
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
To think she coulda just been a ballerina 🫠 Apologies to Langston Hughes but what happens to a dream deferred? Something something fester stink rotten explosion
newsjennifer.bsky.social @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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whatexactlyisup.bsky.social
too good not to have alt-text
Screenshot of text. Highlighted sentence reads, “Having been invited in 2010 to an Epstein dinner with Woody Allen and then Prince Andrew in New York, the magazine editor, Tina Brown, replied: "What the fuck is this...?” Full text: The idea that anyone did not know about Epstein's conviction as a sex abuser is absurd. Some people spurned his social approaches. Having been invited in 2010 to an Epstein dinner with Woody Allen and then Prince Andrew in New York, the magazine editor, Tina Brown, replied: "What the fuck is this...? The paedophile's ball?" Brown's reaction should have been everyone's. So should that of Melinda Gates, the now ex-wife of Bill Gates, who stepped into Epstein's home once and immediately regretted it. Alas, their
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
“All that wanting, right? Sometimes it happens & sometimes it doesn't & sometimes it happens worse.”
May 22, 2023 ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? Devin Kelly I wanted a poem to come out of my sadness, but no poem came. I wanted a revolution to come out of my burnout, but no revolution came. I wanted a bird to fly through my open window, but my window was closed. I wanted sun on an evening when it was already dark. I wanted just a bit of grief rather than despair. &, in my shame, I wanted my childhood back. I wanted to walk backward out of the room where I kept my secrets. I wanted to say I'm hurt before my hurt became a character trait I told no one but myself. When I wanted unknowing, I was given certainty, & when I wanted the hard & fixed line, I was given mystery. Sometimes, I wanted to give it all back, but to who, I wondered, & how? I wanted a life to come out of my life, but instead I was left with my life. All that wanting, I think now, & still I woke this morning to light & the memory of the time a bird did fly through the open window of my apartment, &, scared & senseless, shat all over the couch before leaving. All that wanting, right? Sometimes it happens & sometimes it doesn't & sometimes it happens worse. Make do, little friend I call myself. Walk backward out of the room you have made out of your wanting into the room of where you are. The poem is here. The revolution, too. & love, still, even in the evening, when light still shines.
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Sobbing “because I’m worth it, it’s okay not to be okay” & colouring my whole entire self in from face to feet with the BACP lipstick collection & wondering why I’m still completely & utterly fucked
jessgulliver.bsky.social Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, this will help midlife women deal with the pressure
February 2, 2026 at 8:47 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Maybe I’m late to the game on this but there’s a gluten free option now fyi ☺️
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d
Hey everyone!

Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!

But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.

I just resorted our list to put those on the top.

Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
no new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Bunny with a walkie talkie says, “wtf, over.”
February 3, 2026 at 2:26 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Shared this on insta & will share here too. If you’re not in the ME or Long Covid communities you’re likely unaware of just how often we have to watch young people die.
Most of the people whose names I share here with 💙🕯️ were in their 20s, 30s, & 40s. (Samuel was 21. He developed severe ME from Covid.) They should be living vibrant lives. They WOULD be living vibrant lives if not for the systemic, worldwide denial a defunding of ME & Long Covid. ME has one of the lowest qualities of life of any disease-the "mild" end of the disease takes away 50% of your function; the very severe end is pure agony, a living death—a yet ME receives next to no biomedical research funding. ME has been recognized by the WHO as a neuroimmune disease since the 70s, & yet there isn't a single approved treatment. If you want help, you have to be rich enough to try a bunch of things out of pocket & you have to be lucky enough to happen upon something that helps. Even doctors, neurologists, & Google VPs can't find help for their severely ill, bedbound kids. It affects far more people than MS, more than most of the autoimmune diseases you're probably well aware of, & yet, most doctors don't know the most basic facts about it & if you follow their advice you'll almost certainly get worse. Many of the people approved for euthanasia around the world have severe ME. They are considered obviously ill & suffering severely enough to die... & yet not ill or suffering enough to deserve research funding, palliative care, safe housing, caregivers, enough money to live on with dignity. Schrödinger's disease. Sick & suffering enough for the state to kill you, but if you ask for help to live you're suddenly not sick at all & should get your ass out of bed & back to work. We can also just call it eugenics. RIP Samuel. RIP Jennifer. You deserved so much better.
February 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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drjenirwin.bsky.social
“Younger and middle-age individuals are disproportionally affected by neurologic manifestations of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection regardless of acute COVID-19 severity.” (Choudhury et al., 2025; DOI: 10.1002/ana.27128)

Might 👆 be connected to 👇?

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Psychological distress among Ontario teens has nearly tripled in a decade, study finds
Psychological distress, including depression and anxiety, among Ontario teenagers has increased in the past decade, and it may be linked to cannabis use, a new Ontario study suggests.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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kevinjkircher.com
Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.
February 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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ianlivingston.bsky.social
A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
climatologist49.bsky.social Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 4d
January 2026 temperature rankings compared to all Januarys since 1895.
February 1, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Horrifying details here about the conditions inside the Whipple Building in Minneapolis and about how the detainees are being treated, including being “sent out into the cold—sometimes at night—to find their own way home” when released:
‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
www.startribune.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
🧵(1/3) The Epstein link to back-room manipulation of pandemic authority is a huge deal for many reasons, but 👉first and foremost as COVID got loose *because* out-of-touch back-room manipulators rejected science and based policy on beliefs that were nearly a century out of date👈.

We are owed a...
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Nov 21
The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈
The focus on handwashing over ventilation 12.32. As 2020 progressed, it was increasingly understood that airborne transmission of Covid-19 was a substantial risk and, by 23 July 2020, SAGE had endorsed the importance of good ventilation. ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION.* STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI. BY W. F. WELLS, t (Beceived for publication June 14, 1934.) The infective range of droplets expelled from the nose or mouth depends primarily upon the time interval spent in the atmosphere. The unresisted falling time from mouth to ground can be readily shown by Newton's Law to be less than a second. Air resistance becomes a negligible factor in determining the time of fall of droplets larger than a tenth millimeter through the height of a man. As droplets decrease in diameter the volume and weight, or gravitational pull, decrease more rapidly than the surface area which determines the resistance to fall through air. Particles smaller than a tenth millimeter diameter soon reach a velocity which remains constant. This fact is expressed by Stokes' Law % which says that the velocity is proportional to the surface area of the droplet or to the square of its diameter. droplets would reach the ground in less than ten seconds (table 1). Whether droplets falling two meters obey Stokes' law or Newton's law, therefore, the time they spend in the air would be small, and their radius of spread would be limited to a few feet. Infection caused by such droplets would therefore appear to be limited both in time and space to the immediate vicinity of the source. TABLE 1. Settling of water droplets in saturated air. Diameter of droplet Falling velocity Time in seconds of Millimeters Centimeters per second falling two meters > 1.0 981 X time in seconds .6 .1 30. 6. .01 .3 600. = 10 minutes .001 .003 60,000. = 16.6 hours It would be incorrect to conclude merely from this, however, that air receiving infected droplets cannot convey such infection long distances. To do so would be to neglect a most important characteristic of liquid droplets, namely their tendency to evaporate. Evaporation causes the volume of water droplets to change, and this change becomes more rapid as the droplet decreases in size. Careful determination of the rate of evaporation has proved that at constant temperature and humidity the rate of change of surface is constant. The life of droplets in unsaturated air is therefore proportional to the square of their diameter. It becomes quite short for small droplets, in fact much shorter than their time of fall if they settled without evaporation. Approximate evaporation times for droplets of different sizes are tabulated below. We find, therefore, that minute droplets settle slowly and evapoTABLE 2. Evaporation time of water droplets in unsaturated air at 18° C* Diameter of droplet Evaporation time Millimeters Seconds 2 660. 1 165. .5 41. .2 6.6 .1 1.7 .05 4 * Computed from data given in chapt. 15, "Evaporation of Droplets." Smoke: A Study of Aerial Disperse Systems; R. Whytlaw-Gray and H. S. Patterson, page 176 Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1932. A chart from Wells (1934) showing that particles smaller than 100 microns shrink (via evaporation) to a size small enough to remain airborne indefinitely before they have time to fall to the ground. Associated text reads: "This is an important difference since it produces a complete change in state of small droplets in comparison with large drops. On chart 1 the curves of evaporation time and falling time (to fall two meters in saturated air) are seen to be almost similar in shape but opposite in direction. The point of intersection gives the size of droplets which would evaporate and particles which would fall two meters in the same time. Somewhere between .1 and .2 mm. lies the droplet size which identifies droplets of mouth spray that reach the ground within the life of the droplet as against droplets that evaporate and remain in the air as droplet nuclei with attached infection."
January 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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motherjones.com
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
www.motherjones.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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floregonian.com
Anyway, here’s the moon
The moon, nearly full, shining between tall trees
February 1, 2026 at 1:51 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Blessed Imbolc ("in the belly" as in lambs waiting to be born, but I think of it as the belly of the beast… deep winter... halfway to spring... which could be March 20th, could be 20 years from now or 200 or 2000. We all have fires to tend. Rest yes but don't give up 🕯️)
Little candle in a glass jar
February 1, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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chromatowski.bsky.social
I also want to say I’m very excited about this as a model. This bill is about establishing the framework and the funding would come separately, but the proposal is for $20 million a year. There are 50 states—if we could pass this, then replicate it in other places, quickly that adds up to major $$!
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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chromatowski.bsky.social
Long Covid friends—

A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled.

The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed!

More info:
Sign the Petition
Advocate for Maryland HB 0027 for Long COVID R&D
www.change.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:21 PM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Environmental ethics
Architectural design
Great ideas in physics
Public space, collective memory
Bronze casting
laughlax.bsky.social David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 5d
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
dave.bzky.team David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 5d
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Math
Lab
Language
Seminar
Preceptorial
January 31, 2026 at 4:45 AM
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
“The second you become disabled you cease to be seen as a reliable interpreter of your own life. People will stop believing you.”

MOST people will stop believing you, including people you loved & trusted above all others. It’s absolutely fucking traumatizing. Wear a mask & avoid it if you can
katieklocksin.bsky.social Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social · 6d
I wish healthy people understood that if you develop a medical condition that doctors don’t understand, you’re gonna be TREATED BADLY BY DOCTORS. And there’s a widely circulating virus that leaves people with incurable medical conditions that doctors don’t understand.
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 AM