Emma Joe
@emmajoe.bsky.social
She/Her/Hers
So tired.
#backyardgarden #resistancegarden #chronicillness #disabilityawareness
So tired.
#backyardgarden #resistancegarden #chronicillness #disabilityawareness
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"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities.
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
Thank You Alice Wong
Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.
www.disabledginger.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities.
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
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Almost 500k studies showing COVID causes lasting damage… if that doesn’t convince anyone, nothing will.
Source: x.com/Doorenspleet...
Source: x.com/Doorenspleet...
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Almost 500k studies showing COVID causes lasting damage… if that doesn’t convince anyone, nothing will.
Source: x.com/Doorenspleet...
Source: x.com/Doorenspleet...
This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It has always been about microclots and inflammation… but oooo “strange spoooooky microscopic structures” is a better headline. #longcovid #covid19
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It has always been about microclots and inflammation… but oooo “strange spoooooky microscopic structures” is a better headline. #longcovid #covid19
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How long do you think Democrats were sitting on those Epstein emails waiting for an opportunity to release them when they needed a distraction? 
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
How long do you think Democrats were sitting on those Epstein emails waiting for an opportunity to release them when they needed a distraction? 
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You all honest to God think that the eight Democrats that voted to end the shut down just happen to be people that weren’t up for reelection anytime soon or at all? If you think that I can’t talk to you.
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You all honest to God think that the eight Democrats that voted to end the shut down just happen to be people that weren’t up for reelection anytime soon or at all? If you think that I can’t talk to you.
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Everyone thinks they will be the exception.
Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it.
The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.
Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it.
The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.
James Van Der Beek selling ‘Dawson’s Creek’ merch to help pay for cancer costs
The “Varsity Blues” star was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer last year.
nypost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Everyone thinks they will be the exception.
Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it.
The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.
Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it.
The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.
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My MCAS hit before Covid, but it’s been devastating to my ability to eat.
I’m down to 10 safe foods. I’m malnourished and still losing weight.
The digestive and allergic issues that can accompany Long Covid are very destructive to quality of life.
I’m down to 10 safe foods. I’m malnourished and still losing weight.
The digestive and allergic issues that can accompany Long Covid are very destructive to quality of life.
So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone.
Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.
Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My MCAS hit before Covid, but it’s been devastating to my ability to eat.
I’m down to 10 safe foods. I’m malnourished and still losing weight.
The digestive and allergic issues that can accompany Long Covid are very destructive to quality of life.
I’m down to 10 safe foods. I’m malnourished and still losing weight.
The digestive and allergic issues that can accompany Long Covid are very destructive to quality of life.
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Starving people is a weapon of control. So, too, is controlling and attacking the media, attacking science and higher ed, and using the military against citizens and innocent people. All weapons of control.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Starving people is a weapon of control. So, too, is controlling and attacking the media, attacking science and higher ed, and using the military against citizens and innocent people. All weapons of control.
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There can be no social justice without disability justice.
Yall real silent about disability injustices because most of you don’t see disability as a thing that can happen to you.
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There can be no social justice without disability justice.
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I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
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If we as a country cared about disability and therefore healthcare and access, they would not be building AI centers in Black neighborhoods.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If we as a country cared about disability and therefore healthcare and access, they would not be building AI centers in Black neighborhoods.
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If you don’t get it yet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you don’t get it yet.
Another set of trials focused on non-drug treatments for LC proven to be ineffective. 🙄 You can’t exercise the mind into healing? Who would have thought. I’m so tired of researchers wasting time on thought experiment trials or exercise based trials. Has yet to be and will not be the solution.
RECOVER: 'RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial shares results of three non-drug treatments for cognitive symptoms of Long COVID'
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery
The long-term effects of COVID are real. Join the NIH in the search for answers.
recovercovid.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Another set of trials focused on non-drug treatments for LC proven to be ineffective. 🙄 You can’t exercise the mind into healing? Who would have thought. I’m so tired of researchers wasting time on thought experiment trials or exercise based trials. Has yet to be and will not be the solution.
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RECOVER: 'RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial shares results of three non-drug treatments for cognitive symptoms of Long COVID'
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery
The long-term effects of COVID are real. Join the NIH in the search for answers.
recovercovid.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
RECOVER: 'RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial shares results of three non-drug treatments for cognitive symptoms of Long COVID'
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
'None of our rehabilitation approaches to treatment for cognitive Long COVID proved to be effective.'
recovercovid.org/news/recover...
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Disabled people tried to warn you.
We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone
The new healthcare plan for America appears to be:
Don’t get sick
If you do get sick, it’s your fault
If you can’t pay, die
We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone
The new healthcare plan for America appears to be:
Don’t get sick
If you do get sick, it’s your fault
If you can’t pay, die
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Disabled people tried to warn you.
We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone
The new healthcare plan for America appears to be:
Don’t get sick
If you do get sick, it’s your fault
If you can’t pay, die
We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone
The new healthcare plan for America appears to be:
Don’t get sick
If you do get sick, it’s your fault
If you can’t pay, die
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the inverse i’ll get is people asking me, masked, if i’m sick, to which ive got a few replies:
> “nah i just mask in all public indoor spaces”
> “not yet and i’d like to keep it that way”
and my fave for if i’m feeling mysterious and or snarky:
> “yes but not in the way you think”
> “nah i just mask in all public indoor spaces”
> “not yet and i’d like to keep it that way”
and my fave for if i’m feeling mysterious and or snarky:
> “yes but not in the way you think”
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the inverse i’ll get is people asking me, masked, if i’m sick, to which ive got a few replies:
> “nah i just mask in all public indoor spaces”
> “not yet and i’d like to keep it that way”
and my fave for if i’m feeling mysterious and or snarky:
> “yes but not in the way you think”
> “nah i just mask in all public indoor spaces”
> “not yet and i’d like to keep it that way”
and my fave for if i’m feeling mysterious and or snarky:
> “yes but not in the way you think”
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Has America ever seen a more disastrous administration after just 10 months?
I feel like I know the answer…
I feel like I know the answer…
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Has America ever seen a more disastrous administration after just 10 months?
I feel like I know the answer…
I feel like I know the answer…
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Will you donate today and help us keep this vital work going? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our #LongCOVID journalism requires reader support — with your help, we can prepare our non-profit newsroom for whatever 2026 brings.
Will you donate today and help us keep this vital work going? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
Will you donate today and help us keep this vital work going? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
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This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.
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Happy Halloween! We have a some last-minute #LongCOVID themed costume ideas for you! 👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Happy Halloween! We have a some last-minute #LongCOVID themed costume ideas for you! 👻
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this was filmed april 4th 2025
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
this was filmed april 4th 2025
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We’ve now passed one month into the U.S. government shutdown—and one month without COVID-19 or other infectious disease data updates from the CDC. COVID-19 levels seem to be in a lull between waves in much of the country, based on available sources, but the situation is uncertain. bit.ly/3JuWhdv
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’ve now passed one month into the U.S. government shutdown—and one month without COVID-19 or other infectious disease data updates from the CDC. COVID-19 levels seem to be in a lull between waves in much of the country, based on available sources, but the situation is uncertain. bit.ly/3JuWhdv
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Hey, Josh. Stand up or take a seat. Take several seats.
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey, Josh. Stand up or take a seat. Take several seats.