Katie Klocksin, by the wayside
@katieklocksin.bsky.social
One of the #MillionsMissing with #LongCovid #MECFS JohnVsJon.com // Once a radio and podcast producer, always a Transom alum
😷 Long covid is common 😷
😷 Long covid is common 😷
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"However, while Mendenhall presents the thresholds concept as a metaphor, she seems to regard it as a valid and legitimate biological model of how the body works—which it is not. The metaphor doesn’t lend itself to scientific testing and assessment"
virology.ws/2026/02/16/t...
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Trial By Error: More on the Controversy over Invisible Illness | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH Emily Mendenhall’s new book, Invisible Illness: A History from Hysteria to Long COVID, has caused a bit of an uproar in some circles. ...
virology.ws
February 17, 2026 at 9:09 AM
"However, while Mendenhall presents the thresholds concept as a metaphor, she seems to regard it as a valid and legitimate biological model of how the body works—which it is not. The metaphor doesn’t lend itself to scientific testing and assessment"
virology.ws/2026/02/16/t...
virology.ws/2026/02/16/t...
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.
FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show
Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.
substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:15 AM
This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.
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What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
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My brain couldn't come up with the phrase "wash the dishes" so I just told my wife I needed to "do the sink laundry"
February 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
My brain couldn't come up with the phrase "wash the dishes" so I just told my wife I needed to "do the sink laundry"
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Breaking: Anderson Cooper is leaving CBS’ 60 Minutes to spend more time with his family and less time with Bari Weiss.
Anderson Cooper says he's exiting from '60 Minutes,' but staying with CNN
Anderson Cooper says he will leave CBS' “60 Minutes," where he has reported for two decades in a unique job-share agreement with CNN, where he hosts a weeknight news program.
apnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Breaking: Anderson Cooper is leaving CBS’ 60 Minutes to spend more time with his family and less time with Bari Weiss.
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I know people like to dunk on wearing tiny "ICE OUT" pins, but I think they represent a really important culture shift. Even people who are very conscious about their image and expected to perform in a palatable way are wearing them in very public places.
New York Fashion Week Joins the “ICE OUT” Movement: “It Changes Hearts and Minds”
From designers to front-row regulars, the industry is rallying behind a growing campaign against ICE. Organizers and participants tell ‘Marie Claire’ why this moment matters.
www.marieclaire.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I know people like to dunk on wearing tiny "ICE OUT" pins, but I think they represent a really important culture shift. Even people who are very conscious about their image and expected to perform in a palatable way are wearing them in very public places.
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The 9 lb toy poodle was bullying the 115 lb sweet staffie last night by standing on the sofa so he was eye to eye with him. I swear this tiny dog is like someone get me a ladder so I can kick his ass!
So embarrassing.
So embarrassing.
February 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The 9 lb toy poodle was bullying the 115 lb sweet staffie last night by standing on the sofa so he was eye to eye with him. I swear this tiny dog is like someone get me a ladder so I can kick his ass!
So embarrassing.
So embarrassing.
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Fun fact:
This is how you earn trans peoples votes
This is how you earn trans peoples votes
My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Fun fact:
This is how you earn trans peoples votes
This is how you earn trans peoples votes
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This is feeling like a Gaza retread.
Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀
@nytimes.com #$META
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@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
This is feeling like a Gaza retread.
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@botanical.bsky.social
これで植物園の方にも流れるかな？
これで植物園の方にも流れるかな？
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
@botanical.bsky.social
これで植物園の方にも流れるかな？
これで植物園の方にも流れるかな？
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Like it’s cute and very white how much of journalism dances around the reality of how racism was supported by their own desire to not respect Black people on line .. but like there’s a book about it
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
February 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Like it’s cute and very white how much of journalism dances around the reality of how racism was supported by their own desire to not respect Black people on line .. but like there’s a book about it
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
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AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
February 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Please keep sharing her fundraiser if she is to stand any chance of surviving this abuse.
www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...
#MECFS #SevereME #SevereMErgency
www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...
#MECFS #SevereME #SevereMErgency
Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce
Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital
www.gofundme.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Please keep sharing her fundraiser if she is to stand any chance of surviving this abuse.
www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...
#MECFS #SevereME #SevereMErgency
www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...
#MECFS #SevereME #SevereMErgency
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Does anyone with #MECFS in the U.S. have a disability lawyer you like and recommend? I’m having a tough time. Bonus points if they’re in the Chicago area.
Thanks. 🫠
Thanks. 🫠
February 16, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Does anyone with #MECFS in the U.S. have a disability lawyer you like and recommend? I’m having a tough time. Bonus points if they’re in the Chicago area.
Thanks. 🫠
Thanks. 🫠
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There's a word for the specific form of psychological abuse in which transphobia is disingenuously portrayed as concern, caution, or scientifically rigourous evidence:
Casslighting.
Casslighting.
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
There's a word for the specific form of psychological abuse in which transphobia is disingenuously portrayed as concern, caution, or scientifically rigourous evidence:
Casslighting.
Casslighting.
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Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
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Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
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the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
Every time I try to question my kneejerk skepticism on LLMs because they seem like they might have some potentially interesting use cases, some company shoves them into a product I use all the time, and it absolutely sucks shit.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
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Savannah Yulia Victora-May "is calling on as many people as possible to petition the [South London #NHS] hospital to immediately engage with expert guidance on severe #ME patient care in order to halt her rapid deterioration."
😮 This should not happen. 😱😭
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
😮 This should not happen. 😱😭
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids
Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk
www.thecanary.co
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Savannah Yulia Victora-May "is calling on as many people as possible to petition the [South London #NHS] hospital to immediately engage with expert guidance on severe #ME patient care in order to halt her rapid deterioration."
😮 This should not happen. 😱😭
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
😮 This should not happen. 😱😭
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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If you're able to, please use the template in this article to email Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust Chief Exec. Ben Travis on Savannah's behalf. Savannah is currently at QEH in South London and not receiving appropriate care for someone with very severe ME.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids
Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk
www.thecanary.co
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 PM
If you're able to, please use the template in this article to email Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust Chief Exec. Ben Travis on Savannah's behalf. Savannah is currently at QEH in South London and not receiving appropriate care for someone with very severe ME.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Thank You!
If people are writing their MP's about iatrogenic harm on #pwME, please could they mention Savannah, a very severe ME patient who has been without nutrition for 8 weeks now at the hands of the NHS.
Almost 5 years after Maeve died, >6 months since the plan and nothing has changed
If people are writing their MP's about iatrogenic harm on #pwME, please could they mention Savannah, a very severe ME patient who has been without nutrition for 8 weeks now at the hands of the NHS.
Almost 5 years after Maeve died, >6 months since the plan and nothing has changed
#mecfs #pwME
There's an update on Savannah's fundraiser and it is fucking grim.
The hospital have not changed course. Continuing to reduce pain meds. Still not reinstated antihistamine meaning Savannah's had no meaningful nutrition in 7 fucking weeks.
This is MURDER.
All 3 updates are from today.
There's an update on Savannah's fundraiser and it is fucking grim.
The hospital have not changed course. Continuing to reduce pain meds. Still not reinstated antihistamine meaning Savannah's had no meaningful nutrition in 7 fucking weeks.
This is MURDER.
All 3 updates are from today.
Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce
Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital
www.gofundme.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Thank You!
If people are writing their MP's about iatrogenic harm on #pwME, please could they mention Savannah, a very severe ME patient who has been without nutrition for 8 weeks now at the hands of the NHS.
Almost 5 years after Maeve died, >6 months since the plan and nothing has changed
If people are writing their MP's about iatrogenic harm on #pwME, please could they mention Savannah, a very severe ME patient who has been without nutrition for 8 weeks now at the hands of the NHS.
Almost 5 years after Maeve died, >6 months since the plan and nothing has changed