Queermint
@queermint.bsky.social
Queer multiply-disabled enby trying to survive the pandemic everyone is pretending is over. Please wear a mask, free Palestine, abolish billionaires
Living on Boon Wurrung country, Australia
Living on Boon Wurrung country, Australia
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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A 74% lower risk of hospital mortality in vaccinated people demonstrates vaccination's effect on COVID severity.
Avoiding severe COVID also means fewer post-COVID complications, and therefore a drop in all-cause mortality. Ppl who vaccinate likely take care of their health in other ways, too.
Avoiding severe COVID also means fewer post-COVID complications, and therefore a drop in all-cause mortality. Ppl who vaccinate likely take care of their health in other ways, too.
Vaxed people less likely to die of anything over 4 years than unvaxxed "we observed a 25% lower standardized incidence of all-cause death in vaccinated individuals compared with unvaccinated ones. A 74% lower risk was observed for hospital mortality due to COVID-19" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A 74% lower risk of hospital mortality in vaccinated people demonstrates vaccination's effect on COVID severity.
Avoiding severe COVID also means fewer post-COVID complications, and therefore a drop in all-cause mortality. Ppl who vaccinate likely take care of their health in other ways, too.
Avoiding severe COVID also means fewer post-COVID complications, and therefore a drop in all-cause mortality. Ppl who vaccinate likely take care of their health in other ways, too.
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
terribleminds.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
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Nothing prepares you for the "goes on walks for mental health" to "short walks make my brain fogy" chronic illness pipeline
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Nothing prepares you for the "goes on walks for mental health" to "short walks make my brain fogy" chronic illness pipeline
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"We need diverse and authentic depictions of autism; more intersectional representation, stories outside of the autistic savant, of autistic joy, adventure and, yes, also sometimes tragedy."
Autism is not a genre by Chloe Johnson @thebookseller.com
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Autism is not a genre by Chloe Johnson @thebookseller.com
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December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"We need diverse and authentic depictions of autism; more intersectional representation, stories outside of the autistic savant, of autistic joy, adventure and, yes, also sometimes tragedy."
Autism is not a genre by Chloe Johnson @thebookseller.com
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Autism is not a genre by Chloe Johnson @thebookseller.com
www.thebookseller.com/comment/copy...
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(reposting with alt text): twin cities friends, please help these babies!!! 😭
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
(reposting with alt text): twin cities friends, please help these babies!!! 😭
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I struggle with self-advocacy because I can’t form a coherent sentence under pressure sometimes and my anxiety gets super bad trying to stand up for myself or anyone else.
It’s why I feel like a bad person bc I know I won’t be nearly as good at standing up for someone else as I’d like.
It’s why I feel like a bad person bc I know I won’t be nearly as good at standing up for someone else as I’d like.
The capacities involved in self-advocacy? To be able to clearly articulate what accommodations you need, to articulate them in a manner that able-bodied people will be so receptive to that they’ll change social dynamics/infrastructure to accommodate you? Barrier. Barrier. Barriers within barriers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I struggle with self-advocacy because I can’t form a coherent sentence under pressure sometimes and my anxiety gets super bad trying to stand up for myself or anyone else.
It’s why I feel like a bad person bc I know I won’t be nearly as good at standing up for someone else as I’d like.
It’s why I feel like a bad person bc I know I won’t be nearly as good at standing up for someone else as I’d like.
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I’m a better nurse for being on social media and a huge part of that is because of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, PEM, and other chronic illnesses sharing their stories online
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I’m a better nurse for being on social media and a huge part of that is because of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, PEM, and other chronic illnesses sharing their stories online
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Agreed. Free N95s need to be readily available at any medical center and pharmacy, AND by mail. But they also should be easily found for much better prices to be bought at any store that sells food or meds.
I'll go one further and say that N95 masks need to be free to the public. That they aren't, and that they're WILDLY expensive (A pack of just four N95 masks is $24.00 at my local Walgreens), is just another way that society is trying to kill the poor.
Seconding, with a strong desire to see N95s purchasable at EVERY SINGLE location you can buy food and/or meds, including convenience stores, and to see baggy blues phased out entirely from the mainstream. Maybe keep them JUST IN CASE someone's truly panicking in an N95.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Agreed. Free N95s need to be readily available at any medical center and pharmacy, AND by mail. But they also should be easily found for much better prices to be bought at any store that sells food or meds.
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This is heartbreaking. Long Covid is real, it is common, and more people are developing it every day because we aren’t doing *anything* to stop transmission.
For anyone who still doesn't know what #LongCOVID is - take a paper straw, flatten it, & then breathe through it for at least the next 2 years; & then imagine that this is one of only 50 symptoms (& for some people, even more).
Then imagine no one believes you.
And there's no cure.
Then imagine no one believes you.
And there's no cure.
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is heartbreaking. Long Covid is real, it is common, and more people are developing it every day because we aren’t doing *anything* to stop transmission.
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At $15 towards essentials. $700 rent due Sunday, and $300 storage which was due on the 1st. If I'm any later than tomorrow for storage, I'll also owe $50 late fee.
#PleaseShare, and help if you can?
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
bsky.app/profile/falc...
#PleaseShare, and help if you can?
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
bsky.app/profile/falc...
Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
At $15 towards essentials. $700 rent due Sunday, and $300 storage which was due on the 1st. If I'm any later than tomorrow for storage, I'll also owe $50 late fee.
#PleaseShare, and help if you can?
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
bsky.app/profile/falc...
#PleaseShare, and help if you can?
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
bsky.app/profile/falc...
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Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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🧵We cannot in gatekeep the Autistic identity behind a formal diagnosis of ASD when identification
1) lowers suicide risk
2) improves efficacy of psychotherapy
3) increases feelings of self worth
And does nothing harmful with appropriate psych care (if needed) besides make people upset, apparently!
1) lowers suicide risk
2) improves efficacy of psychotherapy
3) increases feelings of self worth
And does nothing harmful with appropriate psych care (if needed) besides make people upset, apparently!
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
🧵We cannot in gatekeep the Autistic identity behind a formal diagnosis of ASD when identification
1) lowers suicide risk
2) improves efficacy of psychotherapy
3) increases feelings of self worth
And does nothing harmful with appropriate psych care (if needed) besides make people upset, apparently!
1) lowers suicide risk
2) improves efficacy of psychotherapy
3) increases feelings of self worth
And does nothing harmful with appropriate psych care (if needed) besides make people upset, apparently!
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We writers should not be insulting our brothers and sisters in the visual arts by using AI slop for our covers or in our presentations.
We already had access to photo depositories and stock art and it's easy enough to ask artists if you can reuse their work for a promotional credit.
We already had access to photo depositories and stock art and it's easy enough to ask artists if you can reuse their work for a promotional credit.
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We writers should not be insulting our brothers and sisters in the visual arts by using AI slop for our covers or in our presentations.
We already had access to photo depositories and stock art and it's easy enough to ask artists if you can reuse their work for a promotional credit.
We already had access to photo depositories and stock art and it's easy enough to ask artists if you can reuse their work for a promotional credit.
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South Australia Weekly Respiratory Update: 29 Nov to 5 Dec 2025
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 144 (-5.2%)
🔹Flu: 773 (-3.4%)
🔹RSV: 77 (-2.5%)
🔹Pertussis: 66 (+15.7%)
Reported deaths in 2025:
🔸COVID: 78
🔸Flu: 61
🔸RSV: 12
🔸Pertussis: 5
Source: sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 144 (-5.2%)
🔹Flu: 773 (-3.4%)
🔹RSV: 77 (-2.5%)
🔹Pertussis: 66 (+15.7%)
Reported deaths in 2025:
🔸COVID: 78
🔸Flu: 61
🔸RSV: 12
🔸Pertussis: 5
Source: sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
South Australia Weekly Respiratory Update: 29 Nov to 5 Dec 2025
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 144 (-5.2%)
🔹Flu: 773 (-3.4%)
🔹RSV: 77 (-2.5%)
🔹Pertussis: 66 (+15.7%)
Reported deaths in 2025:
🔸COVID: 78
🔸Flu: 61
🔸RSV: 12
🔸Pertussis: 5
Source: sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 144 (-5.2%)
🔹Flu: 773 (-3.4%)
🔹RSV: 77 (-2.5%)
🔹Pertussis: 66 (+15.7%)
Reported deaths in 2025:
🔸COVID: 78
🔸Flu: 61
🔸RSV: 12
🔸Pertussis: 5
Source: sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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“Long COVID is real. It's wrecking lives.”
Continue to share your stories of how Long COVID wrecked your life to keep COVID in the forefront of people’s minds and hopefully stop others from suffering the same fate.
My story: www.sueponcin.com
Continue to share your stories of how Long COVID wrecked your life to keep COVID in the forefront of people’s minds and hopefully stop others from suffering the same fate.
My story: www.sueponcin.com
“I haven’t thought about COVID in a long time.”
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
![Visual: Black background; a white 3M N95 mask with yellow straps appears at the lower left.
Text:
whn.global (top left) • whn.global/long-covid-my-brother-in-law (top right)
For people living with Long COVID, that gap is brutal. They’re “watching people [they] love act like none of it matters, while [their] life is barely functioning.”
Brasure links this to “identity-protective cognition”: we believe what keeps us in good standing with our community. Doctors and friends “folded” not because they don’t care, but because they’re tired, want normal, and are protecting their place in the tribe.
But, as he writes, “reality doesn’t care about tribes.”
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December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“Long COVID is real. It's wrecking lives.”
Continue to share your stories of how Long COVID wrecked your life to keep COVID in the forefront of people’s minds and hopefully stop others from suffering the same fate.
My story: www.sueponcin.com
Continue to share your stories of how Long COVID wrecked your life to keep COVID in the forefront of people’s minds and hopefully stop others from suffering the same fate.
My story: www.sueponcin.com
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Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think:
“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”
Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”
Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think:
“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”
Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”
Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
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STORE: Thank you for your order!
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STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
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STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
STORE: Thank you for your order!
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.
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Let us also demand better from our leaders.
Let us make it clear that the President should never use the R slur and we just refuse to let his base normalize it.
Disabled lives matter, and they’re under threat.
Be intentional with your language.
Be inclusive.
Let us make it clear that the President should never use the R slur and we just refuse to let his base normalize it.
Disabled lives matter, and they’re under threat.
Be intentional with your language.
Be inclusive.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Let us also demand better from our leaders.
Let us make it clear that the President should never use the R slur and we just refuse to let his base normalize it.
Disabled lives matter, and they’re under threat.
Be intentional with your language.
Be inclusive.
Let us make it clear that the President should never use the R slur and we just refuse to let his base normalize it.
Disabled lives matter, and they’re under threat.
Be intentional with your language.
Be inclusive.
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Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!