Cate
@midcatecrisis.bsky.social
Chronically ill, autistic, demi/greyace
(mostly in bed, mostly homebound)
ME/CFS and probable LC
😷😷😷
Interests: climate, COVID, disability justice, parenting
Ltd cog energy, don't tend to follow back.
Toronto, Canada
She/her/they
(mostly in bed, mostly homebound)
ME/CFS and probable LC
😷😷😷
Interests: climate, COVID, disability justice, parenting
Ltd cog energy, don't tend to follow back.
Toronto, Canada
She/her/they
Pinned
Cate
@midcatecrisis.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Reintroduction of me:
- kind of a mess
- parent of middle grade kids (10&12yrs)
- have myalgic encephalomyelitis probably triggered by COVID before community spread was recognized, mostly housebound and only a few hours out of bed a day
- still a climate person in my heart but no energy to activism
- kind of a mess
- parent of middle grade kids (10&12yrs)
- have myalgic encephalomyelitis probably triggered by COVID before community spread was recognized, mostly housebound and only a few hours out of bed a day
- still a climate person in my heart but no energy to activism
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New @stand.earth report! BC NDP allowing whole forests, including 250-year-old old growth, to be clearcut for dirty energy. Wood pellets from this kind of destructive logging are as dangerous for the climate as coal or fracked gas. #bcpoli #AxeDrax
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.
A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New @stand.earth report! BC NDP allowing whole forests, including 250-year-old old growth, to be clearcut for dirty energy. Wood pellets from this kind of destructive logging are as dangerous for the climate as coal or fracked gas. #bcpoli #AxeDrax
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Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Flash Fundraising Drive for Sudan
Join us in raising 8k for our comrades at Sudan Solidarity Collective!
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo. Collecting etransfers this way helps our comrades save on individual t...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
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So one of the things I made this time around were screws studs. They make me laugh. As the sales decrease, I need to increase my enjoyment of making for the sake of making.
Loxythemaker.com
#bsnm
Loxythemaker.com
#bsnm
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So one of the things I made this time around were screws studs. They make me laugh. As the sales decrease, I need to increase my enjoyment of making for the sake of making.
Loxythemaker.com
#bsnm
Loxythemaker.com
#bsnm
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Unbelievable waste of resources.
Unsurprisingly, none of the “brain training interventions” tested in the RECOVER-NEURO Long Covid trial showed efficacy
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interventions for Cognitive Symptoms in Long COVID
This randomized clinical trial investigates if evidence-based rehabilitation strategies improve cognitive symptoms in persons with long COVID.
jamanetwork.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Unbelievable waste of resources.
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Tell the tech giant to take action here:
Tell Microsoft to run its data centers on renewables
No new data centers without local, 24/7 renewable energy
act.stand.earth
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tell the tech giant to take action here:
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Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada:
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Dealer: alright everyone ante up
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dealer: alright everyone ante up
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
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I called @warnock.senate.gov and asked him to hold the line AND tell his horrible colleagues to hold the line
Just called @ossoff.senate.gov with another rambling message like DO NOT BEND THE KNEE, stop letting them be Lucy with the football!!!!!!! They are not gonna give you this vote and you’ll all look like pathetic losers who gave up the American people for nothing!!
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I called @warnock.senate.gov and asked him to hold the line AND tell his horrible colleagues to hold the line
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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You ever drunk dial your senator?
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You ever drunk dial your senator?
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Well color me shocked
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 5:09 PM
Well color me shocked
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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oh are we upset about the influence of airline CEOs on US politics today? because I come bearing a list of grievances
Delta Letter to CDC Resurfaces After Isolation Time Cut Raises Questions
Delta suggested the isolation period be cut from 10 days to five days less than a week before the CDC's decision.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
oh are we upset about the influence of airline CEOs on US politics today? because I come bearing a list of grievances
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please resist the urge to say the flu is mild in comparison to covid.
1. we colloquially call some colds/similar illnesses “flu”—actual flu is not fun.
2. we had a whole flu pandemic about a hundred years ago. it was not good or fun either.
3. …because viruses can cause post-acute viral conditions.
1. we colloquially call some colds/similar illnesses “flu”—actual flu is not fun.
2. we had a whole flu pandemic about a hundred years ago. it was not good or fun either.
3. …because viruses can cause post-acute viral conditions.
We continue to see lessons about post-acute viral illness not learned.
We never see warnings about those who will have long-term sequelae.
'Long Flu' has been dismissed as 'not a thing' by some Drs.
But ME can be triggered by a wide range of viruses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We never see warnings about those who will have long-term sequelae.
'Long Flu' has been dismissed as 'not a thing' by some Drs.
But ME can be triggered by a wide range of viruses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade'
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
please resist the urge to say the flu is mild in comparison to covid.
1. we colloquially call some colds/similar illnesses “flu”—actual flu is not fun.
2. we had a whole flu pandemic about a hundred years ago. it was not good or fun either.
3. …because viruses can cause post-acute viral conditions.
1. we colloquially call some colds/similar illnesses “flu”—actual flu is not fun.
2. we had a whole flu pandemic about a hundred years ago. it was not good or fun either.
3. …because viruses can cause post-acute viral conditions.
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Apologies! Typo! Records of *100 million people* were included in the study, not one million! That's ginormous!
You really don't want shingles. If you're eligible, get vaccinated.
🔹️Study was a records review of > million people, 2007-2023
🔹️400 variables were controlled for (impressive!)
🔹️Dementia risk 27-33%⬇️ over 3 yrs after vax
🔹️More shingles = more risk...
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
🔹️Study was a records review of > million people, 2007-2023
🔹️400 variables were controlled for (impressive!)
🔹️Dementia risk 27-33%⬇️ over 3 yrs after vax
🔹️More shingles = more risk...
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
How a childhood virus can contribute to dementia later and what you can do
A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia by reducing the risk of varicella-zoster virus reactivation
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Apologies! Typo! Records of *100 million people* were included in the study, not one million! That's ginormous!
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I’ve written for them. They pay a fair wage. And they pay you quickly. All to say I’ve experienced them on the back end 👌🏾
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’ve written for them. They pay a fair wage. And they pay you quickly. All to say I’ve experienced them on the back end 👌🏾
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HE WAITED TO COME FORWARD ON PURPOSE:
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
HE WAITED TO COME FORWARD ON PURPOSE:
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
My husband and daughter attempted to jog in the snow. Cold toes!
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My husband and daughter attempted to jog in the snow. Cold toes!
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This is such a delightful twist.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is such a delightful twist.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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My sales this year (vs the dotted line of last year). Things were going well for me until the end of August where US tariffs decimated things. And I can’t seem to reach the rest of the world as well.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My sales this year (vs the dotted line of last year). Things were going well for me until the end of August where US tariffs decimated things. And I can’t seem to reach the rest of the world as well.
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There is nothing that would convince me to buy pistachios or pistachio-containing baked goods right now.
Pistachio products sold at this Scarborough bakery are being recalled amid national salmonella outbreak
Pistachio products sold at this Scarborough bakery are being recalled amid national salmonella outbreak
The Public Health Agency of Canada has reported 117 illnesses and 17 hospitalizations linked to the salmonella outbreak as of Oct. 21.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There is nothing that would convince me to buy pistachios or pistachio-containing baked goods right now.
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?